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Read moreIndustries of Titan review: a curious hybrid builder that’s less than the sum of its parts
Industries Of Titan started out as an ambitious concept. A hybrid of a factory layout/logistics sim, integrated into a city builder, combined with an RTS, all wrapped up in a satirical dystopia encouraging you to be the most appalling villainous hypercapitalist possible.All of those parts are present, and as a bonus it’s incredibly gorgeous, with strong voice acting and a distinctive soundtrack that will haunt my head for weeks. Most of its parts are made to a high standard, it’s tragic that its final design just doesn’t work at all.
Of all things, IOT reminds me of Fragile Allegiance. You’re a ‘founder’, sent to an already colonised and abandoned Titan to build a new city at the behest of the Council. You’re a ‘founder’, sent to an already colonised and abandoned Titan to build a new city at the behest of the Council. First, by salvaging its ruined buildings for minerals and isotopes, then mining for surface deposits, all of which goes back into your building resources. Curiously, you never combine two resources to produce a third, you can only upgrade minerals through a tier system. Higher tier resources are more potent, meaning, for exmaple, a building site will accept 100 raw minerals or four higher tier units. It’s a bit strange, but it mostly works.
Mobile leaks point to an April release for spacefaring RPG Honkai: Star Rail
Honkai: Star Rail is the first turn-based RPG in the Honkai / Genshin Impact universe, and its final beta started earlier today on PC and mobile. Pre-registration has now closed, but you might be able to gain access through the game’s FAQ page. While HoYoverse haven’t announced a release date for their cosmic fantasy adventure, eagle-eyed fans have spotted a potential April date on the IOS App Store.V Rising is overhauling the magic system in May’s free expansion
V Rising continues its early access with a free expansion coming in May. It’s meaty, overhauling a few areas of the game including magic progression, spellcasting, and lair building in preparation for the endgame. But it’s also “giving you more of what you already love” with new weapons and spells, boss battles, areas, and factions. Quite a lot to sink your teeth into, then.Five years on, Wizard Of Legend is still kicking ass and taking names
chill little potion brewers that let you coo over a bubbling cauldron all nice and cosy like; there’s your darker, more supernatural witchy adventures that dig into the spookier side of the fae realm, and then you’ve got your lovely genre mash-ups that add spicy, magical seasoning to well-worn action tropes, like the excellent bullet-hell Metroid-like The Knight Witch I wrote about the other day. But if I thought that was pushing against my limits of gamepad dexterity, Contingent99’s 2018 roguelike Wizard Of Legend is on another level entirely.Octopath Traveller 2’s substantial JRPG demo is out now on PC
Octopath Traveler 2 demo which was released on console yesterday was nowhere to be found on PC.Uh, until today. It’s out on Steam now.
Good news: you can pick up a 1TB USB-C flash drive for $80 (33% off)
best external SSDs, and it’s currently discounted at B&H Photo Video to $80 for a 1TB size – not bad!Unfortunately this deal is only live for the next six hours, so I hope that you see this post in time!
XPG’s SX8200 Pro 2TB NVMe SSD is down to £118
the RPS review from erstwhile hardware editor Katharine to prove it. Nowadays, PCIe 4.0 drives are becoming more common and PCIe 5.0 is on the horizon, but the SX8200 Pro – in a newer 2TB size – is still an awesome value for the performance on offer. It’s down to £117 at TechNextDay when you use code TND-10, a healthy £35 below the next-lowest price at CCL.Atomic Heart system requirements won’t give you a heart attack
Atomic Heart looks like an exceptionally shiny first-person shooter in the vein (geddit?) of Metro, which suggested that its system requirements might be the sort to bleed (geddit) your machine or your wallet dry. Not so, it turns out. The target specs have been released today and they’re relatively modest at both the low and high end.Pacific Drive is shaping up to be an electric mix of roguelike and driving survival
Pacific Drive was first announced during one of Sony’s State Of Play streams a couple of months ago, my initial thoughts were, ‘Hey, that spooky first-person driving game has some cool sci-fi vibes about it that makes it look like Control on wheels,’ and, ‘Man, I want to find out more immediately.’ Well, thanks to a recent press presentation, I have found out more about Ironwood Studio’s survival roadtrip game, and it’s a lot more roguelike-y than I was expecting. Here’s everything I learned.