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Atomic Heart’s latest trailer shows off its ray-tracing chops

Atomic Heart seems chock-full of weird, mostly robotic things that want to kill you, and its latest trailer shows off all the ray-traced reflections and particle effects you can admire as they do so. We’ve seen a lot of this before, but it doesn’t half look pretty – and now at 4K, if you can handle that. I worry for my poor 1080p-tier GPU, though at least there’s also freshly-announced DLSS 3 support.

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EA corrupt 60% of Madden 23 saves for players who logged in during two days last week

Madden NFL 23 during at least a 22-hour period last week, there’s a good chance your Connected Franchise Mode saves have been permanently corrupted. If that wasn’t galling enough, the corrupting period (from Wednesday December 28th to Thursday 29th) came immediately after EA gave people the go ahead to log in.

EA have said they expect to recover 40% of the saves, the wallies.

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In my week off work, I made PowerWash Simulator my job instead

great plans for the games I was going to play over the Christmas break. Elden Ring! Tunic! Our game of the year Vampire Survivors! And I did try to play some of them, for a bit. Elden Ring and Tunic were both too hard for my state of mind, which was as robust as pink candyfloss. Even Vampire Survivors wigged me out because it’s so visually busy by the end game, and I was in a more “Ferrero Rocher and jigsaw of the London Underground map” sort of place. My downfall was seeing PowerWash Simulator on sale on Steam. I bought it, and then played it for 40 hours.

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“Dismemberment has been a high priority” for System Shock remake

March release window already locked in, we won’t need to wait much longer to experience developer Nightdive’s System Shock remake. The 1994 immersive sim is receiving more than just a facelift, though, as Nightdive have released more new clips of the game in action over on their Kickstarter blog. Nightdive’s first blog post of the year gives us fresh looks at the game’s enemy variants, visual updates, and most importantly, its bloody cool dismemberment system.

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Bethesda support site reconfirms Starfield’s release for “the first half of 2023”

Starfield. Per VGC, this info comes from a Bethesda support site that went live earlier this month. There are three other questions/answers about the game on the site, but no new info – which isn’t weird considering, y’know, the game’s not actually out yet – aside from the message “Starfield arrives exclusively on Xbox Series X|S and PC in the first half of 2023.”

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Square Enix are still focused on blockchain in 2023

New Year’s message, Square Enix’s CEO Yosuke Matsuda reaffirmed the company’s focus on blockchain technology with “multiple blockchain games based on original IPs under development” despite the public backlash against the initiative. This echoes Matsuda’s New Year’s message from last January, where the company first expressed its enthusiasm for an NFT-fueled, metaverse future. More recently, Squeenix partnered with the “environmentally friendly” blockchain firm Oasys, probably to sidestep potential controversies about, y’know, the environmental impact of the technology.

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