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Braid: Anniversary Edition “sold like dog shit” according to creator Jonathan Blow.
Blow discussed the remasters sales performance across several Twitch streams since its release back in May, going so far as to suggest that the studio’s “future is uncertain” as a result of low sales.
Destiny and Marathon developers Bungie are laying off 220 people – around 17% of their total workforce – as studio heads try to offset a financial crisis brought on by “overly ambitious” expansion, individual project “misfires”, and a wider economic downturn in 2023. Bungie are also transferring a further 155 roles to parent company Sony Interactive Entertainment, and are spinning out an untitled incubation project – an “action game set in a brand-new science-fantasy universe” – to form a new PlayStation studio.
I don’t think I’m capable of rivalling Nic’s enthusiasm for Promise Mascot Agency, the new open world game from Paradise Killer devs Kaizen Game Works, so I’ll settle for saying “EEEEE”. The developers have just released a nine-minute explainer video, which teems with scenes of gimp suits, winged vans, rocket-propelled pinkies, vicious card battles against small excited dogs, and a surprisingly in-depth management component. There are bits that make me think of Batman: Arkham City, and bits that make me think of Pathologic, and bits that make me think of Yakuza – a combination fit to burst the brain. Quick, before your brain bursts, watch the video for yourself below.
Every time I step out of an elevator, I accelerate wildly in case the elevator falls without warning and chops me in half, leaving the frontal and, all things considered, inferior portion of my body swaying in place for a second before collapsing in a cloud of bisected bone and organ. Don’t laugh: I know you do this too. Kletka isn’t helping: created by in404, it’s a horror scavenging game reminiscent of Lethal Company and Golden Light, in which you ponderously plummet through the layers of an “endless” post-Soviet Gigastructure, scrounging fuel, parts and provender for an elevator that wants to eat you.
While “blown away” by the beach scenes in the first GTA 6 trailer, former Rockstar North technical director Obbe Vermeij thinks the forthcoming open worlder might underwhelm players hoping for a palpable technological update on GTA 5, which has been reworked and re-released extensively since its 2013 launch. This has less to do with GTA in itself, Vermeij says, than with the fact that changes in computing capacity today simply aren’t as dramatic as in the days of the very first PlayStation. It’s becoming rare, he suggests, that you see a “jump” akin to GTA going 3D.
Katharine (RPS in peace) thought Dome Keeper’s blend of tower defence and mining was both “meditative” and “perfectly formed” in her review. So it comes as great news, then, that the devs have somehow taken that perfect dome, expanded it and polished it to an even greater sheen. We’re talking about new guild assignments, new gadgets, better world generation, a new world, new monsters. The list is enormous and designed expressly around improved replayability – take that, Las Vegas Dome.
In case you skipped the headline, I’ll repeat myself. Among the wonderful sights contained in space-poking adventure game The Great Fluctus are: beans, slug milk, alien volleyball, egg arguments, and massive frog. Additional screenshots suggest this frog later acquires wings. Like a captive Generation Game host, I am helpless but to shout out more incredible sights as they flutter past on the conveyor belt of pure flippin’ videogame before me. It’s got dance parties with horrible gorilla aliens. It’s got building, namely the Statue Of Liberty out of goop, just as George Washington’s goop clone intended. It’s also got just sitting on a bench, enjoying some lovely serene space scenery. Feast your famished face on the trailer.
Few acts in games feel quite as gleefully gratifying as removing a knight’s shiny dome with a halberd swing in medieval multiplayer melee Chivalry 2. In a pastime that’s had several decades to perfect the art of hitting men with sharp objects, that’s quite the accomplishment. Since releasing in 2022, Torn Banner have lavished the player base with free horses, angry peasants, and most recently, the Regicide update – hosting a climatic tete-a-tete between two angry crownmen. With work on No More Room In Hell 2 well underway though, Torn Banner have decided to call it on Chiv 2, which they now consider “feature complete.”
For the past couple of decades, the official Olympics video games have starred Mario and Sonic and been exclusive to Nintendo devices. Not so, this year. Olympics Go! Paris 2024 is free-to-play and available for PC via the Epic Games Store.
Hear the curl of the monkey’s paw? Yeah, it’s a mobile game port with the touchscreen prompts seemingly still intact, and its publisher is also pushing a “commemorative Paris 2024 NFT Digital Pin collection”.
Earlier this month it was reported that Skibidi Toilet, the YouTube phenomenon, may be heading to film and television via director Michael Bay. Now Invisible Narratives, a production company co-owned by Bay, has apparently sent a DMCA takedown notice to Garry Newman, citing the large number of Skibidi Toilet games and assets advertised within Garry’s Mod.
Skibidi Toilet uses assets derived from Half-Life 2, however, and owes a lot to the Garry’s Mod machinima scene. And the animation’s original creator, best known as DaFuqBoom, is claiming innocence over the DMCA.
