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Everything And Then The Licensed Kitchen Sink fighting game MultiVersus returns next week after an almost year-long self-imposed post-beta exile. With the decision to pull the game from sale and turn off its servers for months on end after allowing people to sink their real-life money into unlocking costumes and such (with no refunds), its developers are now looking to seemingly give something back in return.
In a twist of fate I’ve mentioned in some recent Destiny 2 news posts, I am fully back into Destiny. Former vidbud Liam and I used it, initially, as something we could do while catching up on life. But now? Now we’re all in. Liam has created a spreadsheet of things we’re ticking off to prepare for the upcoming expansion, and I think it’s the perfect summation of what the game is to us: something that makes no sense at all and yet something that makes our brains hum with happiness.
And what we’ve found with Destiny, in all of its bloat, is that we haven’t explored for a single second since our return. Everything is accomplished through menus, making it quite Starfield-esque, which is terrible… but also good. We can’t make sense of it and we don’t think we ever will.
We just got a new Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree story trailer yesterday. As is their druthers, FromSoft have at once made the events it depicts feel of earth-shattering importance while providing basically no concrete information. A lot of people will be putting out gargantuan theory posts right now, rambling on about Miquella, the Crucible, the Golden Order blah blah. This is all a distraction. Anyone with eyes can tell you that the primary movers and shakers of this final chapter in the Lands Between are a secret faction of hitherto secret spear people. You’re likely confused, and that’s understandable. As the foremost authority on ephemeral nonsense in Elden Ring, I’m the only one who has your back here.
The music in haunting 2D adventure Norco was so good it’s one of the few soundtracks I’ve actually bought on Steam, so I’m deeply intrigued to learn that developer Geography of Robots are putting music – and dancing – front and center in the new demo for their next project, Silenus. You can bop your way between screens, reader!
Risk Of Rain 2 is one of my fave action roguelikes, as it’s a good time with pals and has all the hallmarks of things I enjoy most in my games: shooting and looting. That’s why the latest free update excites me so, as it introduces an artifact that makes chests malicious and another that lets you hatch angry lizard companions. Oh, and there’s a new map, too.
Three questions before we start:
1) Do you like Robert Eggers’ film The Northman?
2) Do you like games that mainly involve pressing ‘forward’ and not much else?
3) Do you like rocks?
MultiVersus – aka Warner Smash Bros, or The Game Where Scooby-Doo’s Velma Punches Batman While LeBron James Decks The Iron Giant – hasn’t quite returned from its self-imposed exile after ending its open beta last year, but it’s already adding more Iconic Characters(™) to its already teetering pile of familiar Licensed IP.
