Articles by Alice O'Connor
Ubisoft’s Immortals Fenyx Rising has a demo you can play in your browser
‘Tis the season for Ubisoft’s latest round of open-world murder simulators, but this year they have a family-friendly one too. Immortals Fenyx Rising seems like it might be a fun one, smashing Zelda: Breath Of The Wild into Ancient Greek mythology, and you can try it for yourself in a demo. Ubi have palled up […]
Nightdive’s Blade Runner remaster is delayed
Nightdive’s remaster of Westwood’s great Blade Runner adventure game will not launch this year after all. Turns out, reverse-engineering a game to rebuild it in a whole new engine without access to the original assets is a bit of work. I still don’t see why they’re putting this much effort into it when a perfectly […]
The Outer Worlds is now on Steam and GOG
After a year of Epixclusivity [correction: oh god, and the Microsoft Store, I forgot], The Outer Worlds today launches on Steam and GOG. Obsidian Entertainment’s sci-fi FPS-RPG feels a whole lot like a return to their days of Fallout: New Vegas, but in space. If you’ve been waiting for it to land on a store […]
Ubisoft are paying £1 million for one trailer
It’s no secret that big publishers spend small fortunes on marketing, but it’s rare that we get to put actual numbers to it. Here’s one: Ubisoft are paying approximately 11 million Swedish krona (around £940k/$1.23m) for one trailer. That’s according to the company who this week announced they’ve signed an agreement with Ubisoft to create […]
Monster Train now has mod support, and modders have already made a whole new faction
Deck-building roguelikelike Monster Train last night officially launched its mod support, after a short beta, opening it up to all sorts of player-made newness. Possibilities include new cards, new monsters, new looks, and so on, and I see some folks have already made a whole new playable faction. After seeing how much Slay The Spire […]
Scorn will envelop you in its Gigeresque guts in 2021
A new 14-minute gameplay video gives a close look at the oozing sphincters and glistening meaty protrusions of first-person shoot-o-adventure-horror Scorn. It’s still Gigered to the gills, as expected, but I will say even I was surprised to see door control systems activated by frigging an orifice with a gristlegun.
Arkham Horror: Mother’s Embrace brings cardboard spookings to PC next year
Iä! Iä! The great wurm turns again, the cosmos lurch uncomfortably, and we awake anew with new faces and only fleeting memories of who we once were. Why, here comes news of Arkham Horror: Mother’s Embrace, a video game inspired by a popular Lovecraftian board game, Arkham Horror. Yes, yes, it was based on a […]
Rune 2 lawsuit now going after Bethesda and ZeniMax too
Bethesda and ZeniMax intentionally sabotaged Rune 2 by secretly snapping up its developers days before launch, the game’s publishers have claimed in a lawsuit. The Viking fantasy action-RPG launched in November 2019 then, the very next day, developers Human Head announced they were shutting down but their employees had been hired for a new Bethesda […]