Game Review
Skyrim’s Enderal mod team are making a new commercial game
The final update arrived for the huge (and hugely impressive) free Skyrim total conversion mod Enderal yesterday. It’s a small patch but does bring a bit tease that the developers are now working on a new commercial project. They don’t give any hint as to what that might be, but considering the years they’ve spent […]
Play Otogarden and it’ll help research into musical improvisation
Designed by Costantino Oliva, a lecturer at the University of Malta, Otogarden‘s a free-to-play game in which you guide a yokai spirit around a musical garden in an attempt to make a nice tune. Have a mosey about the greenery and you’ll help him with his research into musical participation in digital games. Even if, […]
Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator may be the final Kinect game
Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator , announced last week with an extraordinary trailer, does largely what it says on the tin. “The information is in the title,” says its Steam description, blatantly written by developer Xalavier Nelson Jr. “There are slickened, detached meat products derived from alien and human bodies, and you sure do buy […]
Cyberpunk 2077’s development still bad mainly due to crunch, not “fake” E3 demos
A Bloomberg report into the development of Cyberpunk 2077 has shared further details of the game’s troubled creation and launch. Journalist Jason Schreier spoke to twenty current and former CD Projekt Red employees, who shared stories of crunch, poor planning, the challenges of the studio’s rapid growth, and more. Among this was the detail that […]
Dwarf Fortress’s new UI looks so beautiful I could cry, despite still looking like this
If you’ve not played Dwarf Fortress, the staggeringly detailed fantasy world simulator, you can’t fully comprehend what a nightmare it is to play. It’s not the ASCII gaphics that bamboozle you, it’s the menus, which hide information and common actions across umpteen different enormous menus, each of which must be accessed with a different button […]
Sokpop Collective are streaming all 77 of their games tomorrow
Sokpop Collective are a band of game development pals who release a new game every two weeks via their Patreon. The games are all cute, frequently physicsy, but otherwise cover a broad range of genres. Genres like space golf, skeleton brawler, and rock paper scissors MMO. To celebrate the Patreon’s third birthday, they’re taking to […]
Despite advertising otherwise, players need to re-buy Hitman 2 to import its levels to Hitman 3
Hitman 3 will no longer offer the ability to import levels from Hitman 2 when it launches later this month, unless players re-purchase Hitman 2 on the Epic Games Store first. Near the bottom of a long and complicated pre-launch guide, developers IO Interactive said the change in plans was “due to various circumstances out […]