With the autumn equinox right on the doorstep, I m still daydreaming about lying down under the bright sun of The Sojourn. The ground s not very stable and there are some questions about the nature of reality itself going on, but I ll make it work. You too can imagine a lovely catnap while ignoring everything else going on in the trailer below.
Screenshot Saturday! A day for celebrating games in progress and alliteration alike. This week: the comforts of a lived-in home, a deep well of rewards, and a whole forest of bioluminescence.
Conversational deckbuilder Signs Of The Sojourner has a new demo, letting you sling cards and get chatty with various other travellers and some lovely snack salespeople. Who might be the best people to make small talk with, because not only can you explore the game s themes of changing selfhood, but you get food at the end. If you ve not seen it in action before, here s a trailer showing how it all works.
Sundays are for decamping to London for board game fun. Here’s the best writing about videogames from the past week.
Kotaku’s Cecilia D’Anastasio chronicled the impact of Gamestop, strip malls and early social media on her teenage self. It’s an open, disarming examination of everything that seems important in those tumultuous years, and how we’re all shaped by the machinations of massive industries. There’s also a very good anecdote involving Red Bull cans and some cops.
If you’ve not been following PC games goings-on across the week, catch up on some of the big stories quick in our noncomprehensive Weekly News Digest. I’ve slipped in a few things we haven’t already posted about, and do also read The Updates Update for some of the week’s notable patches and updates.
Karaoke is sort of choose your own adventure already, but Evergreen Blues aims to make it more so, allowing you and a friend to build the lyrics to the song as you go. It s also taking out the pesky bit where you actually have to sing, since your character will do that for you, which is a big plus. You can see how it works in the trailer below.
In all the hubbub of the week, you might’ve missed some of the patches and updates rolled out to games. Presenting the Weekly Updates Update, a noncomprehensive roundup of new maps and characters and balance tweaks and fixes and such which caught my eye over the week – including a few we haven’t posted about.
We as a society already decided that golf was too dry, and subsequently invented mini golf. But clearly mini golf is now also a bore, and we re onto What The Golf? which lets you putt a whole array of chaos, including your breakfast, your house, and yourself. It s a radical acceleration in how we spice up older pastimes for the insatiable attention appetite of the youth, and I for one can t wait to see where we go from here. For now, though, here s a trailer.
Battle-royale-slash-ginormous-advertising-platform Fortnite has confirmed its Batman partnership in a blink and you ll miss it livestream. Luckily, as is the power of online video, you can watch it again at your leisure, including right below. Or you can hop right into the game, where there are doubtless many bats competing to be the last one standing.
Explore a strange, shifting place. Build helpful gadgets. Whack people destroying the world with a big ol wrench. Sparklite knows how to appreciate the finer things in life, and it ll be swinging its way into stores in just a couple of months. You can see it in action in the trailer below.