EA tonight showed off more Star Wars: Squadrons in a new trailer, following its cinematic announcement on Monday. It may not be a straight gameplay video with all the answers you’d hope for but it does explain and show a fair bit. It does also: look very pretty with its lasers and explosions.
Following the cooperative crime tale of A Way Out, developers Hazelight today announced a cooperative platformer, It Takes Two. Love a bit of co-op, that lot. It Takes Two is about a wee kid who tries to escape her parents’ impending divorce by creating two toys of them to play with, who magically come alive, so we’ll be controlling them in her escapist fantasies. Learn a bit, but not much, in the announcement trailer below.
I don’t like rocket jumping. It is silly. And yet, I had a good time with Rocket Arena, the upcoming online shooter, when I played in a closed preview event a bit over a week ago. It’s coming on July 14 from Final Strike Games, via little known indie publisher Electronic Arts.
The original version of Rocket Arena was a mod for Quake, which your dad will wrongly tell you was about more than just being brown and overrated. Its popularity led to spin off mods in pretty much the whole series. The general idea was to level the playing field, removing health and weapon pickups, and giving everyone the same equipment.
Interestingly, the new, standalone Rocket Arena is almost the opposite of that concept, as it’s a class-based shooter with a form of regenerating health. But then, it’s been decades. Online shooters are a different world now. Which raises the question of what Rocket Arena does to stand out.
Respawn Entertainment today announced cross-platform multiplayer is coming to Apex Legends this autumn, bringing together players from Origin, PS4, Xbone… and the newly-announced Steam and Switch editions. Those are coming in autumn too. Respawn also announced the next Collection Event is coming on Tuesday the 23rd, named Lost Treasures.
Trading years of PlayStation exclusivity for a PC debut locked on the Epic Games Store, three Quantic Dreams games finally found their way over to Steam. Detroit: Become Human, Beyond: Two Souls and Heavy Rain hit Valve’s platform today – a trio of strange cinematic story-games about serial killers, Ellen Page’s invisible friend, and a robot emancipation movement that certainly holds no real-world analogue.
They’ve only gone and put Titanfall 2 on Steam, readers. BT-7274 (and whatever the boring human bloke’s name was) have jettisoned from their exclusive spot on Origin, crashing into Valve’s house like, well, a hulking great metal man. At a third of the price for the next three weeks, you’ve no excuse for not checking out one of the finest first-person shooters of the last ten years.
Ahead of their big notE3 stream tonight, Electronic Arts have casually dropped The Sims 4 and its expansions onto Steam, no big deal. How criminal that one of the [cms-block] has been locked in EA’s tower. Titanfall 2 is here too. Steam’s page does note that Sims 4 will install and use Origin, mind, so evidently you can’t have everything.
has a bot problem. Harking back to the days when MMOs required a hell of a lotta grind, Blizzard’s throwback MMO is filled with folk looking for an easy out. Following a particularly nasty few months of scripted heroes, game-breaking exploits and a parade of Orcs marching against cheaters, this month saw the developers wipe the realms clean of over 74,000 accounts suspected of using bots to give them an edge over their human counterparts.
Once again, Cyberpunk 2077 is coming out a little later than planned. Despite assuring would-be hackers that they wouldn’t be delaying their September launch, developers CD Projekt Red reckon their long-awaited neon blockbuster needs another two months of polish. Sorry, Keanu – it looks like we’ll have to reschedule our Night City hang-out sesh. How’s November 19th for you?
In case you’re somehow already done with the delightful Desperados 3, publishers THQ Nordic have launched an official Desperados tabletop roleplaying game. Together with the pen & paper people at Pegasus, it the rootin’ tootin’ tactical video game into one of those there imaginary games where you and your squadmates can pash whenever you want. It’s out now, and it’s free to download – printer not included.
