If you’re not so sure about the recently-announced, Worms Rumble battle royale game, you may be more excited to hear about today’s glow up for classic Worms Armageddon. Released today, version 3.8 adds all sorts of modern features to the old turn-based battlefield including more custom match options, windowed mode, and a few other neat new tricks.
In narrative game We Should Talk., both your drinks and your relationship might be on the rocks, but that’s up to you. You’ll piece together conversations with your pals at the bar and your partner at home, trying to pick the tone you’re looking for. It’s a neat conversational puzzle that will probably stress me out just as much in-game as it would in life.
In a world of resigned and begrudging “yes”s, indie game Say No! More invites you to do just that. Stick up for yourself and say “no!” every once in a while. If you speak a language that Studio Fizbin aren’t already supporting, they’d like to invite you to say “no!” several times for an in-game voice pack. Thunderful Publishing will repay your performance with a €100 donation (about £91) to charity organization Ditch The Label.
Bridge man Sam Stranding or Die Bridgeman or whatever his name is has been trekking across post-apocalyptic America now that Death Stranding is out on PC. You’ll have an update queued up before you can get back to delivery mode though, as 505 Games have released the first quick patch for strand simulator before the weekend. It’s a collection of small bug fixes for better stability, they say. That’s stability of the game itself. Mailman Sam’s stability is still in your hands.
is a 3D point-and-click adventure game which is the sequel to 1994’s 2D point-and-click-adventure game Beneath A Steel Sky. It doesn’t matter if you didn’t play the first one, although some knowledge is helpful. You play as Robert Foster, returning to a futuristic city-state he freed from an evil AI ten years ago, because new bad things are afoot (these involving kidnapping children from the land outside the city). You have to infiltrate the city, team up with your robot pal Joey, and save the day. In its final form, this is looking a lot better than when I previewed it – the animation bugs are gone, and there’s a new layer of polish on everything.
But that is not what I want to talk about. Very early on in the game, a precocious child gives you a hacker tool to help with the whole saving the day thing. It is amazing. It is ostensibly to solve puzzles, but what it actually does is make you an agent of chaos capable of bringing any automated system to its robotic knees. I think it’s the best puzzle doohickey I’ve seen in a game for a long time.
The organisers of the Game Developers Conference have released a report on the results of their latest “state of the industry” survey. Their usual annual survey happened in March, but this extra one was solely about the impact of the ongoing pandemic.
The results are on the face of it rather grim, with some job losses and game delays and lots of struggling people. But they’re not half as bad as you might think, and some are even getting on relatively well as they adapt. Let’s have a look.
I am big into weird stuff. My tastes lean towards being surprised over being moved, and my favourite games and films and books reflect that. Give me wild fantastical sci-fi first, interesting character arcs second.
So far Death Stranding has given me a very quiet yet very grumpy man while frontloading some of the most delightful nonsense I’ve seen in videogames. I am here for it. I will take all the canister babies Hideo Kojima and his team can throw at me.
Except it might also be a bit much.
is going to be so darn large that you’ll be able to fly all over the world and land on a gagillion airstrips but the world is not enough, eh Mr. Bond? That giant simulation won’t stop creators from adding to and tweaking the game. Asobo Studio say they know how important unofficial add-ons are for Flight Sim, so they’re adding an in-game marketplace that will allow approved developers to sell their work to players.
Continuing to buy studios like they’re releasing DLC, Paradox Interactive today announced they’ve acquired Iceflake Studios, the Finnish studio who are making post-apocalyptic city-builder Surviving The Aftermath. They’re becoming Paradox’s ninth studio. Paradox talk vaguely about Iceflake helping make more games in their “core genres” so I guess they’ll be continuing with strat-o-build-a-sim-y-RPG things.
SSD prices have remained pretty much static this week, but there are still some good SSD deals to be had here and there, with this week’s top SSD deals happening on the WD Black SN750 and the Samsung 970 Evo. So, to help you find the best SSD prices for as many of our [cms-block] recommendations, I’ve rounded up all the best SSD deals I can find below. You’ll find SSD deals covering a wide range of size capacities and form factors, from cheap 2.5in SSDs that can be had for as little as £35 to super fast NVMe SSD deals. Whether you’re looking for the best SATA SSD deals or the biggest savings on today’s super fast NVMe SSDs and portable SSDs, here are the cheapest SSD deals of the week.
