Sorry, death. With the news that World Of Warcraft: Shadowlands has been delayed out of its October launch, it looks like we’ll be avoiding the grave a little while longer. Blizzard today announced that their behemoth MMO’s next expansion has been pushed back to give the underworld a bit more polish as developers continue to deal with the weirdness of remote working.
I’ve seen a lotta shooters in my time, but five seconds into Spaceflux‘s early access trailer and my brain’s already turned to soup. Not content to use recursive geometry for puzzles, Calin Ardelean’s fractal shooter takes these non-euclidean spaces and asks you to play a round of Quake in their infinite hallways. Out today on Steam Early Access, I just hope it’s not as stomach-churning as that sounds.
is a very irresponsible game. Oh, it looks lovely, but I’m certain there must be laws against setting fire to crates of garbage all the way up the side of a mountain, even if you have to wrap your head around some peculiar puzzles to do so. There’s a demo out the now – and at the very least, it’s a good excuse to keep those arson inclinations firmly locked behind your monitor.
Following this week’s brief trip to Japan, Microsoft Flight Simulator is already booking its next intercontinental clean-up flight. It seems the gigantic flight sim has decided to take on the United States of America for its next World Update, bringing a similar mix of photogrammetry-improved cities and higher-resolution terrain in another World Update before the end of the year.
If fancy somewhere new and exciting to clean after six months tidying your flat day after day after day, Train Station Renovation might do it for you. It’s a game about fixing stations up to be all shiny and new, clearing away rubbish, filth, satanic shrines, and graffiti, fixing machinery, replacing furniture and fittings, and redecorating. It’s more like the canned cleanup of House Flipper than the physics-simulated chaos of Viscera Cleanup Detail, which isn’t what I’m personally after, but I know our Alice Bee dug it. Today, after five months in early access, the game has launched in full.
Months after Respawn let slip that cross-platform multiplayer would be dropping into Apex Legends, we finally know when we’ll be able to team up with our console comrades. Beta testing for the feature kicks off alongside the Aftermarket Collection Event next Tuesday, letting you try out the bizarre new Flashpoint LTM with your Xbox and PlayStation pals – assuming they choose to let us PC folks in on the fun, at least.
Aching fingers? Throbbing headache? Feeling burnt out on massive videogames? I’m no doctor, but it sounds like you need a prescription for some cheap indie darlings. That’s the idea behind Ten Minute Games (or 10mg), at least, with the indie collective today announcing plans to dish out their first bundle of tiny, experimental games later this month.
I’d phone a doctor if that headache keeps up, though. Might be serious.
The launch of Microsoft Flight Simulator has made me very aware that I don’t have a flight throttle and stick, but I’m not committed enough to buy one. Turns out, you don’t need to. Just fire up the 3D printer you definitely have, and you can print out a HOTAS that snaps onto an Xbox One controller and connects to its trigger and thumbstick. That’s the wild new creation from Akaki Kuumeri, who has even shared the schematics so we can all spin filament into a HOTAS on our own 3D printers.
You’ll soon be able to buy games off the Epic Games Store from inside the GOG Galaxy client, as part of GOG’s plans to expand their launcher’s built-in store. No, this does not mean Epic exclusives will be coming to GOG’s own store. Yes, you will still need an Epic account. Yes, it is a bit weird, but I suppose adding new stores fits with GOG Galaxy’s goal of being the launcher and library encompassing all other platforms and libraries.
promised the universe, and delivered a video game. At the time, on the game’s initial release in 2016, it looked like it might be a reputation from which Hello Games could never recover. Yet in the four years since they’ve worked and worked and worked, releasing update after update, building an expanding and iterating, even reinventing, without ever charging early adopters an extra penny. Goodness me they’re getting closer to actually delivering a universe.
With the most recent update, Origins, No Man’s Sky is so damned close to being the game I’ve always wished it could be. And perhaps far more importantly, it feels so damned close to being a bunch of other games all manner of other people wish it could be.
