Aug 21
Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Look, given the choice between buying storage and a shiny new game, we’re always more likely to go for the latter, but buying SSDs is getting much easier with prices dropping.
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Look, given the choice between buying storage and a shiny new game, we’re always more likely to go for the latter, but buying SSDs is getting much easier with prices dropping.
You really have to hand it to the publishers of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2. They are the absolute masters of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, the doyens of stepping on rakes, even as they near the checkered flag. The long-awaited RPG got a new trailer and what may actually prove to be the final release date at Gamescom Opening Night Live this week. The trailer was a feisty show of Dishonored-esque mayhem, and the hands-on verdicts I've read (save for stinky uncle Eurogamer) have been positive. Ours is forthcoming.
But then came the revelation that this much-delayed sequel to a quintessentially faction-led RPG from a company famous for downloadable add-ons would sell two of its vampire clans as day-one DLC. How we laughed! How we clutched our faces and chittered like gerbils! How we ran outside, begging for the moon to fall on our heads! Despair springs anew.
If you’re looking for a solid PC build but don’t want to spend a fortune, you could do a lot worse than this iBuyPower option at Walmart.
I drop the house into the great maw (not that one). It screams as it falls away from the clutches of my mouse clicker. It disappears from view, but there's a sickeningly wet crunching that betrays its fate. Oh and the fact that the entity's jaws immediately flare open once more, teeth and tongue dripping with anguish to cram vegetation, trees, towerblocks into its gullet.
This is In Full Bloom, a game that scores the full 10/10 in the wonderfully ironic naming category. Set in a greyscale universe sucked free of all hope and colour, it tasks you with accomplishing an impossible task. You've got to keep the infernal child of constant consumption happy by tossing an unending stream of junk into its mouth.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's forthcoming Legacy of the Forge expansion introduces a new home customisation system, as part of a story about restoring a legendary burnt-down blacksmith's joint where your dad once worked as an apprentice.
Out September 9th, the expansion takes Henry of Skalitz back to Kuttenberg to climb the ranks of the blacksmith guild, with unique armour and weapon blueprints. Expect "quirky" requests from clients, but above all, expect a nagging sense of failure, because the aforesaid customisation system "supports over 136 million combinations", and always, always> at the back of your mind, the creeping suspicion that yours is the very worst.
Xbox's handhelds have a confirmed release date, and yes, it's the one that leaked. As for how much the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X will cost you, Microsoft aren't sharing a price yet, because there are some macroeconomics to take into account, don't you know.
If the creators of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn Of War 4 get their way, the grim darkness of the far future is actually going to be a lot like that halycon summer I spent back in 2010, playing through the first Dawn Of War for the very first time. In a new interview following last night's announcement, KING Art Games co-founder Jan Theysen has described Relic's original real-time strategy game as the new sequel's "guiding star" - specifically for its grander battles and greater emphasis on base-building versus the second game's more focussed, borderline action-RPG campaign and the third game's MOBA-inflected, something-for-everyone approach.