Kickstarter RPG is set in 1920s Massachusetts I’ll admit that I often look at a game’s setting and world before I start caring about mechanics; if your game takes place in an interesting time period or uniquely fantastical world, then that’s far more likely to get my interest.Witchmarshis an action-RPG that takes place in Massachusetts in the 1920s; players will control a group of characters investigating a series of mysterious kidnappings....
Good old Kenji Hiruta still holds water for this series, like the rest of us Look, we’ve been through this before, so I’m setting the expectation that there is no new confirmation of anotherSkies of Arcadiagame in the slightest. Even though we all want it to be so. But no one is quite as much of a champion for this classic RPG than Kenji Hiruta, one of the lead designers of the game....
A Profound Waste of Time may be the only place you’ll see those franchises this year Physical gaming events are dead, at least for now. E3, Gamescom, and EVO have all gone online-only. Physical media, on the other hand, is thriving.Limited Run, the boutique retailer and publisher, had arguably one of the best showings at E3 this year. Collector’s editions for everything fromMetroid DreadtoNo More Heroes 3, are selling out almost instantly....
Texture modding. Is there anything it can’t do? After providinggeneral tipsfor getting a bit more out ofDark Souls IIvisually, renowned modder Durante has written another article forPC Gamerdetailing his next major release. TheDSfixcreator has a new tool, GeDoSaTo, for stuff like texture modding and downsampling. Better yet, it’s intended to eventually go beyondDark Souls IIand “work with any 3D game.” Through library interception, the tool “allows for game downsampling without any hardware limitations, and texture modification in any game which uses the default texture loading mechanisms provided by DirectX....
Bonus points for the sick NES guitar! From Ryan “Mega Beardo” Postlethwait, the man who brought us theCastlevaniaconcept albumBelmont, comes a modern metal re-imagining of the original NESZeldasoundtrack. At a mere four tracks in length,Ledjent of Zeldajust pops in, rocks your face, then zips out the side door like a phantom in the night. The digital version is free, but you can choose to be generous and spring for the $5 physical album if you wanna....
Marvel heroes and villains clash in card form A new collectible card game is mixing superheroes and villains with some digital card game talent.Marvel Snapis a new CCG set in the Marvel universe, from a team founded by formerHearthstonedevelopers. In today’sreveal, we get a good look at the general art style before heading into someMarvel Snapgameplay.Snapis taking a multiverse approach, with tons of Marvel characters represented in card form. Decks consist of 12 unique cards, as players duke it out over different cubes and zones....
September 30 I’m still poking around inMarvel Ultimate Alliance 3. I have all the secret characters and most of the Infinity [Challenge] rooms completed, but it’s fun to try and mess around with fighters I haven’t played yet and recruit new players into the fold. I’ll be doing a lot more than just occasionally jumping back in by the end of September though, as Nintendo of Europe has announced that the first DLC pack, The Curse of the Vampire, arrives on September 30....
Get to know the people who make great videogames [Update: Show’s over folks! We’ll have the rerun up later in the week. Here’s the latestSportsballstrategy profile in the meantime.] The newSmash Bros.is fantastic, but it’s not the only 4-player arena-based competitive combat game on the Wii U right now. There’s alsoSportsball, one of Nintendo’s “Nindies”, a cross betweenBaraBariBall(Sportsfriends) andJoust.While I can’t recommend it as a single player experience (yet), I can wholeheartedly endorse it with 3 or more players....
Suspiciously timed to a class action lawsuit For the better part of 2020, Microsoft has faced aclass action lawsuitover routine stick drift in several models of Xbox controllers. The Complaint alleges that Microsoft knows of the defects and refuses to repair the problem free of charge when users submit a support ticket. Just two weeks ago, the Complaint was amended to list the new(ish)Xbox Elite Series 2controller as a model that is defective and subject to consumer relief....
Betting big on the future of eSports Major League Gaming, Lai Fung Holdings Limited, and eSun Holdings Limited are constructing a competitive gaming arena in China, scheduled to open to the public in 2017. The structure will be located off the coast of Macau within “the V-Zone, the first-in-the-world videogame destination planned as a centerpiece of Lai Fung’s Renminbi 18 billion ‘Creative Culture City’ development on Hengqin Island.” (This sounds like a front for a supervillain or something....
We haven’t said much about “Xi”since its debut inPlayStation Home. This is partially due to it being so weird. It’s an ARG based in a virtual world. That’s like, uh, deep man. Deep. But the other scrap of reasoning as to why we haven’t brought it up recently is because nothing “big” has happened in it. Well, as you can imagine, it looks like something special is brewing in“Xi“. Today, aPlayStation....
Forge Island is coming on April 11th 343 Industries will be bringing a new Forge World map toHalo 4on April 11th. Titled “Forge Island,” the map will allow players to use the in-game map editor to create something using this island themed map as a base for their creation. It’ll also come with new Forge pieces. There’s some gameplay footage of Forge Island above if you’re interested (the best footage starts at 47:00)....
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