Bugbear and THQ Nordic wheel out new take on Destruction Derbalikes Ah, you can almost smell the burning rubber. Real cars involve rubber, correct? The trailer is a mixture of live-action shenanigans and in-game footage of horseless carriages despoiling each other. At a THQ Nordic preview event earlier in the week, I also got to see a bit of the game’s car customisation - a “big new feature”, which lets you paint individual car pieces and adorn them with decals, impact damage and rust....

For Pacific purposes Hardened battle royalists will remember Caldera, the sandy island map of bunkers and palm trees inCall Of Duty: Warzone. It gotshut down last yearas Activision focused their efforts elsewhere, making the map unplayable. But you can now revisit those bullet-strewn beaches. In theory, anyway. Activision have released it as a 4GB open-source project that can be explored in a 3D model-viewing tool. That’s cool. But among their reasons for doing so, there lies a predictably grubby logic: they want people to use the data to train AI....

I never even got to meet Big Dave In my brief time with massiveFallout 4modFallout London, I’ve read a delightful terminal entry about a scientist who named his favourite radiated shrew “Big Dave,” thwacked several of said Radshrews with a walking stick, gulped down some expired pink wafers, and been informed of train delays due to “leaves on the track.” “A British transport joke!” I said to myself, marinating in the sufficient amount of crown-mandated mild amusement....

It’s a follow up to Super Bernie World In Kitsune Tails, you play as an unnamed kitsune, inspired by Japanese InariOkamideity. Events transpire, leading you to develop a romantic interest in a young sorceress who helps you out in a time of need. But then drama! Your former mentor turned antagonist kidnaps this young sorceress and traps them inside an elemental prison. So, it is up to you to manifest “cute outfits” that’ll help you rescue your newfound love....

Come try the demo According to certain Terran lore, God created the universe in seven days. Well, I got up this morning and made a small suburban village with a hospital, school, police stationanda cafe in the space of 20 minutes. This is the backwater burg of Edwitherington. Population: 8 - one for every non-residential building in town. Major imports: ornamental lampposts, because I like to cultivate an old-timey mood. Major exports: traffic jams, because I’ve laid out my village in the form of a small crescent leading back to the freeway, which means that there are two traffic light junctions about 100 metres apart....

Tubular Having a list of Suffolk amusement park mascots one desperately wishes to outlive out of an innate desire for revenge is, I imagine, not a universal experience. Still, on the day Pleasurewood Hills mascot Woody Bear is taken by the soil, I will jig and whoop under the moon. I actually cannot remember when the beef started, but my mum reliably informs me that I was terrified to tears by this bear as a child....

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Roll up, roll up Well, would you look at that! I just got done pining for the merest whiff ofDungeon Keeperwhen what should appear on Steam but afree prologuefor delightful voxel-artymanagementsimDungeon Tycoon. I’m using the word ‘appear’ because, following yet moreindustry layoffsyesterday, I’m choosing to adopt the brain of an idiot as to shield myself from the crushing reality of material conditions. So, anyway, the magical game goblins whacked the demo on Steam, and I’ve been having a lot of fun with it....

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The remaster “sold like dog sh*t” Braid: Anniversary Edition"sold like dog shit" according to creator Jonathan Blow. Blow discussed the remasters sales performance across several Twitch streams since its release back in May, going so far as to suggest that the studio’s “future is uncertain” as a result of low sales. The comments werecollated as a series of stream clips by YouTuber Blow Fan, and spotted byVGC. When asked if the remaster had sold well 34 days after the release of the Anniversary Edition, Blow responded, “No, it sold horribly....

No More Room in Hell 2 is Torn Banner’s next project A live service game gracefully bowing out, in this economy? My liege! “With Chivalry 2, we set out to make the ultimate medieval battlefield game: an unparalleled multiplayer experience that realized our dream of being a warrior on the fields of battle, inspired by classic medieval movie scenes and old tales of glory from history,” wrote Torn Banner in ablog postyesterday....

“We were overly ambitious,” says CEO The news follows months of reporting that all is not well at Bungie - the companymade an undisclosed number of reductions last year, and wererumoured to be facing a full Sony takeover, with much riding on the fortunes ofDestiny 2’s Final Shape DLC. Writing on the developer’s site today, CEO Pete Parsons gave a compressed account of how Bungie have ended up in such dire straits....

The dome has expanded Katharine (RPS in peace) thoughtDome Keeper’sblend of tower defence and mining was both “meditative” and “perfectly formed” in herreview. So it comes as great news, then, that the devs have somehow taken that perfect dome, expanded it and polished it to an even greater sheen. We’re talking about new guild assignments, new gadgets, better world generation, a new world, new monsters. The list is enormous and designed expressly around improved replayability - take that, Las Vegas Dome....