Saps a-peel You might have noticed that the secondmost played gameon Steam right now is Banana, which released back in April, but has seen an explosion of popularity over the past couple of weeks. What is Banana? It’s a free idle clicker in which you click on a picture of a banana to make numbers go up. If the number goes up enough, the game drops additional pictures of bananas into your Steam inventory....
For the love of god, send in the Nazgûl Tales Of The Shireunfolds in a world without shadow. There are shadows, technically, but they’re so mellow and fuzzy they might as well be stray pools of sunlight that have forgotten to glow. In this latest chunk of Lord Of The Rings memorabilia from developers Wētā Workshop and publisher Private Division, you are a custom-created hobbit who has just taken up residence in the charming Tellytubby town of Bywater, there to spend your days foraging, fishing, feasting and fraternizing with your fellow halfings, all of whom wear expressions of rosy-cheeked humour so intense in their winsome affability that your own face soon forms a merry rictus in response - like that terrible smile fromDisco Elysium, butcosy....
Not the remastered remake; the 1996 classic The originalResident Evilmight be returning to PC - and soon! - if recent signs hold true. An age rating for the 1996survival-horrorclassic was recently confirmed by European suitability judges PEGI, hinting at an impending (re-)release for the almost three-decade-old zombie game. A second point of clarification for those smart-asses still holding up their hands: yes, the original Resident Evil from 1996 hastechnicallyalready been released on PC before, hitting Japanese computers the year of its release before finding its way to North American and European keyboards-and-mice the following year....
“We were a strong team on a strong project ready to launch to a strong audience.” Yesterday, welearned thatSims-likeLife By Youhad been canceled, and its developers Paradox Tectonic had been shut down by parent company Paradox Interactive. Later the same day, game designer Willem Delventhal shared more a detailed account of his experience working on the game through to its cancellation, viaLinkedIn. Paradoxdelayed Life By You indefinitely on 21st May, having previously announced that it would launch on 4th June....
The Punisher’s beloved arcade brawler gets a deserving port at last When it comes to the ultimate showdown of all-time great fighting games, Marvel vs Capcom 2 might well take my personal bet for being the best of the best. I spent countless hours throwing down with housemates, friends and random passers-by who looked like they were up for a brawl during my teenage years. Yet the arcade classic has - as far as I can tell - never been given a proper PC release before the recent announcement of a new bundle of the comic-book crossover series headed to Steam this year....
Mouse trap What to compareNine Sols’ flowingSekiro-like 2D combat and layered metroidvania exploration to? The eternally sequel-lessHollow Knight? The punishing roguelite trappings ofDead Cells? 2D Souls-nuzzlingSalt and Sacrifice? I wouldn’t know, because I’ve always had such trouble with slashing, blocking, and jumping in two dimensions that not only have I barely played any of the above, I’ve missed out a swathe of importantplatformersin the belief I just didn’t have it in me to manage them....
Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #374 This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Want a hint for Connections today?Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle gameWordle, the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now. It’s calledConnections, and if you haven’t played it before, now’s the time to start....
Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge Of The Seven due in October Revenge Of The Seven (Steam page here) casts you as several emperors in succession, all plucked from a pool of characters representing over 30 classes. Each ruler also inherits the knowledge and abilities of their predecessor via some funky sorcery. The campaign’s “unique story structure” is a balance of expanding your Empire and sticking it to the Seven Heroes, with “dramatically” different outcomes based on who you fight first, who you ally with, and so on....
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Still Wakes the Neeps When I wrote ourStill Wakes The Deepreview I mentioned the true-to-life Scottish slang used by the oil rig workers of this North Sea horror. It was wonderful, but all these slang terms were being translated in the subtitles for some reason. “Gobshite” became “bastard”. The “polis” were localised as the “police”. And every “yersel” sneering out of the machismo-ridden workers became “yourself”. Well, turns out that’s the result of the game defaulting to “International English” for its captions....
And Ace Attorney Investigations 2 outside of Japan for the first time TheAce Attorney Investigations Collectionis heading to PC later this year on September 6th.“Waitaminute,“you might be saying, “Didn’t this already come out?” No, you choob, you eejit, you dafty, you’re thinking of one of several other collections of Ace Attorney games. Ace Attorney Investigations Collection comprises two games: Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth and its sequel, Ace Attorney Investigations 2: Prosecutor’s Gambit....
I am very tired and “Keep on truckin'” is the best I’ve got sorry American Truck Simulatoralready has in-development DLCs which will see its 18-wheelers head toArkansasandMissouri, but SCS Software have also commenced building a third: Iowa. Theannouncement on Steamchatters about the sights on offer within the state, from the capital Des Moines to the scenic views of the Mississippi River. It also notes that while “Iowa isn’t the biggest State in the USA, it is certainly home to a lot of ‘The World’s Biggest…’ You’ll find plenty of interesting landmarks on your journey....
One of the Gamecube’s best beloveds returns to challenge today’s card-battlers Edwin backstory fragment #345: the greatest usage to which I have ever put my failing grasp of mathematics is determining how many different RPGs I could buy using the “same” money, by dint of trading them in promptly at Gamestation for carefully calculated diminishing returns. I’d save up to buy one of the premium headliners, attempt to get my money’s worth inside a week, then swap it for a respected double-A and perhaps a sub-£8 oddity with the manual missing - nesting one purchase within the other like a series of Matryoshka dolls....
