Crowd-sourced Velvet 89is a free hidden object game that tells the story of communist Czechoslovakia’s “Velvet Revolution” in 1989, which brought an end to 41 years of one-party rule and led to the founding of a parliamentary republic. The game released earlier this month, and you can find it onSteam, iOS and Android. I know nothing about the Velvet Revolution, but I do have some quick thoughts on the use of a format I associate with Where’s Wally to capture a process of extraordinary political change....

An extra peace One of my favouriteinternet jokesis: “I enjoy video games because they let me live out my wildest fantasies, like being assigned a task and then completing that task”.Wilmot’s Warehousefelt like that joke made manifest, putting you in the shoes of a tiny warehouse working squareboi. This puzzle-solving sequel,Wilmot Works It Out, doesn’t come packaged with its predecessor’s wry humour, nor the same sense of compulsion. Instead, it exudes a calm and homely sense of idle comfort....

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Price cuts for the non-3D V-Cache Ryzen 9000 series too ‘Tis the season for newgaming CPUs. While Intel gear up to release their efficiency-focusedCore Ultra 200Schips, AMD have announced aNovember 7th launch datefor their Ryzen 9000X3D series – the latest to use their framerate-juicing 3D V-Cache. No specific CPUs have been named, for some reason, but we can be reasonably sure from leaks and retail listing whoopsies that this launch will include at least one of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, Ryzen 9 9900X3D, and Ryzen 9 9950X3D....

Chewing the Qud Update:Looks like the prophets were right. A press release today confirms that the game is getting a 1.0 release on December 5th. It’ll cost $30 on Steam, Itch, and GOG. Original story:TheCaves Of Quddeveloper has posted a cryptic riddle that sounds a bit like a release date in disguise. Apost on the game’s Steam pageyesterday reads: “{n} purple wardens beseech the Chair, What is death, if one rose is fair?...

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Dave The Diververse inbound Dave The Diveris getting a story DLC and, possibly, more games set in the same universe. This comes from an interview with developer Mintrocket’s new CEO Jaeho Hwang, whospoke to VGCat Gamescom Asia about their plans to expand Dave and his diving. A future Dave may not even dive, but like, connive. Keep a beehive alive. Jive. Collect tithe. Hwang says that “besides the story DLC” that they’re working on “right now”, they also “want to make separate games about each character to show how they met, what they did before coming to the Blue Hole”....

The Axis Unseen is now The Axis On Sale Did you have a fine old time in Blackreach, the mazy, Dwemer-built underside ofSkyrim’s sprawling mountain map? Do you like murdering Ents in slow motion? Do you want to see smells? You might be interested inThe Axis Unseen, which has just launched on Steam - it’s the work of former Bethesda developer Nate Purkeypile, one of the big brains behind Blackreach....

Made in 72 hours for Ludum Dare 56 Shotgun Kingdevelopers Punkcake Délicieux have quietly rolled out another ticklish oddity in the shape ofBuild The Sun, a work-in-progress 2D god sim. In Build The Sun you preside over a tribe of alarming yet cute inkblot creatures, who sometimes remind me of Pikmin and sometimes, of that awful ‘roided-up panther monster from the opening stretch ofAnother World. Your objective is, indeed, to build the sun, because there isn’t one: the game’s pastoral pixelart world is engulfed in darkness....

A perverse love for the control schemes of old became Sonar Shock’s USP Not many people hit the refund button onSonar Shock, the indie immersive sim that’s rated Very Positiveon Steam. But those that do tend to complain they couldn’t get the hang of the controls. You can understand why. Try to strafe left to dodge an attack from a blubber monster, and you’ll instead rotate on the spot. Attempt to turn the camera with a flick of the mouse, and you’ll discover that your view remains fixed in place - the cursor moving across the screen as if searching for an icon on your desktop....

Streaming giant’s blockbuster venture shuttered after around two years of operation Netflix have shut down one of their more trumpeted video game initiatives - a Californian studio known as team “Blue” and stocked with former Halo, God Of War andOverwatchdevelopers. It was a major plank in Netflix’s on-going efforts to extend their film and TV streaming empire to what Nicinsists on calling the “greasy screen”. As Kotaku’s John Walker (RPS in peace)observes, the closure of Team Blue isn’t wholly surprising....

AtaaAaAaAAAAAAari classics I forgot about just-launchedhorrorgameTormenturewhen ravelling togetherthis week’s round-up of potent PC releases, but thankfully, Maw disciple Fachewachewa was on my case in the comments. It’s one of your ‘cursed video game’ videogames in the spirit ofInscryptionandPony Island, and based on a quick blast with the demo, it seems lush. It’s set in the 1980s, a premise I now automatically find horrible because I was born in the 1980s and that was, like, a million years ago....

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