Who’s for a game of Picards? The beauty of cards is that they can be anything. You can slap together a working game with them in a couple of minutes. Take 12 blanks, doodle some faces and landscapes, and lo, you have a procedural narrative generator. Make some duplicates, invent a few rules and lo, you have systems. Conversely, the great drawback of cards - especially in those roguelite deckbuilders people have been churning out sinceSlay The Spire- is that everything can be reduced to them....

Infinite jester I must confess, it was not till this very hour that I envisaged the possibility of anRPGparty consisting exclusively of clowns. There’s a fine tradition of clown characters in RPGs - Sylvando fromDragon QuestXI, Harle from Chrono Cross, the Jester inDarkest Dungeon- but a whole party’s worth? The full big top? The maximum cabaret? Madness! Delightful madness! Here’s the trailer forClowned King, the next game from Moonana, developer of the colourful and melodiousKeylocker....

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Long sticky tongue in cheek Valve instituted a fairytale punishment for cheaters in its unreleased laney shooterDeadlockyesterday. Cheaters will now be turned into frogs, provided the other players in the match vote for it. ACounter-Strike 2modder proved the effect ina post on Xitterafter the change was mentioned in some out-of-the-way patch notes by a Valve developer. “Added an initial Anti-Cheat detection system,” said developer “Yoshi” in the changelog posted on the game’sofficial-but-kinda-half-hidden-behind-the-bins forum....

Do not cut the white flowers! As befits the “very normal gardening game” thatpuzzlymystery boxGrunnwinkingly bills itself as, the first tool I obtained was a pair of shears. The second tool I obtained was a trumpet. It doesn’t really work like a trumpet, and it does things no regular trumpet could or should do. I got a trowel next. Here’s the thing about the trowel: it’s a pretty good trowel. Nothing fancy....

Fold news What exact percentage of unacknowledged irony is it when a digital game wants to sing the praises of paper-based art in the context of a story about fighting off a “blight” of digital creatures? If you were serious about that moral,Hirogami, you’d actually be printed on hammered-down treemulch. I decry thee, pretender! You’re one of the very electronic critters you want me to battle. On the other hand, youdolet me transform into an origami armadillo which can roll around like a pinball....

A clicky controller that shares DNA – and actual parts – with the Razer Viper We’ve known for years that consoles have simply become preboxed PCs, and now look: we’re getting into their controllers as well. The Razer Wolverine V3 Pro (and its wired cousin, the Wolverine V3 Tournament Edition) has looked to desktop peripherals in search of superior button-bashing, cannibalising the rather goodRazer Vipergaming mouse series for its switches. The result is a high-performing, satisfyingly clicky pad that, yes, works wonderfully on PC – albeit one that rinses you for four times(!...

The best of both sharp 4K and fast 1080p, or just silly frankenscreens? Exact specs vary, even among the very few models currently available. But typically a dual-mode monitor can run at either 1080p resolution with an esports-grade, 300Hz-plus refresh rate, or at a much sharper 4K rez with the refresh rate toned down, and will switch between these two modes with the push of a button. Or, more likely, a toggle of an OSD setting....

The hop is exquisite Alice Bee (RPS in peace)wrote aboutplatformerSystem Purgea while back, saying it starred a witch with a nice hop. So I tried out the demo for its sequel,System Purge: Hollow Point, and can confirm that the witch still has a nice hop. I’m thankful for this, because if the witch did not have a nice hop, the game would be maddening in a bad way. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still maddening....

Outstanding A new shooter set in theStarCraftuniverse is in the works at Blizzard, according to Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier’s book Play Nice, viaEurogamer. The project is headed up by Dan Hay, who worked various leading roles on Ubisoft’sFar Cryseries, and also a 1999 CGI film starring Jim Belushi named “The Nuttiest Nutcracker”. The real-timestrategyspinoff was also mentioned during an IGN podcast thataired yesterday. As for this new shooter, details seem fairly scant at the moment....

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Clocked it Bravely he stood, alone on his hill, unwavering in the face of backlash:Chrono Triggershould have just let Frog be a talking frog instead of being a knight turned into a frog. So, trash game. Fortunately, I can finally experience what it’s like to actually enjoy Chrono Trigger - Canadian Studio Riyo Games are making what they describe as a “spiritual successor”. It’s calledThreads Of Time, it’s “aided by legendary developers and composers from Japan who have helped define Xenoblade Chronicles, the Mana series and more,” and it looks beautiful....

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