A Space For The Unbound devs walk away from “predatory” publisher PQube

The pixel-art indie adventure has been delayed indefinitely The developers of indie slice-of-life adventureA Space For The Unboundallege that the game’s console publisher in western regions, PQube, withheld information about a diversity grant and used that to leverage for a greater share of the game’s revenue. Mojiken Studio say they were left feeling “manipulated and exploited” by the UK-based publisher’s actions. The Indonesian team have now terminated their contract with PQube and delayed A Space For The Unbound until they can find another publisher....

August 24, 2022 · 3 min · 602 words · Donna Nash

Deliver Us Mars rocks up with a new story trailer

Her daddy has told her to go I just answered the door to a delivery person but they didn’t have the planet I was expecting. That’d be publisher Frontier Foundry, who shared another look at the recently delayed sci-fi space adventureDeliver Us Marsthis evening as part of Gamescom’s Future Games Show. I thought there’d be more imposing planetary locales to navigate in this sequel toDeliver Us The Moon, and there are, but I wasn’t prepared for a whole bunch of astronauts running about being dramatic....

August 24, 2022 · 2 min · 276 words · Craig Jones

Destiny 2 to stop removing old expansions, starting with Lightfall in February

So long, sunsetting! Bungie have announced they’re ending an unpopularDestiny 2practice: removing older expansions to keep the game at a maintainable size. Necessary as it might have been for Bungie, this ‘sunsetting’ removing content people bought has raised hackles. Now Bungie say they’ve been working on the game’s technoguts, and won’t do that anymore. Expansions will stick around forever, though seasonal content will still leave at the end of each expansion cycle—and Bungie don’t say anything about bringing back all the old stuff....

August 24, 2022 · 4 min · 793 words · Gail Hinton

District 9 director's battle royale game gets a new trailer, but relies on NFTs

Off The Grid has a blockchain marketplace Update:AsEurogamer point out, it turns outOff The Gridfeatures NFTs, with tradeable in-game items handled by a blockchain marketplace. A different kind of future tech dystopia than the one depicted in the trailer… Original story: Off The Grid was announced earlier this year, the first product of District 9 director Neill Blomkamp’s partnership with Gunzilla Games. A new video released tonight offers a longer look at its setting, in the form of a Blomkamp directed in-engine cinematic, while also giving a sense of how the cyberpunk battle royale might feel to play....

August 24, 2022 · 2 min · 290 words · Jennifer Jordan

Floodland is a colourful settlement builder about surviving post-climate collapse

Floodpunk? Here is all I am asking for from any post-society future: let the paint and fabric dyes survive.Floodland, the newly announced survival settlement builder about building back better after climate collapse, is much more interesting to me because the roofs are bright blue, the walls are daubed in orange, the tents are luscious shades of mauve and heliotrope. Watch it below to see what I mean. As the name suggests, rising sea levels have turned the world of Floodland into a series of smaller, disconnected islands....

August 24, 2022 · 2 min · 263 words · Jennifer Murray

Frontier and Command & Conquer Remastered devs join forces for new WW1 RTS

The Great War encompasses the entire length of WW1. You’ll have to step into the roles of theatre commander and field commander to wage your campaign, making decisions in turn-based grand strategy and in real-time battles. Technologies from the period such as poison gas and tanks will be options to research, which is fairly intimidating, and you’ll need to choose where to invest your resources and place your fortifications carefully to avoid them being overrun by the enemy....

August 24, 2022 · 1 min · 78 words · Julia Mccullough

How to get to Sumeru in Genshin Impact

Accessing the newest nation of Teyvat in the 3.0 update How can you get into Sumeru in Genshin Impact 3.0?Sumeru is the latest nation added toGenshin Impact’s increasingly sprawling world map, courtesy of theVersion 3.0update. On this page, we’ll let you know how to cross the border and begin your journey in this brand-new region. How to begin the Sumeru storyline If you’re all caught up and are looking to follow the story, the best way to reach Sumeru while keeping in step with the plot is to follow the waypoints shown to you on the new Archon Questline, “Chapter III - Act I: Through Mists of Smoke and Forests Dark”....

August 24, 2022 · 2 min · 369 words · Kyle Campbell DDS

Investigate 18th century murders in The Case Of The Golden Idol demo

Murder mad libs The Case Of The Golden Idolis a detective game in which you explore 2D scenes of grisly murders. As you click around, you’ll discover new words to add to your inventory, which you can then use to fill in your explanation of the crime. How did who get into whose room, which person was killed, and how did the murder take place? These are the sorts of questions you’ll be answering across 12 different murders - and there’s a demo available now, if you want to start to work the case right away....

August 24, 2022 · 2 min · 264 words · Larry Wise MD

Manuscript ‘em up Pentiment has inked a November 15th release date

Verily, forsooth, etc If you’d told me back in early June that legendaryRPGdevs Obsidian Entertainment would be releasing an adventure game set around a medieval German abbey, I would’ve scoffed and called you a charlatan. Speed forwards through time to today, when Obsidian revealed thatPentimentis out on November 15th, and I’m genuinely pleased to hear it. Refresh your memory of Pentiment by watching the game’s trailer below. Pentiment is set across a quarter of a century in 16th century Bavaria....

August 24, 2022 · 1 min · 199 words · William Bass

Park Beyond's tools make it easy to craft hilariously dangerous rollercoasters

Don’t worry madam, impossification is completely safe Park Beyond, an upcoming theme park management sim in the vein of a juiced up Rollercoaster Tycoon, is trying to balance two slightly opposed teams in its target audience. There are people who love doing the management bits - the bean-counting, optimising the amount of salt on fries to make people thirsty and buy more drinks, paying close attention to demographics and average spends and that sort of kidney*....

August 24, 2022 · 6 min · 1078 words · Anthony Williams

Pick up a one-of-a-kind mechanical keyboard for £61 on Amazon UK

Akko’s keyboards come in two sizes and three colourways, but all feel brilliant to use. I’m a sucker for a pretty mechanical keyboard, but usually the keebs I’m most enamoured with have price tags to match - think £100 to £200 minimum, and think the upper end of that scale if you want a keyboard thatlooks like a giant ice cube or weighs a solid 2.3kg. Happily though, there are also now a range of much more affordable keyboards that still include the unusual colour schemes, high-quality components and brilliant typing experiences that make mechanical keyboards so fascinating to me....

August 24, 2022 · 3 min · 515 words · Danielle Thomas

Pippin Barr's hidden game objects exhibition returns in v r ^2

Gawping simulator “Now that I’m older and wiser,” Barr says on hiswebsite, “I’ve come to feel that hiding the objects was a bit too cute (I was thinking about the artist Gregor Schneider at the time, for what it’s worth) and that it would have been better to make the objects visible.” That’s exactly what Barr’s done, raising them to sit on top of the cubes they were formerly hidden inside....

August 24, 2022 · 1 min · 185 words · Steven Adams

Samsung's Odyssey Ark monitor wants to kill your gaming PC

It’s coming with Samsung’s integrated Gaming Hub for a full-on cloud experience Samsung have made a lot ofgreat gaming monitorsover the years, and they’ve also been making steady inroads into the realm of cloud gaming through their ongoing partnership with Microsoft. Until now, most of their cloud ambitions have been neatly contained in the console space, but today Samsung have unveiled their latest cloud-enabled PC monitors, presumably in the hope that the combination of Xbox Cloud Gaming, Nvidia’s GeForce Now, Stadia, Utomik and Amazon Luna services inside their integrated Samsung Gaming Hubs will be enough to convince folks to part with their towers once and for all....

August 24, 2022 · 3 min · 559 words · Leslie Mclaughlin