Give the village a bit of pizazz Resident Evil 4’s Chainsaw demo dropped last week, offering an early section of the game with zero time limit and lots of villagers who’d like to add your guts to their dinner. Modders have since taken to the demo, making it more in line with their, err, tastes. Turns out they like potassium served with spoons. Thanks to modderStevebg23, Leon’s gun is replaced by a banana and his knife, a spoon....
“Attempts to blackmail or intimidate us are completely futile” GSC Game World, the Ukrainian devs working onS.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart Of Chernobyl, have claimed that one of their employees has been hacked by a “community from a Russian social network” and the studio threatened with blackmail. Announced via Twitter, GSC said that a “collective work-with-images application” was hacked and the information then used for “blackmail and intimidation”. GSC then urged that anyone who comes across leaked information doesn’t start sharing it across the web, as it would “dilute the impression of the final idea” that they’ve put into the game....
Don’t start the engines on your tractor mech just yet You can read the full statement at the tweet linked above, and if you do you’ll note they don’t actually saywhythey’re delaying it, which is quite funny. We can infer that it’s because they haven’t finished making it, because that’s the reason for basically every delay ever. “Not only do we want to design the game to be fun, but also well-balanced with each aspect of the game intertwining with one another, and we remain committed to building a thoughtfully-designed experience and continuing the conversation with our community in the process,” says one very long sentence....
Stuck on today’s Wordle word for Mar 13? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?In some ways, the simpler and more common the five-letter word, the harder it is to solve inWordle, the ingenious daily word guessing game that has captured 2 minutes of the world’s time every day for the past 2 years. Using a Mastermind-style clue system, you can guess different five-letter words and see if the letters in your guess appear in the hidden word....
Leads reflect on always online requirement Cheery RPS fanzine PC Gamer recently spoke tosome of its design teamabout those compromises, their causes, and the enormous series-killing backlash that followed. If you don’t remember, SimCity had aterriblelaunch. It required an ‘always online’ internet connection even if you were playing alone, and players would be booted from the game if their internet or SimCity’s servers went down. SimCity’s servers went down a lot, particularly as millions tried to log on in the first days and weeks after release....
Stuck on today’s Wordle word for Mar 12? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Wordleis part of the daily routine of so many people around the world. I myself like to play Wordle (and various similar games) after lunch with my family - and to make it more challenging, since we have more minds working on it at once, we adhere to all the methods I mention at the bottom of this guide to make the game harder....
It never was cuffing season “It already seems inevitable that there will be stories two weeks from now about howForspokenfailed to meet Square Enix’s sales expectations,“I wroteas the demo for the Isekai romp arrived on PC. How wrong I was! It took six and a half weeks. “Reviews of Forspoken… have been challenging,” says Square Enix’s latest financial report, and its sales have been “lackluster”. Thereportnotes that Forspoken “received positive feedback on its action features, including its parkour and combat capabilities, so it has yielded results that will lead to improvement of our development capabilities of other games in the future....
As if it wasn’t scary enough already Resident Evil 4’s demo dropped on Thursday and in all likelihood its ganados-packed village is difficult and scary enough for me. If you’re made of stronger stuff, you might be interested in the demo’s secret ultra-hard “Mad Chainsaw Mode”, though. As spottedby Eurogamer, after completing the demo, players are sometimes presented with a screen offering “Mad Chainsaw Mode”. Players can decline and restart in standard difficulty, but the screen contains these details about the “extreme difficulty” mode:...
No do-overs Lemnis Gateis a multiplayer shooter trapped within a turn-based timeloop, in which players work across turns to support their past selves and stymy their opponents. If that were possible in reality, this would be the perfect moment for a new iteration to appear and throw a shield aroundLemnis Gate, because its developers have announced that it will close down this summer. “Lemnis Gate has been an ambitious project that we are privileged to have brought to life together, so it’s with sadness that we share this news today,” says theannouncement....
Stuck on today’s Wordle word for Mar 11? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Wordleis a deceptively simple word puzzle game. It can easily tax both your logical and creative skills as you strive to reach the daily solution within the six guesses permitted. If you’re stuck on today’s Wordle puzzle, we’ve got you covered, with a trio of hints just below designed to help you out....
Running scared, hand-in-hand with a friend Last Halloween, developer Red Barrel ran aclosed betafor their co-op horror prequelThe Outlast Trials, letting players share their traumatic getaways in up to four-player co-op, or suffer the ordeal alone. After a successful beta and tons of fan feedback, Red Barrel are ready to unleashOutlastTrials into early access with a new release date of May 18th. The Outlast Trials has everything you’d expect from the horror series; anxiety-fuelled sprinting in the dark, shakily hiding from brainwashed killers under bed posts, using a night vision camera to re-enact the snotty crying scene fromBlair Witch....
Also launching into Game Pass The Open Beta will feature the game’s main mode Dino Survival, a wave-based mode where players team up against a torrent of raptors. Players can join the mechs vs. dinos action with friends across systems as the Beta includes cross-play. The showcase’s footage seemed just as off-the-wall whacky as you’d expect from a game about raining raptors and badass adult Power Rangers. The new story trailer (above) teased the time-bending threats of the A....
Oops, all ghosts Fatal Frame: Mask Of The Lunar Eclipseplunges players into the dreadful past of Rougetsu Island as three(Young women? Girls? I have no idea how old they are supposed to be and for some reason that’s not surprising.)survivors and a stalwart detective revisit the ruins of a hospital that was once home to a haunting ceremony. They all have amnesia, of course, because that’s a low-effort way to generate an air of mystery....
