An audience with Geoff, from 7pm BST It’s time for the third annualSummer Games Fest, the not-E3 live show hosted by Geoff Keighley (of ‘is Geoff Keighley’ fame). And what better way to enjoy an evening of game ads than together with RPS’s two most bass-voiced section editors? Myself and Ollie will be operating the liveblog levers as it all kicks off tonight, June 9th, from 7pm BST / 2pm ET / 11am PT....
A historic low price for a small but comfy gaming rodent. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen this mouse slip below the £20 mark, but it’s still a historic low price for a surprisingly solid little mouse. You get the mouse in white with four-zone RGB lighting (controllable in Logitech’s G Hub software and syncable to other peripherals via LightSync), six programmable buttons and an 8000 DPI optical sensor which ismore than enough for almost everyone....
You do you, available now Revealed tonight atSummer Game Fest, you can whet your appetite for the newSaints Rowgame by making your boss character right now. Described as “the ultimate body shop”, Boss Factory is a free standalone demo you can access inThe Epic Game Store(or by following a series of links throughSaintsRow.com). In it you can have a ride on the character creator before the game comes out in August, and save your favourite and most bizarre looks....
Beat up some goons Midnight Fight Expressfeatures brutal violence and people in animal masks, prompting unflattering comparisons to the streamlined and propulsiveHotline Miami. Look past that comparison and I think there’s more to like about it on its own terms, however. Check out the new trailer below, which also delivers news of its release date and a playable demo. See, that doesn’t look as fast-paced or as immediately gratifying as Hotline Miami, but there are definite moments in there I like....
The open world PvE survival ‘em up shows off its new travel system Nightingale, the upcoming PvE open-world survival craft ‘em up from former BioWare boss Aaryn Flynn’s new studio, is getting into the card game business, according to its latest gameplay trailer shown at tonight’s Summer Game Fest. Its freshly flaunted Realm Cards will be your ticket to navigating its mysterious portal network, although naturally you’ll need to craft them by pulping different resources together first....
Finally, we’ve found our not-Batman at not-E3 Na-na-na-na-na-Nightwing! See, who misses Batman anymore? Not former ward and sidekick Dick Grayson, who was happily kicking faces and twirling about like the aerial gymnast he is at tonight’s Summer Game Fest, live from Gotham City. Oh wait, that was new footage fromGotham Knights? Okay then, well, you better watch the trailer to find out more. We alreadysaw a bit of Nightwingwhen Gotham Knights last swooped down from the rooftops last month, along with another fellow former Robin: the Red Hood....
In alpha now, out later this year Prison ArchitectandDarwiniadevelopers Introversion Software have taken toTwitterto announce they’re working on a new spaceship management game, The Last Starship. It’s a procedurally-generated romp through various mission types such as asteroid mining, battling space pirates and rescuing ships in distress, all spread throughout the galaxy. Introversion have quite a bit more to say on what they call their “broken, unfinished and bug filled prototype“ in their announcement video, which you can watch below....
Routine is set in a vast lunar colony, in a low-fi future forseen by the 1980s. Something terrible happens, it falls silent, and in we go to investigate. Poke around, sneak around, and maybe fight around, if you dare. I had forgotten how excited I was for this, and now I’m feeling it all over again. I still dig that clunky retrofuturistic style. “As we were approaching what we believed to be the end of development, we were finding more and more things that we weren’t happy with that negatively impacted the experience,” they explained....
A faithful Aliens games, even if it’s not officially an Aliens game Space Beast Terror Fright draws clear inspiration from Aliens. A motion tracker blip-blips at the bottom of your screen. You can find sentry guns to activate and watch your back. You have a big gun. You’re on a salvage mission into a creaking derelict. But unlike most video games inspired by Aliens, you’re just as squishy as those movie marines....
Well, that’s a blast from the past Crikey, one thing I never expected to see at tonight’s Summer Game Fest was a sequel to Delphine Software and U.S. Gold’s cinematic sci-fi platformerFlashback, but there it was.Flashback 2is coming from long-established French studio Microids, developers of the Syberia series. It’s been 30 years now since the original game released on PC, and Geoff Keighley was very excited to re-announce the sequel. Check out the trailer below....
“You are a demon made of glass and pain.” Here’s the new trailer: Let’s be clear, it’s not like it looked bad before, but its abstract world looked spartan. Now it seems to contain cityscapes rendered as particles of light and inhabited by polygonal spectres, sparkling diamonds and vehicular orbs. The camera angles, the soundtrack, the texture of it all; it’s lush in a way that makes me want to play it immediately....
Troy Baker and Roger Clark the latest lads who should have just stayed home In a very short and technically not at all sweet teaser trailer at the Summer Game Fest this year, we saw that terrible things are afoot in isolated space stationFort Solis. Honestly, why does anyone bother building isolated space stations? It’s like getting married at Christmas in Albert Square at this point. Geoff was joined on stage by Roger Clark (who you will know from being Arthur Morgan inRed Dead Redemption) and Troy Baker (who you will know from, I dunno, throw a dart, you’ll hit one) to briefly talk more about their characters and what the hap is heckening in this horror adventure game....
Assorted Avengers will assemble on October 7th The final heroes and villains ofMarvel’s Midnight Sunshave been revealed at tonight’sSummer Game Festbonanza. Spider-Man and Scarlet Witch will be joining previously announced goodies such as Iron Man, Blade and Captain Marvel, while err… Scarlet Witch, Hulk and Venom will repping the game’s big bad demon mother Lilith. Man, if there’s one Avenger I wouldn’t want going all evil on me, it’s Hulk. And Scarlet Witch, to be fair....
