Scorn, the H.R. Giger-inspired horror game coming to PC and Xbox Series X/S, has been pushed into 2022.
Originally set to release at some point this year, publisher Kepler Interactive noted the 2022 date as part of its release slate in a press release announcing its formation.
The group is a joint venture between developers A44, Alpha Channel, Awaceb, Ebb Software, Shapefarm, Sloclap, and Timberline thanks to a financing round of $120 million.
Chernobylite is a science-fiction survival horror RPG which takes you to a 3D scanned recreation of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, including the abandoned city of Pripyat. Free exploration of a disturbing world is complemented by survival RPG mechanics and non-linear storytelling. Return to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone as Igor, investigating the mysterious disappearance of his […]
Hello! I'd like to tell you more about Alchemic Cutie, a relaxing adventure RPG set on colorful Wimba Island. While taming wild jellies, you'll meet villagers, enter jelly competitions, and uncover the secrets of the island. Oh, and it's available today for Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S! Each jelly has uniquely generated stats, traits, […]
Opening day for the NHL is just around the corner, and hot on its heels is the October 15 release date for NHL 22, which provides the best way to put yourself into the on-ice action. Today, EA Vancouver gave us an extensive look (27 minutes to be exact!) at what to expect from the gameplay in this year's edition, which adds X-Factors and new abilities such as being able to reverse a hit or brace for it.
The footage, which you can watch above, breaks down the changes to passing/receptions, how the Frostbite Engine enhances the gameplay, and the impact of the new stick physics. Outside of the beta, this is the most substantial look we've had at the game in action, so it's a good watch if you want to see how the new features look on the ice and hear explanations from the developers about their vision for this year.
The NHL 22 blog also further highlights how the gameplay is different this year, which includes strength and body positioning playing a bigger factor in puck possession alongside an all-new deflection system that offers more variety in the ways you can trick the goaltender, from subtle stick flicks to more skillful moves that pivot and pull a puck back against the grain.
The blog also details improvements made since the closed technical test, touching on everything from physics to A.I., to shooting and passing. For instance, A.I. defenders should face up the ice more and not move out of position after center-ice faceoffs. In addition, one-timer shot outcomes have been rebalanced to take into account the quality of the pass and reaction time.
For more on NHL 22, you can check out our interview with producer Clement Kwong that discusses balancing the X-Factors and the status of the overpowered poke check.
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 may be taking some notes from another Disney-owned property and becoming the dark chapter in Insomniac's web-slinging story. In a short segment on the newest This Week in Marvel podcast, hosts Ryan Penagos and Lorraine Cink chat with Vice President of Creative at Marvel Games, Bill Rosemann. Rosemann discussed some of his favorite moments from the Marvel game announcements at the Sony PlayStation showcase a few weeks ago.
While discussing Spider-Man 2, Rosemann offers some details on what players can expect but still leaves us guessing on key aspects of the reveal trailer for a bit longer. He confirms there have been some changes to both suits worn by Peter and Miles and that they will be facing off against multiple foes. We know of Venom, who was teased in the first Spider-Man and revealed in the trailer, but another mystery voice is featured just before the symbiote appears. We think it sounds like Kraven the Hunter. However, Rosemann only confirms that it's "a voice of a character who is in the game."
What's most exciting from the interview is this little morsel of info Rosemann freely drops near the end of the interview: "If the first Spider-Man was Star Wars, Spider-Man 2 is kind of our Empire. It gets a little darker." Peter Parker and Miles Morales have certainly had their share of adversity in their separate PlayStation adventures, but invoking The Empire Strikes Back certainly ties some implications to this sequel. How will the duo of Spider-Men come out of their fight with not only Venom but also the unnamed (probably Kraven) foe? And in what shape will they, their loved ones, or New York City be in after credits roll? We'll have to wait a while longer for those answers.
Marvel's scrappy foul-tempered mutant Wolverine also has a game in the works from Insomniac, and while Bill Rosemann didn't have much to say about it right now, he gave some hints of what to look for in the reveal trailer. "The scene where you are behind Logan, and he is at the bar, is chock full of Easter eggs," says Rosemann, claiming internet detectives have found some of, but not all of them. He suggests taking a close look at the cash register as well as on the bar in the shot where Wolverine pops his claws for fans to find some of Rosemann's personal favorite Easter eggs.
Both of Insomniac's games are a ways off, with Marvel's Spider-Man 2 slated for a 2023 release on PlayStation 5 and Marvel's Wolverine coming at an unknown date. With Rosemann suggesting an Empire-like tone for the Spidey sequel, what's your prediction for what will play out? Let us know in the comments!
There are many questions going into the launch of Amazon Games' New World about longevity and the most important aspect of any MMORPG, the endgame experience, but what I can speak to today after a marathon session is that the early game is incredibly compelling. If you're looking for a social MMORPG packed with PvP and the allure of Runescape farming and grinding, New World's first twenty hours or so are crammed with experiences you will absolutely love.
Starting out in hostile lands with nothing more than a few crudely crafted tools, there's an absolute joy in carving up rabbits, boars, and wolves to create your early-game trash gear. If you're like me, you're going to join a faction early on and take territory that you'll have to defend as well, so the game can alternate between the simple pleasures of farming up carrots, silver, cabbage, and a wide variety of alchemic plants and hardcore PVP battles. The combat is perhaps one of the weakest points in the game in terms of depth and interest, but it shockingly doesn't seem to matter here because the real enjoyment comes from bringing back a haul to your outpost and churning out specialty-crafted goods. Last night, I made a bag. It lets me hold a ton more loot. It might not seem like much, but making awesome stuff for myself and my guildmates feels seriously great. There's just a little taste of survival games here, and it's a dash of tasty seasoning.
Roaming the land and slaying oodles of bland skeletons and undead pirates may be the quest breadcrumbs that you're given, but the real journey is what happens along the way. Maybe you luck out and find a silver vein but don't have the mining skill to harvest them – yet. Crafters and gatherers are sure to find a ton of really crunchy joy in New World, as getting new tools and level-ups unlocks all kinds of new opportunities to create increasingly complex and valuable goods. Finding a new weapon is great, but there's something about just hanging around town, milking the cow, and cooking up some awesome rations for the team. Yes, you can milk the cow. Yes, you can grab some handfuls of honey out of the town beehive. If your company (guild) controls the territory, you can also get many ingredients from the food cart.
It's easy to be reductive assessing New World and its admittedly uninspired deluge of "daily quest" style fare that has you killing X monsters and looting Y chests over and over. Still, there's real discovery in the world itself for the crafter types. Finding rare herbs, minerals, or even just harvesting a pack of wild turkeys feels good. Wandering the world (as slow as it is without mounts and the limited fast travel available) and stumbling into some goodies to turn into stuff feels great.
Can the feeling of unbridled discovery and curious creation last as we go into hours 30, 40, 50, and beyond? Only time will tell, but there's no doubt that New World is serving up something extremely compelling that feels out of the golden era of MMORPGs at the onset. I'm approaching the overall experience with more cautious optimism, as I know discovery can diminish, and sustaining what the game offers up initially will be an incredibly daunting task. But I'll say this – finding things and making things is freaking fun.
Obviously, this isn't the unboxing you should watch if you want an unbiased review, but it's pretty professional all the same, albeit basically a glorified press release. The hosts take out the screen and the Joy-Cons, commenting on the screen going "all the way to the edge" and how "different" it is, making sure to mention that the OLED is "bright".
We're pretty big fans of the Darksiders franchise here at Nintendo Life. These games may pilfer their core mechanics from all over the shop, and make no attempt to hide the fact in the process, but they're pure comfort food; cosy, familiar, resolutely old-fashioned in how they go about their business, and for the most part a lot of easy-breezy fun to boot.
First released to fairly average reviews back in 2018, Darksiders III sees the series stripped back to its basics, removing a lot of the faff introduced in part two for a much more streamlined and basic affair. You'll do combat with all manner of demonic beasties, solve a bunch of pretty simple puzzles, take on some bosses and engage in light platforming action — there are absolutely no surprises in store here. It's the very epitome of a safe, straightforward adventure that serves up exactly what fans of the series will likely expect, a light-hearted action adventure with plenty of character in the form of its sassy cast of Horsemen and demons.
Crytek has finally unleashed footage of the Nintendo Switch version of The Crisis Remastered Trilogy which is due for release next month. The port is being handled by the team at Sable Interactive, who have handled a number of high profile Switch ports including, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. The trilogy contains all three Crysis games […]
Chernobylite is a science-fiction survival horror RPG which takes you to a 3D scanned recreation of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, including the abandoned city of Pripyat. Free exploration of a disturbing world is complemented by survival RPG mechanics and non-linear storytelling. Return to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone as Igor, investigating the mysterious disappearance of his […]
Hello! I'd like to tell you more about Alchemic Cutie, a relaxing adventure RPG set on colorful Wimba Island. While taming wild jellies, you'll meet villagers, enter jelly competitions, and uncover the secrets of the island. Oh, and it's available today for Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S! Each jelly has uniquely generated stats, traits, […]
Details about Marvel's Spider-Man 2, Insomniac Games' webslinging sequel first revealed during the September PlayStation showcase, are still scarce. However, Marvel Entertainment's creative vice president Bill Rosemann gave us a juicy morsel to chew on: the superhero game will kind of feel like Star Wars: The Empire…
Hate raids have become an increasingly disruptive problem on Twitch this year, pushing many of their targets off the platform entirely. Today Twitch announced that it has added new verification tools for streamers to use to control who is able to post messages in their chat windows, including a new phone-verification option meant to eliminate organised harassment campaigns by armies of bot accounts.
"Hate and harassment of any kind is unacceptable and prohibited on Twitch, whether it's an offensive message, malicious follows, or the egregious 'hate raid' attacks that have targeted marginalized creators over the past months," the company writes in a blog posted today. The post goes on to explain how the new tools work and where creators and mods can find them.
Using the new phone verification system, Twitch streamers can require chatters to have a confirmed phone number before they're allowed to participate in chat. "Together with updated, more granular email verification settings, Creators will now be able to use email and phone verification in tandem to meet their specific needs."
It's Wednesday, and you know what that means - another Minecraft snapshot is here, with another round of features for testing ahead of the 1.18 release date. This one's pretty light, but there is cool stuff. Most notably, we're getting a revamped effects display aimed at making your screen look a bit less cluttered.
In snapshot 21w39a, the list of active effects has been moved from the left of the inventory to the right. There are now two different effects displays, too - the classic list will still appear in many circumstances, but a new compact view condenses each effect to a single icon, so that it can display more neatly when, say, your recipe book is open.
This snapshot also brings in some new advancements. You'll get Caves & Cliffs for falling from the top to bottom of the overworld, Feels Like Home for riding a strider over lava, Star Trader for doing business with a villager at the height limit, and you'll get to go full Julie Andrews with the Sound of Music for getting a jukebox going in a meadow.
As is ever the case in starting a new MMO, picking a character name can be tough. Not least because naming things is hard, but also because some words are on the no-no list. In Amazon's MMO New World, that includes most versions of attempting to name your character after Amazon's founder. As Graham found out yesterday, you can't be Jeff Bezos in New World. Well, not exactly, anyway. You can be close to Jeff Bezos, depending on how far you're willing to stretch his name. At least one player—though I suspect there are hundreds more—has successfully bent the rules and landed in Aeternum as a knockoff Jeff.
It looks like Valve might have a new VR headset in the works, at least according to Youtuber Brad Lynch. This new headset, codenamed "Deckard," would serve as the second VR headset made by Valve after the Valve Index, and it will reportedly sport a design similar to those of Facebook's Oculus Quest headsets. Lynch found out about the headset when digging through the SteamVR files, which featured several references to it, "which he then cross-referenced against the company's recent patent applications." Soon after the release of this video, Ars Technica independently verified Lynch's claims and considered them accurate. Valve's new headset will reportedly differ from the Valve Index in that it features "a built in processor that could allow it to work without being tethered to a PC by a cable." Supposedly, Valve wants the headset "to track movement without needing external base stations." Sources also state that the he...
If you've kept up with the headlines about Epic's development on the next major iteration of its Unreal Engine, you'll know there are some impressive new things on the way. The next generation of Unreal Engine will support technologies like Nanite, Lumen, and Niagara just to name a few. In short, these features allow game developers to increase the level of detail and realism in 3D environments with new levels of efficiency. Together, the technologies yield scenes ever-closer to reality. And while Unreal Engine 5 isn't due for release until 2022, developers have been able to play around with early builds to get familiar with what's now possible. While we're still a ways out from seeing games built in Unreal Engine 5, you can play the Market of Light tech demo today via Steam. The Market of Light demo was created by Japanese developer historia Inc, which is best known for The Caligula Effect games. As an effort to get familiar with Epic Games'...
Amazon Games' New World launched just yesterday and has already proven to be astronomically popular. As spotted by our sister site Destructoid, the game reached more than 700,000 players within a day. And the servers have taken quite the beating. Players have reported long queue lines, keeping them outside and knocking at the gate for hours. Amazon addressed the issue with an update last night. New World will soon get new servers with free character relocation. Existing servers will also be tweaked, allowing more players to fit into the game's world. "We understand that some players are experiencing lengthy queue times and we are working hard on a few things to help address these issues," an Amazon Games rep wrote in the update. "We are continuing to stand up additional servers and will expand the capacity of our existing servers once we have properly tested these changes." "Our sole focus right now is to get everyone logging in and p...
Signal Studios has announced that it has to delay Toy Soldiers HD. As revealed on the developer's official Twitter page, the remaster of the 2010 Xbox Live classic is being pushed back. It was originally announced for August and then delayed to September, but it will now launch on October 21 instead. This small delay is to make sure that Toy Soldiers HD releases in a state that the developer is happy with. More specifically, Signal Studios has identified some display bugs in the leaderboards that it wants to fix before release. This delay will also give the team time to address "some minor items," that they have flagged. You'll have to wait a little longer It can be frustrating to see something get delayed that you are looking forward to. In most instances, however, this is necessary and ends up benefiting both the developer and consumer. Also, it's unlikely that another delay will follow with Signal Studios itself claiming that it is "abso...
This week's episode of Nintendo Minute has gone live. In today's video, Kit and Krysta unbox the new Switch OLED model. Check out the full episode below.
Limited Run Games has announced Asdivine Collection, a package of four RPGs for Switch coming from Kemco and Exe-Create. Asdivine Hearts, Asdivine Hearts II, Asdivine Dios, and Asdivine Menace will be bundled together. The full set will be put on a single cartridge without any downloads. Asdivine Hearts got started on Switch in April 2018. It was then followed by...
What happens when you blend "the social gameplay of massively multiplayer titles, the tactics of real-time card games and the deep character customisation of classic RPGs – all in the highly transportable format of mobile"? You apparently get something "epic" according to developer ODY Software, as well as the mobile TCG title Requia Online, which […]
Like it or not, gaming and blockchain nonsense is only going to keep on keeping on, apparently. How do we know? Because Habbo Hotel developer Sulake has announced the game will release 12,500 NFT avatars. Here's Sulake CEO Valterri Kairu with the required explainer. "The technology behind the NFTs provides tremendous security, giving greater control […]
Come with me, and you'll be In a world of annual celebration Aion's twelve, take a delve In to a new Dream World destination. There will be no PvP But there's daily quests and decorations A smorgasbord of cake rewards And free things for login dedication. On top of this, there's Prophet's Gifts That are […]
The new Razer Wolverine V2 Chroma is a step up from its predecessor, introducing several new buttons, customization and the ever important Razer Chroma RGBs.
We're hopping in the sleigh and heading for the 'Holiday Period' which means big games are coming for our wallets in October 2021. There's the nailed on Christmas Number One in the form of FIFA 22, of course, but there's more blockbusters here than on a 1990's high street. Tell us when to stop: Far Cry 6, Back 4 Blood, Alan Wake Remastered, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, Riders Republic…
So how do you make a case for Dandy Ace? You could say that it's easy on the eyes. In the hands too, it feels good, with controls that are slick and combat that delivers heft. But it can feel more like a treadmill than a journey, as too little changes with each run, and you're left with the sneaking suspicion that you are going nowhere.
New PUBG update 14.1 is now available to download for PC players. The latest PUBG: Battlegrounds update for PC according to its 14.1 patch notes brings several big changes to the game. First up the new PUBG update 14.1 ads the ability to pick up and carry a downed survivor. However, there are also pros […]
It looks like Valve might have a new VR headset in the works, at least according to Youtuber Brad Lynch. This new headset, codenamed "Deckard," would serve as the second VR headset made by Valve after the Valve Index, and it will reportedly sport a design similar to those of Facebook's Oculus Quest headsets. Lynch found out about the headset when digging through the SteamVR files, which featured several references to it, "which he then cross-referenced against the company's recent patent applications." Soon after the release of this video, Ars Technica independently verified Lynch's claims and considered them accurate. Valve's new headset will reportedly differ from the Valve Index in that it features "a built in processor that could allow it to work without being tethered to a PC by a cable." Supposedly, Valve wants the headset "to track movement without needing external base stations." Sources also state that the he... 
If you've kept up with the headlines about Epic's development on the next major iteration of its Unreal Engine, you'll know there are some impressive new things on the way. The next generation of Unreal Engine will support technologies like Nanite, Lumen, and Niagara just to name a few. In short, these features allow game developers to increase the level of detail and realism in 3D environments with new levels of efficiency. Together, the technologies yield scenes ever-closer to reality. And while Unreal Engine 5 isn't due for release until 2022, developers have been able to play around with early builds to get familiar with what's now possible. While we're still a ways out from seeing games built in Unreal Engine 5, you can play the Market of Light tech demo today via Steam. The Market of Light demo was created by Japanese developer historia Inc, which is best known for The Caligula Effect games. As an effort to get familiar with Epic Games'... 
Amazon Games' New World launched just yesterday and has already proven to be astronomically popular. As spotted by our sister site Destructoid, the game reached more than 700,000 players within a day. And the servers have taken quite the beating. Players have reported long queue lines, keeping them outside and knocking at the gate for hours. Amazon addressed the issue with an update last night. New World will soon get new servers with free character relocation. Existing servers will also be tweaked, allowing more players to fit into the game's world. "We understand that some players are experiencing lengthy queue times and we are working hard on a few things to help address these issues," an Amazon Games rep wrote in the update. "We are continuing to stand up additional servers and will expand the capacity of our existing servers once we have properly tested these changes." "Our sole focus right now is to get everyone logging in and p... 
Signal Studios has announced that it has to delay Toy Soldiers HD. As revealed on the developer's official Twitter page, the remaster of the 2010 Xbox Live classic is being pushed back. It was originally announced for August and then delayed to September, but it will now launch on October 21 instead. This small delay is to make sure that Toy Soldiers HD releases in a state that the developer is happy with. More specifically, Signal Studios has identified some display bugs in the leaderboards that it wants to fix before release. This delay will also give the team time to address "some minor items," that they have flagged. You'll have to wait a little longer It can be frustrating to see something get delayed that you are looking forward to. In most instances, however, this is necessary and ends up benefiting both the developer and consumer. Also, it's unlikely that another delay will follow with Signal Studios itself claiming that it is "abso... 
