The latest trailer for Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin confirmed that the game will launch on March 18, 2022 and also appears to confirm that the title will be an Epic Games Store exclusive at launch.
If you're a dedicated Steam player and wanted to experinece the Chaos-fuelled nonsense of Jack and his buddies at launch, we may have some bad news for you: it looks like the game is exclusive to Epic Games Store only for the foreseeable.
Sometimes, we'll see games that launch on Epic Games Store come to other platforms later (similarly to how PlayStation or Xbox get one-year exclusivity deals) but the branding and marketing for Square Enix's latest Final Fantasy experiment suggests we'll only be seeing the game on the Epic storefront for now.
The final character coming to Smash Bros. Ultimate has the weight of the world on its shoulders – and game director Masahiro Sakurai knows that. In a new tweet, the infamously hard-working developer has encouraged gaming fans around the world to tune in to the final character reveal, "even if [they] don't play the game". It's going to be something special, right?
In a tweet, Sakurai noted that the character is going to be an interesting one for gaming fans, no matter their interest in Smash Bros. specifically.
"In just one day, the last fighter of Smash Bros. Ultimate will be announced," he said. "Even if you don't play the game, if you're interested in gaming I'd like to recommend you watch it."
This isn't a review of Jett: The Far Shore. I set out to review the game, its appearances during multiple PlayStation streaming events elevating it to "interesting" status. It's also by Superbrothers, the small team behind indie hit Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP. It looked… good.
So why isn't this a review of Jett: The Far Shore? Simple. I got bored of the gameplay and surprisingly dull world of this jet-based exploration game before I reached the end. I found the whole thing rather tedious, and for me, it's the biggest disappointment of the year. I called it a day on the game's penultimate chapter.
For the majority of Jett you are inside a sort of hover plane - a jett from the game's title. As Mei, you must explore a new world, scanning its many items of interest and performing necessary tasks to progress the story. Sadly, the jett is the very worst thing about the game.
I love the original Alan Wake. For me it's one of the best games of the Xbox 360 era and lifted Remedy Entertainment out of Max Payne's shadow. Yes, it was hammy, with some real clunky lines spoken by "I am a writer" Alan Wake, and yes, the name is right on the nose, but it's a game brimming with atmosphere and top notch gameplay mechanics. I hope this Remaster gives people another chance to see the game how I see it, as it deserves to be remembered: in high regard.
As a remaster and not a remake, if you go into the game having not seen the original for over a decade it's easy to think not much has changed. Things look as I remembered them, although my brain knows the Xbox 360 game didn't render at such a high resolution - I'm playing on Xbox Series X.
Look closer and compare to the original, though, and there are clear improvements, most notably in character models, objects, and textures. Things are more detailed, less angular, and sporting far more detail. Alan Wake Remastered doesn't look like a game developed from the ground up for release in 2021, but it still looks impressive and more than pulls off its slightly kooky TV show vibe.
Naruto War Tycoon is a Roblox game by Playful Club in which you build a base, raise fighters, and take on other players. By redeeming codes, you get various items in the game, which can help you progress faster or become stronger. In this post, you will find a full list of all current active codes […]
Pet Simulator X is a Roblox game by BIG Games Simulators in which you collect pets, gather coins and diamonds, and more! By redeeming codes, you get various items in the game, which can help you progress faster or become stronger. In this post, you will find a full list of all current active codes for […]
Developer: HAL Labs Publisher: Nintendo Released 1993 Genre: Platformer Kirby's Dream Land was a seminal title for the Gameboy and made the character an instant star. His next outing would surprisingly come to the NES in its twilight years, something that has become a staple for the character. The late release of Kirby's Adventure does […]
Today, Xbox and Rockstar Energy Drink unveiled five exclusive collector's edition cans featuring original Master Chief designs brought to life by five unique artists. The cans feature fan-favorite Rockstar Energy Drink flavors: Original, Sugar Free, Fruit Punch, Silver Ice, and, for a limited time in the U.S., Blackberry Goji. Starting October 1 and through the […]
Since the dawn of PC mods, Thomas the Tank Engine's menacing presence has loomed large in unexpected places – The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Resident Evil Village, even the Mass Effect franchise. With this at the forefront of its mind, one developer set out to create a horror experience all about escaping the clutches of a humanoid locomotive. The helpless player must board their train, reconnect disjointed tracks while traversing a creepy landscape, and fire away at their multi-wheeled pursuer with a mounted minigun. Two Star Games' Choo-Choo Charles brings our Thomas the Tank Engine nightmares to life.
Choo-Choo Charles' announcement trailer (seen above) is brimming with random encounters and intense shootouts. The locals of this shadowy island want you to defeat the monster roaming the wilderness. While completing side quests for various NPCs and collecting scraps to upgrade the speed, defenses, and firepower of your tiny yellow train, you'll go head-to-head with Choo-Choo Charles himself. The creature's distorted face emphasizes its rows of Pennywise-inspired teeth, and its spider legs help it close long distances in no time at all. Be careful while on your journey; you'll have your work cut out for you.
The open-world is enormous, touting rain-damp deserts, swampy, low-lit bayous, and more. While on foot, you're more vulnerable than ever, so you'll have to sneak past Charles while also completing various objectives to progress the story. But when the hulking man-faced monstrosity spots you, the race for survival is on. When you've amassed enough materials to honestly give Charles a run for his (its?) money, you can toot your horn and challenge the evil entity in a fight to the death.
Choo-Choo Charles releases in the first quarter of 2022 on PC.
Are you just as terrified (and genuinely intrigued) as I am? Drop those trailer reactions down below!
"Surrounded by wonder, touched with dread" is a line from Jett: The Far Shore's holy writings. These scriptures guide Mei, the protagonist, and seep into every aspect of the game. Conveniently enough, the quote is an apt description of my time with Jett, and not always for the best reasons. Some narrative moments reach high points, though the title's tedious gameplay always brought me crashing back down.
Jett begins in a world on its last legs, where the inhabitants realize they are doomed. The adventure kicks off powerfully as I listen to my people's mourning, knowing I won't share their fate. I'm also burdened by their hope that my quest will save some part of civilization. Looking to religion for comfort, the people cling to the idea that my crew's prophesied scientific and spiritual mission across the galaxy will save humanity from utter annihilation. The narrative never spells out what caused my home world's sad fate, but it employs excellent visual storytelling to fill in the blanks. Smokestacks choke the skies around you, smearing smog and soot across the landscape. The bleak spectacle brilliantly sketches out one reason for the crisis: unchecked industrialization. In a darkly ironic way, it suggests that the factories creating your planet-escaping technology are killing those remaining, which inspires some acute survivor's guilt.
The world's stylized, minimalistic graphics provide a distinct and beautiful look, especially during key moments like your crew's take-off when the horizon beautifully transitions to the stars. Jett has a specific, retro-futuristic design. This style works because you are bringing the past with you through time and space. While chapter 0, a kind of prologue, has stirring goodbyes and thought-provoking imagery, the rest of Jett struggles to measure up.
After making my way to "the far shore," a place of legend described by the holy texts, my scout team's adventure quickly went from delightful to dangerous. After I was exposed to the alien elements and touched by a mysterious presence, I began to see things. While passed out after an accident, I had wild dreams about my village with shadowy figures in place of people. But the visions didn't end when I woke up, and I began to see signals on the ground that my crewmates couldn't. These signs let me know when I could interact with something, like when I used my ship to make flowers bloom. Though these exposure-driven illusions lead to a series of wonderfully strange sequences, the story ultimately doesn't go anywhere satisfying with them.
Much of the game takes place on your jett, a two-person, superpowered craft that lets you soar through the environment. Unfortunately, the strong imagery from the first section of the game is lost when flying. The pared-down art style in these sequences makes the world look like nondescript blocks of color. As a result, the characters' reactions to the visually empty – but supposedly awe-inspiring – world are jarring. I found it difficult to gauge my velocity due to the environment's scarcity of landmarks, making me feel like a bug buzzing around the screen rather than an interplanetary scout traveling at super-speeds.
Piloting your jett never feels good. The camera centers on the middle of the screen, not the vehicle, so simultaneously moving and looking where you're going is awkward. I grew frustrated multiple times when performing delicate operations, like getting into the shadows for cover or aiming the release of grappled objects, because the controls are unwieldy. Additionally, the game places a tedious limitation on flying at full speed. You must continuously watch a meter to ensure you're don't go too fast for too long lest you overheat and blow out your engines.
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Getting out of the ship is also trying. Every time my character's feet touch the ground, I feel like I'm wading through pudding. And the interactions outside the jett, which often feature exposition-filled dialogue, are rarely remarkable enough to make up for the wearisome traversal. Many of these issues are not game-ruining flaws by themselves, but Jett has so many minor nuisances that they add up to make exploration a chore, which is a shame for a game about space exploration.
Jett: The Far Shore shines bright in some narrative-heavy sections, and its visuals can be impressive, but – despite starting off full of potential – it fails to fulfill its promise. Sadly, Jett's finale, much like my time spent piloting its interstellar spacecraft, feels more unfulfilling than thought-provoking.
Score: 6.75
Summary: Weighed down by tedious moment-to-moment gameplay, Jett: The Far Shore's visuals are doing some heavy lifting.
Concept: You and your team of scouts leave behind your dying home planet to fulfill a prophecy and colonize another world
Graphics: The striking minimalist look makes for some wonderful cinematic shots, though it doesn't always work for the action sequences
Sound: An instrumental score swells dramatically and shrinks intimately to strike the right mood for the moment
Playability: Unfortunately, the flying controls are never quite as precise as you, or the game, want them to be, and moving in the first-person story moments feels sluggish
Entertainment: There are highlights in this game's visuals and storytelling, though these get bogged down by basic mechanics and uninteresting moment-to-moment gameplay
Also on: Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC
We need more games like Alan Wake – a horror experience that scares you, but not in the ways we often see. It has many of the genre's trappings like carefully placed jump scares, ax-wielding murders lurking in the shadows, and unsightly supernatural threats, but the true terror comes from words written on pieces of paper and thoughts expressed by protagonist Alan Wake.
Alan is a writer lost in his stories, and it's up to the player to figure out what's real and what's a fabrication. Many of the words you read foreshadow terrible fates or show how Alan is spiraling into an abyss. The strong narrative pulse makes this 11-year old game feel somewhat timeless, even with gameplay showing some rust.
Alan's story boils with intensity from the moment you meet him, trapped in a strange nightmare that leads him to a lighthouse. The story draws heavy inspiration from the many works of Stephen King and David Lynch's Twin Peaks and is open to interpretation. My understanding of what happens is likely radically different from yours – making it a hell of a game to discuss.
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The entire story unfolds in the small Washington port town of Bright Falls – a place Alan and his beloved wife Alice travel to try to help Alan find his writing pulse again. The city is obsessed with Alan. Standees of him holding his latest book are scattered about in the oddest of places, a visual cue that all is not as it seems. That feeling of not being able to trust your eyes or even Alan's actions hold the narrative in a tense and highly entertaining state for most of the journey. An early sequence where Alan dives into a lake is an excellent example of the narrative's dramatic shifts: The second his hands hit the water, he awakens in his car, blood dripping from his forehead. What happened here? Which moment is a dream? Thoughts like these flare up through most of this dark tale.
This Remedy Entertainment production looked great back in the day, and it still looks good today, but the remaster efforts aren't enough to fully hide the game's Xbox 360 roots. The world and character models are subtly touched up to deliver smaller details and a little more realism. The crisp 4K resolution makes the dimly lit woods more terrifying and shines a spotlight on some of the aged qualities, like facial animations that don't always line up with a character's emotion or Alan's movements, which are a little too mechanical and exaggerated. The game looks antiquated, but not in a bad way. It has an eerie (yet believable) quality that matches the story's dark tone.
Even with Alan being a little squirrely and a horrible jumper, he's still good fun to control. Using a flashlight's beam to remove the darkness from an enraged being is surprisingly intense, given how quickly the battery dies. I enjoyed the challenge that comes in keeping the beam on the target long enough to stun them and make them vulnerable to bullets. A nicely designed evasive maneuver adds some strategy to the mix and allows Alan to separate himself from packs of enemies or more formidable chainsaw-wielding foes.
Some frustration comes from the lack of visibility during conflicts. I wasn't aware of a second or third enemy in some conflicts until they took a swipe at me. Thankfully, Alan has plenty of health to regain command of the situation. And he isn't combating only humans or even living things. Barrels and angry, possessed farm equipment try to crush him. They add variety to the gameplay but are unintentionally comical in design. Beware the tractor!
I loved collecting manuscripts that hold essential plot points and stopping to watch a live-action episode of Night Springs. Again, the story pulls you in directions you don't usually see. Even the world does a great job of conveying story moments, like wind howling menacingly through the woods and destructibility being used to frame Alan's breaking points or seismic narrative shifts.
Sightseeing is rewarding, but I don't understand the push to collect 100 coffee thermoses other than to hammer home the theme of "awake." It's a strange collectible in a game that focuses intently on story and gameplay flow.
After the credits roll on this excellent story – give yourself a few days before jumping into the DLC. Dream up theories about Alan's fate, discuss them with friends, and then see where Remedy takes the tale in The Signal, a short, new DLC chapter that turns the narrative on its head again. You can then jump right into The Writer, the final act for this first game that provides closure for some story threads.
Remedy also provides a great reason to play the game again through two dev-team commentary tracks. You can turn these commentaries on at any time, and they provide fun insight into the design decisions and the making of Alan Wake. One of the tracks is brand new and features reflective thoughts from the game's writer and director, Sam Lake.
Remedy's latest game, Control, sets up a hell of a scenario for an Alan Wake sequel. It would be a shame if we didn't get it, especially after reliving this classic game. It holds up well and shows us just how strong Remedy is as a storyteller.
Score: 8
Summary: While not dazzling as a remaster, the core Alan Wake experience still shines bright.
Concept: A horror mystery that has lost little of its narrative bite. The gameplay shows its age, but the story keeps the game exciting
Graphics: The environments, character models, and textures are slightly enhanced. The lighting and atmospherics also dazzle (especially when viewed in 4K). Exaggerated character animations and awkward facial expressions remind you it's an older game
Sound: Alan's narration is exceptional and Barry is as charming as ever. Sam Lake's bonus commentary track speaks to Alan Wake's place in history and some of the thinking that went into Control
Playability: Pointing a light at violent people is surprisingly fun and holds up well today, even with some encounters delivering frustration
Entertainment: Well worth revisiting over a decade later to see how your theories hold up. This is a great game to discuss with friends – a book-club experience for gamers
The Pokémon Company has announced that Japanese Sword and Shield players will soon be able to get their hands on a shiny Zacian and Zamazenta for the very first time.
Previously, the shiny Zacian and Zamazenta rollout had only been confirmed for South Korea, where fans who pre-order Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl will be eligible to receive a code for the special Pokémon. With a Japanese distribution now also confirmed, there's certainly more hope that players all around the world will eventually be treated to the elusive pair, too.
Square Enix has revealed that upcoming kart racer Chocobo GP will feature at least 20 characters to choose from when it comes to Switch next year.
The news was announced by the game's director Akihiko Maeda during the company's panel at this year's Tokyo Game Show; Maeda noted that the characters will be revealed at a later date, but didn't specify whether the 20+ options would be available at launch or over time through DLC (thanks, Siliconera).
"Fool me once," the famous phrase goes, "shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
With FIFA 22, EA is attempting to fool us thrice, and although we haven't been able to find any official ruling on what this means, we've come to the conclusion that it basically rolls back to "shame on you" again.
We have lift-off: Jett: The Far Shore is out tonight on PS5 and PS4! To mark the occasion, here's a video featuring composer scntfc's song "Jett To Cosmodrome Z-13" to draw you in.
We may already be a few days into October, but don't sleep on the 23 reviews the PN crew published in September. There's something for everyone, but let us know
Today, Xbox and Rockstar Energy Drink unveiled five exclusive collector's edition cans featuring original Master Chief designs brought to life by five unique artists. The cans feature fan-favorite Rockstar Energy Drink flavors: Original, Sugar Free, Fruit Punch, Silver Ice, and, for a limited time in the U.S., Blackberry Goji. Starting October 1 and through the […]
You know what I'd sell my extended family to be able to play? An open-world Metroid Prime. Just the phrase sets my imagination reeling, combining an all-time favorite game series with the possibility of all that player freedom. Which makes it all the more galling that this is something that could have happened.
AMD's Ryzen processors have continued to impress with each new iteration of the Zen architecture, with the latest Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 chips placing among the best gaming CPUs available on the market today. The company's Threadripper products have also seen AMD enjoy success in the server and production-based markets. However, hardware leaker Greymon55 believes that we may be waiting a while longer for Ryzen Threadripper 5000 components based on the Zen 3 architecture.
The company is keeping any news on upcoming HEDT processors, codenamed 'Chagall', close to its chest. We expected news on Ryzen Threadripper 5000 CPUs back in January with rumours pointing to a November release date, however that never came to pass. Now, it appears they might be released in 2022 instead.
The most recent Zen 2 based Ryzen Threadripper products, the AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3995WX and AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X, were released back in 2020 and one of them can even run Crysis without a dedicated GPU.
The UK's best gaming show EGX returns to the physical plane at London's ExCel later this week, and you could be there in person for zero pounds by signing up to the RPS supporter program today. New UK subscribers who sign up for a yearly premium subscription will be able to redeem a code for a free day ticket to EGX on Saturday, October 9th, which would normally set you back £26. Read on for more details.
Out on the Far Shore, the Wyld calls to outsiders. Sounds wishy-washy, I know, but this is a world where the spiritual meets the rational. Tor, the conical peak that sits among the waves of a rambunctious ocean, broadcasts a clear signal across the stars, like the DJ of a mystical pirate radio station. Miraculously - or inevitably, depending on your attitude to prophecy - somebody answers. A species not entirely unlike humanity leaves behind a failing orb not entirely unlike Earth, and makes an impossible journey out of faith and desperation to the source of the Hymnwave. Jett: The Far Shore's protagonist, Mei, is one of the first scouts to step onto the shore: "A mystic among them," as predicted by a soothsayer long ago.
Once there, the newcomers find confirmation of their wyldest dreams, but the planet soon turns against them. Equipment is damaged or taken by local fauna, and the weather pins the would-be explorers in place. Tor seems to at once welcome its guests and push them away, as if at odds with itself. Though the Hymnwave has hummed through the ether for many years, it's clear the planet is not yet of one mind.
Long before Jesse Faden and the denizens of Control were losing their minds over sentient fridges and rubber ducks, Alan Wake was doing unholy battle with possessed logging tractors and combine harvesters. In hindsight, it seems obvious that these two worlds would eventually collide in Remedy's newly established Wake-iverse - such is their shared love of shadowy, flying objects - but back in the dark days of 2010, little did we know that Remedy's tortured horror writer would be making such a big comeback eleven years later.
Well, at least he is over on consoles. While the original Alan Wake had a brief, year-long holiday from Steam in 2017 due to the expiration of its music licences, PC folks have been able to play Remedy's cult classic shooter more or less uninterrupted since its release in 2012. Alan Wake Remastered, however, marks the first time it's ever come to PlayStation (it having been an Xbox console exclusive all these years), and its spruced up character models, higher frame rates and 4K texture packs feel very much intended to get PS4 and PS5 players up to speed on this old-but-new figure in Jesse's life than us on PC. Indeed, when there's still a perfectly good version of Alan Wake sitting right there on Steam for less than half the cost of this new remaster, you're probably better off playing the original than stumping up the cash for this latest nip and polygon tuck.
Alan Wake Remastered is now out on PC almost ten entire years after the original debuted on the platform. It brings with it upgraded character models, textures, and lightning. As it's a better-looking game, you might not be able to run it quite as well as you were the last time around. We're going to look at what this new release's PC options are, as well as compare what sort of differences they make. Let's look at the specs, shall we? Minimum: CPU: i5-3340 GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 or AMD Equivalent. 2GB VRAM. RAM: 8 GB Recommended: CPU: i7-3770 GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 or AMD Equivalent. 4GB VRAM RAM: 16 GB Reviewer: CPU: Ryzen 3 2600x GPU: AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT RAM: 16 GB As you can see, those recommended specs are quite a bit higher than your usual garden variety remaster. Alan Wake Remastered demands four times as much RAM as the game did back in 2010. Granted, a decade is a long time, but the original game still looks good. For me, the per...
While Alan Wake Remastered is clearly meant to bring the game to console audiences for the first time in over a decade, that game has been readily available on PC this entire time. What's more, the game's previous version already had the option for the higher resolutions and framerates that this remaster adds for non-PC players. But, this version of the game does go further than that, revamping multiple aspects of the original game's presentation. It doesn't touch the gameplay, but PC players who have wanted to play Alan Wake have had no trouble doing so since its release. Therefore, Is Alan Wake Remastered worth it for PC players? If you're somehow wholly unfamiliar with the game, it's a narrative-focused action title that draws large amounts of inspiration from both the works of Stephen King and David Lynch's Twin Peaks series. The plot concerns the titular writer who ventures to the town of Bright Falls with his wife Alice for a vacation,...
Jett: The Far Shore is the rare kind of game that managed to surprise an old, jaded player like myself. I first took it as both an exploration and narrative game. And it certainly is both of those, but it's also something more. Jett is a story of humanity and its place in the vast universe, told through the experiences of a handful of scouts who left behind their home and everyone they've known and loved. Lured by a signal called the 'hymnwave,' they travel through the vastness of space to reach an ocean world of myth: 'the far shore,' a place of mystery and danger. Jett manages to pack a lot of lore into a small package, but I never felt overwhelmed. The story is drip-fed organically through the many conversations you have with your fellow crewmembers and co-pilot Isao. You learn of the hymnwave (which disclosed the existence of the far shore), and of humanity's 300-year journey to build a ship that can reach its source. Putting it t...
The vertical shoot 'em up game Waifu Discovered 2: Medieval Fantasy will be appearing on Switch next week, publisher Eastasiasoft and developer One-Hand-Free-Studios announced today. It will launch digitally on October 14. Here's an overview of the game: When an evil aging spell infects the garments of 8 beautifully medieval maidens, it falls to the legendary Uma Ninja to protect...
Koei Tecmo and developer Omega Force have set a final release date for Dynasty Warriors 9 Empires, their strategic battle experience. In both North America and Europe, the game will launch for Switch on February 15, 2022. Japan will be getting the game a bit earlier as it's planned for December 23, 2021. Here's a bunch of new information straight...
Update (10/4): UK software sales updated with the top 40. Original (10/3): This week's UK software sales are in, and it includes the debuts of a few new games. FIFA 22 took the top spot even though launch week boxed sales decreased by over 35 percent compared to last year's entry (digital sales are up). The platform breakdown is 41...
Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town has shipped over one million copies, Marvelous announced today. That piece of data applies to the combined performance of copies sent to stores as well as digital sales. Back in March, a sales milestone of 700,000 copies was announced. In May, XSEED said that the game was its fastest-selling title at the time....
The ongoing queues and frustrations surrounding New World haven't gone away in the week since the game launched. As we noted over the weekend, Amazon surpassed 900K concurrent players at one point and announced that it was shutting down character creation on nearly 30 servers with queues that were too long. That was all in […]
Alright everyone, got your guessing hats on? Because Guild Wars 2 is at it again with the start of another set of elite specialization teasers. Since the game still has three more specs to talk about, the devs at ArenaNet have put out another teaser image of the next spec due to be unveiled. Much […]
What do esports events, MMO gaming, and soda have in common? If you said "Maybe you drink the soda while participating in the other two activities," congratulations, you're a normal human being and not the kind of wild-eyed minds behind this truly confusing Coca-Cola advertisement. Allow us to describe the video to gird your brain […]
Even eleven years later, Alan Wake remains one of the most unique games I've ever played, and Alan Wake Remastered is a masterclass in psychological horror.
SCS Software have begun expanding what's possible with the newly introduced Convoy Mode multiplayer in both their truck sims Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator.
Now available in Open Beta for owners is the 1.42 update, which adds it the "very loud request" of mod support to Convoy. Not an easy task since everything needs to match between players and online support is difficult at the best of times for developers to get right. Speaking on their blog they mentioned the challenge of "profile recovery when a crucial MOD is removed or changed, and visualizing what MODs are missing from the Steam Workshop when players join a server that contains modifications".
Thanks to their work there's a new UI to help with mod support with the session browser showing what mods a server needs and there's an icon for servers in the list to show what has mods and what doesn't. An option to join servers with mods you don't have will also now be able to give you the option to download them, as long as they are on the Steam Workshop. Not always possible though, if people use mods not on Steam. All sounds pretty good.
SCS also say the 1.42 will bring an update to their Force Feedback profiles for steering wheels and controllers, with an additional mention specifically for Linux to say "Force feedback improved and available for more controller types on more systems". Nice to see they're giving the Linux support some extra attention there.
To access the Beta for either game right click on it -> go to Properties -> Betas and select "public_beta".
Following on from the big Hearth & Home update Iron Gate has tweaked Valheim once more, along with adding a new spooky themed item to build.
This follows on from the update released on September 17 which once again rebalanced HP / Stamina on most foods along with some bug fixes. Today though it's a bit of a bigger patch enabling you to build the Halloween themed Jack-o-turnip for a limited time. There's plenty more though like melee weapons use less stamina and the Fulings have become more menacing, since they have some new battle tactics.
Patch Notes:
0.203.10 * Oven & cookingstation drop food items when destroyed * Gamepad sensitivity save fix * Acorn & Birch seed drop rate increased * Onion seed icon tweak * Player number difficulty scale tweaks * Removed comfort from Crystal wall * Atgeir, Blackmetal axe, Bronze spear tweaks * Lower melee weapon stamina drain * Knives have more durability * Tweaked some food stats based on effort to craft (blood pudding, boar jerky, bread, deer stew, mincemeat sauce, wolf jerky) * Night-spawning monsters despawn faster in the morning * Parry ranged attacks staggers caster again (illogical but fun) * Fuling AI tweaks (Spreads out & circles more) * Longer Lox attack cooldowns * Frost damage slowdown fix * Shield tutorial trigger fix for wood shields * Wood log 26° & 45° stability fix * Jack-o-turnip enabled * Torch + weapon jog animation fix
Revealed at the Tokyo Game Show 2021 Online Livestream, KOEI TECMO and the Omega Force team have confirmed that DYNASTY WARRIORS 9 Empires will be coming to Xbox, PlayStation, Switch and PC, with a February 2022 launch planned.
Developer: HAL Labs Publisher: Nintendo Released 1993 Genre: Platformer Kirby's Dream Land was a seminal title for the Gameboy and made the character an instant star. His next outing would surprisingly come to the NES in its twilight years, something that has become a staple for the character. The late release of Kirby's Adventure does […]
Amazon, which has been known for several high-profile gaming failures, put out its latest title, New World, last week. The release appeared to be an instant ...
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Alan Wake Remastered is now out on PC almost ten entire years after the original debuted on the platform. It brings with it upgraded character models, textures, and lightning. As it's a better-looking game, you might not be able to run it quite as well as you were the last time around. We're going to look at what this new release's PC options are, as well as compare what sort of differences they make. Let's look at the specs, shall we? Minimum: CPU: i5-3340 GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 or AMD Equivalent. 2GB VRAM. RAM: 8 GB Recommended: CPU: i7-3770 GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 or AMD Equivalent. 4GB VRAM RAM: 16 GB Reviewer: CPU: Ryzen 3 2600x GPU: AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT RAM: 16 GB As you can see, those recommended specs are quite a bit higher than your usual garden variety remaster. Alan Wake Remastered demands four times as much RAM as the game did back in 2010. Granted, a decade is a long time, but the original game still looks good. For me, the per... 
While Alan Wake Remastered is clearly meant to bring the game to console audiences for the first time in over a decade, that game has been readily available on PC this entire time. What's more, the game's previous version already had the option for the higher resolutions and framerates that this remaster adds for non-PC players. But, this version of the game does go further than that, revamping multiple aspects of the original game's presentation. It doesn't touch the gameplay, but PC players who have wanted to play Alan Wake have had no trouble doing so since its release. Therefore, Is Alan Wake Remastered worth it for PC players? If you're somehow wholly unfamiliar with the game, it's a narrative-focused action title that draws large amounts of inspiration from both the works of Stephen King and David Lynch's Twin Peaks series. The plot concerns the titular writer who ventures to the town of Bright Falls with his wife Alice for a vacation,... 
Jett: The Far Shore is the rare kind of game that managed to surprise an old, jaded player like myself. I first took it as both an exploration and narrative game. And it certainly is both of those, but it's also something more. Jett is a story of humanity and its place in the vast universe, told through the experiences of a handful of scouts who left behind their home and everyone they've known and loved. Lured by a signal called the 'hymnwave,' they travel through the vastness of space to reach an ocean world of myth: 'the far shore,' a place of mystery and danger. Jett manages to pack a lot of lore into a small package, but I never felt overwhelmed. The story is drip-fed organically through the many conversations you have with your fellow crewmembers and co-pilot Isao. You learn of the hymnwave (which disclosed the existence of the far shore), and of humanity's 300-year journey to build a ship that can reach its source. Putting it t... 
