October has arrived in full. There's a slight crispness to the air, leaves are starting to turn color, moms are planting mums in pots, and every restaurant or coffee shop is putting pumpkin spice flavoring in everything. I mean, everything, FFS.
Despite the lovely fall weather we are having, instead of being outside and enjoying a day without sweating in our favorite shirt, we're going to be inside playing games.
Some of us are trying out improved console offerings, trying not to be left for dead, reveling in the latest iteration of their favorite series, or playing something entirely new - at least to their console of choice. That said, a couple of us are too busy this weekend to play anything, which is a bit of a bummer, but there's always next weekend. There are four in a month, after all. Sometimes there are five, but October isn't a lucky month.
Gaming and gamers aren't what they used to be. In the '80s, strict gatekeepers foisted action-flick-derivative moneyspinners on children; now, one-person indie devs suggest conceptual art experiences to midlife wage-slaves. Nerd Monkeys is hunting that time-poor customer with games "that you can play through from start to finish and still have time to enjoy other fine things in life". This is Nerd Monkeys' first collection and a second is already in the works, but for now the five games on offer in SGC - Short Games Collection #1 are Swallow the Sea, Ghostein, A Game Literally About Doing Your Taxes, The Good Time Garden and Uranus.
The games aren't presented in a particular order but we'll start with Swallow the Sea, in which the central conceit is the compounding of experiences to build scale and significance. You are a sea organism, preying on smaller organisms while being hunted by larger ones. As you devour prey you grow, as does your potential to eat the big things that were previously terrorising you. The reflexivity of coming to consume things like yourself leverages the participatory essence of games: your own emotions and actions are packaged and served up for bitesize consumption, making every gulp mean something. It's like Katamari if you could somehow collect yourself, or Donut County if you could somehow make a hole fall inside another hole. However, while this is a great idea to get going it finishes abruptly. It was tasty, but we were expecting to swallow the whole sea, as promised. Instead, we were left feeling peckish.
eFootball 2022 arrived on Steam on September 30 to one of the worst receptions the gaming industry has ever witnessed. It currently stands on Steam with a review score of "Overwhelmingly Negative" from over 19,500 reviews and a SteamDB score of 13.12%. During the last day, it's clawed back a couple of percent so now it's just the worst-reviewed full game on Steam - the Europa Universalis IV: Leviathan expansion is now the worst thing on Steam once again, although that's only from around 4,500 reviews.
Konami promised that the first update for eFootball 2022 would arrive in October, and it seems to be on track to keep that promise just about - the patch to 0.9.1 will be out on October 28, just before Halloween.
Cute and spooky life-sim game, Cozy Grove, has received a free new update, developer Spry Fox has announced. Dubbed 'The Autumn Update', the new patch is now live and adds a plethora of fresh content to the charming indie title. The update is available now for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 & 5, and Xbox One […]
For the first Shin Megami Tensei V demon trailer of the day, Atlus is putting the spotlight on Sukuna-Hikona. Its very initial appearance came in Shin Megami Tensei II, and it has been present throughout the series since. Over on the Megami Tensei Wiki, the site offers up some background information about Sukuna-Hikona. Read a bit more about the creature...
Are you a true child of the dumpster? Are you a trash being made from garbage pieces? How can you be sure? Please read through this brief quiz and determine if you are the dumpster baby. (Note: there is definitely a dumpster baby.) Are all of your opinions dumpster baby ideas? Yes No It is […]
Disney Wonderful Worlds is a shiny, well put-together match-stuff puzzler that's dripping with Disney gloss. Mechanically? Well, it's absolutely fine. If you like free to play match-'em-ups then you're going to enjoy everything the game has to offer. The game is split between puzzles and park building. The special coins you earn from completing puzzles […]
The Wine 6.19 development release is out now following more weeks of hacking away trying to create the best possible Windows compatibility layer. Part of what makes up Steam Play Proton. Once a year or so, a new stable release is made.
IPHlpApi, NsiProxy, WineDbg and a few other modules converted to PE.
More HID joystick work.
Kernel parts of GDI moved to Win32u.
More work towards Dwarf 3/4 debug support.
With HID joystick enabled by default as of Wine 6.18, this further work continues to help improve compatibility. The original idea was to bring together joystick support under one banner in Wine, hopefully resulting in more games and applications working properly.
The continued conversion of various modules to PE is another that will gradually increase compatibility in many ways over time for expected behaviour. Previously Wine has built its Win32 libraries (like DLLs and EXEs) as ELF but for many reasons (like better compatibility) they've started to move them over to use PE instead.
For bugs reported as fixed as of this release they noted 22 including issues solved for: Open Metronome, FreeOrion, Levelhead, Darksiders Warmastered Edition, Mass Effect Legendary Edition, Control Ultimate Edition, A Plague Tale: Innocence, Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales and more.
PlayStation is doing those things too, but are more focused on selling consoles and pushing into new markets. Both are also releasing more games on PC in an ...
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