Levine: Why I passed on BioShock 2
Posted on April 8, 2023
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| Arica Deslauriers
Irrational Games founder and BioShock creator Ken Levine passed on the opportunity to create BioShock 2 because he'd said all he wanted about underwater city Rapture. Levine told Eurogamer at a preview event for Irrational's new game BioShock Infinite that the development team wanted to avoid repeating itself. BioShock: Infinite, due out on the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2012, takes place in the city of Columbia, a metropolis that floats above the clouds, and is set in the early years of the twentieth century.
[Read More]Minecraft creator Notch has launched a new game
Posted on April 8, 2023
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| Arica Deslauriers
Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson has released Cliffhorse, a new game about a horse which lives on cliffs.
The current "early access" build can be downloaded for free from Cliffhorse.com, or you pay money for it if you have any of the internet currency Dogecoin lying around.
From our five minutes with Cliffhorse this morning there doesn't seem to be much to do at present. You control a 3D horse in a world of procedurally-generated cliffs.
[Read More]Modder reverse-engineers Nier Automata to discover its "final secret": a cheat code
Posted on April 8, 2023
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| Fernande Dalal
An intrepid modder has discovered Nier Automata's "final secret": a cheat code.
Lance McDonald, who Eurogamer has covered multiple times for his varied work on the likes of P.T. and Bloodborne, found a cheat code in the early 2017 release that lets you skip to the last ending immediately after killing the first boss and unlock the bonus modes.
Over the weekend, the English language Nier Twitter account congratulated McDonald for the discovery, and Nier Automata development chief Yoko Taro, who two years ago had teased there was still one final secret no-one had yet found in the game, shared the work, pointing out it took three years and 10 months for the cheat code to be discovered.
[Read More]Netflix releases two new trailers for its live-action Resident Evil series
Posted on April 8, 2023
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| Fernande Dalal
Netflix has dropped two teaser trailers for its live-action adaptation of Resident Evil. The first trailer starts off in New Racoon City in our current year, before fast-forwarding to post-apocalyptic London in 2036. The second trailer focuses on Umbrella Corp as it works on the 'Joy' miracle drug that cures all of humanity's ailments... though is also infused with the T-virus. This is Netflix's second Resident Evil adaptation, not to be confused with last year's four-episode CGI series with Leon S.
[Read More]Oculus exclusive combat racer, Death Lap feels like a bit of a false start
Posted on April 8, 2023
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| Fernande Dalal
Like an unexpected blue shell from Mario Kart, Death Lap seems to have come from out of nowhere and crashed onto the front page Oculus store. Unlike the blue shell though, the impact of this one feels a bit limp and after playing it for over an hour, I'm less than impressed with the vehicular mayhem on offer.
You can watch me try out both the Rift S and Quest versions of Death Lap in this week's episode of Ian's VR Corner, which you'll find just below these words.
[Read More]Over a decade later, we have a snapshot of Valve's cancelled Portal sequel, F-Stop
Posted on April 8, 2023
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| Fernande Dalal
Over a decade since it was cancelled, Valve's unreleased Portal prequel, F-Stop has been revived via an unusual source: an indie developer.
F-Stop, which began life as a Valve experiment before it was set to be the next Portal game following the release of the Orange Box in 2007, revolved around taking pictures in the game world, with the pictures then used to create in-game objects. Portals and the Portal gun were nowhere to be seen.
[Read More]Sunless Sea dev's darkly romantic visual novel Mask of the Rose now has a demo on PC
Posted on April 8, 2023
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| Mittie Cheatwood
If you've been eager to explore Mask of the Rose - the upcoming darkly romantic visual novel from Sunless Sea and Sunless Skies developer Failbetter Games - you now have the perfect opportunity to do so, courtesy of a newly released demo on Steam.
Mask of the Rose takes place in 1862, around three decades prior to the events of Sunless Sea and Failbetter's acclaimed browser game Fallen London, and focuses on events shortly after the city (an alternate-universe version of Victorian London) is stolen by bats and carried to a vast underground cavern system deep beneath the Earth's surface.
[Read More]Yes, you can knock things off the edge of the ring in Halo Infinite
Posted on April 8, 2023
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| Fernande Dalal
You can knock things off the edge of the ring in Halo Infinite, developer 343 has confirmed.
You've never been able to do this in a Halo game before.
In a video Q&A, below, gameplay director Troy Mashburn was asked if the player can knock things off the edge of Zeta Halo, the ring on which Halo Infinite is set.
"The answer is yes!" Mashburn replied, before revealing a situation in which he did just that.
[Read More]3DS Circle Pad Pro Review
Posted on April 7, 2023
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| Trudie Dory
Ever since savvy manufacturers realised that gamers were prepared to pay top dollar for pieces of near-useless plastic that claim to improve their gaming experience, there's been a flood of largely pointless peripherals for home consoles. Right now, countless Wii Remote tennis racket attachments sit gathering dust in cupboards the world over, waiting forlornly for that dreaded day when they are unceremoniously recycled as landfill. Traditionally speaking, these regrettable money-wasting exercises are largely confined to domestic hardware.
[Read More]Animal Crossing kudos explained: How to give kudos to friends and other players for Friend Powder in Pocket Camp
Posted on April 7, 2023
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| Mittie Cheatwood
Animal Crossing kudos is a new feature for the series, introduced in Pocket Camp on mobile.
Required to complete some Timed Goals and Stretch Goals - and a source of Friend Powder - it encourages you to interact with other real-world players, whether friends or those you come across when exploring different locations.
If you're interested in other Animal Crossing starter guides, we can explain how to change appearance and clothing, what Calling Cards and Request Tickets do plus troubleshooting Pocket Camp error codes.
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