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Almost two years after it was first revealed, Bungie have released a first-look at the upcoming Marathon reboot’s gameplay. And you know what? Perhaps unsurprisingly, it’s looking really good! And it’s out September 23rd! Much like the reveal trailer it’s incredibly stylish, there’s this clean, almost Mirror’s Edge like quality to its world, but we’ve had hints of that already. The big thing is the gameplay, which looks like more of that chunky, Bungie, first-person shooting goodness.
I won’t lie, sometimes when I hear a string of words like “beautiful hand-drawn Metroidvania with challenging combat etc., etc.,” my eyes do start to glaze over a bit. It can be a bit buzzwordy! But, gosh, that there The Eternal Life of Goldman looks a bit stunning doesn’t it? It was shown off last month during Nintendo’s Not Switch 2 Direct, but earlier this week it received another trailer offering another look, and more importantly, who’ll be composing it.
The time is almost upon us all to prepare for the end of Baldur’s Gate 3, and by end, I mean the RPG’s final big update. Larian cheekily shared last year that it’d be getting one final hurrah in spite of the fact they’d said that patch 7 would be the last major one. Now, in a quick little video posted to the official Larian YouTube channel yesterday, the developer confirmed that patch 8 will be dropping April 15th next week. There’s even a special little livestream coming April 16th, 9am EST/ 2pm BST where senior systems designer Ross Stephens will be chatting about the game, alongside a look at the new patch.
SanDisk has one of the best offers going right now if you’re looking for a massive storage upgrade on your handheld gaming device. There’s already a discount on these memory cards, but if you buy two 1.5TB SanDisk Ultra microSDs directly from SanDisk today, you’ll get an extra 20% off at checkout. That drops the price to just £74.45/$90 per card (2 for £148.90, or $179.98) which is wild considering these were going for a whole lot more during Amazon’s Spring Sale a couple of weeks back.
Marvel Rivals Season 2 begins today, which means it’s time to jam another syringe into the scarred and bleeding flanks of the Great Marvelbeast and extract a fresh superhero. This season kicks off with Emma Frost, a Vanguard hero with very large hams and a couple of strings to her bow. By default, she fights as a midranged psychic, casting beams, damage-multiplying orbs and crystalline shields. Switch to her diamond form, however, and she becomes a tanky brawler with the ability to grab and slam people out of their ultimates or boot them into walls.
Sifu and Absolver team Sloclap stuck a release date on their multiplayer footie game Rematch today – June 19th. Meanwhile, we’ve been shouting at each other in joy and defeat – sometimes both in the same six seconds – in the open beta. I’m leaving the article name open to sequels in case James and I ever kick a different thing together.
Last year, Spanish developers Tequila Works cancelled a game, laid off staff, and finally filed for insolvency in the face of “prolonged market conditions”, after losing funding from Tencent. Founders Raúl Rubio and Luz Sancho departed the studio in the process.
Now, what’s left of Tequila are selling off all their assets in an open auction, including both published games like horror platformer Deadlight, and a number of projects that were either in development or “ready for production”. It all makes for a sad anatomy of the studio that gave us the wonderful Rime.
Back in the 90s, there were essentially two kinds of Sonic The Hedgehog 2 player. Firstly, the juvenile Mussolinis who monopolised the Blue Blur himself in the callously-defined “single player” mode, and secondly, the absolute saints and/or craven appeasers who consented to be Sonic’s sidekick Tails, and had to spend the whole run struggling to keep pace with the Sonic player’s camera.
You won’t need a PlayStation account to play Marathon on PC, promise Bungie as their shooter’s marketing blitz picks up speed. Previous games under Sony’s umbrella, such as Helldivers 2, caused frustration and backlash when PC players were forced to register for a PlayStation account just to play online. But it looks like Sony’s recent backpedalling on this requirement will save the upcoming extraction shooter from pissing off PC folks.
People often get snarky about Reddit but I consider the work of user _inferno_44 to be better games journalism than anything I’ve written in a least a month, probably longer. Three colour coded spreadsheets blocking out three Schedule I NPC’s daily routines, ox watchin‘ style. Cheers, Persil XL 3-In-1 Washing Capsules Gamer.
They’re surprisingly detailed for something that’s mainly there to get you to hoof around a bit. Plus fixed routines are just good world building for a weed selling simulation such as this. They raise pertinent questions. Does the forbidden spinach blur the ache of sharp routine like existential Alka Seltzer? Or does it encourage such contemplation as to appreciate the hidden rapture in the familiar?
