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Dragon Age writer David Gaider’s next game Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical has been delayed a week to August 10th. Developers Summerfall Studios say the move gives them breathing room away from the “hotly anticipated” Baldur’s Gate 3, which is launching on Stray God’s old release date – August 3rd.
Dell’s G16 gaming laptop has been heavily reduced on the Dell UK store in the wake of Prime Day, with a model featuring an RTX 4060 graphics card, 13th-gen Core i7 processor, 2560×1600 165Hz screen, 32GB DDR5 RAM and a 1TB NVMe SSD dropping to £1249. That’s an awesome price for this spec, with a high-end CPU, RAM and SSD backed by a mid-range GPU that should be perfect for content creation, programming and of course playing games.
The WD SN850x is our top PCIe 4.0 SSD for gaming recommendation, so I thought I’d let you know that the gigantic 4TB model has reached a new low price over at Overclockers in the UK. That price is £245, which for context is the same as the 2TB model cost for Black Friday last year.
Turbo Overkill is an over-the-top first-person shooter about dual-wielding weapons, pulping monsters, and having a chainsaw for a leg. It was due to leave early access with the release of its final chapter on July 18th, but its lead developer has chosen to delay it instead. He has a pretty good reason: his development time had “been slowly sucked away as I’ve been coming to grips with fatherhood.”
EA Sports FC 24 got its first gameplay trailer this evening, following on from the in-engine cinematic trailer earlier in the week. Of the new trailer’s one minute and 50 seconds, there’s a single second of what you might recognise as “gameplay” – while the rest is filled with more unrepresentative footage.
The trailer was release at the end of longer livestream where EA did at least share a few more details about their newly-named football sim.
One recent report found that a worrying number of classic games have been lost to time and are unavailable to play on modern systems. But Gex fans, don’t despair! Limited Run Games announced multiple retro re-releases at last night’s showcase, including PC ports for the original survival horror Clock Tower, the platforming Gex Trilogy, and a spiritual successor to the only bad Zelda games in existence.
Don’t Nod have announced their tragic romance Banishers: Ghosts Of New Eden is coming out on November 7th. The game seems to be a marriage between everything the studio’s done previously, from their choice-based drama of Life Is Strange to the action-RPG parts they played with in Vampyr. And the result looks great.
I’m definitely going to keep playing Jagged Alliance 3. However much I waver back and forth on my exact feelings about it, this is crucial. As with its ancestors, you’re invading a fictional country with a team of dysfunctional freelance mercenaries, managing their equipment and clashing personalities through a guerrilla war on an open world map whose every sector can host turn-based battles.
It challenges the all-smothering XCOM standard of “two actions per turn” by restoring the ancient way of the Action Point. Everyone has a dozen or so action points per turn to split between movement, shooting, or miscellaneous contextual actions. Chance to hit is never listed, but accuracy can be bumped by spending extra action points. It innovates too by giving everyone a small pool of free movement, keeping battles moving, and broadening the tactical possibilities. It borrows as much from modern designs and is mostly better for it.
Cult classic horror Clock Tower is getting a remaster next year and releasing outside of Japan for the first time since its 1995 debut. Announced at last night’s Limited Run Games showcase, the remaster retains the point-and-clicking bones of the original (16-bit art and creepy child monster) while adding some new meat onto the skeleton (translations, animated cutscenes, and an art gallery.)
