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A new Eternal Strands update has made various adjustments to the fantasy action-RPG‘s movement and so, restarted the inexhaustible debate as to what manner of jank is ‘good’ jank.
Late last week, former Striking Distance concept art director Jesse Lee took to LinkedIn to reminisce on their time at the The Callisto Protocol studio. “Thinking back to the very beginning of Striking Distance Studios, to today – nearly six years later. Most of the devs were laid off, and it is hard to sum it all up right now,” wrote Lee.
The layoffs were confirmed this week in a statement from parent company Krafton to PC Gamer, which you can find below. Apologies for spoiling anyone’s game of official statement bingo but, yes, it contains the word “agile”.
The release dates for an upcoming expansion pack for Sid Meier’s Civilization VII have seemingly leaked via the Nintendo Store. The first part of the Crossroads Of The World collection, slated for “early March” in the official roadmap, is indeed listed on the leaked image as due on March 4th, 2025, with the second part due on March 25th – lining up with the roadmap’s “late March”.
Specifically, March 4th brings three separate items: the Ada Lovelace, Carthage, and Great Britain packs. On the 25th of the month, they’ll be joined by Simon Bolivar, Bulgaria, and Nepal.
The are some discrepancies on the UK Nintendo store, however, with the release dates for each of the packs from the first set also listed as 25/03/2025.
Before you even get to control your character in Wanderstop, you’ve already fucked up. Alta has lost in the arena, her defeat a swift and ignoble end to three years as unbeaten champion. She is, in her own words, a ruinous “failure”. To retrain and come back fiercer than ever, she pops into the forest looking for a legendary trainer, only to find herself waking up exhausted in front of a picturesque tea shop. The Steam demo that follows will see you harvesting plants, making tea, and arguing a lot with the shop’s owner, a gentle giant who thinks that maybe what Alta really needs is just some time to rest. After all, you can’t fail at drinking a cuppa.
I’d have loved to delve into some Next Fest shenanigans, but at the moment guidestown is groaning with work. And there are only so many times I can listen to the Endless Legend soundtrack in one day. I need to expand my horizons.
One of the internet’s primordial New Media experiences is the Wiki Game – an asymmetrical “racing sim” in which you hurry from one Wikipedia page to another by clicking on the fewest number of links. Try doing that in the Museum of All Things, “a nearly-infinite virtual museum generated from Wikipedia”, which you can download for free from Itch. Devised by Maya Claire using the Godot Engine with audio from Neomoon’s Willow Wolf, it’s either a charmingly unusual way to browse a wonderful public resource or a free-associative liminal death-spiral, depending on your mood going in.
“There are too many games,” is a phrase often heard from people who wish to rustle the jimmies of leftists who contend that overabundance and scarcity are market constructs. It’s not something you’ll hear from me, but I do think there are quite a lot of one type of game, a game that spawns incessantly within the corrupted magic circle of my inbox, as though I were playing out a scripted last stand against insurmountable odds. That game is the roguelike deckbuilder.
The upcoming reboot for Fable, the fantasy role-playing game of British chortles ‘n’ chuckles, has been delayed until next year, says head of Xbox Game Studios Craig Duncan. Developers Playground Games need “more time” to create the world of Albion, it turns out, but Xbox has offered a sparse sprinking of of game footage as compensation for the delay. There’s nothing particularly mind-blowing among it. Some combat, some vistas. But it’s something.
I can’t be certain, but the music for Castle V Castle sounds very much like it was made on an old Roland TR-808 drum machine or equivalent plug-in. Your ears will be familiar with the 808 even if your brain isn’t – it’s about as ubiquitous in hip hop as the Amen break. That’s actually quite fitting, because this minimalist strategy game has the rhythms of a call-and-response rap battle. That’s something you could say for all I-go-you-gos to an extent, but the bellicose back and forth here is especially sizzling, snappy, and scintillating.
(The game music is very different from the trailer music.)
