Category: Rock, Paper, Shotgun

You might remember that a little while ago, Bethesda announced an auction which’d see the winner given the chance to design a character in The Elder Scrolls 6. Bids were donations to the charity Make-A-Wish, and narrowly missing out on top spot was one from the folks behind the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages, the series’ long-running and very good independent wiki. The good news is that those folks how now met with Bethesda and had the chance to design their NPC, which’ll be a memorial to a forum user whose roleplaying has crossed paths with official Elder Scrolls lore.

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Ubisoft allegedly cancelled plans for a new Assassin’s Creed game set in in the aftermath of the American Civil War last year, with online moaning about Assassin’s Creed Shadows co-protagonist Yasuke and concerns over the volatility of the modern day US political climate being cited as reasons.

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You could not pay me to go to the moon, I think. I’m glad Mr. Armstrong and Buzz Lightyear had a good time up there, but that place is scary! It’s just a massive, dark rock! But in the case of Dark Moon, an upcoming survival strategy game that just got a release date, that darkness is your friend, because if you want to survive on the moon, you’ve got to protect yourself from that hot, hot orb in the sky called the sun.

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Everybody makes mistakes! That’s life, really, a constant series of tiny mistakes that are sometimes good ones, sometimes bad ones, occasionally purposeful, often not. Here’s one that was very much not purposeful: Pico Park: Classic Edition, a delightful co-op puzzle platformery game you’ve almost definitely seen a bunch of Twitch streamers play during COVID lockdown, is now permanently free.

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Are you able to picture things in your head? Try it, right now, we’ll go for the classic thing to picture, an apple. If you can’t see diddly squat, you’ve potentially got aphantasia, a condition which is essentially the inability to visualise an image within your head. It’s interesting to me because I feel I’m on the opposite end of it, I can picture that apple pretty darn clearly. With that in mind, it makes me all the more curious about Afantasia, spelled with an f not a ph, a “surreal exploration game about a boy searching for identity in his hometown.”

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Online video games! They’re the future of the medium! Or, I guess they’re already here, but still, online co-op is very much in Vampire Survivor’s future. It’s a feature that’s been promised for a little while now, and developer Poncle have shared a little look at it, as well as a confirmation as to when you can expect it: autumn! This autumn, to be precise, which we’re currently experiencing, though a more specific window of time wasn’t provided.

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How about a fresh look at Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions, that not-an-Astroneer-sequel from System Era? The developer revealed an extended look at gameplay yesterday, detailing what it is you’ll be doing exactly. As has already been established, it’s an online co-op game, one of those “friendslop” kind of games you’ll see people be mean about on Ditter and TikTok comments. To be specific, you can play it solo, or with three of your friends, but there are elements that draw on other players (more on that in a bit).

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 developers Sandfall Interactive have wheeled out news that the RPG‘ll be getting a free update which’ll include a new location for its party to explore, more boss battles, and some extra costumes. The studio are teasing that there’ll be other stuff packed into this update, which they say is designed to act as a thank you to folks who’ve delved into the Belle Époque Frenchness.

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The classic 1999 version of System Shock 2 is set to be pulled from sale on Steam later this week. It’ll still be kicking around, but as a freebie offered to owners of the game’s 25th anniversary remaster, rather than something you can buy separately on Valve’s store.

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Falling over is the thing in Baby Steps. Sure, the goal in Bennett Foddy and co’s walking sim is technically getting from A to B despite your doughy corpus’ best efforts to get in the way, but it’s the constant stumbling and hilarious unintended pratfalls which make these sorts of games really sing. You get plenty of that playing alone, but for those who want to take things to the next level, Baby Steps has a multiplayer mod that’ll let you slap against your mates and gently bump their mushy forms off course.

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