‘Don’t Starve: Shipwrecked’ lands on December 1st
So far, the cult hit Don’t Starve has maintained a largely familiar (if decidedly weird) setting. There have been twists and turns, but you knew what you were getting into. Well, the developers at Klei have decied to shake things up a bit: they’re launching Don’t Starve: Shipwrecked, a seabound add-on, through Steam Early Access on December 1st. The company hasn’t said much about what that entails beyond new biomes, characters and creatures, although one look at the teasers suggests that you might be grappling with everything from hungry fish to angry monkeys. Shipwrecked will only be available on Windows at first, but there are promises of Linux and Mac versions in the pipeline.
Via: Eurogamer
Source: Klei Entertainment
‘Don’t Starve: Shipwrecked’ lands on December 1st
So far, the cult hit Don’t Starve has maintained a largely familiar (if decidedly weird) setting. There have been twists and turns, but you knew what you were getting into. Well, the developers at Klei have decied to shake things up a bit: they’re launching Don’t Starve: Shipwrecked, a seabound add-on, through Steam Early Access on December 1st. The company hasn’t said much about what that entails beyond new biomes, characters and creatures, although one look at the teasers suggests that you might be grappling with everything from hungry fish to angry monkeys. Shipwrecked will only be available on Windows at first, but there are promises of Linux and Mac versions in the pipeline.
Via: Eurogamer
Source: Klei Entertainment
The video game ‘outsiders’ creating VR art that makes you think
When Tale of Tales announced its departure from the gaming industry after 12 years of creating eccentric, cult-hit experiences, Twitter lit up with messages extolling the studio’s impact on the industry. However, for Tale of Tales co-founders Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn, it was a hollow farewell. Their latest (and last) game, Sunset, had debuted just a month before to poor sales and lagging interest, despite a successful Kickstarter campaign and positive critical reception. Harvey and Samyn were already contemplating an exit from the world of video games and Sunset‘s situation pushed them to make it official. “It often didn’t feel like games were worth the sacrifice,” Samyn says.
Now, Harvey and Samyn have returned to their pure, artistic roots — and to Kickstarter — with Cathedral-in-the-Clouds, a virtual reality exhibition of Christian art in the Gothic and Renaissance periods. We spoke with Samyn about following his passion and Tale of Tales’ lofty goals, and came away with a clear message: If you’re going to leave games behind for a project that resides firmly in the art realm, you might as well shoot for the clouds.
‘Deus Ex: Mankind Divided’ is delayed to August 2016
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is due to hit PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC on August 23rd, 2016 — though it was originally scheduled to launch on February 23rd. Eidos Montreal head David Anfossi announced the delay in a blog post titled, “No compromise on quality.” He says, in part, “We’re confident and proud of the game so far. However, as we are now playing through the game in full we can see that it will require more time in post-production for tuning, iterations and refinement to meet our high standards.” Anfossi offers an apology and gratitude for fans’ continued support.
Source: Deus Ex
Horror game ‘The Park’ creeps onto consoles in 2016
The Park, a dark thriller about a child lost in an amusement park, was not everybody’s cup of tea when it came out for the PC on Halloween. But we certainly had fun with the messed-up, H.P. Lovecraft-style story, and other players must have too, because it’s now coming to the Playstation 4 and Xbox One. Developer Funcom said it was “encouraged by the positive reactions we have received on the Windows PC version.” As a reminder, you play the game as a distraught mother seeking her son in a decrepit amusement park. The atmosphere is over-the-top creepy, but are the scares real or in her paranoid mind? If you want to play on console, you’ll find out in early 2016.
Via: Eurogamer
Source: Funcom
The freedom to explore most open-world games is a lie
Open-world games aren’t going away anytime soon, but more often than not when we play them we’re being led around by a breadcrumb trail instead of actually exploring. Sometimes even quite literally. The reasoning for that is because it’s much easier for game developers to stick a mini-map or quest directions in the heads up display than it is to integrate means of navigation into the game world itself. It’s a topic YouTuber Mark Brown knows well and he’s taking it for a spin in developer Bethesda Softworks’ sprawling Fallout 4. In his latest entry into his Game Maker’s Toolkit series he explains why he’s turning off the quest markers in Fallout‘s irradiated Boston and trying to let his nose lead the way, so to speak.
Source: Mark Brown (YouTube)
What’s on your HDTV: ‘High Castle,’ ‘Jessica Jones,’ ‘SW: Battlefront’
This week two of the biggest releases come from streaming services. Netflix premieres its second Marvel series with Jessica Jones, while Amazon Prime has its adaptation of a Philip K. Dick novel, The Man in the High Castle. Both have looked good in early previews, but until they launch Thursday morning, we’re focused on the games. Star Wars: Battlefront is here, along with the final episode of Telltale Games’ Game of Thrones series. Finally, movie fans may want to check for The Collected Works of Hayao Miyazaki on Blu-ray. Look after the break to check out each day’s highlights, including trailers and let us know what you think (or what we missed).
Playdate: Crushing the Rebel scum in ‘Star Wars: Battlefront’
Not too long from now, on a Twitch stream in the very near future, Sean Buckley and myself will be blasting Rebel scum in Star Wars: Battlefront. The sci-fi shooter’s the topic du jour on the latest edition of Playdate and you can tune in starting at 6 PM ET/ 3 PM Pacific to catch two hours of the hot Empire on Rebel action across Sullust, Hoth, and who even knows where else? And since we streamed the game’s beta on PlayStation 4 we’re giving the full version a go on PC today. As always, you can tune in here on this post, the Engadget Gaming homepage or Twitch.tv/Joystiq if you’d like to join us in chat — it’s your destiny.
The original ‘Valkyria Chronicles’ heads to PS4 in HD (in Japan)
Valkyria Chronicles, Sega’s strategy RPG that hit the PlayStation 3 in 2008, is getting an HD upgrade for a launch on PS4, Famitsu reports (as translated by Gematsu). The remake is confirmed for a release in Japan on February 10th, with no mention of North American plans just yet. Sega is also working on a new entry in the series, Valkyria: Azure Revolution, slated to hit Japanese PS4s in winter 2016, according to Gematsu. Valkyria Chronicles debuted on PC in November 2014, and while that wasn’t an HD remake, it featured dual-language support, Steam Achievements, customization options and all previously released DLC — not bad for $20.
Source: Gematsu
Meet the high school dropout paving the way for indie eSports
It sounds like a classic Silicon Valley success story: A young, inexperienced entrepreneur drops out of school to pursue his dreams and ends up founding an influential, innovative company. Except, Alex Nichiporchik isn’t from California; he’s from Latvia. And he didn’t drop out of college to follow his passion — he dropped out of high school. Nichiporchik is the CEO and co-founder of tinyBuild GAMES, the studio behind No Time to Explain and SpeedRunners, and he’s leading the indie charge into eSports. Professional gaming is new territory for small studios, which means Nichiporchik has made a lot of it up along the way, from hosting low-quality live streams to producing tournaments with the Electronic Sports League. “We didn’t know what we were doing,” he says, but “it took off” anyway.
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