Atomic HeartWhat to expect: Atomic Heart's first trailer came out of nowhere back in 2018, showing off a disturbing, gorgeous alt-reality Soviet-era FPS featuring strange robots and science experiments gone wrong. And nowhere is essentially where Atomic Heart has remained. We've seen a few gameplay trailers alongside its ever-shifting release date, but what Atomic Heart actually is and how much of it is done beyond the clearly siloed demos is unclear. It still looks weird as hell and extremely pretty, but until we see the demos in context, we're not sure what to make of Atomic Heart. At a glance, it's looking like an immersive sim in the vein of Bioshock or Prey, but again, let's not let our imaginations run too wild with scope here. … [Read more...] about The most exciting upcoming PC games we know the least about
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Crapshoot: Conquests of the Longbow, the Robin Hood game that didn’t suck
This time, it's a beggar. Robin intercepts him, figuring that his rags will make for the perfect disguise to slip into town unnoticed. Again, he's got a couple of options. For starters, there's his bow. Drawing an arrow, he can order the wretch to strip to his undershirt and hand over his rags, before calling his men to escort him in the other direction. Alternatively, since that's not exactly heroic, he can buy them off him... for a quarter of a single coin... before summoning the Merry Men to take him for dinner at their camp, give him an extra purse of money to compensate for cheapskate players, and kit him out with a new outlaw outfit that definitely won't get him murdered by any guards who happen to see him. … [Read more...] about Crapshoot: Conquests of the Longbow, the Robin Hood game that didn’t suck
The start of 2021 looks sleepy for PC gaming
Today - YagaJan 13 - Skellboy RefracturedJan 28 - OlijaFeb 16 - Hellish Quart Feb 23 - Persona 5 StrikersFeb TBD - Apex Legends Season 8Mar TBD - A major Legends of Runeterra expansion"Q1" - Dead Cells: Fatal Falls??? - Loop Hero (no firm release date, after playing it for 25 hours my instinct says it'll release in the next three months)Don't get me wrong, Hitman 3 looks fabulous—in the words of our Andy Kelly, it's "shaping up to be a fine end to a spectacular trilogy." I am excited to solve/deliberately botch a Knives Out-style murder mystery. As someone who doesn't have strong feelings for the series, I think it's the first Hitman I'll actually finish. But that's partly because the competition is so thin at the outset of 2021. … [Read more...] about The start of 2021 looks sleepy for PC gaming
Star Wars, Indiana Jones, 007, and an incoming Golden Age for Licensed Games
Massive has a penchant for delivering open-world games infused with RPG DNA. Bring that expertise together with the ever-impressive in-house Snowdrop engine and the potential is certainly there for the type of Star Wars experience we've been waiting for somebody to deliver for two generations. Of course, the Ubisoft announcement doesn't preclude EA from continuing to collaborate with Lucasfilm Games in the future either. A sequel to Jedi: Fallen Order from Respawn Entertainment seems likely, as too does some kind of spiritual successor to Star Wars Squadrons – Podracing, please! – which proved a little too late that Star Wars games can succeed (creatively and financially) at the smaller end of the AAA spectrum. … [Read more...] about Star Wars, Indiana Jones, 007, and an incoming Golden Age for Licensed Games
Weirdest spin-offs in video game history
Things really go downhill quickly. The game will chug when more than, say, three characters are on the screen, and the limited field of view makes it nearly impossible to play the field - a problem which the AI doesn't seem to have, mind you. There's also this ominous tidbit from the game's Wikipedia page: "The game has no ending." There's a paper thin plot, but no conclusion, meaning the blue bomber is likely stuck in soccer-playing limbo for all eternity. Maybe that's why we don't see him around much anymore... … [Read more...] about Weirdest spin-offs in video game history