Year: 2024

Wildermyth, the acclaimed procedural storytelling RPG from developer Worldwalker Games, is – after three years revelling in its many accolades garnered while exclusive to PC – coming to Switch, PlayStaton, and Xbox on 22nd October this year.

At first glance, Wildermyth is pretty familiar stuff, taking players on a fantasy flavoured adventure of party based levelling and tactical turn-based combat. Those bits are all perfectly good, but the real cleverness starts with its procedurally generated story, where campaigns are cunningly, convincingly assembled from beautifully illustrated, wonderfully written narrative fragments and choose-your-own-adventure-style scraps.

And that all builds out from your highly customisable party of characters, who each get distinctly defined traits, personalities, histories, and abilities. And each of them can forge alliances, develop rivalries, fall out, fall in love, die and be reborn is a constantly swirling maelstrom of variables that keep things fresh. And that’s without factoring in some of other clever stuff, like the way your journey – passing in days, months, and years – unfolds across a dynamic world map that evo…

For those watching the Olympics opening ceremony last night, no, that was not your imagination – a familiar hooded Assassin did indeed appear to invade the rooftops of Paris last night.
Whilst it’s hard to find footage given a trigger-happy copyright gremlin is striking down videos all over the place, there are still a number of images and video of a figure not unlike Assassin’s Creed Unity’s Arno carrying the Olympic torch for anyone who missed it:

Who is the hooded character with the Olympic torch?

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Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl, the long-in-the-works sequel to developer GSC Game World’s cult-classic 2007 post-apocalyptic horror shooter, has been delayed again. It’s now due to launch on 20th November, giving the studio “breathing room to address technical issues”.

Word of the delay surfaced on reddit today from a user who said they’d been emailed about the date change by GSC Game World. The news has now been publicly confirmed by the developer in a video titled “Really, again?” posted to YouTube, below.

Stalker 2 has, of course, had quite the journey to release. It was originally set to arrive in 2012, having been announced by GSC Game World two years prior, but those plans were eventually shelved following troubles at the studio. It was a bit of a surprise, then, when Stalker 2 re-emerged in 2018 with a new release window of 2021.

Since then, however, Stalker 2’s development has had numerous setbacks. First, its release date moved to April 2022 before shifting again to December, but the Kyiv-based GSC was then forced to put the game on hold following Russian’s invasion of Ukraine. Development resumed in May 2022, with some of the team relocatin…

Developer NetherRealm has pulled the plug on its free-to-play mobile game Mortal Kombat: Onslaught, just days after the studio reportedly laid off its entire mobile team.

Mortal Kombat: Onslaught, a character-collecting RPG featuring faces from across the fighting series, was announced in October 2022 and arrived almost exactly one year later. It promised a “mobile-exclusive” story and “massive real-time group battles” for up to ten fighters.

Nine months on, however, and Onslaught is officially shutting down. NetherRealm announced the news on Twitter/X, writing, “We are sorry to inform you that Mortal Kombat: Onslaught will close its operations in October. It has been an honour creating this game for our Kommunity, and we appreciate the enthusiasm from our fans.”

Mortal Kombat: Onslaught – Launch Trailer

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A screenshot purportedly taken from Cloud Chamber’s upcoming BioShock game – codenamed “Parkside” – has popped up online.
Whilst the image itself isn’t particularly exciting – we can see a weapon, called the “ricochet shotgun” and some kind of weird glowing sphere, er, thing – we do get to see how the UI looked at the time the demo was created (thought to be around 2021), and get our first peek at some of the powers available to players.

Newscast: Does the loss of day one launches make Xbox Game Pass pointless?

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Royal Mail has revealed a set of stamps featuring familiar faces from the Dungeons & Dragons universe, including Baldur’s Gate 3 favourites such as the Mindflayer and Owlbear, which have apparently been personally approved by the King.

Other designs include the Gelatinous Cube, Mimic, Displacer Beast and Vecna, alongside a party of player characters including a tiefling rogue, human bard, halfling cleric, elf fighter, dwarf paladin and dragonborn wizard.

A “presentation pack” with the full set of stamp designs costs £24.40, and ships on 25th July. If you’re feeling flush, Royal Mail has a whole shop full of other D&D stamp paraphenalia you can purchase, including three enlarged prints for £150 each.

Newscast: With the death of Keystone, will Xbox give up its streaming console plans forever?

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Players have identified a surprising numbers of similarities between icons and weapons used in new free-to-play sci-fi shooter The First Descendant and Destiny 2.
Forbes writer Paul Tassi – who describes the similarities as “copy my homework without making it look like you copied it” – has put some of the more striking similarities together in a single image to illustrate just how similar they are.

The First Descendant – Official Freyna Character Gameplay Trailer

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Sony has revealed a new range of figurines called “The Shapes Collection” that includes characters from God of War Ragnarök, Horizon Forbidden West, and Ghost of Tsushima.
Developed in partnership with toy company Spin Master, Sony says the “highly detailed figures deliver the interactive storytelling element of these titles in an all-new way, extending the gaming experience from digital to physical”.
The six-inch figures themselves “take inspiration from details in each game”, and include interchangeable accessories and “dozens of points of articulation to pose and display”.

Horizon Zero Dawn Story Explained Part 1: Project Zero Dawn And How Humanity Went Extinct

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The pricing for Red Dead Redemption’s PC debut has been revealed.
John Marston and co are set to ride onto PC later this month, on 29th October, with pre-orders now live. And, with those pre-order now being live, we also know how much the PC version of Red Dead Redemption will cost.
For those of us in the UK, it will be £39.99. This is in-line with the price of the PS4 and Switch versions of the game (although PlayStation currently has a 30 percent discount).

Red Dead Redemption and Undead Nightmare Coming to PC October 29

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Genshin Impact’s version 5.1 update is not fully voiced in English due to “recording arrangements”.
What these exact recording arrangements are isn’t mentioned in the patch notes that revealed the incomplete English voiceover track, but fans are speculating that the SAG-AFTRA strike action by video game actors over AI concerns is the cause.

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