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Verdict Mouse P.I. For Hire takes every noir trope and turns it into something new. A monochrome shooter with a delicious mystery at its core, the varied locales and wonderful voice cast make this one of the best games I’ve played all year. Noir fiction works best for me when it’s played straight: hardboiled, down-on-their-luck detective, trying earnestly to carve out a corner of the world where they can drink themselves into oblivion. I’m a simple man with simple tastes. A noir detective story where the protagonist (and the majority of the world, for that matter) are mice? I don’t…
Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors (yes, that is the full title) is much better than you might be expecting.Vampire Survivors was great when it first dropped on the scene, but it can be tough to endure lengthy runs where success is measured by how little you have to actually play. Vampire Crawlers is totally different, putting control of each attack entirely in your hands as you delve into several deep dungeons.In a refreshing twist, runs aren’t particularly long, and will come to a defined and satisfying end point once you’ve made enough progress. And getting to the…
Things are rough gaming PC land thanks to RAMageddon, and while parts like graphics cards sitting at MSRP should be the norm, they are extremely few and far between. It’s for that reason that, despite not being massively into Nvidia’s 8GB 60-class cards, it feels like the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti is worth a look while it’s under $400.The model in question is the MSI RTX 5060 Ti 8G Ventus, as it’s currently down to $379.99 at Amazon. Keep in mind that custom card MSRPs are a bit bananas compared to Nvidia’s recommended price, so the “90-day low” is based…
We called Mohawk’s strategy game Old World “almost the perfect blend of Civilization and Crusader Kings III” back in 2021. As such, the opinions of people who worked on Old World are of interest to me. Here’s one: designer and programmer Daniels Umanovskis would very much like to make a sequel to the undersung Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri, because it is “the best game ever”. “It had top-level Civilization-like gameplay with an incredibly good atmosphere and game world,” Umanovskis told Norwegian site Spillhistorie in a recent interview, also featuring Mohawk studio boss and former Civilization 4 designer Soren Johnson. “The…
Vampire: The Masquerade is in a bit of an odd spot at the moment. While the franchise is starting to show renewed signs of life with Dimension 20’s new VTM chronicle, and The Chinese Room is slowly but surely fixing up the rickety Bloodlines 2, the franchise hasn’t quite managed to wriggle itself out of torpor just yet. With all eyes shifting to Teyon’s Hunter: The Reckoning – Deathwish, a new action-focused RPG from the dev team behind Robocop: Rogue City, Bloodlines 2 has faded into the background slightly, which some would likely argue is where it belongs. Yet, I’ve…
Practically every major game development studio uses AI in game development now, but not all them are comfortable disclosing it yet, a Google exec claims.In an interview with Mobilegamer.biz, Google Cloud’s global director for games Jack Buser said a lot of studios use AI-powered tools to help with development, but a number of them are unwilling to confirm this publicly for fear of backlash.Buser says Google’s own tools like Gemini and Nano Banana Pro are used by some studios to remove “the drudgery and repetitive, low value work” in game development, but that while many studios use them the fact…
The upcoming Switch 2 game Yoshi and the Mysterious Book is giving players the kind of freedom that’s usually best left out of Nintendo’s most child-friendly franchises. Gestures vaguely at the internet’s cursed Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream ships.Previews for the newest platformer featuring everyone’s favorite green dino went live earlier this week. Yoshi’s watercolor adventure looks expectedly gorgeous and innocent and cuddly, but one thing you might not expect is that players can seemingly name most of the platformer’s NPCs. Yoshi and the Mysterious Book – Exclusive Switch 2 gameplay – YouTube Watch On — Yoshi and the Mysterious Book…
Another Crimson Desert patch is upon us, with developers Pearl Abyss delivering more of the additions they outlined earlier this month. Though, they didn’t get as deep into specifics on the likes of new difficulty settings and extra pets back then as they have in their latest notes, which also run down a raft of fixes for the red pudding.
It’s weird to think that Crimson Desert hasn’t even been out for a month yet, considering the dizzying amount of new content and improvements developer Peal Abyss has added to the open-world RPG. Following the reveal of a substantial, feature-filled roadmap that’s set to roll out between now and the end of June, the studio has now dropped a rather hefty set of patch notes for Crimson Desert’s 1.04.00 update. Alongside three selectable difficulty options, you’ll also get to try out new skills for the leading trio, housing options, and even forge a bond with a new avian amigo. Suffice…
Annapurna Interactive has announced Switch 2 versions of five of its back catalogue games, two of which are available today.Sayonara Wild Hearts is available now on the Switch 2 eShop, priced at $12.99 with a free upgrade for owners of the Switch version. The game, which was originally released in 2020, won a BAFTA Game Award for Artistic Achievement.The Switch 2 edition features 120Hz and 4K support, and adds the Remix Arcade mode which wasn’t previously available on Switch.It’s joined by Lorelei and the Laser Eyes, which is also available today on Switch 2 at a price of $24.99, also…