Prison Architect's rehabilitation DLC Second Chances is out now

2 years 9 months ago

Prison Architect is looking to the future in its new DLC. Second Chances is all about letting your inmates out of prison, but on purpose. If you're lucky, you won't ever see them again. Have a nice life, folks! Second Chances adds several new rehab programs focused on lowering your prisoners' sentences and making sure they stay out when they leave. It's out now, alongside another free game update called The Pen.

Read more

Author
Lauren Morton

DCS World Mi-24 Hind Gets Epic Trailer Celebrating Early Access Release

2 years 9 months ago

Today DCS World developer Eagle Dynamics released the early access version of its newest major module, the Mi-24 Hind.

As you’ve seen in previous videos the infamous Soviet attack helicopter features great simulation depth even in this in-progress stage.

It can be purchased at the developer’s own store for $55.99.

In the meanwhile, you can enjoy the trailer below. One thing is for sure: Eagle Dynamics really knows how to make epic trailers.

Here’s what you can expect from the Hind:

On pre-order/early access:

Author
Giuseppe Nelva

Tags

Tunic – New Gameplay Today

2 years 9 months ago

Click to watch embedded media

Some games stop you in your tracks the moment you first see them. Titles such as Sable, Solar Ash, and Cris Tales have such unique visual styles, but none more so than Tunic. Solo developer Andrew Shouldice has set out to create a memorable ode to the 2D Zelda titles of the past, but that's far from painting a full picture of this gorgeous new action title.

As part of the ID@Xbox Demo Event for this year, the house of Master Chief has rolled out a ton of new playable experiences featuring some of the most exciting indies coming out in 2021 and beyond. As part of that, Marcus Stewart, Ben Reeves, and Alex Stadnik got to check out Tunic and are sharing their thoughts with the lovely GI community.

Author
Alex Stadnik

Sophie's Safecracking Simulator teaches high-tech tools of the trade

2 years 9 months ago

I don't know the first thing about breaking into safes, or what the fiddly inner bits of a combo lock look like. So I've already learned a lot from Sophie's Safecracking Simulator from looking at its screenshots without even playing it. Fans of fiddly games should listen close on this one. Safecracking Simulator has just arrived on Steam and it's a neat little tech toy to snag for less than a fiver.

Read more

Author
Lauren Morton

Nintendo shares 20 minutes of new No More Heroes 3 gameplay on Switch

2 years 9 months ago

While there was plenty to get excited about in Nintendo's busy E3 showcase, one notable absence came in the form of No More Heroes 3 - the latest entry in developer Grasshopper Manufacture's cult-classic action-adventure series - which is coming to Switch in just a few short months. However, Nintendo has now made up for that no-show, sharing 20 minutes of new gameplay in a special Nintendo Treehouse livestream.

Announced back in 2019, No More Heroes 3 - which is set nine years after the events of No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle and two years after Travis Strikes Again - once again casts players as otaku and sometime-assassin Travis Touchdown. However, while previous games saw Travis murdering his way to the top of the United Assassins Association league, this third series entry ushers in a new threat, with players now charged with eliminating extraterrestrial enemies in order to reach number one in the Galactic Superhero Rankings.

As seen in Nintendo's new "early look" at No More Heroes 3, the series' wonderfully satisfying hack-and-slash action - built around Travis' lightsaber-like Beam Katana - makes a return, with no obvious surprises where core mechanics are concerned. Players will again need to combine the likes of basic moves, heavy moves, kicks, blocks, and rolls to defeat enemies (motion controls are optional) with the likes of finishers and jackpot bonuses also returning.

Read more

Tags

Every Confirmed New Game At E3 2021

2 years 9 months ago

As E3 2021 relentlessly marches from one streaming event to the next, it can be difficult to keep track of all the games making their big debut. Was that game new? Haven’t we heard of it before? No, wait, it was totally announced at that one event last year!

Read more...

Author
Ari Notis and Mike Fahey

Tags

Microsoft Flight Simulator Twin Otter and Airbus A220 Get New Screenshots

2 years 9 months ago

Today Microsoft Flight Simulator add-on developers had new images to share about two upcoming aircraft.

First of all, Aerosoft showcased the flight deck and rivet lines of the model with floats of its upcoming de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter.

Incidentally, This is one of the first aircraft confirmed to come for the Xbox Series X version of the simulator on top of the PC version

Author
Giuseppe Nelva

Tags

Senran Kagura X Hyperdimension Neptunia Crossover Gets New Trailer Showing the Senran Girls in Action

2 years 9 months ago

Today Compile Heart released a new trailer of the Senran Kagura X Hyperdimension Neptunia crossover Senran Nin Nin Ninja Taisen Neptunia: Shojo-Tachi no Kyoen.

The trailer focuses on the playable girls from the Senran Kagura series, Asuka, Yumi, Homura, and Miyabi.

You can watch it below alongside a few screenshots that were included in the accompanying press release.

Author
Giuseppe Nelva

Tags

Terra Nil Is a Satisfying, Environmentally Friendly Spin on City Builders (Hands-On Preview)

2 years 9 months ago

It all starts with a turbine.

Amidst hundreds of tiles that comprise a grey, lifeless wasteland, I place a turbine on a rocky outcrop. It allows me to create electricity to power toxin scrubbers to cleanse the dirt, and irrigators to cause lush green grass and shrubbery to sprout up across the tiles with a satisfying cascading animation. In Terra Nil, you’re trying to undo all the damage you’ve been contributing towards in various city building sims, and it’s one of the most satisfying I’ve played as a result.

Terra Nil is a city-building sim in reverse. You start with a scrap of wasteland and are then tasked with rejuvenating it. Each structure you build has its own requirements, which can range from placing it on water, being in close proximity to a turbine for power, or needing to be placed on a certain tile.

For the most part during this rejuvenation process, each structure you place brings an instantly satisfying change to your lifeless world. A toxin scrubber turning the soil from a dull grey-brown to a healthy dark brown, ready to be occupied by lush green grass, or the way water speeds through waterways after placing a water pump for the first time. Bringing life to this blank, depressing canvas is a ton of fun, and you’re free to experiment with excavators to create new waterways, or calcifiers to convert grassy tiles to rocks so you can place more turbines to power your green revolution.

Author
Chris Jecks

Tags

Steam Next Fest is showering us with hundreds of demos again this week

2 years 9 months ago

Don't go setting your sights on that big summer sale just yet. Keep your wallet in your pocket because Steam Next Fest just kicked off. That means for the next week you'll be able to download and try free demos for all manner of upcoming games on Steam. It's a huge collection, as past Steam demo bonanzas have been, with over 700 game demos to choose from this time. It's just launched, so here are a couple quick picks to get you started.

Read more

Author
Lauren Morton

Steam Next Fest: BroForce dev's world-regrower Terra Nil is blooming marvellous

2 years 9 months ago

I am smitten! Terra Nil has rocked my world. And I tell you what: I would never have expected it from the maker of BroForce. I love that game dearly, but it's a reckless action game where heroes tear pixelated lands apart. This, on the other hand, Terra Nil, is a serene game about restoring them.

It's a sort of city-building game. "Sort of" because you don't actually want people to come and live in what you create. You want nature to. You want birds and bees and animals to repopulate what begins as a scorched piece of Earth. A barren wasteland, earth cracked, trees dead. Nothing lives here. But with your futuristic array of environmental machines, you can change that.

These machines slowly enable you to transform the land. For instance: your first lesson is to build a wind turbine for power, then a soil cleansing machine to make some land fertile. Then, you greenify the land with another machine, growing grass, bushes and trees. And when you do this, you earn a leaf-resource to buy more things with.

Read more

Tags

Steam Next Fest: Road 96 promises a dazzling web of adventure

2 years 9 months ago

Each time it starts with questions - but each time they're different questions. First trip, when I'm watching a movie, what do I watch for? Do I want to be scared? To learn something? To feel something? Second trip, when I travel, do I travel alone or with friends? With family?

I love the idea of a procedural road-trip, but I am also wary. Surely that web of uniqueness is either ready to overwhelm or disappoint. One way, I'm frozen with the sheer number of options. The other, the only thing unique was that I had apple pie instead of cherry pie, or I travelled in a tractor instead of a station wagon.

Road 96 is a bit of a revelation, then. Even now, and even in demo form, albeit a generous, replayable demo that gives you a decent idea of how things work and what you're getting into. The setting is always the same - summer 1996, in a tinpot dictatorship that looks an awful lot like America. A sham election is on the way and the despot is likely to get in. Young people are fleeing to the border - but how will they get across the wall?

Read more

Tags

Steam Next Fest: Nuke Zone is a beautiful riff on Battlezone

2 years 9 months ago

Years ago there was a lovely rumour going around about Battlezone, the vector-based tank-'em-up that brought a fragile futuristic beauty to arcades everywhere. The rumour was pretty simple: see that volcano in the distance? You can go inside it. And then drive around and stuff. Honest.

Not honest, obviously. But the Battlezone rumour made total sense because this straight-ahead world of digital tanks and digital warfare was so bewitching in its sparseness, so fiercely writable. You saw the volcano and you wanted to believe you could get inside it. And then drive around! And stuff!

Don't say and stuff. Anyway, Nuke Zone is here as part of Steam's Next Fest demo event. It's a tank game by Blue Wizard Digital, a company that has plenty of lovely Popcap DNA in it. And it's taking the vector disco aesthetic of Battlezone and the idea of digital tanks that rip into other digital tanks. And maybe it will bring a certain rumour back to life - in a new way.

Read more

Tags

Rockstar Is Shutting Down GTA Online On PS3 And Xbox 360 In December

2 years 9 months ago

Rockstar Games announced that it will shut down the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of its wildly successful Grand Theft Auto Online. If you’re a GTA Online player tearing up Los Santos on those platforms, mark December 16 as the final day you can log in.

The shutdown also means that stat tracking for those versions of the game will disappear from the Rockstar Games Social Club. Additionally, Shark Cash cards can no longer be sold for PS3 and Xbox 360 after September 15. Rockstar's FAQ explains that players will not be able to transfer character progress to current versions of GTA Online before the shutdown since no such feature exists. You also cannot transfer or refund virtual currency/goods since those are platform-specific. Rockstar stressed that the shutdown will not impact players' ability to play Grand Theft Auto V’s story mode or effect their existing progress there. 

Author
Marcus Stewart

Breath Of The Wild 2 Fan Theory Suggests We Play As Ganondorf

2 years 9 months ago

We all knew that the minute more Breath of the Wild 2 footage was shown, the community would take to YouTube to unearth all the little secrets hidden in the latest trailer. And, of course, those trailer breakdowns did happen. Moreover, of all the interesting theories out there, one has soared above the rest because of how downright compelling it is: what if we’ll actually be playing as Ganondorf the whole time in Breath of the Wild 2?

Author
Jason Guisao