Today’s episode of the Spelunky daily includes spoilers for the game’s first four worlds. Yes, this is my humble brag way of saying I got to world four on the daily challenge.
This is my absolute favorite time of the console cycle: the time when everyone is talking about next-generation systems, but before anyone actually has them. This sweet spot means that lots of people have very strong opinions, but no solid hands-on facts to back them up – a magical combination that gives rise to countless online arguments.
If you get caught up in one of these “debates” (or if you actively seek them out like I do), you need the right syllogistic skills to score a win and leave your opponents humiliated and incorrect. All of these arguments basically go the exact same way when handled properly, so I’ve assembled the following responses that will help guide you to a decisive victory and all the internet accolades that entails.
Nvidia’s DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) tech is one of the most impressive advances in recent video game history, able to take images that look fine and, through a process involving magic, make them look better. Even if you’re playing at some of the lowest settings imaginable.
Layers of Fear and Observer developer Bloober Team has announced it'll be giving players the opportunity to stuff their faces right into the dank, haunted woods of its Blair Witch horror effort, when it comes to Oculus Quest on 29th October. And yes, you can still pet the dog.
Blair Witch released on PC and consoles last year, and saw Bloober taking its distinctive brand of surreal, spatially impossible horror deep into the Black Hills forest in Burkittsville, Maryland, where former police officer Ellis Lynch - and his dog Bullet - join the hunt for a missing boy.
The end result was effective, if rather uneven, with Bloober's gorgeously atmospheric, derangedly looping woodland set-pieces expertly capturing the sense of being lost, isolated, and exposed among the trees. Less captivating, however, was its rather trite handling of Lynch's backstory and floundering pace, particularly in its painfully protracted finale.
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Click here to watch embedded media With all of the Mass Effect trilogy remaster hype and Baldur's Gate 3 bringing that Dungeons & Dragons love front and center once more, we wanted to take a moment to point our readers in the direction of a really awesome homebrew that blends the best of both worlds. The Mass Effect Dungeons & Dragons homebrew gives us back that turian booty and blueberry love while also providing a balm to our pain of no Mass Effect news.
This homebrew allows Mass Effect and Dungeons & Dragons fan live out their N7 fantasies within a world that is fully fleshed out in the 5e platform.
"The Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game is about storytelling in worlds of swords and sorcery and Mass Effect 5e takes that storytelling to the stars," reads the official description of this particular homebrew. "Both shares elements with childhood games of make-believe. Like those games, D&D is driven by imagination. It's about picturing the alien landscape beneath the two-sunned sky and imagining how an N7 soldier might react to the challenges that scene presents."
The Monster Hunter Rise weapons have been confirmed, but every style will have new additions via the Wirebug. Check out all the details here.
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One of the first works of fiction I ever wrote was for my sister. She was a big Lord of the Rings fan and had the biggest crush on Orlando Bloom’s Legolas character, so I wrote a story starring a Black elf who fell in love with him.
There'll be a Nintendo Treehouse Live looking at Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity and Pikmin 3 Deluxe tomorrow morning.
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For all their supernatural shenanigans and high-tech military kit, there aren’t many sweaters in the Valorant cast, are there? Well, it looks like they’ll need ’em sooner rather than later. Riot are gifting their tactical shooter a new map sooner than expected, tossing their murderbuds into Icebox with the Act III update.
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Nintend of America has announced today that a new Nintendo Treehouse Live presentation will air tomorrow morning (Oct. 7) at 10 a.m. PT. The livestream will feature two different gameplay segments: one for Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity and one for Pikmin 3 Deluxe.
Another Resident Evil film is in the works – and this time, it might actually somewhat resemble the series it’s based on. That’s no shame on the W.S Anderson flicks, of course, that series very much growing into its own brand of action-horror pulp. But with more deets on the upcoming reboot arriving today, our next cinematic take on Capcom’s spook ’em up is bringing us all the way back to “a fateful night in Raccoon City in 1998.”
Monster Hunter Rise devs haven't decided on an expansion or 'G-Version' yet, but have other plans in the meantime.
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[Editor’s Note: This review is just for Star Wars: Squadrons’ PvP multiplayer. For our full thoughts on the campaign, read our Star Wars: Squadrons single-player review.]
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While the immaculately detailed ship interiors and charming characters may have been what hooked me into the Star Wars: Squadrons campaign, its light but fun PvP multiplayer is exciting for a more unexpected reason: its terrain. The accessible but nuanced flight controls and systems management still stand strong, but facing off against human pilots shows just how much room there is for making tricky maneuvers around asteroids or through tight corridors. The letdown is that there isn’t more of it here in terms of modes, maps, or progression.
Squadrons has just two modes: Dogfight, which is a straight-up 5v5 slugfest where you race to 30 kills; and Fleet Battles, which instead gives each squad a large capital ship that must be dismantled and destroyed by the opposing team through a game of starship tug o’ war. Both share the same six maps, none of which alter a mode’s objective or general strategy but do vary in both gorgeous visuals and clever obstacle layouts. The exception there is Yavin, which might have the prettiest skyline of the bunch but pays for it by being a completely empty area with nothing to maneuver or hide behind, making it a total killjoy whenever it comes up in matchmaking.
Earlier today Nintendo released a new trailer for Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, showing off two “new” characters for the first time. Fans were able to get a good peek at how Doctor Robbie and Purah from Breath of the Wild look like 100 years in the past.
Due to experimentation with anti-aging, Purah looks like a child in Breath of the Wild, but now she looks older and people have started to fall in love with her already. And how could you blame them? Purah is the cutest.
I especially adore her “I’m so cool pose” and honestly I’m going to choose her every time if she ends up as an actual playable character.
Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up, SquarePlay Games' wonderfully compelling underground station management sim is, after around 15 months in Steam early access development, pulling up to the platform marked Version 1.0 for its full release today, 6th October.
On a basic level, Overcrowd sticks closely to the classic management sim formula; you'll build, research, and hire staff, keeping a watchful eye on budgets and an ear toward your customers' needs, so as to, in this case, create a thriving network of interconnected underground stations across the fictional sprawl of Lubdon Town.
I played Overcrowd a fair amount at its early access launch last year, but popped back for a proper go of its near-1.0 release this weekend, and while I haven't delved exhaustively into its depths yet (so can only vouch for its first few hours), I've had a thoroughly enjoyable time messing around in its engaging, beautifully presented sandbox.
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There’s a throughline in Ubisoft’s open-world games. You know, by now, to expect enemy outposts, tight combat, and roughly 99,000 points of interest. When you play one, you learn how to play them all. But two of Ubisoft’s biggest series have a bit more in common. Ubisoft revealed today that a member of the Assassin’s…
Well, it happened. We're finally going back to the Baldur's Gate series, courtesy of Larian Studios. The masters that gave us the majestic Divinity: Original Sin series are taking a crack at the legendary Dungeons & Dragons franchise with Baldur's Gate 3.
In this Early Access portion of the game, approximately 25 hours of gameplay are available. Take a look at the launch trailer to get a taste of everything available in this massive RPG.
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Today Baldur’s Gate 3 released in Early Access on Steam, GoG, and Stadia, and Larian Studios is celebrating.
The acclaimed RPG developer released a new trailer and a gallery of beautiful screenshots showing off both gameplay and cinematics.
You can check them all out below.
The early access includes on day one roughly 25 hours of content, 46,000 lines of English dialogue, 600 NPCs, 146 spells and actions, 16 races and subraces, and six different classes, each with their own subclasses.
If you’re unfamiliar with the game, here’s what Baldur’s Gate 3 offers, directly from the press release.
Two decades ago today Saban Entertainment and Fox Kids released Digimon: The Movie in theaters across the U.S. An extremely edited mash-up of three different Japanese Digimon short films, it wound up a mess of a movie with an awesome soundtrack. Let’s all get digital.
I’ve never really been into A Song Of Ice And Fire. Even before the internet collectively turned on the telly show in its final act, I couldn’t have told you what a Targaryen is. Even so, A Game Of Thrones: The Board Game is one of the best tabletop games I’ve ever played, its cardboard kingdoms a beloved backstabbing battleground during my uni days. Today, developers Dire Wolf Digital brought Fantasy Flight’s stellar tabletop tactics to PC – an adaptation of everything but the dagger held behind your best friend’s back.
Battle royales have been taking the gaming world by storm over the past few years. While many are centered around first- or third-person shooters, like Fortnite or Apex Legends, some companies have been thinking outside of the box to create new experiences within this genre.
Now, Nintendo is joining in the trend with its new game, Super Mario Bros. 35.
Super Mario Bros. 35 mixes the fun platforming of a 2D Mario game with the frantic rush of competing with a group of other players, and it works a lot better than you’d expect.
It’s a twist on the classic version of Super Mario Bros., and as the name suggests, 35 people play through levels simultaneously to try and be the last one surviving. Players must defeat enemies to earn extra time while collecting coins to exchange for power-ups.
It’s quite similar to Nintendo’s Tetris 99, in which players can attack each other in order to make it harder for them to survive. This is done by sending extra enemies to their levels.
Players drop out of the competition when they are defeated by an enemy or run out of time, and the last person remaining is declared the winner.
We enjoyed our time with PlayStation 4's Astro Bot Rescue Mission VR experience. It turns out that the next entry, Astro's Playroom, will be free and pre-installed on PlayStation 5. And that's not all – apparently, the upcoming platformer will take a few hours to beat.
According to a Famitsu interview, Astro's Playroom Creative Director Nicolas Doucet confirmed that the game would take "four to five hours to beat" and during this time there would be fun PlayStation references and homages that veterans of the console's extensive history would appreciate.
Astro's Playroom releases on November 12 alongside the PlayStation 5.
[Source: Famitsu via Destructoid]
Today Spike Chunsoft released a new trailer of the upcoming Robotics;Notes Double Pack, which includes both Robotics;Notes Elite and Robotics;Notes DaSH.
The trailer provides a look at the main characters of the charming series which is part of the Science Adventure franchise which also includes the better-known Steins;Gate.
You can check the video out below.
We also get a handy list of the launch discounts that wikk be offered for a limited time.
“PlayStation 4 DIGITAL DOUBLE PACK
$10 off!* Available with an additional 10% discount and Mini Soundtrack from 10/13 – 10/20 (NA) and 10/16 – 10/23 (EU)!**
*Compared to when purchased individually
**Discount and Soundtrack for PS Plus users onlySteam DIGITAL DOUBLE PACK
$10 off!* Available with an additional 10% discount and Mini Soundtrack from 10/13 – 10/20!.
*Compared to when purchased individuallyNintendo Switch DIGITAL VERSION
Available individually with a 25% discount between 10/13 – 10/20 (NA) and 10/16 – 10/23 (EU)!PlayStation 4 DIGITAL VERSION
Available individually with a 10% discount from 10/13 – 10/20 (NA) and 10/16 – 10/23 (EU)!*
*Discounts apply to PS Plus users only
World maps are the best. Here's a sneak peek at your path through Crash 4, out tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/6W0zvuX4OW
Want free Overwatch? I you're a Nintendo Switch Online subscriber, you've got it. It will be a worldwide free trial game.
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Sometimes, you just gotta dance. And what better time to work on your moves than when skipping a huge section of Streets of Rage 4?
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Capcom's seminal survival horror series Resident Evil is heading back to the big screen, for the "beginning of a new universe inspired by storylines and characters" from the games.
Resident Evil's latest movie adaptation is currently in pre-production, and is being handled by Constantin Film (who steered Paul W. S. Anderson's exceedingly wonky Resident Evil ship) in collaboration with writer/director Johannes Roberts.
It'll take the form of an origin story, set on "a fateful night in Raccoon City in 1998", and promises "faithful ties" to Capcom's classic survival horror games. Although, let's be honest, you could cast the whole thing with talking animals and still manage to be entirely more faithful than Anderson's various Resident Evil efforts.
Overwatch has found a lot of success since its release. Bolstered by addictive gameplay and a successful Esports scene, Overwatch has become of the most recognizable competitive FPS titles in the industry. And starting on October 13, Nintendo Switch Online members will be able to download the game for free for a limited time.
On 10/13 until 10/20 at 11:59 PM PST, #NintendoSwitchOnline members can experience the full version of @PlayOverwatch!
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) October 6, 2020
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The game trial period only lasts for a week (October 13 - October 20), so make sure to tell all your friends and defend (or attack) the control points of King's Row together.
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Let the cards fall as they may? Not if you have any say in the matter. Today sees the release of The Solitaire Conspiracy, the latest short from Thomas Was Alone and John Wick Hex devs Bithell Games, and you’re a tactical genius weilding the power of C.A.R.D.S to take down a megalomanic supervillain. Let’s hope all those hours spent on Windows Solitaire weren’t wasted, eh?
Monster Hunter Rise will be the first in the real-time action loot chaser series built from the ground up for the Nintendo Switch. Despite supporting four-play online co-op, however, the game won’t have any form of voice chat.