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CultureEli Roth Will Try And Direct A Borderlands Movie
Earlier tonight, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford tweeted that Eli Roth would be directing the attempt to make a Borderlands movie, which was quietly announced last year. He then quickly deleted the tweet. Here it is: Guess he announced it too early, hence the swift deletion. It’s hard to get excited about video game movie announcements since…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 20, 2020 -
CultureIsometric Cities Are The Best Cities
Plarium Global is a mobile games studio whose art department in Kharkiv is responsible for loads of pretty environments and cool character design. I know loads of mobile strategy games are scammy trash, but there’s something about the isometric art style so many games use use that just gets me wishing more titles on other…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 19, 2020 -
A Very Good Take On The Last Of Us’ Ending
For a few months now, Retro Replay’s Troy Baker (Joel) and Nolan North (David) have livestreamed a playthrough of The Last Of Us. They’re at the end now, and things are getting heavy. In this week’s instalment, guest Merle Dandridge asks the guys to share their thoughts on the ethics of Joel’s actions at the…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 19, 2020 -
CultureHomeworld Studio Is Working On A First-Person Game
Homeworld 3 and Deserts of Kharak developers Blackbird Interactive have a new first-person game coming called Hardspace: Shipbreaker, which despite their pedigree (and the game’s art style) isn’t actually set in the Homeworld universe. Though it still looks very cool. You play as a shipbreaker (those with long memories might remember that Shipbreakers was the…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 19, 2020 -
CultureCosplayMandalorian Cosplay Beats The Shit Outta Some Stuntmen
In this short Legend of Micah video, four professional stuntmen decide to dress up like they’re in The Mandalorian and just absolutely go to town on each other. Before we get into it, some credits! Ben Aycrigg is Mando, while the bounty hunters are Billy Matt Thompson, Pat Chu and Jorge Longoria. The blasters and…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 19, 2020 -
CultureEVE Online Shooter Canceled, EVE Online Shooter Announced
The King is dead. Long live the King! Last week, EVE Online developers CCP said that Project Nova, their long-in-development shooter based on the same universe as their famous space MMO, was being thrown in the bin. “This decision was taken because Project Nova’s gameplay experience as presented at EVE Vegas ’18 would not have…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 18, 2020 -
CultureBesiege Is Now ‘Out’ After 5 Years In Early Access
I’ll be honest, I thought Besiege—the construction/puzzle game that was one of the stars of 2015—was already out. Nope! It’s actually spent the last five years in Early Access, and only now is it out. The release of 1.0 brings the game’s single-player campaign to a close, along with introducing some new fancy new blocks…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 18, 2020 -
CultureThe PlayStation Forums Are Closing Down
For the longest time, Sony has run its own official message board, a place where PlayStation owners could get together, hang out, ague pointlessly and, most importantly, troubleshoot. But on February 27, that board will be shutting down. Sony announced the move late last week with a very short, very blunt message: Hello, Beginning 27th…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 17, 2020 -
CulturePersona 5 Royal Is Editing Two Homophobic Scenes
Persona is a series that has sometimes struggled with homosexuality, like Persona 4’s well-meaning-but-ultimately-busted approachto Kanji’s romance. Persona 5, meanwhile, had a couple of scenes involving a “Scruffy Romantic” and “Beefy Trendsetter” on release that were…yeah. Here’s the first of those scenes: Just so you can get a clearer idea of the tone, here’s the…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 17, 2020 -
Japanese FIFA Fan’s Favorite Team Is Not Very Good, Travels 6000 Miles To See Them Anyway
Japanese FIFA player Akito Aoki flew all the way from Japan to the UK last week to watch his favourite team play. And while you’d expect that to be a club from the Premier League, or maybe the Championship (ie, the second division), he was actually there to watch Stockport County, a side currently toiling…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 16, 2020 -
CultureTotal RecallWhen Konami Employees Got Complaints For Being Too Dirty
I’ve been readingthrough the new book Japansoft: An Oral History recently, and while it’s full of very cool and interesting stories about the earliest days of Japanese game development, there’s one story in particular that’s my favourite. The book is a prettier and more concise repackaging of John Szczepaniak’s excellent The Untold History of Japanese…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 16, 2020 -
Xbox x Air Jordan Collab Is A Tasteful Nod To A Classic
Because it’s All-Star Weekend in the NBA, and because that’s traditionally been a time for companies related to basketball to show off some cool stuff, Jordan and Xbox have decided to team up and make a console that nobody can actually buy. This kind of thing isn’t new, particularly for Microsoft, who seem 1,000 times more…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 13, 2020 -
Counter-Strike‘s Dust, Remade In Fortnite
It’s one of the most iconic maps in all of video games, and soon Counter-Strike’s famous Dust stage will be playable in Fortnite’s creative mode thanks to the work of some expert modders. Team Evolve have brought the map as faithfully as Fortnite’s tools will allow, and seeing as the map will also allow creative…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 13, 2020 -
Steam Can Now Tell You What To Play Next
If you’ve ever been stuck scrolling through a games library that includes dozens/hundreds of PC titles, and you just can’t work out what to play next, Steam is going to try and help with a new feature called Play Next. Unlike Steam’s store recommendations, which tell you what you should buy next, this is going…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 13, 2020 -
Bungie Actually Explains How A Big Destiny 2 Bug Was Caused, Then Fixed
We normally hear there’s a problem with a game, wait for it to be fixed, learn it’s been fixed then get on with our lives, none of us the wiser as to what actually just happened. So it’s cool to see Bungie taking a step back and filling everyone in on how a bug gets…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 12, 2020
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