Prodeus is a shooter that tries to replicate the look of FPSes of old, but with modern graphical techniques. I’m not sure how I feel about its purposefully pixelated aesthetic, but it’s certainly different. And by different, I mean “like somebody put Dooms 1-4 in a blender.” It’ll be out next year.

We’re Traversing The Uncanny Valley

Hossein Diba is a character artist from Turkey who is also maybe a magician, able to summon polygons and turn them into terrifying likenesses of celebrities and movie characters. He’s worked on stuff like Shadow of the Tomb Raider’s cinematic trailer as well as creating head sculptures for games, animation and toy companies. You can…

I Admire The Perseverance Of A Man Who Swims Across The Entire Map In Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag

Black Flag’s world was designed to be traversed on a ship, but hey, if someone is going to devote hours of their day to swimming across the thing, then I’m going to tip my tricorn to them. How Big is the Map? spent nearly five hours swimming to get from one corner of Ubisoft’s Caribbean…

Homeworld Studio Gets Their Ass To Mars

To celebrate the successful landing of the InSight spacecraft on the red planet, Blackbird Interactive (the Deserts of Kharak guys) and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have released to the public a version of their Project Eagle Mars base software. I wrote about it back in 2017; while not a game, it’s still a very game-looking…

The Next Fallout 76 Patch Will Bring Some Much-Needed Fixes

Fallout 76 is getting another big patch on December 4 that will begin trying to fix some of the game’s bigger problems, Bethesda said today on Reddit. In addition, the company said it plans to be more communicative in the future about what the Fallout 76 team is working on and when new updates for…

Evangelion Isn’t Fun, But It’s Still Worth Watching

Neon Genesis Evangelion is coming to Netflix in the spring of 2019, making it available to watch in America without pirating it or shelling out hundreds of dollars for an out-of-print box set for the first time since its American license ran out in 2011. It’s a show that’s had a huge impact on me,…

Cammy Is Finally Getting Pants In Street Fighter V

Shout it from the rooftops: Cammy White will be trading in her traditional battle gear for an outfit with pants, thanks to Street Fighter V’s upcoming cross-promotion with Resident Evil. In paying homage to frequent Resident Evil protagonist Jill Valentine, the Killer Bee is set to have an outfit with ample bottom coverage for one…

Indie Dev Releases Game After Documenting Its Development Every Week For Three Years

“I’m actually hoping to finish it in the next few months, so probably around April, May… and then I will hopefully be able to release it in the summer, around June or July,” said Karl Wimble in a video about his game, Equilinox, on February 19, 2016. The game came out on November 23, 2018,…

No Man’s Sky‘s Latest Update Celebrates The Community

When No Man’s Sky drops a big update, I tend to wander around the world wondering what’s changed. Was the grass always this lush? Is the water the same color? Have the bushes always been purple? Visions, the surprise update dropped on Thanksgiving, has many of those kinds of subtle changes. But my favorite part…

The Criminal Minds Game Gets Right To The Grisly Bits

Based on the long-running television show about a crack team of FBI profilers hunting serial killers, the new Criminal Minds mobile game has no qualms about depicting cartoony atrocity by murdering a family of four in the first minute. I got into Criminal Minds while I was hospitalized earlier this year. Forced to watch commercial…

Here’s December 2018’s Xbox Live Games With Gold Lineup

I’ve been encouraging my sister to play Never Alone with her kids since they got an Xbox, so I’m excited to see it in this month’s Games with Gold lineup. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active Xbox Live Gold subscription. December’s Games with Gold are: Xbox One Q.U.B.E. 2…

Darksiders 3 Is A Mess

Here we see Fury, apocalyptic horseperson, facing off against Wrath, one of the Seven Deadly Sins she’s tasked with dispatching as the star of Gunfire Games’ Darksiders 3. Looks like an epic battle is about to unfold. Not really. Perhaps it’s just his nature, but Wrath isn’t much for tactics. Following an elaborate opening battle…

Super Realistic Japanese Dioramas

This is the work of Satoshi Araki, who is known for his “chou riaru” (超リアル) or “super real” dioramas. Araki’s work has been featured in magazines and on Japanese TV. He’s even written books, giving tips on how to make super real dioramas The detail is staggering See? If you like Araki’s dioramas, you can…