And that simple notion puts a smile on my face They may not be the flashiest experiences, but I’ll always have room in my heart for chill wind-down games — the more peaceful, the better. With that in mind, I like the look ofWinds & Leaves, a “flora-builder game” from Trebuchetout todayon PlayStation VR. There are forests to grow, ancient contraptions to fire up, and rolling hills to stroll across....
It’ll run through November 1 World of Warcraft’sShadowlandsexpansionmight be delayed, but we havethe pre-patchand this newest seasonal event to mess around with in the meantime. Hallow’s End has been a staple ofWoWfor a while now, withthe Headless Horseman’s Hearthstonearriving in 2018 whenBattle for Azerothcame into the picture. Among several other rewards this one is recently cited as the cornerstone of the event; allowing players to add to their spooky outfit with some visual effects when hearthing....
Better than nothing I guess? Sega has announced a special pre-order deal forYakuza 0for North America. If you pre-order the “Business Edition” you get—business cards. A steel business card case with some business cards for Kiryu, as well as a hostess club card. These are not used in English-speaking countries so much, but even if they were or even if we were Japanese, I don’t envision myself passing these out or framing them or anything....
Axel’s back Just likeAlien: Isolation‘slast piece of content, the newest add-on again asks you to decide what’s more important: a shot at leaderboard fame or safety? The two are mutually exclusive, and there’s a pissed off Xenomorph that’s coming after you regardless of which one you pick. The fourth slice of DLC forAlien: IsolationisLost Contact, and it’s another Salvage challenge. For the uninitiated, Salvage mode tasks the player with completing ten challenges with just one life in under a two-hour time limit....
Rock and Roll! The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wildintroduced players to the Stone Talus Boss fight. Essentially, a living rock with the power to clobber Link with devastating hits.Tears of the Kindomput a new spin on this granite goliath in the form of the Battle Talus, a Stone Talus that has a mini Bokoblin Camp on top of it. There’s a large amount of Battle Talus’ in both the Overworld, and the Depths, and if you ever come across one, you’ll be in for a tough fight if you don’t come prepared....
Some footage for you Batman: Return to Arkham, the PS4 and Xbox One remaster ofAsylumandCityis out, and I got my hands on the former. Although Ireplayed every game in the seriesin the past year or so, I was still keen on checking these out —Cityespecially, as it’s still one of my favorites. And while I’m not overly impressed, I haven’t noticed any major issues thus far. Everything isn’t wholly different from the PC edition, but performance-wise there is a jump from the PS3 and Xbox 360....
Different than the past system Directly following the announcement ofthe upcoming majorForsakenexpansion, Bungie dropped some big news in their reveal stream — the “season pass” concept is getting a complete overhaul. Rather than do the whole “one big expansion, one to two small DLCs” cadence, Bungie has shifted to three pre-planned content drops to supplement Year 2. OnceForsakenarrives in September, there will be three more premium updates on the horizon — Black Armory in winter 2018, Joker’s Wild in spring 2019, and Penumbra in summer 2019....
I did NOT see this coming Just when everyone was 100% confident thatnothing could go wrong, something goes wrong! Frostivus, the best holiday real or fake, iscancelled once again. Curiously enough though, it isn’t the work of the Greevils this time. No, this time it’s by “the only king that matters.” Also, the Skeleton King puppet on the top left of the page is gone if you mouse over its door....
A third-person survival horror game set in an open-world San Francisco was once in the development pipeline at Crystal Dynamics. They key word here is “once.” It was calledDownfall, prior to the studio going all in with theLara Croftseries. Tomb Raider Biz has a ton of screenshots fromDownfall, all of which were taken from the portfolio of Inna Cherneykina, a senior environment artist. The shots are gloomy, as you might expect from a horror game....
Jump straight in The PlayStation 5 will seemingly have a dedicated function for getting the player directly into specific parts of a game. It’s a feature called “Activities” and we’re first learning about it via a media preview leak. Recently, European outlet Gamereactor previewed racing gameWRC 9which will launch on both current- and next-gen consoles. In the presentation (which was presumably done remotely and controlled by the developer and/or publisher), the Activities function was demonstrated and described as “an instant deeplink to specific races directly from the [PS5’s] menu....
Podtoid 386 On today’s episode of Podtoid, we’re still without a full house. Chris Moyse is back and ready to talk about what a shame the gameVaneis, Occams tells us whether or not he’s looking forward to the newGhostbustersmovie, Dan has microphone issues so he sits this one out, and I run down some of the weirdest stories of the week and explain why it’s probably a bad idea to inject your own semen into your arm....
Reward replacements and refunds are being offered Those who KickstartedOculus Riftwere originally supposed to get a copy ofDoom 3: BFGincluded with their order, but that is no longer the case. “Unfortunately, we’ve been informed that [the game] will not support the Rift development kit by the time we begin shipping,” wrote the Oculus team. Specific reasons for the delay were not given. Given this spot of disappointing news, replacements are being offered to those affected....
Gotta complete the family Koei Tecmo has debuted a new trailer for the upcomingFire Emblem Warriors, one that reveals that Elise fromFire Emblem Fateswill be a playable character in the upcoming game. Much like Lissa fromFire Emblem Awakening, since Elise doesn’t have an offensive weapon for her base class, she uses one from a later promotion. In this case, she’ll be using a tome, which brings her rather close to her older brother Leo, who was previously confirmed and also uses a tome while mounted....
