SteamWorld Heist 2, sequel to Image and Form’s 2016 sci-fi strategy game about bouncing bullets into rickety robots, is coming to PC on August 8th.
The surprise follow-up announced during the recent Nintendo Direct, and switches out the original’s motley crew of space pirates for regular, water-based pirates. Assuming the role of the roguish Captain Leeway, you’ll assemble your own crew of bionic buccaneers as you explore a Caribbean-like ocean called the Great Sea.
The setting also forms what appears to be the game’s main new feature, an open-ended overworld (or oversea) that you can sail freely around in a mechanical craft, searching for loot and getting into scrapes with other vessels in real-time naval combat. This looks fairly simplistic compared to the game’s turn-base…
Read moreBytten Studio and Raw Fury have dropped a new video showcasing 16 minutes of Cassette Beasts, an open-world “monster collecting RPG” that’s slated to come out later this month.
Cassette Beasts was inspired by monster-focused RPGs the developers played when they were kids, the most obvious of which is probably Pokemon. But rather than capturing and “training” monsters to fight on their behalf (which quite frankly I’ve always thought was a little weird), players in Cassette Beasts transform into monsters themselves by using recordings of the island’s creatures, made with old-fashioned tape recorders. Battles are turn-based and use action points to determine what abilities can be brought to bear, while a “chemistry system” can inflict status effects of different sorts, like using wat…
Read moreMagical turn-based strategy Age of Wonders 4 has become the fastest selling game in the series, according to aptly-named developer Triumph Studios.
The announcement was made via the Age of Wonders 4 twitter account, in a post that also provided some impressive stats. In “less than a week” AoW 4 has sold a whopping 250,000 copies. Meanwhile, on Steam, the game has experienced a peak concurrent player count of 42,826. That’s a lot of players conquering arcane realms as cannibal mole-people.
To put the numbers into some historical context, it took Age of Wonders 3 almost two years to sell half a million copies, a milestone that the game reached “quietly”, according to remarks made by Triumph’s Game Director Lennart Sas back in March 2016. “It looks like we might have to cancel …
Read moreWe saw a story trailer for Jumplight Odyssey when it was announced last year, highlighting its sweet 1970s anime vibe inspired by Star Blazers/Space Battleship Yamato. Now, developer League of Geeks is giving us a closer look at the space-based roguelite’s gameplay.
This pre-alpha footage shows several areas of the SDF Catalina being managed cutaway-style, from the Captain sitting on the important big chair on the bridge, to a greenhouse where food is farmed, a med bay for the injured, a hangar deck where starfighters are crewed and deployed, a kitchen where food is served, and a lounge where the crew relax by playing chess and reading books.
There are also pigs on board. I guess the Pigs in Space skits from The Muppet Show were accurate? Sometimes the hogs are just hanging …
Read moreJeremy Wang, better known to the internet as streamer and esports team owner Disguised Toast, has shared some incisive thoughts on why “the esports industry is one of the worst things you can get into.” And it’s not because his team sucks, although it does: It’s because in spite of all the millions of dollars that have been poured into it, there’s no money to be made.
Disguised Toast announced in January that he’d spent $500,000 to found a Valorant pro team called DSG. It did not go well: By May, the team was on an 0-7 run and Disguised Toast was having serious second thoughts. Despite that experience, he purchased a League of Legends pro team in May, intending to compete in the North American Challengers League. But that venture also got off to an inauspicious start, as Riot unex…
Read moreUkrainian authorities are reporting that Russian hackers have used the WinRAR file compression tool to wipe data from computers at multiple government agencies.
The Ukrainian Government Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) claims (via Bleeping Computer) that Russian hackers, possibly the infamous Sandworm group, acquired compromised VPN accounts which in turn provided access to official Ukrainian state networks.
The hackers apparently used the RoarBAT script, which searches for files on the targeted machine with extensions including .doc, .docx, .rtf, .txt, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx, .jpeg, .jpg, .zip, .rar, .7z, and several more, before archiving the files with WinRAR and applying the the “-df” option. Using this option automatically deletes the source files after arch…
Read moreParamount+ has released the first trailer for the next season of its Halo series, which begins streaming on February 8. While the first season was light on actual Halo arrays, we did get to see the Chief’s face, as well as a groundbreaking introduction to his love life.
The trailer’s pretty slick, channeling those Halo 3 Believe ads or the ODST live action stuff—you know, “we go to our deaths space marines, but we will be remembered.” If the Covenant war was ever going well for humanity, things look pretty bleak now, with a fleet destroying human cities and “glassing” an unknown planet.
Our Spartan friends are doing the Spartan things you might expect: shielding civilians from explosions with their bodies, doing battle with Elites, though I’m not sure wha…
Read moreSwords and worlds clash as Naraka: Bladepoint gets a crossover with Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty. The popular battle royale game already comes loaded with mythical warriors and legendary weapons, and now it’s getting even more content via a crossover with Koei Tecmo’s new game that’s helping drive attention for the historical adventure.
The new game designed by Team Ninja, the studio behind the epic Ninja Gaiden and Nioh series, takes the studio’s knack for brutal yet fluid combat and terrifying enemies to a new setting in the Late Han Dynasty. The game explores the struggle between the three kingdoms, and includes some historical figures, like Zhao Yun, Zhang Liang, Hong Jing, and Lu Bu. Koei Tecmo has already shown its interest in games set in Chinese h…
Read moreNot having much luck with Wordle today? Don’t worry if those winning green letters haven’t turned up yet—if you’re here then that means you’re only a single click away from the answer to today’s Wordle. And if you’ve still got a few rows to spare and would like a little help rather than an instant win, why not take a look at the clue for the September 25 (828) game first?
I almost talked myself out of trying today’s answer—it couldn’t be that word, could it? All I can say is thank goodness I ignored my doubting self, and don’t be afraid to follow up on your own “weird” guesses if you find yourself in a similar position.
Today’s Wordle hint
A Wordle hint for Monday, September 25
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Read moreThere are no bad products, just incorrectly priced products. So, the saying goes and if it’s right, Intel’s Arc graphics may have just come good thanks to a major price cut from ASRock.
As spotted by TechPowerUp, You can now have ASRock’s 8GB version of the top Intel Arc A770 chipset for just $270 from Newegg, well down on the $320 it used to sell for. The full 16GB reference A770 from Intel itself remains at $349.
Next up, the ASRock Arc A750 8GB drops from $290 to $240, mirroring the recent price cut of Intel’s own reference A750 from $289 to $249. Then there’s the ASRock Arc A380, reduced from $150 to just $120.
If a flagship GPU for just $270 in the A770 seems like a steal, the reality is that it’s a relatively modest performer. The Intel Arc A770 is probably sligh…
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