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More Footage Surfaces from the Cancelled Prey (2006) Sequel
Human Head Games' 2006 title Prey was an absolutely massive hit for 2K Games, who announced a sequel to it shortly after release, and we did get some information about Prey 2, but after the IP rights to the Prey franchise were bought out by Bethesda's parent company ZeniMax Media.
Tera Console
En Masse Entertainment and Bluehole Studios's Tera has been available on PC since 2011, but only came to consoles today. Because this is a port, the focus of this review is mostly going to be on how the game holds up against more modern console MMOs, because that's what we're really asking ourselves.
Pure Farming 2018 Isn't the Deepest Farming Simulator, but It Does Alright
The farming aspect of Pure Farming 2018 isn't anywhere near as tedious as it should be. Obviously you don't need to go through the physically grueling process of farming, though things do still take time to grow, you need to hire workers to help you run things, and you even get to drive the harvesting vehicles.
Jeremy “TioMitt_PW” Bruniaux
Konami held the Americas round of the PES League World Tour over the weekend and have announced the finalists who will go on to compete in subsequent rounds of the championship series. Jeremy “TioMitt_PW” Bruniaux has been crowned the champion of the Single Player tournament of the Americas Round.
LOL April Fools
April Fools' Day has always been a little strange in the world of video games. Often times, developers end up creating a bizarre idea and then running with it. This has seen some pretty amusing inclusions, like the Battle Royale mode of Path of Exile or Pokémon Go going retro.
A Way Out banner
Hazelight Studios and EA Originals' A Way Out is absolutely more than just a playable prison-break movie, but it is also a proper pastiche of games within games. A Way Out has something for literally everyone. You've got sports games, board games, 8-bit retro throwbacks, and even skill-based mini-games.
fortnite
Fortnite players have been noticing some oddities about the game, from random controller vibrations to a mysterious comet streaking through the sky. Players have naturally started mapping out locations where the controller rumbles happen, while others have come up with theories to explain the comet.
Fortnite Mobile now Instructs Players not to Game in Class
Fortnite's Community Manager K.L. Smith posted the above photo which shows the new loading screen for Fortnite mobile. Some players may have already noticed the change to the game's loading screen, which warns players not to game in class.
A Way Out is More than Just a Playable Prison Break Movie
EA Originals and Hazelight's A Way Out is a playable prison break movie. In a lot of ways, it allows you to pretend you're Clint Eastwood in Escape from Alcatraz. However, because it can only be played as a two-person co-op game, Hazelight managed to give us more than just an interactive movie.
Cracking Skulls Takes on New Meaning in Headsnatchers
IguanaBee and Iceberg Interactive's Headsnatchers is so well named, we're kind of in-awe of it. The first thing you do with a Headsnatchers match is choose your head, which is the only way you can identify yourself, as everyone has the same nondescript body.
Kaet Must Die
Strength in Numbers' indie horror puzzle game Kaet Must Die is just difficult and jump-scare infested enough to be a shoe-in for Twitch fame. Every single thing you do wrong in Kaet Must Die will end in, you guessed it, instant death.
Could Improbable's SpatialOS Change the Indie Games Market?
Indie games are all over the place these days, but one of the major design hurdles for indies is the ability to support large multiplayer environments. So in comes Improbable and their SpatialOS SDK. SpatialOS is a cloud based, multi-platform game hosting tool that eschews the traditional server structure.
Feeling the Call of the Endless Open Road in Night Driver Mobile
Atari's mobile version of Night Driver is much, much the opposite of Tempest 4000. Where Tempest stuck to the old formula, Night Driver shakes things up. Its still in closed testing, but the game build Atari were showing off at GDC is fully playable,and looks polished.
Tempest 4000 is So Retro it Might be a Bad Thing
Llamasoft and Atari's Tempest 4000 is a brand new Tempest, but it looks and feels like the Tempest you know and love. Its got the same barebones design, same gameplay style, and even the same feel.