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Plans Are In The Works To Create A Film Based On Firewatch
Some interesting news today as it appears there are plans in the works to create a film based on the 2016 Campo Santo game Firewatch According to The Hollywood Reporter, Snoot Entertainment is looking to make a film based on the franchise, which takes place in 1989 in Wyoming as you operate as a fire[...]
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One of the strangest unveilings we've seen in a minute comes to us from Firewatch developer Panic who debuted a new crank-based handheld called PlayDate The unit itself looks like a stripped-down Gameboy with a D-Pad and just two buttons, but it operates with the use of a crank on the side The demo, which[...]
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Firewatch is Coming to the Nintendo Switch in Mid-December
Campo Santo had some amazing news this week as they revealed that Firewatch will officially be coming to the Nintendo Switch this month December 17th to be precise, as they announced the awesome news on their Twitter account yesterday evening The game was originally supposed to be released back in the spring but the devs[...]
Firewatch Art Director Olly Moss Has a New Gig at Valve
If you're not entirely familiar with the situation, Firewatch was an awesome game from 2016 created by Campo Santo, a company co-founded by Moss along with Nels Anderson, Jake Rodkin, Sean Vanaman Moss is the person primarily responsible for the look of that game, as you can see from the artwork here Earlier this year, Valve bought the[...]
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When Firewatch dev Campo Santo announced that it was moving in-house to Valve, many fans of the developer's current project In the Valley of Gods were worried about how the move will affect development of the new game. A recent report from IGN delves into the ramifications of the move with co-founder Sean Vanaman. From IGN: "This started from Jake and I[...]
Valve Acquires Firewatch Developer Campo Santo
Campo Santo's Firewatch is something of a strange, lonely little game, however, its gotten itself quite the following Which likely explains a part of why the developer has decided to join the team at Valve In a post over on the Campo Santo blog, the team announced their decision to work under the big Valve umbrella[...]
Firewatch
Camp Santo has announced that its first game, Firewatch is set to come to the Nintendo Switch. Firewatch is a great example of a first-person experience game, or how they have bizarrely become to be known, walking simulators It's one of the most involved, granting you with many active tasks and exploration, all tied to an[...]
PewDiePie
Popular YouTube star and one of the platform's biggest and most successful creators, PewDiePie has once again found himself in hot water over racial insensitivity and controversial action. The Let's Play YouTuber, real name Felix Kjellberg, casually dropped the N-bomb in a stream of game Battlegrounds. This led to a huge public outcry, as the YouTuber is[...]
Firewatch Sends One Lucky Fan A Copy Of An In-Game Book
Firewatch put a lot of effort into recreating the late 80s The game was littered with bits of worldbuilding including fake novels, which developer Campo Santo later made into real notebooks fans could buy Inside those notebooks were pages that contained order forms that had various other fake novel titles listed One fan decided to actually[...]
Firewatch Is Getting Turned Into A Movie
I liked Firewatch a whole lot when I reviewed it It is a great FPX with a neat little story, and it's well worth playing if you haven't. However, this really is an interesting bit of news concerning the title. The Hollywood Reporter are saying that a deal between developer Campo Santo and studio Good Universe are coming together[...]
The 25 Best Games Already Out This Year
It's creepy, foreboding and well worth a look. Firewatch This is one of the most beautiful FPXs I've ever played Set in a national park, there is a lot of space to explore here It's not just a walk in one direction There is real orienteering skills needed here I also quite enjoyed the character interactions, and[...]
Firewatch
Firewatch is a game about relationships and isolation Have you ever been in love, convinced you were with the one, only for it to end with a patter? School friends you were sure were life long, only to grow distant after you moved on? These are the feelings that Firewatch evokes Something of a rumination on the[...]
Catch The First 'Day' In Firewatch Right Here
Firewatch is just around the corner now Next week we will be able to dive headlong into the American woods and see what mysteries are ahead of us. If you don't mind having the first 30 minutes of the game spoiled for you, PlayStation Access have put up the first 'day' in the game that I[...]
Here Are 17 Minutes Of New Firewatch Gameplay
Firewatch seems so very interesting Setting you up a mystery to solve as a watchman in a national park sounds like a delightful little narrative Add on top of that, the astonishing art direction and I'm all in. Well, here is 17 more minutes of gameplay as part of IGN First This actually a direct continuation[...]
Firewatch Finally Gets A Release Date
Firewatch has been on a lot of people's radars for a while, now The game looks gorgeous and it seems to be telling a rather intriguing story about a man taking on the job a Firewatchmen I've been personally intrigued ever since it surfaced last year. Finally, we have a release date for the game too[...]
Horizon: Zero Dawn
A "game" which even the designers failed to explain in good detail but which contains a virtual toy box of tools which, if done correctly could allow the player to develop incredible experiences and then a little tension as Firewatch showed us a first person game, set in a contemporary wilderness, where your only source[...]
Watch The First 17 Minutes Of The Beautiful Firewatch
Firewatch turned up pretty much out of nowhere last March It looked like an intriguing narrative experience come to life with beautiful art direction Since then, things have been pretty quiet game. Until today Campo Santo have released the first 17 minutes of the title to the internet as part of IGN First It really does[...]