The 2023 Humble Games Showcase has dropped new information on eight upcoming indie titles, including a playable musical, a beat-’em-up using the power of the weather, and more. Stray Gods, an”interactive role-playing musical” as described by developer Summerfall Studios, showed some of its unique visual novel-style gameplay, which uses musical numbers to progress the story. The trailer also revealed an impressive voice cast, which includes Laura Bailey as protagonist The Muse, Lauren “Lolo” Spencer, Ashley Johnson, Felicia Day, Erika Iishi, Rahul Kohli, and more. Gallery Also featured was Breeze In The Clouds, a side-scrolling beat-’em-up infused with fighting game mechanics.…
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Square Enix and FuturLab have announced that PowerWash Simulator is collaborating with SpongeBob SquarePants for its next special update. Content themed around the popular animated show will release for the game this summer. The new update will include a mini-campaign with six new maps: Conch Street, the Bikini Bottom Bus, the Krusty Krab, the Patty Wagon, the Invisible Boatmobile, and the Mermalair. Additionally, the PowerWash character model has been redesigned for the new special pack so that it can fit the aesthetic and art style of the SpongeBob SquarePants series. There are also 10 new achievements that will be added…
Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in 1997’s Batman & Robin as the villain Mr. Freeze, and as it turns out, he was paid a gigantic sum. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, the former bodybuilding champion discussed how his thoughts about money changed over the years as his own personal circumstances improved. He said when he was working construction in the early ’70s, taking home $5,000 to “build a wall” was a lot of money to him. But when he shifted to Hollywood, he got paid a little bit more. “It was Batman & Robin where they gave me over $30 million. I…
It’s time for another Humble Games Showcase, and this year the company is celebrating its three-year anniversary as well as spotlighting its newly refreshed publishing roster. This year, we got to see a special behind-the-scenes interview montage of the cast from David Gaider’s musical game Stray Gods as well as six new indie games for us to look forward to. We’ve listed everything that was announced at the show, so feel free to have a leisurely scroll through. Here’s everything you missed from the Humble Games Showcase 2023. The action roguelike released back in 2018 is getting a sequel, aptly…
A sequel to Hawken was certainly not on my 2023 bingo card. Five years after the multiplayer mech FPS shut down on PC, now requiring a fan-made fix even just to play offline against bots, I didn’t expect to ever again dash around its cool sci-fi cityscapes as a charmingly scrappy little stomper. So I was excited when publishers 505 Games announced singleplayer follow-up Hawken Reborn on Monday then launched it into early access two days later. Having now played it, oh dear. You know, it’s okay for the dead to stay dead. Read more
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Hawken is back! Except that it really isn’t. 505 Games has taken the corpse of the fantastic mech PvP romp—which died well before its time—and turned it into an ugly PvE game that I’ve had to stop playing because the broken mouse sensitivity and overenthusiastic cockpit animation have hammered my head. I knew I’d need to temper my expectations when it was announced that Hawken Reborn was a PvE-only affair. No more thrilling fights against human-piloted mechs for me. But multiplayer wasn’t the only thing that I loved about the original Hawken. The impeccable art, sound design and the lumbering…
The launch of its new Epic Rewards program isn’t the only big thing the Epic Games Store has going on today. It’s also kicking off the 2023 Mega Sale with discounts of up to 75%, the return of the never-ending Epic Coupon, and a free copy of Death Stranding for everyone. Death Stranding is this week’s Epic Store giveaway game, and it’s definitely one of the biggest games that Epic has thrown on that particular pile. But this isn’t the first time it’s been free: It was previously Epic’s giveaway game on December 25, 2022, which—without wanting to go too…
RSS Feed Direct download Another week, another episode of the PC Gamer Chat Log podcast! This week, we’ve brought in senior editor Robin Valentine to chat all about our favourite (and least favourite) level tropes. You know the ones: The classic water level, the weird stealth level that doesn’t belong in the ultra-violent action game, the bizarre segments that plonk you on a turret and force you to down hundreds of goons with infinite bullets. They’re everywhere in games, and we’ve all slogged through our fair share of stereotypical game design. Why do games default to these often out-of-place levels?…
Wizard of Legend, the isometric dungeon crawler that we said “is probably the closest we’re ever going to get to a good Avatar: The Last Airbender game,” was a hit, selling more than 500,000 copies shortly after it launched in 2018. Now a sequel is on the way, revealed today by publisher Humble Games as “an entirely new” experience being developed by Children of Morta studio Dead Mage. Dead Mage is “a perfect fit for what we want to do with the Wizard of Legend franchise,” Humble head of content strategy Becky Sayers said during today’s showcase. “Players are going…