| Nothing to do with what's in this article, but I always loved Kikujiro the most of all his movies (that I've watched - I haven't watched that many) |
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Acclaimed island-hopping adventure The Touryst coming to PlayStation in September
Takeshi Kitano's legacy in video games
Sony just did a better job of convincing me Xbox Game Pass is viable than Microsoft has so far
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@greenwichlee in 100% agreement... not replying to you but others in the thread... I'm aware that I can get a £1 a month sub for the first 3 months, and if i'm savvy can probably duck and dive my way around to get that deal for a year. Netflix, Apple TV, Prime etc all offer the same loss leader deals. The point is that Wes, you and I are all "tech savvy bargain hunting core gamers". In reality paying full price, which lets face it, most people will end up doing once they join the ecosystem, makes financial sense to microsoft AND the consumer. Anecdotally as a dev with a fair few bizdev conncetions, gamepass is a no brainer if you can get on it. A potentially hefty upfront payout and then a massive amount of "exposure" from peole playing your games. This isn't just smaller indie games but some of the high tier AAA games that are doing better as a result of being on gamepass, from non Xbox platforms or non subscribers. |
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There's a new RoboCop game in the works from the team behind Terminator: Resistance
| Here's a thing... go find the logo for Nosebleed Interactive (and the Vostok Inc one)... then colour pick the pink. It's ed2090... This wasn't coincidental! |
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...and will feature an "original story" based on the events of the first three RoboCop films.The first film is one of the best films ever made. The third is one of the worst. |
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Call of Duty: Warzone dev exploring "fair" and "reactable" counterplay to controversial Dead Silence field upgrade
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@Der_tolle_Emil Maybe dead silence should cancel as soon as the player fires a shot. I'm still playing MW multiplayer and I often use it. It's the increased FOV and moving around a bit quicker that make it worthwhile for me. |
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Game Builder Garage review: entertainment and education blend together
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@ShiftyGeezer it's really, really basic compared with something like LBP2 and definitely not is user friendly in terms of trying to do stuff that's a bit more out of the box . Really frustratingly you can't copy paste more than a single node, so if you have a complex behaviour for an enemy, for example, it's a right faff setting up multiple ones. Shapes, you get, cube, cylinder and sphere primitives. You can scale them, but that's it. There's a small number of "fancy objects" (apples, crates etc) and then there's 3 types of "player object" (car, ufo and person). No built in pixel art but there is a sprite editor. I've not messed about with it too much but I expect, as with a lot of it, animation any sprites will be quite a lot of legwork and messing around with a parent object spawning and despawning child objects. Audio wise again it's a very limited palette and not too much in the way of controls. It also won't let you mess with a lot of values that you would expect to be able to, BUT this is coming from a game developer rather than the target audience. I sound like I'm being unfairly harsh, having spent a lot of time in LBP2 and a little in Dreams, but it is a lot of fun messing with stuff and certainly it'll be great for younger audiences with an interest in making stuff. It's flexible enough to do a lot of prototyping but not flexible enough to polish any of it. One thing it does that I totally commend, in the tutorials, it massively encourages testing and iteration. Add a feature, test it, tweak it. It's totally prescribed and linear with no room for creativity in the tutorials, but it does it in a way that will be great if the designers of the future follow! I also really like the challenges that open up after each "lesson" to make sure you understand the systems. In a way I wish there was more of that stuff, like a video of what you're meant to be creating and then it gives you a limited set of tools to do it. While I sound like I'm down on it, I don't regret my purchase at all and Martin's review is pretty spot on. |
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Ahead of Cyberpunk 2077's PlayStation Store return, there's a big performance and bug-fixing patch
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@Someone72 played probably 15 hours of it on PS5 and found it enjoyable enough. Story wise I'm still quite early on but I was doing a bunch of side quest stuff, which I probably shouldn't have as, although they're fine, they aren't that compelling. So far it's reminded me the most of Skyrim, but with a less compelling core levelling system and a better story. I decided to put it off until PS5 version, mostly because of a big backlog of other games. |
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Nintendo Switch owners report download issues following system update
| @dadrester So I did the whole shebang. Only thing I didn't try was a completely different internet connection (I'm staying with my parents for a couple of weeks). I just tethered to my phone rather than my folks' BT line, and hey presto it works. (or maybe it's just a lucky hit on that particular time but i must have spammed about 60 times over the course of the last couple of days). |
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| I can confirm following all of the steps (incl. changing DNS) does bugger all. |
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| gah. that explains why garage builder won't download. |
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Taking a brief lesson in game design from Nintendo
| @Cube1701 Oh I was thinking day 1, but yeah, hadn't thought of that. Puts me off a little too. |
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Pigeon dating sim Hatoful Boyfriend to be delisted from iOS, Android, PS Store in June
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If this is on anyone's to buy list, the news is sure to move it up the pecking order. BUUUUT... wasn't this really recently on PS+? |
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Bringing the arcade home with Arcade Paradise
| @kirby2000 That's the one!!! |
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| @ukaskew37 FYI, it's PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Series X|S, Switch and PC. |
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| @scosya Amazing! The game is pretty much that but with laundrette. Originally it was going to be a blockbuster style video shop but that would have needed an absolute ton of art for loads of fake movie boxes. |
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| @Zippity-zap Suntory Yamazaki 12. We had a load of Virgin Airmiles form over the years (my wife is dead into finding deals and whatnot), but it looked like Virgin were gonna go down the pan at the beginning of the pandemic so we decided to redeem them on Virgin booze. Probably the only time I'll ever spend £150 on a bottle of booze, but bloody hell it's lasted (and is also very nice) |
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@el_pollo_diablo Puzzle Bobble 2 is one of the office faves... that's all I'm saying... nudge nudge, wink wink! |
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@icematt12  ;) |
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@INSOMANiAC I don't want to jinx it but I think we way have slightly improved it... I find it hard to go back to the original now with the chain reward, powerups we added. They're kind of like a get out of jail free card, that you get and can keep until you want to use them, but you only ever hold 1, so there's a risk/reward element. Because we also randomise the drop amount (between 5 and 8, as opposed to blitz mode's 5) it's a also little more forgiving. It's also got a dead silly X-Files style conspiracy theory storyline. :D |
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| @richardiox Yes! Pretty sure I went there once, after leaving school. Was it even open after we all left? |
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| @CaPtAiN-NiTeShAdE YESSSS! It's decided, that's where our launch party will be!!! I fucking rinsed it at an arcade in Switzerland when I was a teenager and then bought the version on pinball arcade on PS4. I think i played if for a frankly embarrassing 200+ hours, just that one table. Been dying to find it at a freeplay place! |
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| @CaPtAiN-NiTeShAdE Don't suppose you know if they have the original Star Trek TNG pinball machine do they? |
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| @fragglefart hehehe... I've literally been tinkering with a fog/smoke particle system today. I think it's a little too much, but ciggy smoke was the idea. Looks a bit too much like dry ice at the moment though (and loads of overdraw on Switch so may not bother with it at all) |
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| @Sagara_X Windjammers FTW (note: we're not attempting to do Windjammers. You can't improve upon perfection!) |
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| @peterfll There's also another feeling we're trying to replicate. When you were a kid and bought a new game and then got the bus home, reading through every page of the manual, then running home as fast as possible! That but with each new arcade machine. That's another of the reasons we're not doing ROMs. So there's a genuine element of anticipation and surprise when a new machine arrives. |
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| @Anrkist Yeah... erm...(pulls up spreadsheet) currently 13 of them do support between 2 and 4 local. Some are 2 and others are 2,3 or 4. |
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@BellyFullOfHell Thank you! It's our biggest and best game yet, by quite a lot! Blitz really is compelling isn't it. For a game where you're just pressing a single button now and again it definitely does the job. Because we're set in the mid 90s it gives us a lot of freedom with stuff, so we've got games from late 70s all the way through to more modern takes (albeit dressed no later than 95ish). With UFO Assault (Blitz) we've gone for a similar era to the original but added music and better SFX and some much nicer gamefeel (screenshake and particles etc) but it's one of the games that remained really similar to the original, with the biggest change being planes crashing into buildings not being very... sensitive post 2000. |
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@Sobtanian oh and there's also a bit of a story to drive you on too. Voice by Doug Cockle who played Geralt (he's the guy in the triler too). In the VO session I sheepishly asked if he'd do some messages for the team in Geralt's voice. He was so nice and did all of them exactly as Geralt. My new ringtone is him as Geralt in total deadpan saying "Bring, Bring, Hey Dre, it's Geralt. Answer your damn megascope!" |
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| @8bitMofo My Bro and I were on a ferry once and they had a Bubble Bobble machine which was set to 10p a play. We'd been playing the c64 version religiously so were pretty good. Had £1 each and we must have been on it for about an hour. In my memory, we completed it, but having gone back and tried to play it as an adult... that can't have been right! |
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| @karlsavage oooh. Do they have Star Trek TNG pinball? |
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@Sobtanian Awww. Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it. We're deffo trying to get that kind of "Just 5 more minutes... 2 hours pass" feel. I wasted a morning the other day when I was looking for a bug, found the bug and just carried on playing the game by accident so I think we're on our way there :) The way the loop works is basically: Do some menial tasks (these are all done in really gamey ways), then play some actual games, maybe do a bit of admin (min maxing machine positions, setting price and difficulty dippers etc, for core players) once you have enough cash buy a new game and wait excitedly to see what it's like. In fact, Stardew Valley had a big influence on the way we're looking at the loop. I ended up playing that so much because of the way the day was structured. |
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| @richardiox Nearer Newcastle that's for sure. Do you remember the videoshop by the rec Rich? |
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@Jonamok This year. It's coming to everything too. Swtich, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC. You can wishlist on steam here... https://store.steampowered.com/app/1388870/Arcade_Paradise/?utm_source=Eurogamer&utm_medium=Coverage&utm_campaign=Dre%20April%20Interview |
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@porkface Was something like excite.com :D "Game JAMMA" by the way, is... *chef's kiss* |
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Fun fact... Signing up on some website many moons ago... Andreas (taken)... Dre (taken)... Drester (taken) ... The Drester (taken)... dadrester (bingo). No one reads it as da drester though... It's now become dad rester... Anyway. I'm the bloke in the interview. AMA |
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| @gillgrissom I absolutely LOVE Arcade club. Only been to the one in Bury but it's amazing. Best game there has to be Quick and Crash. Ideally pandemic alowing I'd like to have the Arcade Paradise launch party there. |
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Nintendo just popped a Miitopia demo up onto Switch's eShop
| My Daughter loved this on 3DS. Knock a tenner off it and I'd be interested. Will probably give the demo a whirl and see if it's got any significant gameplay changes to the original. |
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First-person Resident Evil 4 VR adds dual-wielding
| @SBandy Yup. £300 and it you can use it as a standard occulus if you wish, hooked up to pc, but I never have. Superhot is a killer app already, I think. And during lockdown I've been using it to watch a MASSIVE TV on the netflix app while my wife and daughter were watching the real tv. |
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| @Rpt81 They're adding roomscale support so that implies yes, since you can't lock the player from physically moving. As it happens RE4's setup for static aiming will work INCREDIBLY well in VR, even if you can move. Colour me interested. Don't think I've played it since Gamecube. Fell I must have done but can't think when. |
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OlliOlli World brings the superlative skate series into vivid 3D
| @Tomo Such a simple game. I was initally put off by it looking complicated but having loved all other Roll7 stuff I finally dove in when it was on PS+ and it was AMAZING! |
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| YESSSSSSSSS!!!!! |
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Someone should make a game about: art on the moon
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@Ferx Co it really is a penis too. Just looked it up. So good... Warhol trolling the planet... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/88/Moon_Art_PBS.jpg/290px-Moon_Art_PBS.jpg |
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Activision and developer of 2017 strategy game Warzone in legal fight over Warzone trademark
| I wonder if I'll get a C&D for my puzzle game "Call of Duty: Modern Warfareblobs"... no one in their right mind could mistake it for a first person shooter. |
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Fantasian gets the original Final Fantasy team back in a JRPG for all
| For the first time ever I'm thinking... Oooooh an Apple Arcade thing. My wife just got an iPad - the only apple device we have in the house - and the only game(s) she plays are Final Fantasy. Migth convince her to give this a try. |
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Pac-Man 99 is the next Nintendo Switch Online battle royale
Turn a grim laundromat into a bustling 90s arcade in Vostok Inc. dev's Arcade Paradise
| @TheCostOfLies I will try and do an AMA or Q&A or something at some point, but I'm being a bit more conservative with my "telling everyone everything" approach than in the past. |
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@Nino_Chaosdrache HA! I was gutted when I saw them release that, as we'd already been on the project a while, but on the other hand I also figured, if R* are doing it, there's definitely an active an audience. Haven't actually played the GTA one as I never have enough money to get good stuff in that. I thnk the last thing I bought was some swanky nightclub but the grind to get it was so tedious that I stopped playing as soon as I got it. |
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@ClydeFrog76 The first area you get is soooo grim. Proper back room. It's based on a hazy memory of the back of a video shop that had an arcade. After I talked about it on the Direct a mate who grew up in the same town sent me a message on FB... "I remember that arcade in the video shop. It was near the rec. I also remember they had a room for pornos" |
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| @sadakos_fury you do open the coin mech to take a PCB out and "identify and fix... problems". It's more gamey than simmy though... |
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