Category: Technology

There is so much energy in Teenage Blob that even the on-screen text seems to shake and shudder and tremble. Why wouldn’t it? This is such a weird and brilliant project – half EP, half mini-game collection. The Superweaks (a band) recorded six new songs. Team Lazerbeam (a development team) made six new games. Then […]

Plans are being made for a return to an in-person Gamescom show in Cologne for 2021. The enormous games show last year squeezed 373,000 people into Cologne’s cramped convention centre. Social distance, you could not. 2020’s physical event was scrapped, and effectively replaced with a miasma of online announcements lead by Geoff Keighley’s Opening Night […]

Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 is getting a new endgame mode set in a 100-story skyscraper. Summit will task players with clearing all 100 floors of the building from the ground up. Levels will vary each time you play, and be punctuated by a boss fight on every 10th floor. The mode was revealed in […]

Recently-released indie game Spiritfarer came under fire yesterday after some players said it contained ableist writing within one of its storylines – and now developer Thunder Lotus has issued an apology. The criticism was focused on a particular storyline that suggested a wheelchair-using character could only be free in death, which critics said perpetuated the […]

Promising open-world bird combat game The Falconeer will hold a brief PC beta next month which you can sign-up for right now. You can apply for a key via The Falconeer’s Discord, ahead of the test being held via Steam in October. Developed almost entirely solo by former Skyrim modder Tomas Sala, The Falconeer features […]

I would love to know how The Last Campfire was made. Not the coding or the art, which I’ll happily admit I would not understand even if I had a lifetime of education ahead of me. But the thinking behind the design. This is a puzzle game in which puzzles are everywhere – puzzles of […]

Nintendo has confirmed its highly-anticipated trilogy of classic Super Mario game remasters headed to Nintendo Switch later this month. Dubbed as Super Mario 3D All-Stars, the collection will contain Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine and Super Mario Galaxy. It arrives on 18th September. A limited number of physical copies will be made, while the […]