Being a small child related to a mad scientist is not easy. At least when the scientist is a recluse, you are spared the indignities of being experimented upon, of being ordered to pull the switches or feeding the unspeakable horror in the tank but when you are dropped off at your uncle’s ridiculously extensive manor, everything inevitably goes horribly wrong and of course you have to be the one to fix it. In Quantum Conundrum by Airtight Games, you…
The land of Westeros. An island of lords and serfs, castles and whore houses. One fat and lusty king rules seven kingdoms which threaten to tear themselves apart at any minute if endless hordes of wild folk, the walking dead and worse do not pour over a 500 foot-high Wall and destroy everything in their path first. And here I am walking from tedious cutscene to tedious cutscene and occasionally hitting men until they fall over.
This is the Game of Thrones ‘action adventure roleplaying game’ by Cyanide Studio. Confusion is understandable. So far there is this; the real-time-strategy game Game of Thrones: Genesis; a collectible card game; a living card game; and a board game (which is like Risk+ and is awesome, by the way).
GoT is set from a year before the beginning of the books/TV series up to about half way through the first book/season. It is an intertwining story of two primary characters: a Nights Watchman called Mors (he of the men who guard the gigantic wall of ice in the North) and Ser Alester, a knight of a minor house sworn to House Lannister and a red priest of R’yllor who has recently returned from a self-imposed exile across the sea. In the game’s fifteen chapters, control and story is alternated between the two characters.
Today sees a new sci-fi mystery adventure unleashed on to the world. Resonance is another title in the point-and-click revolution. I gave the demo a whirl and this is what I found.
Wolfire Games, creators of Lugaru and Overgrowth, experimented in first person shooter mechanics and storytelling for the 7 Day FPS challenge. The result is Receiver, a game of highly detailed firearm mechanics and fighting ‘poisonous media’.
When the zombie apocalypse comes – if it hasn’t already begun – we will know the four lunatics with clown masks, blue latex gloves and assault rifles to blame for letting it spread beyond quarantine and we have the video footage to prove it. Check it out.
A midnight countdown ends with the a teaser and first look at Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs, by thechineseroom and Frictional Games.
Unholy Catholic Inquisition and zombie nazis! As concepts go, it is as B-movie as you can get but Dreampainter‘s new RPG of ‘mature and deep thematics’ could be something special.
Black Mesa media! Yes, that Black Mesa! Screenshots!
What the hell did I just play?
If you were following Ben’s liveblogging of EA’s set at E3, you’ll know Dead Space 3 was announced. Now here are some specifics of what it will include along with some screenshots to examine for clues.