When it comes to producing a stand-alone expansion for a game, there are a number of rules in play as to what you should expect. As is usually the case, there are three: The expansion should be of comparative length. It should improve upon the core game play It should be able to stand as a game in its own right. Unfortunately, Red Alert 3: Uprising manages to fail on all three counts. This is quite painful for me to…
I’ve been reading a lot of press releases lately. It’s not been by choice, various members of staff at The Reticule have started sending them to me as a practical joke and, not to be undone by their childish antics, I’ve read every single one. It’s like when you catch a child smoking, you make them smoke every single cigarette in the house inside of one hour with an end to teaching them a lesson. That lesson being how much…
In a move that I can only assume is inspired by their soon to be bought pals Eidos, Square Enix have announced that they will be bringing their games to Steam, starting with The Last Remnant on April 9th. Possibly only in North America, the press release is sending mixed messages about that. I am a bit of a Square Enix fan, if this leads to final fantasies making their way onto Steam then I may end up severely out…
I took last week off. I’m allowed to, it’s in the contract I didn’t sign when I joined The Reticule. Following some of the comments from the last column, I felt that perhaps I owed Dungeons and Dragons another go. A lot of people in the comments seemed to think I was being needlessly harsh, that I was taking one bad game and applying it universally. So I gave it another shot. It’s still awful.
And guess what? It’s next week! Yes, Valve has let it be known that work on the Scout Update has almost reached completion, and they’re going to kindly drip feed us info over the next week to tell us exactly what everyone’s favourite Ritalin addict will be getting come the 24th. You can find the info page here, and you’ll want to check back on the days stated. The first reveal, The Sandman bat, looks pretty awesome if I’m honest,…
[Mercurio Silver, gentleman critic. Discovered mining for quicklime in a quarry in the north of Somerset, Mercurio Silver used his sizeable fortune to fund The Reticule for three whole minutes. As a mark of gratitude we gave him his own article.]
It’s Hedgewars!
Telltale games, those people who seem to keep making adventure games, have hit us with a double whammy. First, their previously announced Wallace and Gromit games will be kicking off “in the spring”. Pretty cool news, but there’s more!
Mercurio Silver – Gentleman Critic. Found in a public restroom in Camberwell, passing judgement on the merit contained within certain examples of graffiti present on the walls, he attached himself to the staff of your favourite gaming blog and refused to let go. In an ill-conceived attempt to get him to stop judging our various fashion styles as “contrived and unprecedented in their ugliness”, we at The Reticule gave him an article through which, hopefully, he can vent his spleen.
Yes, it really does look like a Dev Diary. Hold in your sighs though, gentle reader, because there is quite a bit of useful information in this one, and some nice in-game footage.