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Project CARS decided to get into the spirit of the season today with their new trailer…
… no, not that one. That’s fully two months away. I mean Halloween.
The trailer uses gameplay footage set to atmospheric sounds and in a dull, wet setting that makes the cars racing about the track seem like wild animals or even demons (judging by how they make that one car’s rev sound terrifying). There’s no actual Halloween-related imagery in the trailer and it comes across as a little horror movie-esque in flavour. Interesting way to showcase a racing game, but it’s certainly original and you know what sort of a game you’ll be getting as it quite clearly shows racing and racing hard.
The last thing we heard of 3D Realms was earlier this year when they became involved in a lawsuit with Interceptor after Gearbox tried to stop the two studios from releasing a Duke Nukem game they’d announced (as Gearbox owned the rights to make new games featuring the Duke then). Then 3D Realms was acquired by Interceptor and that was it for them, game over…
… Until now when it seems Interceptor have reformatted the studio along with some of its original team. As if to celebrate a triumphant (hopefully) return, 3D Realms are offering a massive anthology of their old games – 32 in total.
If you want to get it, hurry though. The price of $19.99 is only up for a short while longer, after which it’ll revert to $39.99. Given that there’s a custom launcher, a soundtrack with 9 remastered 3D Realms and Apogee tracks and controller support that’s not too bad a deal.
The remake of Abe’s Oddysee, the first Oddworld game saw release on the PS4 back in July under the title of New ‘n Tasty. A PC version was promised but so far there’s been little news on that front. However the developers are almost ready to release it.
Earlier this month they showcased the PC version in Manchester, UK and to the surprise of many, it was the full game, playable all the way through – not a mere prototype. The delay it seems is down to that sticky issue of optimisation again.
“We’re not quite finished with ensuring the game is fully optimised for all hardware, and have at least a couple of months left before release.” Oddworld Inhabitants said, saying that it will be on Steam “as soon as possible”. Among the things they hope to offer is controller support, rebindable keys and a slider for graphics settings so PCs of many calibers can relive the ‘glory’ of Rupture Farms.
And it seems that Oddworld Inhabitants are considering a private Beta for the PC version prior to release and say that more details on it will be released soon if need they go ahead with it.
If there is one, you know I’m making every attempt to get in there.
The people behind the Games Done Quick charity fundraising events have just announced the details of their next fundraiser, an Awesome Games Done Quick even that will occur between January 4th and January 10th.
Awesome Games Done Quick for those unaware, is an event where speedrunners play through their chosen games as quickly as they possibly can for the amusement of an audience watching the speedruns over livestreams, usually on Twitch. It’s free to view but the point of the event is to encourage donations for the charity cause supported which this time around is the Prevent Cancer Foundation, which they have already managed to raise $1 million for just in their event in January of this year.
As it’s still months away there are no set final details or a full schedule but they have put up an outline of the event on Google Docs for those curious enough.
