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Big Punch Studios are at it again. The UK-based studio of comic creators responsible for 7STRING, Afterlife Inc., The Heavenly Chord, Cat & Meringue and Big Punch Magazine – among other projects – has taken to Kickstarter to fund a brand new project – but this time, the team is going down a whole new avenue.
Sandwich Masters is Big Punch Studios’ first attempt to create a brand new card game with a wacky, somewhat twisted style of humour only comic artists truly master. The game, which is for 2 to 4 players in standard form, involves using ingredient cards – some good, some bad – to construct sandwiches to order, aiming to be the first to fulfil a specific request and earn the cash, while sabotaging your opponents and hoping you won’t get sabotaged yourself – first to 50 “noshbucks” wins. Or, as the Kickstarter puts it:
Sandwich Masters is a fast-paced, colourful card game with a slightly twisted sense of humour for two to four players. Players race to build sandwiches and complete orders using the correct ingredient cards. The winner is the first player to earn 50 noshbucks.
But in the battle to earn the most money, standards are easily forgotten. You see, each good ingredient has an evil counterpart. Hungry customers won’t notice the difference (is that bacon or facon, sliced beef or a live cow?) but if someone plays a Health Inspector card, you’re in trouble. Throw in Attack Condiments (broken glass, a sneeze), Vegetarian Rats and the occasional Poop Flood and it’s a recipe for disaster!
(Poop Flood… ewww…)
The standard game will come with 180 Cards making up three decks, and printed instructions for how to play. Should the project beat its £5,000 target, further stretch goals tempt the prospect of additional cards; while a total of £8,500 or more will lead to the expected print run being doubled.
The Kickstarter is open for 30 days, with a backing of £15 or more securing one set of the cards, which aim to get delivered by January 2015. For the first 20 backers to take the perk, a pledge of £40 or more will earn you the title of SANDWICH LORD and allow you to design your own Attack Condiment, which will be turned into a one-off card to be included with your copy of the game, and the pack will be signed by the team. So what are you waiting for?
If you follow let’s players on Youtube or Twitch there’s a fair bet you’re familiar with the name of Elgato. Their capture devices are used by a lot of Youtubers with high subscriber counts because they perform well with a number of consoles. Now Elgato have just released their latest device – the HD60 Pro.
The main features of the HD60 Pro are that it is compatible with all the latest consoles, and is able to stream directly to Twitch or Youtube in 1080p at 60FPS with little latency. This on top of something called Flashback recording which allows you to go back in your latest gameplay and record something after the fact – brilliant for those times when you’re playing and something amazing or hilarious happens out of the blue. There’s also some very nice videos available on Elgato’s Youtube channel telling you how to install the device in case you need instructions; very useful.
Specs:
Interface – PCIe x1
Input – PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox 360 & Wii U (unencrypted HDMI)
Microsfot built up the launch of Windows 10 for a long time and the release has so far been fairly good. There’s a lot of happy customers although quite a few reports of people having problems with the automatic updating, the ‘spyware’ and some programs no longer working have also been reported as well.
Now Microsoft have announced that there’s going to be some “exciting news” about Windows 10 devices to tell, and they’ll be sharing it in New York on October 6th at 10AM EST. What this actually means is unknown, but guesses are already flying around as people try to pinpoint whether this has anything to do with PC, Xbox or mobile – and if it has any meaning for gamers.
All we can do is wait for October 6th and tune in to find out what Microsoft have got to tell us.
From Software, the Japanese development studio best known for the Dark Souls series has announced that it is planning to open a new studio in Fukuoka, Japan next month with an aim to get it fully operational by January next year.
The studio’s function will be the creation of 3D CG assets for games, as well as providing support to From Software’s main studio located in Tokyo. Job listings are already going up online for 3D environmental and character artists to join the team and with Dark Souls 3 having had its Japanese console release date announced it’s a fair bet that it’ll be working on that project as the first thing it ever does.
From Software are known most famously for their Dark Souls games and most recently Bloodborne on the Playstation 4; bringing a unique mix of elements that defines the games as uniquely theirs.
The people behind Anno 2205 have just released a new trailer that details footage and other things shown at the recent Gamescom event, most notably the arctic setting available in game.
At its core Anno 2205 is about celebrating humanity’s growing technological prowess to the point that areas thought unhabitable now are able to be lived at in the near future, the arctic land and the craters of the moon being two of the climes available in Blue Byte’s colony builder game, alongside the much more manageable climate of our own fair Earth in the future.
Arctic play will focus on the mining of methane ice by building an industrial infrastructure and as you could guess supplying the necessary heat to keep the machines working and the people alive will be your biggest and primary concern for that setting.
Are you looking forward to Anno 2205? Tell us in the comments!
