Today was the first day of the EGX Developer Sessions, and the first thing to take to the stage was an indie title from studio Tarsier Studios – Little Nightmares.

Originally revealed at Gamescom a month ago, Little Nightmares is a suspense-adventure game in which you control the protagonist in her bid to make it through and escape the floating, travelling location of The Maw – a place that draws in people to offer them the fulfillment of their desires. Some remain stuck there though, as prisoners and our protagonist aims to not become one of them.

Speaking of our protagonist, we play as a young child called ‘Six’ throughout the presentation, a small figure in a yellow raincoat. The world around her is full of strange things that she doesn’t understand and that are larger than her, but with some clever thinking and manipulation of objects she may just make it out from The Maw.

The game presented on screen was one that out sized Six greatly, and this was deliberate as it was explained that they had hoped to catch the perspective of childhood – one of uncertainity, size, fear, but also playfulness and adventure. You can move objects around and some you can even break. The aesthetics of the game in both visuals and sound try to keep up an atmosphere that is suspenseful, slightly creepy but not overly horror-themed. The strange world around Six is meant to depict only that she is of an age where not everything yet makes sense to her and it shows.

With a lighter to light the way and a few lanterns, and a whistle to attract things towards her, it’s easy to see that this game’s puzzles will take some figuring out and there is a story waiting to be discovered inside The Maw as you progress. Look forward to this game coming out some time in the Spring of next year.

I’m sure it’s not too long ago that GTA Online had an update for CEO shenanigans… although apparently it was a few months ago. either way, it seems enough time has passed that Rockstar are ready to release yet another big update to the game, this time focused around bikers, their vehicles and all the things biker-related.

This will give players the chance to form their own Motorcycle Clubs, with up to eight players per group. There will be roles for all, from Prospects who are fresh to the club President right at the top. It will also bring (unsurprisingly) new bikes and properties to the game – but also some new co-op and competitive gameplay as well.

“Beyond a range of opportunities to climb the ranks within a gang and build lucrative businesses as a formidable MC, Bikers also includes a selection of appropriately-themed new modes for bikers of all kinds, along with new weapons, styles, tattoos and features to make this a huge addition to the world of GTA Online. And while loyal MCs will fight to expand their foothold alongside black-collar CEOs and Organizations, there’s always another opportunity to make your mark just around the corner. Keep an eye out for high-level, high-risk vehicle based business ventures to spring up across Los Santos and Blaine County soon.”

These new places will be Clubhouses with biker mechanics available as well as some dodgy businesses.

No release dates yet, but keep your eyes open for this one. As if GTA Online wasn’t noisy enough with all the explosions and jets nosediving into the ground…

The last DLC for Fallout 4 I reviewed was Automatron, and I gave that a 9/10 for the over 8 hour campaign storyline it gave me. So let’s take a look at Fallout 4’s 6th and Final DLC, NukaWorld!

Construction started on Nuka-World in July 2049, and Nuka-World opened on May 1st, 2050. On opening day, over 40,000 tickets were sold, and plans were made to expand immediately, as it featured only 2 lands at the time: Nuka-Town USA and Kiddie Kingdom. Dry Rock Gulch opened in 2058, followed by Safari Adventure in 2067. The last park area, Galactic Zone, opened in 2072.

In typical Fallout 4 DLC style, the DLc opens up after level 30 with a mission to listen to a radio signal… Unlike Far Harbour though, which needed Nic Valentine and a certain point in the core storyline completed, this is more like Automatron, you can go straight there, although the devs admit at 30, you’re in for one hell of a challenge (although if you don’t all the other DLC already, you’re more than likely more than ready to get started. Especially if, like me, you’re using any mods aswell.

I will admit, I started streaming this one and I enjoyed it SO MUCH, I forgot to NOT play anymore and played stuff I SHOULD have done on stream… oops… But you can see my first NukaWorld stream below:

So, what IS Nukaworld?

As the description says, it’s Disney World, but for Nuka Cola, cos why the hell not?

The map is HUGE too, it’s made up of more than 8 zones, all run by various raider factions and depending how you play the storyline, you can end up running the raiders too. I kinda of wish I had too, as I’ve seen some amusing videos of old companions reactions on how you play it, especially Preston Garvey, who is not AT ALL happy with your choice leading to some relaly amusing videos.

The zone is nicely spaced out aswell, the theme park being in a big dust bowl type area, nice and flat, you can see to the horizon and get some beautiful vistas for screenshots from most angles.

I initially thought the park would have a few typical zones, what I was really surprised to find was there is a TON of areas around the outside fo the park aswell, including trash areas, a junkyard full of bots (which give some cool new parts for your Automatrons aswell), a Zoo full of some of teh CRAZIEST monstrosities so far in this game, inclusing the gruesome Albino Gatorclaw that tried ripping my face off a few time and the terrifying Feral Ghoul Gorillas and even, one of my fave parts of the park, a Haunted House.

The Grandchester Mystery Mansion was a special fave, I honestly spent well over an hour following the route through (stuck in a room until the voice over finishes, typical haunted house style) and working out how to survive the various traps on the way through as I go and I honestly got a fun jump scare from it near the end too, which was a great little touch.

I have so far played MORE than 8 hours in the park and I have only done, AT MOST, 2 zones so far and barely scratched the raider storyline. I have loved every minute of my exploring and just talking to all the wierd and whacky people and droids I’ve met in this DLC and it’s honestly given me a crisis of conscience on how I want to go… Do I stay quite stand up with the rail Road and Minute Men, helping rebuild the Commonwealth and society, or do I run the raiders and take over the whole place as the Overboss… decisions… decisions…

Totally worth the price of admission! 10/10!

The Last Guardian is one of those games that’s become well-known before its release, solely because of how long its taken the game to approach that release. In fact, for years the game has bounced between ‘coming soon’ and ‘probably dead’ and just as it began to approach a decade since being announced, Sony announced that yes – The Last Guardian was still alive and what’s more it was given a release date!

Only today, that date has once again been delayed. However instead of having no date for release, the date has instead just been pushed back a few months to December. Phew.

Speaking on the Playstation site’s blog, Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios said that the development team behind The Last Guardian was “fast approaching major milestones in production” and had taken the decision to delay the release by a few weeks to December 6th 2016.

“Fumito Ueda, gen DESIGN and JAPAN Studio have a wonderful vision for The Last Guardian’s touching, emotional journey of friendship and trust, and we want to deliver the most polished experience possible for our fans who have supported us for so long. A delay is a difficult decision, particularly with this game, but we have encountered more bugs than anticipated while in the final stages of development. To ensure that The Last Guardian delivers on the experience that the game’s creators have envisioned, we need to take the extra time to work on those issues.”

Somehow I had a feeling when watching a trailer for the game at Insomnia 58 a few weekends back that The Last Guardian’s troubles couldn’t quite be over yet. Still, at least we have a new date to look forward to it now eh?

Playstation Blog “An Update on The Last Guardian”: [x]

Warner Bros have announced that they are planning to release the remastered versions of the first two Batman Arkham games during the next month of the year.

The Batman: Return to Arkham set will include both Batman: Arkham Asylum and its sequel, Batman: Arkham City in remastered versions which will include all of the Game of the Year content and downloadable content ever released for both games. The games have apparently been done with improved graphics, shaders, updated models, environments, lighting and more through the use of Unreal Engine 4 and will retail at a suggested price of £39.99 with a PEGI-16 rating.

The game will release on both Xbox One and Playstation 4 and the date has been set for an October 21st 2016 release.