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The people behind the revival of Wasteland have completed a video to promote the new Wasteland 2. However instead of waiting to release it, they’ve stuck it up there right away to show off what defines the game. The footage consists of newsreels to bring the viewer up to speed on the elements that will be present within the game.
Spintires is a Kickstarted project that has had a development time that’s been over a year long. It started as a tech demo which I remember seeing played back in January or February of last year at some point. The game has now evolved to the point where a trailer has been released and it looks interesting to say the least.
The main goal of Spintires is delivering your cargo, in this case loads of timber, to your destinations without getting stuck, tipping over, losing any of the cargo (or as little as you can manage) and obviously as quickly as you can manage to do without expending too much fuel. There’s a lot to take in here for a game that could be called a ‘driving sim’ under some conditions. The game is set in the wildernesses of 1980-90 Russia.
“Plot a course and navigate using landmarks whilst trying not to loose your precious cargo, becoming stuck in the mud or depleting all of your fuel reserves. Plans accordingly so that you can pass a fuelling out-post and stop by when required.” the team behind it wrote of the game, hoping that the game will become replayable simply because the physical elements of the game are dynamic. Roads can become very pitted and harder to navigate the more they are used and so on.
The game will be released on June 13th and will be moddable.
Bad games happen. We know this as gamers. Be it because of poor story, badly or force-together elements that make no sense or just poor gameplay mechanics, some games can be unplayable. More recently though with the advent of Early Access and the pitfalls that come with it, games can be released that are just plain broken. Usually the people who buy these games either get refunded or just cut their losses. However, the developers of one PS4 game widely reviewed as buggy and broken have told their customers that not only are they sorry for how the game turned out, that instead of calling it quits or just releasing a patch they are going to start to remake the game from the bottom upwards. That’s right, they’re literally starting from scratch.
The game in question is called Basement Crawl, a Bomberman-esque horror game. It also has the dubious honour of having a lower overall review score than other bad games such as Duke Nukem Forever. In an interview, Bloober Team’s Marc Colhoun apologised to all those who had played the game and been let down.
“The game was a mess for both you and us.” he said, acknowledging that people had been waiting for them to fix the game. “Rather than… issuing a patch… we have decided to just come out and explain to you where we are right now and what we plan to do. We have been rebuilding the game, completely from scratch and on a new engine.” adding that amongst other things they hope to improve the AI and add new game types.
The new version of the game will be given free to those who already have the first, buggy version of the game. No ETA was given for when they could hope to see the new version out on Playstation Network though, so it remains to be seen whether the developers can actually make this right. For the sake of the people who bought the game, I hope that they will.
Minecraft on Xbox is sometimes considered a poor relation to the original PC version of the game, but there is certainly one thing that the console gamers get that the PC people don’t. Special packs with many well-done pre-made skins, texture packs and constructed locations. The latest one? A Halo pack.
The Halo Mash-Up pack comes with 40 new skins, including an updated version of the Master Chief skin that has been available in the game now for a while. It will also come with versions of some of the games’ various soundtracks which should be very popular and add greatly to the feel of ‘Halo in Minecraft’. The best part though should be the inclusion of many of the popular or more well-known maps re-created lovingly in blocky Minecraft form, and covered over with the pack’s included texture pack. These include Blood Gulch, Blackout, Valhalla and one with a constructed Scarab model (which sadly isn’t driveable).
A release date has yet to be announced, so keep your eyes peeled for that information coming at some point soon.
