!.04-Rock Paper Shotgun

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How Witch Strandings is moving Hideo Kojima’s Strand game ideals into new, slightly cursed territory

Posted: 03 Jun 2022 09:30 AM PDT

Xalavier Nelson Jr has a bit of a love hate relationship with screens right now. As development on his studio’s gutsy market game Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator was wrapping up at the end of last year, he tells me he remembers “just being really angry at the concept of the borders of the screen”. He was, by his own admission, in “a vague fugue state” at the time, having spent months immersed in Space Warlord’s black and green trading interfaces. But the feeling of having his game “chained to these walls” at the edge of his monitor proved to be a surprisingly powerful one - so much so that it spurred Nelson Jr and his team at Strange Scaffold to create an entirely new kind of game in the months leading up to Warlord’s release: Witch Strandings.

That's right. Taking cues from Hideo Kojima’s hiking postal sim Death Stranding, Witch Strandings is a game that not only asks what Sam Bridges’ cross-country cargo routes might look like if they were made with a fraction of Kojima’s development budget, but also how games can create experiences that are “larger than my screen,” says Nelson Jr. And the answer, it turns out, lies in your PC’s humble mouse.

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Survival horror game The Callisto Protocol is coming in December

Posted: 03 Jun 2022 08:45 AM PDT

The developers of survival horror game The Callisto Protocol have announced that it'll be coming out in December, and revealed a new gameplay trailer to watch with the sound off through your fingers.

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Cat simulator Stray will wander out into its cybercity in July

Posted: 03 Jun 2022 07:31 AM PDT

Stray, the game about being a little cat exploring around a big cybercity, has a release date - and it's soon! July, in fact. That's next month! Time flies when you're excited about getting to be a ginger tabby kitty.

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Street Fighter 6 will bring an open-world mode when it launches next year

Posted: 03 Jun 2022 06:21 AM PDT

Capcom have released a new trailer for Street Fighter 6, showcasing an open-world mode that sees characters exploring and brawling alike on the between the neon signs of the city.

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Final Fantasy XVI gets a new trailer, summer 2023 release window

Posted: 03 Jun 2022 04:14 AM PDT

Final Fantasy XVI has released another trailer. This one's for showing off the summons and giving it a release window of summer next year. Summons for the summer!

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Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered and Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales are heading to PC

Posted: 03 Jun 2022 03:19 AM PDT

Both of Insomniac Games' web-slingin', super villain kickin' games are coming to PC this year. Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered will be out this August, while Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales is scheduled for the autumn.

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Capcom announce Resident Evil 4 remake, due March 2023

Posted: 03 Jun 2022 02:33 AM PDT

Capcom have confirmed that Resident Evil 4 is getting a remake. It's due out in March of next year.

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Dragon Age's next entry will be called Dragon Age: Dreadwolf

Posted: 03 Jun 2022 01:44 AM PDT

BioWare have given a new tease for Dragon Age 4, announcing that its official title will be Dragon Age: Dreadwolf. It'll follow up that plot about Solas wanting to destroy the entire world - fantastic news for fans and haters alike.

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Itch.io's Queer Games Bundle is back, offering hundreds of games for Pride month

Posted: 02 Jun 2022 09:01 AM PDT

A very merry Pride month to all, and what better way to celebrate than by putting some money in queer developers' pockets and getting more than 500 games (and zines and other such goodies) in return? There's a bit of everything in here, from a bird-run grocery store to a meditation on the decay and connection both inherent to today's internet.

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The Electronic Wireless Show episode 189: the best thing from a game you want in real life

Posted: 02 Jun 2022 08:00 AM PDT

This week on the Electronic Wireless Show podcast we clear up an initial misunderstanding but eventually get in sync and talk about the game things we'd want in real life: health packs, tetris, inventory management. By their powers combined we manage to create an absolutely nightmarish dystopian society where people live forever but cannot put more than four of the same thing in a line. It's bleak. Games should stay in games.

Matthew continues the Wolfe Carlton saga, Nate is making a crayfish into a mini-model, and I have a cold. A regular cold! No funny business. Matthew also does a very hard Cavern Of Lies this week that honestly nearly has us.

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