Rock, Paper, Shotgun

I don’t have any particular Proun news to share with you, but nonetheless felt compelled to post about it again. Sometimes, we RPSers are off playing different games and are too distracted to all flock around delightful surprises en masse, like poorly-shaven moths to an indie flame. And so it was with Proun, with the boy Quinns sent front and centre to happily announce this beautiful abstract racing game’s release while the rest of us stayed quiet and fiddled with our watches or something.

Until now!
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Michael Molinari’s browser game But That Was [Yesterday] brought an actual tear to my eye, an act not incomparable to summoning a squirt of lemon juice from a pebble, so I’m pretty excited to have just found out what he’s working on next (via the Indiegames blog, of course). It’s a project titled Basketbelle, a game of flashbacks and “good old 1-on-1 backyard basketball action” that “does not have [brackets] around its title”. You can watch the debut trailer below. If you can get past… ME!

C’mon, small fry! Whaddya got! Huh! Watch out!
Here you go!

The hype-train for Bioware’s upcoming MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic is trundling along nicely now. All aboard! Next stop: a two minute trailer walking you through what looks like one of the game’s instanced missions. Population: The Internet. If you wanted to get off at Tatooine, you’ve missed your stop, but I can let you off here.
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Ripten‘s only gone and harvested a entire picnic of Hitman: Absolution details from the latest issue of Edge, including the following bombshell- “47′s voice actor will not be returning.”

An era is over, my friends. A weird era, but one that did, at least, perfectly capture the voice of a psychotic man raised in a jar. 47′s agent and only friend, Diana, is being played be someone else too- Lost’s Marsha Thomason, aka Naomi Dorrit from Lost. But there’s lots, lots more after the jump.
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Boo. Boo! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. We’ll have to wait a little longer to go adventuring in Minecraft, for the absurdly-anticipated patch that adds more ‘game’ to the, uh, game has been delayed. Well, sort of. Minecraft 1.7 is still due very soon, but the Adventure Update has been pushed to version 1.8, which will “take quite some time to finish.” Aargh!

It’s not all bad news though – in the meantime, we’re getting pistons added to the game hopefully any day now.
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I KEEP saying I’ll do this regularly, but something about numbered lists makes me curl into a tiny ball and weep for mother. Anyway, let’s do it this week and maybe I’ll be a better boy again next week. Here’s the top ten best-selling released PC games on Steam last week, in comparison to the top 10 at UK retail. As always, there are some verrrry interesting variations, which have much to say about both Steam and retail’s own peccadilloes…
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The critically acclaimed Uncharted games may have never made it to our fair platform, but I have some good news! Saudi Arabian studio Semphore has just announced Unearthed: Trail of Ibn Battuta (following modern trends, I can only hope the sequel will be Unearthed: Trail of Ibn Ba2ta), a 3rd person action game that sees you picking up the trail of famous Muslim explorer Hajji Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta. Debut trailer and in-game footage await you in the dusty crypts below.
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CCP hasn’t been making Eve players terribly happy of late, first by introducing microtransaction vanity items broadly perceived as being about as affordable as Ferrero Rocher made of real gold, then by suffering a leak of an internal discussion about how to make even more from microtransactoins, and most recently by a blog from their senior producer which tried to wave away these issues with some rather peculiar arguments. In the wake of a fan uproar, they’ve now held up their hands and admitted to making a bit of a boo-boo.
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