By John Walker on January 25th, 2013.
Yesterday’s Aliens: Colonial Marines trailer was so bad, even the game’s main writer publicly disowned it. That’s some impressive marketing right there. Yet it seems it just needed one small tweak to become so much better. By swapping the audio, reader UberWaz has created a trailer that shows us an Aliens game we want to play.
By John Walker on January 24th, 2013.
The latest trailer for Aliens: Colonial Marines has the worst – and I mean the worst – voiceover script I have ever heard. So bad, and so badly delivered, I cannot help myself but transcribe it in its entirety, and present it to you in the form of poetry.
By John Walker on January 24th, 2013.
Dead Island Riptide is certainly now more famous for its grotty “special” edition statuette than anything in the game itself. Which might be why we’re now seeing the first ever footage. A dev-narrated video shows the game in pre-alpha, disappointingly on 360.
I’ll never get that. You’ve got a version of your first-person game running in a far higher resolution, with a million billion more graphicsability, and you show the sludgy, tearing, controller-driven Vaseline-fest instead. Madness. Anyway, you can see the not-actually-controversial game running, below.
By John Walker on January 23rd, 2013.
Back in August we spotted Rawbots – a game in which you build your own robot from constituent parts, and then use it to fight other robots. That is a game right there. And now there’s a playable alpha.
By John Walker on January 18th, 2013.
Paradox’s The Showdown Effect now has its own website. Why it hasn’t had its own website since its announcement in March last year is perhaps a pertinent question. But with the side-scrolling cop movie-spoofing/celebrating multiplayer due out on the 5th March, it’s about time it did. And as you might imagine on such an occasion, there’s a new trailer too.
By John Walker on January 17th, 2013.
It’s obvious that RedLynx stopped loving us. We were there for them, day and night, attending to playing their games. But then oh look who should stride in with their long legs and big, muscley arms but Microsoft, flashing their wallets and giant cars. And Trials really became an Xbox thing, leaving us staring at the space where RedLynx used to be, sobbing.
Oh, but who’s this crawling back to us? Microsoft’s big money and tall hats weren’t everything you hoped for, eh? You think you can just waltz back in here, play with our hearts like they’re days old treacle pudding? Yes, quite correct, because Trials Evolution is bloody brilliant.
By John Walker on January 17th, 2013.
If you listen carefully you’ll be able to hear Adam, all the way hidden in darkest Manchester, mumbling to himself about how much he likes Crusader Kings II. Listen now… [mumble mumble awrite ourkid i love crusader kings ii mad for it mumble mumble]. Did you hear it! He’ll be uncontrollable with glee to learn there’s a new trailer for the Republic expansion, as well as two other smaller expansions out now.
By Craig Pearson on January 16th, 2013.
Path Of Exile sounds like something you’d find on a demon’s GPS. “Go straight for 666m, turn right at Pentagram Lane. You have reached your destination, have a horrible existence.” I checked and it’s not on Google Maps, so the real world is safe. It is, of course, a game. An action RPG that people angry at Diablo III and all clicked out at Torchlight 2 have been waiting for. It is also going to be free, which both of those are not. Next week it’ll head into open beta, and to prepare you a new trailer has been released. Are you going to go down the Path Of Exile, or are you going to join me of the Path Of Welcoming Craig With Cake And Bundaberg Ginger Beer?
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By John Walker on January 7th, 2013.
Remember Dreadline? It’s the RPG/RTS from an indie studio – Eerie Canal – including former Freedom Force/BioShock developers. It caught our eye last May, simply by its premise: a group of time travelling monsters who visit key moments of history to, well, kill people. You play as the monsters. This is a Good Idea. In the time since we’ve heard very little, but along with the inevitable Kickstarter, there’s now footage of the game in motion, and it really has met the promise of authentically rendering its distinctive, scratchy drawings.
By John Walker on December 19th, 2012.
“Are you aware of shameless BTDT-rip off Randal’s Monday?” asked Size Five Games’ Dan Marshall. “Promising trailer, looks gorgeous. Deserves some RPS love.” He’s not wrong. While my brain still requires an adjustment period whenever a point and click adventure features text instead of voices, as soon as it’s flipped the switch it’s hard to find a happier place for John’s brain, and this trailer takes me there.
By John Walker on December 19th, 2012.
Do you want to see the first five minutes of BioShock: Infinite? I don’t. I want to play them at the time! However, should you be of a more curious mind, or simply incapable of waiting now you know it exists, desperately trying to, but horribly aware that like the beginnings of a sneeze it’s inevitable that you’re going to have to press play eventually, you can watch them in the video below.
