Time to pencil in another week of sick days and sleepless nights, as the competitors and games for this year's Summer Games Done Quick have been announced, broadcasting from Bloomington, Minneapolis. The charity speedrunning marathon kicks off on 5pm BST on June 23rd, demolishing games at record pace around the clock until June 30th. As with their other summer events, they'll be raising fat sacks…
Clustertruck
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Feature: A first-person truck platformer
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.Clustertruck [official site] is a first-person platformer about leaping across the tops of a pack of moving trucks, like the most ridiculously overblown movie action sequence. But it didn't live up to its premise, for me.
Feature: Trend of an era
As December approaches like a runaway sled and we prepare to say our goodbyes to 2016, it's natural to reflect on the year as a whole. Those reflections could easily take the form of laments but we're keeping our focus firmly on the world of PC games, where we've identified ten trends that may not have defined 2016, but have certainly helped to shape it.…
Leaping across the backs of a convoy of trucks as they crash, flip, jack-knife, and explode sounds a right lark. That's Clustertruck [official site], a timetrialling first-person platformer which launched today. Correction: that's the early levels of Clustertruck. Then it'll introduce static obstacles, then swinging hammers, lasers, plummeting... it gets messy. Look, I need to finish this news post before I'm allowed to clock off…
Clustertruck is a first-person platformer about leaping across the backs of a convoy of perpetually-crashing trucks while dodging traps, and yet we've not posted about it before? That doesn't seem right. Maybe someone forget to tag the post properly. And mention the game's name. And say anything about trucks. Or the post must have said something so libellous that we agreed not only to delete…