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4 years ago
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Nothing says “weekend” like an afternoon spent watching a Malcolm in the Middle rerun marathon. It’s genuinely better than I remembered, but that may hold true for anything that has been viewed in order. Between you and me, though, the sitcom is best viewed as a preview to Breaking Bad. So many gas masks. So much angst. So many narrative possibilities. Anyway, pickings remain slim…
Feature: Unloving cup
Massive Chalice is an XCOM-like, fantasy-themed strategy game from Doublefine, divided into turn-based, grid-based squad battles and a real-time base mode in which you build structures and marry nobles to provide a steady stream of new and upgraded soldiers to fight for you, in the hope of surviving a centuries-long siege by plant-like beasts. It left Early Access a few days ago. I'm looking at…
After generations of updates and patches and fixes and tweaks, Double Fine's Massive Chalice [] has left Steam Early Access to become a properly-released game. As Marsh explained when he played the Early Access version last November, it's a turn-based strategy game where you'll need to to build up strong warrior bloodlines across a war lasting hundreds of years.
Anyone else picture a KFC Bargain Bucket whenever you hear the words Massive Chalice [official site]? No? Just me? To be fair, I think about KFC all the time so it's possible there's no causation there. Regardless, I've already planned to sit down with a massive chalice of chicken when I tuck in to the full release of Massive Chalice's turn-based genetic tactics on June 1st.
5 years ago
Feature: A Mug's Game?
Each Monday, Marsh Davies splashes around in the shallow end of the Early Access gene pool and brings back whatever novel splices and/or horrific abominations he can find. This week he crunches chromosomes in fantasy lineage sim and turn-based battler Massive Chalice. Score one for diversity in games: the realm has just been saved by a nearsighted, asthmatic, drunk lady. Marginalised wheezing pissheads rejoice! (Though…
Grim news emerged from Double Fine at the tail-end of the week, when Tim Schafer confirmed to GamesIndustry.biz that the cancellation of an unannounced project has led to layoffs. One of our unannounced projects was unexpectedly cancelled by its publisher, forcing us to reduce our staff by 12 people. Our remaining projects--Broken Age, Massive Chalice, and Grim Fandango Remastered, were unaffected... That's all the information…
I wouldn't pay £17.24 to have a got at a work-in-progress giant cup. A wad of wet clay flapping about on a wheel and the constant risk of a spectral Patrick Swayze? I certainly wouldn't drink out of that. Massive Chalice, however, is something I might consider paying for an early look at. (Do you see what I did there?) Double Fine's lineage-o-turn-based-strategy launched into…
Feature: Big Cup: Some Words
MASSIVE CHALICE (their capitals, not mine) is a Kickstarted strategy-roleplaying game from Psychnoauts, Costume Quest and Broken Age dev Double Fine. (Yes, they do seem to be chucking out a game every other week right now, and not without casualties.) Set in a fantasy kingdom besieged by demonic forces, you must raise and then control a defensive army, ideally sourced from the offspring of your…
6 years ago
Feature: For The Good Of The Realm
In Double Fine's Massive Chalice, heroes follow one of (videogame) life's most well-worn paths: fight demons, fight demons, fight demons. But these heroes age, and their blood slowly ceases its boiling. They grow old and begin to seek out someone else to warm their weary bones. Also, to birth and raise the most powerful combat babies in all the realm because, you know, demons. Still,…
We live in a terrifyingly inconsistent, frequently unpredictable world. Whether it's a walk in the park or the ending to a Game of Thrones season, nothing goes according to plan and usually lots of people die. But there is some solace to be found - a few unflinching bastions of stability in a swirling storm of madness. I guess what I'm trying to say is,…
Double Fine have returned to Kickstarter for Massive Chalice. They explain that Massive Chalice would be what happened "if turn-based tactics and feudal fantasy had a lovechild, and that offspring founded a mighty century-spanning dynasty." As such it's a game of two rather familiar-sounding parts: a strategic part where you - an immortal king battling an invasion of demons - manage your realm, and a…
