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Feature: Blew our minds
An ode to the cyberpunk David Bowie of Omikron: The Nomad Soul
Omikron: The Nomad Soul was one of the first games I remember properly playing. This means it’s inevitably one I remember fondly; it is the reason I hold out hope, every time, that Quantic Dream’s next game won’t be a well realised but absolutely complete disaster. Incidentally, you can get it in the current Steam sale for like a quid. I replayed it to get…
Feature: Bowie's in space
I feel the spirit of the 20th century just died. Or, at least, the part of it that was the Western world in recovery, able to breathe and discover itself now the darkest of times was behind it. Celebration and change and fragility all at once. The euphoric songs were always brittle too. The descents into darkness always wove in musical ascents out of it.
The god of pop passed away at the weekend, and it's hit many of us harder than we would have expected. I've been listening to nothing but Bowie all week - Station To Station remains his best LP, since you ask - but another, stranger way to play tribute would be to play 1999's Omikron: The Nomad Soul, the David Cage (I know, I know)…
Back before Quantic Dream's David Cage was thoughtlessly proclaiming that only his barely-interactive exercises in ropey story-telling could save the world, he was busily being absolutely, 110% mad as a box of polecats and making gloriously cracked games about parallel worlds and David Bowie. There are a million and one things wrong with Omikron: The Nomad Soul, but its unflinching dedication to doing everything ever,…
Just in time for Space Week Jason Ford, Mission Designer for Tabula Rasa talks about a Mission in Tabula Rasa. Who'd have thunk it? Thanks Gametrailers! You'll be first pick for our high-level raid party. It's actually an updated mission in a forthcoming update. It includes AI becoming self-aware and - as everyone knows - that's rarely a good thing for more carbon-based Self-aware things.…
