Completely satisfied new yr all. What is the climate like the place you’re? We have Amber and Yellow warnings in London – I don’t perceive what these phrases imply, however I’ll add a Sapphire warning for escalating Maw exercise. The creature was fairly full of life over the Xmas weekend, however Graham managed to assuage it with posts about gaming-related new yr resolutions and, of all issues, the Spike Video Recreation Awards. We are able to count on the Maw’s petulance to mount throughout January, a lean month for bulletins and revelations, however there are a couple of tasty morsels within the offing – a brand new Prince of Persia and Tekken 8, as an example. Fingers crossed we will construct up some sort of momentum.
Some new sport releases we’re pointing our telescopes at this week: Skeleton Revolt (4th Jan), a scrappy offbeat RPG with claymation components during which you’re a skeleton making an attempt to overthrow some mages, and The Night time Is Gray (fifth Jan), a point-and-click journey a few beardy bloke and just a little woman caught within the woods with some weirdo wolves. Should you like, it’s also possible to play a free ingesting sport I’ve simply invented during which you do a shot for each time I unintentionally write 2023 as an alternative of 2024.
Cruelty Squad developer Shopper Softproducts, actual title Ville Kallio, is making one other non-linear shooter thingy with explosively odd aesthetics – Psycho Patrol R. It is described as “a mecha FPS hybrid policing and punishment simulator set within the decayed state of Pan-Europa. You play as an officer of the European Federal Police, a V-Stalker pilot of Psycho Patrol, a particular unit tasked with fixing psychological crime, amongst different issues.” Feels like A Lot.
Sq. Enix president and consultant director Takashi Kiryu has penned a brand new yr’s letter discussing the corporate’s 2024 ambitions for metaversy stuff, AR/VR, the blockchain and generative instruments in sport improvement. The letter additionally summarises 2023 as “a yr of tumult exemplified by an intensification in geopolitical dangers and sharp inflation stemming partly from financial coverage strikes made by central banks grappling with the pandemic.”
Some morning pick-me-up music.
IT IS MONDAY. Spin up the August Journoplasmic Equipment! High up the hamster’s water bottle! Oh, and FEED THE MAW.
