Category: video games
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Heroes of the Storm’s Great Updates
Kat Bailey has this interview with Blizzard’s lead designer on Heroes of the Storm, Travis McGeathy titled On its Second Anniversary, Heroes of the Storm Has Finally Turned a Corner. It’s a sentiment I completely agree with, and I’ll slightly disclaim my discussion of this game by noting that a good friend works at Activision. When I first…
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Geneshift in Early Access
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOFMNI4Wh88 Everyone loves games with a retro aesthetic. Even if that aesthetic isn’t very authentic, an older art style makes it possible for an indie game developer to communicate their gameplay ideas without spending all of their resources on art. Many games choose a lo-fi art style for that reason, sometimes it’s pixely, Geneshift is…
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Star Trek: Bridge Crew Looks Cool As Heck
https://gfycat.com/RingedDelectableHanumanmonkey In the 90’s I went to Star Trek conventions with other nerds who wanted to look at nerd things and circulate pirated tapes of Red Dwarf. With that context in mind I will now tell you that I am extremely psyched to play Star Trek: Bridge Crew because who hasn’t wanted to be on…
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Dead Cells is a Great Metroidvania
Rogue Legacy was a new style of metroidvania. It reset the castle when your character died, just like Rogue and Nethack, and randomly generated a new castle when you came back to life. Dead Cells has those generated dungeons and also changes out the progression system and combat to be somewhat Souls-like. I love the variety of weapons…
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Block’hood Neighborhood Builder Out
This neighborhood building sim, Block’hood, from Plethora Project and Devolver, looks like it could be good. Just now out of Steam’s Early Access program with a story mode and promises of more to come. If you want to build a neighborhood in a sandbox mode or build and grow old with your boar friend in…