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Opus Magnum
Opus Magnum, the new game from Zachtronics. One look at the trailer and I can tell that this machine designer is probably not for me, even though I very much enjoyed my time with TIS-100 and Shenzhen I/O. Maybe Opus Magnum is for you. It’s out now on Steam for Windows, macOS, and Linux at $20.
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Campo Santo’s Next Game: In the Valley of Gods
Campo Santo, the developers of Firewatch, announced their next game, In the Valley of Gods. Here is how they describe it: In the Valley of Gods is a single-player first-person adventure. Explore a remote and ancient valley in the Egyptian desert, uncovering treasure and treachery in pursuit of a discovery that could bring you fame…
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The 2017 iMac Pro
Lost during my recent travel was Apple’s release of the iMac Pro, the “pro” version of the iMac that was announced at WWDC. The iMac Pro gets you higher performance and what may be many features of the promised-but-yet-to-be-updated-since-2013 Mac Pro, but with a glued-on high-resolution (5120×2880 P3 color gamut) screen and absolutely zero upgradability of internal components. For…
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ScummVM Project Hits 2.0
There is a large volunteer workforce on the internet that keeps their favorite games alive. You might know that I’ve been working on the ioquake3 engine for the past 12 years to keep people playing Quake 3 and help the other games and mods that use that engine stay alive. ScummVM has been in development…
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Battlegrounds 1.0 for Windows on the 20th; Xbox Game Preview PUBG Is Crap
The good news first, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds will exit Steam’s Early Access program in four days on the 20th (or 21st depending on your time zone) of December. The 1.0 release will have the new desert map, Miramar, among many other changes. The Xbox One version of Battlegrounds is also out on that platform’s Game Preview…