Pollen—officially P.O.L.L.E.N., but we’ll be sticking with the more conventional styling—is a first-person alt-history sci-fi exploration game that drops players into the middle of a “mysterious, mind-bending situation” on the Saturnian moon of Titan. It’s coming to Steam on April 20, and also to the Oculus Rift as a “near-final VR beta,” and the video above...
Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture has at last been confirmed for PC after a long stint on PS4. We suspected it was on its way: the first hint was Rapture’s appearance in a SteamDB listing—an entry that was updated as time wore on. All but confirming things, a recent AMD Radeon driver update listed Rapture support. Now we have...
NEED TO KNOW What it is: A first-person game in which you’re an astronaut trying to escape from a heavily damaged space station orbiting earth.Expect to pay: $20/£15Developer: Three One ZeroPublisher: 505 GamesReviewed on: Intel i7 x980 3.33 GHz, 9 GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX 960Multiplayer: NoLink: Official Site The first time I reached out and...
Oculus’ Damaged Core is one of a few VR-exclusive FPSs. Jason Rubin Jason Rubin has a big job at Oculus VR: he’s overseeing “over 20” first party Oculus Rift games set for release this year while bringing the culture and processes of game development to a hardware company. Before Oculus, Rubin was briefly president of THQ...
I was tremendously disappointed when The Chinese Room announced that Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, which came out last August, would be exclusive to the PlayStation 4. Say what you will about “walking simulators,” but I thought Dear Esther was a powerful piece of work, and I was looking forward to seeing what the studio...
“Taking someone’s life,” the sword-slinging death merchant Michonne intones at the beginning of the new trailer for The Walking Dead: Michonne, as she stabs one man in the back, another in the eye, and spikes the hand of a third into a table. “That changes you forever.” As a poetic reflection on the dirty business...
NEED TO KNOW What is it? The classic LucasArts point-and-click adventure, remastered.Expect to pay £11/$15Developer Double Fine ProductionsPublisher In-houseReviewed on GeForce GTX 970, Intel i7-5820K, 16GB RAMMultiplayer NoneLink Official site Released in 1993, Day of the Tentacle is widely regarded as the best, and funniest, of LucasArts’ beloved point-and-click adventures. Created by a dream team of...
You enjoyed The Talos Principle and its Road To Gehenna expansion, not least for their surprisingly excellent stories. But you’ve felt a bit bereft since finishing them: where to get your next fix of by turns philosophical, political, imaginative, and properly funny writing? You have played The Sea Will Claim Everything, right? The standout entry in the all-encompassing...
I played The Descendant this week, the first episode of an adventure game series made by Swedish developer Gaming Corps. It’s got a bit in common with Fallout—it takes place post-apocalypse and involves survivors locked inside into subterranean vaults—but borrows a chunk of design from Telltale adventure games. After global climate change leads to a world war over the planet’s remaining resources,...
need to know What is it? A surreal point-and-click adventure about a tiny gnome who discovers a magic horn. In space. Reviewed on: Intel Core i5-6600, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GTX 960, Windows 7 Price: $20 / £15 Release date: Out nowPublisher: Amanita Design Developer: Amanita Design Multiplayer: None Link: Official website I’m standing in front of a giant moth. It would...
