My car now The Horsemen of the Apocalypse are War, Famine, Death and Pestilence. The Drivers of the Apocalypse are Grappling Hooks, Vehicle Swapping, Boss Battles and Upgrades. This makes it sound like a bossrush format, which I approve of. Mad Max-inspired games should be all crescendo. I don’t want to death-race against a bunch of low-level mooks on barbed-wire tricycles. There’s a plot, unbelievably. “You step into the shoes of Artemis, a junior mercenary working for Thunder Strike Force....

(And in the game.) Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream looks like a worthy candidate. Announced last year, there’s now a new trailer showing the isometric (isometrish?) narrative stealth in action. That seems to be where the similarities end, mind. The camera is positioned on high, giving you a birds-eye view of your sneaking, for a start. Eriksholm is also a fictional city, albeit inspired by Nordic-inspired cities of the 1900s. Maybe a bit of Dunwall-style worldbuilding, with yer Plague Tale family dynamics and Mimimi body-hiding?...

And on the world front, it’s rather nice eh? It blends handmade dioramas with CG, which gives exploration quite the striking aesthetic. you could find the game over onSteam.

It is, of course, very punk of me to recognise this. Lets see if its making the most of it, at least. Abyssus comes from the delightfully-named DoubleMoose (perhaps a distant relative of thetriple donkey? ), whove previously done goofy sandboxJust Die Already. Heres some featurepunk from the pagepunk on Steampunk.

Your strike cruiser is your mobile base, where youll equip and upgrade your squads. Maps are procedurally generated. I’ve not played Battle Brothers, but this gives me Battletech vibes. Again, its out in 2025.

Well, let me introduce you toA Difficult Game About Driving, a difficult game about driving. There’s a demo out now and let me tell you, it’s awfully good. A parachute will engage, but the likelihood is you’ll float right back to where you started. The game understands that to mess with drivers, it must tap into everyone’s desire to go fast. Or you might transition from tree branches to a race track, with the game suddenly timing your effort....

“Best-in-class performance-per-dollar”, no less, according to themarketing bumf. Or, as we would have said in 2016 or so, a price. It will probably cost more than $219.

Miyazaki isn’t directing all of them TheElden Ringseries will live on, but Elden Ring 2? That’s slightly more in doubt. It’s also in Japanese. Miyazaki himself seems to be game director for at least one of these projects. While the details vary, that particular thematic arc is arguably the heart of every Souls game. Then again, I’ve never found Armored Core plots very exciting. I might end up writing a fusty longread on the subject....

Also: colour customisation! After spending a few hours with a beefier build, Im inclined to agree. He said “guest experience”, anyway. I prefer to think of it as a nefarious act of profit-driven puppeteering. “It’s a lot less room-based compared to Hospital and Campus,” says design director Ben Huskins. There are other advantages to having this sort of control over foot traffic, too, Finlay-Maxwell says. Like several of Museums new features, the inspiration here came from the series modding community....

Oh hey,thats on sale as well.

I for one welcome our new socialist overlords. It’s high time we sceptre-kissing Brits learned the importance of a properly joined-up sewage system. Looking at you, Thames Water. Here’s a trailer. Its complex models and processes built for the joy and satisfaction of watching them come together. Its foundations in Slovak history and experience, and its refusal to be like anything else." Sort of feels like the logical endgame here is togo to space....

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