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“Bandcamp is the only place where smaller musical artists make any money. What a miserable situation.” “Ugh, this sucks,“wroteGeorge Williamson, associate audio director at Rockstar. “this is not just “a sad situation” or whatever.” Ryerson added that “without independent art there really is no culture. there is only a hollow hole filled with fascism and personality cults”. For their part, Songtradr have justified the layoffs in the usual belt-tightening terms....

After that, Epic will take its 12% cut of revenues. Now on Epic extends to early access titles, too. “Currently 67% of our player base is playing third party games,” he said. “And 50% of them are exclusively playing third party games. Don’t say I never treat you to anything.

Grahamhad a look at Outpath’s free prologue in December. His verdict: “it’s first-personForager, which already mixed idle and survival games, island-buying and all. That’s not a bad thing, given how much time I put into Forager. Or, it is a bad thing, given how much time I put into Forager.” I didn’t play Forager myself. Anyhoo,the Steam link is over here.

Here’s a little look at both of them in action. Let’s start with Bib, the star ofBib Goes Home. I think they’d be off to the races.

For you’re not just choosing from a list of moves and watching them play out onscreen. Even before you begin pummelling them, though, each animal just made me chuckle straight off the bat. It’s all wonderfully animated, even if said animation only consists of a handful of actual frames. Cockroaches, for example, are highly susceptible to Stomp - because of course they are.

You’ll likely need to go reasonably carefully, as striding too close to an enemy will initiate combat. Battles play out on a hexagonal grid with each team at either end. Rather, the main worries I have right now lie elsewhere. And that’s just the Fossorians.

It is a delicious game, a hearty stew. A tasty one-more-go-er, perfectly suited to serving up in these dreary autumn months. Before that, the basics. You play a posse of spacefolk stranded on a monolithic space station, titanic both in size and wreckishness. A familiar loop, but the dungeon’s in the detail. But if you missed that, just imagine escorting the mulebot fromDeep Rock Galacticthrough a sci-fiHades. Like Hades it is, at times, a “busy” game....

So too doesBillie Bust Up, an upcoming 3Dplatformerthats just as much of a Disney-style cartoon musical. Something he’s all too happy to help with, and sing about. Structurally, the following sequence (and meat of the demo) is a genre-standard, run-towards-the-camera chase scene. When he ponders dynamite instead, a series of bombs appear to detonate on the beat. Okay, maybe its notentirelyDisney-like. Then again, for a debut indie piece, theres clearly a tonne of attention to detail going in....

Primarily, I was there to drive, and drive hard. Less sadly, this was fun as hell. Or, should you choose, more of those sick sideways flips. This larger-than-life approach extends to the vehicular combat.

It’s truly lovely stuff, and every moment just oozes with style and slick exaggeration. So I’m sorry, Loco Motive. I owe you an apology.

I began by simply getting to grips with how to move my diver around the ocean floor. In fact, the only thing you have to worry about is your diver’s oxygen levels. you’re free to totally wash something that’s already, in itself, liquid, right? That’s what I’m going with and I’m sticking with it, so there. Oxygen isn’t aconstantworry, I’d say. A big relief indeed.

Memoryvania Sometimes, the ability to push over a tree was inside you all along. I also appreciate the little twist on the explore-get item-explore routine. Consider me a cautiously interested bean.

It’s cast a spell on me TheEGXdemo for magic school adventureLeximanwas perhaps only ten minutes long, but that’s all it really needed to confirm that this wordy spell-caster is a riotous delight of a thing that should absolutely be on your radar. Built out of a game jam prototype from 2020, Leximan casts you (sorry) as a would-be wizard who’s struggling to make an impact compared to his more verbally proficient schoolmates....