Half Lifey survival game Abiotic Factor is out now in early access

Here’s the launch trailer. The developers plan to release the 1.0 version this winter, with a “chilling final chapter”. Abiotic Factor is currently20% off on Steam. Not really up for another survival sim, but newly afflicted with Half Life nostalgia? You might prefer to read Jeremy’sinterview with former Valve writer Marc Laidlaw about designing and writing Black Mesa.

May 2, 2024 · 1 min · 58 words · Stephen Mathis

Helldivers 2's next premium warbond arrives next week with new weapons, armour and winter weather capes

I’m so far unconvinced by the need to pay real money to unlock a premium warbond, therefore. Never have I ever. If the name didn’t make it obvious, the Polar Patriots warbond is focused around frosty weather gear. This high calibre assault rifle has awesome stopping power but limited magazine size, so make each shot count. Unpatriotic banter shots are not advisable. Good things come to Helldivers who wait. Let them charge at you....

May 2, 2024 · 1 min · 208 words · Isaiah Delacruz

A Fallout 76 theatre troupe is putting on Richard III, with a ghoul king inspired by the Fallout TV show

This production will likely be more faithful to the bard than to Amazon Prime. It will open with the line: “Now is the nuclear winter of our discontent.” “Just imagine a post-apocalyptic ghoulified Laurence Olivier that’s what we’re going for. " But the director says there have been mercifully few problems, at least with the human observers. “The Fallout 76 community is notoriously nice,” he told us. “One of our rehearsals was nuked though,” he added....

May 1, 2024 · 1 min · 110 words · Sharon Terry

Call of Duty 2024 and Gears 6 to get June reveal alongside Avowed and Indiana Jones release dates, claims report

Asrumoured in April, they’re also apparently going to show off a new Gears Of War game. Nice to see the COG and Locust still getting work. All the ingredients for a classic Xbox Xmas, there: planes, whips and fireballs. A new Gears game, eh? By gar, it’s been a while. Who knows what The Coalition are doing with it right now? Even fancier dynamic weather? Expanded open worldy bits? Locusts with wasps coming out of their mouths?...

May 1, 2024 · 1 min · 131 words · Heidi Richardson

Catholic Priest AI chatbot is defrocked within a week after taking confession and okaying Gatorade baptisms

I find this, as you may have guessed, pretty funny. Microsoft is investigating its ChatGPT-powered AI Copilot for telling peopleit didn’t care if they died. I don’t know what AI base Fr. Though, as Futurism noted, “Father Justin was also a hardliner on social and sexual issues. It’s okay to masturbate, reader.

May 1, 2024 · 1 min · 52 words · John Park

D&D makers are spending $1 billion on their own video games, promising they’ll be ‘quality and authentic’ like Baldur’s Gate 3

Over a billion dollars of their own money, in fact. And the players came. They loved it and are asking for more. And I think you’re free to see that with other brands as well. The appetite is there if we’re authentic, and we’re focused on quality. Thefull GI interviewis well worth a read.

May 1, 2024 · 1 min · 54 words · Steven Sims

Deep Rock Galactic Season 5 has you plunge to new depths with "Drillevators"

And the show and tell is set in a dingy mine. And there are multiple pints involved. They’re encased in Morkite Geodes, found “deeper within Hoxxes”. To get back up? You’ll pop on Mark II Jet Boots and hoof it. As for that new season event, it involves mysterious Core Stones. They’re purple and glowy, which suggests that extracting them will involve something bad happening. All we can say for sure right now is that this is almost certainly the case....

May 1, 2024 · 1 min · 163 words · Nicholas Jackson

Deus Ex creator Warren Spector has “literally dumpster dived” to help with game preservation

That material is also in the Center. Spector goes on to link a list of other organisations aiding effortswith their own archives. Research centers around the world deal with control of information issues every day and there are solutions in place.

May 1, 2024 · 1 min · 41 words · Rebecca Alvarado

Funko Pop's co-op shooter lets you blast the heads off dead-eyed dolls from Hot Fuzz, Battlestar Galactica and more this September

And honestly, while I hate to admit it, it looks… quite fun? Funko Fusion will be out onSteamthis September 13th.

May 1, 2024 · 1 min · 20 words · James Williams

A Difficult Game About Climbing is a difficult game about climbing

What prompts me to loop back and try immediately after each failure is two things. Is it perhapstoo muchlike its inspiration? I think that’s fair, as someone who also wants more of these types of games. It launched back in March and you’ll find it on Steam for 8.50/9.75/$10.

April 30, 2024 · 1 min · 49 words · Michael Williams

Centum is a horror adventure about training up an AI, also featuring a demon catphone

Does the suggestion that everything may be a lie also apply to the suggestion itself? Is this an unreliable Steam page? I do like the looks of Centum. The art is gorgeous - check out that cat… phone… thing. All of which is spoiled a little by the marketing language, admittedly. Let the images speak for themselves! They’re plenty enigmatic enough! you’ve got the option to always fill up the Steam page with weirdo lore in Cthulhu font....

April 30, 2024 · 1 min · 156 words · Karen Kim

Deliver Us Mars developers lay off all staff but plan to 'rebuild brick by brick'

They also say they plan to rebuild the company. “Paul and I are heavily beat, but far from beaten. The statement concludes by saying that they “preparing a Kickstarter soon for our much-anticipated Deliver Us Home.” KeokeN releasedDeliver Us The Moonin 2018 and its sequel Deliver Us Mars last year. It has been a terrible two years in the games industry in general forlayoffs.

April 30, 2024 · 1 min · 64 words · Melissa Johnston

Elder Scrolls and Fallout devs Bethesda want to release games more often, but making them last is more important

“I don’t want to ever stop. I just, you know, it’s too much fun. I have no plans of retiring or anything like that.” There are approximately nine years between the launch dates ofFallout 4andStarfield. Regarding Starfield, he added that “we spent a lot of time updating and developing tech. We also paused for a bit to assist withFallout 76.” In a subsequent tweet, Pagliarulo stressed the importance of giving teams time to cook....

April 30, 2024 · 1 min · 185 words · Kevin Holder