Ether One looks like a peaceful romp through dementia patients’ minds
Ether One seems like a nice, calm exploration game – until it doesn’t. Most of the gameplay takes place in the memories of dementia patients, where skilled Restorers repair broken images and minds. Restoration is a standard task in this technologically advanced world, but it retains the potential to go...
Ghost Recon Online gets a new title, April Steam release
The online-only, free-to-play shooter Ghost Recon Online has ditched its redundant subtitle for something a little more bomb, yo. Ghost Recon: Phantoms will launch on PC via Steam in April, publisher Ubisoft has announced. “With all the changes the game has undergone since its conception, the team felt it deserved...
Rogue Legacy: the descendant of ‘Dark Souls 2D’
Rogue Legacy follows generations of obsessive adventurers as they pit themselves against the monsters that inhabit huge castles. When a hero is inevitably slain, a descendant will rise and try again. What you may not know, however, is that Rogue Legacy itself descended from a canceled game that was cheekily...
Ex-Disney Interactive devs form Shark Punch, reveal The Masterplan
A trio of former Disney Interactive developers founded Shark Punch this year, and their first project, The Masterplan, is a heist game set in the 1970s, due out for PC, Mac and Linux in 2014. The Masterplan has players gather a team and resources to execute “the greatest heist in...
What’s yours is mine: How Monaco made player feedback its own
When players first tried out Monaco, the neon-colored heist game by Pocketwatch Games, their feedback was at odds with some of the game’s fundamental rules. In a talk today at the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco, level designer Andy Nguyen illustrated how the developer listened to players without compromising...
XCOM creator’s Chaos Reborn aiming for spring 2015
Julian Gollop, the creator of the 1994 PC and Amiga strategy game X-COM: UFO Defense, launched a Kickstarter campaign this week for his next trek in the turn-based genre, Chaos Reborn. An update to one of his other classics, Chaos: The Battle of Wizards, Chaos Reborn will have players customizing...
How to throw down in Ace Team’s Abyss Odyssey
Abyss Odyssey, the new side-scrolling brawler from Chilean studio Ace Team, will offer myriad options for beating the hell out of eerie enemies. Rather than just punching bad guys and then watching them disappear as is beat ’em up tradition, you can capture enemies and use them yourself. This short...
Gauntlet reboot needs food badly this summer
Gauntlet, the original co-op dungeon crawler, will return this summer to a home-based arcade near you. Announced only for Steam on PC at this time, the game will also have full support for SteamOS and Steam Machines. Warner Bros. revealed the “completely modernized action RPG” will be part of its...
Capcom reveals Decapre as fifth Ultra Street Fighter 4 newbie
Capcom’s long-teased fifth new character for Ultra Street Fighter 4 is a real doll – one of M. Bison’s Dolls. Decapre is part of the grinning archvillain’s Doll guard, and she’s essentially a physical clone of former Bison Doll and now MI6 operative Cammy. Unlike Cammy, Decapre sports a mask...
Titanfall helps the Xbox One almost double weekly sales in the UK
The Xbox One saw UK week-on-week sales jump by 96 percent alongside the arrival of Titanfall, with the game’s bundle accounting for 70 percent of the hardware shifted. It’s no surprise, then, that EA’s multiplayer shooter went top of the country’s sales charts, despite a valiant effort from Dark Souls...