Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel season pass, pre-order Slaughter Pit announced
In case you were worried about running out of loot to hoard in Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, a $30 season pass has been announced for Gearbox and 2K Australia’s upcoming shootout on Pandora’s moon. The pass will last for four additional content packs, which a related press release notes will include...
VR puzzler Darknet teaches players technomancy
E McNeill’s Darknet was the winner in the open call category of the 2013 Oculus Indiecade VR Jam. It’s a strategy-puzzle game designed for Oculus Rift where players explore a virtual reality computer network and use viruses, worms, exploits and other hacker tools to capture sensitive data from what may...
Spry Fox explores the joy of flight in Free-Range Dragons
After challenging players with the uncompromising high-stakes roguelike Road Not Taken, Spry Fox is taking on more lighthearted fare with Free-Range Dragons, an action-oriented game in which players pilot flying dragons across fanciful 2D worlds. There’s a hardcore streak underneath Free-Range Dragons‘ cheery surface, however. Citing inspiration from Capcom’s Monster...
Super Meat Boy Forever trims fat, cooks up ‘huge’ challenge
Super Meat Boy Forever is as much a game as it is a meat grinder. It’s “impossible,” but only in the sense that it’s similar to The Impossible Game, Grip Games’ 2011 auto-running platformer that placed an emphasis on blazing hard difficulty. Super Meat Boy Forever dumps a similar formula...
Pillars of Eternity and the dangers of fantasy pest control
“Streamlined” is a buzzword you hear often when talking to developers about games. “Simplified” is almost as common. The unspoken implication behind these descriptors is that complexity and time-consuming mechanics are a thing of the past. If that’s true, Pillars of Eternity is a time machine. Developed by Obsidian and...
Get back on the hunt: A second Evolve alpha is coming
If an invite to Evolve‘s upcoming closed alpha is your white whale, you’ve got two (constructive) options: Play a round of Evolve at 2K’s PAX Prime booth (Level 4, booths 814 and 1414), or stalk Evolve’s social media channels and the Turtle Rock forums. Hunting game at Prime will earn...
BioWare’s Shadow Realms is 4-on-1, action-RPG mayhem
“We’re focused on delivering the unexpected,” Shadow Realms Senior Producer Dallas Dickinson said during a demonstration event at PAX Prime this weekend. After seeing the game in action, “unexpected” doesn’t even begin to describe the chaos that will soon be unleashed by a developer rooted in deliberately paced single-player RPGs....
Mew-Genics on hold, will return when it’s ‘more coherent’
Mew-Genics is officially on hold, Team Meat’s Tommy Refenes confirmed to Joystiq at PAX Prime in Seattle. The game was first revealed in October 2012, though the Super Meat Boy developer did not fully explain how the genetically-altered cat lady simulator would operate for another four months. The decision to...
Behind-the-scenes video basks in Geometry Wars 3’s glow
We don’t envy Lucid Games – the studio has a passionate fanbase to appease when it launches Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions this fall on Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4 and PC. Fortunately, Lucid houses senior developers from now-defunct series creator Bizarre Creations, and it’s clear that the team has...
PAX10 Humble Flash Bundle discounts the showstoppers
The PAX 10 Humble Flash Bundle is live for five days and offers a lineup of really cool independent games that have been featured at PAX Prime over the years. Up for any price you feel like paying is Badland Premium, Solar 2, Containment: The Zombie Puzzler and Jamestown: Legend...