Home • PC Game News • 22 Alice O'Connor News Editor 4th December 2019 / 3:49PM Have you ever looked at your computer table with its keyboard, mouse, monitor, gamepad, and mousemat and thought “These are some nice lumps of gaming plastic, but what if I had dozens more and they were tiny?” For you, reader dear, our corporate family at Gamer Network today formally launched Dicebreaker, a new site and YouTube channel dedicated to covering tables in slabs of cardboard, sheets of paper, dice, counters, and wee plastic people. Apparently they use these to play board games, RPGs, card games, and that? It’s like they’ve never heard of Tabletop Simulator. Led by editor-in-chief Matt Jarvis, the Dicebreaker gang includes Johnny Chiodini, Alex Meehan, Michael Whelan, Sara Elsam, and Alex Lolies. You might know some of them from other Gamer Network sites or around the Internet. They’ve been warming up for a few months with YouTube videos … [Read more...] about Dicebreaker is a new tabletop gaming site from our corporate siblings
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That hiking game from Peter Molyneux is coming to PC
Home • PC Game News • 52 Brendan Caldwell List Goblin 13th July 2017 / 7:29PM What’s the auld rascal up to now? The Trail: Frontier Challenge [official site] is a multiplayer hiking game by 22Cans, the studio headed by Peter Molyneux and responsible for the troubled and still-in-early-access civilisation builder Godus. It’s been out on iGizmos for some time, but now it’s coming to Steam, say the developers. I haven’t been keeping track of it but let’s look at this trailer. Oh, it’s a walking simulator. But, er, not like that.So it’s sort of a walking game but also sometimes a racing game but also an inventory management thingy but also there’s crafting and fashion and town building and other players and shooting pigs with slingshots. In other words, I have no idea how to classify it apart from to say it sure looks like a game you play on iPad. But here’s what some of the blurb says: Join pioneers from … [Read more...] about That hiking game from Peter Molyneux is coming to PC
Ubisoft buy Brawlhalla makers Blue Mammoth Games
Home • PC Game News • Brawlhalla • 4 Alice O'Connor News Editor 2nd March 2018 / 12:11PM Ubisoft today announced they have bought Blue Mammoth Games, the American studio who make free-to-play platform fighter Brawlhalla. Ubi seem chuffed about now owning Brawlhalla–as they should be, because it’s a popular little Super Smash Bros. ’em up with a gentle F2P model–and also gab about happily scooping up the team with all their experience. Blue Mammoth say they will continue to run and expand Brawlhalla under Ubi, and that they had instigated the sale by searching for a company who could help them grow further.”So, what does this mean for Brawlhalla? Only good things,” Blue Mammoth co-founder Matt “Matterhorn” Woomer wrote in a blog post today. “Blue Mammoth will continue to run the game just as we always have. The studio will grow (slowly, we don’t want to mess up the good thing we have here … [Read more...] about Ubisoft buy Brawlhalla makers Blue Mammoth Games
Fallout 76 is a multiplayer “softcore survival” game
Home • PC Game News • Fallout 76 • 70 Alice O'Connor News Editor 11th June 2018 / 4:07AM Well then! The rumours were true: Fallout 76 is indeed a multiplayer game, one described by Bethesda’s Todd Howard as “softcore survival”. Huh. Weird. The online sandbox will send Vault dwellers out to rebuild America, 25 years after the nuclear apocalypse, and all these dwellers will be other players. Howard said that folks will be able to play solo, questing on their tod, but the focus is clearly on teaming up with other survivors to build bases, murder monsters, and fight for control of nuclear missile silos. It will launch on November 14th but, for now, he’s the E3 deet-o-rama.Fallout 76 is an online survival sandbox, then. Howard explained that the world is four times the size of Fallout 4, though each instance will have only a few dozen players. The slice of West Virginia spans a number of biomes, as survival games will, each with … [Read more...] about Fallout 76 is a multiplayer “softcore survival” game
Obsidian’s Pathfinder card game coming to PC
Home • PC Game News • Pathfinder Adventures • 15 Alice O'Connor News Editor 1st June 2017 / 11:36AM Obsidian Entertainment, the makers of Alpha Protocol and Pillars of Eternity, have announced they’re bringing Pathfinder Adventures [official site] to PC on June 15th. Pathfinder Adventures is a card-driven RPG they released for pocket telephones in 2016, which is an adaptation of the physical Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, which is itself based on the Pathfinder pen & paper RPG. In short: Pathfinder Adventures has cards and dice and you get to fight goblins. Paths are being found all over these days, as both an MMO and a singleplayer RPG are in development too.Pathfinder Adventures is a deck-building RPG, with gear and spells on whatnot being cards you build into a deck. Then off you trot out on adventures, rolling a few dice on the way. For a more technical look at it all, here, this vid shows Obsidian folks playing through the tutorial … [Read more...] about Obsidian’s Pathfinder card game coming to PC