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If you’ve ever watched an episode of Looney Tunes, you can probably imagine what you’re about to see. The careful consideration of each shot this player makes is what really gets me here. They spend so long looking for the specific planks to shoot out - they move around, take another shot, have a little reload, then just stare at the safe as it plummets towards their head. Some players are successfully using these new ground-breaking mechanics, however....

Essays On Empathy includes ten games in total, some of which you may have seen pop up around these parts before as free games on Itch. There’s Eternal Home Floristry about a hitman convalescing in a flower shop, 11.45 A Vivid Life about a girl who discovers her skeleton isn’t hers, the cyberpunk detective game Supercontinent Ltd, and more. Their new story, De Tres Al Cuarto, is the one about two comedians Garza and Bonachera....

On this page: Where to find all story weapons All Extra Content weapons Do be sure to give the video above a watch if you want a handy walkthrough on how to find all the story weapons. Resident Evil Village weapons: all story weapon locations Almost all of these weapons are up for grabs during your first campaign playthrough. Almost all of them can be found, while the V61 and SYG shotgun must be purchased from the Shopkeeper....

This deck is a weird one, and pretty tough to pilot. Depending on the matchup, you’ll play the game very differently. Against aggro, you just need to survive the initial onslaught, whereas when playing a control opponent, especially a mirror match, you want to save as much value as humanly possible. Of course, the main thrust of this deck relies on you bringing back your minions from the dead, much in the same vein as Big Priest, Wild format’s most hated deck....

Social simulation wasn’t an entirely new genre, and indeed Wright drew inspiration from 1985’s Little Computer People (alternatively known as House-On-A-Disk). This Activision title was reasonably well-received in its day, but largely dismissed as a low-challenge educational game suitable only for young children. LCP also doesn’t seem to have met sales expectations, judging by the fact that a series of planned add-on expansions never ended up getting made. After Little Computer People fizzled, there seemed to be little appetite among developers for returning to the “virtual dollhouse” genre, and Wright’s higher-ups at Maxis were unsure whether the idea was worthy of investment when he first pitched The Sims to them in the early ’90s....

Later this month, on October 22 is the 20th anniversary of GTA 3, the first of Rockstar’s crime ’em up series to unleash players in three whole dimensions on Liberty City. “In addition to carving a new path for the open world genre, Grand Theft Auto III established Grand Theft Auto as a cultural phenomenon, alongside its two subsequent — and equally legendary — entries in the series, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas,” Rockstar say in today’s announcement....

So, Ollie, Liam, and I strapped on our skates and jumped into a few games to see how it’s getting on. Ollie had some experience with the game before, while Liam and I went in totally blind. We all emerged from our play sesh glowing with praise albeit with a tinge of worry. Would it get any traction, or quickly succumb to the cheery sports game curse? Ed: Alright, I think we’re all agreed that Roller Champions has strong Knockout City and Destruction AllStars energy....

Deep Silver previously warned fans that there wouldn’t be a Saints Row announcement at E3 this summer. I figured perhaps that meant we were in for a longer wait but hey, not so. Volition are using the Saints Row website to host a handy little teaser: graffiti on a brick wall that reads “Rebooting”. In case that isn’t clear enough, games man Geoff Keighley lets on that whatever Deep Silver and Volition are announcing will be showing up at Gamescom Opening Night Live next week....

CJ joins us as a relatively fresh face in the world of video game journalism, but he’s been writing for a bunch of different publications for absolutely yonks. He first cut his teeth as a freelancer for Den Of Geek, writing about comics, films, TV and games for a few years before joining Steam Railway Magazine as a staff writer in 2014. He then went on to do weekend production work over at Kotaku UK and Gizmodo UK before they ascended to the great HTML bin in the sky in 2020, where he localised each site’s posts for UK readers while also writing his own news stories at the same time....

I say re-announce because Flashback 2 was was first touted back in 2021. I know, I totally missed it too. Oh well. Graham rightly pointed out at the time that this isn’t even the first sequel to Flashback: that was 1995’s Fade To Black. We didn’t get to see a lot of the new Flashback 2 tonight, but it looks like it’s been suitably pizazzed up for a 21st century audience....

Yes, I said Pong. Our first game’s no looker in the traditional sense, but it’s one hell of a neat concept. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings — Stuffed Wombat (@wombatstuff) August 1, 2020 Qomp asks what happens to the Pong ball after it goes off-screen, and immediately answers with “a dungeon crawler, of course”. While there’s a novel challenge in navigating labyrinths as a manifestation of the bouncing DVD logo, it’s when the game suddenly becomes Snake that the doors are bashed wide open....

Ashen Winds was supposed to drop this week on July 22nd, but due to “technical issues” it was pushed back. This followed some pretty rough server problems the game had over the weekend, which resulted in loads of players not receiving any gold, reputation or progress for their pirating. Unfortunately, for anyone who played between July 15th and July 21st, those rewards can’t be recovered at all. To make up for it, Rare are giving everyone who played during that time 60,000 gold and 200 doubloons....

Here’s the latest trailer, filling in the story so far: Aiko’s Choice is set before the events that round out the base game, and features three new missions and three playable interludes. You can still play the main missions with all five of the original game’s cast, as they coordinate their sneaking and stabbing across Edo era Japan. In Matthew’s preview, he said that the DLC felt like it had some of the chattiness of developer Mimimi’s Desperados 3, and that it otherwise felt like more Shadow Tactics, an already great game....

“In Evergreen Harbor, every action you take and decision you make influences the state of the world around you,” say EA about the expansion’s new neighborhood. “Produce your own electricity and water with solar panels, wind turbines, and dew collectors, or grow your own food in a new vertical garden to really control your impact on the world.” You’ll be able to take up a new job as a “maker” by scrounging for stuff to turn into furniture and clothes or become a “freelance crafter” and sell creations in your online store....

The game’s story opens with a bang as Dr. Eggman gets sucked into this portal which traps him in Cyberspace (some AI-controlled realm), while Sonic and his pals also suffer the same fate (to some extent). There are also these smiley rock things called Kocos that seem to be remnants of an ancient civilisation that underwent some form of apocalyptic collapse. You got all that down? Good, okay. So anyway, it’s your job as Sonic to like, free your pals and help these rock people and stop Dr....

Wednesday’s patch notes don’t get into detail, because it’s for you to find out, buster: The patch tweaked a few other level issues too: Beyond levels, you’ll also find fewer problems with dice bouncing wildly, a few wee performance optimisations, explosive stuff getting a few grace frames of invulnerability on creation so they can’t immediately burst (“prevents rare hoverpacks spawned from mosquitoes from immediately being blown up, for example,” the notes note), and other tweaks and fixes....

Exploration is mandatory in Cantata, both due to the size of the maps, but also to find the best way to your opponent. But it’s never that easy, is it? Cantata takes place on a bizarre planet called Shoal, and between turns it can damage you as well, through random conditions like weather or aggressive fauna. The Cantata website says “every map that you’ll play in the game will be made with the game’s level editor,” which is a feature I love the sound of....

Set in the same world as 1995’s Chrono Trigger, the JRPG not-a-sequel is about a fella named Serge who falls into an alternate dimension where he had died as a child then gets caught up in all manner of body-switching, world-saving shenanigans with turn-based battles. I hear it’s good? I hear middled-aged people pine for it, anyway. If you want, you can turn off the Radical Dreamer Edition’s new 3D models, illustrations, font, and background filter to see it the old way—though they can only be turned off all together, not individually....

There was no announcement from the solo dev to shout the good news from the rooftops, not even a cinematic trailer or overenthusiastic Tweet. It’s simply mentioned in the end of a paragraph on Stardew’s press page. We don’t know exactly how long that 10 million figure has been floating about, as there isn’t a date on the page - but it’s a stellar achievement nonetheless, and absolutely one worth celebrating....

Admittedly, what little I know about “the gem state” comes from a 15-second glance at its Wikipedia page and a handful of Noah Gervais travelogues. I do know that Craters Of The Moon National Park looks lovely, mind, and I’m glad to see the volcanic hellscape made the jump into SCS’s facsimile. From Boise to Ketchum, today’s DLC adds 11 towns and cities from across the state - knitted together with 3,300 miles of highways, roads and trails to tear down in your 18-wheeler....