When you conquer a tough challenge in a videogame, who do you tell first? Maybe you message a friend who is playing the same game to do a bit of gloating, perhaps post on a subreddit or Discord channel in hopes of some celebratory emojis for your accomplishment, or maybe you just boast proudly about it on social media.If you're Wout van Halderen, communications director at Balatro's publisher, Playstack, you've...
2023's Lunacid is one of my favorite indies, dungeon crawlers, and just games, period of the last few years. It's a first person RPG taking after FromSoftware's King's Field series, set in an unforgettable subterranean world festooned with secrets. Creator Kira LLC has just released their next project, a follow-up to Lunacid, but there are more than a few twists to it.Lunacid: Tears of the Moon is a prequel set...
There's a web tool that estimates the value of your Steam account by looking at all the games you own, but it can't tell you how precisely much you've actually spent on Valve's wallet-plundering platform, microtransactions and all.That potentially startling number is buried in Steam's help menus.The relevant Steam help page was pointed out recently on Reddit by user trotski94. You can find it in the Steam client by navigating...
Disney’s 1994 animated classic, The Lion King, is a gorgeous, heartrending movie with a soaring soundtrack. It has one of the most devastating deaths in kids’ movie history, a compelling story about rising up to take responsibility, and a heartfelt love story. And it also has fart jokes. Those fart jokes are mostly centered around Pumbaa, the bumbling warthog who makes up one half of the movie’s comedic duo. The...
The Gallery is a room in Blue Prince with four paintings without titles. It’s a pretty rare draft — I didn’t even get it until after reaching both the Antechamber and Room 46. Inside, you’ll have to name the four paintings to unlock the two chests. And it will get you access to the elusive Room 8. Our Blue Prince guide will show you how to solve the Gallery painting...
Room 8 is a room in Blue Prince that you can only unlock with Key 8 on rank 8. You’ll find that key by solving the Gallery puzzle(s). In Room 8, you’ll have to puzzle out clues on eight animal statues and place them in eight bins labeled with sins. Our Blue Prince guide will show you how to solve the Room 8 puzzle and tell you what you get...
Last February, Inu-Oh director Masaaki Yuasa announced the launch of ame pippin, a new Tokyo-based animation studio in collaboration with Asmik Ace, Aniplex, and CoMix Wave Films. There was no word then as to what Yuasa’s next project would be. That is, until now. On Monday, Yuasa announced that he would direct Daisy’s Life, a Japanese-French co-production with Miyu Productions (Ghost Cat Anzu) based on Banana Yoshimoto’s novel Hinagiku no...
Today, we got a small look at Overwatch 2's upcoming Stadium mode. While only a few minutes long, the gameplay trailer has a ton of stuff packed into it, including a snapshot of some unique hero abilities and how teams will have to band together to be competitive in this new mode.Stadium is a new third-person mode (but you can pick first-person if you want) that Blizzard announced a couple...
This is a judgement-free zone for those of us who suck at Blue Prince, the hit puzzle game about exploring a weird mansion. Critics and puzzle fans say it might be one of the best games this year, which is surprising because it makes you do math. And it’s not even just regular math; it’s math with made-up rules. But I’m here to tell you that there’s no shame in...
Hello fellow precision platform junkies! I’m Juhana, the Creative Director of Bionic Bay – my most ambitious project yet. Bionic Bay is a precision-puzzle platformer set in an ancient bio-mechanical world, hand-crafted pixel by pixel to create a high-fidelity, atmospheric environment. Bionic Bay started as a chance meeting between me (Mureena) and Psychoflow studio, on a Reddit post showcasing their swap mechanic. We soon began to collaborate, merging their technical...