Author: Nova Smith
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New Kingmakers trailer looks like Mount & Blade with an M1 Abrams modded in
Kingmakers, a game that’s one part hybrid RTS and another part Earth Defense Force but with Welsh peasants, got a new trailer this week, showing off some impressive physics based destructibility and also tons of peasants getting murdered. The new Kingmakers footage starts off with a relaxing dirt bike ride through the fifteenth-century Welsh countryside…
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Hold fast: Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader is getting its mutinous first expansion
Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader’s first DLC is shoring up on August 8th, themed around a heretical conspiracy turned crisis unfolding on the lower decks that demands not only the Captain’s attention, but the Inquisition’s as well. The under-a-minute trailer gives us a glimpse of our new allies and foes, an Inquisitorial retinue and nascent Genestealer…
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Hand-drawn adventure game comes to Steam after being dropped from Apple Arcade, creator laments the way games ‘can just vanish’ today
Inkblot Obra-Dinn-like adventure game The Collage Atlas originally released as an iOS exclusive in 2020, but when its Apple Arcade contract expired last year, the striking pen and ink game became unplayable. To keep it alive, its creator released a Steam version last month. The architect of this post-modern duotone walking simulator, John Evelyn, began…
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Super Mario 64 gets a Mario Maker-like romhack that runs on original hardware
In terms of longevity, influence, and jaw-dropping community projects, if there’s a console counterpart to Doom, it’s Super Mario 64. Nintendo’s generation-defining platformer and its timeless movement mechanics, adorable aesthetic, and a speedrunning community that occasionally leverages quantum mechanics to get faster clear times have ensured that Mario 64 has always remained relevant. But where…
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A new native port of Majora’s Mask might change how we play N64 games on our PCs
A developer named Wiseguy has released a native port of The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask for PC, bypassing the need for an emulator and unlocking new performance and modding possibilities for the Nintendo classic. On top of that, the new method they developed to do so, “static recompilation,” will make it vastly easier for…
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Cyberpunk 2077’s quest lead says it’s a story ‘about terminal illness,’ and playing it while staring down the barrel of one was the most intense RPG experience I’ve ever had
Even with its shortcomings at launch, I was always strongly affected by Cyberpunk 2077’s portrayal of living on borrowed time. The denial, the bargaining, the pills you’re prescribed that barely seem to do anything: it’s all cut from a very real cloth, one I know well after a half year of preparing for something only…