We do also get to chatting about our actual favourite companions from other games, though. There are mentions for some old reliables that I bet some of you already knew were going to come up, as well as some surprise entries from new up and comers. We like to keep things fresh here at the Electronic Wireless Show. Just don’t hit your head on all the digressions, or in this week’s Cavern Of Lies, which is a lil’ D&D treat....
PowerWash Simulator gives players a pressure washer to wash things, powerfully. Jobs will send us to clean cars, houses, gardens, playgrounds, and even a Mars rover on Mars. Just select your jet head, point the nozzle, and methodically hose off the dirt. That’s it. And that’s all I want. It’s made by FuturLab, whose last game was tactical TV spin-off Peaky Blinders: Mastermind. Must have felt grubby after all those crimes....
What are the different kinds of infection in Project Zomboid? There are many ways to get ill in Project Zomboid. The Knox Infection is obviously the worst, as it causes zombification, and isn’t curable. Other illnesses that can lead to infection symptoms and make you ill are: Food poisoning (also caused by drinking tainted water) Colds Wound infections If you rest a lot and continue to eat and drink edible substances, food poisoning and colds will pass with time....
Krafton (formerly known as Bluehole) say Unknown Worlds will function as an independent studio, with the same structure and same leadership “to retain its unique creative identity.” They note that along with ongoing support and updates for Subnautica and frozen follow-up Subnautica: Below Zero, UWE are “currently working on a new genre-defining game, which is slated to launch into early access in 2022.” That new game is a mystery. Unknown Worlds have hinted that they were “looking at new genres” but not said what it actually is....
In Afterburn’s adorable train puzzler Railbound, however, two carriages are a cause for celebration. In a game that’s about guiding numbered compartments onto the back of an engine (using a limited number of track tiles to get them there in the right order), two-carriage puzzles offer the perfect amount of cerebral head-scratching. They’ve got a bit more bite than simply guiding a single carriage to its destination, but they’re not so complicated that they’ll repeatedly make you reach for the hint button to help you fill in the gaps....
If you engaged at all with the indie-game sphere in 2022, chances are this introduction rings a bell. Only it’s not a description of last year’s breakaway hit and multi-award winner, BlueTwelve Studio’s Stray, but an older and much more brutal feline saga, Videocult’s grim survival action game Rain World. The thematic overlap of these games, coupled with their contrasting design philosophies, provides an excellent springboard to reassess the latter – one of the most opaque, challenging, and underappreciated titles in recent memory, just in time for the arrival of its first official DLC, Rain World: Downpour....
Starting with the Deathadder V2, Razer’s latest iteration of their classic gaming mouse now comes with even more features than their top-end Deathadder Elite. With the latter currently sold out on Razer’s website, I’d imagine this will be a direct replacement for the Deathadder Elite, especially since it has a faster 20,000 DPI sensor (up from 16,000 DPI) as well as new Razer optical mouse switches, which use infra-red light to register a click, instead of the Elite’s older mechanical ones....
It looks rad as heck and the reveal trailer is below. It’s all cinematic, but fun: A post on the Xbox site explains that the vampires have taken over the town of Redfall, “blocked out the sun, pushed back the tides, and effectively walled off the island from the rest of society.” Everyone who remained is either prey to the vampires, or are human cultists who patrol the streets. You’ll fight both them and the vamps with a squad of up to four players....
Resident Evil Village Beneviento Treasure: How to get the Beneviento Treasure When you’ve escaped the clutches of the Beneviento Mansion, you’ll notice that a treasure symbol will have appeared nearby. It’s not immediately obvious how to access it, even if you’ve done plenty of exploration. Below, I’ll take you through all the steps you need to take to get your hands on this sweet, sweet loot. Where to find the Broken Slab Outside the Beneviento Mansion, you’ll notice that there’s a large headstone which has a chunk missing....
UPDATE: Sorry folks, due to an unexpected technical hitch, we will NOT be going ahead with our key giveaway today. I’ll let you know the new date and time as soon as we have a fix. Apologies for the delay! Original post below: As you may have seen earlier in the week, today’s the day that RPS premium supporters can pick up another free game key to add to their ever-growing Steam libraries....
Get the 2TB Samsung 870 Evo SSD for £197.50 (RRP £242.99) The 870 Evo ranks as one of the very fastest SATA SSDs on the market with read speeds of up to 560MB/s and write speeds of up to 530MB/s - right at the limit of what the SATA interface is capable of. This is matched with excellent random read and write performance from the drive’s TLC NAND memory, resulting in game loading times that are very similar to more expensive NVMe SSD drives and way faster than you’d expect from even the most performant hard drives....
At the same time, Samsung might be taking a risk with the 990 Pro’s pricing: £155 for the 1TB model and £284 for the 2TB model (a 4TB version is also coming next year, price TBC). Compared to the Black SN850 that’s £45 more for 1TB and an eye-widening £100 more for 2TB. It will also have to compete with the handful of relatively budget-friendly PCIe 4.0 drives that have appeared in recent months, like the impressively nimble Crucial P3 and the WD Black SN750 SE....
UploadVR shared their recent play session, showing off a mid-game mission. The setting is fairly typical for the series: blue skies, brown everything else, and Nazis everywhere. Unsurprisingly, sniping is the main feature. There’s no mention of any comfort settings to make things easier for the player, so either they don’t exist, or the player chose to go in hard. That does mean that there’s the fairly typical wobbly aim other rifley games have, which looks like a wasted opportunity to me....
I will never, ever believe that Columbo 64 is anything other than real: I should not laugh so hard at this bullying from the 2022 Game Maker’s Toolkit game jam, which had the theme “Roll of the Dice”, AND YET…! Really, really into this look from a Portland Indie Game Squad game jam stealth game: I very much do not like this in Imperfect, a horror game where you “reveal hidden secrets and lurking enemies with a collection of mystical frames given to you by a mysterious observer....
I admit I wasn’t too drawn by Arcade Paradise’s name at first, but the reveal trailer piqued my interest. I wasn’t an arcade kid myself, but man that oldie telephone ring never fails to catch my ear. That, and the voice message from Ashley’s dad Gerald had me thinking there’s more here than your usual manage ’em up. Apparently that really is Doug Cockle’s voice but man I’d have never guessed so on my own....
It’s a lot of wandering around very dark, dodgy swamps with a lantern. There’s some physics-defying, twisty passageways that could give Ocarina Of Time a run for its money, too. Holmes’ reliable mental connections system from Crimes And Punishments is back, as you might expect, but the creepy blinking eye glyphs and Vecna from Stranger Things vibe is different from the recent games. It’s good to see Watson return to tell Holmes off, though....
I’m being cheeky, but it does pay a passing resemblance to the Hitman series at first glance. As he wanders around Cordona, an island paradise with plenty of crimes just lying around, the form of Hitman can be felt in the island’s wandering AI and Sherlock’s casual strolling among them. But Sherlock’s there to reverse engineer all the clever criminality, so the function is very different. The disguises are serious business....
This is exactly the sort of pick-me-up I needed at the start of a pretty dreary new year. Slay The Spire was my gateway into deckbuilders, and I’m absolutely delighted it’s branching out into the world of board games. Slay The Spire: The Board Game is being made by Contention Games (who also made the tabletop deckbuilder Imperium: The Contention), and they’re launching a Kickstarter for it this spring. Details are light so far, but Contention’s website says the STS board game will be for one to four players, take 45 minutes to play per player, and will be a “cooperative deck-building adventure”....
The goal of Slipways is to create a prosperous, star-spanning galactic civilisation by linking up networks of planets so that each has access to the resources it needs to first survive, then thrive. The spice must flow, as they say, but the spice planet needs miners, and the miner planet needs cornish pasties. Ah! The pasty factory world runs on spice. Perfect, because now you can link up the final cog in your self-sustaining planetary cluster and, noticing you’ve got a unit of surplus pasties, start to think about expansion....
Shortly after Squadrons launched in October, general manager Patrick Klaus said in a blog post that Motive were “working on several unannounced projects.” No hints there. At the end of the month, GamesRadar+ reported on a job listing seeking a build programmer to join them on “an upcoming Star Wars action game”, “starting immediately”. Which, y’know, made people think Motive were once again boldly going where no one has gone before....
