Videogame adaptations have been overwhelmingly naff for the past few decades. That being said, the Milla Jovovich fronted Resident Evil films have been something of an outlier. Very little to do with the games, as I understand, but very good high-action romps that become increasingly apocalyptic as they go on. But while next year’s reboot is likewise being produced by Constantin Film, it sounds a far cry from Anderson’s gorefests....

“For many years, some specific balance changes have been requested repeatedly by dedicated players, but I didn’t implement them because I thought they would harm the game for more casual players,” RimWorld lead Tynan Sylvester explains. “Now, we added a custom playstyle system. You can adjust a couple dozen different settings like threat scaling, colonist instakill chances, and crop yield. This means advanced players can set up the game exactly as they prefer....

In the case of RimWorld, I think you can replace every “or” with an “and”. The simulation of mind and body is such that you can, if you want, ‘despine’ prisoners “as a safety precaution” to strip their organs before eventual excecution or create killsquads of densitised child soldiers who murder their parents. You know, RimWorld stuff. If you want. And that’s without getting into the wonders/horrors of drugs, which Australian censors so often frown on....

Update 1.11 hadn’t even made it all the way around the world before Riot pulled back the reins - so while North America, Brazil and Latin America will have their games rolled back, other regions simply won’t get the update until the devs decide it’s safe to do for. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings — VALORANT (@PlayVALORANT) October 27, 2020 Judging from a look at the replies and the Valorant subreddit, today’s update came with a wild batch of bizarre issues....

It started out so well. As you might expect from a mouse that’s the spitting image of its wired counterpart, the Kain 200 feels just as lovely under the hand as the Kain 120. At 105g, it’s quite a bit heavier than the Kain 120, which weighs just 89g, but the extra weight never made it feel like a chore to move around my mouse mat. If anything, the extra freedom afforded by its 2....

Each run of Rogue Lords will take you through a procedurally-generated world, with the goal of collecting artefacts that the Devil lost many years ago in his war against that goody two-shoes demon hunter, Van Helsing. There seems to be a bunch of superstitious folklore-y things mixed together here - I always thought Van Helsing was more associated with vampires rather than the actual Devil, but it looks like there’s gonna be some vamps in Rogue Lords, too....

“It’s been way too long, hasn’t it?” says product manager Stephane Drapeau in a new video. “But I think I know what you want to know, and heck, I am happy to oblige: Roller Champions is coming early 2021.” It was previously due in early 2020 but well. The futuresport is still meant to be free-to-play, last I heard. Like roller derby, Roller Champions has teams zooming laps around a ring, dodging and tackling and blocking....

All that’s missing is a little Ode To Joy. Pegs are now potions, treasure, hazards and - worst of all - monsters to slam into with your massive spheroid bod. Hitting different pegs may bestow you with money, a game-changing status effect or sheer raw damage. You’ll need to smash and grab as many as you can before hitting a pit of spikes lining the bottom, cutting into your HP....

Apologies in advance for the slightly roaring intro - the show floor was particularly loud when we were recording - so fair warning: you may want to adjust the volume on your speakers / headphones before you hit play below. The PAX East demo for Cursed To Golf saw us play through the game’s opening tutorial level, where we got to grips with the three main clubs: the big honking driver, the steady iron, and height-giving wedge....

Runescape was a simpler game in those times, where ordinary skills could be paired with one another to create basic but effective economic structures, most of which were founded upon the exploitation of fresh-out-of-Lummy naivete. But that was 14 years ago. Runescape is a different beast now, and the addition of Archaeology is unprecedented in more ways than one. “Skilling is not traditionally a vehicle for storytelling,” lead designer Dave Osborne tells me in an interview conducted over Zoom....

The new faction is neat. I’m a pirate now! A pirate who is terrible at Expedition mode. That new faction is called Bilgewater, who are mostly pirates, with some eldritch sea monster summoners thrown in for good measure. They don’t seem great in Expedition mode, which is my favourite, where you draft decks from a limited series of choices. That’s because lots of their cards seem to depend on each other, unlike the standalone beefcakes that can be found in other decks....

It started with a Twitter meme, as news apparently does now. Newman posted a teasing indication that he’s working on “Garry’s Mod 2.” Or maybe just wants to be? Although we’ve known that Newman planned a Gmod sequel for years, hearing about it now is that’s exciting for plenty of folks, myself included, who have fond memories of getting up to shenanigans in custom servers running various Gmod game servers....

I don’t know about you, but nothing infuriates me quite so much as getting myself ready to play a game and finding there’s a bajillion gigabyte update waiting for me. I’ll go to boot up literally anything after a week or two of neglect and it’ll deny my attempts to hit play. Instead, it’ll sit there condescendingly wagging its finger and shaking its head like I’ve misbehaved by ignoring it....

First up - let’s dust off the board game cabinet for a bit of chill weekend gaming, aye? To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings — Toukana 🏡 making DORFROMANTIK (@_Toukana) November 14, 2020 A chill, eurogame-style board game about building quaint little villages, Dorfromantik looks like exactly the right kind of stress-free Sunday afternoon puzzle. With a stack of tiles at your side, the game tasks you with assembling a pastoral scene according to set criteria - places houses in set numbers, within proximity to fields, and so on....

You’ll still need a Windows Live account and Windows 10 to play Sea Of Thieves through Steam, but it does mean all your progress will carry over. It’s worth noting that if you already have it on Windows but want it on Steam too, you will need to buy it again. And it’s available on Steam right now for £35/€40/$40. The game’s arrival on the new storefront follows the most recent monthly update, Lost Treasures, which added lots of helpful new things to the game - like checkpoints for the Tall Tale quests....

According to a report by Bloomberg, Nagoshi “is expected to set up his own team and create new games,” citing people familiar with the matter. “He hasn’t signed a final contract and his duties have yet to be finalized,” they add. “NetEase wants to play a bigger role in developing the games and content it hopes will turn into international hits, while also burnishing its credentials as a global rather than purely Chinese firm,” say Bloomberg’s sources....

And to celebrate the occasion, Epos have released the world’s most terrifying promotional trailer in which an officially certified future man voluntarily gets his eardrums pierced by a giant pair of gorilla fingers. Let me explain. You see, Epos’ big promise is “out of this world gaming audio”, and to prove it they’ve made a very Bladerunner-y promo video full of zippy-sounding electronics, roaring cyber cars and other things they believe require a high-end gaming headset to fully appreciate....

This Thursday, the group will bring 17 scares to life with The Haunted PS1 Demo Disk, a free collection of 17 short, terrifying indie horror games. Okay, so it’s not an actual, physical disk. Put away your dusty old consoles and emulators. Contained within a unified executable, The Haunted PS1 Demo Disk includes 17 short, bespoke slices of the community’s work, letting you sample some horror before putting money down....

Eagle-eyed fans spotted that the anime had been removed from Adult Swim’s website, causing SVP of anime/action series at Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network Studios Jason DeMarco to confirm the news on Twitter. “Sorry guys. This happened,” wrote DeMarco. “You can still watch all of the anime on Crunchyroll and it will still be available as digital downloads. And yes, it’s looking like no S2 of Shenmue, even though sadly- it did well enough that we were gearing up for S2....