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Apple Arcade: Every New Game That Arrived in March – CNET
Memories of E3 and moments of video game history | The DeanBeat
E3 annual video game showcase event in Los Angeles cancelled
VG247’s The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.45: The best game that’s rubbish after ten hours
Welcome to VG247’s Best Games Ever Podcast: Episode 44: The best game where you’d swap places with the main character.
Video games are very long-form pieces of entertainment, and as such, they have to work hard to hold our attention. Statistically, most single-player games are left unfinished by a staggering majority of the people who buy them, as much as 90% by some estimates. But is it any wonder, when a lot of games just get a bit naff after the first act? Once the New Game Novelty wears away, you’d better be introducing some huge plot twist, or engaging new mechanic, or something to switch things up and keep it interesting, otherwise people are going to go back to Skyrim.
There are some games that start off so well that it’s genuinely surprising when they go bad. Assassin’s Creed III is my usual go-to example of this: for the first 8-10 hours or so, which is an unfathomably long time for a prologue (that’s two Ben Hur’s and half a season of Curb), you play a suave sort-of Georgian James Bond character in the form of Haytham Kenway, and it rules. Then some stuff happens and you have to play his extremely less charismatic son for the rest of the game. It’s fine because you get to kill a lot of redcoats, but ugh. But what do our panel think is the best game that exemplifies this phenomenon? Which game, ultimately, has the best opening ten hours before it turns to sludge? To find out you’ll have to listen to VG247’s Best Games Ever Podcast: the only podcast called that. Handily, you can do so below, via Methods.
Pokemon-like Cassette Beasts is dropping day one on Game Pass April 26
Casstte Beasts is dropping on April 26, available from Game Pass for PC from day one. Later this Spring, during its console release on Switch and Xbox, it’ll also be available on Xbox Game Pass simultaneously.
The game, a Pokemon-like monster fusing RPG, is all about collecting and battling a selection of unique monsters; all of which can be combined to create distinct and powerful companions.
As you may have already figured out, Cassette Beasts has a world all built around cassette tapes. Monsters you encounter are recorded onto your tape, with a Pokemon third generation gameplay style. It looks pretty dope, and distinct enough from its inspirations to grab your interest.
Vampire Survivors beats out Elden Ring and God of War to score Best Game win at BAFTAs
The BAFTA Game Awards agree: Vampire Survivors is 2022’s best game
The BAFTA Games Awards were held last night – an annual show where a jury of developers throw weighty man-head statues at the crowd, celebrating the best games of any given year. The 2023 BAFTAs celebrated the best of 2022 with a mixed bag of games, awarding big blockbusters alongside popular indies, but the jury agrees with RPS on one front: Vampire Survivors is the best game of 2022. Good BAFTAs.
Space 4X game Galactic Civilizations 4 returns, blows up a star system
Stardock announces new Galactic Civilizations 4 DLC that sees the return of one of the most powerful and terrifying weapons in the series. The futuristic space 4X game’s latest expansion, Supernova, also includes new starship classes, updates to combat, an upgraded diplomacy system, graphics engine improvements, and enhanced mod tools.
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Pineapple On Pizza asks an important question: can a video game convey flavour?
Indie studio Majorariatto have released small, experimental games every March since 2017 – barring the cursed year of 2020 – and now they’re back with another thought-provoking adventure called Pineapple On Pizza, this time asking the profound question: can video games convey such a complex flavour? It’s out now, it’s free, and it’s only about ten minutes long.