Tag: messy
Persona 3 Portable is messy, weird, and lovable on modern platforms
Aged RPG systems with a bleaker, more endearing tone
A messy era of gay comedies is finally paying off
Fire Island, Bros, and how far we’ve come since the 1990s
Dragonflight could soar if it wasn’t saddled with World of Warcraft’s messy storylines
A great expansion with an unsure future
Black Adam: Post-Credits Scene, Messy DC Cameo Explained as Movie Hits HBO Max – CNET
Watch Apple’s newest iPad meet messy end in durability test
World of Warcraft: Dragonflight’s best plotline is a messy family drama
I want Succession but with dragons
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The messy, inside story of controversial UK indie publisher PQube
In late August, Indonesian developer Toge Productions announced plans to tear up a contract with UK indie publisher PQube. The team behind A Space for the Unbound, the game PQube had signed to publish, claimed it had learned several things that left them feeling “manipulated and exploited”. One of these was the existence of a diversity grant, which the studio claimed was “intentionally withheld” and used as “leverage for [PQube’s] own commercial gain”.
PQube responded to Eurogamer: “We have honoured all obligations of our publishing agreement and have supported Toge Productions at every stage of product development throughout their delays and difficulties. This support has included offering significant further funding, over and above grant funding to support development, porting and marketing.”
The publisher then alleged “Toge Productions have sought for some time to unilaterally enforce unreasonable revised terms to our agreement and it is disappointing that, as a result of not achieving that and despite PQube’s significant efforts to accommodate this, they have sought to deal with the matter in this way”.
Scorn review: a staggeringly impressive horror world with messy combat
Scorn is a deliberately grim game with a lot of body horror. Best avoid it and this review if you have issues with body horror themes.
I was talking to a friend about Scorn and they asked, “Is there a story?”. And yeah, Scorn has a story. At some point there’ll be a two hour YouTube video outlining how it has a clear and nuanced plot, or that it’s a metaphor for periods and erections, or both. In the immediate, it’s about slithering out of a pod, staggering through the desert, and finding yourself in a strange, huge rotting machine made of rock and flesh that’s already decades into abandonment and decay, and where most things look a bit penisy or womby. It’s about the lizardy parasite latched to your back gradually transforming your body. It’s about grim squishy noises and survival.
Scorn doesn’t have dialogue, or a map. It doesn’t really have a HUD, it doesn’t have quest markers, and your character will not, upon seeing a strange new device, say something like “Hmm… seems like a key. Maybe if I find the two missing ones, it’ll open up a way forward!” out loud. It won’t even pull focus to the corridor you should check next. You just have to look around, experiment, and figure it out. I think I like it. I don’t know if I can recommend it.