Rock Paper Shotgun delved into co-op paranormal horror mystery The Blackout Club and discovered six ways the game gets co-op survival horror right. Noa Smith discusses how Question, the team of industry veterans featuring BioShock 2’s creative director/lead writer and BioShock Infinite’s lead effects artist, offer a variety of powers and abilities to illuminate the experience: Read more…
Rock Paper Shotgun’s Alice O’Connor investigated the Early Access launch of The Blackout Club from Question, a team of BioShock veterans at Question. O’Connor delves into what she finds compelling about the cooperative paranormal horror mystery: As you might expect from a studio with immersive sim roots, we can get around the neighbourhood by clambering, Read more…
Twitch content creator Cryaotic investigated the occult conspiracy afoot in The Blackout Club, from the senior BioShock veterans at Question. Cry and his fellow Blackout Club member Angel work together to record evidence of the conspiracy, and explore the subterranean, labyrinthine tunnels where sleepwalkers and an invisible, otherworldly entity further their malevolent plans. Eventually, just when everything seems Read more…
Kotaku’s Tim Rogers went hands-on with Planetoid Pioneers and was joined by Dan Tabar, the founder of Data Realms. During their let’s play, they explored the starting area of the game and experimented with the game’s wacky physics engine. Together they commentated on the protagonist’s struggle to traverse the planetoids and the Read more…
Alice O’Connor of Rock Paper Shotgun reported on the launch of Planetoid Pioneers, the cooperative sci-fi Physicsvania where geriatric astronauts explore the asteroid belt beyond Mars. Alice shared her enjoyment of the protagonist’s wacky antics and referred to the gameplay as a “wobbly physics-y build-o-metroidvania.” It sends a wobbly old man inside circular Read more…
Joel Couture of Siliconera recently reported on the upcoming Steam Early Access release of Stingbot Games’ The Forbidden Arts. While describing The Forbidden Arts gameplay, Couture commented on the distinct and varying regions that players will find themselves traversing. When not using abilities to cut or scorch foes, [players will] be double jumping through puzzling Read more…
PC Gamer reports that Trailmakers, the vehicle-building adventure from the Press Play, Rare, and IO Interactive veterans at Flashbulb Games, is coming to Early Access on January 1st after a free weekend. Flashbulb says the Early Access build will feature three game modes. Creative mode is singleplayer and gives you Read more…
Joe Donnelly of PC Gamer interviewed the developers of Planetoid Pioneers and learned more about their innovative integration of the Steam Workshop. Data Realms, the developer of Planetoid Pioneers, explained that anything that players create can show up in anyone’s world. Players can commend the creations they enjoy the most by rating them, making these items Read more…