Category: Games
Cyberpunk 2077 (computer game: trailer).
The scifi RPG game Cyberpunk 2077, an open-world, action-adventure story-style thang, is hitting the Xbox One and Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, on April 16th 2020. Here’s their blurb: In the most dangerous megacity of the future, the real you is not enough. Become V, a cyber-enhanced mercenary outlaw going after a one-of-a-kind implant — the […]
Sonic The Hedgehog (2019) (movie trailer).
Is it now time for a movie based on Sonic The Hedgehog? It seems so. This film hitting November 2019 is a live-action adventure comedy based on the Sega game. The film follows the misadventures of Sonic as he navigates the complexities of life on Earth with his newfound – human – best friend Tom […]
Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order (game trailer).
There’s a new game coming out called Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order, in which you play Cal Kestis — one of the last surviving members of the Jedi Order after the purge of Order 66 — is now a fugitive on the run trying to survive in the Empire which is hunting him. It’s due […]
Iron Harvest – could be a bumper one (steampunk game news).
Steampunk strategy game Iron Harvest (coded by KING Art Games) has stepped up a degree by securing a publisher for their crowd-funded RTS game coming soon-ish for the Xbox One, PS4 and PC. “Over a dozen publishers have voiced interest in publishing Iron Harvest. We spoke to everyone and entered negotiations with a handful. In […]
Call of Cthulhu must burn! China orders printers to incinerate RPG game.
You have to give it to indie RPG publisher, Sons of the Singularity, they sure know how to come up with new difficulties when successfully crowd-sourcing a new Call of Cthulhu scenario. In SoS’s case, they – along with half the rest of the Western publishing industry – sent their RPG out to China to […]
Stadia: Google vows to kill off X-Box, PlayStation and every other console gaming system.
So, Google has vowed to kill off X-Box, PlayStation and every other console gaming system with their new streaming game service. SFcrowsnest checked in with Phil Harrison, Google’s Head of Stadia, to discover just what Google’s major new streaming gaming concept is all about. So, in a nut-shell, exactly what is Stadia? “Stadia is a […]
Volcanoids: are you a manic (steampunk) miner? (game trailer).
Here’s an interesting looking steampunk game – Volcanoids, where you play a pilot of a drill-ship (think the mole-tanks from Stephen Hunt’s Jackelian novels). You have to explore and mine your way to glory on a mysterious island run by some nutter with an army of killer steammen robots. The drill-ship itself looks very nice with […]
Star Citizen game gets a star-studded trailer with …. Squadron 42!
Star Citizen is an upcoming massively multiplayer science fiction trading and combat game developed by Cloud Imperium Games for Microsoft – and the brainchild – and spiritual successor – to project head Chris Robert’s fab Wing Commander computer game series. It’s been in dev for four years, and this is what nearly $200 million in […]
Gamer Nation by Eric Geissinger (book review).
With a title like ‘Gamer Nation’, author Eric Geissinger is more or less giving away the subject matter. The sub-title, ‘The Rise Of Modern Gaming And The Compulsion To Play Again’ means it doesn’t see the activity as being totally healthy. Oddly, I received this book at a time when I’d nearly completed the August […]
Editorial – August 2018: Gameplay the geek way.
Hello everyone For the past month, I’ve been fitting in some time playing the ‘Fortnite’ game, so you’re going to be short an article from me this month. As I suspect many of you are going to prefer lazing in the sun to heavy thinking I hope I did the right thing. It also didn’t […]
