A look at Kazutaka Kodaka and Too Kyo Games’ Death Come True
A quick look at Too Kyo Games' Death Come True game, releasing this Thursday (6/25/20).
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Upload VR Showcase: Interesting games from the event
An introduction to the most interesting games at the UploadVR online event.
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June 13, 2020 – E3 2020 Day 2 / PC Gaming Show Announcements
Summary Over 50+ games announced at PC Gamer's PC Gaming Show - Lots of "more of the same" titles - Survival/crafting, farming/life simulators, retro shooters Want to play: Persona 4 Golden (out now!), Carto, Unexplored 2: The Wayfarer's Legacy, Potionomics, Paradise Killer, Haven, Weird West, Twin Mirror Interesting: In Sound Mind, Icarus, Rogue Lords, Blightbound Especially bad: Amazon's New World (see cover image) Day 2 of E3's online shindig was the "PC Gaming Show". After watching God-knows-how-many-trailers during this two-hour show, I'm here...but not all here. My theme for this show, and PC gaming in general, was "more of the same". I'm not sure if I'm just an old, jaded gamer but it felt like the majority of games announced here were - kind of like the movie industry - "safe" bets that were essentially clones of existing games with a new mechanic or different art style. The survival/crafting clones. The farming/life simulator clones. The retro shooter clones. Also: EPIC GAME STORE EPIC GAME STORE EPIC GAME STORE... To start with, I appreciated host Day[9] and co-host Frankie Ward's heroic efforts on the stream to keep things upbeat, interesting and professional. I would've mentally checked out twenty minutes in. Day[9]'s interview questions at least weren't the typical talking head stuff. Since the scale of today's event is way bigger than the E3 Day 1 PS5 game announcements (we're talking 50+ games here, which was repeatedly emphasized), I won't be posting a bunch of trailers, but instead just writing my impressions on what I saw, good or bad. Want to Play PERSONA 4 GOLDEN - Not a huge surprise given the leaks, but anything Persona for me now is a guaranteed buy. I just hope that Persona 5 Royal's PC release doesn't come at the start of the NEXT console generation.…
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June 11, 2020 – E3 Day 1: Sony Playstation [PS5] Announcements
Summary Today's the first day of E3, COVID-19 Edition, Sony PS5 Edition New PS5 looks like a router Interesting games for me: Horizon 2, Resident Evil 8, Stray, Deathloop, Little Devil Inside, Spider-Man, Gran Turismo 7 Today was the first day of E3's livestreaming event. The big news was Sony's PS5 router console along with a good number of upcoming game announcements. One thing I can get behind is that all of the trailers were available on Youtube in 4k (amazing). It makes sense, but man - environments look insanely detailed and mind-blowingly realistic, and yet...it feels like rendered people still have that slight uncanny valley look. Below is a list of all the PS5 games announced (with one PS4 outlier, not sure how that got there) along with my own usually-uninformed takes. Exciting Horizon: Forbidden West - Sequel to the PS4 launch title Horizon: Zero Dawn. If this announcement means nothing to you - and you enjoy open-world titles - get a goddamn PS4 and play this game now. It's that good. This is some of the best worldbuilding you'll find in an open-world and the kind of combat you'd always imagined against huge robotic animals. Not sure why Aloy sounds like a 90 year-old lady who smoked five packs of cigarettes every day though. Village: Resident Evil - I'm an on-again, off-again Resident Evil fan. The last mainline Resident Evil game I played was 5, and you might as well have titled that one Resident Evil: Wrestling Simulator 5. Now we've got 8 in some Victorian-looking "village" looking creepy as ever and featuring fan favorite Chris Redfield as a possible bad guy (but probably not). I'm onboard, but I would REALLY like to have this on SteamVR, as unlikely as that is. Stray - Sold. The trailer revealed…
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