According to Microsoft Flight Simulator, there’s a giant 212-story tower in Melbourne

Enjoying the newly-released Microsoft Flight Simulator? Try sightseeing around Melbourne, Australia, where a massive 212-story tower has appeared inside the city limits, despite no such building existing in real-life. (this will come as no surprise if you tried flying around London and noticed Buckingham Palace looked a little…modern)

Turns out that Flight Simulator pulled its building data from OpenStreetMap and the building in question was only supposed to have two floors, not 212. Whoops!

Source: Engadget

Paradox and Hardsuit fire Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 Narrative Director and Creative Director

There’s a fair bit of drama brewing behind the scenes of the next Vampire: The Masquerade game – both the narrative lead Brian Mitsoda and creative director Ka’ai Cluney were suddenly terminated in a joint decision by Hardsuit Labs and publisher Paradox Interactive.

This is odd considering that:

• Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is expected to ship sometime in 2021
• Brian Mitsoda was the lead writer for the original V:TM Bloodlines (2004)

RockPaperShotgun has a great writeup on the situation as well as Mitsoda’s full statement.

Wasteland 3 gets multiplayer co-op for August 28 release

I don’t know if I’ve just been living under a rock during Coronavirus, or InXile Entertainment is just horrible at marketing, but it seems that the squad-based Wasteland 3 is not only releasing on August 28, it’s also bringing two-player co-op gameplay:

Both partners can work together in the squad-based tactical combat and also make separate story decisions (in the trailer, it looks you can complete quests with competing factions by playing both sides). Sounds very Divinity: Original Sin-esque.

Grab Enter the Gungeon and God’s Trigger for free on the Epic Games Store

There’s two new games in town, aka the Epic Games Store. For a limited time, you can get bullet-hell-roguelike Enter the Gungeon and top-down shooter God’s Trigger for free on the Epic Games Store.

Is a Prince of Persia Remake coming in November?

Sources say yes! Well, that is if you believe a random Twitter user that posted a screenshot from a Guatemalan site that reportedly had the game listed for preorder. Phew!

I have many fond memories of the original 2D Prince of Persia, and one of them is the music that played whenever you died.