Last of Us Part II: First Footage shown at PSX
Sony finally unveil the highly anticipated sequel to one of the greatest games of the last generation. After many leaks and hints by developers and voice actors, See the future for Joel and Ellie below!
Tag: Adventure Games
Geek Errant Reviews: Virginia
Virginia begins by telling the player that the events of the game have been compiled from notes and case files to create the play they are about to experience. Like a play or film, the game lends itself to a variety of interpretations, a situation which the game wildly encourages. Virginia is one of the most blatant attempts by a developer to blend cinematic techniques and games conventions. To the credit of 505 Games and Variable State, they have definitely hit the mark.
Superheroes and Comedy, Cowboys and Detectives: The Week ahead in Pop Culture
This week we get so much TV, plenty of adventure games and some really weird movies. Check out your week in Pop Culture below!
Eyes Front! What’s happening in pop culture this week?
Time to head into August, and see what kicks off the final month of the summer.
Geek Errant Reviews: Inside
Inside is a horror based platforming game by Playdead Games. Their previous game, Limbo, is an excellent addition to any library, a game with a simple aesthetic and gameplay that doesn’t demand too much time to enjoy. With Inside, as before in Limbo, they’ve created a deeply unsettling platformer, starring a young boy who wanders through a steadily more unpleasant environment, solving puzzles and doing basic platforming challenges. If you’re good at something, might as well just iterate on it.
Pokémon Go: The Next Generation of Game
Pokémon in the real world. The dream since 1998. This app is so close to being that. And yet also so very far away. Pokémon Go is an app for IOS and Android phones. Developed in Co-operation with Niantic, the game uses their experience with Geo-Caching (placing marks on a real map to interact with gameplay) in order to simulate the experience of travelling and catching Pokémon. The game is not a replication of the mechanics of the handheld games, instead choosing thematic and simplified versions of the systems to work for this much larger, multi-player and publicly accessible game. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qryf2F_QfXg&w=560&h=315]
PRE-3
So E3 this year has begun early, with multiple new titles all being unveiled in the weeks prior to the event. The thinking behind all of this is that the games won’t be lost in the crush of the main conferences, or get overshadowed by bigger, more entertaining announcements. So in that respect, let’s look at this crush of games that all hit at once and that I’m gonna lump together.
Geek Errant Reviews: Oxenfree: Short, Sweet and Slightly Scary.
I think I had heard about Oxenfree months ago, reading about it in passing before I promptly forgot all about it. More recently, a friend mentioned that I should take a proper look at it. I am so that glad he did.
Adventure Games and Life Is Strange
So Adventure games. There’s gonna be some spoilers here, I’ll try and keep them light for Life is Strange, but you should really have played The Walking Dead by now. Both are excellent, go ahead and play throughout them and then come back. This will probably make slightly more sense to you. If you just want a review, go play Life is Strange. It might not seem like your thing, but it’s fantastic because of that. This is a concise, focussed experience where character is king and the ordinary becomes extraordinary.