Gaming

Dimensional Double Shift is a four-player co-op game from Owlchemy Labs, the creators of Job Simulator, Vacation Simulator and Cosmonious High.

Like those games, you’ll be doing hilarious oddball tasks in VR — but now you’re working for an “interdimensional” gas station, diner, and garage, and using your actual tracked hands to manipulate objects.

After 12 years, today EA announced that its free-to-play city building mobile game is shutting down. D’oh!

We have made the difficult decision to sunset Tapped Out. In-app purchases have been disabled, and the game will be removed from the app stores October 31, 2024. You may continue playing until January 24th, 2025, at which point servers will be turned off and TSTO will not be accessible.

Balatro, the super popular to the point of active concern poker roguelike, is now available on mobile. The game went live earlier today on Apple Arcade / iOS, and after a brief technical issue with Google Play, is also available on Android. I’m getting ready to dig in myself and I’m looking forward to future news stories lamenting the sudden and precipitous drop in worker productivity.

Memento Exclusives has partnered with Oracle Red Bull Racing for this officially licensed motion simulator based on the team’s RB19 car that competed in the 2023 season. It includes a D-Box haptic motion system, a 49-inch curved AOC monitor, a Rexing Mayaris steering wheel, speakers, Heusinkveld pedals, and a “high spec gaming PC.”

In an interview with The New York Times, Nintendo design guru Shigeru Miyamoto says the company has no interest in ditching originality to follow AI fads:

“It might seem like we are just going the opposite direction for the sake of going in the opposite direction, but it really is trying to find what makes Nintendo special,” Miyamoto said. “There is a lot of talk about A.I., for example. When that happens, everyone starts to go in the same direction, but that is where Nintendo would rather go in a different direction.”

Other companies like Embracer have embraced AI, and the likes of Ubisoft, Nvidia, and Microsoft are already experimenting with generative AI characters.

That’s according to UK Defence Secretary John Healey, giving the iconic “Lord Kitchener Wants You” recruitment slogan (which inspired the Uncle Sam poster) a modern spin at yesterday’s Labour Party conference.

That said, both the UK and US armed forces aren't strangers to using gaming prowess as a lure to entice younger folks to enlist.

Rise of the Ronin, Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered, The Last of Us Part I, Spider-Man Remastered and Spider-Man Miles Morales. If I’m counting right, we’re up to 25 confirmed games.

Sony revealed the new ones in this monster blog post where developers also discuss what you can expect from the patches. We’ve also got a whole hands-on PS5 Pro preview about that!

The clamshell RG35XXSP has become one of the most popular models in Anbernic’s extensive line of handheld emulators. Making it even more enticing are three new color options: transparent green, red and white.

Anbernic isn’t introducing performance improvements or new features with the additional colorways. They still feature a 3.5-inch, 640x480 screen and enough power to play N64 games.

Alan Wake 2 was already the scariest game I have ever played, and the new trailer for the second DLC expansion, The Lake House, looks even scarier. (Warning: there’s a jump scare.)

Alan Wake 2 was also one of my favorite games I’ve ever played, so I’ll almost certainly be facing my fears when the expansion comes out in October.

Monster Hunter Wilds will be released on February 28th, 2025, Capcom announced today. While the game got a new trailer during PlayStation’s State of Play, it will be released on PS5, Xbox Series X / S, and PC.

During today’s State of Play, Stellar Blade is getting a long-awaited photo mode, enhancements for the PS5 Pro, and its soundtrack will be available on a streaming platform near you. Speaking of... Sony also announced that Eve will team up with another scantily clad android when the Stellar Blade x Nier Automata DLC launches sometime later this year.

While some of us regret our purchases, there was one token PSVR 2 game in Sony’s presentation today... and Hitman World of Assassination looks good! A bit bloody, fair warning. If I owned the headset, I’d probably buy it. More details here. It’s coming December as a $10 upgrade for the base flatscreen game.

Sony has finally revealed a release date after first announcing Lego Horizon Adventures in June. The game is coming to the PS5, Nintendo Switch, and PC.

Preorders open October 3rd. Also, there’s a new split-screen mode for Lego Fortnite.

In 2021, Hironobu Sakaguchi released Fantasian — a luxuriously beautiful RPG that uses handmade dioramas for the game’s backgrounds — exclusively on Apple Arcade where it has remained sequestered to the lament of JRPG enthusiasts everywhere. During today’s State of Play, Sakaguchi announced that a console port of the game will debut on PS5 December 5th. The game is also coming to Switch, PC, and Xbox.

These good old games can cost serious money to play on genuine discs, even assuming you’ve got an old console — so it’s great Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete and Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete are coming back! Sony announced them today for PS4 and PS5 but they’ll hit Switch, Xbox and Steam too.

They’ll have “Updated visuals, widescreen mode, and more” when they arrive as the Lunar Remastered Collection, in spring of 2025. More details here.

A new gameplay trailer for Hell Is Us shows how you’ll have to go about defeating the faceless supernatural beings that have taken over your world. The game will come to PlayStation, Xbox Series X | S, and PC next year.

Astro Bot kicked off today’s State of Play presentation with a sneak peek at the game’s forthcoming DLC. We got a glance at snippets of the five new speedrun levels and the 10 new bots Astro will have to rescue including some Helldivers and Eve from Stellar Blade. Curiously, Team Asobi did not provide a release date for the DLC, sticking with the nebulous “Fall 2024” window.

The company’s State of Play presentation starts today at 6PM ET and will feature a slew of game announcements ostensibly to advertise the new PS5 Pro. Sony says the event will last roughly 30 minutes and feature over 20 games for PS5 and PSVR2.

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