Untitled Goose game team announces Big Walk, an online cooperative ‘walker-talker’-
Big Walk is a game about hanging out and getting lost in a big weird world, and it’s currently in development by the team who brought us Untitled Goose Game and Push Me Pull You. Announced at the 2023 Game Awards, it’s coming in 2025.
The Big Walk Steam page describes it as “a cooperative multiplayer adventure about teamwork and talking”, but it also seems to be about doing amusingly dumb stuff in a big open world. For example: sliding down big bumpy slopes, jumping into mysterious yellow holes, and balancing across bridges without guard rails (dangerous!).
There’s also a focus on just hanging out too: looking at sunsets and riding trains. For the mean folk, you’ll be able to “steal your friend’s binoculars and kick them into the ocean”, for some reason.
“Set out…
Van Gogh Museum’s event gets gatecrashed by Pokemon TCG scalpers in a prime example of ‘why we can’t have nice things’-
As reported by VGC, the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam was recently swarmed by scalpers, looking to make a quick buck off Pikachu and his cute grey hat during a limited-time event.
“Go on a Pokémon Adventure along Van Gogh’s paintings,” the website for the museum describes in a description for an event celebrating the museum’s 50th anniversary. “Discover the stories about the masterpieces. Follow the clues, complete the quest, and hand in your answers for a special Pikachu x Van Gogh Museum promo card to add to your Pokémon collection (subject to availability).”
While I do have conflicted feelings about seeing Pikachu rendered in Van Gogh’s style, seeing as the little critter’s custom-designed to sell cards packs, toys, and games—this mostly strikes me as a…
Valve releases Dota 2 patch notes written entirely in emojis-
New Dota 2 patch notes dropped today, and they’re a little different than most, because they’ve been rendered entirely in emojis. That makes them very difficult to read, but it hasn’t deterred the Dota 2 community, which has whipped up a 55-page document that translates the whole thing.
This is what it the actual patch notes look like on Steam—there are multiple pages, this is just a chunk from the middle I selected at random:
There are obviously patterns to be seen and plenty of numbers indicating changing values, and that inspired Dota 2 fans who are cleverer and more patient than I am to get to work on a translation. The effort began in this long, large Reddit thread, and soon moved to a shared Google document. After some early headaches with a troll who apparently …
With free rules and a new game mode, Warhammer 40,000 is looking a lot cheaper to get into in its new edition-
Back in March, Games Workshop announced a new, 10th edition of its long-running flagship game Warhammer 40,000. With streamlined rules, less books to reference, and more readable unit profiles, GW is hoping to make the complicated wargame much more accessible this time around—and that extends to its cost, too.
Playing Warhammer has never exactly been cheap—in recent years falling somewhere between golf and collecting black market human organs—but 10th edition looks to be making it much cheaper to take your first steps into the grim darkness of the far future. GW has released the 10th edition rules for free, where previously players have had to buy expensive core rulebooks. In the coming weeks, rules for the game’s many different playable factions will also …
WoW director says its most controversial new class specialization is OP because it had to be- ‘The community is naturally skeptical of things they don’t understand’-
Blizzard knew that its controversial new augmentation evokers—the first support class ever in World of Warcraft—were going to be overpowered. That choice was “deliberate,” the game’s director told us in a BlizzCon interview, although he added that “obviously they came out the gates too strong.”
Augmentation evokers dropped like a bomb into WoW last summer, exploding the meta with a bunch of controversial firsts. It was the first time the MMO had ever introduced a new specialization for an existing class. It was the first time that a class or a specialization was ever announced while an expansion was underway. It was arguably the first time that a game-changing new element had been introduced in the middle of a competitive season. It was the first support specialization…
Xenonauts 2 will invade our world this July-
Hotly-anticiapted tactics game Xenonauts 2 finally has a release date, and we’ll be able to play it on July 18th, 2023, seven years since it was confirmed and six years since the first demo. Developer Goldhawk Interactive and publisher Hooded Horse have announced that it’ll release into Early Access on Steam.
Xenonauts 2 a game in the vein of XCOM, but rather than the radical redesign of the original formula that was XCOM 2012 and its sequels it’s a hardcore reimagining of what the original XCOM series could have become. Xenonauts 2 is described by the developers as a further layer of rebirth: ” Xenonauts 2 is less a direct sequel and more a re-imagining of the original vision, featuring a modern engine, a new setting, and refined mechanics built for long-time fans and new s…