This week a new bill passed the Australian Senate, marking the initial step in modernising the National Classification Scheme. It empowers industry classifiers, expanding video game classification options. Hopefully no more stupid boomer-brained bans of videogames downunder.
With one strike already underway, SAG-AFTRA announced that it will seek authorisation for a second strike against major video game companies. In a statement, SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher, blasted game companies for their ‘greed and disrespect’: “once again artificial intelligence is putting our members in jeopardy of reducing their opportunity to work, and once again, SAG-AFTRA is standing up to tyranny on behalf of its members.”
New DLC for The Case of the Golden Idol has been released, which is a good opportunity to shout out what was one of the best, most slept on releases of 2022. It’s called The Lemurian Vampire and it I can’t wait to get stuck into it. And if you like detective games and haven’t played Golden Idol, what are you waiting for?
The good peeps at Playables - in partnership with Panic - have announced their new game: Time Flies. “A game about our limited time in this world.”
Check out the announcement trailer here. Cool.
FROM reinvigorate mecha gaming with their masterfully honed pedigree, elevating the genre to new supreme heights. The world is enthralling, the garage deep and addictive, and the combat tight and impactful. What can one say - they’ve done it again.
Finally, after like a year, we hear more about Soulframe - the new one from Digital Extremes, the team behind Warframe. A whole 31 minutes of gameplay even! Looks super cool.
IGN previews the ‘Nintendo-inspired’ visually stunning adventure game Plucky Squire, and interviews the team behind it. Can’t wait for this.
Get a load of this Project Mugen trailer, the open-world RPG, """Genshin-killer""". Looks fun, albeit seemingly completely shameless in its lifting of Spider-Man traversal animations.
Not entire sure what this ‘time-driven adventure with RPG elements’ is, but The Time I Have Left has a trailer and it looks interesting.
Just a few hours out from release, FROM and Bandai pull the hypetrain into the station with the Armored Core VI overview trailer. Let’s gooooo!