Maybe sci-fi desert survival game Starsand entered early release today on Steam.
Survival games are plentiful but this one's potentially interesting for tapping into both Stargate and Dune for inspiration, neither of which has had any major success in the gaming world.
Author Neal Stephenson has tweeted clarification that he has no involvement in Facebook's Meta rebranding.
Since there seems to be growing confusion on this: I have nothing to do with anything that FB is up to involving the Metaverse, other than the obvious fact that they're using a term I coined in Snow Crash. There has been zero communication between me and FB & no biz relationship.
Unknown Worlds, developers of Subnautica and sequel Below Zero, will be acquired by Krafton.
Subnautica is a rarity in the gaming world.
While Unknown Worlds had previously made Natural Selection 1 & 2 which were typical combat games with the usual assorted weaponry, Subnautica was developed without them.
DC recently held this year's DC Fandome virtual event and among other things, released new trailers for many of their upcoming films, tv shows and games.
You can watch the full 4 hour event here or just the trailers here.
There was also a 2 hour official Australia and New Zealand after party.
Doctor Who Edge of Reality has released another gamepaly trailer.
One of the developers involved in this had previously released a made for mobile game which appears to just be puzzles.
This one looks like an attempt to deliver something of a similar style but with a first person controllable character.
Doctor Who preferring to avoid violence as much as possible, it's surprising to see you take control of a Dalek at least for a time and are shooting things in this game.
Indie developer S2 Games has announced a new sci-fi survival sim with a YouTube trailer, Lost Away.
Visually it seems to draw inspiration from Avatar. The creature featured in the trailer sports Avatar like wavy tentacles, there's lots of night-time bioluminescence and a smattering of floating rocks.
