Last week fantasy author Brandon Sanderson made headlines by revealing that during COVID lockdown he'd managed to write four extra novels and promptly rocketed to Kickstarter's top funded project with a plan to self-publish. Presently $36 million (AU) and several weeks yet to go.
Sci-fi roleplaying video game John Carter: Warlord of Mars' is not enjoying the same kind of success. With a goal of $750 thousand (AU) they presently only have $8 thousand.
Right now everyone is talking about fantasy roleplaying Souls-like Elden Ring, eg. nearing a million concurrent Steam users and being trash talked by other developers for breaking the mould and setting new standards.
It has to be tough for other developers. Games typically take five plus years to develop and releasing into a market with changed expectations and tastes is not ideal.
Roleplaying / survival video gave Haven stands out from a very large crowd on one key feature - you don't play one character. You play as two. A couple.
A new update titled Couples doesn't explode the playing field and have you playing multiple couples. Rather players now have a choice of couples and those choices include same-sex pairings.
A few days ago Kotaku reported that the Australian Classification Board had done that thing again which they're absolutely bloody notorious for. Inexplicably banning some game.
This time an indie PC sci-fi construction and simulation game called Rimworld which they had previously approved and which had been available and played here for four years in full release. Another five before that in early access.
Dinosaur theme park simulator Jurassic World Evolution 2, based on the popular Jurassic Park films, has released a trailer for an upcoming DLC (downloadable content) titled Camp Cretaceous Dinosaur Pack.
The pack introduces two entirely new dinosaurs and two from the popular the Netflix series Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous which just released its fourth season in December.
Ending a month of exclusive reveals, IGN have published their final preview for upcoming whacky looter shooter Tiny Tina's Wonderlands.
Additionally the developers have released an official gameplay overview which is 24 minutes showing a quest from beginning to boss-stomping end. And also published class skill trees.
Submitted by ionscifi on February 27, 2022 - 09:37
Miju Games have announced an Early Access release date of March 24 for their unique survival and terraforming game, Planet Crafter. There's a short trailer.
We tried this one's demo during one of last year's Steam Next fests - FYI there's one running now, but only a few days left - and also the beta version. Enoyed it.
Submitted by ionscifi on February 25, 2022 - 20:31
Cyberpunk action roleplaying game, The Ascent, has announced a March 24 release date for Playstation 4 and 5. It had previously been a PC and Xbox exclusive.
Submitted by ionscifi on February 25, 2022 - 09:22
Earlier this month we saw a Space.com article about a new John Carter of Mars comic book series which we thought not quite interesting enough for our purposes here.
Warning if you're at work or not into boobies, one of the covers shows them.
