After years of teases, it's finally official: Zelda: Majora's Mask is coming to the 3DS this spring.
It's just about time for the first real Nintendo Direct since E3. Hopefully the big N has some surprises in store for this one.
I don't know when I'll be in a state of mind to play another "sandbox survival experience," but I do like the look of GRAV and its vibrant alien worlds. The dancing is a nice touch, too.
This is a PC game in development at BitMonster, a studio founded a couple years back by former Epic Games developers (and also a pair of adorable dogs). It ticks off the usual boxes: resource gathering, crafting, modular base building, procedural generation, ranged/melee combat, player versus player but, again, the setting appears to be the defining characteristic.
BitMonster is hoping to push GRAV through Steam Greenlight and release it on Early Access, which I'm sure it'll be able to do in no time -- the game seems like something Steam users at large would be into. They can play it and provide feedback while I wait for the finished version.
The makers of Train Simulator have released their next project, a fishing sim, on Steam Early Access. It caught my attention for a few reasons, the first being that the game is way cheaper than I was expecting. Here's why: this initial build of Dovetail Games Fishing is only $6.99 but as more features are added, the price for new customers will increase. Ahh.
With that said, the current game up for sale is in a bare-bones state. There's physics-based casting/reeling with tutorials, challenges, and leaderboards, but what you're trying to catch are "simple practice fish" that are randomly generated and seem to serve as simple targets more than anything. Realistic fish AI will arrive in the next major update before the end of the year.
This line on the Early Access page sums up Dovetail's strategy: "Players should expect an experience that increases over time but that may be unsatisfying, frustrating, or disappointing to begin with. We will only move development of new features forward once we and the Early Access community are happy with the results of the previous stage."
TL;DR: look at that fish!
Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten is one my favorite tower defense games, right up there with Immortal Defense , but I haven't gone back to play it again. That'll have to change soon -- there's an HD re-release with new cutscene art, sprites, and general improvements in the works.
This new version uses the same engine as Defender's Quest 2 and will be a free update for owners of the original game when it arrives "sometime in the near future." Your progress will carry over and if you somehow prefer the old art (really?), that can be toggled on/off.
Level Up Labs says the HD update will not slow down work on the sequel. "We've hired separate art contractors to HD-ify DQ1, and robustly testing the DQ2 engine against DQ1's data set was already a big part of my job in building DQ2," writes designer Lars Doucet.
Looking forward to both!
DQ2 Update and DQ1-HD Announcement [Fortress of Doors]
This morning, a NeoGAF member discovered that Bethesda had trademarked something called Fallout: Shadow of Boston, and of course, a host of gaming sites like VG247 rushed to echo that "news," to the point where "Shadow of Boston" was trending on Twitter this afternoon.
