The new Borderlands 3 DLC full trailer has released and it is a doozy! The Psycho Krieg and the Fantastic Fustercluck trailer starts with my two favorite characters, Tannis and Krieg, and gives us a glimpse of the jaunt into the bonkers mind of everybody's favorite murderous meat machine.
This appears to be the exact DLC that has the potential to renew my passion for the series, as it has been waning since the launch of Borderlands 3. It just didn't have the great writing that the previous games had- but this looks to remedy that with a warped reality of a mind torn apart through Hyperion experimentation.
Which makes me wonder... where's Krieg's soft voice at? Will we see his rationale mind's personification in this game mode? I certainly hope so. I also hope it gives us a story that is as moving and on par with the hilarious and heartbreaking Tiny Tina's Bunkers & Badasses DLC Assault on Dragon Keep. I mean, we do get a slight tease at Krieg's infatuation with Maya, so there's hope this could be great.
Borderlands 3: Psycho Krieg and the Fantastic Fustercluck arrives Sept. 10th.
It's been a long time since I've written about Borderlands. I was an early adopter of the first game, and blogged incessantly about the sequel and Pre-Sequel, as well as a lot of the tie-in materials (comics, toys, etc), and a whole lot of self-made Borderlands memes, but Borderlands 3 just didn't capture the magic of 1 or 2. The story wasn't nearly as well written, but the gameplay was still greatly improved.
Well, this teaser for Borderlands 3's 4th Campaign DLC has got me hooked again. It features my favorite playable character in the entire series, Krieg, and I'm eager to see what's become of him
The full reveal for this DLC will arrive on August 25th. I'll be eagerly awaiting it.
It's been quite a while since I posted on my own sites, and even longer since I made any kind of memes. Well, I've been on a Dark Souls kick recently, and going over old movies for reference material for a project I've been working on. In doing so I came across a long-time favorite film from my childhood- The NeverEnding Story.
In re-watching the film I realized that Dark Souls has a LOT in common, and a lot of parallels with the film (and I suppose the book it's based on). I mean, right off the bat, Fantasia is being destroyed by an infection of darkness called The Nothing- whereas Lordran is being devoured by consuming dark called The Abyss. There's the great wolf Gmork and the great wolf Sif, and so on. There's the multiple gates on the way to finding a way to solve the problem besetting the land. I'm genuinely curious to know if Hidetaka Miyazaki has ever seen this and unconsciously drew any inspiration from the film.
I'd actually like to recommend people just watch the film again anyways, due to the tremendously meta work of the story itself- and in even more surprising recommendations, I recall the book being less impressive than the film- which is quite rare for me to say. Anyways, I laughed watching this scene and picturing this exact moment as if I were playing the game and experiencing it like this.
Sometimes you find a game that looks kind of silly, and kind of dumb, but you go and give it a shot anyway. And sometimes those games turn out to be truly unexpected gems. Developer Dark Blue Games' Infected Shelter happens to be exactly that type of game.
Infected Shelter is a simple at first glance a randomly generated, post-apocalyptic, beat-em-up, rogue-lite. I say simple at first glance because playing it somehow sucks you in. There's something special at the core of the game that just clicks. It hits the right buttons for fans of the previously mentioned genres.
The graphics have their own style- they're a cartoony, almost paper cut-out style- and there's a threadbare story, but the music and gameplay are absolutely intuitive and on point. Controls are easy to grasp and quite fluid (though the really early access version had a small lag at some points, the full release version feels much tighter and responsive). I'd highly recommend using a controller over a mouse and keyboard, but once you are dropped into the action things become truly fun.
The game lets you choose whether or not you want to begin with a short tutorial or not, with one of four selectable characters- a one-legged soldier, a guitarist, a builder, and my personal and hilarious favorite a girl that swings her wheelchair-bound grandfather around as a weapon. Characters can do special move finishers that made me laugh every time, and now with the full release players can jump in with up to 3 other players via co-op to share in the zombie-slaughtering amusement.
The difficulty curve starts out a bit steep, but turns around relatively fast as you collect new items, new clothes (which alter how the characters special stats change, like the nurse costume adds healing, and so on), and blueprints for a ton of new weapons. Sure, players will be dying a lot, but in this game it never feels like a bad thing, because you can easily mow through waves and hordes of zombies over and over again after obtaining new items. That may seem monotonous, but Infected Shelter has a certain allure that kept drawing me back in for another try, so it never reached that point.
It's not often I find games like Infected Shelter that I can hop on and enjoy for 5 minutes or 5 hours at a time. The game is filled with a gloriously gory hilarity. Infected Shelter is for fans of things like Castle Crashers or Dead Cells. It may not have the depth of many triple A games, but it has more than enough heart to make up for it. In a way Infected Shelter is the equivalent of a video game candy bar, sugary-sweet entertainment, while the major triple A titles would be nutritious full meals that take a lot of time to eat and digest. It may not be for everybody, but it can damn well hit the right spot when the craving hits, and I highly recommend it. On the whole, Infected Shelter is a simple and engaging rogue-lite beat-em-up to occupy fans of either genre for hours on end.
Infected Shelter on [ Steam ] for $9.99, but is 10% off until Nov. 18th. *An early access review copy was provided by the developer. Thank you!
Long time readers will know I've been a fan of the wonderful mobile 3rd person shooter game Slaughter since it launched. I gave it a glowing review over at Droidgamers, and when the sequel hit- I was equally hyped and impressed as I was with the first game- and a while after that I even did a small interview with the developer Ray "Venomized Art" Spark.
Over the last year, I've been eagerly following the small updates of the game's status on the official Facebook page, and watching all the developer Youtube videos.
The game is available right now, and Mr. Spark has once again outdone himself on every front. The game is bigger, has more weapons, larger levels, improved visuals and controls, and a much, MUCH more expanded story. If you like mobile 3rd person action games, this is another genuine treat to play and I highly recommend it.
For more information and to follow the developer [ Venomized Art ]
Slaughter 3: The Rebels is $2.99 on [ Google Play ] and $1.99 on [ iOS ] The original Slaughter is $2.49 on [ Google Play ] and $0.99 on [ iOS ] Slaughter 2: Prison Assault is $2.49 on [ Google Play ] and $0.99 on [ iOS ] For transparency's sake, I have to say I've been helping a little with translation and localization for the game (which will be completed and added in a future update patch). I've received no pay or benefits and I bought my own copy of the game. I support it because it is good, not for any kind of compensation.
As has been speculated for the last year or so, it looks as if there will be an absolutely new story DLC for Borderlands 2 coming. It's been almost 7 years since the game originally launched and this appears to be a bridge between the last game and its highly anticipated sequel.
According to a post on ResetEra, Twitter user @RobotBrush had spotted the Steam page leak. Some of the details included things like a level cap raise to 80, new enemies, vehicle skins, rainbow rarity weapons, a major new villain, and a wonderful little fact that it'll be 100% free. The Steam page has since been taken down but not before having things been screencapped, saved, and noted.
The leaked description reads:
"Return to the award winning shooter-looter for a new adventure that sets the stage for the upcoming Borderlands 3. Sanctuary is under siege, the Vault's map has been stolen and a toxic gas is poisoning Pandora. Fight new bosses, explore new zones, get new loot (including an entirely new tier beyond Legendary) and join up with Lilith and the Crimson Raiders to take on a deranged villain hell-bent on ruling the planet.
Returning players can pursue an increased level cap of 80, while newcomers can automatically boost to level 30 and dive straight into the action."
With the HD remasters, new Borderlands 2 DLC, and Borderlands 3 all hitting this year- it's truly the year of the Borderlands. Now we can only wait and see what other goodies Gearbox might be cooking up for fans. Personally I hope we get a mobile tie in game, and a plethora of entertainment merchandise like comics and toys.
And probably the best part of the leak is that...
...it claims that Commander Lilith & The Fight for Sanctuary drops June 9th!
#JoinTheGhostbusters!
It looks like Ghostbusters fans are in for quite a treat. This year marks both the 35th anniversary of the franchise and the 10th anniversary of The Video Game itself.
In recent years there's been a plethora of Ghostbusters mobile games and a few console games, but none of them have truly captured the spirit of the franchise so special in the first place, and this fact is made so much more obvious as when playing Ghostbusters: The Video Game.
According to the official Saber Interactive announcement:
Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered delivers a unique story from Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis that captures the supernatural comedic fun and fright fans love from the franchise, which celebrates the 35th anniversary of Ghostbusters this year.
As the new rookie on the Ghostbusters crew, you’ll team up with your favorite characters from the films, reunited by the voices of Aykroyd, Ramis, Bill Murray, and Ernie Hudson as Stantz, Spengler, Venkman and Zeddemore, alongside Annie Potts, Brian Doyle-Murray, William Atherton, and Max von Sydow. Manhattan is overrun once more by ghosts, demons, and other paranormal creatures unleashed by a mysterious force, and only the Ghostbusters can drive this evil back to whatever dimension it crawled from and save the Big Apple.
Hunt, fight and trap a variety of new and familiar ghouls and phantasms, all remastered in HD resolution. Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered equips you with cool gadgets and upgradeable weapons to play with in huge boss fights and destructible environments. Scan and analyze targets with the P.K.E. Meter and Paragoggles, then strap on your Proton Pack to wear ghosts down with the blast stream before wrangling them with the capture stream.
There's a reason many fans consider The Video Game as third film despite it being removed from official canon. It plays well, it's got a great story, and it was made by the original crew.
The 2016 Ghostbusters game was a mere reskin of 2011's Sanctum of Slime, the Ghostbusters: Lego Dimensions game is the standard LEGO game kind of fun, there's a generic puzzle game Ghostbusters: Puzzle Fighter, for a time the small side-scrolling, gem of a platformer titled Little Ghostbusters was available, and a low key kids game PLAYMOBIL Ghostbusters, then there was the mediocre Ghostbusters: Slime City, as well as the strange augmented reality game Ghostbusters: Paranormal Blastwhich was essentially remade by a better company into Ghostbusters World. There's even an augmented reality VR game by Sony Interactive called Ghostbusters: Now Hiring, which is yet another mundane game for mobile devices. In addition there was a bunch of content added to the Respawnables from the Ghostbusters franchise that was surprisingly well done.
Sadly, the best game the franchise has ever produced was Ghostbusters: The Video Game, and now we get it as a wonderful remaster by Saber Interactive. We can only hope that as we close in on Jason Reitman's new Ghostbusters film (slated to release on July 10th, 2020) we might see some new games, mobile or otherwise, that are up to the high quality of The Video Game.
Good news Ray, the Remaster is staring right at me.
Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered is coming to PS4, XBox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC via the Epic Game Store later this year.
The day of release for the third installment of the badass mobile 3rd person shooter game Slaughter is nearing. I was a massive fan of the first game, and an even bigger fan over the sequel which introduced a number of drastic improvements over the first. It had better graphics, better gameplay, an arena mode, and even a 1st person mode for those that might dislike the 3rd person version.
Recently developer Ray Spark has posted more new images for the upcoming Slaughter 3 featuring a great leap in graphical quality and environmental details. Check out the images below.
The chain link fence in the sewer looks amazing, the dusky sky and street light are phenomenal, and the texture work on the rubble ground is damned fine. It should be noted that Spark says the icons are currently only placeholders, and there's currently a lot of "unnecessary elements in the levels." Regardless, they look awesome so far.
According to his Facebook page, the story is almost done and the game's final polishing will begin relatively soon. I for one, am greatly anticipating Slaughter 3's release date when it arrives. The exact date has not yet been officially announced.
All I can say for now is go check out the first two Slaughter games, and give them a chance as they are fun as hell. They've got action, humor, and a pretty damned decent story.
For an interview with the developer I did back in Dec. 17 [ Link ]
Slaughter is $2.49 on [ Google Play ] and $0.99 on [ iOS ] Slaughter 2: Prison Assault is $2.49 on [ Google Play ] and $0.99 on [ iOS ]
The first trailer for the Joaquin Phoenix Joker film has landed, and it's... different. Not that it is necessarily a bad thing, we'll just have to wait and see.
The Joker seems to take a completely different approach to other DC films in that it gives us the origin of the Dark Knight Detective's most famed villain and puts it center stage. I'm cautiously optimistic as it does look good, but could revealing the Joker's true origin ruin some of the magic that made him so special? I'd previously written that Nolan handled him perfectly, he arrived on the scene and "had no fingerprints, no ID, nothing but 'knives and lint.'" He arose from nothing, and in the end literally vanished. But here, we get motivations and familial links- which can only serve to humanize him, making him more relatable and understandable, which in turn takes away the true wild card aspect of his being.
"I think they went a little too far into a Tony "Scarface" Montana look. I mean, while he is the Clown Prince of Crime, they entirely left out the clown part. When he makes Griggs kiss his hand I was totally expecting a water spout to splash out of the ring in the face, or have a flower on his coat do it, but it never happened. Ayer completely left that aspect out. They made him all bling and no sting."
Hopefully this team has learned the lesson of failure from Ayers and Leto. In the mean time, I'll keep my fingers crossed that Joaquin Phoenix along with writer/director Todd Phillips and co-writer Scott Silver have done something much more in line with the iconic and beloved arch-rival to the legendary Batman himself.
Seriously, this looks to either be a masterpiece, or something very, very terrible. It's a risky film that DC is taking a massive chance with.
Well, today is a momentous occasion- we get both great news with the official launch date (Sept. 13th, 2019), alongside some pretty crap news. We have official confirmation that Borderlands 3 will not launch on Steam, but instead will be exclusive to the Epic Games Store for 6 months.
I don't like to be a naysayer, but this is not a move people like. The Epic Game Store has been in some serious controversies (primarily the spyware potential and privacy policies/data protection problems- as seen in this wonderful explanation video by Yong Yea). Steam having competition is a very good thing, but the way things are being handled are not. Making this worse is the limited features of the store in general.
I've been a Borderlands supporter since the original launched a decade ago, and this is the first time I will not be buying it on PC. I will not support it on the Epic Game Store, I absolutely refuse to use it and will wait the 6 months of exclusivity to get it on Steam with my other Borderlands games. That said, I'll still be purchasing it on Playstation 4 as that is my primary console (outside of PC).
To read how displeased many, MANY fans are just scan through the responses on the official @Borderlands tweet. And for even more, the link to the official trailer has a plethora of disapproval throughout the comments section. It isn't the best idea to crap on Steam users. Sorry 2K, but this was not a good decision at all.
