Hades 2’s technical test is shutting down today, but don’t worry, you won’t be deprived of your hot gods for long—early access will follow ‘relatively soon after’-
Hades 2 is looking sick as hell already, which shouldn’t surprise anybody familiar with Supergiant’s absurdly high pedigree—or the pecs, uh, I mean, perks of the first game’s long stint in early access. It had its technical test recently, and from what I’ve seen it’s certainly hitting the same thighs—I mean, highs—as its predecessor.
Said technical test will be shutting down today, however, Supergiant has promised that Hades 2 will be back in Early Access soon enough. Your hot gods will return soon.
“Thank you for your patience during the Hades II Technical Test,” the announcement reads on the game’s official Twitter, “which helped us identify and address a number of key issues we weren’t able to find before. We plan to start winding down the Test …
I’ve tested the Ratchet & Clank- Rift Apart PC port, and pending one fix, PlayStation might’ve nailed it-
The just-released PC version of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is looking like one of the better PC ports we’ve seen recently.
The only things holding me back from calling the port a definitive success are reports of crashing among the otherwise positive Steam reviews, and to a lesser extent, that Digital Foundry found some discrepancies between the graphics quality of the PS5 version and a pre-release PC version, particularly in certain ray traced shadows. I don’t have the hardware or eyesight for those discrepancies to matter much to me personally, and I haven’t been experiencing crashes myself. So far, I’ve found Insomniac’s 2021 PS5 platformer to be a sturdy, refined piece of software on PC.
Using Nvidia’s DLSS upscaling, I can hover between 50-70 fps on the highe…
Blaseball, the bizarre, beautiful sports gambling horror sim, is ending forever-
The first season of Blaseball—not baseball—ended with the opening of the Forbidden Book. A solar eclipse immediately followed; the umpires’ eyes turned white, the Moab Desert disappeared into a gaping Hellmouth, and star player Jaylen Hotdogfingers burst into flames. That was the beginning, not the end, of the deep, awesome weirdness that was the hallmark of the browser-based sports gambling horror sim—a later season ended “with a goddamn JRPG boss fight”—but three years later, the strange beauty has finally run its course.
“It is with a heavy heart we announce that we are not going to run the Coronation Era as planned and are making the decision to end Blaseball today,” developer The Game Band announced today.
“The short of it is that Blaseball isn&r…
Tekken director busts into seemingly illegitimate stream, threatens to ‘SHOW my power’ with a lifetime ban, then realises the dude’s innocent-
The upcoming Tekken 8 recently held a closed network test (CNT) that had a PC version, which of course meant that the game pretty quickly got cracked, datamined, and played beyond when developer Bandai Namco wanted it being played. The publisher has subsequently issued a statement acknowledging some players accessed the game beyond the CNT, warning that unauthorised downloading or distribution is illegal, and threatening bans for accounts found to have accessed the CNT after it ended.
The director and presiding spirit of the Tekken series is Katsuhiro Harada who, outside of the official statement, decided to take matters into his own hands. Like Clouseau with sunglasses the developer stalked Twitch looking for streams that were broadcasting gameplay from the CNT after the p…