The Count Lucanor Is A Charming, Yet Completely Messed Up Horror Adventure
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The Count Lucanor is a charming pixel adventure that takes place in a equally lovely fantasy land, but as it so often happens, darkness lurks beneath the seemingly perfect veneer and soon enough you will get roped in to a mystery of the most horrific kind.
It released a couple of weeks ago, on March 3rd to be exact, with some great reviews backing it up, but has unfortunately somehow escaped the public's eye. So allow me to showcase you The Count Lucanor, starting with the trailer:
Microsoft Has Released Quantum Break's Soundtrack For Free
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With Quantum Break coming on April 5th you would expect that the free release of its soundtrack would be something heavily advertised, but despite me being subscribed to nearly every newsletter known to man, demon and Krogan, today's the first time I've run across it.
Which is a real shame since the soundtrack serves as excellent background noise while you're doing important work, as I've found out... well, besides the important work part. You can check it out on Microsoft Studio's Soundcloud page.
The Original Pitch For Diablo 1 Contained Plans For Microtransactions
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David Brevik, co-founder of Blizzard North and one of the leading forces behind Diablo 1 and Diablo 2, released a rather unique piece of gaming history, the original pitch for Diablo 1.
While that would be interesting enough on its own, given how influential Diablo has become to the ARPG genre, what caught my eye is the team's plan to sell "small additional purchases to revitalize their existing game", or what we these days call microtransactions. Here's the full quote:
Skullstone Is An Upcoming 3D Grid-Based Dungeon Crawler In The Vein Of Legend Of Grimrock
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Skullstone is a 3D grid-based dungeon crawler where you, and your enemies, hop along the dungeon floor and attempt to obliterate each other through the use of weapons, magic, and deadly traps, all the while resisting the urge to succumb to the most unholy of temptations, moving diagonally.
Its currently still in development so expect to see some placeholder art, but the brief gameplay video the developers posted oozes that old school RPG charm that first drew me to the genre. Have a look, and skip to 55 seconds if you want to get to the gameplay directly:
Telltale's M Rated Batman Series Will Begin In Summer
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In a recent SXSW Gaming Expo panel Telltale shared a few more nuggets of information on their upcoming M rated Batman series which is set to arrive in summer.
Perhaps the most exciting note in the entire announcement is that the Batman series is being made by the same team that did The Wolf Among Us and Tales from the Borderlands, Telltale's finest games. Here's the official summary from the panel:
Firewatch Has Sold Around 500,000 Copies In Its First Month - Performance Update Is In The Works
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Firewatch is a narrative driven adventure game, or walking simulator as some would say, and despite the genre receiving undue amounts of criticism from the gaming community I am glad that so many were willing to look past that in order to experience the touching, and very human story Firewatch wanted to tell.
According to Panic, the publisher behind Firewatch, around 500,000 people donned the fire lookout shorts and set out in to the wilderness, an impressive number even for some AAA studios, let alone an indie one. Here's a few more tidbits of info from the announcement, and what exactly the team is working on right now:
Kingdom Come: Deliverance Devs Have Released An Hour-Long Gameplay Showcase
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a medieval open-world RPG that aims to be as realistic and faithful to the era as possible, especially when it comes to the combat.
Its currently in an early beta state and some things are obviously unfinished, but as you can see in the hour-long gameplay showcase below, its development is chugging along nicely. Here's the video and a few of the things I noticed while watching it: