The Crate and Crowbar

Episode 399: No Gribblies in the Slick Future


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Jamie and Marsh discuss the highlights, or rather the extensive mid-range tones, of the E3 week that wasn’t, delight in Next Fest’s demos for Old Skies and Agent 64: Spies Never Die, and usher in the doom of humankind in Shadows of Forbidden Gods.

  • Geoff Keighley’s twitching automaton presents Summer GameFest aka Keigh-3. Enjoy it to the exact degree that Keighley permits, and no more.
  • Warhammer 40,000: Dark Tide is a promising firstperson cultist-squisher from the Vermintide devs.
  • Jamie’s also been enjoying the turnbased tactics game in the same universe: Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters.
  • Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader is the first CRPG in the 40K setting.
  • The Callisto Protocol is an incredibly violent sci-fi horror game which is probably unplayably scary for us, but has great mince animation.
  • Aliens: Dark Descent is a turnbased tactics game.
  • Routine is another space horror game – 10 years in development so far!
  • Fort Solis: another spooky space game.
  • Shoot guns transgressively in the future from the past in the future again in The Last of Us remake and its multiplayer spin-off.
  • Flashback 2 is a sequel to the rotoscoped platformer classic.
  • American Arcadia is a cinematic platformer in a Jetsons-y fake future.
  • A Plague Tale: Requiem
  • Overwatch 2. In the immortal words of that character who you love: “Boom, baby.”
  • Vin Diesel is in Ark 2, or at least his non-verbal vocalisations are.
  • Excellent hammers in Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn.
  • Minecraft: Legends is an RTS from the very cool folks at Blackbird Interactive.
  • Gimme the blood sausage, Diablo 4!
  • BALL BUG BALL BUG BALL BUG BALL BUG BALL BUG BALL BUG
  • Fine, apparently it’s called Cocoon.
  • Mine ore to pay off your mortgage in Starfield.
  • Pentiment is a Name of the Rose-style murder mystery that looks like an illuminated manuscript.
  • Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts is a cool coffee table book that does what it says on the tin.
  • Old Skies is a cracking point-n-click from Wadjet Eye.
  • Agent 64: Spies Never Die is retro throwback FPS in the mould of GoldenEye.
  • Kyle Kushtel’s piece on game design conservatism, nostalgia and remakes.
  • Metal: Hellsinger is a fun rhythm-action retro shooter that goes for a death metal album cover style that may have gone off the boil.
  • Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengance of the Slayer is an ironic retro shooter made by a fictional very-online edge-lord developer from Hypnospace Outlaw.
  • Anger Foot is a slick and maybe shallow FPS speed-run where you put the boot into animal-headed thugs.
  • The Silent Swan is a otherwordly open-world walking-simulator with a paucity of settings options.
  • Shadows of Forbidden Gods is a strategy game played from the perspective of a Lovecraftian mega-horror.

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