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Oh but I forgot to mention it speeds up the further you get. What feels at the beginning like a leisurely fly forward in some giant, saccharine pixel world - you wheeling the dragon around carefree with your mouse - soon becomes something else, something like panic. … [Read more...] about MaoMao Castle is a face-melting arcade game about a flying cat dragon

The Index controllers are the closest a pair of VR controllers come to imitating the feel of having virtual hands. That's because their padded straps comfortably hug your hands, allowing you to loosen your grip entirely and still have the controllers in place. Now, the reason why this matters for Half-Life: Alyx is because the game always accounts for your in-game hands, giving them more agency and a higher level of interactivity than most VR games. Objects, doors, and some mechanisms react to your hand motions without having to "grip" them, simulating the actions of actually moving these things in real life. You'll be catching items and throwing grenades a lot in the game as well, and it just feels so right to perform these actions when you can just let go altogether and open your hands in these moments. … [Read more...] about Half-Life: Alyx VR Analysis — How The Game Plays On Every Major VR Headset

You'll need to repeat the same steps for every pattern, which is pretty tedious if you want to get a bunch in at once, but the result is worth it. Once they're in, you can wear them on shirts, on your face, make floor tiles of them, hang them around your house—express yourself, you lovely nerd.  … [Read more...] about Give your Animal Crossing home a PC gaming makeover with this handy design tool

Exploring further—after all, Avocado Pusher 2: Electric Boogaloo is not going to make itself—means learning more about the game commands and how those might be used. When someone publishes a game on PuzzleScript's servers players are also offered the option to hack it. Hacking it shows you the script the creator used. It's handy either for rooting around under the bonnet of the game to see what's going on or for allowing you to tinker with or modify it. … [Read more...] about PuzzleScript: The free puzzle-building tool that lets you make games in minutes

The story follows Gears 5 star Kait Diaz's father Gabe during the war with the Locust, and each mission begins and ends with a cutscene that looks on par with a Gears shooter. Most of the characters are still musclebound meatheads and the melodrama seems about as nuanced as a daytime soap, but the presentation goes a long way. Gears is a universe of chest-high walls, but it also has gnarly guns and grandiose classical architecture and a degree of personality missing in XCOM's generic near-future military sci-fi. In a genre that can lean towards neverending procedural campaigns, too, it's nice to be playing a story with a clear start and end—although you can keep playing after the story's over. … [Read more...] about Gears Tactics is a shockingly good strategy game