Luminous - небольшая инди-студия, известная прежде всего благодаря разработке стратегии Circle Empires. Игра отличается минималистичным, но увлекательным геймплеем, где игроку предстоит расширять свою империю, захватывая соседние круги. Студия фокусируется на создании простых, но затягивающих игр, доступных широкой аудитории. Информации об истории компании и других проектах крайне мало, что указывает на небольшой размер и, возможно, недавнее основание.
Over the weekend I banished all thought of rocks, paper or shotguns and volunteered to pick apples at a local orchard. Many wonderful varieties were carefully netted, then jumbled together in a huge mesh bag: speckled golden sours, fit to devour immediately with an appreciative grimace; jolly green cookers, wearing their scabs like medals of honour; sharp little reds that slice up into the clearest white wedges. As we blundered around with poles and hard hats, we trampled on dozens of fallen, rotting apples, spicing the air with a sickly pungence. It was then that I saw it: the juiciest apple of all, dangling almost within grabbing distance in a peculiar depth of shade, beneath a tree of somehow abyssal provenance - its leaves salt-rimed and its roots akin to sunken steel anchors.
Last week heralded in a set of Xbox X25 pre-orders that promptly sold out in a matter of minutes. The special edition translucent green console and controller, despite their hefty markups, were gone in the blink of an eye when pre-orders dropped on Thursday. While hopes of a stock refresh on the main event might be a little optimistic, though, I'm not quite finished with that controller yet. The Xbox Series X25 console is an $899.99 (or $999 if you bought via GameStop) showpiece that costs more than a PS5 Pro but puts all its investment in its numbered green aesthetic and easter eggs.
Sandustry is the first factory simulation game I've played that gets heaps right The poetry of piles Before we talk about Sandustry, the excellent new spelunking factory builder from Lantto Games and Hooded Horse, we need to revisit that most quintessentially vidyagame of topics, the post-industrial countryside of Wales. Early on in my recent 105-mile "review" of the MSI Cyborg 14 laptop, I walked through the old slate quarries near the village of Aberllefenni – the longest continually operated slate mining setup in the world until its closure in 2003. After passing some overgrown roofless cottages, I stopped for a tactical Seabrooks at the foot of a massive spoil pile: a hill of chopped and broken slate that must have begun with one man tipping over a wheelbarrow centuries ago, and then another barrow, and then another, while other men added bolsters and pounded paths through the mounting shards, until at last, their labour all but overshadowed the village beneath – a miraculously static expanse of slippery, plate-sized pieces, a geolithic coin drop machine right on the edge of paying out. In 1966, coal heaps over Aberfan in South Wales collapsed after becoming saturated with rainwater, killing 144 people.