Check out that sweet gameplay trailer! How awesome is that?
So far it looks incredibly similar to Rage (as it should). There seems to be a bit less driving required in this game because, lets be honest, i suck at driving games... Give me a gun and tell me to shoot giant alien monster mutant things? Sure. no problem. Put me behind the digital wheel and NPCs are at risk. I can no longer guarantee their safety. There will probably be a lot of me getting stuck on inanimate objects and then backing up at full speed into a crowd of innocent bystanders... I am the mustang meme of the videogame community.
Like the first Rage, this one is tribe/community based which is super cool. I like to think that we'd still find our own little communities after an apocalyptic encounter... WE ARE PACK ANIMALS, PEOPLE!
ANYWHO!
Following a series of cryptic yet badass images on Bethesda's twitter page:
They announced yesterday that Rage 2 is a thing that is finally happening and that there would be an official gameplay trailer today and they did NOT disappoint! the Rage series (omg yay it's a series now!), like most of Bethesda's works, is pretty all-inclusive as far as gaming styles go. FPS, RPG, Racing, etc. It is all there and I can honestly say, even though there's racing bits, I am so stoked for this to be released so that I can play it!!!
Also... can we mention that the level of Andrew W. K. in this game is Over 9000?!?!?!?!?!?
A few weeks back we hit the tip of the Pokemon Iceberg with news about Pokemon Sun and Moon. Today we have a bit more information about the upcoming releases from Nintendo.
A tentative release date has been set for November 18, 2016 for Japan, Australia, Canada, and the United States, with a release a few days later in Europe hinting at the 23rd.
There have been a plethora of new Pokemon that have been made public from Nintendo since our last update as well. There are just so many I cannot list them all here, and will provide a link to Nintendo’s official Pokemon website at the end of the article.
Nintendo seems to be doing a very good job of keeping the flow of information going rather than keeping a tight lid on the projects (Looking at you Pokemon Go!). We here at the pinup gamer will do our best to keep you all up to date with the newest information as it becomes available.
I will start with the bad stuff and work my way to the good...
Pokemon Go is just not a game made for people like me. It is more of a single-people game. This game requires you to get up and go within a moment's notice to find the Pokemon of your dreams. When you are stuck at home with 4 crazy kids and you see a Clefairy down the street, your heart sinks knowing that it is either, leave your kids home alone or just let it go.
This game can be life-consuming. It has only been a couple of days and already I know of people who have skipped work, slammed on their brakes, and didn't sleep... All in the name of catching Pokemon.
On the other hand, it is making my family happier. Let me elaborate on that... Before this game our evening routine was:
dinner
shower
play
bed
Now our routine is filled with much more togetherness:
dinner
family walk (to catch Pokemon and visit Poke-stops)
shower
bedtime story
bed
When we take our family walks every evening we discover new things we had never seen before. We are able to have fun hunting and catching Pokemon! My daughter caught her very first Pokemon yesterday!
isn't it cute?
As for the stay-at-home parents like me, if you feel the need, you can buy incense and put those out. The Pokemon will come to YOU. You will be the king/queen of catching Pokemon from your couch/kitchen/laundry room/bed/etc.
Pokemon Go has also united my community in a BIG way! I have made friends with people I would have never met through my town's Pokemon Go Facebook group! We share tips, tricks, rants, etc. on there and we have divided the messages up into teams. I am Team Mystic (Blue) and we have our own chat where we discuss Pokemon Go, safety tips, and our next moves against the other teams!
Pokemon Go is a wonderful game for (almost) everyone!
I’ma let the rest of ya’ll finish, but H.P. Lovecraft is the greatest writer of all time. Of. All. Time.
Ok, maybe not the best, but he’s up there. Like way up there. Like… Tolkien up there. His books have spawned more spin-offs and sequels that the Lord of the Rings himself could only imagine.
If you know me, you know I love tabletop games. A lot. One of my favorites that I’ve never been able to play is Call of Cthulhu, mostly because Ia like driving myself insane in the middle of the night.
No Really
Now this team of guys up at Focus Home Interactive have done what fthagn… few… have dared (and most have failed.) They’re turning this glorious machination of ph’nglui… er, prose… into a video game. They’re calling it an RPG Investigation game, which, to me, invokes mglw’nfah… uh, memories… of Heavy Rain. This game shows real promise, as FHI have published some really good games in recent history, notably 'Mordheim: City of the Damned' for you Warhammer fans.
"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." That's the tagline they're going with, written by the creator of Essex County himself, H.P. Lovecraft
Set on an island called Darkwater, it seems like you’ll be Cthulhu… um, controlling… a private investigator, checking out the ‘Hawkins Case’, but finding that it’s in no way normal. He’s coming. He dreams and will awake soon, and you have to stop it. Otherwise, it will be the end of the world as we all know it.
He Waits, Dreaming
I am seriously amped up for this game, and R’yleh hope you are too. It’s set for a 2017 release, and wgah’nagl Fthagn.
I’m not sure what’s coming over me, but we may already be too late….
Here's the Trailer released today for those who want to watch! It's pretty sweet.
That's also FHI's official Youtube channel, so subscribe to them if you want to see more (or just follow us and we can get it to you!)
