Sunless Sea is getting a sequel called Sunless Skies with a Kickstarter for the game launching sometime in February 2017. That’s according to an announcement made by Failbetter Games during an interview at EGX. The game is inspired by C.S. Lewis and Event Horizon, and is currently in pre-production. Read more...Powered by WPeMatico... more.

As Kotaku noted this week, The Daily Beast reported that Oculus Rift founder Palmer Luckey has been “secretly funding” Nimble America, which it called “an unofficial Donald Trump group dedicated to ‘shitposting.’” Tonight, Palmer has commented on Facebook about his involvement. Read more...Powered by WPeMatico... more.

Blubber Busters is a combat platformer about venturing inside space whales to cure their illnesses. Seriously. You lead a crew of intergalactic infection fighters, and you can swap between and upgrade them. It comes from devs who worked on League of Legends, Darksiders 2, and Enter The Gungeon. It’s on Kickstarter.Read more...Powered by WPeMatico... more.

Yesterday, Overwatch’s public test server got an update that added new spectator options and tweaked the balance of Ana, Widowmaker, and Junkrat in ways that may or may not make it into the regular game. But that’s not all.Read more...Powered by WPeMatico... more.

Star Citizen’s first-person view isn’t like other games, where you’re essentially in control of a floating camera. That approach is tried and true, but not wholly realistic. In the preposterously ambitious space game, your view and your body are one-in-the-same, just like in a real human body. Problem: turns out, human bodies have a lot going on.Read more...Powered by WPeMatico... more.

Amazon sales on socks and running shoes, plus discounted SSDs lead off Friday’s best deals. Read more...Powered by WPeMatico... more.

Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus Rift, has been keeping busy since he sold the company to Facebook in 2014 . One thing he’s done to pass the time, as reported by The Daily Beast, is to financially back (and be named Vice President of) a company dedicated to alt-right meme shitposts.Read more...Powered by WPeMatico... more.

A patch available now for the Xbox One version of ReCore shortens some of the game’s loading times. The two-minute load to the Shifting Sands area is now one minute. The original two-minute respawn times in Core Foundry have also been halved. (Load times in the PC version are shorter.) Read our full ReCore review here .Read more...Powered by WPeMatico... more.

By the time ITT Technical Institute (ITT) closed its doors earlier this month, the for-profit college had been selling tenuous diplomas at exorbitant prices for more than 20 years. The company had been taking millions in federal grant money, burying low-income and first-generation students in insurmountable debt, and evading regulators since the early 1990s—all while its CEO and other execut... more.

Since developers Intelligent Systems are too busy these days on Fire Emblem (and other stuff) to make any more of their brilliant Advance Wars games , a team of Japanese developers have decided to do their work for them, announcing a new PC title that is Advance Wars in everything but name.Read more...Powered by WPeMatico... more.