Welcome to The Black List, your one stop shop for the stories published on the site this week.
MONDAY JUST ANNOUNCED Hellraid > Techland has issued a new trailer for co-op action game Hellraid. According to the developer, you’ll be able to play this first person fantasy “solo or with friends for hundreds of hours and never get bored”, which is quite a claim. Hellraid will be relying on procedurally generated content to ensure that each session provides a “different experience” with custom “loot and enemies” and “random online challenges.” READ MORE
TUESDAY JUST ANNOUNCED Shadow of the Eternals > Precursor Games has taken to Kickstarter to ask fans to contribute US $1.35m to the development of Shadow of the Eternals. The game is a spiritual successor (code for “we don’t own the IP and therefore can’t make a sequel”) to survival horror classic Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem. Prior to commencing its Kickstarter campaign, the new company raised approximately $150K via its own independent funding drive. READ MORE
WEDNESDAY JUST ANNOUNCED Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures > Two years ago publisher Namco Bandai celebrated Pac-Man’s 30th anniversary with a hopelessly ill-advised mini-game collection. To make matters worse, the game featured the loathsome 3D ‘arms and legs’ incarnation of the character. As a long time fan of the series, I consider this (sadly well established) version of Pac-Man to be an imposter and an abomination. Alas, he is about to make another appearance, this time in Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures, a game based on a cartoon series based on a game. READ MORE
THURSDAY 1 JUST ANNOUNCED Gran Turismo 6 > Sony today announced that despite the barnstorming success of the series, it won’t be proceeding with a sixth instalment of Gran Turismo. We should clarify that this announcement took place in a parallel timeline, possibly the one depicted in the new Wolfenstein game, so there’s really no need to panic. Right here in our universe, Sony surprised no one by unveiling Gran Turismo 6 for the PS3. READ MORE
THURSDAY 2 PREVIEW Fuse > Releasing a brand new IP this late in the generation is not something that many developers seem willing to do. Most are holding their new goodies back, waiting for the next gen of gaming systems to hit the market. One developer is bucking that trend. That developer is Insomniac Games. The group behind PlayStation hits such as Ratchet and Clank and Resistance has a new game by the name of Fuse coming out very soon and for the first time in their history, it will be a multiplatform release. I was lucky enough to play quite a good chunk of the game at a recent preview event and I came away with a good idea of what to expect from the final product. READ MORE
FRIDAY TEST TUBE Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen > The original version of Dragon’s Dogma was one of the sleeper RPG hits of 2012. It provided challenging combat and the clever online capability to share my pawn collection… uh… my pawns. I liked the game, but was disappointed with the bland level design and ‘nothing’ story. As such, I was interested to see what the Dark Arisen edition would have to offer. READ MORE
