Outer Wilds
The time loop-themed game “Outer Wilds” won best game, game design and original property at Thursday’s British Academy Games Awards. Also winning three BAFTAs was open-world, role playing detective game “Disco Elysium” which won for debut game, narrative and music.
“Death Stranding” took the technical achievement category while its creator Hideo Kojima was honored with the top Fellowship honor. “Control,” “Untitled Goose Game,” “Kind Words,” “Life Is Strange 2,” “Luigi’s Mansion 3,” “Sayonara Wild Hearts,” “Ape Out,” “Apex Legends,” “Call of Duty: Mobile,” “Path of Exile” and “Observation” also won an award each. [Source: Variety]
Mortal Shell
“Dark Souls” fans will like the look of Cold Symmetry’s dark fantasy action RPG “Mortal Shell” which just dropped its trailer today ahead of a late 2020 release. Boasting deep progression systems and an unforgiving combat system, . The game will come to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC in the third quarter of the year.
Awakening as an empty vessel, you will enter into a shattered and twisted world where the remains of humanity wither and rot. Implored to do the bidding of the mysterious “Dark Father”, you must traverse this tattered landscape and track down hidden sanctums of devout followers.
Atari 2600
DeepMind has revealed that their Agent57 artifical intelligence program can beat humans on the classic 1977 console Atari 2600. In fact, the A.I. is reportedly capable of beating all 57 Atari 2600 games and uses machine learning called deep reinforcement – which allows it to learn from mistakes and keep improving over time. Games are said to be an excellent testing ground for building adaptive algorithms. [Source: DeepMind]
Final Fantasy VII Remake
With the game having already hit some markets earlier this week, the final trailer for the “Final Fantasy VII” remake has arrived ahead of the game’s U.S. release on April 10th. The story of this first, standalone game in the ‘remake’ covers up to the party’s escape from Midgar, and goes deeper into the events occurring in Midgar than the original title.
