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March 2016

Ninja Gaiden meets Dark Souls – Say Hello to ‘Nioh’

The amazing people behind Ninja Gaiden have released a new gameplay trailer for their upcoming game Nioh.

Visually Nioh looks quite similar to Ninja Gaiden or Ominusha, which has always been quite nice. However, this time round gameplay is (very Souls-y) reliant on your stamina meter, ensuring that you keep a close watch on it as you plan your strike or dodge.

See for yourselves:

It does even have a bit of a Bloodborne feel to it, from a defense point of view, while at the same time following the aggressive play style of Dark Souls. Note that the UI and use of D-Pad also play homage to the Souls series.

It will be interesting to see how this game progresses over the next months, and how it’ll stand apart from the Souls series.

What a Day: Day of the Tentacle Remastered pre-orders open on GOG

Good times, the Remastered Edition of Day of the Tentacle is now available on gog.com, for a 10% discount!

day of the tentacle remastered edition - whatwasithinking.co.uk

Don’t know what this game is about?

Originally released by LucasArts in 1993 as a sequel to Ron Gilbert’s ground breaking Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle is a mind-bending, time travel, cartoon puzzle adventure game in which three unlikely friends work together to prevent an evil mutated purple tentacle from taking over the world! Now, over twenty years later, Day of the Tentacle is back in a remastered edition that features all new hand-drawn, high resolution artwork, with remastered audio, music and sound effects (which the original 90s marketing blurb described as ‘zany!’)

 

Watch the trailer:

Pre-order it now for 10% off!

After 19 years, MAME is finally Free and Open Source

19 years after its initial release, the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator (MAME) has completed its transition to a free and Open Source model.

Mame is free and open source

The development team behind it have spent the last 10 months trying to contact all people that contributed to MAME as developers and external contributors and get information about desired license.  As a result, over 90% (including core files) of files are now available under the 3-Clause BSD License, but the project as a whole is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later (GPL-2.0+), since it contains code made available under multiple GPL-compatible licenses.

The Division: pre-launch ‘Cinematic’ & ‘Gameplay’ TV Spots

Tom Clancy's The Division trailersSo tomorrow is the launch of The Division, the upcoming online open world third-person shooter role-playing video game developed by Ubisoft Massive, Red Storm Entertainment, Ubisoft Reflections and Ubisoft Annecy.

In anticipation of tomorrow’s launch, here are two amazing trailers released in the past days, to get you in the mood:

 

 

 

Are you looking forward to the game? I sure as Hell am 🙂