Self-cloning sci-fi strategy game The Alters is getting a DLC expansion in which you terraform the world of the original game, using cryosleep to fast-forward the years, even as your hard-working alternate selves age and wither. Out on 13th July, it's a 20 hour epilogue starring Jan Scientist, one of Jan Dolski's vat-grown doubles, who creates his own workforce of clones while investigating a phenomenon called "the Oasis".
Over the course of the expansion, you'll build up a new underground base, populate the volcanic soils with flora and fauna, and contend with the planet's increasing hostility to your efforts. It's not quite clear from the release, but I imagine there's also a moderate risk of being dragged from your cryopod and crucified by a bunch of septuagenarian doppelgangers. Anyway, with useful irony I can't think of any more synonyms for "clone". Here's a trailer. Read more
Category: Gaming
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Self-cloning strategy game The Alters is getting a 20 hour terraforming expansion that plays with the problem of age
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Monster Hunter Wilds confirmed for Nintendo Switch 2
Remember those rumours of a Nintendo Switch 2 port of Monster Hunter Wilds that wouldn't quite go away? Dataminers believed they've discovered evidence that Monster Hunter Wilds could be coming to Nintendo Switch 2 at the start of the year – and then again in February – and now it seems they were right: Monster Hunter Wilds is indeed coming to Nintendo Switch 2. Read more
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Silent Hill 2 remakers Bloober Team are boldly going where few horror devs have gone before in Star Trek: Shadow Frontier, a "psychological thriller" starring Ro Laren
Here's one I wasn't quite expecting: Silent Hill 2 remake and Cronos: The New Dawn developers Bloober Team are working on a Star Trek game in collaboration with license owners Paramount. As you might imagine, given Bloober's pedigree, it doesn't appear to be a very uplifting Star Trek game. It is not a Star Trek game in which you would expect to have an Earl Grey teaparty on the Holodeck, with Data playing the viola. Called Star Trek: Shadow Frontier, it's a "psychological thriller" set on an uncharted planet that has become a spaceship graveyard. Something with tendrils lurks hereabouts, and it's trying to eat your mind. Read more
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Silent Hill 2 remake studio is back with more sci-fi horror, and this time it's taking Star Trek to a mysterious, hostile world
Well here's something that wasn't on my Summer Game Fest bingo card. Bloober Team, the studio behind the likes of Observer and 2024's sublime Silent Hill 2 remake, has unveiled its latest foray into the dread world of horror: a Star Trek game coming next year. Read more
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JMGO’s N3 Ultimate projector is the new portable 4K champ
Sorry Anker: JMGO now makes my favorite flagship portable projector. The N3 Ultimate is an excellent portable 4K projector that defeats moderate ambient light at severe placement angles and can rival more expensive home theater installations at night. After a few weeks of testing, I think the raw adaptability exhibited by the JMGO's N3 Ultimate […]
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Acclaimed co-op series Trine is returning for a fresh adventure with new and familiar faces, and a heist that goes wrong
If your life's been lacking a bit of colour lately, have no fear: developer Frozenbyte's acclaimed co-op platforming series Trine is back for a sixth outing, and once again it's the aesthetic equivalent of a Dulux catalogue. It's not too far off release either. Trine 6: Together in Time, in all its kaleidoscopic glory, comes to PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, and PC on 17th September. Read more