AvatarVICEAvatarAvatarWhy There's No Room for Suburbs in Open-World Gamesverified_publisherVICE - Ade AdenijiThey're iconic, they contain a huge share of the population, and they're almost entirely absent from video games' depictions of reality. The other day I was replaying The Crew 2, driving from Texas to San Francisco in my silver 1955 Mercedes-Benz SLR. After passing through the epic canyons and peaks, …
AvatarVICEAvatarAvatarLG's Pricey Adjustable Curve OLED Flex Is a Multi-Class Specialistverified_publisherVICE - Rob ZacnyYou can make trade-offs to save money or money can be the trade-off. The OLED Flex does everything you could want a display to do, but at a cost. The LG OLED Flex is, at the most basic level, an LG C2 TV with one important special feature: a 42-inch flexible screen. It sits on a large adjustable …
AvatarVICEAvatarAvatar'Star Wars Jedi: Survivor' Is Coming in Very Hot, But Dark Souls and Star Wars Is Still Funverified_publisherVICE - Patrick KlepekWhat to make of 10 hours with a video game that had performance issues, only to have many of those issues disappear right before release? A conundrum. The problem with reviewing Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is that a chunk of my experience feels less relevant now. I was cautious on progressing because I …
AvatarVICEAvatarAvatarSquare Enix’s AI Tech Demo Is a Staggering Failureverified_publisherVICE - Renata PriceThis version of 'The Portopia Serial Murder Case' doesn't feel like a game; it feels like a failed magic trick. On Monday, Square Enix released an elegantly named tech demo, designed to make a case for the emerging uses of AI in games: SQUARE ENIX AI Tech Preview: The Portopia Serial Murder Case. The …
AvatarVICEAvatarAvatarInside the Chaotic World of Kids Trying to Play Video Games on School Laptopsverified_publisherVICE - Patrick KlepekMost school children have a Chromebook, and every day, it's a war between kids, teachers, and the developers trying to entertain bored students. Geometry Spot is a simple-looking website that, on the surface, is exactly what it advertises: a place to learn more about a form of mathematics that …
AvatarVICEAvatarAvatarSquare Is Turning a Classic Visual Novel Into a Natural Language Processing Tech Demoverified_publisherVICE - Renata Price'The Portopia Serial Murder Case,' one of the most influential video games of the 1980s, finally receives an official English release as an AI tech demo. Friday, Square Enix announced a new, free port of its deeply influential, 40-year-old point-and-click adventure, The Portopia Serial Murder Case. …
AvatarVICEAvatarAvatar‘Otxo’ Is the Noir, Blood Drenched Child of 'Hotline Miami' and 'John Wick'verified_publisherVICE - Renata Price'Otxo' is a twin-stick shooter about revenge and expertly choreographed, improvisational violence. In Otxo, a recently released top-down twin-stick shooter with roguelike elements, you are a dancer amid violent white lines. You throw your body, time and time again, into walls of gunfire. Or you push …
AvatarVICEAvatarAvatar'Dead Island 2' Keeps It Simple, Maybe Too Simpleverified_publisherVICE - Ricardo ContrerasMaybe block and dodge shouldn't be the same button. Patrick and Rob have set their clocks to island time early, as they’ve both been checking out Dead Island 2, the long-waited follow-up to the 2011 zombie game. The crew then laments the death of Media Molecule’s Dreams, and wonders about the future …
AvatarVICEAvatarAvatarSpace Shooter vs. Magic Shooter: 'Everspace 2' and 'Immortals of Aveum'verified_publisherVICE - Ricardo ContrerasPlus, why Redfall's lack of a performance mode was such a sore point. Rob gets caught up with Redfall after seeing a lot of anger over the lack of a 60 FPS mode for the console version of that game. Patrick’s seen some early footage of Immortals of Aveum, a game that asks “What if COD had magic …
AvatarVICEAvatarAvatarMario Dominates at the Box Officeverified_publisherVICE - Ricardo ContrerasPlus, adventures in 'Everspace 2' and an awesome mod for the original 'Darkest Dungeon'. Patrick and Cado both saw Natalie Watson’s Mario Movie, and Patrick is psyched it passed the “can I watch this 6 million times” parenting test. Ren is checking out Everspace 2, a promising arcade-y space combat …
AvatarVICEAvatarAvatarWhat the World Needs Now: a New Sony Handheldverified_publisherVICE - Ricardo ContrerasWhy it won't be another Vita. Sony’s at it again with rumors of a new handheld console floating around. This time they’re looking to tether it to the PS5 as a remote play machine, but is that enough of a use case to justify its existence (let alone what it might cost?). The crew then discusses April …
AvatarVICEAvatarAvatar‘Everspace 2’ Is a Space Shooter That Feels at Home Beneath the Earthverified_publisherVICE - Renata Price'Everspace 2' manages to meld two radically different modes of combat, becoming one of the best space shooters in years. In a small corner of a ship graveyard, my ship hums quietly. 3.5km away, there are three targets: an enemy scout, a mid-range madcap interceptor, and a support drone. The support …