A galaxy-sized MMORPG of danger and infamy. In space!
There are flight sims, there are space sims, and then there is Elite: Dangerous, an ambitious MMORPG Kickstarted from across the pond in the UK.
Descent into awesome.
Even if you only played the demo way back in the ancient days of the mid-'90s, it's hard to forget the thrill of flying in and out of cramped hallways, dodging lasers and missiles to steal a door key and then strafing downward (or is it upward?) back out of the room to safety. Descent celebrates its 19th birthday this month with a straight, bare-bones port on Steam—all 27 stomach-wrenching levels of the original. This particular version has some mouse issues, but a great game is a great game.
Available now for the PC.
Calling back to genres near forgotten, Birds of Steel seeks to soar.
The video game industry, much like any entertainment provider, has gone through many different trends and phases. Genres spike in popularity and then peter down, sometimes even fading into obscurity and out of the communities conscious. There was a time when flight sims were all the rage, now most retailers would look at you funny if you asked their opinion on which flight stick you should buy. At times an arcade-style flight game like Ace Combat rears its head to remind the masses that the genre still exists, but we all know that the pure sim has been relegated to niche for quite some time. Just don’t tell Konami that.
The Pegasus Feather Flight Wings, and the Nightmare Flight Wings give the ability of flight to gamers of Everquest II.
EA seeks to expand a brand by possibly diluting the product.
EA has been really trying to turn Visceral Games’ Dead Space franchise into a major brand. In addition to the fantastic sequel that was released earlier this year, the Dead Space name has been popping up on comic books, animated films, a novelization and the franchise spin-off on-rails shooter Dead Space: Extraction for the Wii and PlayStation 3. But if a source cited by Kotaku is to be believed, EA is gearing up for some major expansion of the survival horror franchise.
Story, control, and gameplay ideas for a canceled game.
A few years ago, Cosmic Walker made a short blip on the Wii release radar. A brief video clip, three screen shots, a few details a few months later, and that's the last we heard about it. According to IGN, the game would've starred an astronaut who travels between space stations and the moon performing various tasks, and bore a resemblance to Endless Ocean -- and that's still all we know about it. Development was likely scrapped long ago, but why not try to imagine what it would play like on Wii U? A sandbox game in space would really rock it, man.
