In The Crush House, launching sometime this year, you’re tasked with running a reality TV show. You’re encouraged to capture all the salacious moments between cast mates, like fighting and flirting, in order to keep those ratings high.
That’s an intriguing enough premise on its own, but it gets even more interesting as the trailer hints that things in The Crush House may not be what they seem.
Since the great whalefall of E3, video game publishers and Geoff Keighley have been slowly filling the void with their own showcases. Keighley’s already claimed a spot for Summer Game Fest on June 7th and now Ubisoft will join him a few days later with a live showcase on June 10th.
For last year’s Forward event we got an in depth look at Star Wars Outlaws, Assassin’s Creed Mirage, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and more.
For April Fools Day, CD Projekt RED is going old school: floppy disks.
The developers of Cyberpunk 2077 have “announced” a (very not real) new limited physical edition of the game arriving on floppy disks — 97,619 of them to be correct.
A fun gag, but I’m not looking forward to the legion of kids who’ll look at this and go “oh cool they made the save icon real!”
The developers at Pocketpair are doing that annoying game developer thing where on April Fools Day they announce a legitimately cool new game idea only for it to be a joke. And for some reason, it’s always a dating simulator.
In Palworld: ~More Than Just Pals~ choose from a roster of dateable Pals and trainers including the busty Lovander with a student ID number... errr... 69. It’s a shame this is fake; weird dating sims are always fun.
Landfall Games, developer of TABS and Stick Fight: The Game, continues its tradition of launching pretty neat games on April Fools Day.
In Content Warning, you and up to three of your friends journey to the underwater Old World to film all kinds of spooky shit. Survive the night, upload your video, ???, profit! Best part is, for the next 24 hours the game is free on Steam. After that you’ll have to pay a whopping $7.99, which seems like the best part of the joke.
During a GDC 2024 talk, the developers on Tears of the Kingdom explained how they were able to blow players’ minds with the design philosophy of ‘multiplicative gameplay.’
