Eternal Pig

image source: epicgamesstore Platforms: PC - PS5 Release date: November 12, 2020  Genre: action Developer: Counterplay Games Publisher / distributor: Gearbox Publishing Gods want you... Godfall is a fast-paced third-person action game originally created with an emphasis on cooperative play. At the same time, the game can be enjoyed in single-user mode. The emphasis in Godfall is on melee with an edge on offense, where defense plays a very minor role. The main thing is not to stop killing crowds of enemies and finding approaches when fighting powerful bosses. Godfall was one of the first games ever revealed for PlayStation 5, and as such it’s got a lot to prove. The looter-slasher has shown itself to be worthy of a new generation with fancy graphics and impressive particle effects, but as more and more information about it comes out, can it possibly meet the rising expectations people have for PlayStation 5 and its initial offering of games? Godfall’s key conceit is simple: you choo...

  This year, as it does every year in June, the biggest week in the videogame industry rolled around. And then it kept on rolling – well into the tail end of the month, and through half of July. We thought seven days of E3 was exhausting; two months of it has proved devastating to our very perception of time itself. Technically, we shouldn’t call it E3. Back in March, just as Covid-19 started to take a firm hold in the west the ESA cancelled the expo the industry has traditionally built its entire schedule around. Much has been made of the slow death of E3 over the past few years, as publishers and platform holders have increasingly migrated away from the biggest showfloor in the world and further across the sprawling concrete jungle of Los Angeles. We wondered whether this year’s show would “bring everything back together, or drag it even further apart”. With the advent of a global pandemic, it looked like we had arrived at our answer rather sooner than expected. Interestingl...