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Playing some demos from Pax East.

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This year's PAX East was one where I got to play a lot of games I really loved, but I want to give a special shoutout to the smallest! Especially because, well. I think there's plenty of people on Tumblr that will dig it the same way I did. You can even play the demo now!

The absolutely stunning art by monaramis drew me in to give it a try, but the story is absolutely up my alley. Do you like:

☑ angels

☑ demons

☑ robots/constructs with identity issues

☑ rococo styling

☑ no seriously look at that art

Then give it a shot! The demo takes about an hour to complete, and getting to play the full thing once I was home made it my standout for sure. I can't wait for the full release, so I wanted to share and signal boost something really cool!

I have to get a photo with LEGO Sonic at PAX of course. 😄

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Best of the Summer Games Hype Train (Part 2: Demos)

I promised I'd talk about the demos I played during the Steam Next Fest last month and I delivered! 7 profiles on cool, new/upcoming games are up on the blog now. Go read!

Another summer is upon us, ushered in for us gamers by oodles of announcements, a slew of sales, and (my personal favorite) the return of the Steam Next Fest! As I mentioned in part 1 of this summer games shenanigan summary, I’ve had a very, very busy June (hence why this post is like 2 weeks late). Still, I did squeeze in some time to speed date some fresh, new demos as I do whenever a Next Fest…

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We've got our first pass of the Pro Philosopher 2 Demo up and running! Need to test it out a bit before PUBLIC JUDGEMENT at PAX.

It should be an enjoyable (if a bit meta) slice of the game and gameplay :)

AYRENN (the exile) // BELLONA (m*cu/the sandman)

ELISAVET (vampire the masquerade) // LÍADÁIN (amr)

PETRA (the sandman) // VINDAMEA (tes skyrim)

FALKA (dnd) // LIOSLAITH (dnd)

the dears @shellibisshe, @dihardys, @risingsh0t, @belorage, @florbelles tagged me to make the girls in this cutest picrew! ty so much!

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Cooked up an idea for an au where y/n befriends a version of Eclipse that exists as a sentient being within their vr headset

getting ready for this game to absolutely destroy me when it releases tomorrow

PAX East 2023: THQ Nordic’s Puzzling Pair of Demos

Sometimes, you take a gamble when it comes to booking press appointments for an event like PAX East. When it came time for James and myself to divvy up the appointments for the THQ Nordic booth, for example, he went with the likes of Wreckreation while I decided to go with Alone in the Dark and something called “Project Train.” With the former game, I thought it would be a safe bet, being a re-imagining of a survival horror classic that has since become dated and thus deserves the enhancement more than others. With the latter game, I was rolling the dice on something I didn’t know beyond a name, since I never forgave myself for turning down a game at a previous PAX that turned out to be Donut County. But one way or another, I felt at least one of them would be an interesting experience.

Go see!

Heavy metal machines at pax west interview and demo

HEAVY METAL MACHINES AT PAX WEST INTERVIEW AND DEMO HOW TO

But health is displayed at the very bottom of the screen, meaning you have to drop your gaze to see how badly you’re hurting. It’s clean and minimalistic, which is perfect for a shooter. My primary complaint with Wolfenstein II was the user interface.

HEAVY METAL MACHINES AT PAX WEST INTERVIEW AND DEMO HOW TO

There were many insta-kill electric traps set up in the stage by one of Blazkowicz’s allies, and getting through the stage required awareness of which were activated, where switches were to enable or disable them, and how to lure Nazis through to their glorious, screeching deaths. Traps also played an active part in this stage. But this isn’t where Blazkowicz learns to walk – instead he’s forced to crawl back to his wheelchair after defending himself. Later, he uses conveyor belts to make his way through the facility, which proves a challenge when a Nazi flips the belt on him, sending him sprawling backward and out of the chair. At one point, he rolled his wheelchair onto a giant turning gear in order to cross the room. Blazkowicz can’t take any of the hospital stairs while in his wheelchair, and so he must navigate through the level in other ways that harken back to old school stage design. The stage design was the most brilliant thing about Wolfenstein II’s demo. The fact that you must do so in a wheelchair with slow movement and limited mobility just adds to the atmosphere. You need to think ahead, and take your targets out one by one in strategic shootouts. In the demo, at least (likely the first stage of the game), you simply can’t roll in with a hot barrel and bullets flying. While there was no proper cover mechanic, there was the ability to lean for a shot around cover – and doing so proved important. The controls were smooth and responsive, plenty familiar for FPS fans. A dying man offers a gun to the wheelchair-bound hero, warning Blazkowicz that “they have come for him.” From here, our protagonist must fight through the hospital against the Nazis that have hunted him down. The demo began with BJ Blazkowicz waking in a hospital that has come under attack. At PAX West 2017, I pulled up a seat at Papa Joe’s All American Diner and had a large helping of a demo stage. Smashing Nazis into dust in a video game, on the other hand, is remarkably achievable, especially when it’s Wolfenstein II. By Jaime Skelton ( MissyS), Editor-in-Chiefĭefeating hate in the world is a monumental task that will take generations, if such a lofty goal can even be accomplished.

#paxwest was awesome! It was my first one ever and I will definitely be back again for another next year! Here's little something that I got while I was up there. . . . #pax #paxwest2022 #Seattle #teamfortress2 #signature #pyro #spy #heavy #demo #sniper #medic #administrator #valve #tf2 (at Seattle Convention Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiNphMgJ8aZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

OKAY FRIENDS! Some things we learned at PAX about Help Wanted 2:

- while Eclipse is described as the threat in the ‘Carousel’ mini game, I demoed that game and only went up against Moon (attempting to repair the carousel by exchanging knobs. Moon snuck gradually closer and could be sent back with the flashlight)

-based on this I expect the Carousel mini games will be a category, and Eclipse will be a harder level of it.

-the demoed mini games give pretty much no real insight to the premise of HW2, but the game does look beautiful graphically. Moon killed me quickly but his animations were lovely and fluid

-the Eclipse animatronic used Sun voice lines I have never heard before, though I didn’t get them on film. He said “now now, stay put and work on your crafts!” Or something to that effect. Idk if these were cut lines or future lines we may hear in HW2

THE SLAY THE PRINCESS DEMO DIRECTOR'S CUT IS HERE!

Featuring:

New lines and scenes in Chapter 1

4 new Chapter 2 Princesses, bringing the grand total to 10.

10 new tracks of music.

A massively expanded opening to Chapter 2.

HUNDREDS of new voice lines from Jonathan Sims and Nichole Goodnight

All-in-all, there's probably about an hour or so of never-before-seen content in this update! If you happen to be attending PAX East this week, we'll be showcasing this new demo there as well, and there'll even be a standee of the Princess you can pose for pictures with!

There's 12 new achievements to find in the demo — since we overhauled the Chapter 2 experience for every Princess, we reset the "ending" based achievements, and there's a couple others to find as well.

Thanks so much for your continued support, and we can't wait to show you more!

We're happy to announce that Long Gone Days is going to be out this October 10th on Nintendo Switch, PS4/PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC/Mac, thanks to our publisher Serenity Forge!

We're super excited for you all to experience the whole story, because we poured all our love into it!

By the way, a new demo will be available at PAX West (September 1-4) at Serenity Forge's booth 1016. And finally, the game is also going to be available in several languages, including Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Russian and Traditional Chinese!

HELP WANTED 2 PAX RUNDOWN (SO FAR):

All info obtained from someone who went to pax and recorded themselves there. Filming of the booth is allowed but filming of the minigames is prohibited.

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Allegedly they have an ETA of December 2023, and are planning on showing more footage after Pax.

The HW2 demo has 3 minigames available, similar to the HW1 PAX demo. These games are titled:

Breaker room

Carousel

Bonk-A-Bon

Each visitor can only pick one minigame to play before they need to leave. The streamer in Freddit, Chillyshiba, chose Breaker Room. The others have a little less concrete info from what I can tell, but I'll still write what I've got.

Breaker room is pretty self explanatory. It's the SL breaker room level, but apparently a little different. Something about shooting him with a megaphone?

Carousel is the most interesting to me-its apparently the scariest, and apparently the main foe is Eclipse! Which explains why he's a set piece in the surrounding booth.

UPDATE: CAROUSEL actually has Moon

UPDATE 2: DETAILS FOR CAROUSEL:

The last one is Bonk/Whack-A-Bon, which is probably just what it's title says-whack em down like whack a mole.

UPDATE: I was mostly right about this one, but Helpy is apparently included in the array of hittable little dudes.

The booth itself is also cool as hell.

And that's all I've got for PAX for now. I decided to make a bit of a post on it on tumblr because I've realized that a lot of this info is split between Twitter and discord and I want to spread the word more.

my biggest regret as a token collector is being unable to get the faz token