I am a nosy gal, so I am unable to precisely blame Guybrush for being a bit salty that it has been three goddamn a long time and he nonetheless does not have a clue what Monkey Island’s secret is. However hey, something can occur—in spite of everything, Return to Monkey Island is a factor that is really releasing.
This month, we’re chatting to Ron Gilbert in regards to the sequel that was by no means presupposed to exist. The outdated Monkey Island staff has a brand new perspective, from evolving its artwork fashion to modernising the point-and-click fashion of gameplay. What precisely is the plan for our pricey Guybrush Threepwood all these years later? Monkey Island followers are in for a deal with with the subscriber cowl too, that includes beautiful artwork of Guybrush’s favorite zombie pirate pal LeChuck.
We additionally obtained to take a seat down with director and producer of Ultimate Fantasy 14 Naoki Yoshida, wanting again on what’s been an exceptional 12 months for the critically-acclaimed MMORPG and seeing what’s in retailer for Yoshida and our Warriors of Mild within the years to come back.
It is also that point of the yr as soon as once more: our PC Gamer Prime 100 is right here. Blood was spilled, hair was pulled and tears had been shed as we battled it out to find out the perfect 100 video games on PC which you can play proper now. There have been some mighty powerful selections to make this yr—we bumped a number of classics and others skyrocketed to the cream of the crop. We expect the record is fairly rad although, a mirrored image of our present staff and the place PC gaming is as we speak.
For opinions, this month you possibly can peep what we considered everyone’s new favorite four-legged pal in Stray. If spiders are extra your factor (to begin with, why?) then we have additionally obtained the lowdown on Spider-Man Remastered now that it is lastly hit PC, in addition to seeing what it takes to run a college in Two Level Campus.
Over on our {hardware} pages, we’re discussing if RGB has begun to die a vibrant, flashy loss of life as instances and peripherals mature and depart behind their rainbow lightshow days of outdated. With cash getting tighter for many people, we additionally took a take a look at some finances instances that may assist hold us in contact with our pastime whereas saving a number of quid.
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This month:
- How do you develop a sequel that was by no means presupposed to occur? Ron Gilbert tales his journey in how Return to Monkey Island got here to be.
- 2021 noticed Ultimate Fantasy 14 discover its ft and find yourself affected by its personal success within the course of. What did Naoki Yoshida make of all of it, and what’s in retailer for the sport’s future?
- Digital Extremes goes all fantasy on us with Soulframe.
- Critiques for video games huge and small together with Stray, Two Level Campus and Spider-Man Remastered.
- Useful methods to be a PC gamer on a finances.
- Plus a complete lot extra!
