Video Games – Moe Lane

The DOOM: THE DARK AGES trailer.

I say this without meaning anything critical about it: here we go again.

Tweet of the Day, Elder Scrolls VI Leak? edition.

I dunno how true this is, but it does seem to scratch my itches. And yes, I’m one of those people who like settlement building in my games. I feel no shame for it, because it’s soothing. I could always use more sooth.

First Details on The Elder Scrolls VI

>Game is going to be more immersive, with fast loading times

>Takes place in Hammerfell and High Rock

>Will have naval battles, ship building and marine (underwater) exploration inspired by Starfield, exploreable islands
Dragons will… pic.twitter.com/Ec8bUtwmqj
— Pirat_Nation 🔴 (@Pirat_Nation) February 21, 2025

Via @DaddyWarpig, who is dubious on general principles. Fair. I did like Starfield, though. Apparently that makes me rare.

#commissionearned

So, is AVOWED any good?

I’m getting the impression that AVOWED is being well-received, but I’ve got five billion things to do, as usual. Anybody play it yet? Will I regret waiting until it goes on sale at some point?

#commissionearned

So, what’s the best UNOFFICIAL Baldur’s Gate 3 print guide?

Since there’s apparently not an official one, which just feels weird. It’s a popular game! You’d think they’d have put something together, made a decent extra amount of change that way.

Moe Lane

PS: Yeah, I’m restarting. I usually don’t finish a game the first time; instead, I go back to the start, and then carefully squeeze all the juice out of the lemon as I go. I am, in fact, the prime audience for print guides.

The coming of the Nintendo Switch 2.

GeekTyrant has more details. At first glance, it looks more like a refinement of the Switch than anything else: larger size, integral stand, that sort of thing. Supposedly it’s coming out in 2025. Probably it’s gonna be an absolute monster of a seller when it does. Hopefully you’ll be able to play all your old games on it, too.

The THE BLOOD OF DAWNWALKER videogame cinematic teaser.

Well now. This looks fun. Kind of messed up, in that special Central/Eastern European ‘so far from God; so close to Germany and Russia’ way, but fun.

The ATOMFALL gameplay overview trailer.

ATOMFALL looks interesting: retro-British survival atomic horror. The sort of game where you scrounge for ammo and meet a lot of Fallout-style lunatics. I wonder if there’s any safe zones where you can recover your mental bearings.

HELLDIVERS 2 to get god-awful movie adaptation.

…In your heart, you know I’m right: “The hit video game Helldivers 2 is getting the feature film treatment! Sony Pictures announced the project during their CES 2025 press conference.” It’s going to be very exciting, really. My eldest loves Helldivers 2, and hasn’t really experienced yet the special pain that comes when a movie studio takes one of your favorite video games, and drops it feet-first into a wood chipper. The life lesson will be good for his development, really.

Moe Lane

PS: Trust me, I could have been considerably more… visceral …in that imagery.

#commissionearned

The Greatest Science Fiction Exploration Game Ever (Starflight) is on sale on GOG.com.

I SAID WHAT I SAID.

The “I love you to death, Ciri…” THE WITCHER 4 trailer.

“…and it’s great to see you; but Geralt probably should have explained more about why you don’t let the girl go back to the village just quite yet.”