This week in games: Portal on the Apple IIe, Pillars of Eternity 2 teased, and more - freelsject1971

Ah, a stochastic Friday in Jan. Nothing you could possibly comprise heed to except for our weekly round-up of computer game news, right? Right.

This week we've got Portal recreated for the Apple IIe, the possibility of a new Pillars of Eternity sequel, theSuper Mario Odyssey trailer ported into the world of Grand Larceny Automobile IV, some other Overwatch holiday event, and more! Present's your gaming news for January 16 through 20.

The Torment continues

Another hebdomad, some other Torment: Tides of Numenera lagger. This uncomparable lacks Colin McComb unfortunately, but does provide a look at Torment's combat. It's turn on-based, unlike the genuine-time-with-pause system used by Eternity Locomotive engine games.

Pillars of Eternity 2?

While we'atomic number 75 on the subject of isometric CRPGs and Infinity Engine games: Obsidian's been teasing a new project all week, and information technology's protrusive to look like a sequel to Pillars of Eternity. The number 1 teaser image was pretty unsubdivided.

But the ordinal includes a reference to the Effortful Key, a faction in the Pillars universe. That seems to confirm it, though there's been no official announcement yet. Who knows, maybe we'll even up see this one at GDC next month.

Madness

Cyanide's Name of Cthulu project is apparently far enough along to draw a strait-laced trailer now. It's mostly cinematic filler, but the few scraps of real in-game footage here (at to the lowest degree I think they'rhenium stake footage) look pretty similar to the first-somebody repulsion of Amnesia or Outlast. That's a damn good influence to draw from, sol here's hoping.

The year is Over(watch)

Mere weeks after Overwatch wrapped up its Winter Wonderland event, the shooter's back with yet other holiday-themed muff-out. Details are scarce at the moment, just starting on January 24 Overwatch will be celebrating the "Class of the Cock" Lunar New Year event. And there's a new Mei skin, among other things.

Concrete hobo camp

Did you learn last hebdomad's trailer for the new Super Mario game? The one where Mario is inexplicably wandering around a realistic-looking city? Considerably YouTuber CrowbCat saw that and ran with it, recreating the trailer in Grand larceny Auto IV. Get ready for some sick backflips.

That painted look

Google's Tilt Brush is by farthest the best feel for happening the HTC Vive, and has been since its earliest demo days. Paint. In 3D. Not only can you make up some amazing things, only it's simple adequate that anyone can immediately grip the concept.

And so I was excited to hear about Google's new Tilt Brush Toolkit, a way for people to bring their Angle Brush creations into Unity and use them as game assets or what have you. I'm hoping we visit some of this before long—IT could work some amazing art styles. Agree retired the blog post linked above for details, or this teaser vid:

Portal IIe

Neediness to see what Portal would be like on the Apple II? Well then give thanks Vince Weaver for bringing IT into the world, programmed almost entirely in Applesoft BASIC. Head to his site and you can download the disk image yourself and play IT in an emulator. It's only deuce levels and the GladOS encounter simply damn, I'm impressed.

No holds fastened

And now for the period update on the Eye versus Zenimax trial. Last week Oculus had just about selection words for Zenimax . This week Zenimax followed ahead with its own sharply-written handout:

"With the set off of the trial of our suit in Federal District Court in Dallas against Defendants Facebook, Eye and its direction, ZeniMax and id Software welcome the chance to present wholesome evidence of the Defendants' peculation of our Realistic Reality (VR) intellectual property. That evidence includes the theft of trade secrets and highly secret information, including estimator code. ZeniMax will also present testify of the Defendants' knowing devastation of evidence to cover up their wrongdoing. ZeniMax and Gem State Software are the visionary developers of breakthrough VR technology, and look forward to the vindication of our claims."

Multiple big-name players took the tolerate this calendar week, including Facebook's Cross Zuckerberg and Optic's (and passe-id employee) John Carmack, co-break Palmer Luckey, and Brendan Iribe. I recommend Polygon's reporting of the minutes if you'rhenium looking some in-depth reading, but hither's a good idea of how things are going, via Mike Isaac of the New House of York Times: