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We previously pointed you in the direction of Majuular's Ultima retrospectives when he was only up to Ultima 3, but if you haven't watched them yet, well, now you've got even more catching up to because Ultima 4: Quest of the Avatar and Ultima 5: Warriors of Destiny have now been thoroughly retrospected upon in hour-plus videos combining history, analysis, and actually playing the games today.
While 2018's Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 was always-online, it also didn't have a singleplayer campaign (you could play against bots, but you still needed to be connected to the internet). The 2019 remake of Modern Warfare was the first CoD to be always-online on PC while also having a full singleplayer mode, and it's been that way ever since. Over in Console Land, the singleplayer stuff remained accessible without a constant internet connection, though without your skins and so on. That's not the case for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, which will be always-online for everybody.
Despite the many hours I spent in the Age of Empires games back in the day, I never took the dive into the series' less historical spin-off, Age of Mythology. Maybe this year I'll finally give it a shot, as the trailer shown at the Xbox Games Showcase makes it look like a goofy good time.
Podracing with a pipe wrench, Airframe Ultra is a game of hoverbike violence with a smeary, low-poly look reminiscent of the blurred textures of the PS1 era. Hey, who needs detailed models when you're only going to see them while speeding past as they explode into gibs?
Among the many little tweaks Obsidian made in Fallout: New Vegas was an overhaul of VATS. The crit bonus and damage reduction were revised downward, meaning that rather than being a bulletproof god who took 90% less damage like you did in Fallout 3, the New Vegas VATS enjoyer gained a mere 25% damage reduction while cinematics played out. What's more, those cinematics were less cinematic, with decreased use of those dramatic camera angles that let you linger on the gore.
Cain on Games is back with another dive into the lost history of Troika. This time, Tim Cain has been digging through the proposals Troika sent out to various publishers as work on Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines was winding down, and he's come up with a doozy.
A new trailer for action game Abyss X Zero shows off a bunch of battles and bits of character in the world of the upcoming action-exploration-adventure. In it, a range of weapons from guns and swords to giant hammers and scythes with two ends on them smash through robotic, human, and zombified human foes.
I'm used to mystery games where the mystery is the main thing. In Strange Horticulture you may be running a shop while trying to figure out what's going on in Undermere, but you don't have to balance the books between trying to figure out how a druid got poisoned. You're not going to suddenly get a game over because a national chain of weird plant shops opened up a franchise across the road from yours.