Hand-drawn adventure game comes to Steam after being dropped from Apple Arcade, creator laments the way games ‘can just vanish’ today-
Inkblot Obra-Dinn-like adventure game The Collage Atlas originally released as an iOS exclusive in 2020, but when its Apple Arcade contract expired last year, the striking pen and ink game became unplayable. To keep it alive, its creator released a Steam version last month.
The architect of this post-modern duotone walking simulator, John Evelyn, began by creating renders of each game world object in Unity and then painstakingly drawing out each texture by hand.
In an interview with The Verge, Evelyn discussed how he fell in love with pen and ink art: “I liked all the incidental details and the accidents that come out along the way,” he said, even though “sometimes it goes horribly wrong!” The inkblot visuals impart a rich depth of texture, something tactile and person…
‘No interplanetary boundaries can contain her rage’- Baldur’s Gate 3 lover and reigning wrestling champ Athena defends her title in the Ring of Honor as Karlach made flesh-
If you told me a year ago that a character from a Baldur’s Gate game would have an officially-sanctioned crossover with a major wrestling event, I’d have given you the blankest of stares. But, here we are—Karlach from Baldur’s Gate 3, everyone’s favourite mammoth tiefling lady, has made an appearance in the Ring of Honour.
In case you’re unfamiliar, Ring of Honour has historically stood with titans like WWE (in which Athena fought as Ember Moon), and while it had a brief shut-down in 2022, it’s since been picked up again. Athena herself has had a prolific career in wrestling spanning almost two decades.
Over the weekend, Athena fought to keep her title as the women’s champion (a crown she’s held for over 482 days, with a win streak of 48 matches) against Hikaru S…