Category: November

It’s been a little over two years since Sony released Horizon Zero Dawn on PC and we have since seen a slow trickle of first-party PlayStation games make their way over. These PC ports have proven to be generally successful and I’ve had high hopes for this PC push from PlayStation. However, we’ve begun to see some fumbling from Sony recently and I thought it might be interesting to examine the cause of these problems and what I think Sony need to do in order to correct their PC strategy.

Let’s start by taking a look at the two recent PC releases from Sony that have demonstrated the flaws in their strategy. First, the Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection was released last month on the 19th over a year after it was initially announced. While the game didn’t perform poorly, it did prove to be, up to that point, the weakest PlayStation PC release since Sony began their push. The lowest performing title before Uncharted was Days Gone with a peak concurrent player count of 27,450 but Uncharted ended up getting a mere 10,851 peak concurrent player count.

While I predominantly play single-player video games, there is an exclusively multiplayer video game that I’ve been playing and enjoying for years now, Overwatch. As you can imagine, I was quite excited about the eventual release of Overwatch 2 but, as the years went on, the fanbase, which includes myself, began to become more and more weary as Overwatch languished with little to no new content and the release date of Overwatch 2 seemed to be increasingly nebulous with an expected 2021 release passing by with only rumours circulating. However, the launch of Overwatch 2 finally came a few weeks ago and so, as a longtime player of Overwatch, I thought it might be interesting to share my own thoughts.

The first thing that I have to specify is that, as of this article, I can only share my thoughts on the launch of Overwatch 2 rather than the whole game of Overwatch 2. If you’re wondering why this is the case, it’s important to know that Overwatch 2 as it stands now is, for all intents and purposes, an early access game that has yet to deliver much of the content that was announced with Overwatch 2 such as PvE story missions, hero missions, customisation and leveling. Therefore, I can only examine Overwatch 2 as it stands today and not what it may be in a year or two from now.

I’ve recently been playing the Monkey Island games, specifically The Curse Of Monkey Island and Escape From Monkey Island, and I’ve been in a mood to play more point and click adventure games. However, as I mentioned when I spoke about the Monkey Island games, the point and click adventure genre isn’t anywhere near as popular as it once was and it feels rare enough that a modern point and click adventure game like Return to Monkey Island or Thimbleweed Park gets released. I’d heard the name “Daedalic Entertainment” before but it wasn’t until I began looking for more point and click adventure games that I learned that the genre was their specialty. Conveniently, their catalogue was on sale on Steam for steep discounts and I picked up a bunch of them. Now that I’ve had some time with their games, I thought it would be fascinating to take a look at Daedalic Entertainment, their history as a developer and their future in the point and click adventure genre.

Daedalic Entertainment is a German video game developer that was established in 2007 by Carsten Fichtelmann. Over the course of the next several years, they released a wide variety of point and click adventure games such as the Edna & Harvey games, The Whispered World, the Dark Eye games and their Deponia series. In 2014, a German company called Bastei Lübbe bought a 51% majority share in Daedalic Entertainment but ran into financial trouble years later. Earlier this year, it was announced that Nacon, a French video game publisher, was acquiring Daedalic Entertainment for €60 million.