Gaming
Visit a Claymation-Esque Cold-War Germany in Trüberbrook

Everyone has an idea for a Kickstarter campaign: a resurrected cult classic TV show, a new game console, a morbidly hilarious card game. You name it, someone’s probably already thought of it and put it on the site. But, occasionally, someone comes up with a unique idea that, while novel, is still familiar in a good way. That’s what gamers will get with Trüberbrook.
According to the campaign page, Trüberbrook is a “sci-fi-mystery graphic adventure” that takes place in the remote, 1960s cold-war Germanic village of Trüberbrook. Players will take the role of Hans Tannhauser as they explore the village after winning a trip to the town in a lottery, but they will quickly discover not everything is as it seems and what started as a vacation will end in a frantic race to save the world.
The studio, btf, has taken inspiration from numerous sources. The gameplay is reminiscent of old point and click games such as Monkey Island, while the story takes cues from The X-Files, Stranger Things, Star Trek, and Twin Peaks. But, the graphics are by far the most impressive aspect of the game; I’m not saying the story is bad, just that art style is drop dead gorgeous. The game is a mix of CG graphics made to look like claymation puppets superimposed on handmade sets digitized into the game via photogrammetry. The end result is a visually stunning and beautiful game world that doesn’t look like anything any gamer has ever seen before; even fully (and amazingly) claymation-animated games such as Armikrog pale in comparison to Trüberbrook. Oh, and the game will be available in both English and German/Deutsch.
As with most Kickstarter campaigns, Trüberbrook comes with a bevy of backer tiers and rewards. Rewards start as low as €5 ($5.88) with an exclusive digital wallpaper, but gamers who want the game need to pledge at least €25 ($29.38). The highest tier, €3,000 ($3,525.87), contains a unique scenery model used in the game, five Kickstarter exclusive game boxes that contain Steam keys, five early access Steam keys, two signed and numbered printed artbooks, five digital artbooks, five digital soundtracks, five sets of digital wallpapers, credit as an Associate Producer, and the placement of the backer’s name in a prominent spot in the game.
If Trüberbrook‘s gameplay and story is half as engrossing as its art style, the game just might be a contender for game of the year when it releases in 2018.
Gaming
Sony Has a “Monopoly” on the High-End Japanese Gaming Market, According to a US Senator

The never-ending saga surrounding Microsoft’s proposed $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard has a new participant. Today, Senator Maria Cantwell, a Democrat from the state of Washington, said some things about the subject that were hard to understand.
The senator, whose remarks were reported on by ResetEra, spoke at a Senate finance committee hearing on “the president’s 2023 Trade Policy Plan,” which we are sure was quite interesting.
Senator Cantwell said that she had been told that Sony “controls a monopoly of 98% of the high-end game market” despite the fact that “Japan’s government has allowed Sony to engage in blatant anti-competitive conduct through exclusive deals and payments to game publishers, establishing games that are among the most popular in Japan.”
This 98% statistic is highly deceptive because it ignores PC, Nintendo, and mobile games and instead refers to Sony’s adoption rate over Microsoft in Sony’s native country of Japan, a fact that shouldn’t surprise anyone who is even somewhat familiar with the video game business.
What can we do to rectify these problems and create a level playing field, she said of US Trade Representative Katherine Tai after charging Japan’s Federal Trade Commission with improperly failing to look into this purported “exclusionary conduct”?
It is absurd to claim that Sony has a monopoly on the Japanese video game market, as Luke Plunkett of Kotaku correctly points out, “because Sony doesn’t even have a 98% share of the market for the God of War series, a title they own, as Steam is getting 30% of every sale on PC.”
It goes without saying that we can’t expect elected officials to be experts in every field, but this is a visible step at a time when the ongoing attempt to buy the company is at a very important point.
Is it significant that Microsoft, along with Nintendo, maintains its headquarters in Redmond, Washington—Senator Cantwell’s district—or that Microsoft has given Cantwell more than $500,000 over the past two decades? Let us leave that up to you.
Consoles
Eating trash, Pizza Possum destroys the PS5

Pizza Possum is an arcade action game in which you, a possum, attempt to consume as much trash as you can without being discovered. It is a web-based sequel to the anarchy simulator Untitled Goose Game.It will eventually be available on the PS5.
We couldn’t help but notice that the possum in the title doesn’t look like the cute Australian possum that comes out at night to visit people.On the other hand, it looks like the horrible North American opossums are the ones that will attack trash cans and cause general chaos.Even though we think the second choice was better in terms of theme, we prefer the first one and are happy to explain why.
Your thoughts on Pizza Possum? Does it possess the necessary mass appeal to successfully skitter along the back fenceline while setting the dog off in the process?
Consoles
The Mercenaries, a free piece of DLC for Resident Evil 4 Remake, launches on April 7

Resident Evil 4 is now out, and the excellent remake can be bought right away.Even though you probably plan to play it all this weekend, you can take comfort in the fact that The Mercenaries, Resident Evil’s almost-required challenge mode, will be available as free DLC on April 7.
The mode’s exact details are still unknown, but if it’s anything like previous versions, you can expect some pretty hard tasks to test your skills.
You’re stumped about something? If you are still debating whether to purchase Resident Evil 4 Remake, be sure to look at our exhaustive guide for the answer or our in-depth review. Are you spending this weekend playing Resident Evil 4? Are you anticipating The Mercenaries?
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