Joanna Nelius made a goth go to the beach (opens in new tab) in The Sims 4 expansion Island Living. Somehow she managed to not get burned to a crisp, even while sunbathing nude, and she also seems to have dodged food poisoning as well despite eating a sandwich out of a waterfall. The Sims is weird.
Chris Livingston tested out Fortnite 76, which is the hilarious name we have given to Fallout 76's battle royale made. I wasn't sure I was going to bother with this but then he mentioned that between matches you get to explore a vault and learn about what happened in it (opens in new tab). Oh god, I'm going to play this, aren't I?
Most of the team were at E3 last week, which is where Phil Savage had a go at Roller Champions. It's a sci-fi roller derby with a fair amount of Rocket League's DNA in there, which sounds like it could be a good time. Depending on your team-mates, of course, as Phil found when he made an enemy (opens in new tab).
Also at E3, Samuel Roberts played a few levels of John Wick Hex, the other Keanu Reeves game that was there. This one's an action game where you can pause to set up your next move, whether that's shooting or melee or throwing an empty gun at someone, and Sam compares it to XCOM via Superhot (opens in new tab). It sounds like a much more impactful implementation of a real-time combat system with pausing than the average top-down RPG, that's for sure.
I played Journey, the 2012 PlayStation game about crossing a desert and climbing a mountain that finally came to PC this year. It can be soothing (when a vista sweeps out in front of you), tense (when a strange creature swims through the air overhead), and exhilarating (when you surf down a sand dune). Finally playing it after hearing about it all these years I was a bit underwhelmed by the multiplayer—other players randomly appear, but can't talk and are simply fellow pilgrims sharing your voyage—because I only saw one of them and they were off in the distance. At the end of the game it told me the names of two players who apparently shared the journey with me, so maybe I was just a distant robed figure to somebody else as well. It's still a worthwhile experience, though I think their underwater follow-up Abzu did it better.
Enough about us. What about you? Did you take advantage of Hunt Showdown's free weekend (opens in new tab)? Is anyone playing Cooking Simulator (opens in new tab)? Did you grab the Borderlands games while they're on sale, or try the new DLC (opens in new tab) while it's free? Let us know!
