Unbeatable is an exceedingly cool rhythm RPG ‘where music is illegal’ coming in 2025-
In a world where music isn’t just counterculture but is downright illegal, being in a band really is the most punk rock way of life. That’s the story, or at least part of it, in the upcoming “narrative focused rhythm-action RPG” Unbeatable, the debut project from D-Cell Games. Unbeatable debuted a new trailer and plans for its 2025 launch during today’s PC Gaming Show.
Unbeatable clearly isn’t your typical rhythm game at all. D-Cell says the five chapter story takes place in an open world with rhythm minigames and an original soundtrack. The new trailer is heavy on the animation and alt rock soundtrack but you can catch some of its rhythm segments too.
The main character Beat—which probably won’t be confusing; it’s fine—leaps, kicks, and blocks to the music in a way that looks a lot like a 2D fighting game as much as it does a rhythm game. There’s some over-the shoulder rhythmic fighting here too as Beat fights off enemies inside a railcar. Oh, an…
‘I see you’re looking for a Prime Day PC gaming deal. Would you like help-‘-
The AI revolution is coming. There’s nothing we can do about it, one day everything we do will be replaced by some collection of digital logic supplanting us. That day is not today, and the Tom’s Guide’s deals bot might just be the latest evidence that we’re still a little way off being ditched just yet.
Using the OpenAI ChatGPT 3.5 API, Tom’s Guide has deployed its own wee chatbot, scraping through the entirety of Future PLC’s content to dig out the best deals it thinks worth your time.
It’s even been casting its gaze over PC Gamer’s content and is intent on bringing you it’s own thoughts on what we write. Well, I say ‘thoughts’, but it’s just a large language model (LLM) regurgitating our content in a form relating to the natural language input you give it.
- BTW, we’re MANUALLY curating all the best Amazon Prime Day PC gaming deals right here.
You can check out how effective it is at delivering yo…
Vampire- The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2’s final clan reveal dashes the hopes of anyone wanting to play a Malkavian at launch-
Vampire: The Masquerade’s blueblood vamps, the Ventrue, are the fourth and final clan being unveiled for Bloodlines 2. Unlike the unexpected addition of the Banu Haqim, shown off during the PC Gaming Show, the Ventrue reveal has been easier to predict: these vamps are VTM’s aristocracy, heavy hitters that often have important positions in the Camarilla, ruling vampire society. They were playable in the first Bloodlines and had been announced for the original version of Bloodlines 2.
Footage of a Ventrue vampire in action will have to wait until next year, but if you choose to play as one you can expect to mesmerise mortals and vamps, forcing them to obey your commands. And if someone’s willpower is strong enough to resist your powers, you can build up your fortitude by feeding, allowing you to take more damage if it comes to a brawl.
As someone who prefers to talk their way out of trouble in RPGs, the Ventrue are pretty appealing. In my first Bloodlines playthrough…
You can pick up 7 excellent metroidvanias for $15 over at Humble right now-
As someone who is regularly barred from certain rooms due to a lack of abilities and resources, metroidvanias are a familiar and enthralling experience for me. Now you can experience them too, thanks to a recently launched Humble Bundle that contains some of the best metroidvanias of the last few years for a mere $15/£12.
That’ll net you a gaggle of games featuring:
- Hollow Knight
- Rain World
- Blasphemous
- Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
- Lost Ruins
- Lone Fungus
- Haiku the Robot
Every single one of those boasts a user review score of over 90% on Steam, and one of them—Hollow Knight—enjoys a spot on our best metroidvania games on PC list, although to be honest I think quite a few of them could argue for a place.
The headliner is obviously Hollow Knight, the bug-based side-scrolling adventure whose sequel fans are still patiently, patiently awaiting. There’s not much to say about i…
Diablo 4’s toning down monsters’ power to slow, stun, chill and otherwise cramp your style-
This week’s Diablo 4 patch will tone down the ability of monsters to control players, nerfing a variety of crowd control effects across the entire game. The variety of cold-enchanted elites with exceptionally quick attacks will no longer pop you with the cold enchant every single hit, Cold Spiders will chill you less, Cold Goatmen will drop ice pillars slower, and chilling winds will overlap its nasty walls less often. That’s in addition to a variety of slows and stuns getting shorter durations or more easily avoided animations.
Generally speaking, it’s part of reducing how often the monsters can break your stride. “These changes are aimed at the player having less time being Crowd Controlled and receiving more recovery time after being crowd controlled, especially at higher World Tiers,” said Blizzard’s developers.
It’s part of a clear trend towards more player power in the wake of poor reception to patches earlier this year. Those are the ones that had some here at PC …
‘Personality-driven’ influencer esports league revealed, immediately implodes over NFT controversy-
Just a few days after being announced by ubiquitous YouTube presence Mr. Beast, the high-profile “Creator League” esports series has collapsed in a swirl of confusion and anger about its use of blockchain technology and accusations that the whole thing was in fact an NFT launch.
Creator League struck me as a little odd right from the start. It was formally revealed by Mr. Beast, one of the biggest names on YouTube, but he’s not actually involved with the project. Several of the influencers who are (or were) taking part are not meaningfully involved in gaming: Bella Poarch, for instance, is a singer and social media celebrity, CDawgVA is a voice actor, podcaster, and variety streamer, and VinnieHacker is a Tiktok star. Yes, they occasionally stream games, but it’s hardly their bread and butter.
Apparently that was an intentional choice: Those influencers and others would provide “personality-driven content,” Creator League organizer eFuse said, while Hecz and Scump of Opt…