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Cairn (video Game)
''Cairn'' is an upcoming rockclimbing simulation adventure video game developed and published by The Game Bakers. The game is set to be released for PlayStation 5 and Windows on November 5, 2025. Gameplay ''Cairn'' was described by the developer as a "survival climber". In the game, the player assumes control of Aava, a professional mountaineer who aspire to become the first person to summit Mount Kami. Aava will discover the secrets of the mountain, and "decide the sacrifices she is willing to make" to achieve her dream. In the game, which is played from a third-person perspective, players are tasked to read the rock face to chart out their climbing routes. Players must manually position each of Aava's limbs as she climbs up the mountain, and unlock checkpoints through placing pitons at regular intervals. Players have to be aware of Aava's posture and manage her stamina. If Aava is placed in an uncomfortable position for sustained period of time, overextending or overexerting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Game Bakers
The Game Bakers is an independent game studio based in Montpellier, France. The company are known for creating video games for mobile devices including ''Squids'' and ''Combo Crew'', but have recently shifted their focus to console and PC games, with ''Furi''. At Summer Game Fest in 2024, they announced their latest game ''Cairn'', a survival-climbing game which is set to be released in 2025. History The Game Bakers were formed in 2010 by two former employees of Ubisoft, who worked on AAA licenses, Emeric Thoa and Audrey Leprince. The idea was to "make games as we cook: with a lot of love." The Game Bakers started by developing games for mobile devices and then decided to focus on consoles and computers games. In 2016, they released ''Furi ''Furi'' is a 2016 Action game, action shoot 'em up video game developed and published by indie studio The Game Bakers available for PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, and Amazon Luna. The game takes place on a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GamesRadar
''GamesRadar+'' (formerly ''GamesRadar'') is an entertainment website for video game-related news, previews, and reviews. It is owned by Future plc. In late 2014, Future Publishing-owned sites ''Total Film'', '' SFX'', '' Edge'' and ''Computer and Video Games'' were merged into ''GamesRadar'', with the resulting, expanded website being renamed ''GamesRadar+'' in November that year. Format and style ''GamesRadar+'' publishes numerous articles each day, including official video game news, reviews, previews, and interviews with publishers and developers. One of the site's features was their "Top 7" lists, a weekly countdown detailing negative aspects of video games themselves, the industry and/or culture. Today, they also publish "best games" lists segmented by genre, platform, or theme. These are divided into living lists, for consoles and platforms that are still active, and legacy lists, for consoles and platforms that are no longer a target for commercial game development. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steam (software)
Steam is a digital distribution service and storefront developed by Valve Corporation, Valve. It was launched as a software client in September 2003 to provide video game updates automatically for Valve's games and expanded to distributing third-party titles in late 2005. Steam offers various features, such as Matchmaking (video games), game server matchmaking with Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) measures, social networking service, social networking, and game streaming services. The Steam client functions include update maintenance, cloud storage, and community features such as direct messaging, an in-game overlay, discussion forums, and a virtual collectable marketplace. The storefront also offers productivity software, Video game music, game soundtracks, videos, and sells hardware made by Valve, such as the Valve Index and the Steam Deck. Steamworks, an application programming interface (API) released in 2008, is used by developers to integrate Steam's functions, including digital rig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inside (video Game)
''Inside'' is a 2016 puzzle-platform game developed and published by Playdead (company), Playdead. The game was released for the Xbox One in June 2016, Windows in July, and PlayStation 4 in August, followed by releases for iOS in December 2017, Nintendo Switch in June 2018, and macOS in June 2020. The player controls a boy in a Dystopia, dystopic world, solving environmental puzzles and avoiding death. It is the successor to Playdead's 2010 ''Limbo (video game), Limbo'', with similar 2.5D#3D games with a two-dimensional playing field, 2.5D gameplay. Playdead began work on ''Inside'' shortly after the release of ''Limbo'', using ''Limbo''s custom game engine. The team switched to Unity (game engine), Unity to simplify development, adding their own Rendering (computer graphics), rendering routines, later released as Open-source software, open source, to create a signature look. The game was partially funded by a grant from the Danish Film Institute. ''Inside'' premiered at Microso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Limbo (video Game)
''Limbo'' is a Puzzle video game, puzzle-Platform game, platform video game with horror elements developed by independent studio Playdead and originally published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360. The game was released in July 2010 on Xbox Live Arcade, and it has since been porting, ported by Playdead to several other systems, including the PlayStation 3, Linux and Microsoft Windows. ''Limbo'' is a 2D computer graphics, 2D Side-scrolling video game, side-scroller, incorporating a physics engine, physics system that governs environmental objects and the player character. The player guides an unnamed boy through dangerous environments and traps as he searches for his sister. The developer built the game's puzzles expecting the player to fail before finding the correct solution. Playdead called the style of play "trial and death" and used gruesome imagery for the boy's deaths to steer the player from unworkable solutions. The game is presented in monochromatic tones, usi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Stig Andersen
Martin Stig Andersen (born 1973) is a Danish composer and sound designer, best known for his work on the video games ''Limbo'' and ''Inside'', as well as contributions to '' Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus''. Career Andersen studied orchestral composition at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark. After graduating in 2003, he went on to study electro-acoustic composition at City University in London. Andersen cited spectral composers such as Tristan Murail as inspiration. In 2010, he served as composer and sound designer for ''Limbo'', joining mid-development after an earlier sound designer left the project. For the game, Andersen focused on using abstract sounds to define the game's atmosphere. Following the release of ''Limbo'', Andersen created and directed the audio for ''Inside'' and composed the soundtrack with SØS Gunver Ryberg, taking inspiration from 1980s horror films, often using synthesizers. The music was created by routing sound through a human skull, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cocoon (video Game)
''Cocoon'' is a 2023 puzzle adventure game developed by Geometric Interactive and published by Annapurna Interactive. The player controls a beetle that can hop between worlds, solving puzzles to unravel the universe's mysteries. The game was released on September 29, 2023 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S. ''Cocoon'' received generally positive reviews from critics. Gameplay ''Cocoon'' is a third-person puzzle video game. The player controls a small insectoid creature navigating multiple desolate worlds. The player wakes up in a barren wasteland, soon after discovering a mysterious orb. Each orb contains one of the game's worlds, allowing the player to hop between them, while also doubling as a unique ability in itself. The orb can also be used to power the various machinery found in these desolate worlds, such as lifts and platforms. As the player reaches the end of each orb, they are confronted by a boss fight they mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Souls
is a dark fantasy action role-playing game series developed by FromSoftware and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. Created by Hidetaka Miyazaki, the series began with the release of ''Dark Souls (video game), Dark Souls'' (2011) and has seen two sequels, ''Dark Souls II'' (2014) and ''Dark Souls III'' (2016). It has received critical acclaim, with its high level of game difficulty, difficulty being among its most discussed aspects, while the first ''Dark Souls'' is often cited as one of the greatest games of all time. The series had shipped over 37 million copies outside of Japan . Other FromSoftware games, including ''Demon's Souls'', ''Bloodborne'', ''Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice'', and ''Elden Ring'', share several related concepts and led to the creation of the Soulslike subgenre. Setting The games take place within the land of Lordran, where the player's character fights against knights, dragons, phantoms, demons, and other monstrous or supernatural entities. The acc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death Stranding
''Death Stranding'' is a 2019 action-adventure game developed by Kojima Productions and originally published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It is the first game from director Hideo Kojima and Kojima Productions after their split from Konami in 2015. It was first released for PlayStation 4 in November 2019, followed by a Windows port in July 2020. A director's cut was released for PlayStation 5 in September 2021, followed by releases for Windows in March 2022, iOS, iPadOS and macOS in January 2024, and Amazon Luna and Xbox Series X/S in November 2024. Sony published the game on their consoles, while 505 Games published all other versions under license from Kojima Productions. The game is set in the United States following a cataclysmic event which caused destructive creatures to begin roaming the Earth. The player controls Sam Porter Bridges (Norman Reedus), a courier tasked with delivering supplies to isolated colonies and reconnecting them via a wireless communications ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boss (gaming)
In video games, a boss is a significantly powerful non-player character and computer-controlled enemy created as an opponent to players. A fight with a boss character is referred to as a boss battle or boss fight. Bosses are generally far stronger than other opponents the players have faced up to that point in a game. Boss battles are generally seen at climax points of particular sections of games, such as at the end of a level or stage or guarding a specific objective. A miniboss is a boss weaker or less significant than the main boss in the same area or level, though usually more powerful than the standard opponents and often fought alongside them. A superboss (sometimes 'secret', 'hidden' or 'raid' boss) is generally much more powerful than the bosses encountered as part of the main game's plot and is often an optional encounter. A final boss is often the main antagonist of a game's story and the defeat of that character usually provides a conclusion to the game. A boss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Élisabeth Revol
Élisabeth Revol (born 29 April 1979) is a French mountaineer. In January 2018, Revol became the first woman to climb Nanga Parbat in winter; on the descent, she was rescued, while her teammate Tomasz Mackiewicz died, an event which was widely covered by the mainstream press. Having narrowly avoided amputation of her left foot, she traversed Mount Everest and Lhotse consecutively in May 2019. Early life Revol was born in Crest, Drôme, France and her parents introduced her to mountaineering in the Ecrins massif. She began climbing at age of 19 and became a physical education teacher. Career and expeditions In 2007, Revol went on her first expedition to Nepal. In 2008, she made a solo ascent of three Karakoram mountains - Broad Peak, Gasherbrum and Gasherbrum II – within a 16-day period and without the aid of oxygen; her climbing partner Antoine Girard had fallen ill. In April 2009, Revol attempted Annapurna with Czech climber Martin Minarik. After abandoning several a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
