Palmer Sturman: Homeworld, one of the defining RTS games of the late 90s, has decided to pluck itself out of the skies and dive down to more firm footing with the latest prequel, Deserts of Kharak. Though the move from space to ground combat was a striking change of pace that worried me when news about the game first made its rounds, I must applaud developer Blackbird Interactive for keeping the feel and scale of Homeworld. It is after all, what made the game so endearing when it first released back in ‘99. So, in spite of the fact that Homeworld has traded its space ships for dune buggys, what else can be expected? A lot, as it turns out.
The Epic Game store only has one free game this week, but it's a pretty good one.
PC gaming is dead, long live PC gaming!
There was a period of time, through the 1990s and into the early 2000s, when many game critics and analysts speculated that PC gaming was on its last legs. They argued that the platform had become a creative backwater, and would soon be completely overtaken by modern consoles thanks to their burgeoning, easy-to-use online capabilities.
The Catch-All is back! That’s right, the Constantly Calibrating weekly gaming news show is back on the Internet, bringing you some of the news you may want to hear. On this week’s show the team explore the makings of a Goblin with Styx: Shards of Darkness; go on a brief combative adventure in Mass Effect: Andromeda, take a look at the lack of Virtual Console at launch for the Nintendo Switch; venture out to Mars with Homeworld; and wonder about Bethesda’s upcoming slate of games.
