Fly the X-Wing from Star Wars & horror games

Leigh Milner - The developers behind one of the most anticipated games of 2020 have gone into what’s called “crunch”.

CD Projekt Red, who are making Cyberpunk 2077,  instigated “mandatory extended work weeks” — so they could complete the game before its release date on 19th November. That’s despite the studio previously pledging not to do exactly that... to get the game finished.

One of the original Facebook games - FarmVille - will stop working at the end of the year. The game... where you build and manage a farm... was once the most popular on Facebook! It’s because “flash player” that allows the game to run… won’t be supported any more. Zynga who manage the game say “As a direct result of Flash’s removal, Facebook will no longer be able to support games that use this technology... and sadly FarmVille is one of those games.”

Several major developers have formed a coalition to fight Apple over its app store policies.
“The Coalition for App Fairness” is made up of members from Spotify, Epic Games and Tinder. It claims Apple "taxes consumers and crushes innovation".

If you want to catch up on the Apple versus Fortnite Drama so far… download the last few episodes of the podcast where we dramatised it…

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Alex Griffiths finds out if you should play Star Wars: Squadrons in VR.

Alex - So I've had Star Wars: Squadrons for just over a week now. And what I've realized is it's pretty much two games rolled into one. You've got the flat screen version, which is a really enjoyable arcady space flight SIM with really lively multiplayer. And then you've got the VR version, which is all of your childhood dreams of being Luke Skywalker come to life at once. There's nothing in gaming, like looking to the side after your cockpit and watching the X-Wing foils move into attack position. If you grew up with Star Wars like me as well, it does make the hairs stand up on your arm when you're in the cockpit as well, very different to the flat screen version. 

Drew Miller Hyndman is back to review the next FIFA game - FIFA 21.

Drew - FIFA 21 feels a little bit like FIFA, 20.5. If this game had come out 10 years ago, it wouldn't be a whole new game. It would be a piece of DLC. I guess the main changes come to the gameplay and those changes are very welcome if maybe not going quite far enough and to career mode. So I'll start on career mode. It's a nice change to have a training and youth system. That actually means something it's a lot more fleshed out. It's not just simulating the same five training sessions that you would always do before. 

You do have to think a little bit more about it is a little bit more frustrating trying to manage the sharpness of your players. Yes. Another thing to try and manage. The game mode changes are probably the thing I'm happiest about. And I guess most excited about they have made players feel like they are actually moving and responding to the way you're playing the game.

Chris Berrow and Leigh Milner review Crysis Remastered.

Chris - So 13 years later, the game came out in 2007. It was the technical benchmark. So when it came out, if your computer was rubbish, you couldn't really run Crysis. But as you bought extra bits for it and powered it up, it started to look better and people were saying, look how amazing Crysis looks. Now... they've released it on PlayStation 4 and it is an absolute shocker of a game. It's a real shocker. It is jerky. It can barely load. And it's got us an autosave system every minute or two. So you're running along and then it sstutters.