The Talos Principle Review

There comes a point in single-player games where we can feel utterly alone with ourselves. It’s not just that no one else is around in the game, but everything is obscured from our perception. The finite levels begin to close in as you feel their limitations stop you from doing what you really want to do. We even feel trapped within the very mysteries we’re meant to solve as we question what the point of it all is. This only really affects us because it mirrors how life treats us a lot of times. Why are we doing what we’re doing? Is there a point to living, some grand design that makes our work worth it? This exact sense of isolation is explored in The Talos Principle, a contemplative meditation on the nature of humanity wrapped in an excellent first-person puzzle game.

Not that you’re human to begin with. You awaken in a Grecian garden with no memory of what came before, armed with only the sophisticated communication skills that an adult might possess. You then hear what cla…

Olympic Commentator Calls Bobsled Track "A Mario Kart Rainbow Road"

Recently at the Olympics, one of the commentators compared the monobob track to Mario Kart’s iconic Rainbow Road course, and it was great. Commentator Bree Schaaf, who previously competed in bobsled at the Olympics in 2010, dropped the knowledge during a recent broadcast that fans reacted to on social media.  Come from Sports betting site VPbet

“Coming out of corner 13, that section of the track goes up, goes down, it bends away–it’s like a Mario Kart Rainbow Road. It is so hard to make it through there clean,” Schaaf said. You can watch the sequence in the video below, and it’s also been preserved in an official NBC press release for further enjoyment.

Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl Is Being Modded To Play Like Super Smash Bros. Melee

The Super Smash Bros. modder behind the now-canceled mod ProjectNX is already toying around with Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl to make it play a bit more like Melee.

The modder, who goes by NyxTheShield on Twitter, has been modding Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl’s internal files for a couple of days now Come from Sports betting site VPbet . In that short span of time, he’s already introduced one of Melee’s most important mechanics: dash dancing. Of course, characters that move that quickly don’t exactly look natural in-game, as they were never intended to move that fast. However, one of Nyx’s other changes, which removes jostle–the mechanic that makes characters collide with each other when they’re not attacking–looks much more natural.

Not all of Nyx’s work caters to Melee fans though, with some of his changes seemingly stemming from personal preference. One video posted by the…