Investi-Gator: The Case Of The Big Crime tips the scales of justice today

By all accounts, Investi-Gator is somewhere on the bottom rung as far as animal detectives go. Still, I reckon we should give his debut game – Investi-Gator: The Case Of The Big Crime — a fair shake, on account of him being adorably doofy looking, and the game containing a cute-as-a-button Pangolin too. Developed by Games By Bees, it’s a short, silly detective adventure where solving the crime is the easy part. Getting the scaly detective to understand what’s going on? That’s a bit trickier. Below, a trailer featuring scenes not in the game, and some puppets which hopefully are.

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American horror novelist Alan Wake finds unlikely new publisher, Finnish video game company Remedy Entertainment

Working with publishers led the the novelist Alan Wake to flip his lid and get chased by ghosts or summat, so Big Al must be thrilled to escape the system of publishers and start self-publishing. Alan Wake developers Remedy Entertainment have announced they’ve gained the publishing rights to the third-person spooker-shooters, which were previously held by Microsoft. This seems more a happy consequence of old contract conditions rather than a sign that they’re planning to make a new one, but it should give them more power to do whatever they dang well please with Al.

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Steam Charts: Summer Sale Silliness sEdition

If there’s one thing that’s guaranteed to sweep through the Steam Charts like a giant fart, it’s a Steam Sale. Blowing out all the fresh, original or interesting new releases, the mid-year discount warehouse (Junction 45 off the M91) ensures it’s a top 10 of games you already bought or decided you don’t want to buy.

So who is buying them? Baddies. You lot are the goodies. It’s the baddies who do this to us.

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It's summer in Routine Feat, from the maker of It's Winter

There’s a piece of paper by my desk that reads, “My work does not bring joy and is not so important for me and the people around me, but I cannot quit it. Otherwise, what will I eat?”

Alright, Routine Feat, I know it’s Monday but take it easy. This is the latest first-person prod-about by Alexandre “Sad3D” Ignatov, who earlier this year made Alice O’s beloved Russian apartment ’em up It’s Winter. The best thing about it is that it’s set in the same set of apartment blocks, only now… it’s summer. But there are other nice things about it, too.

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Ninja murderfest Shadowlings is now free, mandatory

Ninja-themed spheremen stabbing simulator Shadowlings was one of my favourite games of 2018 (out of the, I will never stop pointing out, over 1300 games I played for Unknown Pleasures). It is now available for zero money. This means two things: one, the funnest tiddlywink-human-hybrid fighting game ever made can be yours in just a few clicks, and two, I am legally allowed to throw bags of peat at you if you don’t play it.

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Star Wars: Battlefront 3 exists as a fan-made mod for the original Battlefront 2

Before we get to the lasers, you must wade with me through the ridiculous murk of stupid video game names. This is a mod for 2005’s Star Wars: Battlefront 2, as opposed to 2017’s Star Wars Battlefront 2. That makes it far more interesting to anyone who devoted several of their formative years to colonified Battlefront but bounced off its modern incarnation. Especially so once you remember Star Wars: Battlefront 3 was nearly a thing, and that this mod is chasing what was planned for that – along with much else besides.

It’s been playable for years now, but the modders only recently got multiplayer working. You know. The good bit.

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Hitchhiker still exists; is still good

Hitchhiker has left me in a small pickle. Alec already reviewed it over a year ago, when the first drive came out as a Humble Original. That drive is the bit I’ve played too. But I did really enjoy playing it, and got a small glimpse of where the game is going, and I’ve found I want to remind everyone it exists as a result. So writing about it is partly a cucumber of my own vinegaring. Or possibly a grape of my own drying. Into a raisin. You might not understand that joke yet but I assure you it’s a relevant reference.

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