Here's a burst of gaming news related to or came out around The Game Awards.
The full list of 2024 Slappy Award winners includes:
- Best Slap with a Foreign Object: Winn Bourbon
- Best Backhand: Shizuka Tsubakikoji
- Best Slapping Attire: Seiko the Slapittarius
- Most Slappable Non-Human: Mecha-Tsubaki
- Most Elegant Slapper: Saori Tsubakikoji
- Best Tortilla Slap: Cristina Vee vs. James Montagna
- Best Slapping Duo: Leftie Mita and Rightie Mita
- 2024 Queen of All Slaps: Reiko Tsubakikoji
"I've slapped many a person in my time," said Lady Hanae Tsubakikoji, mother-in-law to 2024 Queen of All Slaps winner Reiko Tsubakikoji, "and borne witness to many superb slappers, but this year's crop of winners may have outclassed them all. It serves only to reinforce the strength and grace of the Tsubakikoji family."
Jackbox updated The Jackbox Survey Scramble!with two new game modes:
- DASH: Race to the finish line by picking the most popular answer from an array of choices. Confuse your opponents with decoy answers pulled from the list, or risk a double down to move further along the track.
- DARES: Challenge your opponents to reveal answers up and down the list. Will you give them a wide range to work with, or dare them to find something from a tiny portion of the list?
This new superhero point & click looks like it'll be a must play for 2025. Check out the video for Dispatch.
Did not expect for Capcom to bring back these two.
And, with Okami's original director.
So, Shadow Labyrinth is a new take on Pac-Man that was featured in the now released episode of Secret Level on Prime.
Here's some more info from the press release:
"SHADOW LABYRINTH is a broad departure from any previous PAC-MAN game, where players take on the role of another character as protagonist, named Swordsman No. 8. In the game, following the events introduced in the Secret Level animated short, players awaken on an alien planet still ravaged by war and monsters. They quickly encounter PUCK, a mysterious yet recognizable figure who teaches them that their aim in this treacherous world is to escape it, and to achieve that they must consume everything that waits in the darkness to survive – and ultimately become the planet’s apex predator. Drawing even more inspiration from the source material for this unique game, players traverse a maze-filled world where enemies and puzzles new and familiar will challenge them at every step. Success comes from mastery of fluid combat and exploration to uncover increasingly powerful abilities and skills and conquering challenging bosses to discover their true purpose."
