The Gunk is an upcoming third-person action platformer from developers at Thunderful Games and Image and Form. The game is also from the makers of the Steam World games, which I’ve covered before with the trailer for Headhunter.

The game is an Xbox exclusive (says me, the PS4-thumping Metal Gear Solid fanboy), but it’s also on PC for those of you with more brain cells than I!

The Gunk is set to release December 16th, 2021, day one with the Xbox Game Pass . You can also view a fuller gameplay trailer here.

The folks at Thunderful Games released a featurette on their YouTube channel today. The video sees Fiona Nova (voice actress for the Gunk protagonist, Rani) play through and explain parts of the game and development. The Gunk follows Rani and her group of space-faring friends in Cowboy Bebopian fashion, a rag-tag crew looking to make a quick space-buck. Nova also compliments Abigail Turner’s performance of Bex, Rani’s partner in crime who looks a heck of a lot like Clementine from Tell-Tale’s Walking Dead!

A strange mystery unravels when the crew stumbles upon the remains of a long-forgotten civilisation! The locations shown off vary from fantastical gorgeous landscapes to dark foreboding wastelands, heavily implying a possible horror element alongside Nova’s comments on the Gunk having good tension-building… Also, given how another blog of mine touched on Critical Race Theory, BEHOLD: The CRT Droid!

Speaking of race, it really fills me with some good-‘ol jingle-tingling in my wibbly-wobbly self whenever a game has a lead woman or person of color in the story. A lot of games feature custom protagonists, you could be bright green with a Pinocchio nose without getting shifty looks in most MMORPGs, but having a specific lead character be written as a woman of color in the first place is a good bit inclusion adding to the wider canon of games as artistic expression… Or in lay terms: Girl power yay, gamergate nay!

In the spirit of Rani having that fancy-shmancy arm-canon thingamajig, here’s a question for you smarties reading this… Why in the ever-living space crap do so many black characters in games and TV have a metal arm or gun arms? Like, I’m not complaining, I wouldn’t try to bully someone out of getting a sick robot arm just because they’d be better at finger-banging, but it is a little oddly specific. Jax? Barret? Doomfist? Cyborg? And now Jett Black from Cowboy Bebop is added to the list! Swear down I’m not complaining, but hey, sounds like an oddly specific trend to become a thing in pop-culture. Maybe there’s an interesting historical factoid behind that.

Product Poems:

“Annie, get your gun, gal“! Her mech appeared. “Shooty bang-bang, y’all”!

Call me the supersoaker, cuz I splash mouth in fash-cows like Smash-Mouth!

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New World. Honey. Baby. Sweet Prince. Sugar lips. Brother from another mother that loved another to smother under covers with Danny Glover… Actually, we DON’T need to talk about branding this time. Because at this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if you were doing this on purpose for attention! To which I say, ‘fair play to ya, as long as I keep getting paid to take the Mick, I’m a happy duck’.

Amazon, admittedly, has addressed the issues with New World and has been very candid about how a fair amount of the game’s issues being the result of a specialized bot not picking up on things, but hey, you win some you lose some. And in this case, what you lose is THE ABILITY TO PARTICIPATE IN THE FREE MARKET… In the game of course.

Admittedly can’t put ALL the blame on the folks at Amazon here, the reason the trading posts in New World have been disabled now is because of a player fiddling a little too hard with the mechanics and discovering a new exploit.

A dramatic explanation of the exploit in the character of a wise old mentor in the pending post-apocalypse of 2020 Part 3: “Long ago, in the firey depths of Tartarus, a cunning warrior of phallus-thickeningly epic proportions discovered a way to duplicate difficult-to-craft items and re-sell them at exorbitant prices. Even going so far as to “dupe” in-game trophies! For you see! Upon discovering one could eat a deep-fried pumpkin-battered lamb chop in one hand and exploit video game hacks with the other, THUS, the first capitalist was born… But why do the ruins have so many part-bitten apples and strangely-curved legally-distinct logos laying around”?

Why Trophies? Trophies are furnishing items tied to the game’s housing system that provide the player with powerful passive bonuses that remain active in every zone of the game. Think “what if that hand-furnished IKEA table I got on sale inexplicably made me better skydiving”. Players can have up to 5 trophies at a time in their in-game lodging and are very powerful.

The players who discovered the duplication glitch allegedly tried to inform Amazon’s Developer Team of the issue to no avail, which resulted in them going public. Based on fan discourse and criticisms, Amazon’s leniency with the “duping” crowd honestly makes no sense. I mean, the whole point of games like this is you DON’T want people to be able to make cool things super easily on their own, look at Fortnite! It took me grinding through around 3 seasons of Fortnite to get by own cosmetic skin without having to pay legal tender for Vbucks! It may not be ideal for me, but it’s a good system if you want to incentivise people to pay real money to get in-game cosmetics (or in this case in-game special abilities).

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Greedfall. PS4 and PS5. My gift: Jeffe Bethos.

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Fairy tale Day Haiku

by Luna L’Trix

It’s Fairytale Day today and everybody loves a good fairytale to brighten up their day. Whether it be crying into an empty ice-cream tub (because you’ve finished all of the ice-cream) whilst watching Cinderella, or reading Little Red Riding Hood…in the middle of the woods surrounded by wolves in dresses. So here is a little haiku for you to ponder on…

Fairy tales tell of myth, legend and intend to deceive,

but reality is also a far-off distant land.

If you call for a dragon, it will come…

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