Devolver Digital has announced that three of its games have been delayed to 2025 through an awards show. Yes, an awards show.
The Devolver Delayed Awards are a new tradition where the Cult of the Lamb publisher pumps up the developers of delayed games and gives them a moment to shine beyond just the typical X statement. This year, the winners were Baby Steps, Skate Story, and Stick It to the Stickman.
Yes, a lot of these games didn’t even have release dates that had to be pushed back. Baby Steps was announced during IGN’s Summer of Gaming in 2023 and just had a 2024 release window. Skate Story, on the other hand, has been delayed before. It was originally slated for a 2023 release before getting pushed back to 2024 during last year’s Devolver Delayed show. Is this the first two-time winner?
It also had an in memoriam segment where it mourned the games that actually launched this year, including Pepper Grinder, The Crush House, and Children of the Sun.
But the indie game publisher surprised everybody with a game that doesn’t exist (as far as we know). Volvy’s Adventure DX‘s award was accepted by Inscryption developer Daniel Mullins, who said touching words during his speech: “I didn’t make this game. I don’t even think this is a real game.”
Volvy is actually a long-running Devolver joke, a gaslighting classic game mascot that’s shown up in other Devolver videos. The publisher has shoehorned him into games where he doesn’t exist and even created a video last year about the fake Volvy series’ development. Or maybe he does exist and we’re all just uncultured.
Acer’s Predator Atlas 8 finally has a US release date and price, several months after the company first showed off the handheld in May. The highlight is the Intel Arc G3 Extreme chip inside, which has been adopted by only a couple of other consoles besides the Atlas 8. This version will go on sale exclusively at Best Buy on November 1 for $1,299.99.
Acer originally said the Atlas 8 would arrive in North America in October, but left pricing open at the time. The launch came amid the ongoing DRAM crunch, which has made memory more expensive across the PC industry and complicated pricing for hardware makers.
Gaming laptops and I have a complicated relationship. One of my first gaming rigs was an Acer Predator that was already outdated when I bought it. I was a broke college kid, and that was the best I could afford. So trying out high-end gaming laptops is always fun. But ASUS' ROG Zephyrus G14 is a lot more than a laptop that can run AAA games. It is portable, so you're not lugging around a 2.5kg machine everywhere you go. It is built well, none of that plastic chassis, and can even function as a normal laptop outside of just gaming.
Google Play is borrowing one of the Nintendo Switch’s most useful little tricks. A new Sidekick tool called Playbacks captures a short clip after something interesting has already happened, sparing players from running a screen recorder throughout an entire game.
Playbacks is part of Google Play Store v53.8 and keeps saved clips on the phone. Google first announced it earlier this month, but the new Play Store update marks its arrival for players. Anyone who has watched a perfect win vanish because the record button came too late already understands the appeal.