![]() ![]() ![]() If you’d like to contact Kotaku with suggestions, comments, or product announcements, you can email us at Kotaku Australia is published by Allure Media in association with Gawker Media. Sure, you could mosey over to the US site, but you’d miss out on all the juicy gaming goodness that’s relevant – and important – to you. The Australian edition of Kotaku is focused on taking all this fantastic news and crafting it into a tasty treat for all you Aussies and Kiwis. Whether it’s the latest info on a new game, or hot gossip on the industry’s movers, shakers and smashers, you’ll find it all here and nicely packaged at Kotaku. They’d be one in the same in every lexicon on the planet if it were humanly possible. And really, when isn’t it? More From Kotaku Australia It’s worth a look if your inner loot hoarder is feeling starved. The tutorial is a sadly necessary snooze, and there’s a bit too much rote loot/character management for my tastes, but at its heart Pixel Privateers is a compulsively playable, “one-more-planet” sort of game. The setting is every sci-fi trope you can think of tossed into a blender, and also the blender is a cyborg alien who might be god because nanomachines.Īfter a few hours with Pixel Privateers, I’m digging it. It’s not particularly novel, but there’s some fun dialogue, interesting faction dynamics, and plenty of humour. However, you can alter the difficulty on a per-planet basis, and there are tons of options - up to and including an iron man mode where squaddies who die don’t come back.Īs you’re exploring, the game meters out bits of story, whether it’s cyborg aliens yelling at you for wrecking their ancient alien technology excavation (while their robot master scoffs and declares your efforts too little, too late) or an aptly named Stranger appearing on your ship’s deck to cryptically enlist your assistance. On normal, I found the first couple hours to be a cake walk. Then you return to your ship, dress your vicious pixel people in the entrails of your enemies (which happen to be full suits of armour, generally), and jump back into the fray.Ĭombat, you might have noticed, can be pretty easy. The game, which has been hanging out in Steam’s top ten for the past couple days, describes itself as a “squad-based tactical loot-’em-up.” Basically, you travel through space, jumping between planets and sending squads down to explore, run missions, and beat the stuffing out of a variety of exotic loot pinatas. I’ve seen a lot of people comparing Pixel Privateers to games like Borderlands and Diablo, and it’s not hard to see why. ![]()
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