This Month On Edge

The things that caught our eye during the production of E294

FOOTWEAR

Having already committed to hawking cars for Mercedes via Mario Kart, a leap to haulage vehicles might be the next logical step for Nintendo. The company elected to focus on a different variety of (wait for it) Vans, however, and is collaborating with the Californian footwear manufacturer on a collection of trainers. The range, which launches this summer and is available across a number of Vans’ existing styles, sports imagery from various 8bit classics including DuckHunt, SuperMarioBros and DonkeyKong. Some of the designs are a little more, uh, confrontational than others, but a relatively subdued Mario block pattern and a navy, red and mustard The Legend Of Zelda composition aren’t entirely horrible, actually.

continue Self-Drive

Sega offers Steam Workshop mods for Mega Drive games

Development kit

West Ham United becomes first UK club to sign an eSports player

1080please

Nvidia outperforms TitanTit X for half the price a year after its launch

In loo

Raleigh’s LawBreakers livesliv up to its name with gender-neutral toilets

quit Virtual insanity

YouTube plays host to documentation of the first wave of VR injuries

Growing Rift

Rift headsets reach retail channels before all preorders are fulfilled

1080PO’ed

Would anyone like to buy a Titan X for a very reasonable price?

Dark days

Issues with hacking and performance mar the PC launch of Dark Souls III

TWEETS

Yeah I respect the devs of Firewatch and don’t mind walking sims but it is entirely too hipster for me, not gonna stick with it, sorry.

Cliff Bleszinski @therealcliffyb Co-founder, Boss Key Productions Anyone wondering how to get a job in games ... just design something as good as Stephen’s SausageRoll, then you can just have *my* job.

Jonathan Blow @Jonathan_Blow Designer, TheWitness In the credits of Uncharted4 there are 28 or 27 animators credited. We had four on our game.

Thomas Puha @RiotRMD Head of public relations, Remedy Took the lift at work. Fought urge to send it back down again to save time if I died and had to come back up.

Chris Thursten @CThursten Editor, PC Gamer Pro