This means you can get your hands on the Evolving Demo NOW!
Here is our good friend Tomas Sala, the games solo dev guiding you through the Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles Free Build Gameplay Reveal Trailer: Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles is a chilled base builder, players can explore an unforgiving environment, manage the flow of resources as you help to breathe life into the land and provide asylum to those lost. Meet and hire commanders and specialists that unlock new building options, units and stories.
Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles requires a novel approach to building, something that isn’t about clicking over a screen but focusing on the world itself. In this sense, the game is one of experimental gameplay and controls, supported by a world and settlement that comes alive before your eyes.
We are hosting two live streams on the games home page: Friday 1800 PT / 2100 ET / 02:00 BST - ID_Xero fan stream Saturday 06:00 PT / 09:00 ET / 14:00 BST - Tomas Sala - The games creator
Our friends at Rogue Sun have today launched Tin Hearts on Steam.
Step by step, Heart to heart, Left, right, left, We all fall down. Like toy soldiers.
To celebrate the launch of Tin Hearts, which last week saw an animated prequel story narrated by legend Stephen Fry, Artists Aisha Vaughan and Kieron Pepper collaborated with Black Razor Records, the indie music label founded by Wired Productions, to create a cover of iconic and classic Toy Soldiers by Martika. The devastating beautiful track perfectly encapsulates the emotion of Tin Hearts, winner of the ‘Most Anticipated Nintendo Switch Game’ accolade during Gamescom 2022.
Watch below:
Behind every brilliant invention, hides a magical story. Guide a troop of tin soldiers through a magical toy-filled world, in this immersive narrative puzzle adventure game from members of the team that brought you Fable.
March through 40+ levels of time-bending, soldier-routing riddles, using a variety of whimsical and inventive contraptions to bounce, shoot and glide them to their goal. Forge new paths for your toys to follow, and solve increasingly elaborate puzzles to unravel the emotional, thought-provoking story of love, loss and compromise centred around the family of Albert J. Butterworth, a genius inventor of Victorian times.
Tin Hearts is out now on PC, PlayStation 4 & 5, and the Xbox family of consoles.
PCVR, Meta Quest 2 and PSVR2 are set to be released later this year.
They're kick-starting their indie game celebrations in style with a week's worth of glorious primed and juicy content. Central to the party you’re all invited to, is Wired's biggest ever Steam Sale. The sale is so big that the wordsmith team worked for 15 days straight to land the most unique and eloquent title… the “Wired 15th Birthday Mega Sale”.
Of course, we know this isn’t enough to get everyone excited on a Friday afternoon, so we've bundled a free weekend with Tiny Troopers: Global Ops, packed in the launch of Tin Hearts with up to 20% off, dropped brand new money-saving bundles, hit the green button on new demos for Gori: Cuddly Carnage and Bulwark: The Falconeer Chronicles, and (!) managed to drop coin with the reveal of all new pinball DLC for indie hit Arcade Paradise. The Wired Mega Birthday Schedule Includes:
- Steam Publisher Sale (May 12th to 18th) - Tiny Troopers: Global Ops Free-to-Play Weekend (May 12th to 14th) - Xbox Publisher Sale (May 15th to May 29th) - Tin Hearts Launch (May 16th for PC, PS4/5 and Xbox Series S|X) - Arcade Paradise Pinball DLC launch (May 18th)
Our biggest sale is here!! That's right, it's our birthday (15 wonderful years of indie gaming!) so we've fired up our AI deal maker (we call him Mauro 2.0) to curate the very best offers we've ever dared to drop! More so, as it's our birthday, we've teamed up with PCGamesN to offer our community a chance to win a SteamDeck! Want to win? Enter HERE! Please check out our lineup and hit follow to stay up to date on all Wired'd releases!
In addition, Wired is giving away over $1,000 in prizes via the Wired Social channels, from Steam Decks to custom consoles and the introduction of the Wired Black Card - think a Nando's card but instead of free chicken for life it’s indie games. Each year Wired will distribute a select number of Black Cards to friends, community members and other lucky folk. Follow @WiredP on Twitter for all the details.
F*ck War - Raising funds for WarChild
Ivar & The Horde released the anti-war song “Broken Walls”, dedicated to raising money for the children affected by the War In Ukraine.
Leading on from the success of the Single, which amassed a total of 100,000 listeners, the brand-new “Broken Walls” Future Funk Squad Remix video is an opportunity for us to kickstart the GoFundMe campaign and to get us all to dig deep and contribute to the charity WarChild.
TURN THIS UP LOUD and watch the 'Future Funk Squad Remix' below:
Released on Black Razor Records. “Broken Walls” is the latest release from alternative rock/rap artists, Ivar & The Horde (Stu Brootal & Kieron Pepper), and draws inspiration from the war-themed arcade twin-stick shooter ‘Tiny Troopers: Global Ops’ which launched on 9th March.
The game highlights a series of military megalomaniacs from around the world, and their greed-filled desire to cause conflict and chaos.
Every contribution on the GoFundMe will receive a download code for:
All proceeds from the song on Bandcamp and the GoFundMe will be donated to War Child.
Please give as much as you can, because 1 in every 6 children in the world are affected by armed conflict and we can make a difference. If you can't support financially. Please, share the message and get it seen by as many people as possible.
If you would like to know more about the charity. Visit them here: WarChild.
However, Martha is Dead has gone even better and won the Grand Prix award at the Indie Game Award 2023 at the Taipei Game Show.
You can watch the awards below:
The organizers at the Taipei Game Show got to interview Luca Dalcò from LKA about the win.
"Winning such an award can change something inside a person. When my ideas and the team receive such an important award, especially from a distant place with a culture so different from Italy, it becomes even more special. It serves as a powerful motivation for the team to strive to do better."
The Taipei Game Show Indie Game Awards 2023 Announced
The Indie Game Award 2023, one of the most prominent awards for indie games, unveiled award winners at the Taipei Game Show (TGS).
Shuhei Yoshida, Head of Indies Initiative at Sony Interactive Entertainment, was invited to present the awards at TGS, bringing incredible honour to indie game developers.
The Indie Game Award 2023 received 170 submissions from over 35 countries, which are record-high numbers that make the award more competitive than ever.
Only 8 indie game developers were able to take home the prizes and we are immensely proud to say Wired published title Martha is Dead took home the grand prize.
We are incredibly proud of this dark first-person psychological thriller crafted by the Italian Developers at LKA. A game that never shies away from loss, relationships, and the psychological undertones of a dark period of history. It also proudly embraces its Italian heritage from the breathtakingly realised Tuscany countryside to the authentic Italian soundtrack.
We have also celebrated Martha is Dead in a Collector's Edition. Our most ambitious one yet and is truly an item that every collector will cherish. Our initial run has now shipped from our warehouse and we are close to announcing the commencement of allocation two.
Register over at the Wired Store to be first in the queue.
Martha Is Dead, from the Italian developer LKA, received the Grand Prix award for the Indie Game Award 2023. This continues the award-winning year that Martha has had. Such as two awards at the China Joy Awards and World Trailer Awards.
Other winners at TGS were:
Best Audio Asterigos: Curse of the Stars from Acme Gamestudio
Best Design Alina of the Arena from PINIX
Best Narrative Gerda: A Flame in Winter from Denmark’s PortaPlay
Best visual art Passpartout 2: The Lost Artist from Sweden’s Flamebait Games
Best innovation RP7 from South Korea’s Turtle Cream
Best Mobile Game Afterburn’s Railbound from Poland
Best VR Game Railbound from Polands Afterburn
Best VR Game Intercosmos 2000 from Ovid Works S.A From Poland
AMD FidelityFX 2.1 and Intel XeSS Support lands with Steam Daily Deal!
Martha is Dead has a massive 30% discount as part of the Steam Daily deals starting at 6 pm GMT on the 16th of November.
Now is the time to experience the dark first-person psychological thriller, set in 1944 Italy, that blurs the lines between reality, superstition and the tragedy of war.
We are also launching a new update.
Metahuman intro and outro video added for graphical settings below ‘Ultra’, for all PC’s running the Steam version of the game - replacing ‘text’ versions of the prologue and epilogues on machines previously not capable of running Metahuman tech.
Added support for AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.1.
Added support for Intel Xe Super Sampling.
Watch Martha Is Dead | MetaHuman | AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.1 and Intel XeSS Support Trailer below:
What is AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.1?
FSR 2.1 is an enhanced upscaling algorithm used to and is designed to deliver similar or better than native image quality whilst improving frame rate on supported hardware. This allows higher resolutions or next generation effects (such as ray tracing) to be enabled to improve visual quality across the board in supported titles - without sacrificing framerate whilst maintaining a playable experience and enhancing certain visual aspects such as fine edges and detail over distance. This latest implementation of FSR shows additional improvements to upscaling image quality over FSR 2.0 - reducing issues such as ghosting or shimmering.
What hardware supports FSR 2.1?
AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution scales across a broad spectrum of new and older products, including integrated graphics, and is optimized for AMD RDNA™ and AMD RDNA 2™ architecture-based Radeon™ RX 6000 and RX 5000 Series graphics cards. FSR is also supported on select NVIDIA® graphics cards.*
AMD Radeon™ 6000 Series AMD Radeon™ 6000M Series AMD Radeon™ 5000 Series AMD Radeon™ 5000M Series AMD Radeon™ VII Graphics AMD Radeon™ RX Vega Series AMD Radeon™ 600 Series AMD Radeon™ RX 500 Series AMD Radeon™ RX 480/470/460 Graphics AMD Ryzen™ Desktop Processors with AMD Radeon™ Graphics AMD Ryzen™ Mobile Processors with Radeon™ Graphics NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 30 Series NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 20 Series NVIDIA® GeForce® 16 Series NVIDIA® GeForce® 10 Series
*AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution is “game dependent” and is supported on the products listed above if the minimum requirements of the game are met. AMD does not provide technical or warranty support for AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution enablement on NVIDIA® graphics cards. To prevent over-sharpening, we recommend not to use Radeon™ Image Sharpening with FSR-enabled games.
What impact does FSR 2.1 have on Martha Is Dead?
FSR2.1 is selectable from the settings menu by enabling ‘upscaler’ at the bottom of the page, you will be able to select between 3 visual modes with the upscaler enabled :
Quality : Highest visual fidelity and highest frame impact
Balanced : Increased visual fidelity over native, small frame rate impact
FSR 1.0 will also remain within the game.
Added support for Intel XeSS
What is Intel Xe Super Sampling?
Intel Xess is similar to AMD’s FSR and Nvidia’s DLSS upscaling solutions - with the benefit of being able to support a wider range of GPU’s across the board.
XeSS isn’t too complicated to understand. Instead of running a game at native resolution (let’s say 4K), it takes a variety of inputs from the game at a lower resolution (like 1080p). Those inputs feed into the XeSS upscaling engine, which includes an AI model to enhance the upscaling. The final result, theoretically, should be an image that looks like the native resolution but with much higher performance.
For specifics, XeSS takes depth, motion, color, and lighting inputs from the game. After performing the upscaling, the final results from these inputs are stored in an internal history. That history feeds data to the next incoming frame, and the cycle continues. While that’s happening, XeSS takes the frame you see and performs temporal anti-aliasing (TAA) to clean up jagged edges. XeSS replaces traditional anti-aliasing, as it can upscale and perform anti-aliasing in the same step.
Using the upscaling technology added in this new update on mid-tier PC rigs running on High Detail and 4k resolution has seen increases of up to 35 FPS average across various chapters - all without a loss of fidelity or detail.
Download the newest update now to enable the upscalers on compatible hardware and see Tuscany smoother than ever before - and don't forget to tell friends yet to play Martha Is Dead that they take advantage of our largest ever discount for the next week and join you in Tuscany.
One Special Day is Special Effect’s flagship annual fundraising campaign, established in 2015.
For this one day, each year, companies and studios from all sectors of the games industry come together to raise vital income for Special Effect and show the world how games can change lives for the better!
We have decided to join in with a 20% Discount on Martha Is Dead for the event.
these bundles will be available From the 7th of October until the 10th of October.
SpecialEffect is an award-winning charity based in West Oxfordshire, in the UK. Since 2007, who transform the lives of people with severe physical disabilities across the globe through the innovative use of technology.
The song is the lead track from Arcade Paradise. A Game where the protagonist Ashley feels held back, suffocated, and mentally downtrodden. Arcade Paradise is a story that resonates closely with the message of Safe In Our World. It is an inspirational message of what can be achieved, with help or just with the right motivation… how you CAN rise up against the machine, and how you CAN make your life great.
This is where you come in. We need YOU, the Wired Community to make some noise, Kick down the doors and scream that talking about Mental Health is GOOD!
How can YOU do this? There are lots of ways:
- Buy the single on Bandcamp. (Same price as a meal deal) - Stream the song for the next week. Let's see if we can hit the charts. Bring on Top of the Pops. - Share posts, blogs and playlists. The more we share. The more we can diminish the stigma around Mental Health - Talk to someone and listen. a Simple "How's it going?" can make the world of difference. - Make sure to tag us in every post, tweet and video. The more we share, the better.
Watch the Official Music Video below
All proceeds from sales of the Arcade Paradise EP from Bandcamp will be donated to the video games mental health charity Safe In Our World, but why did we choose them? Watch below to find out:
Where can I stream the Arcade Paradise EP?
We have all the best streaming platforms below... Jump on and Stream away!
Hello everyone, just checking in with patch notes for a new update that should be available for you right now!
1 - Added control remapping - You can now remap general gameplay keys, menu commands, camera and puppet theatre controls 2 - Optimized the clouds to reduce stuttering on some machines 3 - Rebuilt lighting for The Woods to remove minor imperfections
This is a PC only patch at this moment in time, and should be available across all other PC storefronts and platforms, please ensure you update to the latest version for the best gameplay experience
