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.
Patch Notes 02-05-2023
We have been beavering away on improvements for The Last Worker and have now pushed these live.
Patch notes:
VR (all platforms): Stick updated to move instead of Strafe Index: Touchpad UI added for Strafe All platforms: Changed Chinese Simplified/Traditional text All platforms: Added fixes for players getting stuck after the Last Activist in Ground Zero All platforms: Changing level during pod charge caused UI to remain off in new level
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We are proud to celebrate the launch and reception of the immersive narrative adventure, The Last Worker, with a brand-new accolades trailer following its launch on March 30th.
Described as “one of the year's best narratives” by Shacknews, “an admirable pastiche of modern capitalist culture”, by Pocket Tactics and “an extraordinary game” by Pixel Magazin, along with a ‘Recommended’ from UploadVR, The Last Worker has been positively received from reviewers and players alike in both flat screen and VR formats.’
Watch the trailer below:
The Last Worker is a first-person narrative adventure centred around humanity’s struggle in an increasingly automated world, where humans are being replaced by robots. Created from the ground up to deliver both VR and flat-packed experiences, the game combines a hand-crafted art style created in collaboration with comics legend Mick McMahon (Judge Dredd, 2000 AD) and unique, immersive gameplay mechanics, seamlessly interwoven into a narrative game like no other.
The only game in competition at the 78th Venice International Film Festival (2021) and delivers an emotional, thought-provoking story filled with rich characters performed by an all-star cast including:
Jason Isaacs (Harry Potter, Star Trek Discovery),
Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (The Meg, True Detective),
Clare-Hope Ashitey (Riviera, Children of Men),
David Hewlett (The Shape of Water, Oddworld New’n’Tasty),
Zelda Williams (The Legend of Korra)
and Tommie Earl Jenkins (Death Stranding, Wednesday).
Scored by Oliver Kraus, known for his collaborations with the likes of Adele, Sia, and Florence and the Machine.
Players can also support capitalism by ordering the Jüngle Pronto physical edition. Packed with a reversible sleeve, Jüngle stickers and a double-sided poster, fans can grab a copy from the likes of Amazon (not awkward) the PlayStation 5 version and Nintendo Switch.
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.
Thank you.
Making The Last Worker | Episode 3
In Episode 3 the team talked about Mick McMahon's concept art and it's influence. they also dig into the creation and inspiration of The Last Worker.
Watch the latest episode below:
The Last Worker is a first-person narrative adventure centred around humanity’s struggle in an increasingly automated world, where humans are being replaced by robots. The game combines a hand-crafted art style created in collaboration with comics legend Mick McMahon (Judge Dredd, 2000 AD) and unique, immersive gameplay mechanics, seamlessly interwoven into a narrative game like no other.
The Last Worker delivers an emotional, thought-provoking story filled with rich characters performed by an all-star cast including:
• Jason Isaacs (Harry Potter, Star Trek Discovery) • Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (The Meg, True Detective) • Clare-Hope Ashitey (Riviera, Children of Men) • David Hewlett (The Shape of Water, Oddworld New’n’Tasty) • Zelda Williams (The Legend of Korra) • Tommie Earl Jenkins (Death Stranding, Wednesday). • The Last Worker is scored by Oliver Kraus, known for his collaborations with the likes of Adele, Sia, and Florence and the Machine.
In Episode 2 the team talk about the task of creating a game during a pandemic and the joys of remote working. Also creating a dystopian future while living in a dystopia.
Watch it below: The Last Worker is a first-person narrative adventure centred around humanity’s struggle in an increasingly automated world, where humans are being replaced by robots. The game combines a hand-crafted art style created in collaboration with comics legend Mick McMahon (Judge Dredd, 2000 AD) and unique, immersive gameplay mechanics, seamlessly interwoven into a narrative game like no other.
The Last Worker delivers an emotional, thought-provoking story filled with rich characters performed by an all-star cast including:
• Jason Isaacs (Harry Potter, Star Trek Discovery) • Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (The Meg, True Detective) • Clare-Hope Ashitey (Riviera, Children of Men) • David Hewlett (The Shape of Water, Oddworld New’n’Tasty) • Zelda Williams (The Legend of Korra) • Tommie Earl Jenkins (Death Stranding, Wednesday). • The Last Worker is scored by Oliver Kraus, known for his collaborations with the likes of Adele, Sia, and Florence and the Machine.
Howdy loyal Consumers Jüngle employees! A brand new update for The Last Worker is now available to download - featuring fixes for a couple of achievements that were not behaving properly, Improvements in boost performance for those in VR and better communication of the controls - and more!
The full patch notes are available here :
• Fixed achievements "Try Me", "Gotta Collect Them All", "Good Santa", and "Saboteur". If you've already completed the requirements for these achievements, they will unlock automatically when you next load the game!
• VR - Improved the way the "boost" mechanic functions while in "strafe" mode.
• VR - Improved signposting around the "boost" mechanic.
• SteamVR - Improved calibration and recentering for some headsets that may have been encountering issues. Pressing the recentre button from the SteamVR dashboard will now recalibrate the players height and position in game.
• Implemented experimental Steam VR support on the Epic and GOG builds of the game! Make sure you have SteamVR and the Oculus app installed, then launch the game with the command line argument "-VR". You do not need Steam running to launch with SteamVR!
• Additional minor bugfixes.
• Pay Rise for Jüngle Employees
Note that the achievement fixes should be retroactive - and any that you had previously met the criteria for should unlock upon launching the game after downloading the update.
Thank you once again for you feedback, suggestions and notification of bugs as you find them - please continue to let us know if you come across anything that doesn't behave correctly and we'll have the team look at it ASAP.
Anyway, that's enough slacking around for now - you've got some packages to deliver, get to work!
The Making of The Last Worker.
In this opening episode detailing the creation of The Last Worker - Creative Director of Wolf & Wood, Ryan Bousfield, and Writer / Director Jörg Tittel reminisce on the early stages of The Last Worker, from pitching a game that could not have been made by anyone else, to detailing the various ways that the all-star cast came together to lend their vocal talent for the project.
The Last Worker is a first-person narrative adventure centred around humanity’s struggle in an increasingly automated world, where humans are being replaced by robots. The game combines a hand-crafted art style created in collaboration with comics legend Mick McMahon (Judge Dredd, 2000 AD) and unique, immersive gameplay mechanics, seamlessly interwoven into a narrative game like no other.
The Last Worker delivers an emotional, thought-provoking story filled with rich characters performed by an all-star cast including:
• Jason Isaacs (Harry Potter, Star Trek Discovery) • Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (The Meg, True Detective) • Clare-Hope Ashitey (Riviera, Children of Men) • David Hewlett (The Shape of Water, Oddworld New’n’Tasty) • Zelda Williams (The Legend of Korra) • Tommie Earl Jenkins (Death Stranding, Wednesday). • The Last Worker is scored by Oliver Kraus, known for his collaborations with the likes of Adele, Sia, and Florence and the Machine.
Welcome to the Jüngle - The Last Worker Is Out now!
Welcome to the Jüngle... NOW GET TO WORK!
The Last Worker is out NOW on PC and PC VR. Joining Meta Quest 2, PSVR2, PS5, Nintendo Switch and Xbox Series S|X.
Step into the sandals of Kurt, the last human working in the largest distribution centre of the worlds richest company and start delivering dreams to customers around the world with the help of your co-bot S.K.E.W. Using a host of hi-tech company hardware you will maintain the highest KPI's with the lowest amount of errors, ensuring maximum satisfaction and astronomical profits - until an unexpected series of events forces you to choose between capitalism or activism.
Watch The Last Worker | Capitalist vs. Activist | Launch Trailer:
The Last Worker is a first-person narrative adventure centred around humanity’s struggle in an increasingly automated world, where humans are being replaced by robots. The game combines a hand-crafted art style created in collaboration with comics legend Mick McMahon (Judge Dredd, 2000 AD) and unique, immersive gameplay mechanics, seamlessly interwoven into a narrative game like no other.
The Last Worker delivers an emotional, thought-provoking story filled with rich characters performed by an all-star cast including:
• Jason Isaacs (Harry Potter, Star Trek Discovery) • Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (The Meg, True Detective) • Clare-Hope Ashitey (Riviera, Children of Men) • David Hewlett (The Shape of Water, Oddworld New’n’Tasty) • Zelda Williams (The Legend of Korra) • Tommie Earl Jenkins (Death Stranding, Wednesday). • The Last Worker is scored by Oliver Kraus, known for his collaborations with the likes of Adele, Sia, and Florence and the Machine.
It's been a long couple of years, but thankfully the spirit of capitalism has prevailed and in a matter of mere HOURS your very first shift as The Last Worker will begin!
We've made no secret about the stellar cast that lend their vocal talent to the game and bring the world of JFC-1 to life (In fact we've been pretty damn vocal about it), and the voice of SKEW (Jason Isaacs) has been talking just as much about his role as the wise cracking co-bot to anyone that will listen.
While you wait for 2pm BST to don your best grey jumpsuit and join SKEW and Kurt on the job - you can read this interview where he discusses the merits of being a Scouse robot, and how The Last Worker is "an adventure that has at its heart activism and revolution"
