Someone is finally making a Moby Dick simulator
The very idea of early 19th-century whale hunting seems bizarre now, and if Herman Melville’s Moby Dick is anything to go by, even most people at the time knew it was a daft enterprise. While the book is a classic, there are precious few games based on it – but Essex: The Whale Hunter aims to fill that gap.
Polish developer 3T Games is behind Essex, and the simulation game is set on and around the island of Nantucket in 1819, just before the American whaling industry reached its peak. Just as it’s described in Moby Dick, you’ll gather a crew and climb aboard a rickety wooden ship to hunt the world’s largest creatures: magnificent and fearsome sperm whales, known as cachalots.
Super Fun Indie Trailer Roundup! - February 2 by: Eric - posted: 2/2/2021 2:25:00 PM
We get a lot of emails here at Gaming Nexus, and in those emails are a lot of fun trailers. We often post them in our slack channel so we can chat about them, and I thought Hey, why don t I just throw some of these things up on the site? . If we like them, you ll probably like them too.
First up, this trailer for
Die Young, now available on PS4. Die Young is described as an open world, dynamic action adventure presented in first-person perspective. You awaken, on a picturesque 12 sq km island in the Mediterranean, buried alive and left for dead. Starving and dehydrated, your struggle to stay alive has just begun. Jump, climb, take advantage of your athletic and parkour skills to overcome the dangers and wildness of nature! To me, it looks like a bunch of bloody murder, and this trailer made me giggle for at least ten minutes. Die Young is