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Sunday Comics: Dead Island Scotland’s Proper Games took home honours at BAFTA Scotland, claiming the first award in the board’s games category for Flock!, the downloadable title published by Capcom this spring.
Flock! is getting a PC update tomorrow called “Spring” that features six new levels, a new animal and special objects that “change the way you herd.”
Remember that Flock playset I posted about last week? Well, Capcom is selling them now.
In case wrangling livestock with a UFO wasn’t enough reason to buy Capcom’s Flock, how about a cameo by everyone’s favourite green-skinned electrified Street Fighter?
The release of Puzzle Quest: Galactrix on Xbox Live Arcade has been a longer time coming than expected. But it certainly isn’t a surprise that D3Publisher’s hexagonal space puzzler joins the Arcade lineup this week.
This has to be one of the cutest game-themed playsets I’ve seen in quite awhile. OK, maybe it’s the only game-themed playset I’ve seen in ever.
The latest trailer for Capcom’s Flock surely is an indicator that we are in for the best UFO animal herding puzzle game ever created by human hands.
Among Capcom’s E3 titles was a somewhat mysterious downloadable title called Flock, erroneously pegged early on as a “sheep herding simulator”. I got to have the title demoed for me by Proper Games design lead Geoff Gunning, a cheerful Scotsman, and had the mystery cleared up.
It’s not a sheep-herding sim, but there is sheep herding. There is herding of adorable cotton ball sheep who live in a fluffy, stuffed-toy looking world, grazing peacefully in a patchwork meadow. The stitch-edged, pastoral aesthetic is sweet, gentle, and just a little offbeat, in the context of the quirky and sometimes hilariously grim gameplay.
Because, I dunno, herding animals around is fun or something, there’s an game coming soon via Capcom, called “Flock”, first noticed this week when the developer unveiled its E3 lineup. More or less, you’re manning an alien spaceship that’s making off with flocks, gaggles, coveys, clowders, murders, cackles, prides etc. of animals. Your means of encouragement? Why, a death ray of course. PETA should love the shit out of this game. IGN describes it in very Lemmings-friendly terms. If that’s your cup of tea, it’ll be out via Xbox Live Arcade, Playstation Network, and for PC download, soon.
IGN: Flock Preview[IGN]
