BASTARDS

Maximum Entertainment and Blue Manchu Games have revealed new gameplay for Wild Bastards, a standalone successor to Void Bastards. Wild Bastards is a first-person shooter roguelike where players go through procedurally-generated sectors and planets with varying parameters such as terrain and weather.Wild Bastards follows a group of lawbreakers called the Bastards. After all but two members are killed by a puritanical magnate named Jebediah Chaste, they are saved by a sentient spaceship called The Drifter.…

Developer Modus Games revealed an all-new strategy-FPS titled Wild Bastards. The cosmic spaghetti western serves as a standalone successor to the hit roguelike FPS Void Bastards. Players will jump into the role of the leader of a gang of intergalactic outlaws as they shoot their way through the galactic Wild West. Wild Bastards is releasing on PC in 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-iBW-A9m3o In Wild Bastards, players will roam the galaxy across multiple planets as they perform space heists. Each character…

Image: Ollie Upton/HBOHBO hasn’t been shy about trying to take the heat away from Amazon’s very popular Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power premiere, including a literal and figurative scorcher of a battle scene in last night’s episode. But it turns out House of the Dragon’s third episode, “Second of His Name,” has an arguably more important element, at least for Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin—it finally matched his vision for something the original series messed up.That something is the royal hunting party,…

Next week AfterShock Comics will release Jimmy’s Little Bastards #1. The debut issue of the three-issue, prestige-format miniseries comes from writer Garth Ennis, artist Russ Braun, colorist John Kalisz, and letterer Rob Steen. Today The Beat is pleased to present a preview of the issue, which finds the titular Jimmy enjoying a bizarre game show during his time off. Here’s how AfterShock describes Jimmy’s Little Bastards #1: After the shattering events of his last adventure, Jimmy is on extended leave from British…

Garth Ennis and Russ Braun, the creative team behind the AfterShock Comics series Jimmy’s Bastards, are reuniting for a new series starring the titular team. Jimmy’s Little Bastards is a three-issue, prestige-format miniseries coming later this year from Ennis, Braun, colorist John Kalisz, and letterer Rob Steen. Andy Clarke provides the main cover for the first issue, which also features an incentive variant cover by John McCrea. Here’s how AfterShock describes the new series: A new generation of Bastards is back and…