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Fortnite Reveals Daft Punk Event, But Don’t Expect A Reunion

by admin September 23, 2025

Daft Punk, one of the biggest electronic dance music groups in history, is coming soon to Fortnite alongside some classic tracks, Lego skins, new emotes, and also a big confirmation from Epic that, no, they aren’t getting back together. Sorry.

On September 22, after some online leaks and teases, Epic officially announced that Daft Punk was coming to Fortnite as part of a large in-game event. The robotic duo will arrive in Epic’s ever-growing battle royale on September 27 as part of something called the “Daft Punk Experience.” This will be an in-game location that players can visit alone or with friends, and it will feature various activities, including the ability to remix Daft Punk’s music, a horde mode featuring robots, and a dance club.

But before all that, on September 25, cosmetic items based on the duo will be added to Fortnite’s in-game shop. Cosmetics include multiple Daft Punk outfits, emotes, weapon skins, in-game music tracks, and even some adorable Lego minifigs based on the famous robots.

©Epic Games / Daft Punk

Now, if you’re a big fan of Daft Punk like me, you might see all this news and start thinking that maybe, just maybe, the duo is about to get back together. Perhaps this is just a tease of something bigger. A new album? A new song? A new tour? Well, bad news: Epic makes it very clear in the post announcing all of the new Fortnite x Daft Punk content that, no, the group is not getting back together. First, Epic starts the post off with a mention of the group being “no longer” around and then, to make it very clear, Epic included this in the event’s FAQ:

Is Daft Punk getting back together?
No. The Daft Punk Experience is an immersive music experience based on the band’s beloved music. The band is not getting back together.

So there you go. Sorry about that. Of course, if they wanted it to be a surprise, that’s exactly what they would say. So perhaps there is still a chance… (Editor’s note: It’s not happening, Zack. Move on.)

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September 23, 2025 0 comments

Game Updates

Here are 239 imaginative, daft or broken falling block games featuring laser drones, LocoRocos and playing cards

by admin September 22, 2025

It is written that when the Sumerian king Gilgamesh first beheld the gleaming ramparts of Uruk&hyphen;Haven, many centuries ago, he said unto his architects: “be sure to save up gaps for those long straight ones, and try your best to start a multiplier”. But then Gilgamesh realised that, by means of temporal fluctuations too nonsensical to explain, he was actually looking at the submissions page for Falling Block Jam 2025, the latest Itch.io “make a thing with a theme” festival, which ran from last week till today.

Falling block games! Such a simple concept, capable of so many perversions. I have played a handful of the jam’s 239 entries and found them to be enjoyable, if often rudimentary. As is the style round these parts, I will now try to briefly communicate their enjoyableness to you using words. This is honestly going to be quite difficult, because I keep seeing another entry I want to try.

A pretty one to start: Bloquecitos is a Tetrislike with real-time physics, and blocks that merge to create different-shaped blocks when you match their patterns. It’s a crafty rejig of the developer’s previous Pancitomerge. I’m fond of the mosaic tile patterns, and I like engineering cascades by merging two blocks so that others tumble together.

Image credit: Fáyer / Joven Paul / Rock Paper Shotgun

This Side Up, meanwhile, trades the “falling” component of the “falling block” genre for a gradually retreating 3D camera. You’ve got a shipping crate and you’re trying to fill it with vintage household objects such as cacti, cathode-ray televisions, Nintendo Gamecubes, and lizard tanks.

I strongly relate to this one inasmuch as I had a bunch of stuff in lock-up during a flat move last year. There’s a dark art to filling shipping crates so as to optimise both storage space and retrievability. I do not claim to have mastered this art. After all, I managed to divide up all my paired belongings between separate crates. I had left socks and saucepans in one box, right socks and saucepan lids in another. Get ye behind me, This Side Up! You are bringing back traumatic memories.

Image credit: Apotheum

Professor Gambler’s Bone Scrambler is a falling block game born of the fateful realisation that a thrown die is a kind of falling block. Each turn, it rolls out a line of dice. You then slide the line horizontally to match the blocks below and create combos, or spend points to reroll the set. How do you earn points? From combos. It’s got nice chiptune aesthetics, as you might expect from a game that has also been submitted to GBJAM 13.

A Pico-8 one next. In Recycled Blocks, you control a little laser drone that has to sculpt blocks as they fall to complete work orders and remove them from the board. I found the control scheme a bit confusing, but I love the concept. Ditto the self-explanatory Circuit Makers.

Jelly Well, meanwhile, gets two thumbs up for its subliminal hatred of LocoRocos and for its soundscape of human mouth noises. More of this kind of thing, please. Call of Duty games would sell twice as much if all the gun effects consisted of voice actors yelling “bang”. I would hire Sir Anthony Hopkins to voice an AK47, myself.

Image credit: Walaber Entertainment

Simply scrolling the Falling Block Jam submission feed makes me feel as though I’m losing badly at Tetris, so I’ll resist the urge to write up any more. OK, one more, but only because it doesn’t require a computer: Doctor Vs Virus is a table-top falling block game you can play with a standard deck of cards.

If you see any others you like, please rotate and slide them dextrously into the comments below. Why not see if you can form a line with people recommending the same game – I’ll try to add some block-clearing score attack functionality to our moderation software.

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September 22, 2025 0 comments

Game Reviews

Fortnite launches new Daft Punk Experience, but no the duo aren’t getting back together

by admin September 22, 2025

Fortnite is launching a new Daft Punk Experience, but is adamant the robot rock duo aren’t getting back together.

Unlike previous Fortnite concerts – from the likes of Marshmello, Travis Scott, and Ariana Grande – The Daft Punk Experience is instead a “fully interactive playground” in the Discover(y) mode, with multiple rooms in which to enjoy the music and lose yourself to dance.

That includes blasting robots with a soundwave laser in the Robot Rock Arena, remixing songs at Dream Chamber Studios, or making a Lego music video at Around the World. Some form of “afterparty” is also being teased, whatever da funk that might be.

“The band may be no longer, but their music lives on in Fortnite,” reads a new blog post on the experience.

And to really hammer it home, the FAQ directly states: “The band is not getting back together”. So no, you don’t feel it coming – it’s the end of the line.

It also states the experience won’t feature any new music, as all songs have been previously released. Players will be able to make their own mashups though, but good luck making them harder, better, faster, or stronger.

The experience launches on 27th September at 2pm ET (that’s 7pm UK time), but players are advised to join early. It will then be available “for a while” in Discover.

Of course, a Fortnite collaboration wouldn’t be complete without a load of stuff to buy, either individually or as part of the Dark Punk Bundle. It includes song emotes, glittery outfits, and some adorable Lego characters so you too can be a Starboy, as well as other Jam Tracks including the duo’s collaborations with The Weeknd.

Image credit: Epic

Speaking of Lego, the first ever music-reactive build will be added to Fortnite – it’s a lego pyramid that lights up when music is played.

Full details can be found on the Fortnite blog, so you can read up on the experience one more time.

Last week, Epic announced it would be giving Fortnite creators some more digital love by allowing them to sell in-game items on their created islands.

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September 22, 2025 0 comments

Game Updates

Somebody has turned a daft English cheese rolling festival into an even dafter free Steam game

by admin August 28, 2025

Amid the madness of Gamescom, we somehow skipped the most important game of the year. Cheese Rolling is a multiplayer ragdoll game inspired by the ancient Gloucestershire, England pastime of racing a hunk of dairy down a hill.

The hill in question is Cooper’s Hill at Brockworth, and the ceremony apparently dates back to at least 1826 – providing you trust the account of that year’s Gloucester town crier – which makes the sport of cheese rolling at least 47 years older than Rock Paper Shotgun. The cheese in question is usually Double Gloucester – scandalously, they resorted to a foam replica in 2013 – and is given a strict one-second headstart.

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I hadn’t heard of Cheese Racing before, but I do have relatives down Gloucestershire way, and now I fear for them. I’m not just saying that because I’m vegan, though yes, I’m tempted to go sabotage the festivities by stealing into what I assume is a closely-guarded tent at night, and replacing the wheel with a large ball of tempeh. But mostly I am concerned for their physical safety and moral wellbeing.

Apparently, four kilograms of cheese can do a royal fuckload of damage when it achieves maximum velocity. 16 people were injured during the 1993 event, says Wikipedia, “four of them seriously”. What. Also, Wikipedia claims that nobody has ever caught the cheese, at least in recorded history. The winner is whoever crosses the finishing line second. So this is just a regular old race, in practice, with a wholly unnecessary and patently unsafe fermented milk modifier.

The official title for the event is “Cheese-Rolling and Wake”, and while local historians insist they don’t mean “wake” as in “funeral”, you do have to wonder if this is the distorted folk memory of a terrible accident at a hilltop dairy. Kind of like how “London’s burning, London’s burning” is now a charming nursery rhyme.

I’m going to contact the organisers and suggest they play the Steam version of Cheese Racing instead. Created by mercurial developer The Interviewed – their very name a brainlocking allusion to a history of media relations that does not, seemingly, exist – it’s more dangerous than traditional Gloucestershire cheese-rolling in that it features an active volcano, but less dangerous in that it is not real. No bones will be broken hounding this cheese, unless you try to play it while driving a bus. Also, it supports eight player sessions and proximity voice chat. There’s some paid DLC in the shape of a suit of armour costing £1.48 – as far as I can deduce, this isn’t some kind of scam, but tread cautiously, ye who fell foul of the evil Banana.

The real selling point, though, is that you can actually catch the renegade curd in this one. My friends in Gloucestershire: thanks to the miracle of modern technology, you need no longer harm and humiliate yourselves in your hunger for dairy. Here is a computer. Behold, there is cheese in the computer! Now all you have to do is roll the cheese down the hill – no wait, not the ACTUAL COMPUTER

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August 28, 2025 0 comments