Guild Wars 2′s next update will be the Halloween-themed Blood and Madness
Guild Wars 2′s next update will be the Halloween-themed Blood and Madness. In it, King Thorn’s son, the Bloody Prince Edrick Thorn, has taken over part of his home realm.
Warface: Crytek defends sexualised female skins, says they were designed via fan feedback
Warface developer Crytek has discussed the sexualised appearance of the shooter’s female avatars in a new interview, and has revealed that they were created based on feedback from the fan base.
Breaking Bad gets the text-adventure treatment: meet “Zorking Bad”
Breaking Bad is over now, but you can sort-of relive it in the mock text adventure made by Vulture. Zorking Bad: The Great Meth Empire may not be playable, but it is quite funny. Apply yourself here.
Battlefield 4 campaign will make you feel smart: “we have a great story to tell”, says DICE
Battlefield 4′s campaign may not seem necessary to those multiplayer-focused players out there, or those who disliked Battlefield 3′s hokum, but DICE creative director Lars Gustavsson reckons the developer has a great story to tell, and a smart one at that.
Half-Minute Hero sequel suggested by “Ran Ran Hero” logo reveal & trademark
Ran Ran Hero could be the sequel to Marvelous AQL’s Half-Minute Hero, if this newly-unearthed logo and trademark filing is anything to go by.
Here are three static images of Wargame: Red Dragon's hypothetical '80s Korean conflict
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Vietnam was the first and last war in which the American military granted full freedom of coverage to the press, allowing nuts new journalists to ride along in choppers and wage their own war back home with the images they captured.
For Wargame: Red Dragon’s sake, I’ll need you to imagine the polar opposite: a late 20th century war not captured on film, removed from the popular imagination. Unrecorded, in fact, but for three pictures just now uncovered by Parian videogame developers Eugen Systems.
Quadrilateral Cowboy trailer has more multilinear subspace coprocessors than you can shake a stick at
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I’ve a lot of time for Blendo Games. Maker of games like Thirty Flights of Loving, Atom Zombie Smasher, and Flotilla, developer Brendon Chung blends humour with experimental game design ideas, often resulting in something quite special.
His latest game, Quadrilateral Cowboy, is a 20th century cyberpunk adventure and it looks ace.
Shovel Knight trailer breaks new ground for 8-bit platforming
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If you like your platforming to have just 8 bits and full of silliness then it looks like Shovel Knight is for you. It apes the style of the old NES era platformers but equips your knight with a shovel, a piece of kit I’d foolishly never considered to be multi-purpose.
See it at work in the new trailer.
Beyond Eyes Is Emotional Watercolour Exploration
By Jim Rossignol on October 8th, 2013 at 2:00 pm.
How’s this for a game pitch: Beyond Eyes – which is currently on Greenlight and in a fund-raising drive – is game about a blind girl who must leave the familiar environment of her house to rescue a lost cat, and does so guided by the player. Developer Sherida Halatoe explains: “As you guide Rae through this unfamiliar world your behavior as player influences the way she feels and behaves. A player who forces her into dangerous situations finds himself with a scared, distrustful girl who will refuse to do his bidding until he regains her trust. Of course if a player respects Rae’s wishes and is careful to keep her from harm, she will open up to him and will trust him in difficult situations.”
As you can see in the video below, the world reveals itself slowly as you guide Rae through it, painting itself in delicate watercolours. The video is worth watching for a strong impression of how it will work.
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Eleusis – 3D First Person Dark Horror Adventure – Hits Steam On October 16th
Publisher Base Games and game developer Nocturnal Works announced that Eleusis – a first person dark horror adventure – will be releasing on Steam on October 16th, after a successful Greenlight campaign, with a price point of £9.99/€11.99 and $14.99. Continue reading
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