Lewt is Blizzard's Christmas present to you: a papercraft Diablo III treasure goblin
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Lewt (rhymes with ‘loot’ and a side order of 'ew', obviously) is the only papercraft Diablo III treasure goblin you should be considering printing this Christmas. His complimentary grey complexion and lidless, glowing yellow eyes make him the perfect tree-top number for the contemporary Yuletiders who keep demon-killing in the family.
You’ll only need spare a piece of paper or two.
Get Even is a PC shooter designed to "remove the artificial boundary between single and multiplayer"
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What I didn’t put in the headline, because it’s not what you think: Get Even is made by Painkiller developers. Not People Can Fly, whose top tier team flew the nest before they became a cog in the, er, Gears machine, but the outfit that made the remastered Hell & Damnation - The Farm 51.
Their name probably won’t mean anything to you, but their spiel is good. Get Even plans to link its single and multiplayer modes in “unique” fashion, and tell its story of two opposing protagonists through environmental interaction and exploration, not “cutscenes or dialogue”.
Kerbal lead developer on the Steam Effect: "Valve is single-handedly keeping PC gaming going"
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Felipe Falange is still wary of calling Kerbal Space Program a success, though it undoubtedly is - he could be describing the game experience itself when he recalls a “series of small moments that would actually lift the always looming concern of impending failure, up to the point where it built up a sense of accomplishment”.
A recent press release called the game “popular” and “award-winning”, and Falange had to check with Squad PR manager Bob Holtzman that they were indeed the facts.
But as the Steam Holiday Sale gobbles wallets, it’s fun to see Squad recall the “cataclysmic” moment during its Summer equivalent when Kerbal really took off, without careening back to earth, extra-sploding into eight or nine pieces, or leaving some poor green cosmonaut stranded on a distant moon.
Slice of bullet sponge, anyone? Call of Duty: Ghosts Heavy Duty mode tops up HP
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It’s hard to know just yet how Heavy Duty mode’s HP boost will affect Ghosts’ multiplayer dynamic. Perhaps, as some have speculated, it’ll feel more like ‘classic CoD’, and we’ll shoot it up like it’s 2007. Maybe we’ll see injured players retreating to the map’s corners to lick their wounds, to the strains of ‘War is Over’. Whatever the consequences, as of last night it’s in the game.
The Elder Scrolls Online's PvP Cyrodiil "will look very familiar" to Oblivion veterans
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Cyrodiil was not Bethesda’s best open world. Its unrelenting greenness wasn’t nearly so powerful as Fallout 3’s sudden flashes of it, nor as compellingly weird as Morrowind’s massive mushrooms. And where Skyrim offers breathtaking views, 2006’s Oblivion couldn’t help but scupper its own with a dodgy draw distance.
But seven years or so makes the heart fonder and the head forgetful - and we’re quite looking forward to joining The Elder Scrolls Online’s PvP fight across a recognisable warzone. And if Zenimax Online are to be believed, we will recognise it.
Batman Arkham announcement coming December 31
Batman: Arkham Origins publisher Warner Bros. is teasing some for of related announcement on December 31.
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