The Simpsons tackles Minecraft for intro couch gag; Notch "not sure how I feel about it"
After Craig Ferguson reserved Notch a seat on his set settee, there was only one couch-related pop culture honour left for Minecraft to claim. And here it is: the rendering of Springfield in regular quadrilaterals.
Overwatch: is this the game Blizzard have Left 4 Dead's lead designer working on?
Overwatch is the thing you do at the end of a turn in XCOM if you’re too afraid to stick your head above the parapet. It’s tactically sound, but a cop-out. Blizzard’s Overwatch sounds like anything but: a multiplayer experiment built in the wake of Hearthstone’s small team success, if recent job listings are anything to go by.
Borderlands prequel from former Irrational staffers at 2K Australia rumoured for PC
It seems Gearbox have sprung a leak, and GamePointsNow have been only too happy to cup their hands beneath and collect the sweet, sweet nectar. A new Borderlands game is in the works, they say. It’s a cooperative FPS in the style of its predecessors - but has been outsourced to 2K’s outfit in Australia. The same studio that once formed part of Irrational Games.
Ruffian puts Game of Glens on ice: "Exactly what we do with Game of Glens next is undecided"
Ruffian is taking a break from development of its 2D tower building strategy title, Game of Glens, a month after the peculiar Square Enix crowd-funding marketing project, Collective, concluded its pilot phase.
When presented along with two other hopefuls, only 40 percent of voters said they’d back something like Game of Glens. In comparison, 90 percent of voters wanted to back Tuque Games’ World War Machine.
Vlambeer responds to criticism over supposed Nazi imagery in Luftrausers : "The fact is that no interpretation of a game is ‘wrong’"
Last week, some folk voiced their concern that Vlambeer’s 2D dogfighter, Luftrausers, contained Nazi imagery and allowed players to play as a Nazi pilot. Second World War German forces see a lot of use in games, whether you’re fighting them in Wolfenstein or fighting as them in Company of Heroes, but this is not the case in Luftrausers, says studio co-founder Rami Ismail.
Craglorn is The Elder Scrolls Online's first Adventure Zone, and it's not for riffraff
The Elder Scrolls Online launched last week, and ZeniMax Online is already showcasing new content, due out later this month, in the form of the game’s first Adventure Zone, a veteran area with group PvE, new instanced delves and leaderboard challenges.
Craglorn will be the sort of place you go once you’ve exhausted the 1-50 content, where the story quests and side-quests require groups to overcome.
Goat Simulator gets double the goat mayhem with a multiplayer update, dated for next month
Goat Simulator, the ultra-realistic sim based on the real capabilities of these dangerous farm animals, is getting a split-screen multiplayer a new map in May, Coffee Stain Studios announced.
The additional map will be "roughly the size of the original vanilla map," said the developer. Another playground to witness the physics-defying power of goats is always welcome.
Viscera Cleanup Detail now caking the walls of Steam Early Access in gore
The game that asks the important question “who cleans up the gore after aliens attack,” Viscera Cleanup Detail, has just hit Steam Early Access.
It’s not light years away from Surgeon Simulator, with its physics shenanigans and the opportunity to create a giant mess wherever you go. This early access version provides the campaign and a sandbox mode and multiplayer support - more mops to clean up with, and more people to throw bloody limbs at.
Check under the sofa: Outcast HD remake needs $600K
Outcast made me want to be a xenoarchaeologist, which is a problem since it’s not a real field. If, for some inexplicable reason, let’s imagine a pact with the devil, I was only able to play one type of game for the rest of my meandering life, I’d choose open-world exploration games. Preferably of alien worlds.
Every now and then I boot up Outcast, thanks to the GOG version that supports modern systems, but it’s not as easy to get into as it once was. The tiny resolution, fiddly controls - it’s not like Morrowind, another alien realm worth exploring, where it’s aged a bit but only superficially.
But Outcast is now getting a remake, unbelievably. A group of the original’s developers has bought the rights from Atari, and have taken to Kickstarter to make a modern version: Outcast HD.
Punch terrorism right in the genitals: Broforce explodes all over Steam Early Access
Bros and brodettes, America needs you. Villains are threatening the best way of life, and only an extreme paramilitary group can stop them, so it’s a good thing that Broforce has just hit Steam Early Access.
The brodacious 2D shooter is available for £11.99/$14.99 through Steam and the Humble Store, with new missions, modes and explosive battlegrounds being added all the way up until launch.
GameSpy's shutdown affects more games than you'd expect
Last week it was revealed that GameSpy would be shutting down, leaving a number of titles without multiplayer and online support. Over in the /r/Gaming subreddit, folk have been putting together a long list of games that used GameSpy, and may be in some way affected by it getting put in the ground.
Activision has said that its games won’t be affected, Bohemia Interactive is migrating games to Steamworks, but Arma and Arma 2 will lose some multiplayer functionality and both Capcom and Epic are exploring other options right now.
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor – PC System Requirements Will Make You Dizzy
And here comes a new challenger for most demanding title of 2014. Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor’s Steam page has gone live, revealing the PC system requirements for this new action RPG LOTR title. According to the Steam page, PC gamers will need at least a quad-core CPU, 4GB of RAM and 25GB of free HDD. Moreover, the game will only support DX11 and 64bit OS systems. You can find below both the minimum and the recommended requirements for this game. Continue reading
Unreal Engine 4-powered Sci-Fi Horror ‘Caffeine’ Gets A New Trailer
Incandescent Imaging has released a new trailer for its upcoming sci-fi horror title that will be powered by Unreal Engine 4, Caffeine. This new trailer features some very simple puzzle game play in a very early build of the game. Incandescent Imaging obviously wanted to give PC gamers a taste of what Caffeine’s gameplay will be about, so make sure to give it a go. We also feel the need to remind you that there is an IndieGoGo campaign for Caffeine. Enjoy! Continue reading
Dead Crusade – New Co-op Action Horror Game – Gameplay Trailer Released
Aesthetic Games has released a gameplay trailer for its upcoming co-op action horror game, Dead Crusade. Dead Crusade is a medieval survival horror RPG that will take you to Medieval Europe in a time of great upheaval and strife as an unstoppable plague tears the world apart. The game is powered by Unreal Engine 4, is planned for a 2015 release, and there is a Kickstarter to pledge your support. Enjoy and kudos to LGN for spotting it! Continue reading
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