New LoL support Braum blocks projectiles - but what is a projectile anyway? Riot answer
Riot announced a new support champion yesterday. He’s a “large guy with a shield” named Braum, with an E that allows him to “intercept projectiles”, absorbing their effects and destroying them.
Sounds simple enough - but it hasn’t been. Though you’ll never see more than 10 of them in the lanes at once, League of Legends features scores of champions, each with five abilities. Between them, there are a lot of ways to lob ranged attacks at enemies.
So: what exactly is a projectile, when it comes down to it?
Elder Scrolls Online's 12-player trials will host its "most complex and difficult" encounters
Anybody still playing The Elder Scrolls Online has already overcome a number of trials-by-fuckuperry. Progress-halting bugs, wrongfully destroyed items, and dungeons cleared near-instantly of loot by unscrupulous players? The ultimate tests of patience.
The surviving top-level players are questing juggernauts - and Zenimax have built 12-player challenges to suit for incoming adventure zone Craglorn.
How explosions will fix World of Tanks' camping problem
I’m watching the Grand Finals of World of Tanks’ largest tournament, the WGL. This should be the most exciting bit: a chance to see trained, professional tank commanders battling it out, a chance for heroism and tactics and drama.
But it’s boring. Of the five games between the finalists, three have ended in draws. In the two hours of games there’s only about ten minutes of actual action. The teams are playing cautiously, each player sheltering behind cover, keenly aware a single shell could take them out of the game, leaving their team mates at a disadvantage that could mean missing their collective shot at the $60,000 prize pot.
In professional World of Tanks, camping is simply too sensible a strategy.
Wargaming think they have a fix. It involves explosions.
Let's talk about Hex: the top-notch CCG's in closed beta
Beta is the be-all and end-all for CCGs, if Hearthstone is anything to go by. Not only the time to polish your systems such that every card is a shiny - but a time to build up enough momentum that all of Twitch is clamouring for booster packs by release.
Kickstarter and PayPal backers for Hex today received a code to redeem their backer rewards from the in-game store - and will find that their alpha accounts have been mirrored on the live beta hardware.
SOE think they've figured out how to make paid-for items lootable in H1Z1
H1Z1 is SOE’s DayZ-inspired zombie survival sim, about killing a man for his sweet goggles. But it’s also a fully-fledged free-to-play MMO - with permanent gear purchasable from its in-game store.
Do you see the problem yet? SOE do - and they reckon they’ve already come up with an acceptable solution. One that’ll uphold the game’s values of inventory murder, without leaving paying players screaming.
American Truck Simulator – New Screenshots Released
Ooooooooookay then, here comes another simulator. After Goat Simulator, Bear Simulator and Cat Simulator… it’s time for the American Truck Simulator. As its title suggest, this game offers players the chance to SCS Software – the company behind 18 Wheels of Steel Series, Bus Driver, and Euro Truck Simulator – and is part of its World of Trucks project. SCS Software has released some new screenshots from the latest build of this sim that can be viewed below. Kudos to our reader ‘Xeizell Raphael’ for informing us! Continue reading
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter: Will Not Support DX11 – Memory & VRAM More Important Than CPU Cores
Our dear friends over at PCGamesHardware had an interesting interview with the creators of The Vanishing of Ethan Carter. According to The Astronauts, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is powered by Unreal Engine 3 and there are no plans for porting the game to Epic’s latest engine, the Unreal Engine 4. Continue reading
Death in Candlewood – Open-world Horror Title – Gets A Teaser Gameplay Trailer
Rosebud Games has released a new teaser trailer today for its upcoming open-world horror title, Death in Candlewood. Between gothic graveyards, Slender-like forests and occasional terrifying assaults by ghoulish creatures, this is the first sneaky peek at what it’ll be like to play this Edgar Allan Poe-influenced horror FPS. Continue reading
Evolve – 4v1 Interactive Multiplayer Trailer
As promised, 2K Games has released the interactive multiplayer trailer for Turtle Rock Studios’ upcoming MP title, Evolve. This trailer is 54 minutes long and let us experience the thrill of 4v1 from every perspective in an interactive, multi-channel trailer featuring commentary by Aaron “Ayesee” Chambers and Turtle Rock Studios’ Chris Ashton. Enjoy! Continue reading
Dark Souls II – PC Launch Trailer Released
Namco Bandai has released the launch trailer for Dark Souls II PC. The PC version of Dark Souls II will sport better graphics, smoother frame rate and optimized mouse/keyboard controls. The game is scheduled for release tomorrow, so stay tuned for our PC Performance Analysis. Enjoy! Continue reading
Goat Simulator – Retail Version Coming In Late May
Coffee Stain Studios announced today that its ridiculous fun sim, Goat Simulator, will get a retail version that will hit stores on May 23rd. Continue reading
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