It’s been nine months, let’s look at Capybara Games’ baby: Below
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Announced during last year’s E3, Capybara Games have been virtually silent about their visually arresting roguelike. Besides a short trailer we’ve had essentially nothing come out from the studio since then.
"Promotion, marketing, PR: they take a lot of time away from actually making the game,” Capybara co-founder, Nathan Vella, told Edge. “So having these last nine months or so to really work on the game has meant that it's come a long way since we first showed anything."
Now, though, now they’re ready to start showing off Below and it’s looking wonderful.
Eve Online monument defaced within week of its unveiling
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Last week CCP unveiled a five meter tall monument inscribed with all the names of players in the Eve Online universe. It’s already been defaced.
Someone has stuck a Goonswarm logo high up on the monument and one player has scratched out another’s name.
Family Business - Wadjet Eye's Dave Gilbert publishing, adventure games, and life after Blackwell
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When I caught up with Dave Gilbert at GDC, he looked like he’d been through the wringer since we talked at PAX East last year. He was still wearing his regulation uniform of jeans and a slightly faded hoodie, but he looked like a guy who is in the last mile of a marathon.
Little wonder: Gilbert spent 2013 making the final installment of the Blackwell series that formed the foundation of his Wadjet Eye Games. As if that wasn’t enough, he and his wife, Janet — who is also the technical brains behind Wadjet Eye — had a baby. Then they moved house four times.
It was a tough year, Gilbert conceded. “But we make it work. Somehow.”
My offer is this: nothing — Oculus respond to ZeniMax claims
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Last week, Zenimax opened up a can of worms on Facebook and Oculus VR when they claimed that Oculus infringed on ZeniMax’s intellectual property rights during the development of the Oculus Rift. Now, Oculus have sent back their own response.
Predictably, they concede nothing and argue that Zenimax are being both opportunistic and dishonest about the agreements arising from Oculus’ work with then-ZeniMax employee, current Oculus CTO John Carmack.
The Lighthouse Customer: The Golf Club
By Christopher Livingston on May 5th, 2014 at 9:00 pm.
Each Monday, Chris Livingston visits an early access game and reports back with stories about whatever he finds inside. This week, diabolical golf course creation in The Golf Club.
It’s been a tough round of golf. I got a ball stuck on the balcony of a clubhouse. I got mired down in a sand trap that was five hundred yards long. I’ve had to play around trees, boulders, and a fairway covered with sailboats. And now I’m attempting to sink a putt through a massive crowd of grazing deer. Who the hell designed this terrible golf course? Oh right, it was me.
New Indie Title “Nelo” Uses Unreal Engine 4, Looks Bloody Beautiful
Magic & Mirrors is currently developing a new indie title called Nelo that is powered by Unreal Engine 4. Nelo is basically an arcade twin-stick shooter with elements of modern games, is fast-paced, will support two viewpoints (third-person and top-down) and looks quite interesting. Although there is no ETA as of yet, Magic & Mirrors released a number of screenshots and a gameplay test video from the game’s current build. Enjoy! Continue reading
Bound by Flame Gets Launch Trailer
Focus Home Interactive has released the launch trailer for Spiders’ upcoming action RPG, Bound by Flame. This trailer highlights one of the important elements in the game, the background story and the gameplay: the relationship between the hero and the flame demon that possesses him. Bound by Flame releases May 9th on PC, PS4, X360 and PS3. Enjoy! Continue reading
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