Romance-o-battle: Agarest 2 Ported To PC
By Alice O'Connor on May 21st, 2014 at 6:00 pm.
War! Death! Killing! Murder! Mutilation! Kill! Kill! Kill! But why? What are we killing for? Why are we to jam and push bullets through eyesockets? Love, of course. It always comes down to love. Love of a person, a country, an idea, or sometimes a love of ourselves so toxic we must burst every other living body. The JRPG series Agarest is a bit more open about this: you woo hot anime babes while fighting monsters. Idea Factory’s first two Agarest games arrived on Steam earlier this year, ported over from consoles, and now the third’s coming too.
Shadow Wha? Oh! Huh! Platformer Juju Announced
By Alice O'Connor on May 21st, 2014 at 1:00 pm.
After their first two games were Hard Reset and Shadow Warrior, I thought I had a handle on Flying Wild Hog. They make throwback first-person shooters with explosions and big guns and medkits and running backwards while shooting, right? Apparently people aren’t forced to be pigeon-holed for their entire lives, as the developers have announced their third game, Juju, and its a mite different. It’s still a bit of a harkening back to ye olden days, but this time their genre of choice is mid-nineties platformers starring cute animals.
Don Bradman Cricket 14 may be the last great hope for cricket on PC
Is the modern world too cruel to permit the existence of a decent cricket game? Following the disaster that was Ashes Cricket 2013 (the game’s inadvertent field teleportation mechanic didn’t go down well) another contender has arrived in the form of Don Bradman Cricket 14. Released on console earlier this year to moderate acclaim, the miraculously not-horrible cricket game boasts the official Don Bradman license.
ZeniMax and id Software file lawsuit against Oculus VR for misappropriating trade secrets
Earlier this month, ZeniMax, owner of id Software and John Carmack’s former employer, sent formal notice to Oculus claiming key technology its virtual reality headset relies on were developed by John Carmack while he was still employed by ZeniMax. ZeniMax claimed that only with its help, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey “was able to transform his garage-based pipe dream into a working reality," and it wanted compensation. Today, the company officially filed suit.
DayZ targeting better zombie behavior with expansion of dev team
Since its December release, the most complex and frightening encounters I've had in the DayZ Standalone have involved other human beings, not the survival sim's undead population. But with the recent expansion of its development team, the DayZ designers at Bohemia Interactive are now laying out a plan for a better-behaved zombie antagonist, according to a new post on the game's official dev blog.
Unreal Tournament interview: on transparent development, the best UT guns and "pure, fast action"
Epic recently announced that they're making a new free Unreal Tournament game in collaboration with the UT community. This is good news. We like Unreal Tournament. Only yesterday, Andy wrote about his love for Facing Worlds. The monstrous flak cannon took the top spot in our roundup of gaming's greatest guns. With misty-eyed memories of frags gone by, we fired over some questions to Steve Polge, senior programmer and project lead on the new Unreal Tournament, to find out how this community collaboration thing will work.
Fistful of Frags relaunches as standalone game, can be downloaded for free on Steam
Here's something that nearly slipped unnoticed from our news noose. Fistful of Frags, the Wild West Source engine mod first released in 2007, recently relaunched as a free standalone game. It was hardly a trial to play before—thanks to the free-to-play Team Fortress 2 providing the SDK base required to get it working. Now it's even easier: just head to its Steam page to download the back-to-basics deathmatch shooter.
Warcraft film needs to attract more than the game's player base - studio CEO
The Warcraft film has such a turbulent history that there’s probably ample material for a film about the Warcraft film. Thankfully though, plans have fallen into place and the adaptation is slated for a 2016 release. During a recent interview with I Am Rogue, Legendary Pictures CEO Thomas Tull briefly discussed the project, which is directed by Source Code and Moon director Duncan Jones.
Offworld Trading Company is an economic RTS from the designer of Civ 4
Mohawk Games—the indie studio co-founded by Civilization 4 lead designer Soren Johnson—have officially unveiled their first game. Offworld Trading Company is an economy-based RTS in which money is your greatest weapon. In the metaphorical sense, I'd hope—unless we'll be ordering hundreds of units to stuff pounds, dollars and euros into custom-made muskets, with marginal stat boosts based on the weight and heft of a faction's currency.
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