Alpha predator: Evolve testing sign-up now open for Americans
Will Evolve be a successful new species, or a dead end? A surefire way to find out would be to sign up to test Turtle Rock’s first-person monster hunter first-hand. We English aren’t eligible - the official site’s tweed-detectors were going off before I’d even offered my email address. But if you’re across the Atlantic, you can sign up and await further instruction.
Bring out the punch: Fist of Awesome arrives on Steam today
Fist of Awesome is a game about punching bears that Scottish designer Nicoll Hunt designed in his spare room in lieu of a proper Valentine’s present for his girlfriend. Two and a half years later, it’s sped through Valve accelerated Steam Greenlight program in exactly a week and now has its own Steam store page and everything.
My Life as a Grey Goo — Petroglyph's fascinating RTS faction designs
When Petroglyph unveiled their newest RTS, Grey Goo, the one thing they weren’t showing, or even describing, was the damned Goo from the title. They weren’t even willing to give a hint of what was coming.
That made it easy to underestimate Grey Goo. Without a full understanding of the factions, Grey Goo doesn’t look nearly as interesting and potentially revolutionary as it actually is.
Valve to split ginormous Dota 2 International prize pool more evenly this year
In all the goodwill surrounding The International’s community-funded prize pool, the only grumbling point was its distribution. A few Dota 2 pros would become millionaires one evening in Seattle, it seemed, but the rest would be no better off for all those Compendiums sold.
Valve have redressed the balance: the 10-million-dollar-plus prize pool will be split more evenly between The International’s winners than in previous years.
The Witcher Adventure Game closed beta sees first deployment of GOG Galaxy
Which Witcher is this? This is the one which calls itself an Adventure Game, but is in fact a Fantasy Flight board game magi-technologically turned into a PC game by CD Projekt RED.
It’s going into closed beta on the back of GOG’s fledgling Galaxy platform - the desktop client they hope will rub up alongside Steam in the taskbar.
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