Valve tap Team Fortress 2 Workshop community for Tomb Raider items
The Team Fortress 2 universe is strong and flexible enough to absorb just about anything you can hold in your hands or balance on your head. In the last couple of years, it’s become the happy host of themed items for about four dozen Steam games.
Ordinarily, Valve work with developers and a venn diagram to come up with a suitable crossover point. But for Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris, Squeenix are opening up Tomb Raider history to the TF2 Workshop community.
Blizzard shut down Hearthstone's most popular botting tool
Blizzard’s cheating problem has come to a head lately. Hearthstone win trading has become so prevalent among its top players as to threaten the legitimacy of pro-level tournaments, and we saw several thousand botting accounts banned from the CCG last week.
The developers’ crackdown on automated progression continues with the throttling of the game’s most popular botting program - Hearthcrawler.
BioWare grant 12x XP boosts to Old Republic subscribers who pre-order Shadow of Revan
This might just be the best way to play Star Wars: The Old Republic - stuffed with stellar single-player stories but hampered by the trickling rate of XP in free-to-play.
BioWare are desperate to force-pull you back into their MMO ahead of its upcoming nostalgia-fuelled expansion, Shadow of Revan. To that end, they're offering a faintly ludicrous 12x storyline XP boost to players who pre-order the expansion and subscribe before December 1.
Gearbox fire off Homeworld Remastered footage; "Old-school Relic guys are all over it"
We’ll never know why Gearbox considered themselves a good fit for Relic’s beloved, bereft RTS. But perhaps all Homeworld needed was a studio coined and capable enough to jujj up the game’s engine and plonk the results on Steam.
That’s precisely the plan for Homeworld Remastered. And just in case, Gearbox have hired on half of early Relic to ensure it turns out right. Here's what it looks like atm.
Andy Serkis will voice Volume's villain opposite Charlie McDonnell
It’s customary for Andy Serkis to change faces between roles, and he’s taken one with a roman nose and pointy beard for his latest, in Mike Bithell’s Volume. This time the mo-cap mogul will be Guy Gisborne, a villainous CEO who runs England as a company.
The Black Glove gains VR support in final Kickstarter push
The Black Glove is a game made by former Irrational developers, and there’s a lot of BioShock in it: the masked madness of the splicers, and the vaudeville vibe of Sander Cohen’s den or Infinite’s fairgrounds.
But for some reason it’s really struggling on Kickstarter. Day For Night Games are pulling their fingers out for the campaign’s final few days, introducing a bunch of new physical rewards and support for the Oculus Rift.
EVE Online's Phoebe update might make you change your travel plans
EVE Online’s fifth mini-expansion - which doesn’t sound all that mini - launched today. Phoebe’s arrival marks the halfway point in the first year of CCP’s new expansion model, where it will release 10 expansions annually.
Phoebe’s biggest changes affect travel and supply lines thanks to the introduction of jump fatigue. After making a jump, ships will need to wait for a timer before they can jump again, discouraging long-distance jump travel. It’s the first phase in CCP’s attempt to rejuvenate Nullsec.
Grand Theft Auto V's first-person mode is real and looks great
Rockstar has confirmed the rumoured first-person mode for Grand Theft Auto V today, which a cached Rockstar support page alluded to last month. If the thought of spending 50 or so hours staring at Trevor, Michael and Franklin’s bottoms – to be fair, they are lovely bottoms – is just too much for you, you’ll no longer have to worry. You’ll be able to play through the game while staring out of their eyes.
Gonegate: EA cancels Dawngate
Dawngate, EA’s attempt to break into the realm of the MOBA, has been cancelled. Development of the game has stopped, and in 90 days the servers will be shut down for good.
The game was still in beta, but was not making the “progress” EA has hoped for. Luckily, for players who threw money at it, any in-game purchases made during the beta will be refunded within 10 days.
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