Battlefield 4: Naval Strike's four maps will look like this, if you squint a bit

Naval Strike is the name of Battlefield 4’s next round of maps - the conveyor belt for which has started rolling at full speed again now DICE have made a concerted effort to tackle the game’s myriad bugs.

Its headline feature is a new Carrier Assault mode DICE have been telling everyone is an explicit tribute to Battlefield 2142’s Titan mode. There’s one image of that, and three others, below.

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Sci-fi sub club: Wildstar release date set for June 3, pre-orders start next week

Wildstar might turn out to be the only MMO worthy of the designation ‘WoW clone’ - a hoverboard-powered attempt to rejustify the subscription from a team of former Blizzard designers at Carbine. It’s out before the Summer, on June 3.

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Peter Molyneux apologises for Godus, went “back to the drawing board” for new update

This is quite extraordinary. 22cans have pushed out Godus 2.0 today - their first update since the game was uploaded to Steam Early Access in October. And with it they’ve posted a video in which Peter Molyneux - accompanied by a minion making noises of agreement - says sorry for the sorry state Godus was released in.

When Godus was first pitched on Kickstarter, the promise was that players would enjoy reshaping an environment to new ends; the fact that they didn’t has meant their feedback has “literally reshaped” the nature of the game.

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Nords are niche: Elder Scrolls Online is not an MMO for "everybody who plays games"

Here’s a slice of received wisdom you can expect to see on a Total War loading screen one of these days: subscriptions are only for niche MMOs, like Eve.

So what’s The Elder Scrolls Online doing with one? Well, here’s the thing: according to Bethesda marketing man Pete Hines, it’s sort of a niche MMO.

“We’re not trying to make a game that everybody who plays games will automatically buy,” he said. 

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Win three rounds of Hearthstone and ride off into the sunset on the Hearthsteed

Hearthstone launched yesterday, but you probably already know that. To celebrate the launch of its free-to-play digital crack, Blizzard is offering an equally free gift to all players in the form of a shiny new flying mount for World of Warcraft.

The Hearthsteed and its astral wings can be yours very easily. All you need to do is earn the “Mount Up!” achievement in Hearthstone by winning three rounds, and it’s all yours. 

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2K casting call suggests that Mafia III could be set in Louisiana

2K recently put out a casting call for voice over and motion capture actors for an unnamed project that could be Mafia III. The third installment of the open-world crime series was believed to have been in development at 2K Czech, where the excellent first and uneven second games were developed. But layoffs and resource shuffling at that studio suggests that this may no longer be the case.

While the game was not named in the casting call, the character descriptions make it clear that the title will tackle the criminal underworld, and a period setting is suggested by the mention of racial segregation. Take a look at the character biographies below. 

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Star Wars Attack Squadrons beta impressions: a free-to-play attempt at reviving X-Wing

There’s a surprising amount of weight on Star Wars Attack Squadrons’ shoulders. It’s the first Star Wars game to be made under the gaze of new custodian Disney, the first Star Wars game to be developed since LucasArts fell, and the first Star Wars flight game on PC since 2001’s Starfighter. Not only that, but the PC community harbours a deep love for classic Star Wars spacecraft sims X-Wing and Rogue Squadron. For Attack Squadrons - a free-to-play multiplayer browser game - to soar past fans with its hull intact is a challenge tougher than any exhaust port torpedo drop. 

But as I pull back hard with my X-Wing to escape a target-locked concussion missile, only to swoop back in behind its sender and blast him to phosphorous-white smithereens with laser blasts, I realise perhaps that Attack Squadron - with its 16 players and deep-space battlegrounds - may be the X-Wing vs TIE Fighter successor nobody expected. 

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Blizzard shines the spotlight on Heroes of the Storm's heavily armed Assassin, Tychus the Terran Marine

It’s going to be very, very strange mowing down the likes of the archdemon Diablo or huge murlocs with a gargantuan minigun while snugly ensconced in bulky Terran Marine armour. But that’s the sort of ridiculous match-ups that Blizzard’s Heroes of the Storm promises; a game where all the iconic characters from the studios huge franchises clash, regardless of how little it makes sense. It’s as exciting as it is silly.

Blizzard’s thrown up a spotlight for Tychus Findlay, one of Starcraft II’s Terran chaps. He’s a big ‘ol powerhouse, and in Heroes of the Storm he fills the role of the Assassin, the damage dealer. 

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The BAFTA results are in, and they're disappointingly predictable

That’s the BAFTAs over for another year, which means Dara O Briain will be looking for some more work. The results for the annual doling out awards ceremony weren’t particularly surprising, but there were some unfortunate omissions such as nominees Gunpoint and The Stanley Parable. 

PC titles were abundant in the nominations, but few managed to net any of those hideous golden masks that pass for awards.

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Starcraft 2 senior game designer not comfortable with making big changes

Starcraft 2’s senior game designers David Kim just finished up a Reddit AMA on Heart of the Swarm balance. 

He managed to answer a lot of questions, and covered a lot of ground. But for anyone hoping that the team will start making bigger updates or big changes when the new expansions drops will be disappointed. 

The point reiterated the most during the AMA was that Blizzard’s Starcraft 2 team are unlikely to ever change their minds about the effectiveness of large changes. And Kim seems quite risk averse, unwilling to make a change unless it’s “completely awesome.”

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Diablo 3 2.0.3 now live; tweaks wizards and blacksmithing

Diablo 3’s 2.0.3 patch is now live, at least for players in the American region. 

It’s a small patch, but makes it so that all bosses drop rare quality items and tweaks blacksmithing and the wizard class. Direct your eyes below for the full patch notes.

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New Tech Demo Of Unreal Engine 4 Running On FireFox Without Plugins

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Unofficial Xbox One Controller PC Driver Version 1.0 Released

March 12, 2014 John Papadopoulos 5 Comments

Bad news: Microsoft has not provided any official PC drivers for the Xbox One controller. Amazing news: Lucas Assis has released an unofficial driver that can be downloaded right here, right now. As Lucas said, this driver was created in just under a day and although it works great, it’s not really that easy to install. You can view below the download link as a video tutorial. Enjoy! Continue reading →

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Star Citizen To Be Powered By The Kythera AI Technology, Will Be Featured In The Dogfighting Module

March 12, 2014 John Papadopoulos 0 Comments

Moon Collider, the company behind the ground breaking artificial intelligence (AI) system, Kythera, announced today a partnership with Cloud Imperium Games. Today the two companies drew back the curtain on the artificial intelligence underpinning in Star Citizen’s immersive universe. Kythera will be the guiding hand for computer-controlled characters and spacecraft throughout Star Citizen. Continue reading →

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Rumor: New Details About Mirror’s Edge Surface, Targets A 2016 Release

March 12, 2014 John Papadopoulos 8 Comments

Rocket Chainsaw has uncovered some new information about the new Mirror’s Edge remake that is being developed by DICE. Since Rocket Chainsaw has not provided any evidence – and EA has not commented on this story – yet, we strongly suggest taking everything you are about to read with a grain of salt. Continue reading →

Mirror's Edge and Dear Esther artist joins Valve to "be around people"

Rob Briscoe is one of two freelancers who’ve found a polite sort of fame after their work on Mirror’s Edge. While Rhianna Pratchett went on to scribe Tomb Raider (and in smaller font, Thief), Briscoe went on to splash Dear Esther with a liberal varnish of art and design.

The success of Dear Esther has allowed him to continue on in indiedom indefinitely - but an “increasing feeling of isolation” while working on a Unity port for the game has led him to seek a job in which he can be “in the presence of people”. Genius people, at Valve.

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Dark Souls 2 PC delay will mean higher resolutions, better framerates and key mapping

The early days of a Something Souls game are completely unique. There are no wikis to consult, nor spoilers to overhear. Players stumble through graveyards of one palette or another for the first time, sacrificing themselves to learn the monster movesets others will come to memorise.

It’s a bit of a shame PC gamers have been robbed of that period for Dark Souls 2, which launched on the consoles this week. We’ll have to wait till - my goodness, is that right - April 25 to enter the land of the soon-to-be-dead.

But better late, as in the late Dent Arthur Dent, than never. Producer Tak Miyazoe says the delay has ensured Dark Souls 2 will be better on PC than its “half-assed” predecessor.

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EA and Respawn name Titanfall's worst issues on PC, start fixing them

Acknowledging the problem is the first step to something. Free chocolate? I forget. In any case, EA are on the right track. They’ve set up a help page for Titanfall, which they’ve filled with known issues, temporary workarounds, and assurances that Respawn are fixing what’s broken. Here’s some of the stuff that might be affecting you.

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Funcom talk police investigation: "We were back in full production the day after they came"

Funcom started off the year in lights for all the wrong reasons. They’d been raided by Økokrim, Norway’s financial crime unit, the headlines wailed, who were investigating one charge of market manipulation and another of wrongfully-filed insider information from around the time of The Secret World’s release.

After a short, dreadful silence, Funcom told the press that all was well; that they were cooperating and remained “committed” to The Secret World. And now a more recent account suggests that despite the ongoing investigations, it “all blew over very fast”. Funcom’s coders are coding again.

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Monaco man Andy Schatz is building a classic RTS simple enough for a gamepad: Armada

Bird’s eye view: all the holistic insight of the winged kings, without the constant fear of predator attack from absolutely any angle. Monaco creator Andy Schatz has stuck with his favoured perspective for his next project - a streamlined C&C style RTS named Armada.

“With Monaco, we took an old school genre (Stealth), we simplified the controls, and then we built an incredibly complex game that could be played at high and low skill levels alike,” said Schatz. “I want to do the same with the real-time strategy genre."

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Gong Home: Steam are selling BAFTA nominees at cut price

The gaming BAFTAs happened last night - and until the Oscars get a little more lax with their licensing, it’s pretty much the best gongfest we have. Our Fraser was disappointed by the scarcity of surprises - but I consider any evening that celebrates PC indie things like Gone Home and Papers, Please a good one.

You’ll find both of those games on sale on Steam today, uncoincidentally, alongside their fellow nominees - apart from GTA Online, which isn’t on PC and definitely wouldn’t be its best multiplayer game if it was.

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Elite: Dangerous — Alpha 3 adds a station, systems and hyperspace jumps, is also brilliant

I've been playing Alpha 2, the next to latest version, of Elite: Dangerous, zooping around in my spaceboat, swishing between asteroids and kablooshing enemy ships in its series of single player combat missions. Elite, it turns out, is really, seriously good. It controls remarkably similarly to the original game, with dogfights consisting of a rolling and pitching your craft, twisting and arcing through space in your attempts to keep your target in view. But at the same time it introduces some of the kinetic spirit of Frontier, Elite's sequel, with less rigid physics and a touch more Newtonian space-skidding giving combat real momentum and punch. Braben's development team have worked some real nostalgia black magic here, merging our fuzzy memory of how Elite used to be with a modern, uncompromised space combat sim. 

Alpha 2 is tremendous, yes, but the soon to be released Alpha 3 is another beast entirely. Alpha 3 dumps on Alpha 2 from orbit. Alpha Poo, you'll be calling it before long.

I've been playing the latest version of Elite: Dangerous, and here's what's up with it.

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Grudge match: Rome II DLC pits Carthage against Rome in the Second Punic War

The Second Punic War is ripe for dramatisation, so it’s odd that Hollywood hasn’t picked it apart. Maybe it’s because the “bad guys” win in the end. Rome initiates yet another war against its old adversaries, Carthage, kicking off a conflict that engulfs the Mediterranean. So the Carthaginian general, Hannibal, crosses the Alps with ferocious elephants and angry Gauls, beating up Romans up and down Italy. 

Of course, it didn’t end well for Carthage. The Romans took back their fallen cities, chucked the North African powerhouse out of Iberia and eventually turned once mighty Carthage into yet another client state. In Total War: Rome II’s new DLC, Hannibal at the Gates, you’ll have a chance to change the fortunes of Carthage. Or you can put yourself in Scipio’s shoes, trying to make the war play out just as it did historically. 

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Heroes of the Storm progression and customisation detailed along with a technical alpha walkthrough

Heroes of the Storm’s hero rotation element was leaked a while back, but now Blizzard has clarified exactly how the rotation will function in a recent blog post. As well as breaking down hero rotations, Blizzard dropped some information on hero customisation, mounts and how players will earn experience.

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This week's Humble Sale is a corker from SEGA

This week’s Humble Sale is a bit of a corker. It’s from SEGA, and includes a good mix of old and new(er) titles. 

Pay anything and you’ll net yourself Alpha Protocol, Rome: Total War, Company of Heroes and Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit. Rome and Company of Heroes are phenomenal games and should be in the library of any strategy fans, while Alpha Protocol and Hell Yeah! are a bit more uneven, but still entertaining. 

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Campo Santo announces its first game: Firewatch

Campo Santo, the developer supergroup made up from folk with CVs that include The Walking Dead Season One, Mark of the Ninja and BioShock 2, has finally revealed its first game: Firewatch. 

A first-person mystery, Firewatch will put you in the shoes of Henry, a chap who has ditched his old life to become a fire spotter in the Wyoming wilderness, with only a radio the his supervisor on the other end, Delilah, to keep him company. 

But the peaceful job of just keeping an eye out for smoke starts to become more complicated, as he leaves his lookout tower to explore a mystery that could either build or break the only relationship he has left. 

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Alien Isolation's xenomorph: “This is an enemy that you need to avoid at all costs”

The years haven’t been kind to Xenomorphs. The Aliens vs Predator films made them utterly disposable, Prometheus made them the product of goo and Colonial Marines made them mentally subnormal and suicidal.

So Creative Assembly have a lot of work to do in Alien: Isolation, making the single xenomorph as terrifying as we remember it to be from the original film. The latest developer diary explains the design approach Creative Assembly have taken in regards to the iconic monster.

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Strike Suit Zero – Director’s Cut vs Original Version Comparison

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Here Is Your First Look At Nvidia’s APEX Physics In Unreal Engine 4

March 13, 2014 John Papadopoulos 12 Comments

YouTube’s member ‘seujose’ has posted some new videos, showing off some Nvidia APEX physics effects that have been implemented in Unreal Engine 4. Although we don’t know whether those APEX effects are GPU or CPU accelerated, we do know that this is the first WIP footage of Nvidia’s APEX effects in Unreal Engine 4. As suggested, this is still a WIP project so don’t expect to see polished physics effects. Still, it will give you an idea of what you can expect from them. Enjoy! Continue reading →

 

 

 

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GoldenEye: Source v4.2 SDK 2013 Incoming, Gets A New Fan Trailer

March 13, 2014 John Papadopoulos 4 Comments

Goldeneye fans, get ready for some amazing news. The team behind the Source freeware MP remake of Rare’s classic console FPS, Goldeneye, is gearing up for a 2014 release and you can view below a fan-made trailer dedicated to it.  GoldenEye: Source is a total conversion modification of Half-Life 2, and its SDK 2013 version will be released soon. Enjoy! Continue reading →

 

 

 

 

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Among the Sleep Gets An Amazing Gameplay Teaser Trailer

March 13, 2014 John Papadopoulos 3 Comments

Krillbite Studio has released a new gameplay trailer for its upcoming horror title, Among The Sleep. Among The Sleep is a game that is heavily based on atmosphere and exploration, and uses the perspective of a two year old child. The game will feature some puzzle and adventure elements, though its main focus lies on exploration, atmosphere and horror. It looks great so make sure to watch it! Continue reading →

 

 

 

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Carmageddon: Reincarnation – Available Now To VIP Kickstarter Backers

March 13, 2014 John Papadopoulos 2 Comments

Stainless has announced that Carmageddon: Reincarnation is now available – in advance of its scheduled Early Access launch date – as part of the “Rewards” package for Backers who part funded the game’s development on Kickstarter. Continue reading →

 

 

 

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Daylight Is The Fist Unreal Engine 4 Title With PhysX Support

March 13, 2014 John Papadopoulos 4 Comments

Our reader ‘mareknr’ has spotted some interesting new details about the PC version of Daylight. According to the official GeForce website, Daylight will support PhysX and HBAO+. This obviously means that Daylight will be the first game, powered by Unreal Engine 4, with native PhysX support (presumably GPU PhysX). Continue reading →

 

 

 

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Resident Evil 4: Ultimate HD Edition Gets A New Beta Patch, Introduces New Mouse Control Scheme

March 14, 2014 John Papadopoulos 1 Comment

Capcom has released a new beta patch for Resident Evil 4: Ultimate HD Edition that introduces a new mouse control scheme, increases master volume level and fixes various bugs. In order to download this beta patch, you’ll need to follow the guide below. You can also find below the complete changelog of this beta patch. Enjoy! Continue reading →

 

 

 

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Murdered: Soul Suspect – New Screenshots

March 14, 2014 John Papadopoulos 1 Comment

Square Enix has released a new batch of screenshots for its upcoming supernatural detective thriller, Murdered: Soul Suspect. Murdered: Soul Suspect is a dark, detective thriller with a supernatural twist: solving your own murder from the afterlife. Players take the role of Ronan O’Connor, a Salem police detective with a checkered past, whose life is brought to an untimely end by a brutal killer. The game is planned for a June 6th release. Enjoy! Continue reading →

next person to say hello (or if they aren't friends with me on Steam send me a friend request I guess) on Steam gets a copy of One Way Heroics...

From the look of that game, I'd die a lot of times. So Goodbye

Also, no mention on Rockstar's Steam Sale? 67% off in every game and 80% off for the bundles!

JEMC said: From the look of that game, I'd die a lot of times. So Goodbye Also, no mention on Rockstar's Steam Sale? 67% off in every game and 80% off for the bundles!

No one cares about Rockstar's games

Night-mayor nearly over: SimCity offline mode is just a spot of "final testing" away

“Too little, too late” is the refrain I hear most often in the comment threads for articles like this one - and perhaps that’s true. Maxis certainly have a long way to go in re-earning our faith, and there are still inherent problems with SimCity’s simulation that will likely never be solved - at least not in this iteration.

But in the very near future, it’s going to become a game you can play on the train, or for 40 minutes during a power cut until your laptop battery drains to nothing. Which is something, right?

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Diablo III director hints at ladder support post-Reaper of Souls

Blizzard have been teasing a competitive ladder for Diablo III for absolutely yonks. On the first anniversary of the game’s release in May, designer Wyatt Cheng said the dev team were “definitely looking into” the possibility of ranked seasons - but warned it “wouldn’t be viable until an expansion”.

Well, guess what comes out at the end of this month? The imminent release of Reaper of Souls, and the fact that game director Josh Mosqueira’s tweets have turned cryptic of late, give us reason to believe in seasons.

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Microsoft say there'll be official Xbox One controller support on PC this year

Some of Microsoft’s most important announcements for PC gamers continue to come from the gutter. While DirectX 12 looks to occupy two stages at GDC, we have to look to a pokey corner of NeoGAF for word on the Xbox One controller - already in our lounges, but not in conversation with our computers.

The news is good: Microsoft director of product planning Albert Penello says we can expect proper support for the gamepad on PC this year - and it won’t require any extra gadgetry before it starts accepting our inputs.

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Blustery day: Heroes of the Storm has entered technical alpha

Heroes of the Storm is the on-screen manifestation of BlizzCon - a place where demons hack at marines healed by Knights of the Silver Hand. It’s the MOBA formerly known as Blizzard All-Stars - now finally playable to a select few battle.net users. Though still very far from finished.

“Don’t worry,” says Blizzard community man Kevin Johnson. “Uther isn’t really going to sound like that”. 

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Any port in a storm: Elite Dangerous moves into alpha 3.0 and shows off docking

Elite: Dangerous has moved into phase 3.0 of its alpha, which adds docking, hyperspace jumps and ship outfitting. Normally docking wouldn’t be all that interesting, but getting a vessel into a space station in the original Elite was an absolute bugger, and Elite: Dangerous attempts to stay true to the original’s spirit by making it a very hands-on affair.

Dock your space-weary eyes on the tutorial video below.

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Transformers Universe closed beta begins this weekend; play and get two exclusive bots

Fancy commanding burly robots to beat the oil out of other burly robots this weekend? There are definitely worse ways to while away the hours. If you are the type of person who goes in for that senseless robot-on-robot violence, then you’re in luck, because Transformers Universe is kicking off its closed beta on the 15th and 16th. 

Sign ups are first come, first served and limited, so you’d probably go and pledge your allegiance to the Autobots or the Decepticons post-haste. 

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Pre-load Valve's Free to Play documentary on Steam now

I’m not sure why it seems loopier than pre-loading a game, but the fact that you can - right bloody now - pre-load Valve’s Dota 2 documentary, Free to Play, seems a bit bonkers. But you can do it. And that way you’ll be ready when it launches on the 19th, a day after it premieres in San Francisco. 

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Battlefield 4's platoons are now open to the masses

Previously only available to Premium members, Battlefield 4’s platoon system separated the haves from the have nots. DICE couldn’t have some random pleb making a platoon. That would be like any old nutter creating a religion or leading a political party. Preposterous.

But fearing revolution - or more likely just because much of Battlefield’s content eventually trickles down - DICE acquiesced, and now any old person can put together a platoon.

The Elder Scrolls Online will launch "lag-free" promise Bethesda

Come launch day for The Elder Scrolls Online, no one will be (s)lagging it off for latency issues, provided Bethesda make good on their promise. In the run up to D-Day, developer Zenimax have been making the most of the data gained during beta testing to ensure servers are prepped for the huge initial blast of players throwing orcs and lizard people onto them. 

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Satellite Reign footage showcases lovely cyberpunk dystopia

It’s odd how often you look at dystopia on-screen and think “Wow, that’s lovely”. Obviously we don’t mean lovely as in let’s go move in straightaway, but there is something alluringly pretty about the likes of Blade Runner’s future LA. Satellite Reign - spiritual successor to the original Syndicate games - has got that feeling crack on, as demonstrated in this beautiful little bit of pre-alpha footage.

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The Elder Scrolls Online's first microtransaction will be a horse

Should you be rolling in enough wealth that you can afford to buy The Elder Scrolls Online game, the monthly subscription, and still have money left to spare, then Zenimax Online may have something to satisfy your retail cravings in its Elder Scrolls Online cash shop. There won’t be a massive selection available on day one, but one of the things guaranteed to be on sale is a horse.

If you wish to gallop around the starting zones, sat a whole ten hands higher than other newbie players to exert your dominant dollar, then step this way.

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FFXIV: A Realm Reborn patch 2.2 video previews Leviathan and more

Square Enix has released today a new video detailing the contents of the new patch coming to Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn - Through the Maelstrom. The headline feature: the appearance of the water serpent primal, Leviathan. Along with additional quests, more hard mode dungeons and gear glamouring, the patch will also introduce the The Second Coil of Bahamut: a continuation of the games end-game raid.

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Valve's Steam Controller has received an update; it's shiny

Yes, that was a Firefly reference. Valve have posted an announcement showing off their most recent design prototype for their Steam Controller. The new prototype incorporates much of the feedback from the Steam Box testers, who’ve been tinkering with it since last year.

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World of Warcraft player hits 85 on his "neutral" Pandaren; aims for 90

Somewhere in the world of Azeroth is a lone warrior with no allegiance. Doubleagent, a Pandaren Shaman, is on his own quest to reach the games max level without allying with either the Horde or the Alliance. This introduces some pretty harsh limitations to his leveling ability, as he’s never allowed to leave the starting zone. His only way of gaining the gargantuan amounts of experience he now needs to level up is solely by gathering.

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Supergiant Games are close to "content lock" with Transistor; "these days we're zeroing in"

At the back end of 2013, Supergiant Games had reported that Transistor - their new action RPG - was in an alpha stage. Fast forward to the present and it’s getting closer to that all important “content lock” status: where the game is “near shipping quality”.

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The Book of Legends – 16bit RPG – Releases Today On Steam

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Bound By Flame Gets A New Set Of Screenshots

March 14, 2014 John Papadopoulos 1 Comment

Focus Home Interactive has released a new set of screenshots for Spiders’ upcoming RPG, Bound By Flame, showcasing some of the ferocious creatures players will have to face in their quests. Bound By Flame is currently scheduled for a May 9th release, and Focus Home Interactive will release a new trailer to highlight the game’s combat mechanics soon. Enjoy! Continue reading →

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Brigade Officially Announced, Powerful Graphics API Aiming To Replace DirectX or OpenGL

March 15, 2014 John Papadopoulos 4 Comments

Remember Brigade Engine? No? Well shame on you because OTOY has announced that game developers worldwide will be able to leverage Brigade – its path tracing and rendering technology for photorealistic next-generation games – through Amazon EC2 in the second half of the year. Continue reading →

Kodama Asks For Some Kindness

By Jim Rossignol on March 14th, 2014 at 4:00 pm.

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British indie Dan “Tsukasa” Elvins has launched a Kickstarter for “a 2D hand painted, physics based Platformer set in Japans Genroku Period”. What that means is he’s creating a deeply pretty side-scroller called Kodama. The game features a vegetable protagonist, who has to balance water and sunlight uptake in the way in which he deals with puzzles, as well as respecting Shinto customs. Elvins asks: “Have you ever wanted to relax with a Kappa or play drums with a Tanuki?” Well, I actually haven’t, but I know a few Japanophiles who would. See more of the pitch below.

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End Of Nations Devs Reveal Throwback RTS Grey Goo

By Nathan Grayson on March 14th, 2014 at 12:00 pm.

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When I first heard about Grey Goo, I assumed it was some kind of World-of-Goo-style puzzler, except all gritty and probably about a goo blob with No Family, No Loyalties, And Nothing Left To Lose. I was woefully, hideously incorrect, but can you blame me? Grey Goo isn’t really what I would’ve titled an RTS that attempts to hearken back to the genre’s golden age, but former End of Nations developer Petroglyph is sticking with it, so here we are. In the wake of Victory’s sobering defeat, the recently beleaguered studio is going back to what it knows best. Base building, three unique factions, and a handful of profoundly important decisions instead of 100 inconsequential ones. Debut trailer below.

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Growing The Medium: Oscar Interview

Ex-Relic team member, Josh Long, takes TPG on a trip through the world of his new indie game, Oscar. "The game expresses what it's like to have problems you can't explain and how this might affect your day-to-day life."

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zarx said: Microsoft say there'll be official Xbox One controller support on PC this year 14 March 2014 • 16 hours 39 min ago • Story by Jeremy Peel Comments1 Reddit This Some of Microsoft’s most important announcements for PC gamers continue to come from the gutter. While DirectX 12 looks to occupy two stages at GDC, we have to look to a pokey corner of NeoGAF for word on the Xbox One controller - already in our lounges, but not in conversation with our computers. The news is good: Microsoft director of product planning Albert Penello says we can expect proper support for the gamepad on PC this year - and it won’t require any extra gadgetry before it starts accepting our inputs. Read and Comment

Well, it's only March plus all the time they had during development, so... they better do it sooner than later!

For the few that will use it, ofc. I'll stick to my wired 360 gamepad for some time.