I've heard some pretty convincing cases against photorealism. Most of them go a bit like this: a more stylistic approach will be cheaper, provide more opportunities for inventive expression, and keep us safely on this side of the uncanny canyon.
Today, though, I'm not really interested in hearing another. I've just seen the latest batch of Arma 3 screenshots, and they're gorgeous.
When he talked at all, the old Garrett talked about the things he didn't like - the men after his head; the Keepers he'd abandoned; the fat nobles he was going to steal from. He defined himself in opposition - relied on it, as the shadow does the light.
New Garrett, it seems, is all me, me, me. In this trailer, he talks about his passion; his art; his feelings. Ugh, yuck.
All the games were good. That’s the key trick Indie Gala and (less so) Indie Royale missed in their hurry to mimic the runaway, yachts-for-everyone success of the first Humble Indie Bundle. World of Goo. Aquaria. Gish. Penumbra. Lugaru. All good games.
Even Humble themselves have lost their way on occasion since, but their latest pack was absolutely killer. And the inclusion of Dear Esther has paid dividends for developers thechineseroom.
Waaaaar THUN-der! You ought to sing that to the tune of Goldfinger. Why? Because this ambitious dogfighting game is the best MMO you’ve never heard of. It’s also the biggest: in January, 500,000 players had signed up to its open beta - hardly enough to threaten Wargaming, but the same sort of under-the-radar success that heralded World of Tanks.
Another reason to coopt Shirley Bassey in the name of War Thunder: it’s soon to be equipped for VR sky-high jinks with the Oculus Rift.
There are some new boxes of electronics coming that sit under your TV and claim to play games. They’re also television cable boxes and will watch you sleep/kiss your partner/touch yourself.
Instead of buying one of those, you should buy a PC. Here’s why.
Back in April, we reported that Skyrim: Legendary Edition would be released on June 7. Today it’s June 7, and Skyrim: Legendary Edition has been released. Coincidence? Almost certainly not. Reward Bethesda for their commitment to their retail word by buying Legendary Edition for £29.99 / €39.99 on PC. Only if you want to, like. But there's a lot of good in it.
Wargaming have more friends than you and I, and have issued a press release designed to rub that fact into our unpopular faces like a boastful gel. In the two-and-a-half years since its initial, Russian-only release, World of Tanks has garnered some 60 million registered accounts.
Blizzard are happy with the way Normal and Heroic raiding work in WoW, but think a valuable niche was lost when 10-player and 25-player modes were unified into a single difficulty after Wrath of the Lich King. They want to win back that space for a group they’re currently not serving - friends, family, and small, inclusive guilds.
By the end, this year will has been a slow victory for both Australian MOBA players and the country’s emaciated games industry. In February, Riot opened their Sydney office and began hiring staff to support the Oceanic LoL community. And before Christmas, all of the lights should be green on those local LoL servers we’ve been promised.
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With a prize pool of $150,000 at stake, the 16 top-performing players from the Korean, European, and North American divisions of the StarCraft 2 World Championship Series meet this week in Seoul for the Season 1 championship. The group stage begins tonight at 2 AM UK / 9 PM Eastern, with Stephano, Soulkey, TLO, and aLive leading off in Group A, while Alicia, Ryung, Mvp, and KangHo compete in Group B. The overall winner of the tournament will take home $40,000. You can watch the stream over at the WCS website.
Valve are sending out invites for players to “beta test” its newly completed Dota 2 documentary film: Free to Play.
The promised day is today: the Payday 2 live action web series is finally here, with episode one available to watch right now. It’s everything you’d expect and want: masks, guns, muffled voices and terrified bank employees.
This morning the super exciting news broke that Amazon have set up their own dedicated indie games store. Now things are escalating: on Reddit, Amazon Marketing Manager of Digital Video Games Tony Valcarcel (AKA Tvacgamer), has said that Amazon “want to sell every functional Indie game available on the market” and that they are “building new processes and self service tools to make this even easier in the coming months.” Ladies and gentlemen, Amazon just fired their first warning shots in their war against Steam Greenlight. May the battle commence!
This week’s Humble Weekly Sale is a seriously exciting one. Pay what you want, get a truck full of Serious Sam games, including the most recent third installment. But that’s not all. By buying the bundle, your money goes directly into the pockets of developer Croteam, who are using the profit to make Serious Sam 4. Seriously.
Limbic Entertainment has started ‘open development’ on Might & Magic X Legacy. “What is open development?” I hear you cry. Well, it means that you can have your say in the design of one of the game’s dungeons. A game developed for the players, with the players, so reads the official words. Time to strap on your helmet of Dungeon Design +10.
Over six years ago, Company of Heroes made quite the splash with its detailed tactical battles built on the strong foundation of Relic’s Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War series. After two expansions and the deaths of countless digital soldiers, the strategy developer is gearing up to launch the sequel, Company of Heroes 2. Why should you journey to the Eastern Front and lead the Red Army to eventual victory? Here’s everything we know.
If you want to play right now, there's an ongoing beta on Steam. It's free to join. You probably should try it.
Action RPG Path of Exile has been buffed with a massive new patch that adds, among many other things, two new leagues. The four-month-long leagues will start tomorrow, and will offer a notable difficulty increase as well as new items and objectives.
I think almost everyone has recovered from the emotional final episode of The Walking Dead, so rather than looking back with sadness on those events we’re all scouting ahead for signs of other survivors. Telltale have begun to tease what’s in store for fans this week with a selection of posts on Vine.
At least I think it’s space. It might be an alternate dimension, or some kind of meta-layer wrapped lovingly around our frame of existence. Whatever it is - and I don’t imagine Volition are overly worried about the details either - it stinks to the alien gills of sci-fi.
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Details of Respawn’s debut have been splashed all over NeoGAF ahead of a planned Game Informer reveal. The long-rumoured sci-fi FPS is named Titanfall, is multiplayer-focused, and runs in a modified version of Valve’s Source Engine.
