By Al Bickham on December 14th, 2010.
More Azerothian adventures from our WoW correspondent Bickers – earlier installments are here.
I honestly don’t know whether to blame my initial frustration at Cataclysm’s level 80+ starting zones on the design decisions involved, or the fact that I willingly joined a PVP server.
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By Jim Rossignol on December 14th, 2010.
Splendid shooty arena game Monday Night Combat – which is a characterful Smash TV-like multiplayer game show action game with various different tactical elements thrown in to make it interesting – is coming to PC on 17th January. I guess that was revealed on Monday night, but oh well. Splendid news, anyway, as you can see from the trailer below. It’s a fairly cheap preorder, too.
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By John Walker on December 13th, 2010.
Sure, you remember the time last month when Quintin posted videos of Bloodline Champions, the DOTA-inspired arena multiplayer thingy. There was a profile of the Astronomer, Nomad and Thorn. And you thought you were satisfied. But now let me tell you there’s a profile of the Blood Priest, Guardian and the Stalker. It’s like finding out about the latest gadget – you didn’t know you needed it until you found out about it. But I’m not the sort to leave you hanging. I am the sort to write any old shit to fill this gap at the top. But not to leave you hanging. So click on below and you can watch it with your left, right, or even both eyes.
By Quintin Smith on December 13th, 2010.
Last week was a week where I posted a very short Batman: Arkham City footage and said I would not use right grammar until we got in-game footage. Like Batman, I cannot back down. So here it is! The same trailer, but enlongened. See Batman fight his enemys in the rain. He gets wet. Poor soggy Batamn. Have a towl, soggy Batman. There there.
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By Quintin Smith on December 13th, 2010.
Check your calendar! What are you doing in 2013? I’ll tell you what you’re doing, you’re playing Guillermo del Toro’s inSANE. Yes, the game that del Toro confirmed he was working on with THQ has been named, dated and has expelled an ominous teaser trailer. No details on the game just yet, though the cheerful Mexican director/writer says he wants “to take players to a place they have never seen before, where every single action makes them question their own senses of morality and reality.” Now, put on your spooky boots and come watch that trailer with me.
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By Alec Meer on December 13th, 2010.
One Chance was one of those marvellously unexpected indie games which burst out of nowhere and immediately had half the internet talking. By talking, I mean “crying and/or arguing”. It split the vote neatly between those who admired it for being built first and foremost around emotional clout and those who loathed it for being based first and foremost around emotional clout. For my money it was a bold, clever and above all gutwrenchingly maudlin experiment in storytelling and choice-making. Oh-so-final choices in fact, with the game sternly disallowing you from replaying – no matter how terrible the consequences. (Like wiping out humanity. Whoops).
But what of its creator’s choices? Does he stand by that controversial restriction, how does he feel about the reaction to the game, and what happens now he’s had a gentle nibble on zeitgeist’s earlobe? AwkwardSilenceGames’ Dean Moynihan responds to the response below.
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By Jim Rossignol on December 13th, 2010.
WARFACE! There is now a video, brought to us through the strange pipes of the internet. It shows Crytek’s shooter, currently designed and destined for Asian free-to-play markets, in glorious (slightly grainy) action. No news on a Western release yet, but my money says it will happen eventually. Anyway, to footage! Men are there. Shot are they. Go look!
By Jim Rossignol on December 13th, 2010.
What does that mean? It means that an expansion pack is the fastest selling PC game of all time. Oh, except that doesn’t change anything. Previous fastest-selling title was, well, Wrath Of The Lich King, which sold 2.8mil on day one. Apparently over 15,000 people attended Cataclysm launch events across the world, and the subs base for the game now sits and 12 million. It’s still an amazing thing, given that I can remember people tutting sceptically over Blizzard spending all their money on making that game in the first place. The lesson here is: don’t bet against Blizzard.
It must be nice to be rich.
By John Walker on December 13th, 2010.
Remember that old CGI trailer for Deus Ex: Human Revolution? Well now there’s a “Director’s Cut”. Some say, “longer version.” (The director couldn’t get his own way the first time?) Still, it’s lots of fun, and worth a watch at over five minutes with new bits and bobs in there. It’s below.
By RPS on December 13th, 2010.
Surprises can be great, like, “Surprise! I’ve bought forty cream cakes.” Or rubbish, like, “Surprise! Your entire family’s been killed at sea.” Advent calendars usually don’t offer much of a surprise. Will my chocolate be bell-shaped or snowman-shaped? Who really takes long enough to notice before scoffing it down? But the RPS-o-calendar is a daily treat of festive surprisity, and as a bonus, today’s game was a surprise at the time too. Intrigued? Take a look behind the thirteenest window of them all.
By Jim Rossignol on December 13th, 2010.
Of all the ill-fated games of recent years that I have been surprised to see live again, Mythos comes close to top of the list. When Flagship spiraled into bankruptcy it looked like the game would go down with them, but it turns out that companies such as HanbitSoft, Red Bana, and Frogster had other ideas. Over the past year the game has slowly come back to life, and has been at closed beta in North America for a while now. Frogster have just send word that their European beta for the “hack ‘n slash MMO” (they’re calling the “first” hack ‘n’ slash MMO, which doesn’t quite ring true in my brain) is now taking sign ups. There’s also a lovely video of the game in action on their site, too. Glad to see this one survive, and I am looking forward to seeing live and playable.
