Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Hello. I think this might be the most varied Mod News yet. Look, there’s only one mention of a Half-Life 2 mod, and it doesn’t even have guns in it! Read on to find out what happenings have been happening in mod news this week.
Read the rest of this entry »

MMORTS games keeping being talked about by various beardymen, but I can only remember ever playing one, or maybe two? Anyway, they weren’t great, nor memorable, clearly. Reverie World Studios are aiming to change that with Dawn Of Fantasy, which is both beautiful and epic (see trailer below) thanks to judicious use of GRAPHICS. Woo! See how they sparkle.

The game will be released June 3rd 2011, and we’ll play it. You can try to play it now, actually, as there’s a closed beta in progress. Anyway, when I have played it we will say that I have played maybe three MMORTS games, so it’s a real genre now. Okay.
Read the rest of this entry »

The new update for Eve Online went up yesterday – the second part of Incursion, as I understand it – and it’s being celebrated with extended subs for those people who bought into the game during the launch of the first part of the game. This update also features lashings of new stuff, including the new character creator (above) for making the lumpy Eve character faces all pretty and stuff. (Although I suspect I would still make my bald old Amarrian into a bald old Amarrian.) Below I’ve posted a video in which CCP talk about “Beautification And Graphics Updates.”

Come on then. Hands up who is playing Eve? Make me jealous.
Read the rest of this entry »

As we know, all console owners secretly wish their machines were PCs. They don’t like to admit it, hiding behind lies like, “It’s great to have a machine where I don’t need to worry about updating drivers,” or, “But I want to play games on my comfortable couch.” But deep down, secretly, they desperately wish they had to worry about replacing heatsinks and virus blockers. This is only too easily proven by the video below, in which a group of PS3 users on the Little Big Planet 2 beta have painstakingly recreated Windows XP within the game.

Read the rest of this entry »

It is important that you play this. It’s free, so you’ve got no excuse. Not even that you’re colourblind or deaf, because it’s designed to be playable regardless of colour or audio cues.

Fotonica is loosely an auto-running game, in the vein of Canabalt or Robot Unicorn Attack, but with tasty dollops of Mirror’s Edge and Rez mixed in to create something hallucinatory, abstract and balletic. And all with one button.
Read the rest of this entry »

The internet has too many wonderful things to look at. Stop it, internet! Stop having too many wonderful things! The sad consequence of this is that we’re sometimes a little late at showing you particular wonderful things, such as this wonderful stop-motion, papercraft animation of wonderful Half-Life and wonderful Half-Life 2 by the wonderful Stepan Yurov. They’re quite wonderful. Wonderfully, you can watch them both below. How wonderful!
Read the rest of this entry »

Anybody who’s been feeling the recent drought of serious flight sims, anybody who’s been eagerly anticipating the next project from Russian aviation engineer / game designer / genius Oleg Maddox, anybody who’s been thinking fondly of the days when flight sims came with thick manuals, take a deep breath. Your troubles are over. IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover will be released on the 25th of March, and the press release has even got me excited, and I’ve never been into a flight sim in my life. Tell you what, though- I reckon I’ll be playing this.
Read the rest of this entry »

This is very, very, very old. That doesn’t make it any less beautiful, or any less worth posting now. Infogrames: that’s our world.

Well, was our world. Consider this official promotional song from way back when a perfect eulogy for the artist later known as Atari.

Altogether now: “Unreal Tournament / Test Drive / Survivor / Civilization / Superman saaaaaaaaves the nation…” And that’s not all.
Read the rest of this entry »

Trust a game about the creation of impossible pathways to feature cross-platform play between PC and PS3. Yes! Valve has announced that Portal 2′s new co-operative mode will allow PC gamers to play the game with anyone playing the game on a PS3. There’ll be cross-platform chat, too, though those guys might be a little quiet compared to us as unlike the 360 the PS3 doesn’t come with a headset as standard. Anyway, that’s not the only PC-related bonus that PS3 owners will be getting.
Read the rest of this entry »

ATTENTION PEOPLE OF THE WORLD: When you are referring to a decade by its number, you do not use an apostrophe. It’s easy to see why. If I were to say, “It’s about events that took place in the Eighty’s,” it would be quite obvious it was wrong. It is equally wrong to say that those events took place in the 80′s. The 80′s what? Trousers? So everyone, everywhere, STOP IT.

Talking of which, there’s a game you can play free for an hour called “The 80′s Game with Martha Quinn”. Nnnnnngggggh.

Read the rest of this entry »

This mod serves two purposes.
1) It makes StarCraft II into an MMO, which quite naturally is to be known as World of StarCraft.
2) If it gets taken down really, really quickly that means we’ve got proof Blizzard is working on their own StarCraft MMO after all! Probably. Maybe. Probably not.
Read the rest of this entry »