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3D Realms announce Graven, a fantasy FPS loosely inspired by Hexen 2

7 9 月, 2020 Alice O'Connor 0

Swords and sorcerers will collide with a big wet thunk in Graven, a retro-styled fantasy FPS announced over the weekend by co-publishers 3D Realms and 1C. They claim it’s a “spiritual successor to Hexen 2”, with puzzles, monsters, “open-ended regions” to explore without waypoints directing you, and all sorts of stabby and zappy weapons. It’s […]

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Yup, a pregnancy test is the weirdest device I’ve seen running Doom

7 9 月, 2020 Alice O'Connor 0

Getting Doom up and running on weird and unexpected computers is a long-running jape, with Id Software’s seminal shooter having been put on everything from digital cameras to a McDonald’s cash register. Now technotinkerer Foone Turing has demonstrated playing Doom in a pregnancy test, which is the wildest I’ve seen so far. It is not […]

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Call Of Duty: Warzone has temporarily removed vehicles

7 9 月, 2020 Alice O'Connor 0

If you’re looking forward to unwinding after work today by hopping in a party wagon with the lads and shouting “Oi oiii!” while buzzing nerks in Call Of Duty: Warzone, bad news: the game has no vehicles right now. The developers, Infinity Ward have temporarily removed all vehicles, presumably because of crashes they’ve been causing […]

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Brutal Fate is a new gory FPS from the creator of Brutal Doom

7 9 月, 2020 Alice O'Connor 0

After years of ripping and tearing Doom with the infamous mod Brutal Doom, creator Marcos “Sergeant Mark IV” Abenante is preparing to launch a brand new game of his own. Over the weekend he revealed Brutal Fate, a new retro-styled FPS for you to litter with viscera. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: […]

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Destiny 2’s city in the sky is wasted on the Solstice event

4 9 月, 2020 Alice O'Connor 0

This is the final weekend of Destiny 2‘s Solstice Of Heroes, an annual summer event which celebrates how great we are by levitating a slice of city into the sky to host a special event mode. This European Aerial Zone is a fantastic level, full of pathways bouncing across rooftops and burrowing deep into labyrinthine […]

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Indivisible and Skullgirls studio Lab Zero hit with layoffs

4 9 月, 2020 Alice O'Connor 0

Lab Zero Games, the studio behind Indivisible and Skullgirls, have laid off many of their remaining employees. Some claim that everyone is gone and that severance pay was not sorted. This comes the week after a number of key employees publicly announced their resignation, with some accusing studio owner Mike Zaimont of inappropriate behaviour and […]

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The Witcher 3 is getting a next-gen upgrade as a free update

4 9 月, 2020 Alice O'Connor 0

CD Projekt Red today announced they’re fancying-up The Witcher 3 for release on the next generation of consoles, and we on PC will receive those improvements too, with a free update. They say that “the next-gen edition of the game will feature a range of visual and technical improvements — including ray tracing and faster […]

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Square Enix show off their Luminous Engine’s world editor

3 9 月, 2020 Alice O'Connor 0

Square Enix’s Luminous Productions studio are keeping their mysterious game Project Athia under wraps for now, but they have revealed more of the technology it’s built on, the Luminous Engine. At a Japanese conference this week, the gang of former Final Fantasy XV folks gave a talk including a demonstration of its world editor, and […]