I’m clearly having a weird Friday morning, because I just clapped my hands together and squealed “ooh, this does interesting things” aloud to myself. I’m also clearly playing a very good videogame. This is Monster Train: a deckbuilding roguelike that wears its Slay The Spire influences on its sleeve, while spinning up a familiar formula […]
If you get killed in Call Of Duty: Warzone and you’re not using push-to-talk, everyone nearby gets to briefly listen in to your mic. This has apparently been a thing in Call Of Duty games for years, but I’ve never noticed. I’ve never noticed it in Warzone, either, because I don’t have voice comms turned […]
As you may or may not have noticed, there is a bit of a hoo-ha going down about kernel-level anti-cheat software. This is software that peeps at what Windows is up to using administrator privileges, which some people are understandably unhappy about. Happily, then, Doom Eternal developers Id Software are going to rid their game […]
When videogames try to return to their ancestral routes, it doesn’t always go well. There are exceptions (hello, XCOM), but you often wind up with overwrought slogfests (hello, Dark Souls). I’m confident that the upcoming Small World Of Warcraft will buck that trend, because it’s basically Small World wearing a World Of Warcraft coat with […]
War never changes, but sometimes the optional mid-war missions do get swapped around. That’s actually quite common. Developers Infinity Ward briefly added Most Wanted contracts to Warzone last month, wiping over a different type of mission that I really liked. Fortunately, they quickly swapped them back around – and more fortunately still, yesterday’s update lets […]
At 6pm on the 29th of May (10am Pacific), Runeterra principal concept artist Chris Campbell will draw up a new character for Riot’s card ’em up. It’s for an “interactive global livestream”, where you’ll get the first peek at the newness and get to chat to him about how art works. It sounds nice, which […]
On this fine Friday afternoon, join me as I descend into the morality swamp. Around five days ago, the organisers of Dota 2 tournament WePlay Pushka sent a copyright strike against “Coldfox”, a YouTuber who broadcast the tournament on his personal channel. Coldfox recorded the tournament from in-game, separately to the organiser’s stream, and says […]
Omen lurks. He wriggles into unexpected corners, preying on those that don’t pay enough attention. He’s my favourite gun wizard in Valorant, Riot’s new FPS. The whole point of him is to disrupt, to confuse, to unsettle. He is a patient trickster. Or at least, I thought he was. Other people have been playing him […]
Xbox head Phil Spencer has been talking about the impact of Covid-19 on the games industry, and his message is basically: ‘don’t worry, everything will mostly be fine’. He says he feels “pretty good” about games that are due to come out this summer and autumn, while those that are further away will see “some […]
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