Superb Star Wars dog-fighting sim Rogue Squadron 3D has made it to Steam at last (£7/$10). Released in 1998 for Windows and the N64, Rogue Squadron proclaimed “astonishing 3D details including real time lighting and special effects (explosions, smoke, engine glow, tracer fire and more)”. It’s showing a few wrinkles now, but there’s still nothing quite like it for...
Oculus’ Damaged Core is one of a few VR-exclusive FPSs. Jason Rubin Jason Rubin has a big job at Oculus VR: he’s overseeing “over 20” first party Oculus Rift games set for release this year while bringing the culture and processes of game development to a hardware company. Before Oculus, Rubin was briefly president of THQ...
Good news, Dark Souls fans: Dark Souls 3 is a dense, challenging game. But for those who are new to the series, this might be an intimidating portent. Dark Souls is notoriously difficult to get into; plenty of players who would definitely love it instead press their face to the glass and long for the...
Metal Gear Solid Online is getting a new patch next week, and it’ll introduce a game mode you might recognise from previous iterations of Metal Gear (assuming you owned a console, back then). Dubbed ‘Survival Mode’, it doesn’t involve chopping down trees, picking berries or anything like that: it’s a six player free-for-all with the...
Founded in 2007, GameChanger seeks “to positively impact the lives of children with life-threatening illnesses through videogames, compassion and innovation.” It provides games and toys to hospitals, hosts gaming events, awards financial aid and college scholarships, and offers “meaningful services directly to patients and staff in hospitals.” To date, it has donated over $200,000 to...
Behavior Interactive brought their online Warhammer 40,000 shooter Eternal Crusade to the PC Gamer Weekender this month. They also took to the PC Gamer stage to discuss upcoming features and do a few laps on a live map as one of the Emperor’s finest. Source
Brought together by one aim—making money—PC Gamer (and Tom Hatfield) tackled the first of GTA Online’s excellent heist mission strands. What followed was a tale of avatars getting off their tits on bongs, bus-related disasters and trying to keep a getaway plane in the air. GTA Online is something of an unstructured playground, without anything...
It’s kinda hard to believe the Oculus Rift is finally shipping this week, but here’s a reality check: EVE Valkyrie has a launch trailer. That’s CCP’s VR dogfighting game, in case you’ve been hibernating for the last two years, and as the video above will demonstrate, it’s very beautiful. As the launch blogpost spells out, those...
If “horizontally scrolling shooter” was a tongue twister, Starr Mazer director Don Thacker would be in the running for world champion of saying “horizontally scrolling shooter.” In the half-hour he spent showing me his new horizontally scrolling shooter Starr Mazer DSP, he said the words “horizontally scrolling shooter” many times very quickly. Thacker clearly loves...
The Grand Theft Auto series has never left the US—or its fictional account of it, anyway—but apparently it once came close to boarding Air O for a trip to Tokyo. According to our friends at TechRadar, a source close to Rockstar says the developer was “serious” about making a GTA set in Tokyo, but pulled the plug after...
