People who pre-ordered Wolfenstein: The New Order have been blasting their way around Doom’s closed beta since March 31. Soon everyone will be able to join them: open beta falls April 15-18, no codes required. For the duration, you’ll be able to play Team Deathmatch and Warpath (a moving king of the hill mode) on the...
It feels like a long time ago now, but just last week many were outraged about the imminent removal of a bum from Overwatch. The Tracer buttroversy, which reached wider and went on for longer than anyone surely dared dream, occurred in the wake of Blizzard’s decision to change the character’s victory pose to something slightly less butt-focused. Now, it...
There is an ongoing debate whether players should be assigned roles in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Some argue that there are no roles and that each player has his or her own way of playing the game—that a team’s success comes down to chemistry and individual skill. Others, myself included, believe that roles help you to...
Piranha Games has announced that sign-ups for the $100,000 MechWarrrior Online World Championship are now being taken. Regional qualifiers are set to begin in May, followed by regional finals in the fall, and then the Big Show, which will take place on December 3 in Vancouver, at the first-ever “Mech Con.” Tournament matches will take...
Intrepid modder TemplarGFX has overhauled Aliens: Colonial Marines, taking it from middling shooter and legendary disappointment to competent FPS that does some justice to its source material (I fear the disappointment might be permanent). TemplarGFX’s ACM Overhaul, on ModDB, focuses on rejigging the xenomorph AI to make them a credible threat. Headshots are essential, acid blood is a...
Far Cry’s trip back to 10,000 BC makes me feel like an explorer of deep history. But instead of telling me a story with words, I get to see it happen right in front of me thanks to the vivid game world. Primal is hugely imaginative, and though perhaps largely fantasy, its backdrop is so-well...
We said back in March that the upcoming multiplayer FPS Escape From Tarkov is “taking gun customization to absurd heights.” The game’s gun selection is extensive, and each weapon can be broken down into remarkably detailed components. You can even strip them down and watch the internal mechanisms working as they fire, although that’s not...
Warhammer: End Times—Vermintide was one of the happier surprises of 2015. It earned an Editor’s Choice award in our review—which I most certainly did not see coming—and gamers clearly liked it, too, to the tune of more than 500,000 copies sold. “We are really happy with the sales so far. We reached half a million...
Sam lake The instantly recognizable Sam Lake is the original face of Max Payne, and wrote the scripts for the first two games. He was also lead writer on Alan Wake and its offshoots, and most recently Quantum Break, a third-person shooter with TV show elements that’s being published by Microsoft for Windows 10. Lake is currently writer/creative director...
Happy Lies Day, everybody! Hope you’ve enjoyed a wonderful day of lies. It’s time to bring the festivities to an end, however, and settle in for a weekend of extremely serious and definitely happening digital sports. CS:GO is hosting the week’s highest-profile clash, but there’s plenty of LoL, Dota 2, Smite and fighting to go...
