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...
Rainbow Six Siege has another huge patch rolling out this week – March 30 to be precise – and among the major changes is an improvement to Buck. He’s the fellow who wields an automatic rifle and a shotgun, but according to Ubisoft, players haven’t been using him properly. That handy shotgun is designed to...
The new Mirror’s Edge Catalyst developer diary digs a little deeper into the game’s story, which begins with Faith’s release from a two-year stretch in prison. But the real star here is unquestionably the City of Glass itself. It looks absolutely gorgeous, even the “creaky” parts downtown, which will retain an air of “old-school Mirror’s...
The Doom multiplayer beta, as you may be aware, begins at 10 pm ET on March 31. The good news is, that’s only two sleeps away! The bad news is that it’s restricted to people who preordered Wolfenstein: The New Order, or purchased it digitally prior to May 26, 2014. Or is it? Here’s a...
As suggested last week, Bethesda has launched the beta for Fallout 4’s grueling Survival Mode on Steam. The publisher has also confirmed the minutiae of the update, which sees the Commonwealth transformed into a more callous and cold-blooded playground than ever before. So, yeah, manual and quicksaving? That’s out. Fast travelling? Mark that off your list. Eating uncooked meat...
War never changes, they say, unless of course you move the battlefield 100 kilometers above sea level. If the latest rumours surrounding the next Call of Duty instalment are to be believed, space marks the latest frontier upon which the shooty-bang simulator will be deployed. Industry source Shinobi first made the claim via NeoGaf over the weekend, suggesting...
Blizzard says it will remove an “over-the-shoulder” victory pose by the Overwatch hero Tracer, following a complaint on the Battle.net forums that it turns the time-bending teleporter into “another bland female sex symbol.” “We aren’t looking at a Widowmaker pose here, this isn’t a character who is in part defined by flaunting her sexuality. This...
The Overwatch beta patch that came out a couple of days ago made some big changes to the game, including the addition of an intriguing new game mode called Weekly Brawls. Similar to Hearthstone’s Tavern Brawls, they’ll feature unique, and sometimes very unusual, rules that will be rotated on a weekly basis. Blizzard mentioned two...
Image from CS:GO Austin Dreamhack site. It’s an interesting balance this weekend, as Blizzard’s biggest esports ramp up for some high-level competition while Valve’s largest games both have qualifiers for huge tournaments in May. Hearthstone and Starcraft II have international tournaments held in Europe in the form of the second Truesilver Championship and the Gold Series...
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...
