Back at BlizzCon, Blizzard told us they were working on a series of animated short films set in the Overwatch universe, to be released closer to the game’s launch. Well now that we have an official launch date, the shorts are going to start rolling in—along with a variety of comic books. The first short is called ‘Recall’ and centers...
Last week, we got a look at the nine multiplayer maps that will be included with Bethesda’s upcoming FPS Doom. Now it’s time to lay eyes on the game’s half-dozen multiplayer modes: some new, and some you may have run into previously. Team Deathmatch has been around for ages, and Clan Arena is basically the same...
Fallout 4’s official modding tools won’t be out until next month, but that hasn’t stopped Abbalovesyou experimenting in bizarre new directions. Thanks to the Be The Dog mod, you can now play as Dogmeat or any other dog found in the Wasteland. You even get a dog-size Pip Boy. It is slightly peculiar that instead of a deep bark you...
What do you do after making one of the bloodiest video games of all time even bloodier? Well, you do it again, apparently. Brutal Doom modder Sergeant_Mark_IV has started work on a similar mod for Doom 64, the notoriously-quite-good Nintendo 64 version of Doom. It’s still very early days for the project, but as the video above demonstrates, it’s...
It’s been 15 years since Croteam released the frenzied FPS Serious Sam: The First Encounter, a bit of trivia the studio brought up today that makes me feel really, really old. On the upside, it also announced that to mark the moment, which occurs more precisely on March 21, it’s adding Steam trading cards to...
Coder and certified wizard Carlos Liam has got the menus and minigames of Superhot running in Windows Command Prompt through the magic of Python. He doesn’t discuss his motivations, but I suspect the reasoning is along the lines of “to see if I could”. He achieved this considerable, if inexplicable, feat by sifting the memory for Superhot’s textual information. As Superhot’s...
For those still playing Star Wars Battlefront, a new DLC pack drops this month in the form of ‘Outer Rim’, which introduces four new maps, two heroes and an Extraction game mode. The video above features plenty of carefully choreographed footage of Star Wars villains getting murdered, but it fails to explain what the Extraction mode is all about. After...
The Mirror’s Edge Catalyst website has been updated with information about the three central districts in the city of Glass, as well as the three factions that make the place interesting: the Conglomerate, the Runners, and the ominously-named Black November. The Conglomerate is made up of 13 corporations who collectively call the shots in the...
At a GDC panel today, Boss Key Productions announced that LawBreakers would not be free to play as originally announced. Members of the panel, which included CEO Cliff Bleszinski and COO Arjan Brussee, explained that the model no longer made sense with the direction they were taking the game. Bleszinski pointed out that they “didn’t want...
Blizzard builds enduring franchises through colourful characters and tomes of lore, and it looks like Overwatch has been pegged for a permanent place in the hallowed family of Warcraft, Diablo and Starcraft. In the run-up to release we can expect a series of animated shorts and six free digital comics zoning in on different heroes. Maybe we’ll get the...
