We should have known that whatever The Binding of Isaac creator Edmund McMillen was working on next, he wouldn’t do something so mundane as telling us what it is. McMillen enjoys making us dance like puppets, so the teaser for his new project, The Legend of Bum-bo, raises more questions than it answers. The Legend of Bum-bo is another...
Black Ops 3’s Nuk3town map is going free for all players. Previously, the fan favourite was confined to a pre-order bonus, and, for UK boxed copies, a Game-exclusive pre-order bonus at that. Given that Game’s PC selection is unlikely to tempt a Steam user, I can’t image it was busy on PC. Nuk3town will be included in the main map...
Roshpit Champions. Last week I reported that the waters of paid modding were cloudy as ever: the debut game mode for Dota 2’s $1 Custom Game Pass was found to use others’ assets without permission. That’s in spite of Valve’s assurance to our Chris Thursten that “the Dota team’s curation of the process addresses this, requiring...
Punch Club was quite a success for tinyBuild and Lazy Bear Games: it’s sold over 300,000 copies, which is a great result for a new Steam game in 2015. Still, it could have sold a bunch more. In fact, according to stats collected by Alex Nichiporchik of tinyBuild, at least 1.6 million people have pirated the game....
Following rumours yesterday that Scribblenauts Unlimited studio 5th Cell had shut down entirely, comes confirmation that the studio still exists – only now with a far smaller workforce. Lead animator Tim Borrelli tweeted yesterday that the studio had closed, but an official statement from the studio confirms that around 45 people have been laid off due to the...
Stardew Valley has taken steps toward improving marriage in the game with the recent launch of the 1.06 update, which aims to ensure that spouses “retain a lot more of their unique ‘personality’” after they get hitched. Each spouse now has his or her own unique dialogue, and will leave the house at least once...
Wadjet Eye Games founder Dave Gilbert has announced on the Adventure Game Studio forums that his next project will be a dark, supernatural thriller called Unavowed. And unlike recent Wadjet Eye releases, this one is (mostly) all his: He said it’s the first original game he’s written in two years, and his first all-new IP since...
The Division will be updated to version 1.02 tomorrow, and as numerical increases go, that doesn’t sound like much. But some substantial changes are on the way, including better rewards for venturing into the Dark Zone and an end to respawning “named NCPs,’ which will “prevent situations where players were able to kill a same named...
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...
Rocket League was recently tapped to be one of the first games to support “cross-network” play on Xbox Live. What that means, basically, is that Rocket Leaguers on Windows 10 and Xbox One hardware will, once it goes live, be able to take on players on “other consoles and PC networks.” Cross-platform play with PS4...
