We liked the ruggedly beautiful deep-woods fire-watching sim Firewatch quite a bit. And as it turns out, so did quite a lot of other people. Publisher Panic recently revealed on its blog that the game sold roughly 500,000 full-priced copies in its first month of release, and that sales were strong enough that it was...
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...
AMD has updated the Gaming Evolved client, its software for game optimization along with video capture and sharing. One notable new recording feature adds automatic creation of highlight videos that are already edited and ready to share. This is only available with League of Legends and Counter Strike: Global Offensive for now, but AMD says more games...
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...
A funny thing happened at the recently concluded 2016 edition of GDC. BioWare, the studio that gave us Mass Effect, Dragon Age, The Old Republic, and many others, revealed the new thing it’s working on. And nobody noticed. “Revealed” may be putting it a bit strongly, as no official announcements were made. But Alistair McNally,...
There wasn’t a screenshot of Geralt holding a big chocolate egg. Easter is here, and for those in the UK, that means a four-day weekend surrounded by chocolate, full of roast animal and with little reason to do anything but play excellent games. To that end, GOG has launched its annual Insomnia Sale, allowing you to stock...
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is 10 years old. Let that fact sink in along with the crushing sense of your own mortality. On March 20, 2006, thousands disappeared into Cyrodiil—a world populated by NPCs with potatoes for faces, distant landscapes that resemble mudslides and bored big-name voice actors. No, Oblivion isn’t a looker these days. It couldn’t...
David Brevik announced at GDC last week that he planned to release the original Diablo design pitch at some point in the future. He hasn’t kept us waiting for long because here it is: a modest, eight page .pdf about a turn-based roguelike RPG called Diablo. Things obviously changed before the game hit shelves – Diablo is a realtime...
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...
That man up there is not Ryan Barnard, former game director on Ubisoft’s The Division, but for all we know that’s how he strutted out of the building on his final day at work for the company. Which is to say, the game director of Ubi’s surprisingly massive (and Massive Entertainment-developed) MMORPG has left to join Hitman...
