I’ve been resisting the urge to watch videos or read previews of Dark Souls 3, as I feel I ruined the previous games slightly by soaking up every bit of pre-release info I possibly could. YouTube thumbnails/video titles and tweets have made sure I can’t remain unspoiled entirely, but thankfully I’m still largely in the dark about...
MercurySteam made the respected Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, and also its…less respected sequel. Still, it’s a developer worth keeping an eye on: there was a lot of technical and artistic wizardry in that first game in particular. A few months after posting a mysterious teaser image on its website, the dev has replaced its entire site...
Telltale is doing a Batman series, in case you’d forgotten, and har har Robin Will Remember That. Or maybe not—A few details about its latest episodic adventure emerged out of SXSW yesterday, and the “extended Bat-family” will be notable by their absence. Firstly—and perhaps most importantly—the creative leads behind Tales from the Borderlands and The...
One of the founders of Blizzard North, David Brevik, gave a postmortem of Diablo today at GDC in San Francisco, in which he shared an interesting tidbit about the nature of the ARPG forefather’s then-unique networking. “Battle.net ran on one computer,” said Brevik. “Mike O’Brien [now president and co-founder of ArenaNet] is a networking super-genius. That...
It took 130 hours of playing crammed into (a little over) a single week, but a player by the name of Chaos 3SK has managed to hit The Division’s level cap in both the main game, which tops out at level 30, and the separately-leveled Dark Zone that goes all the way up to rank 99....
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...
Epic kicked off the Paragon early access period today, but to get in you’ll need two things. One, a willingness to pony up for a Founder’s Pack, which come in three flavors ranging from $20 to $100; and two, a PC capable of actually playing the thing. I can’t help you with the first part,...
On the off-chance you’re not up to speed on this whole Warcraft thing, these are the basics: You’ve got humans on one side, and you’ve got orcs on the other. And they tend not to get along very well, see. But that’s more to do with deep-rooted cultural differences, and the sort of misunderstandings that...
I haven’t been deep into the League of Legends scene for a while now, but this clip left even me dumbfounded. LoL player Delogrand—who either prays to RNGesus twice a day or is truly one level above ‘next-level’—managed to get both a Baron steal and a pentakill with no help from his team and after being the first person to...
Last year’s “wasteland caravan management sim” Skyshine’s Bedlam was pretty good, but we had a few issues with it. Combat was one aspect we cited as problematic in our review, noting that its unforgiving nature “crossed the line from enjoyably brutal to stressful frustration.” That’s an element of the game that today’s Redux update seeks...
