If you believe in the idea of games as vacation destinations from the real world, then they don’t come more idyllic than the Wyoming wilderness which provides the backdrop for Campo Santo’s first-person mystery Firewatch. If you haven’t spent time walking the tinder dry countryside, melancholically working out your personal issues while chatting to the...
Crytek has announced the newest iteration of its CryEngine toolkit at GDC today, and in keeping with recent moves by competitors Unreal Engine and Unity, it doesn’t come with a massive upfront licensing fee. CryEngine V can be accessed on a “pay what you want” basis, which provides access to “the engine’s feature-set and full...
Crows Crows Crows’ first game, the free Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist. Great news, number crunchers and spreadsheet slayers, the accounting app for you is finally on its way to VR. William Pugh (who worked on The Stanley Parable) and Dominik Johann of Crows Crows Crows have partnered up with Justin...
You like free stuff, right? Sure you do. And so allow me to direct your attention to the Bundle Stars website, where they’re offering Steam keys for the RTS Planetary Annihilation, which normally sells for $30/£23, for free. “Free” does not mean “without effort,” of course, and you will have to jump through a few...
Ubisoft announced today that Trackmania Turbo will be playable in an open beta that will begin at 9 am ET on March 18 and run until 9 am ET on March 21. Unfortunately, and surprisingly, the beta is for “new-gen consoles” only, those being the Xbox One and PlayStation 4. But the PC crowd isn’t...
The new Doom teaser is called “Multiplayer Maps Explored,” but I think that’s overstating it a bit. After all, it’s hard to get much exploration done when you’ve got 43 seconds to cover nine different maps. Over at Bethesda.net, however, there’s a slightly more detailed breakdown of Doom’s deadly delves, as well as a few...
Ninja Theory showed off a new trailer for Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice during Unreal’s keynote at GDC, but it wasn’t any ordinary press conference reveal. Stage left, curtains parted to reveal an actress decked out in face-rigging attire, effectively transmitting her live performance into the trailer in real time. This is how Ninja Theory is capturing...
Crytek has released a new gameplay trailer for its VR mountain climbing sim The Climb, this one showcasing the game’s second location in the Alps. The new teaser shows off more in the way of gameplay than the announcement trailer posted late last year. The disembodied hands appear to have changed ever-so-slightly, and those route...
The Long Journey Home is a “space exploration RPG” that promises to blend the gameplay of old classics like Starflight and Star Control with roguelike replayability, “in a procedurally generated, endless surprising living universe inspired by beloved modern science fiction shows like Farscape and Firefly.” That’s an awfully tall order, and quite a shift away...
“My goal is to get rid of these female tournaments altogether,” says Stephanie Harvey, a five-time world champion in Counter-Strike. “The goal is to compete against each other and be one of the first competitive environments that doesn’t care about gender.” During a talk at GDC, Harvey and Morgan Romine, an anthropologist specializing in diversifying...
