Our verdict on the frightening, claustrophobic, run-for-your-freakin'-life puzzler from Frictional.
It was a rough launch, but Elemental is out, and the verdict is in. You can sell your goddamn wife.
It's fast, there's fury involved, and it's a little bit free, but is the Need for Speed MMO worth shelling out for?
Stardock have re-released Total Annihilation on Impulse, their digital distribution platform. Interestingly, they’ve has promised “ongoing updates” for it. Brad Wardell said, “We’re treating Total Annihilation similarly to a newly released title with ongoing updates wherever possible.”
An administrator on the official Atari forums has posted asking fans what they’d like to see in Rollercoaster Tycoon 4. They say that they’re “thinking hard about the next Rollercoaster Tycoon game on PC.”
OK, I’m proper scared. I’ve just been stalked through a sewer by something I can’t see, let alone fight.
The only thing that gave it away was the languid ker-splosh of its footsteps as it ranged around after me. Every time I lost my footing on the narrow path of tottering crates and other detritus and landed in the drink, a flurry of intense sploshing rose sharply in volume as it made for my meat. It was utterly, panicinducingly horrible. I made errors in judgement, I missed jumps, I clenched. When it was all over, I nearly had a little cry.
Duke Nukem Forever is back on track for a 2011 release. 2K have got Gearbox working on it, and folks at PAX were even playing the thing. There’s nothing in the way of a trailer yet (grrr), but here’s some hand held footage that gets pretty close to the screen.
Yesterday, I listed five things I thought StarCraft 2 could learn from Supreme Commander 2. It was like leading an army of SupCom 2 fans against an outraged throng of competitive e-sports fans. Today, I’m going to betray my allies and side with the Blizz folks. What can SupCom 2 learn from StarCraft 2?
Now this is what I wanted to see: footage of Shogun 2 in action. Creative Assembly’s communications manager Kieran Brigden fights the AI while land battle AI programmer Ingimar Gudmunsson explains what it’s doing.
I’ve just been tinkering with Company of Heroes Online, the awesome World War 2 strategy game from Relic. And it’s unbelievable. Absolutely, mind blowing. I know we’ve been banging on about this for months now, but you really, honestly, absolutely have to try it out. If you sign up at the Company of Heroes site, you can download the full, original, Company of Heroes campaign, for free. There’s absolutely zero catch. It’s worth it just to play the Carentan mission – which I still think is the best RTS level ever created. We’ll have much more shortly, but just go and have a play, and report back what you think.
Bloody Good Time is a multiplayer shooter from Outerlight Studios (they made The Ship) that’ll be trundling onto Steam later on in the year. You’re an actor competing for a part in a horror film. You compete by murdering other actors for the part. While that’s nothing like how real actors audition, it’s a lot like games journalism.
Well this is a little bit cool. The the remastered Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars has come to the PC – it dropped onto Steam this morning. It’s £9.99/$9.99.
Telltale games have just unveiled a poker game at PAX. It’ll be a comedy poker game starring four characters from games you know and love, or that you meant to play but couldn’t get into because of the obtuse puzzles. It’ll cost you $5/£3, and it’ll be out “this fall.”
Details of the full BioShock Infinite demonstration are at: http://www.pcgamer.com/tag/bioshock-infinite/
