Global Agenda COO warns against “chasing WoW”
Successful shooty-guns MMO Global Agenda was a success because it was designed from the ground up to appeal to people too busy with family to maintain a World of Warcraft commitment.
The Sacrifice comic concludes, DLC out
The Sacrifice, Left 4 Dead’s thrilling comic, has concluded. It tells the story of how brave Bill went to the final respawn closet in the sky, as was revealed in The Passing, the Left 4 Dead 1 DLC released earlier this year. In a similar vein, The Sacrifice DLC has just shipped for free for both L4D 1 and 2, and lets you play through the fighty bit leading up to the climax of the comic. And the best part? Everything Left 4 Dead related has suddenly become ridiculously cheap.
Shogun 2: Total War’s comedy ninja assassin
In this new clip of Shogun 2: Total War, Creative Assembly’s community manager Kieron Brigden talks through a demo of the Ninja unit and his oddly bumbling but ultimately successful assassination attempt on an enemy general. I was tempted to take a video of this video of a video and talk over Kieron talking over the video in the video, but I thought it’d only encourage the internet and it might all get out of control. I’ve embedded the original below:
Call of Duty: Black Ops will have 3D for most devices
Update: Oh wait, I’ve read this wrong. They’ve actually just added support for most stereoscopic 3D devices across all platforms, including the PC. You can use your expensive 3D goggles with CoD:BlOps even if they’re relatively new. Sorry for the confusion – the original post is below.
Treyarch have announced that Call of Duty: Black Ops will have full 3D support! Rather than displaying a different sprite for every possible orientation of a character, they’ve fully modelled the enemies, weapons, and environments by rendering what they call “polly gonnes.”
A PC case that’s also an aquarium
Reddit user sirleechalot has build a PC in a fish tank full of mineral oil, with a Big Daddy and bubbles and gravel and everything. It’s just a media PC that probably couldn’t actually run Bioshock (it might be able to hand Aquaria), but it’s still gorgeous.
Duke Nukem Forever includes real-time peeing
Duke Nukem Forever looks goddamn hilarious. This video is the first inkling I’ve had that I want to actually play the thing. It starts with a first person view of Duke peeing, with the prompt “press X to exit.” The guy presses X, and Duke stops peeing, then starts again. Alright, I didn’t say I was a sophisticate. More hilarity embedded below:
There’s a Minecraft campaign coming for Left 4 Dead 2
Michael Louisseize has made a Minecraft map. Nothing amazing there though, right? I see more Minecraft maps than I see exploding people in computerised entertainment devices. BUT WAIT.
How to update Dwarf Fortress (without losing your saves)
Dwarf Fortress has just been updated to version 31.15. That’s good news! But maybe you want to get your saves over to the new version, or maybe you use the Mayday Green tileset to add intelligible graphics to the game but its creator hasn’t updated his pre-packaged release yet. Thankfully, manually updating the game and porting these things over isn’t that hard. It’s just a bit fiddly. Read on to be illuminated.
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm release date announced
Azeroth is all set to get tore up from the floor up. Blizzard have just announced the official launch date for World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, and it’ll be hitting the world’s shop shelves on the 7th of December (and swiftly leaving again in hundreds of little plastic bags). The latest expansion to Blizzards king-of-MMOs features an exhaustive redesign of the old world – the boring old level 1-60 areas that we’ve all levelled through a million times.
Call of Duty: Black Ops customisation trailer has a horse with a gun
This is pretty cool. Lots of you seem pretty wary of Treyarch’s upcoming shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops, and not without reason, but if nothing else, it’ll have a wicked customisation system that’ll let you paint your character’s face and guns, fashion a personalised logo for your stuff, pick different clothes/bushes to wear, and spend fake cash on in-game weapons and gun attachments.
Call of Duty: Black Ops achievements (contains spoilers)
Never tell your terrible secrets to Treyarch – they’re leakier than a chainmail umbrella. An achievements list for Black Ops has dribbled out all over the floor of the internet, and Treyarch community manager Josh Olin more or less confirmed that they were legit.
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm release date: 7th Dec?
MMO Champion and Wowhead have each put two and two together and worked out the possible release date of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. They reckon it will December 7th.
Vote for the best strategy game in the Golden Joysticks
It’s Golden Joystick season, and this week we’ve got a list of the nominees for the best strategy game category. Unfortunately, StarCraft 2 isn’t in this list – it was released a little too late to make it. The good news is that all but one of these games are on the PC, and the other one is on the iPhone. Sucks to be you, all those many console strategy games! Here’s a video rundown of the nominees:
Primal Carnage trailer pits a T-rex against a Spinosaurus
Primal Carnage is an upcoming multiplayer class shooters vs biters game for Windows and Linux. It’s being made with the Unreal Development Kit, and it’s got massive dinosaurs mauling mercs with guns.
Dance Fortress 2: “My application to Valve”
James Benson, whose dance-centric animation mad-skills we’ve posted about before, has finished his Team Fortress 2 short, “Dance Fortress 2.” This is what all those dance animations on Youtube were for – he’s merged them together into a marvellous setpiece. It’s embedded below.
