An official trailer for the long-promised Black Mesa total conversion is available above and on their website. Like all really ambitious fan mods, this attempt to completely recreate the original Half Life using the Source engine threatens to be more than its unpaid, indie dev team can chew… though I must say the trailer looks …
Read more »Valve Software, lovable koala bear of a game producer that it is, has released interesting stats on who has achieved what, Achievement-wise, in their zombiriffic cooperative shooter Left 4 Dead. That’s… really all I’ve got for you. My take on Left 4 Dead, having now actually played it: it’s another win for Valve, whose commitment …
Read more »From the Department of WTF comes word of a panel of British teenagers who – lacking, apparently, the capacity to recognize that grown-ups do not comprehend sarcasm when it comes from kids – claim that the the UK’s recent spate of knife crime is fueled by violent video games. I don’t… even know where to …
Read more »Fresh on the heels of Fallout 3′s release, Bethesda Softworks is announcing the official editor for Fallout 3 – G.E.C.K. (Garden of Eden Creation Kit) – will be available for free download in December. G.E.C.K. will allow Games for Windows users to create and add their own content to the game. Additionally, Bethesda will offer …
Read more »A few slices of Portal cake to celebrate some big birthdays this week, with Penny Arcade turning ten yesterday and the original Half Life reaching its tenth today. Valve is celebrating by putting the game on sale for $0.98 over Steam, though if you haven’t played it by this point even that price probably isn’t …
Read more »Autumn Moon Entertainment has released a demo of their much-anticipated comic adventure A Vampyre Story; which chronicles the adventures of opera starlet, Mona De Lafitte and her batty side-kick, Froderick. The demo offers a short look of Mona as she attempts to find graveyard dirt for her coffin in preparation for some travelling. A Vampyre …
Read more »Ethereal Darkness Interactive, developers of the adventure/RPG hybrid Morning’s Wrath, have finally released their second game – The Lost City of Malathedra – a PC graphic adventure heavily inspired by classics such as The Dig and the King’s Quest series. Players will take on the role of Rebecca Wolfe as she searches for her historian …
Read more »Ubisoft, France-and-Canada based developer/publisher behind such mongo franchises as Prince of Persia, Splinter Cell, and Rainbow Six, has acquired Swedish Massive Entertainment, the highly-regarded RTS maker responsible for the much-loved World in Conflict. Originally published by Sierra, Massive lost its home when the Activision/Blizzard merger resulted in Sierra’s closure. Some other big name titles also …
Read more »New over the news tickers today is the suggestion that failed Maxis “masterpiece” Spore, released to tepid reviews but hella sales in early September, underwent some significant changes to up the simplicity and cute factor and back-burner the SimLife science originally planned by Will Wright and his team. The conjecture is that Maxis employee and …
Read more »Continuing my Day of Plagiarism, allow me to pull directly from Alec Meer’s IGN UK review of Fallout 3: “So it’s tragic that the often awful production values make a fool of it so regularly. Whenever you’re really settling into the game and thinking what a wonderful world it is, it goes and does something …
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