It might be accepted as charmingly fugly by it’s enormous userbase, but there will always be people out there who will attempt to polish a turd. With Sonic Ether’s shader pack parts of Minecraft (water specifically) will now look totally awesome in contrast to the rest of the blocky world.
If you’re a fan of Conan The Barbarian and retro platform games, you’re gonna love this…..The original Tiny Barbarian was a splendid little platformer, with secrets to discover and monsters to be barbaric toward. Based on The Frost Giant’s Daughter, an original Conan story, it was lovely and free.
If you’ve never heard of Natural Selection, think Alien Versus Predator but with a class system & objectives and It’s been in development almost as long as Duke Dukem Forever…
Rezzed was twelve hundred million years ago, but there are still a few dev sessions left to share with those who couldn’t make it down to lovely Brighton on the day. Here’s Unknown Worlds chatting about and demonstrating their aeons-in-gestation FPS/RTS mash-up Natural Selection 2, including a whole lot of giant mouth-based action.
The archetypal cyberpunk shooter is back an looks like it may be staying truer to it’s isometric SNES roots…
Forthcoming tactical combat game Shadowrun Online, which we first looked at here (and not to be confused with the gigantically Kickstarted RPG, Shadowrun Returns) has revealed some early game footage, which they stress is a work-in-progress prototype, and you can see that below.
Dude. It’s got Skeletor in it. This one’s a no-brainer.
Whatever gripes a lowly hack like Jim Rossignol might have thrown at the original Darksiders game, there was no denying that it was spectacular and handsome. That hasn’t changed for the next game, the cleverly titled Darksiders II, which casts its web of hypnotic fantasy violence our way in a two minute slice of (mostly) in-game footage, below. I really do like a) the classically demonic demon, and b) that giant stone bastard at the end. Yeah, that’s the stuff.
If you’re a fan of intresting an innovative graphics, third person platforming and Prince Of Persia style wall running, this may be of interest…
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Quantum Conundrum is a quirky first-person puzzle platformer where players take on the role of a 12-year old nephew to the eccentric Professor Fitz Quadwrangle.
Just when I think I’ve seen everything the day has to offer, a first-person puzzle game sidles into view, its levels resembling a series of tests. Perhaps there will be a novel method of interacting with the environment? Yes, there is!
Tomonobu Itagaki, creator of beach sport simulations and ninja revivals, is bringing his next game to the PC. Devil’s Third is a third-person action game that doesn’t look entirely dissimilar to his previous team’s Ninja Gaiden series, although with a few more shotguns and other metal death pipes thrown in for good measure.
The long awaited Tony Hawk Pro Skater HD remake is already available to buy on Xbox 360, but for PS3 users, you’re still going to have to wait a long time to pick up the game according to some new release information from developers Robomodo.