Doom 3 modders are recreating Ridley Scott’s Prometheus in the PC game, building models and textures so that players can explore the “alien” planet and structures for themselves. The real question is, would things turn out differently if you were playing instead of watching?
To the surprise of not a single soul, I choose to return by gesticulating in the direction of a stylised indie game. Trash TV appears to be a platform game at first but is really more of a puzzler, although a puzzler in which the solution to everything is GUNS. There’s loads of GUNS. Loads.
This is a 3-D animation called Super Modern Mario Bros. featuring the first level from the original game ‘modernized’. It’s cute enough to spend a minute watching. Two minutes?
These aren’t just future graphics. These are future graphics going head-to-head, mano-a-mano. This is next gen graphics death match. Earlier this week, Square Enix showed off its graphics created by its brand new game engine tech, the Luminous Engine.Tonight, Epic games unveiled its new game engine, the Unreal Engine 4.Two next gen game engine with two realtime demos.
Missed the E3 coverage? Never fear, Ross Everett is here to take you on a whistle-stop tour of the event while cracking funnies, hassling attendees and generally being a giant doofus. Enjoy!
This scrappy Activision reject comes out fighting. Take Hong Kong-set thriller Infernal Affairs. Throw away the half of the plot about an undercover gangster posing as a cop (you’ll only need the half about an undercover cop posing as a gangster). Stir in a blend of skull-cracking martial arts and gunplay from bloodier, shootier Hong Kong action flicks. Pour it into the Grand Theft Auto mould for a free-roaming urban crime adventure. And there you have Sleeping Dogs, the game formerly–more prosaically–known as True Crime: Hong Kong.
“Do you have what it takes to become Most Wanted?” asks EA’s press release for Need For Speed: Most Wanted, as they begin their recruitment drive for murderers. Oh! No, wait. This is nonsense marketing speak for “Would you like to play our game?” The very splendid news that Criterion – developers of one of the best games ever, Burnout: Paradise – are remaking the 2005 racer greets us this E3morn, which they promise will embrace the developer’s best skills. And that means… SMASHING THROUGH BARRIERS! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Obsidian’s South Park RPG is now known as South Park: The Stick Of Truth. It has a trailer, and it sure does look and sound a hell of a lot like South Park. As in, it looks almost exactly like an episode of South Park, which is a fantastically ringing endorsement for the ongoing power and versatility of 2D art as opposed to its theoretically more high-tech 3D cousin.
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The fifth installment of the DRM free, multiplatform humble indie games bundle is upon us and it’s a beast. Humble Bundles of the past have always set the bar pretty high in terms of gaming awesomeness, a couple of games you’ve heard of, a couple you haven’t, but all intriguing and a price point you can set yourself.