The continued support and updating for EverQuest II never fails to surprise me. The MMO is now eight years old, but still played and receiving regular updates and content, and now some tech that I’ve not seen used elsewhere. They’re awkwardly calling it SOEmote, a thing where a webcam pointed at your face will translate your expressions onto your in-game character. You can see it in action below.
A Warframe could be anything from the estranged twin cousin of Firefall’s “battleframes” to a homicidal portrait well-versed in the art of large-scale military combat, but you know what? The F2P videogame called Warframe doesn’t look half-bad. Digital Extremes has finally seen fit to show off some real (read: not paused in a state of dramatic tension) gameplay, and there’s definite potential here. I mean, yeah, it looks like Mass Effect 3 meets Metal Gear Solid’s Gray Fox, but wait, let me re-read that thing I just wrote. Oh my.
Watch some of the fiendish ways you can defeat your enemies that stand against you in this trailer for Dishonored – The first game from Arkane since it was acquired by Bethesda, and the game is being developed with the help of the lead designers of Deus Ex and Arx Fatalis.
Developer 5th Cell is focusing on smaller, 3-versus-3 multiplayer matches with its third-person shooter Hybrid, but those compact firefights feed into a greater, global online war.
I know right? That ICEnhancer mod is nice and all but what the Grand Theft Auto 4 community is really after is a horse mod. Not one that ads joy-ridable horses but one that lets you play AS a horse, canter free on the streets through crowds of pedestrians before leaping into a vehicle and driving off into the horizon.
Remember VR headsets? Probably not. They were popular for a while, way back when. Like 3D movies before them, they were an interesting concept but ultimately just a load of balls. The technology wasn’t all there and they were more of a novelty than something that genuinely had longevity and use for a wide range of games.
It’s been all too long since Monolith did anything that made me want to camp outside their premises waving a banner reading ‘I LOVE YOU! YOU MAKE GAMING A BETTER PLACE! NO-ONE LIVES FOREVER FOREVER!’ Who knows which staff left, what parts of the company were sold to which other companies, who got cold feet about risk-taking – all I know is that the all-too-ordinary FEAR games make me mourn for what was and what might have been.
They’re back, folks. Here’s a taste of what to expect in season three of Escape From Mount Stupid. We’ve got everything you ever wanted to know about the games coming out in 2012.
Blast from the past – Rise Of The Triad is making a comeback! WTF!? Here are the key details: semi-remake/embiggening, Unreal Engine 3, developed by one Interceptor Entertainment and published by a company that’s calling itself Apogee, has most of the original weapons and modes, map and mod creator, out on Steam later this year. Looks a little bit like this:
Doom 3 BFG Edition is a combo pack that includes Doom 3 and the Resurrection of Evil add-on pack with enhanced visuals, new seven-level campaign, Doom, and Doom II – You are the last hope in a race to stop a full scale invasion from Hell.