Developer Ninja Theory has released a brand new Hellblade dev diary that covers environments, enemy design and combat. In six minutes it explains just how Ninja Theory is using Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 and the concept of modular design to create a AAA game with a tiny team on a modest budget. “We’re not competing on scale, therefore you have ...
Read More »Why Quantum Break is Xbox One’s Most Ambitious Game
Quantum Break is a time-bending, mind-warping action adventure shooter from Remedy Entertainment, the guys who brought us the first two Max Payne and Alan Wake games. It’s gorgeous and insanely detailed, with a big budget, live action TV series set to debut alongside it when it launches this year. It’s impossibly ambitious. How ambitious? So ambitious than Sam Lake, Creative Director at Remedy wishes he could ...
Read More »Homeworld Remastered to Release in February
Fresh out of PAX South, Gearbox has announced an HD remake Relic’s classic RTS game, Homeworld. Set to release on February 25th, Homeworld Remastered will include the original Homeworld 1 and Homeworld 2, along with the remade versions set to include new recordings from the voice cast, remade cinematics, a remastered score, new models, new textures, new special effects, along with support for HD, UHD, ...
Read More »The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 15 Minute Gameplay Video Will Slay You
The video you’re about to watch contains dive bombing wyverns. You’ve been warned. The wizards at developer CD Projekt Red have deemed us worthy of receiving 15 minutes of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt PC gameplay. Enjoy every gorgeous frame as Geralt rides across mountain tops, saunters into seedy taverns, and hunts a massive gryphon. The video from Eurogamer Portugal shows off ...
Read More »The Legend of Zelda Majora’s Mask – Graphical Comparison Video
Youtuber MasterofHyrule has uploaded a side-by-side graphical comparison video of The upcoming 3DS remake Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D alongside the original Nintendo 64 version. The comparison video shows the game’s opening as well as a good bit of the intro, which follows Link through the loss of his horse Epona and down the rabbit hole after Skull Kid. ...
Read More »Heart of Thorns, the first expansion for Guild Wars 2 has been confirmed and revealed
Mike O’Brien, president of Arena.net, has confirmed that Heart of Thorns will be the first expansion for Guild Wars 2 while at PAX South. The expansion will focus on the Maguuma Jungle and although it will bring no modification to max level or armor tier it will add a more complex endgame character progression system, O’Brien explained to a cheering ...
Read More »League of Legends will run smooth as butter in Europe soon
League of Legends players from Europe won’t be able to complain that they are losing games because of lag in the near future. The folks over at Riot have recently announced that they are working on substantially improving the situation by developing a new cross-continent dedicated network. According to the developer, this plan is aimed at improving connectivity in order to ...
Read More »Hearthstone: China vs Europe tournament will have a Ferrari as the grand prize
The second edition of the China vs Europe Hearthstone tournament just got a little bit more interesting after it was announced that participants will get to compete for a brand new car. The initial prize pool for the competition consisted of a cool €52,000, but in order to give even more incentive to the players, NetEase CEO William Ding announced that the ...
Read More »Mass Effect 4 release window details emerge, won’t come out this year
Lay down the pitchforks. While the title says a lot, let’s be frank, not many of us were realistically expecting Bioware’s upcoming Mass Effect 4 to be released this year. In fact, we know it’s not actually going to be called Mass Effect 4, yet Bioware hasn’t revealed the official title yet. So can we expect an untitled game to ...
Read More »Grow Home is Ubisoft’s latest work
In an announcement that came as a surprise to many, Ubisoft unveiled their latest game produced by a small team of 8 at Reflections, one of the company’s studios, and coming to PC during next month. Described as a “Journey to the Stars”, Grow Home will put the player into BUD’s shoes. BUD is a robot, a Botanical Utility Droid ...
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