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Overwatch adds simple scripting language in-game
Overwatch is Blizzard’s team shooter for PC and consoles. Choose a hero from a diverse roster of soldiers, scientists, adventurers, and oddities, each with their own unique set of abilities. Bend time, defy physics, and unleash an array of extraordinary powers in concert with your allies. Lead your team to victory in iconic locations across a near-future Earth. The world needs heroes! Source: Introducing the Overwatch Workshop – News – Overwatch
Eleven new games come to the Atari Lynx in 2019
Atari Gamer, has been running the Atari Lynx 30th Birthday Programming Competition over the past few months and we now have the final submissions! All eleven of them! That’s right, that’s eleven new games for you to play and rate. We do admit that some are very well polished and others are more on the tech demo side, but all are worth having a look at. Admittedly, I never played the Lynx hardware when it came out, but I find it fascinating people are still developing games for the platform
Respawn's Plan to Deal with Apex Legends Cheaters
Apex Legends developer Respawn is looking to deter cheating by forcing those who break the rules to play together. Too bad they don’t take this concept one step further. If painted in the right light, this could be a huge opportunity for a hacking type of competition, much in the same vein of Facebook’s CTF. They could even go so far as offering rewards for players who disclose exploits, as a sort of bug bounty program.
No Man's Sky Beyond
No Man’s Sky Online includes a radical new social and multiplayer experience which empowers players everywhere in the universe to meet and play together. Whilst this brings people together like never before, and has many recognisable online elements, we don’t consider No Man’s Sky to be an MMO – it won’t require a subscription, won’t contain microtransactions, and will be free for all existing players. All for free too. It may have took some time, but the game is finally delivering on ever
meditations.games
Put together by Rami Ismail, Meditations.games is a collection of games by over 350 developers. Each day is a new, unique game, and only available that day. Its a great concept. I’d love to see the analytics by the end of the year, and just how many people will still be playing this.
25 years of Doom
The original Doom turns 25 this year, and to celebrate, its co-creater, John Remero made a new chapter to the original game, titled Sigil. Sigil, according to the website, is an unofficial 5th episode to the game: I wanted the levels to feel like they belong to the original game as if they were a true fifth episode. There’s more detail in the levels than episodes 1-4, but not overly so. I believe that people playing Sigil will recognize my design style, but see new things I’m doing becau
Niantic acquired Seismic Games
Seismic Games is best known for mobile game Marvel Strike Force, (something I had to do a bit of searching around to learn). Having a group of industry veterans with experience working on IP based games will hopefully provide a strong boost for Niantic’s upcoming Harry Potter game as well as Pokemon Go.
Alone: A horror game within an Oculus Rift game
This year at PAX I had the chance to sit down and play with the Rift for a little while. Forget waving your hands around in front of the Kinect, or waving some peripheral around in the air. I truly believe the Oculus Rift is the future of games. It’s more than just a gimmick. It allows you to be completely immersed in the environment. A game like Alone has some real potential. A horror game within an Oculus Rift game?Eurogamer.netRobert Purchese
Blizzard on World of Warcraft: We'd be lost without casuals
Additionally, Chilton noted that Blizzard was warming to the idea of reconfiguring World of Warcraft as a free-to-play title. I’ve always wondered how long until WoW went free-to-play. With their recent additions to their online store, and the dwindling population, I expect it’s now only a matter of time before we see a completely free version. Blizzard on <i>World of Warcraft</i>: We’d be lost without casuals“Audiences always evolve,” says <i>World of Warcraft</i> lead designer Tom Chilto
Games for Windows Live marketplace being retired.
The client will still remain active in games, but digital games can no longer be bought on Xbox.com, and whether or not DLC remains available is up to individual publishers. Still no word what the next generation of Xbox Live will bring to Windows 8. Xbox Support
StarCraft Universe
An ambitious and rather impressive project to say the least. At some point though, you have to ask yourself if it would just be easier to build a 3rd person game engine in the likeness of Starcraft, outside of the Starcraft II client, rather than modding a real time strategy engine to function as a 3rd person game. A good comparison to this would be the popular Warcraft 3 mod Dota, and the stand alone game Dota2. When you’re constructing a mod for a game, you’re limiting yourself to that game
Nintendo still selling Wii U at a loss
Hard to believe they are still losing money on each console sold. Looks unlikely a price cut will be in the plans any time soon. Nintendo still selling Wii U at a lossMario maker confirms it is still recording a loss for each unit of hardware soldGamesIndustry.bizBrendan Sinclair
Saints Row IV Banned in Australia
Despite the new rating system in Australia, the upcomg Saints Row game is effectively banned because it: includes interactive, visual depictions of implied sexual violence which are not justified by context. In addition, the game includes elements of illicit or proscribed drug use related to incentives or rewards. Such depictions are prohibited by the computer games guidelines. <i>Saints Row IV</i> effectively banned under new Australian rating sy<i>Saints Row IV</i> is the first video gam
StarCraft II adds Spawning
Anyone with a full retail copy of Starcraft II can now invite their friends with out a copy to join in. Spawning was an idea introduced in Warcraft II and the original Starcraft. It’s been one of the most requested features of the game, and it’s cool to see they finally added it in. StarCraft II Official Game SiteWage war across the galaxy with three unique and powerful races. StarCraft II is a real-time strategy game from Blizzard Entertainment for the PC and Mac.StarCraft II
A Look at CivCraft, a Minecraft Mod
It’s hugely involved, with you mining the ground to gain resources to trade for coins to claim your land. Like a proper game of Civ, major construction involves clicking on the ground and watching the buildings extruding upwards. They’re functional buildings, allowing you to enter and use them, and enhancing them to provide the bonuses to the land. This feels like the next natural stage of evolution of Minecraft. A Minecraft Mod To Admeier: CivCraftThere’s not a lot of structure to vanill
A Metroid Password That Breaks Everything
One password, discovered over 20 years later, long after the Metroid password system had been completely reverse-engineered, does not grant you all items. This password just crashes and resets the game: A Profanity-Laced Video Game Password That Breaks Everything | Max Woolf’s BlogMost of these passwords were gibberish that required a pen-and-paper to write down and remember. One password, however, is more memorable, and much more sinister.Max Woolf's BlogMax Woolf
How Gameshark Codes Work
I still remember when I would get the monthly flyers from Game Genie in the mail with the latest discovered codes for games. How do GameShark codes work?This has always boggled me. Obviously GameShark and Game Genie never got inside access to place their own cheats into every game. I don’t think any developers gave them the source code to pour over...ArqadeLoveAndCoding
TF2: First Entirely Community-Created Update
This update is 100% created by the TF2 community. And when we say everything, we mean everything—the in-game content, the update hub website, the animated short, the comic, even the splash images in the Steam store. Even better, everything you created avoided the classic trap of using other companies’ intellectual property. Valve has done something no company has done before; they outsourced the work of an entire update to the very people playing it. Team Fortress 2
