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Subnautica: Procedurally Generate Your Own Underwater Terrain

I wrote a piece back in December about Subnautica; a fantastic looking game which will let you explore an underwater world full of inhospitable areas and creatures straight from your nightmares, with nothing more than your own personal submarine and a love for exploration which borders on the suicidal.

Well, the guys over at Unknown Worlds have gone ahead and released their terrain generator for user testing, so you can try it out and create your own underwater areas for free.

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Rare Spawn: Warlords of Draenor Screenshots

Since the big announcement at Blizzcon about the next World of Warcraft expansion – Warlords of Draenor – information has been light. However, World of Warcraft‘s Creative Director, Alex Afrasiabi, has taken to Twitter to keep us all abreast of the latest stuff he and his team are working on.

You go Alex!

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Dungeon Keeper: Fabricated Ratings & Microtransaction Madness

One of my earliest memories in gaming was waiting for my older brother to stop playing Dungeon Keeper on our old PC so I could play it myself. He and I adored it, and are amongst the thousands of people who are still waiting for a worthy remake. The thousands of dungeon marauding fans like ourselves were not waiting, however, for a calamitous iOS/Android remake which tears the soul of the game out by the roots and replaces it with a hollow port which has room for little more than your credit card details.

And yet, here we are.

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DICE Go Democratic With Battlefield 4 Fixes

If you’ve purchased DICE’s epic first person shooter Battlefield 4 across any platform, you will likely have noticed that it had a few discernible ‘issues’ at the beginning. And for a while after that. And now too, come to think of it.

Fear not, however, because developers have taken the democratic route and are now asking players what they want to see changed.

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Epic Games Goes Full ‘Pimp My Ride’ On University of Staffordshire

No, Staffordshire University students aren’t driving around with twelve inch rims and state-of-the-art sound systems in every orifice of their ’92 Renault Clio’s. They didn’t even get to meet Xzibit. Even better, Epic Games have delivered 85 cutting edge computers to the University of Staffordshire with all the firepower necessary to run their latest Unreal Developer Kit.

Luckiest students alive? Yeah, without a doubt.

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YouTube Invokes Copyright Claim on Terry Cavanagh’s Own Game

Yup. Sure, YouTube are a big entity and it can get things wrong now and then – these things are to be expected. No harm, no foul and all that nonsense.

Except that when Terry Cavanagh appealed the claim against his own trailer, YouTube rejected it.

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Diablo Community Aid Blizzard in Creation of Next Legendary

Opening up the floor to the community has its positives and its negatives, and in the gaming world you may just be taking your own life in your hands. Runescape developers Jagex have had reaped the rewards with their new community polling system on recent updates, and it seems to be going pretty well.

Plus, if they don’t like it, you have complete deniability – what’s not to like?

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Project Christine: Modules, Modules Everywhere

Nope, Project Christine is not a leaked NSA file, but is in fact far more awesome. Razer, the creators of some great products and tools for gamers, have ventured into creating their own gaming computer and revealed their concept model at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Oh, and it looks seriously, seriously cool.

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World Class Hackers Bring Steam To A Standstill. Also Sarcasm

No, I’m not being sarcastic about Steam being brought to a standstill – a series of DDoS attacks really have kept users out of most of Steam’s utilities over the course of today. Rather, my sarcasm extends to the pair who are mounting these ‘attacks’ and consider themselves hackers, rather than just your average anti-establishmentarian douche with a keyboard and a deathwish.

Anyone could download a DDoS program and assault one of the world’s largest distributor of video games – it’s just that nobody’s stupid enough to do it.

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Are eSports Real? No, Say People With No Connection to Video Gaming

Unsurprisingly, a contingent of ex-sports stars on America’s HBO channel have deemed eSports as not a real sport. Arguments go both ways, of course, and the definition between sport and competition is always contentious.

What is a little surprising, from a group of professionals, is the flagrant ignorance apparent throughout the discussion.

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