Creating brand new features in video games, while it may pay dividends, is extremely difficult. Creating new genres in video games is almost unheard of.
Well, at least it was until developers Unknown Worlds announced that they’re developing a new genre-defining game called Subnautica.
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There are hundreds, possibly thousand of absurd creations that can be made using Minecraft’s tools, and it’s that sandbox freedom that has made it such a flagship name in the video gaming industry. A lot of the coolest things I’ve created and played around with have been based in mods created by the outside community – but not everything needs outside help.
Using an absurd combination of redstone equipment, and what I’m convinced is some sort of witchcraft, YouTuber ItsJustJumby has created a 3-Dimensional Printer.
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Have you ever felt, while advertising your tanking services in the trade chat of Orgrimmar or discussing the circumference of your opponent’s mother’s behind in Call of Duty: Ghosts online, that you might be being watched? That your words and actions are being notated and analysed by government officials? No? Me neither.
It would seem we were wrong then – nowhere is safe from the purview of the law – not even in online gaming.
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As people are more active in venturing into the PC gaming market with their laptops or computers, Valve have reaped the rewards. Indie and smaller games, often less taxing on hardware, are a staple part of the industry now, and Steam has always been keen to give them the outlet they need.
Well played by them, because they’ve now got more constant users than some countries have people.
Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention. I’ve just been handed an urgent and horrifying news story. I need all of you, to stop what you’re doing and listen.
STEAM SAAAAALES.
Lead System Designer Greg “Ghostcrawler” Street has announced that he’s leaving Blizzard Entertainment to pursue a “great opportunity for something new and exciting.” Mages around the world are supposedly in contact with their lawyers.
For any WoW players out there, how did you feel about Ghostcrawler? Is his leaving a sign of good things to come, or a signal of a sinking ship?
The football management genre is massive in the United Kingdom (and also Germany, as I understand), and when the subject is brought up, your mind will likely shoot to the similarly named Football Manager series. It should do, because EA’s attempt to dent the market has been running for 12 years, and is yet to offer a supreme alternative in what can’t even be considered a two-horse race.
EA have now conceded that point, and FIFA Manager will be bowing out gracefully after it’s latest installment.
As well as all the visuals revealed at Blizzcon 2013, the developers have also had a great amount of information to deliver about the sound and music in World of Warcraft. Some of it might seem incidental, but some of it is quite exciting.
Here’s what they’ve revealed.
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We’re back to the World of Warcraft updates now, with several class changes provided for the journey from level 90 to level 100 in the Warlords of Draenor expansion.
These are the Warlock and Warrior changes that have been earmarked so far.
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