Funcom today launches their latest title: Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden. The title promises to combine the turn based strategy of XCOM with realtime stealth and exploration of a post-human world reclaimed by nature and mutants. In a world where nuclear war has not only wiped out the last vestiges of humanity, you take … Continue reading “Funcom’s Mutant Year Zero Has Launched”
Frostkeep Studios this week announced the debut of two new game modes for Rend on the public test realm. The two game modes are called Classic and Exploration while the original game mode will be renamed Faction War. In classic mode, players will battle for supremacy by sieging each others’ bases, waging war, capturing territory, … Continue reading “Frostkeep Studios Unveils New Game Modes For Rend”
Since some of you are going to get about three sentences into this article before saying “but that doesn’t apply to me,” I’m going to say this from the start: If this article doesn’t apply to you, I’m not referring to you. Thank you. This week’s nontroversy stars Square Enix, Lara Croft, and once again … Continue reading “Editorial: Stop Preordering Things”
Shadow of the Tomb Raider is currently on sale and customers aren’t happy. The third and final installment in the latest Tomb Raider reboot series, Shadow of the Tomb Raider launched on PC on September 14 to pretty favorable reviews and Steam numbers. This week, the game was discounted 34% off on October 16, 47% … Continue reading “[Not Massive] Steam Users Are Angry Over Early Tomb Raider Discounts”
I’d like to talk about MoviePass today, because MoviePass can burn in bankruptcy hell and I’m slightly looking forward to the inevitable criminal trials and convictions surrounding this sham of a business. If you’ve somehow managed to avoid the last year of coverage regarding MoviePass, I’ll give a brief summary: MoviePass has been around for … Continue reading “Chaturday: MoviePass In Bankruptcy Hell”
Depicting Nazi imagery in video games has been illegal in Germany for quite some time now. The law has come under a fair amount of criticism over the years as while it has a “social adequacy” rule that has allowed films and TV series to get by (Inglorious Bastards for example), video games have not … Continue reading “[Not Massive] Germany Allows Swastikas In Games/Depictions of Hitler”
Team-based survival game Rend has entered early access on Steam this week, and the reviews are so far looking mostly positive. Developed by Frostkeep Studios and published by the same, Rend is a game inspired by Norse mythology that tasks players with building their faction’s stronghold and then of course battling it out with both … Continue reading “Steam: Rend Enters Early Access To Mostly Positive Reviews”
A lot has happened since Wild West Online launched in May. The review score has boosted quite positively toward 61% from 37% overall, although population has dropped to a few dozen concurrent players. 612 Games as an entity has vanished as quickly as it showed up, with its name seemingly being scrubbed from everything related … Continue reading “Wild West Online Looks At Reboot Two Months Out Of Launch”
Bulkhead Interactive is playing with fire, and I have a feeling they’re going to get burned. World War 2 shooter Battalion 1944 currently stands at a 31% “Mostly Negative” rating on Steam, with 115 currently playing users and an all time peak of 16,341. Earlier today, Bulkhead’s community manager posted a thread on the game’s … Continue reading “[Column] Bulkhead Interactive Asks Community To Manipulate Steam Reviews”
This may come as a shock, but one aspect of games that gamers don’t take too kindly to these days is the idea of developers purposely stopping them from playing. Such is the case with Closers, epic anime RPG published by En Masse Entertainment. Turns out players weren’t too happy about the fatigue system preventing … Continue reading “Closers: En Mass Entertainment To Remove Fatigue”
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