Natural Selection 2 is getting some free new DLC on February 28. That's right: free DLC.
Natural Selection 2: The Kotaku Review
Natural Selection 2 is the first ever game I've enjoyed watching more than I've enjoyed playing.
More Than 144,000 People Now Own Natural Selection 2
Natural Selection 2 came out last week, and the folks who made it have created this neat infographic to show off the performance of their new real-time-strategy/first-person-shooter hybrid.
A Team Of Seven Is Making A Game That 'Shouldn't Be Possible'
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"We choose to go to the moon," Hugh Jeremy says, "not because it's easy but because it's hard."
Hey, Natural Selection 2 Players: Visit The Bar In This Fancy New Map
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It's dark, it's light, it's green, it's red. It's full of aliens that want to eat you (or marines that need to be eaten). And there's a bar where you can go to wash away your woes of losses in liquid happiness. Meet the reveal of the new Docking map. You can play it as of sometime tonight (potentially tomorrow) when…
Natural Selection 2 Is a Genius Mash of Counter Strike and Starcraft
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Have you ever played a real-time strategy game and wondered what life was like for the pawns you send out to battle? What if those soldiers weren't brain-dead fighters, but could actually carry out smart decisions on their own, without you telling them to do so?
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Would I Rather Command Marines or Bite Them In Half? Hmmm.
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Charlie's game looked, at a glance, like just another team-based shooter. I walked by a row of PCs running the game on…
See How the Little Guys Make Games
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We get to see behind the scenes at big game development studios all the time. Independent studios working on the sequel to a mod that was made for someone else's game? That's a side of game development we don't normally get to see.