If you’ve been playing Overwatch’s beta, you’re probably familiar with basketballs in starter areas. Usually people just shoot at them until the match starts, and then they’re left behind, forlorn and forgotten. A couple players, though, figured out how to weaponize them. Puppy :U and his cohort realized that you can attach Junkrat’s steel trap and…
A mod that lets you marry a child in popular farming game Stardew Valley started as a joke, according to its creator, but it’s now spurring a familiar debate about what it means to depict morally reprehensible behaviors virtually. The mod was created last month and has already been scrubbed from the popular mod hub…
The mission is impossible, you say? Nothing is impossible with dinosaurs. After Pognog and co’s precious Doedicurus Dunky was captured by a rival tribe, they decided that bloody vengeance—while appealing—was not the wisest course of action. Plus, Ark: Survival Evolved has grappling hooks. Any game with grappling hooks is begging for an elaborate heist scenario.…
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Valve recently updated Steam’s review system to focus more on the here and now. The review section gives more weight to recently published reviews, and there’s a new “recent” percentage score. On paper, it seems like a good idea, but it also brings with it new problems. Case in point: The Culling. It’s a Hunger-Games-esque…
Thanks. I don’t usually use sprays in multiplayer shooters, but now, thanks to Overwatch player kharnna, I finally understand the appeal. Here’s the full clip:
Overwatch’s open beta has been running for a day, and even then, this is only the early access portion of the show. Still, there’s been an unusually high concentration of excellent moments. First, here’s Harumiura with a textbook example of how to use Reinhardt. Set ‘em up, knock ‘em down. Really, really far down: Next,…
Stardew Valley is a game about two opposing yet complimentary forces: routine and discovery. What happens, though, when you run out of things to discover? Why, you build more, of course. Tego’s Stardew Expansion and Yama’s Desert Expansion both serve roughly the same purpose: to make Stardew Valley a bigger, more vibrant place. In time,…
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, much like the recently re-released Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, used to be a pain to get your hands on. Now, though, it’s just a few clicks away. Shadows of the Empire was a sort of Star Wars mid-quel, an attempt at bridging the gap between Empire Strikes Back and…
Love ‘em or hate ‘em, Steam reviews exert powerful sway over people’s purchasing decisions. For a while, though, they weren’t actually all that indicative of people’s feelings toward certain games. We live in a time of constant updates. Whether a game’s in Early Access, receiving regular post-launch updates, or the creator of Stardew Valley is…
No one lives forever. In Chronicles ofElyria, even video game characters’ days are numbered. In this age of survival games like Ark: Survival Evolved and Rust, plenty of large-scale multiplayer games have made death a thing of grave consequence. Usually, though, it’s pretty binary: you’re either alive or you’re (perma) dead. In Elyria, even if…
The Last Leviathan is one of the more ambitious Steam Greenlight games I’ve seen. It’s about building a physics-based ship and sailing the open seas of ancient Middenhir. You’ll encounter everything from rival ships to mythical monsters to physics puzzles to secrets. It’ll be out later this year.
Toward the end of its closed beta, Overwatch got an update that included ranked play and seasons. For some, it was the final piece of the puzzle, the competitive aspect that’d keep them coming back. Blizzard, however, is revamping it. Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan explained in a forum post: “We worked extremely hard to…
Superhot is a shooter where time only moves at normal speed when you do. Thanks to a very impressive mod, so is Fallout: New Vegas. SUPERVATS. Modder Xilandro is working on bringing Superhot’s combat into Fallout: New Vegas, and it looks damn cool. Here’s some video: It’s all there: weaving between bullets, deflecting bullets with…
Stardew Valley creator Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone is a relentless game dev cyborg. After a brief respite to refuel his power cells, he’s announced his plans for Stardew Valley’s 1.1 update. The short version? Prepare to (farm until you) die. Or get bored and decide to do something else. Barone’s talked about his ideas for the…
LMAOBOX is the most prolific Team Fortress 2 cheat program. Or at least, it was. The cheat program touted “Customizable Aimbot features, including Invisible Aimbot and Projectile prediction for Bow, Rocket Launcher and others, specific Sniper options for instant headshots or legit gameplay, Auto-Airblast feature for Pyro with ping compensation and more.” For more than…
Counter-Strike is one of the biggest competitive shooters on Earth, so of course, would-be cheaters flock to it like thieves to an Uncharted 4 delivery truck Counter-Strike has recently begun dabbling in phone-based account authentication. First and foremost, there’s been word of a beta for “Prime,” a feature that matches players who’ve linked their accounts…
Great Cascade is an open world game where characters remember and react to your decisions. It’s not like in, say, Mass Effect or The Witcher, where things are scripted. Everybody has their own traits, memories, and goals, all of which are randomized. It’s on Steam Greenlight right now, and it looks really cool.
It’s a well known fact that VR gives some people motion sickness. So what did the creators of Garry’s Mod and Rust decide to do? Build a rollercoaster game and name it after vomiting, obviously. Here’s a video of me playing some of the game: What it is: Chunks is a voxel (think Minecraft) sandbox…
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