"The Unseen History Of Portal" Sheds Light On The Development Process Of Valve's Classic
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As someone that got in to programming many years ago, primarily because video game design interests me so much, I'm always glad when a detailed look at the development process of a big game gets released online.
This time around its a video from Valve News Network (unrelated to Valve themselves) that digs deep in to the history of Portal and its development issues, triumphs and design challenges. Here's the video and if you're even remotely interested in how games are made I'd recommend you give it a look:
Devil Daggers Is A Fast Paced Arena Shooter With Some Horror Elements Mixed In
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[Update]: Hyper Demon is a psychedelic and completely over-the-top FPS from the Devil Daggers team.
Devil Daggers is a fast paced arena shooter inspired by arcade and FPS games of old that pits you, along with some magical daggers, against hordes of unsettling demons.
Add to that a fluid and diverse movement system, a good range of attacks, difficult enemies and surprising amounts of mechanical depth and you've got yourself a small but very noteworthy game. Here's the trailer and a bit more information:
The Ship: Remasted Has Finally Sailed In To Early Access After Some Delays
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The nautical murder simulator The Ship: Remasted was supposed to arrive last week but was instead delayed in order to add online multiplayer capability, a rather important factor to multiplayer games these days, I think you would agree.
After only five and a half days since that delay, The Ship: Remasted developers have announced that online multiplayer capability is now available and that The Ship has sailed in to Early Access. Here's the teaser trailer and a bit more information on the game itself:
Killer Instinct Season 3 Will Come With Improved Graphics And Reworked Lighting - Arbiter Added To The Cast
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As a part of their efforts to port Killer Instinct to Windows 10 the developers have managed to not only improve the graphics but also completely rework the lighting engine so that the stages look far, far superior than their previous iterations.
All of this information comes from an interview Ultra-Combo did with Killer Instinct's art director, Chad Green. If you're interested in a developer's perspective on Killer Instinct I'd recommend you give it a read because I will only highlight a few choice quotes:
AMD Is Offering Free Games To Owners Of Specific AMD GPUs & CPUs
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If you thought this week couldn't be filled with even more free game offers then I'm happy to tell you that you're quite wrong as AMD has recently announced their own promotion.
Owners of certain AMD GPUs and CPUs are eligible to chose a free game out of the thirteen available ones though you will need to run the verification tool before hand. Here's the list of games and how exactly you can grab them:
[Officially Confirmed] The HTC Vive Will Cost $799 And Ship In Early April
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If you're like me and you held off from preordering the Oculus Rift due to the rather spicy $599 price tag then I'm afraid I have some bad news in regards to the Vive.
According to a recent article by UploadVR (which has subsequently been confirmed by other sources) the HTC Vive will set you back $799 and will arrive sometime in early April.
Warhammer 40k Themed Digital Board Game "Talisman: Horus Heresy" Is Coming To Steam On February 22nd
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I'm a big fan of all things Warhammer so see a potentially interesting game came out of the license is an exciting prospect, even though I'm not really sold on the whole digital board game business
Talisman: Horus Heresy is a strategy-focused digital board game set during the cataclysmic events of the Horus Heresy that allows you and up to three more friends to relieve the most memorable battles and events that took place as either the loyalist Space Marines or Chaos addled Traitor Legions. Here's the gameplay trailer and a bit more information: