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Remastered version of the classic FPS Turok is coming this Thursday, December 17th

I never actually had a chance to play Turok, the classic dinosaur-hating FPS that first released in 1997. This was in the dark age of gaming where you depended on physical copies and for some reason the only local store has exactly 5 copies that sold out instantly...

Now with the remaster releasing this Thursday, 17th of December to be specific, it would appear I'll finally have a chance to see what all the fuss is about. Here's a list of the improvements the remastered edition is bringing to the table:

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Just Cause 3 patch is out on PC and hopefully fixing all of the various issues players had with the game

I was so very, very excited when I first saw Just Cause 3 gameplay but once I finally got my hands on the game I found it to be practically unplayable in-between random FPS drops and frequent crashes.

So I'm happy to tell you that Patch 1.2 is now out on Steam bringing with it performance improvements, faster loading times and some bug fixes. Here's the full patch notes post:

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Imperial ships engaging Chaos forces in Battlefleet Gothic: Armada, a new space strategy game based on the warhammer 40k universe

It certainly wasn't easy being a Warhammer 40k fan the past few years, with the tabletop game being far beyond my budget and almost every PC game being of lackluster quality after THQ's bankruptcy. Thankfully it seems at least the second part is changing as there have already been some good Warhammer games in 2015 and there are even more coming in 2016.

And now I can add Battlefleet Gothic: Armada to the list of games I'm excited about because the ships presented in the trailer (embedded below) are perfect representations of the grand cathedral-ships of the Imperium. Here's the trailer and a short overview of what you can expect with Battlefleet Gothic.

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CS:GO Winter Update balance changes to rifles and pistol aim are being rolled back

Thank goodness. I feel like I've talked about this topic to death but ever since the CS:GO Winter Update the game's balance took a heavy shift downward. In a single patch they nerfed rifles by making them more random while adding a completely non-random one-hit kill revolver. How any of that actually got through testing is still beyond me.

Now, a few days later Valve has realized that their patch isn't having the impact they wanted so they are rolling back the rifle change and pistol changes to where they were before hand. Here's what Valve had to say about the whole ordeal:

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Dota 2 Patch is bringing in a TON of changes as well as a whole new hero, the infamously unbalanced Arc Warden

If you've been browsing any Dota 2 related forum for the past few weeks you would see a community driven in to an utter frenzy, like a pack of piranhas, but instead of flesh they were hungry for the much anticipated 6.86 patch.

And now that Patch 6.68 is finally out I can easily see why people were so riled up. Besides a ludicrous number of balance changes there is a new hero, plenty of new items, changes to the map, the UI, the armory and so, so much more. I'm excited and here's why you should be too.

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Hideo Kojima has now officially left Konami and is starting up a new company of his own

I don't know what exactly happened within Konami, and I doubt we'll ever know, but there is some bad blood between the company and Hideo Kojima, one of their best developers who is most famous for the Metal Gear Series. For goodness sake they didn't even let the man participate in the Video Game Awards that happened recently despite his game being one of the nominees.

Finally, after a lot of radio silence it seems that Kojima has now officially left Konami and is is looking forward to making a new studio along with the rest of the people that were let go.

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The Climb - a new VR game from Crytek looks really beautiful

I talked about this back when Eagle Flight (a VR game from Ubisoft) got announced but I'm really excited to see so many big publishers jump on the VR bandwagon before any of the systems have even been released. It gives me hope that this new technology won't simply be a gimmick.

While on the topic of big developers creating VR games we now have The Climb, a visually beautiful game from Crytek that is all about putting you in to the eyes (and hands) of a rock climber who is overly lax with personal safety. I'll embed the trailer below so you can see for yourself.

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