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Battlefleet Gothic: Armada is a Warhammer 40k themed strategy game that features four distinct factions, over-the-top weaponry, and equally ridiculous ships with which you can wage war amidst the stars.
I've had a great deal of fun playing it over the weekend, and in order to show you what exactly its all about I've recorded a video going over two campaign side-missions, one featuring the Imperial Navy squaring off against Orks, and the other against the Chaos fleet. Have a look:
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Despite Fallout 4 being the least buggy game in Bethesda's recent history, it still came with a fair few glitches, broken AI, and most annoyingly, progression-breaking bugs.
To Bethesda's credit, however, they did manage to fix most of the big ones, but unfortunately there are still hundreds of tiny bugs left throughout the Commonwealth, bugs that are probably not important enough for them to dedicate developer time to. Thankfully, this is where the community comes in to save the day once again, this time around by releasing a comprehensive bug fixing patch.
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After officially making us his bitch with the stellar release of Daikatana, John Romero slowly faded away from the public's eye and remained in relative obscurity for over a decade... until now.
As it turns out, Romero has reunited with Adrian Carmack (the artist, not the engine guy, and no, there's no relation between them) and together they are attempting to Kickstarter a brand new FPS that has aims to improve upon the glory days of PC shooters. The game in question is simply called Blackroom, and to figure out what exactly it is I would suggest giving the Kickstarter video an eyeballin':
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Despite stating multiple times that he's through and through with the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise, Scott Cawthon has managed to break that self-imposed promise twice already, first with that strangely cheerful RPG FNaF World, and now with a brand new 'proper' Five Nights at Freddy's game.
As of right now the only things we know about the upcoming FNaF game is that it will be set in a sister location, as if the world needed even more murderous robots with constantly conflicting backstories, and that there never is just one, which to me instantly brings up the mental image of Freddy Fazbear as a Sith Lord.
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I am, as the experts would say, a little bitch when it comes to horror games, but Outlast was one of the rare few that managed to grip me for long enough to actually finish it, even though I had to take a short break after going through that very special scene in the middle of it.
And if you're thinking that the decrepit institution from Outlast 1 is about as scary as things get, I'm... afraid/glad to disappoint you as Outlast 2 is shaping up to be just as terrifying as the original, if not worse given that all of the action takes place in wide-open areas in the middle of bloody nowhere. If you don't believe me you can take a look for yourself as two gameplay videos were recently shown at PAX East:
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I'm not sure if you've noticed, but Hearthstone has become quite the juggernaut when it comes to online card games, beating even Magic the Gathering Online despite it having years of advantage and an incredibly well designed interface and intuitive controls.
As you might imagine, with popularity comes competition, this time around from Bethesda and their The Elder Scrolls: Legends, a card game that might initially seem eerily similar to Hearthstone, but which brings some interesting ideas to the table. Here's the gameplay trailer so you can get the gist of it:
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If you've played the recent Doom open beta you most likely noticed how the advanced options were completely missing on PC, the framerate was capped, FOV couldn't be increased, and so forth. This combined with the gameplay being less like the arena shooters of old and more like Halo left a lot of PC players with plenty of anger to vent, and only one place to do so, Doom's beta page on Steam which ended up with around 8,000 negative reviews.
After seeing such an overwhelmingly poor response, Id and Bethesda quickly posted a message detailing all of the ways they plan to address PC issues, as well as what sort of graphical features we can expect to see in the release version.
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While this should come as no surprise given the rampant popularity of the shoot & loot genre, its still good to hear that Gearbox aims to tackle Borderlands 3 as their next game.
This information comes from Eurogamer who attended the PAX East panel and found out that Gearbox will personally be developing the fourth game in the Borderlands series, with Gearbox's main writer Mikey Neumann (whom you might know as Scooter in-game) and Battleborn art director Scott Kester at the helm.
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[Update]: Without any prior warning, Valve has just unleashed Counter-Strike 2 as a free update!
Anyone that has played CS:GO for a long period of time will instantly tell you that the two most annoying things you can face off against are obviously cheaters, but also smurfs, skilled players using a secondary account with a much lower rating in order to stomp all over the opposition.
While the recent patch notes don't mention anything about this, Valve has added an experimental 'Prime' matchmaking mode that's here to ensure only legitimate accounts face off against each other. Here's the gist of it, taken from the 'leaked FAQ' found within CS:GO's files:
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Its truly impressive to see so many people rally around Nostalrius in order to convince Blizzard to finally bring back the Vanilla World of Warcraft servers, with all of their charm and flaws included.
The community outcry has been so loud that Mark Kern, the original Team Lead for World of Warcraft, got involved and stated that he would personally deliver the petition to Blizzard if it manages to reach 200,000 signatures. As you might imagine from the title, it has not only reached its goal, but has continued to grow past it, and as promised, Mark Kern has released the details of his plan in a brief blog post: