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The original Homefront had an interesting story premise, as well as shocking imagery to back it up (the mass grave scene being a prime example), but unfortunately the end result was a barely coherent mess that suffered from the worst sin in gaming, it was simply boring.
However, if the recent gameplay and story trailers for Homefront: The Revolution are any judge, there seems to a genuine effort on the developer's part to make the Homefront series in to something unique, and hopefully fun to play. One such trailer released a couple of hours ago, and it details how exactly the resistance plans to retake the entirety of Philadelphia, have a look:
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Despite Remedy having a long and storied history with PC gaming, the PC port of Quantum Break has been, to put it lightly, a massive disappointment in terms of graphical quality and stability.
Remedy is working on these issues, however, as noted in the recent blog post which went over the majority of problems the PC crowd has encountered with Quantum Break, and what is currently being done about them. Here's a short overview of what you can expect to see fixed in the near future:
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Both the Oculus Rift, and HTC Vive had a rather rough start with numerous logistical issues that needed to be overcome before people could get their hands on that sweet, sweet VR tech.
However, while HTC has managed to mostly fix their issues and continue on with shipping, the Oculus team is apparently running in to severe problems with component shortages which is causing some orders to be delayed for over a month. Information on why exactly the delay is happening comes from The Verge who had managed to direct a couple of questions at the Oculus spokesperson, and get this statement:
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After being teased for a couple of weeks now Far Cry Primal's survival mode has finally arrived, making the primeval wilderness all the more terrifying. But if you eat danger for breakfast and wrestle bears for fun, you'll be glad to hear there's now a permadeath option available, along with some nifty rewards for those crazy skilled enough to beat the survival mode on expert difficulty and permadeath.
And as a secret added bonus, the patch has also brought in 4K textures to the PC version, so if you want to get mauled by saber-tooth tigers in the most visually pleasing way, now you have the option to do so. As for the survival mode features, you can read my earlier overview, or check out the brand new 'cave painting' Ubisoft released:
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A couple of weeks ago it was confirmed that Everybody's Gone to the Rapture is coming to PC, but a crucial piece of information was missing in that announcement, the release date.
I speculated that the official launch will be coming up in the near future, but as it turns out its way sooner than I or anyone else expected as Everybody's Gone to the Rapture is being unleashed tomorrow, April 14. Here's the trailer, and what exactly the PC version brings to the table in terms of improvements:
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Its not often that you see a tournament with over a million dollars in prize pool money ran by amateurs and community volunteers, but the Shanghai Major was exactly that given that the management was completely useless, the technical team inept, and the ones running the whole arena completely oblivious of the events that are transpiring around them. In short, it was an ass and Valve will hopefully not be working with it again.
With a bit of luck this will be the last time such a debacle occurs as Perfect World has come out and publicly apologized for the whole mess, but also promised to deal with the issue at its core. Here's the announcement message:
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Once upon a time Telltale was a small indie company that was almost singlehandedly holding the narrative-driven point & click genre from the brink of oblivion, a notion that sounds insane these days given the popularity of The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, and many others.
But if you're among those that haven't experienced the wonder hidden within these games, you're in luck as the Humble Telltale Bundle is offering 11+ mostly excellent games for $12, which is quite the bargain for the amount of existential dread they will cause you.
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I've played Dark Souls 3 for over 25 hours now, and I have not encountered even a single bug or crash despite trying to in order to test the PC version, but unfortunately, some where not so lucky as there seems to be a fairly wide spread crash-to-desktop issue when approaching bonfires.
Thankfully, there does seem to be a solution. According to the Steam Forums, the crashes are related to some kind of a bug within the lighting system, and fiddling with it can result in a perfectly stable Dark Souls 3 experience. There's two confirmed ways you can go about this:
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Ark: Survival Evolved has some rather imaginative mods on the Steam Workshop, but rare few can match the amount of effort the solo developer behind Ark: Moon Survival underwent in order to bring the action all the way into outer space.
While it might sound like a one-off joke, the Ark: Moon Survival mod is a "proper" total conversion that swaps the lush jungles and green plains with the waste emptiness of space, and the surface of the Moon itself. Perhaps its best if you see for yourself, here's the brief trailer:
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Following numerous complaints about Warhammer's most iconic faction, the warriors of Chaos, being used to sell pre-orders, Creative Assembly has decided to stem the tides of negativity by announcing their post-launch free DLC plans.
While the details are currently unknown, the free DLC will come in waves and include things such as: new units, new lore and items, new legendary lords, new heroes, and most importantly, a mysterious new faction.