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Hearthstone devs say League of Explorers’ new Discover mechanic is all about fun
Last week at BlizzCon, Blizzard Entertainment surprised fans of its popular card battler Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft with the announcement that the game’s first new adventure in six months would be arriving in less than a week. The new adventure, League of Explorers, opens its first wing today, and the subject on most player’s minds is ...
Eyefluence raises $14M to let you control virtual reality with your eyes
California-based technology startup Eyefluence Inc is working on technology that will allow virtual reality and augmented reality programs to be controlled with your eyes, and the company has just emerged from stealth with $14 million in Series B funding. The funding round was led by Motorola Solutions Inc, and it also included investments by Jazz Venture Partners, NHN Ventures, ...
Blizzard files lawsuit against ‘HonorBuddy’ bot maker
Blizzard Entertainment Inc, the studio behind monster franchises like Warcraft and StarCraft, has filed a lawsuit against the creators of HonorBuddy and several other paid bot programs that are designed to give players an unfair advantage in Blizzard’s games. Most, if not all, of Blizzard’s games have a serious problem with bots, which are automated scripts that some players ...
“Having a community isn’t something for MOBA games and big budget triple A games only,” says indie dev
Marketing is as important for indie game developers as it is for major triple-A studios, if not more so. With thousands of indie games all vying for attention, there is a lot of noise on the market now, and standing out from the herd is almost impossible even for the few games that are actually ...
The new Tomb Raider lets you screw with players on Twitch
The diabolical social experiment that was Twitch Plays Pokemon proved that a million monkeys on typewriters can indeed play a videogame, and now the recently released Rise of the Tomb Raider has effectively given those monkeys the nuclear launch codes by letting viewers mess with streamers directly through the game. Rise of the Tomb Raider streamers can ...
How Fallout 4’s perk system improves on Fallout 3
Bethesda Game Studios’ long awaited Fallout 4 has finally arrived, and the game has already broken the record for the most concurrent players on Steam (not including Valve Corp games), a record that had once been once held by the studio’s previous game, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, until it was overtaken by Grand Theft Auto V. While there are plenty of comparisons ...
Facebook could be fined $268K a day for privacy violations in Belgium
Facebook Inc. has had its share of legal troubles in the European Union in the past for allegedly violating the region’s privacy laws, and now a Belgian court has ruled that the social media giant may be fined €250,000 (roughly $268,000 USD) a day if it does not change the way it tracks non-users who visit its site. ...
How Fallout 4 gets its companion app right
Companion apps have something of a mixed reputation in the video game world. Some are buggy messes that rarely, if ever, receive updates (the WoW Armory app for World of Warcraft). Others are forced upon users by being arbitrarily required to unlock certain in-game items (Kenway’s Fleet for Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, the Assassin’s Creed Unity ...
Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert recalls the golden age of point-and-click adventure games
Ron Gilbert was at the center of the golden age of adventure games at LucasArts Entertainment, but after creating some of the genre’s most iconic games (Maniac Mansion, The Secret of Monkey Island), Gilbert suddenly left the company. Now, over 20 years later, Gilbert is once again working on an old school adventure game, and in a ...
Twitch announces that Bob Ross is here to stay
When livestreaming site Twitch announced that it would be playing a week-long marathon of The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross in honor of Ross’ birthday and the new Twitch Creative category, the site had no idea what it was getting itself into. “When we first discussed the idea of running an all-episodes marathon of ‘The ...