A few illustrative quotes from the “Future of Marathon Part 1” video that Bungie published today. The team (recently reduced by Sony layoffs) were candid in their plans to transform Marathon from purely an extraction shooter to something more Destiny-shaped: Easier onboarding, dedicated PvE options, a wider variety of PvP (Including a team deathmatch mode),…
I love modders. Instead of just wishing a game had a new feature, they make their wishes a reality. Modder LM6 decided it’d be nice if Skyrim NPCs who were shopping or studying had some new dynamic “I’m thinking” animations. Now they do. (Image credit: Bethesda / LM6 on Nexus Mods)
(If you consider $300 glasses to be cheap, that is…). While many people were confident that XR glasses were nothing but a fad, the market for this tech appears to have grown over the past couple of years, and it’s not hard to see why. These glasses are now lightweight enough to wear comfortably, and…
Starting today, XBOX Insiders can join the Chicken Invaders Collection preview from InterAction studios on XBOX consoles and Windows PC. Chicken Invaders puts you on the front line against invading intergalactic chickens bent on revenge against humanity. For the first time since the series debuted in 1999, the Chicken Invaders saga is together in one…
This one’s for the Neo Geo freaks. The Video Game History Foundation’s free digital archive of game magazines has passed 5,000 issues, a major milestone. More importantly, the archive is now expanding beyond English to support Japanese mags, starting with Neo Geo Freak (1995-2000), which require a unique approach to preserve: “Professional archivists in Japan…
Los Santos Customs I’m modding GTA 5 every day in a quest to either transform it into a PC version of GTA 6 or break it entirely. Come back tomorrow to find out what new horrible thing I’ve done to Rockstar’s baby, or check out what I got up to earlier. It’s the greatest challenge…
I grew up in the 2000s with a PC but not a whole lot of money. That’s the kind of combination that gets you bargain-bin Sold Out Software games from Poundland or, more so in my case, an absurd number of free-to-play online and browser-based games that were utterly pervasive across the internet. My childhood…
Here’s one for you: Let’s say you’re a scientist tasked with designing an intuitive physical interface for a human operator to remotely control a robot destined to rove Mars. What do you do? Well, it turns out there’s no need to reinvent the wheel. Airbus recently showed off its ExoMars rover to documentarian Tom Scott,…
Earlier today Bitmap Books confirmed via their website that their new title The Arcade 1971–1999: The Stories Behind Classic Coin-Ops, Told by Their Creators by Paul Drury will be available for purchase on October 1st. A source close to the publication has also informed Old School Gamer Magazine that a pre-order window will open…
I admire its purity. It’s easy to forget just how many Aliens games have been made over the years. You’d be forgiven for wondering whether there are actually enough to warrant an entire book, but at 176 pages, Mike Diver’s Aliens: The Video Games covers just about everything, from an unlicensed 1981 Commodore PET title…