Posts by John Papadopoulos:

Star Citizen’s crowdfunding has reached $141 million

Posted on: 09 Jan 2017

There is no doubt that Star Citizen is the most successfully crowd-funded game of all time. Cloud Imperium has been constantly breaking records and the team has just hit its $140 million milestone.

Epic Games on why it favoured consoles over PCs in the past, and the current battle between PC & consoles

Posted on: 09 Jan 2017

It’s no secret that for a time, Epic Games was focused on console gaming. While its roots were in PC gaming, the company felt the need to focus on consoles for almost six years in order to survive. And according to Tim Sweeney, that was a wise decision as before Steam, PC game revenue started falling … Continue reading Epic Games on why it favoured consoles over PCs in the past, and the current battle between PC & consoles →

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided – Pre-order DLCs are now available for free to all owners

Posted on: 09 Jan 2017

Now here is a nice surprise. Similarly to a lot of publishers, Square Enix had announced some exclusive pre-order DLC packs for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. Contrary to most of them, however, Square Enix has just made available for free to all owners of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided all these pre-order DLCs.

Here are the intros from Need for Speed: Most Wanted & Underground 2 being recreated in GTA V

Posted on: 09 Jan 2017

Ravenwest R1 has shared with us two videos, showing the intros from Need for Speed: Most Wanted and Need for Speed: Underground 2 being recreated in Grand Theft Auto V. These are some pretty cool recreations, therefore we strongly suggest checking them out, especially if you are fans of the Need for Speed series. Enjoy!

Steam Sets New Record for Concurrent Users – Over 14 Million Steam Users Online Simultaneously

Posted on: 09 Jan 2017

Today, Steam set a new record for concurrent users. As we can see, there were 14,370,167 Steam users online a couple of hours ago. And to be honest, it took Steam a while to reach that milestone. After all, back in November 2015, we reported Steam reaching 13 million Steam users online simultaneously.

Icewind Dale gets modded to the Temple of Elemental Evil, beta version available for download

Posted on: 08 Jan 2017

Circle of Eight’s forum member ‘Allyx’ and a team is currently working on bringing the original Icewind Dale game to Temple of Elemental Evil. Contrary to other projects, this will simply be a total conversion mod that will be using assets directly from the original Icewind Dale game.

Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation gets fan remaster with better textures, sprites, objects & effects

Posted on: 08 Jan 2017

Tomb Raider fans, here is something for you today. A team of modders is currently working on a fan remaster for Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation. Although this project is still in early development, the team released the first screenshots that can be viewed below.

Half-Life 3 was a “hot mess”, had lots of prototypes (including an RTS and an adventure action game)

Posted on: 07 Jan 2017

It’s almost a given by now that we won’t be getting Half-Life 3… ever. Still, this doesn’t mean that Valve wasn’t working on such a game. According to GameInformer’s Andrew Reiner, Half-Life 3 was a hot mess and had a lot of prototypes from very small teams.

Project CARS 2 – First screenshots leaked online

Posted on: 07 Jan 2017

Slightly Mad Studios has revealed that it plans to release an early version of Project CARS 2 this September. Project CARS 2 was originally announced back in 2015, and it appears that over these past few months a number of screenshots were leaked online. Below you can find the first screenshots from Project CARS 2, leaked … Continue reading Project CARS 2 – First screenshots leaked online →

Fans remake Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 on the PC in Unity Engine, public demo available for download

Posted on: 07 Jan 2017

Gistix, a team of dedicated Sonic fans, has been working on a fan-made PC remake of the 2006 version of the Sonic the Hedgehog game. This version of Sonic 06 is powered by the Unity Engine and the team has just released a public demo for it.