Posts by John Papadopoulos:

XCOM: Enemy Unknown – Community Video 3 – Modernising A Classic

Posted on: 18 May 2012

Firaxis Games has released a new community video, in which Casey O’Toole, lead programmer for XCOM: Enemy Unknown, talks about the development of the game and its progression into the modern age. X-COM: Enemy Unknown will feature destructible tactical environments, interaction between the real-time strategic view and the turn-based combat, upgrades and improvements for XCOM … Continue reading XCOM: Enemy Unknown – Community Video 3 – Modernising A Classic →

Skyrim Online gets a new video that showcases the game’s animations and equipment

Posted on: 18 May 2012

Remember Skyrim Online? Yeap, that amazing mod that offered online functionality to Bethesda’s RPG? Well, good news as the team behind it has released a new video that showcases the chat system, and what players can actually see (people running and walking around with most of the equipment they are wearing). Furthermore, both gender and face morth … Continue reading Skyrim Online gets a new video that showcases the game’s animations and equipment →

The Elder Scrolls Online’s main story is built around solo players

Posted on: 18 May 2012

When The Elder Scrolls Online was announced, PC gamers began wondering whether such a project could actually work out. Every previous part of this legendary series was in Single-Player mode and focused on one protagonist. Give the fact thate most MMO games are based on squads and clans, a lot of fans lost hope. Fear not … Continue reading The Elder Scrolls Online’s main story is built around solo players →

Medal of Honor: Warfighter – World Premiere TV coming this Saturday

Posted on: 18 May 2012

Medal of Honor fans, get ready for the world premiere TV trailer of Medal of Honor: Warfighter. According to EA, the trailer will air during half-time of Champions League – between Chelsea and Bayern – final at 8.30pm UK time. Although we don’t know what EA will demonstrate in this new video, we can’t wait … Continue reading Medal of Honor: Warfighter – World Premiere TV coming this Saturday →

The Adventurer – New game from the developers of ‘Necrovision’

Posted on: 18 May 2012

The Farm 51, the team behind Necrovision, unveiled their upcoming FPS game in Games Day 2012. Their new game will be called ‘The Adventurer’ and is set before World War II. Players will take the role of Victor “Vic” Chandler, who is on the hunt for various mythical artefacts. The Adventurer seems to be an exploration game … Continue reading The Adventurer – New game from the developers of ‘Necrovision’ →

Comparison: Next-Generation (Unreal Engine 4) vs Current-Generation (CryEngine 3 / Creation)

Posted on: 18 May 2012

We bet that a lot of you are wondering how current-generation engines compare to the upcoming, next-generation version of the Unreal Engine, right? Well, time to find out. In this special feature, we compare Crysis 2’s (CryEngine 3) and Skyrim’s engine (the Creation engine) with Epic’s Unreal Engine 4. Although there aren’t similar assets to compare with, we put … Continue reading Comparison: Next-Generation (Unreal Engine 4) vs Current-Generation (CryEngine 3 / Creation) →

Cry of Fear 1.3 is now available; comes with new maps and monsters

Posted on: 18 May 2012

Team Psykskallar has released a new version for their amazing Half-Life total conversion, Cry of Fear. This might be the team’s biggest patch yet for their total conversion and can be easily considered as a DLC, given the fact that it contains an awesome new game mode, as well as new maps and monsters. You can … Continue reading Cry of Fear 1.3 is now available; comes with new maps and monsters →

MechWarrior Online – Beta news next week, game will feature destructible trees

Posted on: 18 May 2012

Piranha Games have revealed some new, juicy details about their mecha F2P game, MechWarrior Online. We bet that a lot of you were disappointed with the static environments that were showcased in the latest gameplay videos of MechWarrior Online, right? Well, good news everyone as the game will feature tree destruction and small prop destruction.

Unreal Engine 4 – 7 new screenshots revealed

Posted on: 18 May 2012

Yesterday, we shared the first set of screenshots from Epic’ Unreal Engine 4. Well, time for some brand new shots as Wired has unveiled seven new shots from their gigantic feature. Unreal Engine 4 looks lovely but we have to admit that we were not shocked as much as when Epic showcased Unreal Engine 3, … Continue reading Unreal Engine 4 – 7 new screenshots revealed →

Video Game High School is an amazing webseries that is based on video games – Episode One

Posted on: 17 May 2012

Team RocketJump has just uploaded to YouTube the first episode of their online webseries, Video Game High School. Now I’m pretty sure that most of you will be wondering who the hell is RocketJump, right? Well, RocketJump is a team of passionate people who started a Kickstarter in order to fund this webseries and YouTube’s infamous … Continue reading Video Game High School is an amazing webseries that is based on video games – Episode One →