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I was excited for this Quake port of Half-Life until I discovered the creator's wild AI conspiracy theories
Students of first-person shooter history will likely know that the technology Half-Life runs on—GoldSrc—is a heavily modified version of the Quake engine. It’s one of many, many branches of id-tech’s ancient technological tree. Indeed, you’ll still find tiny fragments of Quake code in Valve’s modern successor to GoldSrc—Source 2. Now, nearly three decades on from…
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One excellent, unforgettable expansion has fixed Doom: The Dark Ages
I liked Doom: The Dark Ages when it arrived last year, but I really ought to have loved it. The first two Dooms of id’s modern trilogy are generationally great FPS campaigns with unmatched action, memorable guns, and late-game fights that will grind your teeth down to the gums. They successfully reestablished Doom around speed,…
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One of the best shooters around just got a barely recognizable second episode, and it's only $12
New Blood’s comic book golden age noir detective immersive sim shooter, Fallen Aces, just got a beefy new update: Its second episode, Shadow of Death, is playable right now, while the usually $15 game is on sale for $12 until August 8. I’m kind of allergic to playing games in early access, so I haven’t…
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's beta will have low-SBMM playlists, as Activision continues to 'learn a lot about multiplayer matchmaking'
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 was not the series’ finest hour, but one aspect of the sequel that has gone down well with players is its experiments with matchmaking. For years, players have complained about the effects of skill-based matchmaking (SBMM), which is intended to level the playing field by sorting players into groups…