Tripwire Entertainment are the people who’ve brought PC Gamers such titles as Red Orchestra, Killing Floor, The Ball, Zeno Clash and Dwarfs. Player Affinity’s Charles Battersby had the chance to speak with Tripwire’s Vice President Alan Wilson about their past projects, and the upcoming Red Orchestra 2.
The market for video game westerns is very small, especially when you compare it to other settings like fantasy and sci-fi. It’s particularly surprising considering the immense popularity of last year’s Red Dead Redemption, but long before Rockstar put out its wild west epic Polish developer Techland has been making western games in the form of their Call of Juarez games. While the first game was good and the second game was even better, it’s unknown whether Call of Juarez: The Cartel will continue or break the trend due to its radical setting change.
Tripwire Entertainment are the people who’ve brought PC Gamers such titles as Red Orchestra, Killing Floor, The Ball, Zeno Clash and Dwarfs. Player Affinity’s Charles Battersby had the chance to speak with Tripwire’s Vice President Alan Wilson about their past projects, and the upcoming Red Orchestra 2.
Love it or hate it, last year’s Super Meat Boy was extremely popular and the guys behind it all, Edmund McMillan and some of the Super Meat Boy development team have announced their next game The Binding Of Isaac. While Super Meat Boy was similar to an old style technical platformer, The Binding Of Isaac is described by McMillen as “A roguelike shooter based on the dungeon structure of Zelda”.
A large
question in the video game industry right now is whether digital or
retail purchases are better. While purchasing a game from the comfort of
your preferred gaming machine is nice, the download times compared to
retail disc install times are not. Valve is hoping to help that problem
by upgrading Steam’s backend code, and improving the overall download
speeds for the platform. You can read the technical details of it here, but the quick summary is: faster download speeds for videos, faster download speeds for games.
Two of the biggest first person shooters of 2011, Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3, are coming out in the Fall. This creates some natural competition between them, but one supporter of Battlefield 3 has gone farther with his loyalty and created an anti Modern Warfare 3 website under the domain name ModernWarfare3.com. The site has been around for a while, and gone through several iterations, including fake insulting ads for Modern Warfare 3:
The highly anticipated indie action-RPG Bastion arrived for console gamers this week via PSN and XBLA but despite the games developer Supergiant Games confirming that a PC version was in the works, there is still no word on a release date yet.
