Tripwire Interactive today announces Killing Floor, a co-op first-person survival horror shooter for the PC based on an Unreal Tournament 2004 conversion.
Damnation is looking nothing like the buggy, crash-prone demo I saw at the Penny Arcade Expo last summer – thank goodness, too; the release date is right around the corner.
Let’s take Unreal Tournament 2004. A still somewhat-popular online shooter. Now, UT2004 has two teams: red and blue. Just like a lot of other online games. If you recorded the results of 1,347 UT2004 MP matches, you’d think that, over time, the results would balance out, yes? 50% to the red team, 50% to the blue team. But no! Researchers at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark have found that red came out on top, winning 55% of the matches, tying online gaming into similar studies performed in physical sports, where it’s been suggested teams/athletes wearing red enjoy an advantage over others. The reason? Because the “colour red may act as a psychological distractor for men, possibly because men flush and turn red when they’re angry”. Implied is that blue may also act as a psychological distractor for men, possibly because it makes them think of blue skies, fluffy clouds and lazy days at the beach instead of the bloody job at hand.
The update to Zombie Panic: Source yesterday got me thinking about all the zombie mods I’ve ever played. Of them, there’s only a few I’ve dedicated extensive chunks of time to and I thought I’d share my thoughts specifically on those ones.
Many such mods start with high hopes and ambitions, only to die from a lack of interest or experience. It’s sad, but true. The reasons are totally understandable – a lot of the guys that work on these projects are studying or working full time, and finding even a couple of hours to code, map or model can be difficult. Having programmed freelance for a few years, I know how much time even just decent debugging can strip from your life.
That doesn’t mean nothing makes it our alive. Or should I say un-alive. Don’t worry, I’m expecting my comedy license to be revoked shortly.
As a bonus, I’ve included an honourable and dishonourable mention for two mods (well, a game and a mod) that are yet to be released.
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