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Underworld Ascendant Dev Diary Shows Off Potentially Game-Breaking ‘Improvisation Engine’
I’m all for a trip back into the Stygian Abyss, the living dungeon that served as playground (and death trap) in Looking Glass’ Underworld games. By the looks of things, OtherSide Entertainment, stocked with LG veterans (including Paul Neurath), wants to take the “living” aspect to another level in Underworld Ascendant, with most of the…
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Terraria Developer Re-Logic Cancels Alternate Dimension Sandbox ‘Otherworld’
As much as we’d prefer it never happened, games do get cancelled, though it’s not always because the cash wasn’t there, or the team was assassinated by an unassuming Labrador. For Re-Logic’s Terraria: Otherworld, which it pulled the plug on earlier this week, it was simply a case of the game being “a bit further…
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I Love How Mimics Work In The Dark Souls Series
The mimic is a unique video game monster in the Dark Souls universe. These games reward players who pay attention and punish players who cavalierly make their way through the world. The mimic is the ultimate encapsulation of that design ideal.
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Unity’s Amazing ‘Adam’ Demo Has New Episodes, Directed By District 9’s Neill Blomkamp
Remember “Adam”? The demo Unity used to show off the visual and cinematic improvements to the company’s game engine? Like all such demos, we were left wanting more, though we knew it was unlikely anything else would come of it. Not so in Adam’s case: turns out Neill Blomkamp’s Oat Studios picked it up and…