Category: video games
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Halo 3 on Windows
Ian Birnbaum: Halo 3 is coming to PC. Eight years after Master Chief’s last great multiplayer playground hit the Xbox 360, it’s coming alive, for free, on the PC–but not at the hands of Microsoft. Or Bungie. In one of the strangest things to happen on PC this year, Halo 3’s protracted PC birth is…
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TIS-100
After trying a bit of Pico-8 I was still craving another fantasy micro-computer. That’s where TIS-100 comes in: TIS-100 is an open-ended programming game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory, in which you rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock its secrets. It’s the assembly language programming game you never asked for!…
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Elite Dangerous: Horizons
David Braben: We’re beginning with airless, rocky worlds — places where a great deal of new gameplay can take place. These are planet-sized sandbox environments, with all sorts of things to discover hidden on them. You’ll find surface starports, crashed ships, mineral deposits, hidden bases and more. These worlds are gigantic, and – like the…
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Evan Lahti Loves Dirty Bomb
Evan Lahti has this article on how much he loves Splash Damage’s Dirty Bomb: At its peak, when some popular streamers and YouTubers were being paid to play it, Dirty Bomb was drawing as many as 13,000 concurrent players. I didn’t get swept up by that initial wave of attention, but I wish I had: Dirty Bomb, still…
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Konami Treats Their Employees Like Shit
Brian Ashcraft has a translation of a report from Nikkei about how Konami treats their employees. Unsurprisingly, it’s awful. Your next game fails after a string of successes? You’re now demoted to scrubbing toilets, cleaning gym equipment, or making slot machines.