However someone who uses the C key to crouch is not welcome, and they do not deserve our respect. The C key is the bastion of fools, and as a community we need to shame its use.
I don’t disagree with his conclusions, it is uncomfortable to swap to the C key from WASD, and I’m probably going to configure more games to use the ctrl key for crouch as I have been one of those degenerates who goes with the default, but this is coming from someone using sentence case in the title of an article. Come on.
Now we know where Patrick Klepek went. In a post for Vice Gaming, with fellow Giant Bomb alumnus Austin Walker, Klepek confirms that the rumored variation of the Playstation 4 with improved horsepower would be announced on a very busy September 7th:
Sony will reveal the first details on an upgraded PlayStation 4 at a September 7 event in New York, French gaming website Gameblog reported today. VICE Gaming can confirm that it’s heard the same information from multiple sources familiar with the planned rollout for the new machine. These sources chose to remain anonymous because they are not authorized to speak publicly about Sony’s plans.
The NES was the premier gaming console when I was growing up, and Nintendo Power was the outlet for all of our interest in games for years.
I don’t think it ever crossed anyone’s mind how strange it was that the only source of information was directly from the console maker who also created each issue of the magazine up until 2007 when Future took over.
Not that there weren’t other gaming magazines, but this was pretty much it for many people.
It’s an interesting correlation to today’s in-house corporate media reaching out to their communities. Nintendo’s videos, Sony’s has their Playstationblog and podcast. Microsoft has their Major Nelson, whose podcast I listened to up until he started saying that HDMI wasn’t an improvement over component cables back when the 360 didn’t have an HDMI port.
Archive.org has been hosting incredible collections of random stuff for years. I just found a functioning version of one of my favorite Windows 3.1 games, WinTrek, that is emulated directly in your browser. They have now collected 145 scanned issues of Nintendo Power spanning from 1988 through 2002.
The signal from Sir, You Are Being Hunted developer Big Robot is that they are working on a new game called The Signal From Tölva.
The last we heard from Big Robot they had added networked trombones to Sir, You Are Being Hunted. I’m not kidding.
Now, they’ve announced the new open-world FPS, TheSignal From Tölva. Big Robot have ditched the procedural generation when you launch the game in change for pre-procedural and handcrafted artisanal world to explore. This time Signal will be available for macOS and Windows. Last time Sir was available for those as well as Linux. I’ve shot an email off to the plus-sized metal creature asking if they’ll be doing Linux this time as well.
Big Robot have more information about The Signal From Tölvaon their blog. It’ll be pushed out the door next year in 2017.
Quake Champions and the new Prey were announced back at Bethesda’s E3 2016 Press Briefing. Both have new trailers out with gameplay footage during the annual Quakecon gathering. That has become Bethesda’s second conference of the year in addition to the traditional giant LAN party.
I was initially pretty psyched for a new multiplayer arena-shooter Quake from id even if the characters looked to be individualized with abilities specific to each.
The new Doom was a huge surprise, even though the multiplayer wasn’t that hot. Maybe they would do a better job with Quake Champions which appears to be solely focused on multiplayer? Well, it turns out to be a little less exciting because a third-party is developing the new Quake.Saber Interactive worked on 2014’s abysmally buggy Halo: The Master Chief Collection, though who is to say if that was an issue with Microsoft’s 343 or one of the four other studios that worked on the bundled collection.
id software had a great collaboration with a third-party when Machine Games made Wolfenstein: The New Order in addition to the standalone expansion, Wolfenstein: The Old Blood.
I don’t doubt that Saber could put a good game together if the right situation arose. Maybe they just need to work with the right collaborator in id software? If not, well, we’ve still got ioquake3.
Prey has fewer question marks, it’s clearly not related at all to the 2006 FPS from Human Head. Instead, Arkane is making it. Their Dishonored from 2012 was excellent as a first-person stabbing simulator.
Quake Champions will have some kind of closed-beta, presumably for people that preorder, in 2017. Don’t pre-order games. Prey is out in 2017.
