When 2K’s Christoph Hartmann said that “strategy games are just not contemporary”, what he actually meant was “we can’t market and sell a strategy game on a console”. That was in defence of the abominable idea of turning X-Com into an FPS. Gentlemen, gentleladies, I am afraid that we may never see another strategy game in the X-Com series. One would think there were lessons to learn from Enforcer and Interceptor, but you would apparently be wrong.
There was recently a big sale on at Show Me The Games, the indie games portal set up by Positech’s Cliff Harris. I was keen to find out how the sale had gone, and how the site is doing. Hit the jump for Cliff’s thoughts.
Hello! Welcome to ‘What’s All This Then?’, a weekly* column** where Lewis looks at upcoming indie games***. This week, Towns!
There is a new trailer for LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 which you can see above, showing off some of the wizadry action you will find in the game, and that is perfect timing as I have been trying out this title over OnLive, hit the jump for some thoughts.
Gulf of Oman was one of the best maps from Battlefield 2, hell the majority of the maps in that game were awesome and still blow away anything from Battlefield 3. So it is nice to see that the map that started it all with the Battlefield 2 demo is coming back in the Strike at Karkand DLC for the newest title in the series. Those classic vehicles are going to be wonderful to play with. Now for some maps from Battlefield 1942 to appear….
Last weekend saw the first ever Minecon convention launch with a sell out 2 day event in Las Vegas. The event was to mark the official release of Minecraft and to show some of the plans for the future of Minecraft and other games Notch has been working on. To date 4.1 million people have already bought Minecraft and many changes have been made for the ‘final’ version. I say ‘final’ because its unlikely that no more improvements or updates…
Good old Cliff Harris shows off some Gratuitous Tank Battles in this new developer diary and tries to describe what kind of game it is. Tower defence, or something a bit different? Watch and enjoy.
I came across Project Cars earlier today and I am intrigued by what I have seen so far. It is a game being developed by Slightly Mad Studios, those guys behind the Need for Speed: Shift series and is part of their World of Mass Development (WMD for short) development process. Hit the jump for some more details.
Have you ever wondered what Skyrim would look like with a hint of Team Fortress 2? Well wonder no more, Redditer ArmoredCavalry has managed to perfect the Team Fortress 2 in Skyrim effect. Hit the jump for some more images from his collection.
I have come across a very interesting piece by Ivan Ertlov, developer of upcoming indie title Into the Dark on IndieDB where he explains some of the difficulties faced by German developers when it comes to creating games which don’t infringe on German law.