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FBS 6: GDC 12
Posted on March 19, 2012 | 1 CommentEdmar, from GlobalGameServers (GGS) joins us again on FBS 6 to talk about the goings on at the 2012 version of the Game Developer’s Conference, this year held at the Moscone Centre in San Francisco. Edmar was there at GDC and shares with us the highlights of the summit: F2P We knew Free-to-Play was hot this year, but judging by... -
GDC12: F2P’s coming out party
Posted on March 10, 2012 | No CommentsThis year’s Game Developers Conference (GDC12), held in the digital hot-bed of San Francisco this year, ended successfully yesterday. GDC is a developer-only conference and thus tends to be a bit introspective, a bit “inside-baseball” and much less splashy than the more marketing-driven fests that will be geared towards the average consumer later this year. GDC may not be too... -
World of Warplanes’ Alexander Zezulin
Posted on March 6, 2012 | 1 CommentNo sooner had my wingman and I leveled off our Spits at 15,000 feet, deep into the designated coverage area, our Sector Controller’s frantic voice broke through the radio static. ”Bandits! Bandits! Angels plus 2″. ”No joy, Sector control,” I countered. “I don’t have them.” I barely got the words out when my wingman piped up. ”Nighthawk 1, Nighthawk 2,... -
Blacklight: Retribution Open Beta
Posted on March 5, 2012 | 9 CommentsNow finally out in open Beta, Zombie Studios’ Blacklight: Retribution is now available for everyone to download. Retribution is a game that has been greatly anticipated by the F2P FPS community. The sequel to Blacklight: Tango Down, Retribution has been hailed as the game to watch during the first half of this year. It was at E3, way back in... -
Ravaged update
Posted on March 3, 2012 | No Comments2Dawn’s Mitch Gross, PR & Community Manager for Ravaged, the indie FPS we discussed during FBS 5 contacted us recently and announced a lot of new updates. Here are the highlights: Ravaged’s first contest has started! Fans can put together their own “Apocalypse Supply Kit”…and they can have a chance to win an EVGA NVIDIA 580 GTX video card! For... -
FBS 5: Game or Story?
Posted on February 13, 2012 | 2 CommentsShould video games become more and more like major motion pictures? Many AAA-game developers I have met seem to think so. While games like Modern Warfare and Battlefield owe their success to the fact that their games play out like movie-fare, sometimes…gameplay suffers as a result. Recently, at least one influential developer has spoken out against this trend. We discuss... -
What’s Coming up
Posted on February 8, 2012 | 1 CommentThought it would be interesting to check out PC gaming’s renaissance. Specifically, I wanted to quickly canvass all the interesting Free-to-Play (F2P) FPS games set to release soon. The following titles are really close to being finished. Some are actually worth the wait! Blacklight: Retribution Blacklight: Retribution is a F2P FPS developed by Zombie Studios. It’s yet another in a... -
BlackMonkeys on Hiatus
Posted on February 4, 2012 | 1 CommentIt was a bittersweet Tweet, not unexpected — to say the least. It went something like this: BM verabschiedet sich – zumindest vorerst! BM says “Goodbye”! I quickly clicked over to the BlackMonkeys.de site and looked for the inevitable end-times post. The impenetrable German prose tripped me up. I’d forgotten…I don’t speak German, so I Skyped Xiao and asked him... -
Tribes: Ascend Closed Beta Version resets
Posted on February 4, 2012 | 1 CommentOn February 2nd, Hi-rez Studios released patch 0.1.742.0 for its F2P sci-fi shooter Tribes: Ascend. This patch was rather significant and resulted in a significant server down-time. Given the number of changes being made in the game, Tribes’ developer felt it necessary to zero the playing field and reset all the items owned by players in the Beta. If you... -
World of Warplanes status update
Posted on January 22, 2012 | No CommentsWargaming.net’s upcoming World of Warplanes (WoWP), an aerial version of their current mega-hit, World of Tanks is set to come out this year. Here is the latest trailer, showing off the German planes in the game: The trailer includes the FW-56 Goshawk trainer, the famous BF-109G Messerschmidt fighter, the FW-57 fighter-bomber and the never-built butterfly-tail ME262 HG III jet fighter....
