Tagged: online multiplayer
It’s become abundantly clear over recent years that modern or near-future military shooters of the first-person variety don’t place a high emphasis on story, especially when compared to their multiplayer components. In Battlefield 4, this trend hasn’t been bucked, only… Read More »
Mobile gaming has come a very long way since its birth in the nineties. What began as simple, pixelated, colorless games have now become highly complex and sophisticated. The development of wireless internet technology has also played a significant role in… Read More »
Eddie, Dan, and Greg discuss death in games from design and mechanical perspectives. Eddie Inzauto is joined by Dan Crabtree and Greg Galiffa on Episode 30 of the Versus Node Podcast to talk about death in gaming, specifically how developers… Read More »
Rising Storm doesn’t hold the war-torn hands of its players. Most competitive first person shooters fret over fairness and accessibility, placing each team an equal distance from a map’s center and providing boringly equivalent weapons at the expense of variety…. Read More »
Sony has recently announced that SOCOM 4 and MAG will be losing online multiplayer support early next year. PlayStation released this statement via Twitter: “Advisory: Online multiplayer services for MAG, SOCOM Confrontation, and SOCOM 4 will be ending on 01/28/14″ This isn’t too… Read More »
Hashtag #OSCeaseFire. The Online Shooter Cease Fire, organized by GamerFitNation as a show of support for those affected by the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, has gathered over 1500 “attendees” on Facebook. That number grows… Read More »
Peter Molyneux’s latest idea, Curiosity: What’s Inside the Cube?, has been facing server issues since its launch last week. The problems have included fatal crashes, lag, images beneath layers disappearing, and players losing coins. As a result, Molyneux, as head… Read More »
I had a dream of battle. A dream of armed combat in which warriors rode to the field not in helicopters, tanks, or even “warthogs,” but only by the power of their own two legs and the battle cries of… Read More »
EA’s reboot of the classic snowboarding franchise SSX looks to be getting online multiplayer soon, or so a new video from the publisher would suggest. SSX was released way back in February to almost universal praise, but everyone was left… Read More »
Another game begins. I spawn, an abandoned warehouse in front of me, and I instantly know how to sprint, how to aim down the sights of my rifle, how best to move around the map, how to check corners, and… Read More »
