Crystal Dynamics' Daniel Neuberger, Creative Director of Croft’s upcoming digital release, dishes on the gameplay's arcadey departure, Lara’s new partner Totec, and gives longtime fans plenty of hope for the future of Tomb Raider...
I’m carrying a bag filled with gold. My team is plundering a mine, and I’m the point man - lugging burlap-wrapped bullion back to a capture point in our base. My teammate is a desperado, and he’s yelling at me from beneath his face bandana to hurry the hell up.
“Throw the gold!” he hollers. I’m trying.
Ever found yourself playing Team Fortress 2 and thinking, “This is fun, but I sure wish I were wearing a coon-skin cap”? At long last, your prayers have been answered in the form of developer Fat Shark AB’s Western-themed online shooter, Lead and Gold - Gangs of the Wild West.
Based on the glut of Kinect games that have players wielding invisible swords or swinging imagined golf clubs, it often seems like the potential-packed technology’s creative pool has prematurely run dry. That’s why it’s so refreshing when we experience a Kinect-enabled entry that utilize the controller-free hardware ways we never expected. Leedmees, an original XBLA entry from Konami, fits that bill perfectly...
Want to see the brand new map Valve’s created for Left 4 Dead’s free Survival Pack DLC? Thought so! We got Chet Faliszek, the game’s writer, to give us an exclusive guided tour of the new map, “Lighthouse.” Click play below to check it out, then we’ll regroup for further details and impressions from our hands-on session.
Self-shadowed normal mapping. That got you sitting up in your seats didn’t it? Forget zombie hordes for a second, put the intricate and sophisticated animation system to one side, and focus on what’s going to make Left 4 Dead special: self-shadowed normal mapping. What’s self-shadowed normal mapping? We had no idea, so we picked up the phone and asked Valve.
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