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15 votes
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The Wonderful 101: Remastered - PlatinumGames' title previously exclusive to Wii U, now self-published and coming to Switch, PC, and PS4
5 votes -
Daemon X Machina - PC version release date trailer (February 13)
3 votes -
Making signature moves for the distinct characters of Shovel Knight
9 votes -
What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
13 votes -
Copenhagen to host second FIFA eNations Cup from 22nd to 24th May – France aiming to qualify to defend their title
5 votes -
Mortal Kombat - The legend, the arcade tech, the console ports - sixteen versions analysed
4 votes -
"Total" Discord integration for community participation in development
I've been discovering recently how convenient Discord can make developing with the feedback of your community, or of selected members of your community. This is assuming that you are already...
I've been discovering recently how convenient Discord can make developing with the feedback of your community, or of selected members of your community.
This is assuming that you are already talking with your dev team and community on Discord and have a server for that.
Create your game on the Discord platform (they do the same thing as Steam basically), and integrate an alpha-access store page right into your Discord server as a channel. This store page can be restricted to whomever you want via normal Discord permissions. Binaries can be distributed wonderfully simply this way, becuase if you're talking with the community in Discord already, you can just send them to that store page channel embedded directly in your server where they can simply click "install" to test your most recent binaries.
The agreement with Discord restricts only a few things that I wasn't interested in anyway: They don't want you to do an exclusive deal with another distribution service (duh), and anywhere you advertise your game you must mention that it's also available on Discord in addition to wherever else you're distributing it. That's pretty much fine with me.
Anyway, I'm having a lot more fun with this than I had previously trying to distribute pre-release alpha binaries, so I wanted to see what you all thought about it. And what criticisms there are to be had.
7 votes -
The Behemoth (developer of Castle Crashers, Battleblock Theater) reveals Alien Hominid Invasion, a co-op arcade re-imagination of their first game
5 votes -
Tell me about your RPG campaign
Hey folks, I haven't posted in a hell of a long time and thought why not get this going again. So when I last posted I think my Paladin had just been basically killed off and I wrote up a druid....
Hey folks, I haven't posted in a hell of a long time and thought why not get this going again.
So when I last posted I think my Paladin had just been basically killed off and I wrote up a druid. Well this one has been amazingly fun to role play, being that he has lived most of his life in solitude he has no social skills and tends to do things that can be a little off at times. Our merry band of misfits had cleared a small towns problem warerats who turned out to be a family of Gnomes who lived there, while trying to console the final member of the family Rolen (my druid) felt the best way to give emotional support would be to congratulate the young Gnome on becoming the head of the family. This actually broke the whole table for about a minute, the DM sat in silence for a moment, laughed, tried to role play the distraught girl but failed epically.
We have also got another campaign going with a few of the same guys as the bigger campaign, this one is mostly homebrew. The first character I made I really wasn't happy with so spoke to the DM and we worked out how to kill her off and introduce the new character I made, completely homebrew this one and it's again been far more fun. He is a Dwaf Shaman whose ancestors speak to him constantly, sometimes good and sometimes not so much.
So what has been happening in your RPGs? anything big, fun or just want to chat about? painted anything cool? got new dice? anything at all.
18 votes -
Discord has removed its library and game-launcher functionality as well as the activity feed
27 votes -
Overwatch Developer Update - Starting in March, "Hero Pools" will be introduced to competitive play, where different heroes will be disabled every week to encourage players to change strategies
7 votes -
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?! out on Early Access
6 votes -
Cooly Skunk: An unreleased Super Famicom game miraculously recovered twenty-four years later via a romhack of a satellite-downloaded demo
6 votes -
The Pedestrian - Launch trailer
6 votes -
Bethesda never understood Fallout
24 votes -
Designing the simulation of the wild and wonderful Planet Zoo
3 votes -
Dead Cells - The Bad Seed | DLC gameplay trailer - releasing Feb. 11
8 votes -
Any tips for painting miniatures?
My D&D group mostly used Lego for the longest time, but we recently decided to give miniatures a shot because we were adding more people and I only have so many minifigs to share (unless you want...
My D&D group mostly used Lego for the longest time, but we recently decided to give miniatures a shot because we were adding more people and I only have so many minifigs to share (unless you want Stormtroopers in your fantasy setting, that is!). A few weeks ago we met up to paint our miniatures for our new campaign and I think that was the most relaxing, calming thing I've ever done. We all sat in silence basically, noobing our way through the painting process and we had a lot of fun.
My character is a sheltered rich southern man who sounds a bit like a mix between Colonel Sanders and Foghorn Leghorn. He's a sorcerer and despite how is mini ended up looking, he does not cast bubblegum -- https://imgur.com/fr4tc6Z
But anyway, looking at it now there are some obvious spots where I messed up and certainly some things I'd do differently now. But until I'm able to get my hands on another miniature, I was wondering if anyone here had experience with painting miniatures and would be able to share some advice?
11 votes -
Godot 3.2 has been released
5 votes -
Washington state proposes legislation aimed at preventing class-action lawsuits against video game companies: would change the legal definition of "illegal gambling games" to exclude video games
6 votes -
Dauntless developer Phoenix Labs has been acquired by Garena for $150 million
3 votes -
Warcraft III: Reforged—the re-creation of Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne—is now available worldwide
14 votes -
7 years after launch of the first episode, Kentucky Route Zero is finally finished
10 votes -
The rise of the "information game" genre
4 votes -
Cyan Worlds co-founder Rand Miller discusses the challenges of getting Myst to work on CD-ROM | War Stories
5 votes -
Video game subtitles are changing, don't be left behind
4 votes -
Competition between video game streaming platforms is heating up as Mixer, YouTube, and Facebook Gaming lure away high-profile Twitch streamers with multi-million-dollar offers
11 votes -
The team behind Warcraft III looks back at the game that birthed a genre, changed a franchise, and earned a Reforge-ing
5 votes -
Torchlight Frontiers is now Torchlight III, and will be a standard purchase instead of free-to-play, releasing this year on PC
13 votes -
What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
16 votes -
Discussing id Tech 7's engine upgrades with Doom Eternal's executive producer Marty Stratton
11 votes -
Video game subtitles could learn a lot from comic book lettering
19 votes -
GOG Lunar Sale - Jan 24th through 31st
6 votes -
Disco Elysium | Hardcore mode and ultrawide support now available
7 votes -
Steam Lunar New Year 2020 Sale - The Year of the Rat (Now through Jan 27 at 10 AM PST)
7 votes -
People Make Games travels to Hong Kong to interview Blitzchung, the Hearthstone pro banned by Blizzard last year
13 votes -
Housemarque's 25th anniversary is this year, and they've put all other projects on hold to focus on finishing an unannounced game they've been working on for three years
4 votes -
Balancing act: How developers approach making games feel "fair"
6 votes -
Tencent announces offer to acquire full ownership of Funcom
12 votes -
Group AMA with developers from the Half-Life: Alyx team
9 votes -
Can you defeat the privacy chicken?
16 votes -
The Dreadnought Diaries - A new series of development diaries following upcoming projects at Ninja Theory
3 votes -
The two types of randomness
8 votes -
Half-Life and Half-Life 2 (including both episodes) are free to play on Steam until Half-Life: Alyx launches in March
14 votes -
Hades | The Long Winter update trailer
10 votes -
Designing Manifold Garden's believably unbelievable world and puzzles
9 votes -
Rethinking the meaning of success through the stories of Phil Campbell, co-founder of Quantic Dream and former creative director on major franchises like Tomb Raider
4 votes -
What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
23 votes -
Dad builds custom Xbox adaptive controller so daughter can play Zelda: Breath of the Wild
13 votes