Tag: bethesda
Quake Champions Open Beta Impressions
The Quake franchise was once a multiplayer staple during the early 1990s and while the franchise has tried to reinvent itself twice in the mid-2000s it has been almost a decade since we heard from this formally prominent frag fest. Now id Software in collaboration with Sabre Interactive and publisher Bethesda are preparing to bring […]
Ranger Outlined In New Quake Champions Video
Bethesda and id Software bring fans of the quake series (as well as newcomers) another look at one of the Champions featured in the upcoming Quake Champions, Ranger. This particular champion showcase should be interest of players who want to try out Quake Champion’s free-to-play option as Ranger will always be available to players regardless […]
Opinion: Bethesda Dropped The Ball When It Comes To Fallout 4
Guest Editorial By: Azzuen O’Connor Back in the winter of 2015 Bethesda released their sprawling open world RPG, Fallout 4 to critical and commercial success. Azzuen O’Connor discovered the series in the past couple of years and after playing through the likes of Obsidian’s Fallout: New Vegas and catching up on Bethesda’s latest has quite a […]
Quake Champions Newest Hero, Anarki, Is Totally 90s
The latest champion revealed for Bethesda / id Software’s Free-to-play FPS Quake Champions is Anarki – a hover board skating, transhumanism punk who appears to embrace the 90s surfer attitude alongside old school FPS action. Anarki’s active ability is health injection which allows him to gain a temporary health boost, which would be great to […]
Six Minutes of Quake Champions Footage Reveal New Hero Details
Quake Champions was playable this weekend at the Penny Arcade Expo in Boston and fans had the chance to try out the game for themselves. Included in the demonstration version of the game were playable heroes who have been confirmed but not fully revealed on the game’s official website. One such hero – Clutch, described […]
Quake Champions Beta Sign-Ups Open With Release of New Trailer
Id Software & Bethesda Softworks have released a brand new trailer for their upcoming team based competitive First Person Shooter Quake Champions alongside news that beta sign-ups are now open on the games’ official website. According to the site the closed beta for Quake Champions could begin as soon as a couple of weeks from […]
Zenimax Buys Doom Co-Developer Escalation Studios
Zenimax, the parent company of publisher Bethesda Softworks, announced recently that they have acquired Dallas-based developers Escalation Studios. If you haven’t heard of the folks at Escalation Studios before I wouldn’t blame you but they have worked on a number of smaller titles as well as collaborated with other studios on AAA titles. Most recently […]
Hiring A Monetization Expert Won’t Save DOOM But It Could Improve Quake Champions
Id Software, developers of this year’s breakout shooter DOOM and the upcoming Quake Champions, are looking to bring aboard an expert on in-game monetization according to a recent job posting found online. While it is highly improbable that this will have any impact on DOOM’s existing player base it could have ramifications for the mostly […]
Quake Con PSN Sale Discounts Doom & Other New Releases By 50%
Sony’s PlayStation Network plays host to a sale on Bethesda’s recent & past catalogue of digital titles for both the PlayStation 4 and PS3. This sale is in celebration of the upcoming QuakeCon convention, which will have events live-streamed this weekend from Texas. Recent titles like iD Software’s Doom reboot and older critically acclaimed games like The […]
QuakeCon Event Schedule & Live-Streams Revealed
Bethesda Software’s annual gathering in Texas to celebrate the various long-running id Software franchises, debut new titles and allow attendees to get the exclusive scoop on upcoming games kicks off in less than two weeks on Thursday August 4th and runs until the 7th. The publisher is promising the world gameplay premiere of Quake Champions, which was […]
Quake Champions Will Hopefully Learn From DOOM’s Multiplayer Missteps
Today at their pre-E3 press conference Bethesda revealed the rumored Quake reboot to the world and this re-introduction to id Software’s 1990s darling is probably not what a lot of people expected – an arena shooter. Foregoing the series roots as a open ended corridor shooter Quake Champions aims re-live the glory days (or is […]
Fallout mods are appearing on Xbox one with out the owners premission
Remember when Microsoft announced it was bringing (limited) mod support to the Xbox One? Well they did it, and a few games now have the ability to use the most popular PC mods on the console. This has raised a never been seen issue with console gamers, but one that PC gamers are intimately familiar with, […]
Parker Quinn’s Charge Card Actually Has A Use In Fallout 4’s New DLC
When Fallout 4 launched last November players quickly came across an NPC named Parker Quinn who offered to sell the player a “charge card” in exchange for caps. That is all well & good but the damn thing didn’t really do much, as one of our former editor’s found out in his lengthy impressions of […]
Early DOOM Campaign Impressions: “Absolutely Brutal”
I’ve been following id Software’s revival of the granddaddy of First Person Shooters, DOOM, since it was announced over two years ago. After the rather bland looking E3 campaign demos from last year, there was relative silence about the single player content right up until a few weeks before the game’s release. After spending 3 […]
WHOA! The New DOOM Looks Incredible!
Over the past few weeks we’ve heard lots of complaints about the new DOOM, of course based on multiplayer. Fans have felt let down that it didn’t seem like DOOM. News got worse when it turned out review copies wouldn’t be released until launch day. What we didn’t expect was the campaign to look like […]