How we spent our long weekend: Hardware Hacking
Posted by inpheaux on January 21st, 2008 at 8:56 pmWe had a productive long weekend here at Directional Pad.
A few weeks ago Andy picked up the Nintendo Wii Zapper and was - as we assume many people were - completely dismayed by the fact that it wasn't compatible with Resident Evil 4. The problem stems from the fact that the zapper and all other [...]
Fortress Forever out now!
Posted by inpheaux on September 13th, 2007 at 5:46 pmSo, since Valve's little announcement stole Fortress Forever's thunder for Monday, the FF team kicked themselves into overdrive and got their mod out today.
Yes, so you can go play it right now. (Windows and Linux dedicated servers are also available.)
Now you can enjoy your bunnyhopping, conc-jumping, grenade-jumping, rocket-jumping, and whatever other kind of jump-based lunacy [...]
Fortress Forever: Finally being released on 17 SEP 2007
Posted by inpheaux on September 11th, 2007 at 7:54 amAfter years of development and constant fears that the game had evaporated, the team behind Fortress Forever have finally set a release date for their HL2 true-to-the-original remake of Team Fortress Classic: Next Monday, 17 SEP 2007.
Fortress Forever is a third-party mod for Half-Life 2 that started years ago because some developers got sick of [...]
Toribash 3.0 Tantalizes with Trailer
Posted by Akaishi on July 17th, 2007 at 8:26 pmFans of Toribash, the ragdoll physics powered turn based fighting game, recently got a video vision of things to come with a youtube trailer for the upcoming version of the game. Toribash version 3 is reportedly coming in October, with an all new graphic engine that uses Shaders 2.0 for much more realistic abstract 3D [...]
Steam to get community features next month
Posted by inpheaux on June 20th, 2007 at 7:43 pmHaving first effectively created the concept of unified online game distribution and then conquered it, Valve is looking to branch out. Next step for Steam? Community. Next month, Valve is planning on rolling out "Steam Community", a major upgrade to the Steam platform which intends to kill Xfire, and maybe take a stab at Teamspeak [...]
Harmonix helps keep ScoreHero afloat
Posted by inpheaux on May 24th, 2007 at 11:33 pmFans of the Guitar Hero series are likely familiar with the fansite Score Hero, a site populated entirely by robots, or at the very least humans with glorious robot hands. They're the keepers of scores. If you absolutely need to know how many points you need to five-star Jordan on expert [you know, like if [...]
Followup: Clover Studios returns as SEEDS
Posted by inpheaux on February 14th, 2007 at 8:36 pmClover Studios being disbanded last October was some of the most depressing gaming news of 2006. They had just shipped their long-awaited and now critically acclaimed Okami, and Capcom showed them the door. Luckily, the rumors we brought up in the previous article - that Clover wanted to break from Capcom, and do stuff on [...]
Smash-hit Flash game “Line Rider” coming to Wii and DS
Posted by inpheaux on December 19th, 2006 at 11:51 pmA few months ago, you probably saw the little Flash toy Line Rider. Like nearly all amazing Flash toys, it was simple. Draw a line, hit play, watch your little sledder fly off into oblivion. Despite having a very simple set of tools, Line Rider is flexible enough that it can be used to make [...]
Indiana Jones and the Fountain of Youth preview posted
Posted by inpheaux on October 18th, 2006 at 12:20 amQuick update here before wrapping up for the day: we've got another in-depth interview/preview posted and ready for consumption. It's for an upcoming indie PC game - Indiana Jones and the Fountain of Youth. It's a fan game, an homage to LucasArts SCUMM-based adventure games of years past, and thus far it's really shaping [...]
Sam & Max’s triumphant return to gaming now available
Posted by inpheaux on October 17th, 2006 at 10:40 amAs promised, the long-awaited new Sam & Max game will be available today. Unfortunately, it's temporarily exclusive to the North-America-Only GameTap subscription gaming service thing. Their exclusivity ends on 1 NOV 2006, when you'll be able to buy the first episode straight from TellTale Games' website. This means you won't be seeing a review of [...]