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3 CommentsWatch a Destiny player kill Oryx by himself — on hard mode
One Destiny player achieved a seemingly impossible feat last week: killing Oryx, The Taken King, in a fireteam of one.
On hard mode.
The player in question, who goes by the moniker esoterickk on Reddit, said that figuring out how to pull off this incredible feat took 20 to 25 hours over the course of a week. Esoterickk added that the challenge was "definitely a big step up" from accomplishing the same task on normal mode, which another player managed to do in early December. That person was one of five people whom esoterickk thanked for contributing to the solution for soloing Oryx on hard mode, so it was a team effort, even if esoterickk got there first.
So how did esoterickk do it?
It turns out that this was only made possible by a hotfix released shortly after Destiny's April...
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8 CommentsDoom developers explain the campaign's progression system
Doom's single-player campaign will let you customize your skills to suit your play style, and in a new developer diary, the game's developers at id Software discussed the options that the system offers.
You can modify your guns, turning the up-close-and-personal shotgun into a mid-range weapon with an alternate fire mode. According to Doom creative director Hugo Martin, weapon customization will determine how you tackle the enemies that the game throws at you, since you'll have to use specific guns for certain foes. This also applies to the player character.
"We kind of have this whole upgrade system that allows you to play in a lot of different ways and use your own strategy in how you approach the different arenas, and even tweak that as you go through the game," said executive...
Linelight explores the art and play of minimalism
Linelight is a study in minimalism.
It is a platformer stripped of the colorful aesthetics of backdrop, of setting, of characters.
What is left is a line and a dash, sometimes dashes, and a very attentive design which so absorbs players that they won't notice what isn't there.
The game is the first solo project created by Brett Taylor, who designed it in Unity over the course of about ten months.
"In college, I discovered programming," Taylor tells me at the Manhattan hot chocolate shop where we meet for an interview and a bit of game playing. "I lost like ten pounds. It was everything I always wanted to do but could never put into words.
"I exploded with productivity."
He created a few smaller projects, he said, working on and off on his designs. He got a job at Arcadium working on...
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2 CommentsWatch Uncharted 4's dashing leading men reminisce about working on the series
At the heart of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End is a tale of two brothers, one whom fans have known for a decade and one who's new to the series. Uncharted 4 is the fifth game starring Nathan Drake, while his brother Sam surprises Nate by showing up after a 15-year absence. In a 12-minute video from PlayStation Europe, filmed at a castle in the Italian countryside, voice actors Nolan North (Nate) and Troy Baker (Sam) discuss their long-running relationships with the Uncharted series.
For North, who has spent the past decade or so playing the role of Nate, the release of Uncharted 4 is a "bittersweet" experience. Naughty Dog has said that this is the final Nathan Drake game, and North joked that he'd need Baker to give him a job in the future. North also has a very different experience with...
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24 CommentsDoom's launch trailer includes a cool homage to the original
The new Doom is out next week — the shooter arrives May 13 for PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One — which naturally warrants a launch trailer from publisher Bethesda Softworks. There's plenty of footage from Doom's single-player campaign and no shortage of demonic hellspawn exploding into bloody gibs.
There's also a modern Doom homage to the original game's cover art, pictured below, which was painted by the late Don Ivan Punchatz. At 58 seconds in, you'll 1993's Doom artwork recreated in 3D form.
Bethesda and Doom developer id Software will have another homage to the original game: The new Doom will ship with reversible cover art that evokes Punchatz's colorful, iconic artwork.
