Following rumors back in March that Valve had something special up its sleeves for user-made maps, comes the official unveiling of ‘Operation Payback‘. The service, which costs a flat $5.99 fee, allows unlimited access to dedicated servers hosting top-voted community maps, but only until July 31
The Prince returns, and, boy, does Evil Empire do a great job with him.
While E3 is gone, Geoff Keighley, lord of The Game Awards, has tried to replace it with Summer Game Fest, a nebulous collection of reveals and mini-events that does have one main showcase full of its biggest slate of games, and that aired yesterday.
It was…not great. 65% of Keighley’s own Twitter followers gave it a C or D grade in a poll he put up.
How about this, gaming community, what's up with people trying their best after the Big 3 go their own way and stop supporting events in general in favor of their own shows not being good enough when no one else is trying at all?
I think the community needs to look at the status of the industry and realize that we're where we are because of how much the competition has shrunk and how the bigger companies focus more on their own presentations over that of community-focused events.
Were these games the AAA bangers people wanted to see? No. But you know what it was? It's the people that get overlooked like crazy trying their hardest to put out games for people. Thank you to those developers who work on games and took the time to try and show us something some of us might actually like. Thanks Geoff for actually trying.
More than I can say for the community that, at times, only complains.
Microbird Games' upcoming dungeon-crawler/social-sim ARPG Dungeons of Hinterberg is shaping up to do right by all of its obvious influences.