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Last week brought the news that the Russian state was preparing for a ban on Discord, the latest move in a wider purge of Western technology firms from the region. This crusade began following the various sanctions imposed on Russia after its 2022 invasion of Ukraine, with the Putin regime seeking «digital sovereignty» through domestic tech companies that have no Western links.
Helldivers 2 is approaching an important fictional anniversary: Liberty Day. On October 26 the citizens of Super Earth, Arrowhead Game Studios, and the playerbase celebrate glorious liberty, an occasion that the original game would mark with title screen fireworks and (often though not always) in-game events or content additions.
Before the Bethesda Fallouts, and after the Black Isle originals, came a singular series offshoot—Fallout: Tactics. A slightly offbeat spinoff made by an inexperienced team, who had to reverse-engineer from the source material, Tactics would release in 2001 to a fairly decent critical reception, but got the cold shoulder from many fans.
First released in 2021, Overreign is a mod that converts Age of Empires 2 Definitive Edition into a first-person experience. Though it's been around for a while it launched in quite a buggy state, but creator Spriteblood kept plugging away and now it's looking much more stable: it came to my attention thanks to a video from YouTuber T90Official, who specialises in AoE2 content, and ably demonstrates just what first-person PvP looks like in a 1999 RTS.
«Run through the Quake campaign as Doomguy,» reads the Duake description. «Simple as that!» Well there's a little more to it, but sometimes a mod just speaks for itself. In fact, given the long history of mods for both games, I'm surprised this wasn't made sooner.
Valve operates as a slightly closed shop, rarely granting staff interviews and keeping community engagement to a minimum. The studio's latest game, Deadlock, was even released semi-covertly with no official confirmation until the cat was well and truly out of the bag (which may have been some inspired marketing). Valve people, generally speaking, keep their thoughts within Valve. So Valve engineer Fletcher Dunn is a brave soul: some might even say foolhardy.
Counter-Strike 2 has received its first big addition via The Armory Update, which adds a new battle pass to the game, alongside a slew of items and brand-new weapon charms. Well: new for Counter-Strike. Rainbow Six: Siege popularised these little animated tchotchkes, and they can now be found swinging around in everything from Call of Duty to Valorant. So what, you may ask, is the differentiating factor Valve has come up with for Counter-Strike?
The Fallout lineage roughly splits into pre-Bethesda and post-Bethesda, but there are byroads. One of the most notable is 2001's Fallout Tactics, a Brotherhood of Steel RPG developed by Micro Forté. The game's critical reception was good, though sales weren't, and it occupies a strange non-canonical space: disregarded by Bethesda and Todd Howard (which "sucked"), yet bleeding into things like Amazon's Fallout show in small ways.