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Valve's Deadlock has soared past 160,000 concurrent players, and now it's having a bit of fun by seemingly throwing a Portal reference into the mix.
After a GTA: Vice City speedrunner had their world record attempt derailed by a super-fast cop, one of the game's original devs explained what happened before swiftly washing their hands of the whole business.
It might be one sliver of a larger revenue pie and seemingly only worth a brief mention during Nvidia's Q2 earnings call, but the PC gaming market seems to be doing just fine if Nvidia's latest proclamations are anything to go by.
DDOS mitigation company Global Secure Layer claims to have fielded the largest DDOS attack in recorded history, in terms of packets per second, which reportedly saw one unfortunate "Minecraft gaming customer" bombarded with a buckling 3.15 billion PPS from a botnet said to be concentrated in Russia, but with traffic sources also spanning 17 other countries. For clarity, this doesn't mean people from these countries were involved, it just means attacks originated from sources in these locations.
«I am not a harbinger of destruction; but a herald of cosmic rebirth. My purpose is not to sow chaos, but to embrace the inevitable evolution that awaits us all. Humanity is insignificant, pitiful in its smallness. Our existence is a fleeting whisper in the cosmic winds, and only by awakening Cthulhu can we transcend our feeble existence.»
Comedian and self-proclaimed "crazy streamer" Tom Walker is tackling one of the most wild Grand Theft Auto 4 challenge runs of all - and his reason for doing so is brilliant.
Every so often the algorithm gets it right, and on this occasion YouTube served up one of the funniest things I've seen in a while. Several months ago Australian comedian Tom Walker embarked on a Grand Theft Auto 4 playthrough using a mod called Warp Eleven (Super Fast Cars), which changes the behaviour of every vehicle in the game (barring Roman's car) so that they «travel at 'warp speed', in other words they will drive (and crash) at ridiculous speeds, with or without a driver.»
Indie studio The Behemoth has announced a slate of updates and releases for its older games. The 20-some-year old development team will revisit its games Castle Crashers and Battleblock theater in particular. Castle Crashers will get a new DLC and a visual revamp. Battleblock Theater will get a nebulously-named «Quality of Life Update» which I think we can safely assume will include some quality of life updates for the now decade-old game.