Seven Sad Truths About Game Development

Game development?s become one of the most popular careers in the world of late. It makes sense, if you think about it: if you love something enough, naturally you?re going to want a job where you?re involved in creating it. It?s pretty basic stuff, really. Unfortunately, what a lot of people don?t understand is that, while development might be a dream job for some, it?s still a job.

8BitMMO Releases Player-Built Dungeons, a New Enemy: Hipsters, and availability on Steam Greenlight

Archive Entertainment is excited to announce several new updates to 8BitMMO. The game is a construction sandbox where players can build houses, castles, even entire cities in a retro-style massively multiplayer world. New Enemy: Hipsters – They are known as the most dangerous game, in large part because of their extra health points and propensity to hit players with cans of PBR. Hipsters join the roster of enemies players can fight. Player-Built Dungeons – Players now have the ability to place monster spawn points and create their own dungeon environments.

Team Fortress 2 Man vs. Machine Mode Live

Team Fortress 2’s Red and Blue teams now have a new enemy they both share, the machines! The update that has been in the making for nearly 2 years has launched on Steam today. Valve is excited to announced their new Man vs. Machine content patch which brings a new computer controlled ?faction? and a new co-op mode to TF2. Six players are pitted versus waves of robots, some of which are built to look like machine versions of the iconic TF2 classes.

AirMech Beta on Steam, Servers Added Worldwide

AirMech is now available on Steam! Beta keys have been distributed to all Alpha testers, and new players can participate in the Steam beta by purchasing a special bundle. Over 250,000 unique players have signed up to play AirMech worldwide, and this week a number of new servers have been brought online across to globe to improve service for everyone.

Best Online FPS

What makes a game the best of its genre? Is it the graphics? The gameplay? The content? It’s a question that will be asked over and over for every different genre and every different platform. So how does a game make it to our best online FPS list? Well, it’s a combination of everything, how the game plays, why we keep coming back, the graphics, the gameplay, everything!

Blacklight: Retribution coming to Steam

Blacklight: Retribution is a free-to-play FPS by Zombie Studios, creators of Blacklight: Tango Down. Although the game has been available to download from Zombie Studio’s site, its availability on Steam will make it more convenient as well as giving players more reasons to play with new items for Steam users, achievements, and a larger player base.

New DOTA 2 beta update adds ?Ogre Magi? and comes with a new Dashboard and Hero Picker

Valve has released a new update for the beta version of DOTA 2.The new update comes with a new Dashboard and a Hero Picker, as well as various rebalance tweaks, revised performance bar calculation and display, increased bot cautiousness when going to the side shop, and the addition of overhead healing messages for Warlock and Bloodseeker.