Monthly Archives: August 2022

Left 4 Dead’s successor wasn’t a flop – it was just ‘ahead of its time’, say devs

Seven-year-old multiplayer shooter Evolve recently received a second wind, but developer Turtle Rock Studios reckons its ill-fated follow-up to Left 4 Dead might have stood a better chance of survival if it had been released today. The asymmetric competitive shooter – in which four players face off against a mutating, player-controlled monster – was all…

California formally bans the sale of gas-powered vehicles by 2035

The California Air Resources Board has issued a rule (PDF) that formally bans the sale of fully gas-powered vehicles in the state by 2035. The regulations come two years after Governor Gavin Newsom instructed the agency to develop “passenger vehicle and truck regulations requiring increasing volumes of new zero-emission vehicles sold in the state towards…

The scale in Homeworld 3 is tremendous – it’s a space RTS for the James Webb era

Homeworld is back: that’s Homeworld 3 in a nutshell. It’s the real-time strategy series you remember and, probably, what you want it to be now. And actually, to hear Rob Cunningham tell it in our interview below – he who helped dream up Homeworld and co-founded Relic, and now leads Blackbird, the studio making Homeworld…