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Welcome to the first playback of 2026.

We’re doing something a little different this time around, we’re covering a couple months instead of the usual one. Why? We needed a break. Everybody does, even us. Although the work never truly stops.

Look, it’s been a year. With 2025 getting labels like Creative Bankruptcy being thrown around, it’s clear this year will not be looked back fondly, especially when you look at the state of politics as well as other markets…

Regardless, we somehow survived another year of insanity and changes. So enough yapping, let’s get on with the fragging!

December

Cacowards 2025

It was that time of the year! The annual Cacowards for the best of the DOOM community.

This year’s highlights include:

• Espi Award for Lifetime Achievement for Ralph “Ralphis” Vickers and Mike “Manc” Lightner
• In the Doghouse by Arbys550
• Blues Brothers 2025 by General Roasterock and Ravendesk
• Gossip by Touchdown
• Doom 2 in Rural Only

It’s great to see so many BOOM and MBF (Marine’s Best Friend) based mods than just UZDOOM! We love our UZDOOM mods, but variety is the spice of life.

Congrats to all the winners, we look forward to what the community cooks up this year.

Mod Of The Year

It was that time of the year on ModDB! The annual Mod of the Year awards happened. As always, the categories were Player’s Choice, Editor’s Choice and Best Upcoming.

The winners?

• Player’s Choice Golden Gate 2: Goddess Heart for Gothic II takes first place!

• Editors Choice A bunch of stuff

• Best Upcoming Tales from the Age of Men for Mount & Blade II takes first place!

Congrats to all the winners!

The Last Goodbye - Act I

It’s best if you read the full announcement post, but in short the awestriking pulp thriller The Last Goodbye had a its release of Act I.

If you’re wondering about the playtime for Act I:

The average play time is about two hours.

The second Act is already in development. Level design model work is already underway. Steam Deck (as well as Windows 11 users) need to wait for a patch, as the game currently doesn’t run on either.

The mod makes use of a modified Trinity renderer for Half-Life, so therefore its compatibility with platforms is somewhat special due to the renderer hacking involved presumably. It looks very, very cool.

Brick Wars v1.0 for Battlefront

Have you ever played LEGO Star Wars and thought to yourself, “If only Battlefront looked like this” or “If only this played like Battlefront”? Probably not, but now that you have, you probably want it. Well lucky for you, 1.0 for the Brick Wars mod for Star Wars Battlefront II released.

The mod is very TC-like, replacing every player and vehicle models. The depth and additions are great, even having the post-destruction piece collection that those familar to the Lego series will recognize.

This the mod you’re looking for, grab a copy today!

Scientist Hunt 1.3?

This is one of our own projects, so we don’t want to unfairly promote it, but we quietly released the last public beta version of what has historically been called the “HD Map Pack” for Scientist Hunt, and it’s now morphed into a full blown propasal community patch.

If all goes well, this will be an officially sanctioned update to Scihunt! With new models, maps, and even features in some cases.

Try out the public beta v1.3 and give us your thoughts!

SourceWorld

The ever ambitious SourceWorld gives a summary of their busy year. It’s pretty in-depth, so check this one out when you have some time to kill.

RealRTCW

It’s nazi killing time again! The popular RealRTCW v5.3 released with tons of new content, including:

• Remastered Maps
• New Survival Mode Map
• Color Filters (greyscale, etc)
• New Menu for these features
• Various fixes

Grab your copy of RealRTCW v5.3 on ModDB!

Return to Perdition

This mod has slipped under our radar for a while now, this one is called Return to Perdition. It aims connect the story of Quake I and II.

For Christmas, news was shared showing off some cool new media. They are also looking for help in designing first person and player model weapons.

They’re very inspired by other games from the late 90s and their development versions (where there’s often experimental stuff that never really makes it into much of anything). If shooter prototypes scratch your itch you might very well get along with MikeM, perhaps reach out to them on ModDB.

Game Awards

Geoff Keighley held that annual sponsorship riddle award show. We admit, we all skipped this one this year, so we don’t have much to say. Game of the Year was awarded to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, a game made by a former Ubi employee who left because… well UbiSoft hasn’t made the best choices in recent history.

The show wasn’t without some usual controversy, but other than that it seemed to go off without a hitch.

Yay, videogames!

Outlaws Gets Remastered

Nightdive Kex-ifies another beloved game. Blue has been playing it (so we hear). I’m sure it’ll do fine to get your Outlaws fix, but many of you will be waiting for The Force Engine to support it in the upcoming v2.0 release so you can play it on your UNIX workstations.

In Memory: Vince Zampella

Blue’s News shared the rather sad news that Vince Zampella of Call of Duty fame passed away in a tragic traffic accident that also claimed another life.

Sean “Redwood” Martin had this touching comment about Vince:

I first met Vince for playtesting Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, then I’m sure I saw him at E3s after that, back in the early 2000s. He was a nice dude. I’m told he knows that road and also has done many track days. Sometimes even experience drivers can make mistakes during high performance driving. R.I.P. Vince.

• Redwood

RIP

Valve Got A Waydroid Fork

Seems Valve is using Waydroid to power their fancy new VR headset. We’ve seen massive success with Waydroid on devices like the FuriPhone, so we can’t wait to see how this will continue the inevitable merging of convergent hardware and operating systems.

Thanks GamingOnLinux for the story

LCD Steam Deck

Valve is no longer selling the LCD variant of the Steam Deck, it’s OLED all the way now baby!

Thanks GamingOnLinux for the story

UNIX v4 Tape Recovered!

A previously lost version of UNIX was recovered! The exciting journey was documented on Fediverse. For any one who loves classic UNIX, this was a wonderful little bonus before the year ended.

You can grab it on Archive.org here! There’s some PDP emulators out there you can probably try this with.

PC Gamer: 2025 - A Year of Creative Bankruptcy

As the year closed, PC Gamer offered a very relatable take on the state of the game’s industry. Obviously this extends to other parts of technology and entertainment - and was summed up by SlashDot’s BeauHD as a year that will go down in infamy. We can’t disagree. That’s why it’s been so hard even making these articles. It’s incredibly draining. People are tired, and plenty of stunts that year completely eroded trust in certain entities and institutions. The repercurssions in some areas have yet to be felt. Authenticity is becoming even more important. Let’s try to be present.

GOOD RIDDANCE 2025!

This is where the cheesy animated fireworks GIF would go. Nope. Not gonna do it.

January

Welcome to 2026. The far, far future… nevermind. This is old news at this point.

Steam Awards

The Steam Awards happened again of course, over 43,000,000 Steam users voted and the results are in, here was the best games of 2025 according to users (Unlike some other award shows…)

• Game of the Year: Hollow Knight: Silksong
• VR Game of the Year: The Midnight Walk
• Labor of Love: Baldur’s Gate III
• Best Game on Steam Deck: Hades II
• Better With Friends: Peak
• Outstanding Visual Style: Silent Hill f
• Most Innovative Gameplay: ARC Raiders
• Best Game You Suck At: Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Best Soundtrack: Clair Obscure: Expedition 33
• Outstanding Story-Rich Game: Dispatch
• Sit Back and Relax: RV We There Yet?

Thanks to Blue’s News for the recap

Quake Brutalist Jam III

Everyones heads was turning with the release of the Ironwail exclusive Brutalist Jam III.

You can find it on Slipseer

Corporation Electronics Show

The CES happened this year, and it was a living nightmare. We could say a lot, however, we think this comment sums up of the entire event in two sentences:

“AI is no longer a bubble. It’s a black hole at this point, and the whole economy is accelerating towards it.” - Some_Guy_From_The_Internet

Watch the Gamers Nexus videos for a brutally honest summary of this year’s “Tradeshow”:

• AMD
• nVidia

Unionsoft

More unions, yay!

Privacy in the USA

The only country in the world that guarantee’s liberty and the right to happiness but not privacy has finally passed a law to slightly-sorta kinda address that problem, in the state of California. The same state mind you, that forces websites to track you and force you to give your ID to third party vendors who later sell the data to governments.

Steam Workshop Multi-Game-Version Support

If a game has multiple branches on Steam, modifications on the Steam Workshop can now be made aware to take them into account. How this will be used creatively has yet to be seen. Of course, this can be used primarily to distinct between mods for ‘Classic’ or ‘Remaster’ type releases sharing the same AppID (as Nightdive games often tend to do, which sadly also screws with metrics). This is a very welcome addition.

Enemy Territory Singleplayer Mod v2.5

If you ever wanted to see what the singleplayer campaign (cancelled) for Enemy Territory could have been like, here’s one interpretation by William Faure. Check out the news post for v2.5 or download the full release v2.5.1 here. It requires Return to Castle Wolfenstein to play.

Half-Life: Retrograde Mod - November Lookback

Really great production quality shots can be found over at the page for Retrograde. Once again, you’re in the Black Mesa research facility and the shots are a bit dark, but it promises engaging puzzles and cutscenes. We’ll stay tuned.

Unofficial Republic Commando Remaster Progress

A very ambitious project is underway to remaster Star Wars: Republic Commando and TheMan20085 shares some promising content screenshots over on ModDB!

Vendorworld Released

Grab Vendorworld for Doom II if you’re looking for a psychological horror game to try. Its development is chronicled quite a bit on the articles section for Venderworld on ModDB.

I Live… Again! Zombie Panic Comes to Steam

There’s a continuation of Zombie Panic! on ModDB. It changes the original game quite a bit, so we suggest a name change.

Dark Interval: Part 3 Preview

We’re getting our first look at part 3 of Dark Interval on ModDB. Before that happens however, we get to also hear about v2.2

G STRING - Ultimate Edition

Intimate details about the development of an “Ultimate Edition” of G STRING have been posted on-line and we’re eating it all up! So should you.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Dead Man’s Paradox Updates

Fans of the modification Call of Chernobyl reportedly need to look out for Dead Man’s Paradox on ModDB. The latest news post lays out what the expected feature set is going to be without trying to be too revealing. Just take a look.

Half-Life: Extended - Steam Release, Screenshots, Jobs

Extended Studios offers some Christmas News for Half-Life: Extended over on ModDB, offering new screenshots showing off vastly different looking chapters in this modification that expands on the original campaign. The modification team is looking for experienced level designers to help on their mod. They’re also looking for sprite artists who can help out with various visual effects. This is a big effort, so help out and be part of something very cool.

30 Mods for 30 Years: Command & Conquer’s 30th Anniversary

As 2025 comes to a close, we wanted to celebrate 30 years Command & Conquer mods. The most fitting way we felt to do this, was to spotlight 30 of the greatest mods ever made across all generations of Command & Conquer. A celebration of the creators, fans, and teams who kept the community engaged with passion projects, innovation, over three decades of modding.

[Read more here] (https://www.moddb.com/features/30-mods-for-30-years-command-conquers-30th-anniversary)

Thanks AssassinCS for this fine spotlight on ModDB.

RealDOOM3 v5.3

LibreCoop support! Definitely a stand-out release, so go upgrade to v5.3 by heading to ModDB.

Half-Life: Crossfire v0.1 Demo

This is Half-Life: Crossfire v0.1 by Andy_Shou! Not the multiplayer map, but a campaign focused on - you guessed it - reliving the Black Mesa incident from another perspective. This alpha version is about a third of the game.

Should take around 1.5 hrs to slug through on first attempt and comprises 11 maps.

Go play some more Half-Life goodness, or wait until its done! Make your choice.

Gothic 1 Amplified: New Years Teases

Teases for future updates were posted for that Gothic 1 addon that builds out more of our favorite German RPG series..

Discord Files For IPO

The unprofitable Discord has filed for its Initial Public Offering. All this means is that they are done running on investor capital alone. The old investors want their money back now. The platform has presumably reached peak value, they will mostly cash out when people buy the initial shares. From that point forward, the platform needs to continue to grow to justify its public valuation. Because it can’t, it won’t - and the quality will decline gradually as they cut costs and try other angles of monetization (which the userbase will obviously attempt to reject) while share price dwindles. But who knows, maybe they’ll reinvent themselves as a virtual candy store.

Now, when people don’t want to pay for the software a profit-oriented business is offering, and are rejecting adverts as well - the only choice a business has is to monetize the data associated with the people using the software. Adverts profiling users were already doing that anyway - but I digress.

SteamOS Beta with NTSync

The same NTSync kernel driver that Wine v11.0 takes advantage of went live in SteamOS its beta.

Age Verfication Laws

The “free-est” country in the world has more states preparing age verification laws.

We all know what this is really about. Now is the time to file petitions and get active in your local government. This is no lazy “opt-out of fascism” button folks, we all need to get out there and do something about this.

Cloudflare Pisses Off Italy

Cloudflare is playing tough against the Italian government for no real good reason. Makes for great strong-man PR, what people don’t know is that Cloudflare is happy to cooperate with the US government of course. Whether it be allowing honeypots to operate or to deflect from networking anomalies on their blog (including BGP routing attacks the US government famously does). Meanwhile they were quick to shut down a fediverse instance with sex-workers on it, while hosting websites promoting terrorism and extremist ideology. Yeah no - they’re just a puppet of the US government too.

Half-Life: Through The City

This mod won 2nd place on ModDB’s Mod Of The Year and Kajlo, the creator of the Half-Life: TTC project has some media to share with everyone. A great insight for anyone who is curious about what it takes to develop a mod on Source will get a huge joy out of reading this.

Duke Nukem Forever: Restoration Project 2025 Recap

LiquidOtacon writes a recap of last year in the life of the Restoration Project and we’ve even gotten an end-of-the-year video to go along with it. It’s like Christmas all over again!

Who Are The Real Monsters?

Seems a new horror style mod is on the block. The young student turned mod developer has posted some new media, and we like what we have seen so far! This mod started off a lot more simple, and while clearly inspired by another famous mod, shows promise. The author has clearly learned a lot in the last year, congrats on the improvements! Go get ’em kid.

The “crackhead”… yeah hopefully this name changes as the game develops.

We’ll be on the lookout for any new developments.

Year Review

Peer Review is a mod in similar vein as Operation Black Mesa and Guard Duty, a remake of a Half-Life title but without any content from the famous Black Mesa. The team has informed us they are smashing through their Alpha Phase with most of the mod shapping up into a playable state. Along with the good news, they have some concept and new models. We look forward to more good news!

Forget About Freeman!

Speaking of HL title remakes, Operation Black Mesa has a bunch of media released the past couple months. Just like Peer Review, this uses zero assets from Black Mesa, which we feel gives it a unique look and feel that is appropiate for Opposing Force.

While the mod has been in development for a long time, it seems that team is back on track and we hope to see a demo soon.

Half-Life: Insecure v1.3 Update With Source-Code + Linux Binaries

A welcome update to Half-Life: Insecure has been released with v1.3 with SDK/source-code as well as fixed Linux binaries. No excuse not to give it a try.

Pathologic: Third Times the Charm

Pathologic 3 has released, to some of us here that remember the first game, that sentence alone makes us feel old.

GTA 5 Launches Paid Mods

Rockstar owns Cfx.re, which just launched a marketplace full of paid mods for FiveM and RedM. Rockstar basically wants to seek rent from modders. To be brutally honest, we are not sure how this could work. First the pricing is insane - for some of the list prices you can get the base game more than once. It’s premium and detached from reality. Back down on Planet Earth, people may be willing to pay cents for these things. How do we know this? Existing marketplaces already try to hide the true value of items behind their own currencies (see Bethesda’s point system). That is by design.

Cooperative Might & Magic VIII: Day of the Destroyer

Might and Magic 8 gets a mod that adds coop! Whoa!

Bending Spoons is Bending Vimeo

Vimeo, a once competent competitor to YouTube, has laid off most of their employees post-acquisition by Bending Spoons.

A recommended read about an employee’s witness of the bitter end.

Make your backups.

An Enriched Life

Anoter mod aiming to improve the quality of Half-Life (hohoho we are punny today) has released. Give the alpha of Half-Life: Enriched v0.96 a whirl if you are intrigued.

Doki Doki Island for Shadow Warrior

An impressive looking mod for Shadow Warrior has dropped. This 13 level addon features gorgeous looking BUILD engine levels. We’re not huge fans of SW, but hey quality mod is quality. Give it a shot.

Steam AI Disclosure Changes

We are aware that many modern game development environments have A1 powered tools built into them. Efficiency gains through the use of these tools is not the focus of this section. Instead, it is concerned with the use of A1 in creating content that ships with your game, and is consumed by players. This includes content such as artwork, sound, narrative, localization, etc.

Does this game use generative artificial intelligence to generate content for the game, either pre-rendered or live-generated? This includes the game itself, the store page, and any Steam community assets or marketing materials.

Thanks to Blue’s News for the scoop, and saving us from giving Bluesky any clicks

A lot of Annie

Pixeladder released the second episode of their mod Annie, which marks it at v0.2.

You can read the release announcement for Annie v0.2 and also find the download link for Annie v0.2 (145 MB) on ModDB.

Threads Overtakes Twitter In The Metric Of “Daily Mobile ‘Users’”

The number fudging game continues and TechCrunch eats it up. Like anyone trusts any of the numbers floating out there. The reality is that both communities lack authenticity - most of the posters are bots. So does any of it really matter? No, it doesn’t.

Beavis and Butt-Head Do PSX, huhuhuhuh

Friend site Game-Rave got an exclusive look at the lost PSX game Beavis and Butt-Head Do Hollywood (or “In Hollywood”, which is a much worse name).

This almost 30 year old prototype also came with another goodie, a proof of concept of New Level Software’s Spider-Man.

After Jason got the exclusive look, the whole build was released on good old Hidden Palace.

“So like, uh, what are you waiting for? huhuhuh, go like, check it out.” “Yeah yeah! Check it out!”

Stop Killing Games Petition: 1,300,000 Verified Votes In EU

Official word from the organizers has it that Stop Killing Games reached an incredible tally of 1,294,188 signatures in their European Citizens Initiative.

Eagerly been following this movement (we agree, obviously) and we had to hear some developers attempt to do damage control over their behaviour a few times. We love you people, but we just have to push back a little. We talked about this before, and we’ll make our stance clear:

Developers, stop lying and give people to tools back to host their own dedicated servers. We have the technology. You can broker games for matchmaking AND allow people to self-host. It doesn’t have to be one or another - this is about control. Games used to be built forward-thinking and worked fine, now they’re not.

Sadly, we do unfortunately are dealing with a few developers who somehow want to shift the blame unto the customer. Don’t fall for it, people. Remember we’ve reached this point because of decisions the developers made, not you.

Steam UK Lawsuit

A UK judge has decided a monolopy lawsuit against Valve can move forward. Valve as you all know dominates numbers with their Steam platform.

The platform, that has several active competitors all with millions of users mind you, is somehow committing unfair pricing standards that must be changed… somehow. Valve still only takes the comission that any other digital marketplace (besides Epic, of course) does, which is at %30.

We look forward to England’s new attitude on monopolies. Perhaps they will go after harmful companies who are breaking these rules they mention everyday! Companies such as Google, nVidia, Amazon, Oracle, Johnson, Paramount, and many more! Or maybe this is just rent-seeking from an entity that doesn’t have any lobbying power. Guess we’ll find out.

Terraria: Bigger & Better Than Ever

Terraria surprised us with another major update, Bigger & Bolder aka 1.4.5. Terraria has come out of retirement a few times with updates like this, which is much appreciated by everyone.

The update is so large and has so many changes, we suggest you just read about it on Steam!

Linux Takes Over the Galaxy

Speaking of never say never, Good Old Games has come crawling back to Linux. After a series of feeble attempts a long time ago, CD Project RED abandoned Linux support despite promises. Now after the massive success of the Steam Deck (and a mass-exodus of Windows users…), it seems GOG is taking another swing at Linux support.

If after all these years we still can’t get every DOSBox/ScummVM-powered game as a Linux installer, nobody should take this PR to heart. GOG has been sleeping on basic platform support for years. Galaxy is mostly web technology gluing your games to their platform, people want installers. – eukara

In Memory: Graeme Baird

Early game pioneer Graeme Baird passed away at the age of 63. Graeme worked on 24 titles in the course of his nearly 40 year career, with the LittleBigPlanet spin off, Sackboy, being his last credit in 2022.

RIP to a pinoneer.

Google Pays $68,000,000 In Court Wiretapping Suit Settlement

Google engineered features in ways that caused them to always record conversations that were not intended to be sold to their partners and advertisers. You’d think most conversations would be classified as such, but uhhhh convenience matters everyone. The consent for this has already been manufactured, don’t change anything about your habits. Especially don’t throw out that Google/Nest/Alexa you have laying around - shoot it while it’s recording, instead.

This money is peanuts to Google by the way, as at the exact same time they settled with Epic Games for $800,000,000. We’re all small fish. Blub blub.

Printers Remember The Stuff They Print! Wow!

It’s true. with documents themselves compressing really damn well it’s no surprise there’s a cache of them somewhere. The Intercept reports on how the FBI recovered information this way in the Washington Post investigation of theirs. Did you know that features are often designed for this purpose? Shocking, we know…

Steam Machine Game Verification Inherits Steam Deck Certification

If your game was/is verified to run on Steam Deck, it’s verified to run on other Steam Machines. So don’t wait til you get your Steam Machine to ensure your game plays nice on Linux. That’s what Valve is trying to tell all you developers out there. As reported by gamedeveloper.com.

OSP2 Black Edition v1.00m2

Fixes galore for OSP2BE can be found on ModDB.

Wine v11.0 Released

This release is a big deal. It’s obviously got all the usual improvements and fixes, but these changes are a big deal (and will affect any historic prefixes you may have!)

• 16-bit applications are supported in the new WoW64 mode (no more prefix/winever switching)
• Pure 32-bit prefixes created with WINEARCH=win32 are deprecated (remake your historic prefixes, now is the time…)
• The NTSync Linux kernel module is used when available (big speed boost)

You can read the full, massive release page of Wine v11.0 at WineHQ’s GitLab instance for lots of eye popping bullet points.

New York City In Minecraft Shows Off Manhattan

Part of the BuildTheEarth project, there’s new images up of Manhattan that’s seen major progress over at the New York City section.

You can see an early, global coverage over on their map portal.

Anthem - Shutdown, Soon Playable Again?

Anthem had its farewell with fans on Jan 12th 2026. The game its backend servers were shut down by Electronic Arts. We can’t wait to see more progress by And799 their software that emulates a server for Anthem clients.

‘Web3’ Game Moonfrost Ditches Its Premise

Someone tried building a ‘cozy’ genre game, albeit with monetization practices best left elsewhere. They’re now retooling it as a ‘premium handcrafted’ game for release on Steam and the Epic Games Store. Why are we even talking about it? It’s over for practices like this. With how flooded the market has been with games like this, people tend to get picky. Not sure if the rebrand will work as a result, but best of luck.

UbiSoft Assures Kotaku: ‘Beyond Good & Evil 2 remains a priority for us […]’

At this point, do current-day gamers even know what ‘Beyond Good & Evil’ is? It was a very cool game by UbiSoft and Michel Ansel (Rayman creator) who hasn’t worked there in a few years at this point. The sequel has been in development hell for the past 20 something years. It’s almost been longer in development than Duke Nukem Forever and Team Fortress 2 combined. Are we still excited for it? We were excited for Michel’s vision of the game once, for sure. Supposedly the game itself is still being worked on, as reported by Kotaku.

As mentioned in yesterday’s press release, Beyond Good & Evil will be part of Creative House 4, dedicated to immersive fantasy worlds and narrative-driven universes. Beyond Good & Evil 2 remains a priority for us in the context of our strategy centered around Open World Adventures

February

Happy Birthday id

We were busy fragging each other in Action Quake II, QuakeWorld and a bunch of other id Tech games to celebrate id’s birthday. Hope you were too.

Blue had this to say:

Happy 35th anniversary to id Software, which was founded on this date in 1991 by John Carmack, John Romero, Tom Hall, and Adrian (no relation) Carmack. Wolfenstein 3D arrived barely a year later, and the rest, as they say, is history. I think I’m about to dip into the company’s history a little myself, as I’m nearing a conclusion of playing through the Outlaws remake, and this nostalgia trip has me thinking I may follow this trying a full DOOM playthrough.

Watch FPS: First Person Shooter for Free - Blue’s News Story

Blue’s News let us know that you can watch the documentary FPS: First Person Shooter (2023) for free.

Join us on a nostalgic journey through 50 years of FPS history, from the genre’s humble beginnings through to the present day, exploring the creation, impact, and legacy of a wide range of genre-defining classics from Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and GoldenEye, to Half-Life, Halo, and beyond.

Along the way, you’ll hear from John Carmack and John Romero sharing stories from id Software’s early days, Cliff Bleszinski on Unreal and Unreal Tournament, Warren Spector on System Shock and Deus Ex, Marcus Lehto and Joseph Staten on Halo, and many more, each weighing in not only on their own projects, but also on other games that inspired them.

See also: Making Catacomb 3-D on YouTube

Hive for Carnivores 2 - Wow!

We’ll be waiting for Hives for Carnivores 2 patiently.

Diffusion for Half-Life v1.1

You read it correctly, the single-player mod Diffusion has a new release out on ModDB and reached v1.1. Dazzling!

Team Fortress 2 Classified Is The Bomb

Team Fortress 2 Classified released on Steam and everyone is having a great time, you even got PC Gamer reporting on it. If you haven’t installed it yet then you aren’t able to experience some of the funnest multiplayer experience of 2007.

Quiet Rehabilitation is coming to Steam

It already has a store page up, stay tuned and wishlist (to get notified) for Quiet Rehabilitation.

Read the full news post on ModDB to learn about what you see above!

One In Four Developers Laid Off Over The Past Two Years

The games industry is shrinking, people are moving on, investments are moving elsewhere - the result is reported by gamedeveloper.com - you know the tune by now.

Poker Night At The Inventory is BACK on STEAM!

The classic Poker Night at the Inventory on Steam is back! This may have been the first game on Steam that rewarded you with items in another game (Team Fortress 2). The game itself was fun enough to get a sequel as well which was released in April of 2013 and taken off stores in September of 2018.

Steam Hardware Still Not Ready To Launch

Valve updated the Hardware FAQ and to nobody their surprise, people of the world will not receive access to the new Steam Hardware until prices for memory come down. Currently there’s a silly glitch happening in the ‘Global Economy’ that we need to wait out. Why does it feel like the pandemic never ended?

Et tu, Remedy?

Our friends at Remedy have a new CEO. We’ll just have to stay tuned for this development.

GDC is no longer GDC

It’s true. It’s not just us saying the industry has fundamentally changed, the people wearing the big suits and big pants do too: Game Developers Conference rebrands itself as ‘Festival of Gaming’, which may be a good opportunity to also bring down ticket prices. We think the conference may have to do a bit more to adapt though, as developers seem generally less interested in attending these days.

Unreal Tournament 2004, Free Forever

It’s true, it will be free forever.

Yes we’re one of the few master server providers. If you have an existing installation of Unreal Tournament 2004 simply change your .ini file to point to master.frag-net.com and you’ll get all the servers back.

It’s Done

We’re done here. What will the future hold? No idea. Will we continue doing Playback articles like these, or focus on smaller topics? Maybe we’ll try something different.

Over and out.