Ubisoft has announced a major free update for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora that delivers two of the most highly requested features from the community since the game's launch. The new update, scheduled to arrive on December 5th, will finally allow players to experience the Western Frontier in a third-person perspective …
Read More »Quantic Dream is working on a free-to-play 3v3 magical battler named Spellcasters Chronicles
Quantic Dream, the studio renowned for its cinematic, narrative-driven single-player games like Detroit: Become Human, has just announced its next project. And it couldn't be more different. The new game, Spellcasters Chronicles, is a free-to-play, 3v3 magical battler that sees the studio moving into the competitive multiplayer space. Unlike the …
Read More »Resident Evil Requiem director explains decision to add 3rd-person camera
Resident Evil Requiem is due out in February and Capcom is slowly revealing more details about the game and its development. While the previous two titles, Resident Evil 7 and Resident Evil Village, have been first-person games, Requiem will add a third-person camera. The game director has now explained that …
Read More »Smite is getting a sequel built on Unreal Engine 5
Hi-Rez Studios and Titan Forge Games are teaming up to create Smite 2, the successor to the popular third-person MOBA action game, Smite. With the original game boasting an impressive 40 million players, fans eagerly anticipate what the sequel will bring. Smite 2 is set to feature a significant upgrade …
Read More »Halo Infinite mod enables third-person combat
Modders are slowly but surely beginning to figure out how to make changes to Halo Infinite. The latest mod to make headlines completely shifts gameplay, enabling a third-person view of Master Chief and the Zeta Halo. Since the beginning, Halo has been a first-person shooter franchise, while other Microsoft IP, …
Read More »Ubisoft reportedly working on a new third-person IP
Ubisoft is one of the most successful gaming companies in the industry. Despite this, the publisher has struggled to create an enticing new IP in quite a few years – with many of their most successful games being of the ‘Tom Clancy’ variety. Despite this, Ubisoft is trying to come …
Read More »Modder turns GTA V in to a first person game on Xbox 360
We're used to messing around with mods on the PC but getting one to run on a console is a lot harder. However, that hasn't stopped XBLToothPik from turning Grand Theft Auto V in to a first person game using a modded Xbox 360 and a custom script. The script allows the …
Read More »First person and third person animation are drastically different
Returning from Games Developer Conference 2013, Wolfire's CEO and lead programmer, David Rosen learned a lot about animation. He's been breaking down some of the big studio's lessons over the past week and today's look-in is to do with the differences between first person and third person and animation – …
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