GameCenter - Issue 67 - 12

GAME ON

GAMING NEWS, NUMBERS & GOSSIP

Two decades later, Half-Life has
suddenly been updated
Once released, how long can we realistically expect a game to be supported?
One year? Two? Five? It's a question that
publishers, developers, and players have
discussed over and over across the years.
What we wouldn't expect to see is a
game getting an update 21 years later,
and yet, that's exactly what just happened. To the surprise of pretty much
everyone outside of the company, Valve
recently released a new patch for HalfLife, the groundbreaking first-person
shooter that first launched on CD way

back in 1998. Some of what the patch
brought with it were standard inclusions,
such as a fix for setting your monitor refresh rate, a remedy to a bug with weapon
reloads after restarting a saved game, and
an adjustment for some incorrect progress
bars. Other changes, however, seem quite
strange to get after so long, such as fixing
the MP5's spread factor, which had had
its multiplayer and single-player factors
reversed.
Does this sudden patch for Half-Life
mean that Valve has bigger plans for the
game in the near future? Our answer
to that would be the same answer
we give to anything relating to the
Half-Life franchise: a shrug of our
shoulders. Even so, there's something
comforting about knowing that
games can still get patches after the
time it would take for someone to
be born, grow up, and head off to
college.

DARKSIDERS GENESIS

14

IRON MAN VR
SONY / PSVR

28

FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE

mar

THQ NORDIC / XBOX ONE, PS4, SWITCH

RELEASE
CALENDAR
All the great new games
on the way to Walmart
and Walmart.com

SQUARE ENIX / PS4

ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS

SNIPER: GHOST WARRIOR CONTRACTS

nov

CI GAMES / XBOX ONE, PS4

22

DRAGON BALL Z: KAKAROT

jan

BANDAI NAMCO / XBOX ONE, PS4

JOURNEY TO THE SAVAGE PLANET

17

505 GAMES / XBOX ONE, PS4

28

ORI AND THE WILL OF THE WISPS

feb

MICROSOFT / XBOX ONE

11

20

DOOM ETERNAL

BETHESDA / XBOX ONE, PS4

20

CYBERPUNK 2077

apr

16

may

MARVEL'S AVENGERS

SQUARE ENIX / XBOX ONE, PS4, PC

THE LAST OF US PART II

15

29

SONY / PS4

12

IO Interactive, the studio behind the Hitman
series, officially revealed that it's working
on a new game, and that Warner Bros.
Interactive Entertainment is once again
signed on as publishing partner. There are
hints, however, that it isn't Hitman 3.
There have already been some indications that IO is working on a third Hitman
game in the series' current iteration, and
it seems like a no-brainer, considering it's
the studio's bread and butter. However, a
job listing for a lead multiplayer network
programmer was spotted as recently as
October, indicating that the studio is working on new multiplayer content.

3

NINTENDO / SWITCH

WARNER BROS. / XBOX ONE, PS4

Hitman developer
reveals it's working
on a new game-
but what is it?

The latest Hitman titles have had some
multiplayer content, so it's possible that
the lead multiplayer network programmer
is just here to maintain the status quo.
However, according to the job listing, IO
is "cooking a brand-new title and concept
that will continue the immersive mastery
we got you used to, except on a whole
other level of player interaction."
That doesn't sound like Hitman to us,
but something completely different. Still,
IO fans should be excited. In the meantime,
if you haven't already done so, pick up your
copy of Hitman 2 on Walmart.com or at
your local Walmart store.
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