Gather Your Party

In a developing story today, it has come to light that the competitive gaming league ESEA placed a Bitcoin mining process into their official client that players use to access their dedicated servers.

Curiosity, the iOS and Android game by Peter Molyneux and 22Cans, has received an update that adds new gameplay features as well as a message indicating that the end of the “experiment” is near.

Raven Software has announced the release of the source code to Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy. This serves as a tribute to LucasArts after its closure by Disney, as well as to finally give the modding community what they have desired for a very long time.

I had heard a few people over the years say that they preferred Gearbox’s expansions to Valve’s original offering, so I was eager to see what made them feel this way.

After the release of F.E.A.R. in 2005, Vivendi had the console ports of the game handled by Day 1 Studios, and the expansions F.E.A.R. Extraction Point and F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate developed by TimeGate Studios. These expansions are non-canon and considered to have taken place in an “alternate universe.”

The next several entries for The Backlog will be focusing on unplayed expansions to games that I have completed in the past. First up is Crysis Warhead,

Anyone who plays video games regularly ends up with a backlog of them at some point in their life. We wish there were more hours in the day to experience every new title that catches our eye.