"You want this machine to draw HOW MANY PEOPLE? It can barely do one!" So must have said some programmer working on some sports game in the 1980s. And since that moment that definitely probably happened, crowds in games have striven for realism. The result is this: GamesRadar's list of the best crowds in games.
Whatever you might think about Half-Life, Super Mario 64, or Big Rigs, whatever important innovations those games brought to the table, all of them, in turn, owe a debt to Doom. Because iD's Satanic FPS masterpiece set the scene for everything that came after it.
If the leaked images turn out to be genuine, we might have another new Alien game on our hands pretty soon. But how should it be made, to avoid another Colonial Marines-style disappointment? Our top-ranking Xenomorph fan has some ideas.
Hey Tomb Raider. See you're going PS4 and Xbox One. Not sure you really need a next-gen version, but here are 8 games that definitely need to go cross-gen. They'd be 100% better with the power of Sony and Microsoft's new machines.