Publisher Nexon is taking its Counter-Strike mod that added zombies to the first-person shooter and throwing a little Minecraft into the mix. Players will be able to build their own blocky custom maps in Counter-Strike Nexon: Zombies thanks to the free-to-play game’s new Studio Mode.
Studio Mode lets players create, play and share their creations in Counter-Strike Nexon: Zombies. Players can add traps, obstacles and hide outs, while laying out friendly and enemy NPCs, to build their own custom levels. A brief trailer, posted above, shows what Studio Mode is capable of.
Building requires some specific items — confusingly named the Build Scanner License Item and Build Minigun License Item — and Nexon says it’s holding a “fan event” from Nov. 29 to Dec. 6 where players can receive one of those for free.
You can grab the Studio Mode update (and Counter-Strike Nexon: Zombies) for free from Steam, if you’re curious.
Counter-Strike Nexon: Zombies launched in 2014. The game is based on a modified version of Counter-Strike 1.6 and includes content from the original game plus zombies and zombie-related game modes. The game is free-to-play and can get very weird if you’d like to give it a try.
When someone mentions Aquaman these days, your first thought is probably of a bearded, tattooed badass you definitely wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of. It wasn't always like that, though.
As Jason Momoa explains in the BBC Radio 1 interview above, Aquaman used to be sort of a nerd. And Momoa was the one brought in to change all that.
In the clip, Momoa says that he originally auditioned for Batman, but quickly realised it wasn't right for him.
“I almost threw away the audition and went, like ‘this is silly',” he explains. “And then my agent said: ‘Zach really wants to have you on tape.'”
Momoa went on tape, came back for another meeting with Snyder, and the rest was history.
Minecraft mightn't be the sort of game that inspires song and dance, but Melissa Benoist from Supergirl and Glee is here to prove that assumption wrong.
In an ad for the game's Super Duper Graphics Pack set to release next year, Benoist sings about Minecraft and all the possibilities there are to be had…from an optional DLC graphics pack.
The votes are in, and Mob B – aka “The Monster of the Night Skies” has won the vote. The flying manta ray monster will be added in a future update… which we'll talk about now.
The new Mob will arrive as part of a new expansion coming to the game, dubbed The Update Aquatic, coming spring 2018.
Mojang is calling this the biggest update ever to the game's oceans, adding new creatures (including dolphins), explorable shipwrecks, and a Trident weapon that can be enchanted to add new magical abilities.
Original story: As part of its Minecon Earth event taking place this Saturday November 18, Mojang has announced that it will be holding a special event to allow fans to vote for Minecraft's next mob.
The options available are in the gallery below, with descriptions below of each beneath:
Mob A, The Monster of the Ocean Depths – an ocean monster which will attempt to drown you with its “tongue-like tentacle”.
Mob B, The Monster of the Night Skies – a flying, “manta-ray-like” monster which targets players who haven't slept.
Mob C, The Great Hunger – a “cute-looking” mob that sinks into the ground and waits for things to fill into its “huge mouth”.
Mob D, The Hovering Inferno – a master Blaze that appears in the Nether with a powerful shockwave attack.
While all of these sound delightful, it will be up to fans which one is added to the game; details on how votes will be cast have not yet been revealed, other than an instruction to tune in to the Minecon Earth livestream, which begins Saturday November 18 at 5pm GMT/ 12pm EST / 9am PST / Sunday November 19, 4am AEDT, with a pre-show starting twenty minutes before. You can watch the show here.
Monuments to the 1917 Revolution’s leader Vladimir Lenin can be found in most Russian cities, but Siberia’s Krasnoyarsk may now have the most unusual one. Unlike the original, the pixelated Lenin won’t live forever, as it is made of cardboard.
The cardboard Lenin statue looks like it has come right out of the world of popular computer game Minecraft. It was unveiled in Russia’s Krasnoyarsk as part of an art project at a local state museum on Thursday. Incidentally, it is situated in Karl Marx street.
The pixelated Lenin stands in his iconic pose with left arm outstretched. The statue is placed atop one of the platforms near a local museum center, which was itself named after the revolutionary leader until the collapse of Soviet Union in 1991.
The creator of the “Minecraft” Lenin, Aleksandr Zakirov, told Russian media that his work of art is meant to honor Lenin’s “visual image” as it had become a kind of “brand” long ago.
“Monuments to Lenin have recently been demolished only, but I have erected one,” Zakirov said. He added that his creation will last only one month, as it is made of cardboard and will soon get soaked in the snowy city.
Not everyone is happy with such an image of the leader of the October 1917 Russian revolution, which marked its centennial in early November. The leader of Krasnoyarsk’s Communist Party denounced the idea and called it “a mockery.” Speaking to Govorit Moskva radio station he vowed to demolish the monument.
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