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I'm going to do my best to not confuse anyone with unexplained technical jargon here. Lua is one of the many programming languages available to developers and is certainly popular among game developers due to its accessibility. One of those developers is Unknown Worlds, the developers behind Natural Selection 2, a first-person shooter and real-time strategy hybrid with a very involved community. Unknown Worlds created their own Integrated Development Environment, often abbreviated IDE, using Lua for Natural Selection 2 and called it Decoda. An IDE is an application like Microsoft Visual Studio; software that developers use to create games. So, now that we know all of that, I can finally say that Decoda, Natural Selection 2's IDE, is available to anyone as an open-source application. This will allow anyone to download it for free, change the IDE itself, modify Natural Selection 2, or even use it to create their own games. Got to love a developer that gives back to the community like this. If that doesn't sound like it is way over your head, you can download Decoda from here. Did you know? You can now get daily or weekly email notifications when humans reply to your comments.
2:00 AM on 05.24.2013 Live-action Payday series wants to rob you blindBehold, a teaser trailer for the upcoming Payday live-action web series. The teaser stars Dallas, Hoxton, Wolf, and Chains as they get ready to pull off some heists in Washington D.C. Episode one should be launching in a week or so. Obviously this is all aimed at hyping up Payday 2, which will be out this August in North America for Steam, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3.
8:30 PM on 05.23.2013 Black Ops 2's Revolution DLC has a free trial weekendCall of Duty: Black Ops 2's Revolution map pack will be free to play on Xbox 360 this weekend, Activision's Dan Amrich announced, who only confirmed the promotion for Microsoft's console. The promotion has the content playabl...
2:00 PM on 05.23.2013 Review: Call of Juarez: GunslingerCall of Juarez is a series I've always wanted to enjoy. It's hard not to admire its attempts at clever storytelling, and the commitment to creating a wild west first-person shooter in an age where everything's about blasting ...
1:30 PM on 05.23.2013 Jon Favreau's Destiny trailer is such a teaseLet's get straight to the news that's been a long time coming for Bungie's open-world shooter Destiny: we'll finally see what it looks like -- what it really looks like -- on June 10, 2013. Thank goodness for that! Specifica...
8:00 AM on 05.23.2013 Dying Light is an open world, freerunning zombie gameOkay, take Dead Island's entire concept, subtract the role-playing mechanics, throw in freerunning features akin to Mirror's Edge, and set it all in an open world that features a day-and-night cycle where things become way ha...
5:00 AM on 05.23.2013 Far Cry 3's map editor updated with Blood Dragon contentMark IV style mutha f*ckas! Far Cry 3's map editor was just updated to include Blood Dragon's neon packed designs. This is just for the buildings and stuff, and doesn't include the creatures like the actual Blood Dragons. The...
4:30 PM on 05.22.2013 First of four Metro: Last Light DLC packs hits next monthFour downloadable content packs are in the works for Metro: Last Light, starting with the Faction Pack in June. It and the Chronicles Pack will introduce further story content, followed by "a unique solo challenge to Metro ve...
9:00 AM on 05.22.2013 People actually like the Maverick Hunter reboot conceptSome time ago, we learned off a rather odd project from Capcom -- a gritty Mega Man X FPS idea that never saw the light of day. Yep, Keiji Inafune gave ex-Retro Studios alumni the idea to re-imagine Mega Man similar to Metroi...
3:00 AM on 05.22.2013 Vote on Black Ops 2's new Personalization PacksTwo new Personalization Packs will be released for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 on May 29, and starting this Thursday you'll be able to vote on which packs make the cut, Activision's Dan Amrich announced. Voting will take p...
6:20 PM on 05.21.2013 Destiny also coming to the Xbox OneNot to be left out of the "Oh we're going to be appearing on the Xbox One as well!" parade is Bungie, as they too revealed that Destiny will be released on Microsoft's next-gen console. So that's Watch Dogs, Thief, Assassin's...
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