Oh, and if you’re not lucky enough to crack the first round, the open beta will start just a few days afterwards. Everyone wins!

Battlestate Games have cited their reasoning behind the decision is due to the game’s lore and difficulties with the animations.

The collaboration with the game’s original developer, Tripwire Interactive, will begin with the 2020 Spring event.

The sequel to the incredibly popular competitive shooter will launch under different clients but eventually unite under a single launcher The thing about multiplayer focused games releasing sequels is that there’s instantly a fear that the servers of the original game will be shut down, essentially forcing people into newer versions of the game their either don’t enjoy or don’t …

The future is coming, and it kind of looks…grim. In Disintegration, the destiny of humanity has resulted in our species being served a combo of disaster, as game director Marcus Lehto’s return to sci-fi action picks off a good couple of years after overpopulation, famine and the mother of all pandemics has almost succeeded in wiping out our species. The only solution? Putting our juicy bits of grey matter into robotic shells, thus creating an integration between man and machine.

Paul Sage sits opposite me, his intense eyes staring down at me from behind his glasses. Sage has worked on some of my favourite games which include the first two Borderlands, and he’s on the verge of launching the long-awaited next mainline entry into the beloved franchise. And he’s also busy telling me about a guy stuck in a porta-potty.

Eight years is a hell of a stretch for any game to still be so fondly remembered, and while Bulletstorm has lived on in remasters since then, it looks like a sequel is nowhere to be found. People Can Fly CEO Sebastian Wojciechowski reckons that the studio’s beloved IP might get a follow-up eventually though.

If there’s anything succinct to say about DOOM Eternal now, it’s that this sequel hasn’t lost touch with what made the reboot great. It retain the same attitude of the Doomguy and his inherent mythos, while also putting the unrelenting action at the forefront with smart changes to make it feel like a step forward instead of to the side. There’s more facets of DOOM to engage with now that it feels like learning it all over again, but without having to forget about lessons learnt in the past. If you didn't know better you’d say that Eternal was just an immediate continuation of the game before it, with Doomguy not missing a step and simply continuing to grow his arsenal even more.