Details of Far Cry’s PvP system have been revealed today. It will see two distinctly different factions to play as with different attack methods.

Pagan Min’s magical Rakshasha are able to ride elephants, summon spirits, blink around the battlefield and shoot arrows. The other side are the Golden Path faction who made use of modern weaponry such as guns, rocket launchers and armoured vehicles. So this is a literal magic vs science fight.

The PvP can take place across ten different maps and in three modes – Outpost, Propaganda and Demon Mask. Outpost is a simple defend the outpost game with the Golden Path playing defenders and the Rakshasha assaulting, while Propaganda is the same but with the Golden Path attacking and the Rakshasha holding down the propaganda-spreading fort. Demon Mask is a capture the flag game type.

Blizzard do not like people who use bots to play Hearthstone. they ruin the game for players they say. And now they’ve banned several thousand accounts that were using third party software in order to play the game for them, despite them having not done anything about it previously other than condemn it.

In August this year Hearthstone community manager Daxxarri made Blizzard’s stance on the third party software bots clear. “Making use of third party programs that automate gameplay (also known as ‘bots’ or ‘botting’) is a violation of our Terms of Use. Accounts that are found to be making use of ‘bots’ are subject to penalties, up to and including permanent suspension.”

The bans though aren’t too harsh in the scheme of everything though, they will last just until the year is over so if you’ve been caught botting you should be able to start playing again in 2015. Which is fair enough if you’ve learned your lesson about it. However, if you get caught doing it again, Blizzard won’t be so lenient.

“We will continue to closely monitor activities within Hearthstone and take appropriate action against cheating in any form, as outlined in our Terms of Use. From this point on, accounts found to be cheating will be permanently closed without warning.”

Those of us worried about how Microsoft will handle Minecraft now that the bigger company has acquired the indie studio might be able to breathe a little easier when they hear this news. At the very least, Microsoft are not considering making a ‘Minecraft 2′ to attempt to milk the game’s popularity to death. They also are interested in consulting the community for what we want to see.

On an IGN podcast, Microsoft Studios’ Phil Spencer said “I don’t know if Minecraft 2, if that’s the thing that makes the most sense… We need to meet the needs and the desires of the community before we get permission to go off and do something else.”

He has also said that the direction the game will take will be in part dictated by the game’s strong community, but warns that it won’t mean everything they do will meet with a 100% approval rating from the community “because I don’t know if there is any topic where 100% of people agree”. But he assures us that their first job will always be to go out and meet the needs of the community first and think of ways to grow the game that will sit favorably with the players.

Microsoft bought Mojang for around $2.5 billion, and this meant that Notch and other founders were to leave the small company behind. In Notch’s case it was to keep his sanity as he had found himself becoming a symbol of something and had never intended to be that at all.

Project CARS decided to get into the spirit of the season today with their new trailer…

… no, not that one. That’s fully two months away. I mean Halloween.

The trailer uses gameplay footage set to atmospheric sounds and in a dull, wet setting that makes the cars racing about the track seem like wild animals or even demons (judging by how they make that one car’s rev sound terrifying). There’s no actual Halloween-related imagery in the trailer and it comes across as a little horror movie-esque in flavour. Interesting way to showcase a racing game, but it’s certainly original and you know what sort of a game you’ll be getting as it quite clearly shows racing and racing hard.

Check it out below.

The people behind the Games Done Quick charity fundraising events have just announced the details of their next fundraiser, an Awesome Games Done Quick even that will occur between January 4th and January 10th.

Awesome Games Done Quick for those unaware, is an event where speedrunners play through their chosen games as quickly as they possibly can for the amusement of an audience watching the speedruns over livestreams, usually on Twitch. It’s free to view but the point of the event is to encourage donations for the charity cause supported which this time around is the Prevent Cancer Foundation, which they have already managed to raise $1 million for just in their event in January of this year.

As it’s still months away there are no set final details or a full schedule but they have put up an outline of the event on Google Docs for those curious enough.