One of the things about big “open-world” space games is that developers can put a lot of effort into the starscapes around the players, sometimes making them works of art in their own right. And even if you’re meant to be flying around scooping salvage, delivering cargo or fighting enemies there are times when you just want to go a little slower and take the time to stare at those wonderful stars right?

For a while players in EVE Online have been asking developers CCP for a first-person perspective so they can do just that. And while it made sense that the game didn’t have one – the players being in a life-supporting pod instead of a cockpit canonly in-game – CCP have added a beta version that’s now in testing.

Currently it’s available in SiSi which is EVE’s test server and there will be an opt-in beta coming to the regular server next month. There’ll also be an orbital camera added which is like the regular one but with a narrower frame of view and a little bit of drift; as well as a tactical camera which leds you detach the cam and pan around.

So far reactions from the community have been mixed. I say as long as it doesn’t interfere with the game’s core, why not?

The weekly UK chart of the most popular games has just been released and to few people’s surprises Bethesda’s new Fallout game is top of the chart.

Fallout 4 released to great fanfare after Bethesda made the gamers wait for years for any sign of its actual existence, and beat out the other new releases of the week to claim top spot. It even surpassed its predecessor New Vegas by having its launch sales at 213% more than the 2010 hit. It also beat out the record for concurrent players on Steam with 470,000 players logged as playing at once and over 1.2 million owners of a copy of the game on day one.

Although full figures of all sales haven’t yet been released, Bethesda did say they’d produced and shipped 12 million copies of the game in preparation for the launch. Let’s hope nowhere ran out of copies.

Back at the start of the year one of the many games that have gone through development delays in recent times released itself onto Steam finally. Called Raven’s Cry it was pushed back multiple times to give the developers Reality Pump time to finish it. Unfortunately when it did release, it obviously still wasn’t done. The reviews marked this down as a buggy, historically inaccurate and just plain bad game.

Now Reality Pump are renaming, rejigging and re-releasing the game as what they call the “completed” version. Which kind of makes you wonder why they released it before it was that in the first place.

If you bought the original version, all you need to do is sign this form and you will get a copy of the new version for free provided you can show proof of purchase. Retitled Vendetta: Curse of Raven’s Cry, it apparently features “all-new gameplay mechanics, enemies, weapons, quests and upgrades plus brand new English voice-overs”.

Vendetta: Curse of Raven’s Cry releases on November 20th. Let’s hope it does and the game is completed, so we can put this to bed.

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And so in this weekend’s most amusing news – Bethesda take unexpected revenge for the leak of gameplay footage on Pornhub… by stealing some of its audience when Fallout 4 released. Really.

In an interview Pornhub vice president Corey Price was said to have told them that the site saw a drop in traffic of around 10 percent since the game launched. Beginning at 5am, the numbers began to drop off, carrying through to 3pm, and starting all over again at 6pm.

“We can’t say we’re too surprised with what happened to our traffic during peak gaming hours,” said Corey Price. “Based on the data, it looks like a huge surge of people decided to indulge in some wasteland wandering by taking the day off of work and school to play, while the rest of the world had to wade through what we assume were the longest hours of work ever in anticipation of some alone time with their consoles.”

It’s not exactly the type of story I expected to emerge from Fallout 4’s appearance at last, but it is quite a testament to Bethesda’s game that it can keep people distracted long enough not to indulge in… other pleasures.