Colour is used quite extensively in many games to notify all kinds of things, most usually good, hostile, neutral characters in RPG, MMO and other games that require fighting. World of Warcraft is one of those games. However, it’s a fact that some people aren’t easily able to tell between some colours due to having been born with one of the types of colourblindness that has an effect on vision. Because of that, Blizzard’s next patch for their long-running MMO will contain some new options to help those with colour vision issues be able to determine things that are usually shown through use of colour.

The patch will contain three new sets of filters in an Accessibility menu, made to help players with protanopia, deuteranopia, and tritanopia. Each set of adjustments will be available via a dropdown selector and will have a ‘strength’ slider so you can tailor the filters, with the right removing more problematic colour wavelengths as it goes further to the right hand side.

Also, the rarity of items that is usually denoted by colour can be switched to instead show this information in text instead through the accessibility options, so ‘Rare’ and ‘Epic’ as well as the other rarities will actually show up in a form that is easier to see for those with colour blindness.

A recently registered trademark that covers computer and consoles games, as well as “on-line gamin services” has just been registered by a mystery company. However, given that the trademark is for “Elite: Deadly” chances are, it’s Frontier Developments that has registered the trademark as part of the future of their massive game Elite: Dangerous.

The trademark was spotted by Neogaffers and while the visible listing for the trademark on an EU registration site doesn’t have a company name listed as having been behind it, there is a representative listed, Maguire Boss.

As of yet it’s not sure what Frontier are planning to use this name for, if indeed it is them who has registered the trademark. It could be part of an expansion, a DLC, a sequel (although at this point that’d be premature) or maybe even a tie-in app for the game. All that can be done now is to sit back and wait until more news surfaces before we find out what the ‘Deadly’ in Elite shall be.

An updating game client is responsible for the disqualification of a League of Legends pro team from the Challenger Series for the Spring 2015 split in what has to be one of the mostly costly cases of impatience ever.

The team in question is Cloud9 Tempest, and thanks to not having updated his client before a live-stream match one of the team, Ritchie “Fade” Ngo, was unable to log on for the check-in. The team came together to decide what they wanted to do and decided to have their analyst, Tim “Timokiro” Cho, be a replacement for Fade by logging into the pro player’s account and pretending to be him so that there would be no delay in the match time. The team could have alerted the officials of the patching problem but chose instead to take this action, which actually falls foul of the rules for the tournament and the game itself.

Section 9.1 of the rulebook states that ‘ringing’ or playing using someone else’s account is a breach of the unfair play rules, and the punishment is disqualification for the players involved. This has manifested in four different ways – the time itself is disqualified from the Challenger Series for the during of the Spring split; all of its players are suspended from all Riot-sponsored LoL competitions until the time of the Summer split; the team’s manager, Danan “Kaniggit” Flander, is also suspended until the time of the Summer split and Cloud9 cannot sponsor a Challenger team until the Summer split.

The investigation found that the team made the decision to throw Timokiro into the game as a replacement themselves and that team manager Kaniggit was not involved in the making of the decision. He did find out during a team call during the matches, but allowed the matches to take place and play out rather than alert officials and therefore in Riot’s eyes implicated himself. The team’s substitute player, Jonathan “Grigne” Armao, was not found to have had any hand in the decision and was unaware of what was going on and has escaped any penalties himself. The team will not be made to pay any fines.

YoYo Games, developer and owner of the GameMaker: Studio engine that was used to make popular small games such as Gunpoint, Hotline Miami and Risk of Rain has been reported as having been bought out by the gambling game developer PlayTech. At first this seems a bit of an odd acquisition for them, but PlayTech also run a sideline to the business that sells development tools such as GameMaker: Studio.

GameMaker currently has over 750,000 registered developers using it for making games within and as well as having been downloaded more than four million times it’s also one of the few game engines available for purchase through the Steam Store, which makes it very accessible and appealing for small indie developers.

A clause in the sale contract makes it clear that PlayTech plan to continue to support GameMaker for quite a time yet, and if the team working on it can hit certain targets set they can earn a further $5.25 million. Not bad at all.

In modding news, an interesting new mod has popped up for Doom, a game twenty years old already and still with an active modding community. The dedication to it is amazing, and somehow the modders don’t seem to be running out of ideas.Well, maybe a little bit but they’re obviously still having a lot of fun with their mods if this one’s anything to go by.

The mod in question is created by someone called Linguica and is called the InstaDoom mod. What does it do? Enables you to take selfies. Really.

It’s based off Instragram and therefore contains 37 filters to tint your photos and the photos will show Doomguy’s head on the body of a space marine sprite as you journey through the levels and fight the beasts and enemies. Not exactly the first choice of game I’d think of for taking selfies in, but as I said above they must have had fun making this mod. If you’re interested you can download InstaDoom here.