After two months of a lack of e-mail replied, the modeller for dinosaur survival game The Stomping Lands’ has signed up for a new project, effectively abandoning the game.

About a month ago artist Vlad Konstantinov posted onto The Stomping Lands’ forums, saying that his e-mail had gone unanswered for a while and “If this silence continues I will stop my participation in TSL.” It seems that the silence did continue and so Konstantinov has made the decision to go elsewhere. On Feb 6th he signed on to do Beasts of Prey, another dinosaur game and has taken all his modelwork from Stomping Lands with him.

“I’ve sent him 5 messages and haven’t got any single reply,” Konstantinov wrote in the forum post back in January. “I don’t know, probably he has some serious reasons to ignore me (and whole community) but to my mind there are no excuses for such behavior. Not to mention the fact that Jig owes me the money for the latest model, he’s put me in a very difficult situation because now I will have to pay our texture artist for his work from my own pocket.”

The project went quiet back in June of last year, when the leader developer Alex “Jig” Fundora cut off all contact with the community and it seems most if not all of his team for the game. A Steam Early Access build was released of the game back in May 30th 2014, but has only seen one update since and the game was even briefly taken down on Steam in September for a brief while. It’s back now though, selling at £18.99.

Without artists though, the game might be dead in the water even if Fundora comes back to finish it.

Denial eSports has signed Five Angry Men, bringing the team back into the world of Smite esports. Denial had a team in the first season of Smite, but dropped out for Season 2. They are now looking to make a return on the heels of the highly successful Smite World Championship.

Denial.Smite will consist of:

• Macetodaface- Mid/Mage
• TheBest- Solo/Warriors & Mages
• Shadowq- Support/Mage
• Shing- Jungle/Assassin
• Madmanmarc22- ADC/Hunter
• Rushed- Coach

Look for more as Smite gets Season 2 under way in the coming months.

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.

In the last few years eSport has taken off in a big way. It’s big business already in East Asia and North America where stadiums are booked for tournaments and thousands fill the seats in them to watch pro gamers play competitive games at the highest level. Now the UK is set to join the eSports boom, with the opening of the UK’s first eSports arena in London.

A partnership between VUE cinemas and Gfinity has transformed part of the Vue Fulham Broadway into a dedication 600 person eSports venue that will be named the Gfinity Arena. It has seating for over 1000 people over a weekend and 25,000 throughout a season, and will include a player lounge big enough for 50 gamers, its own entrances, a ticketing hall, automated tickets machines and a confectionery stall.

It’s due to open next month and will kick off with what’s being called the “2015 Gfinity Champtionships” which will include within it such popular eSports games as Hearthstone, FIFA and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. There’s around a combined $500,000 in prize money put up for grabs for the highest scorers in the championships.

If the Gfinity proves to be successful, we could see more eSports arenas being set up all the way across the UK.

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.