- Revisiting Binary Domain, a burly shooter with an infectious combat loop - 22 August 2022
Have you heard of Sisyphus? I bet you have. He's the lad from Greek mythology who twice cheated death, so Zeus, king of the gods and occasional horny swan, cursed him to repeatedly roll a big rock up a hill for all eternity. Every time he reached the top, down the rock would roll back down and Sisyphus would start again. Which is bad. But what if, let's suppose, Sisyphus secretly loved rolling rocks? What if rolling rocks up hills, however repetitive, was as fun as shooting robots in Binary Domain? What then, Zeus?.. Read more.
- The Double-A Team: The booms, bots and B-movie magic of Binary Domain - 11 October 2019
The Double-A Team is a newish feature series honouring the unpretentious, mid-budget, gimmicky commercial action games that no-one seems to make any more. Check out our archive of Double-A pieces here! The first thing I remember about Binary Domain, weirdly, is how it sounds. It has, as the best shooters must, a truly great shotgun; this one lets off a properly thunderous boom. Its SMG - god, I love its SMG - makes just the most fantastic racket, like someone dropping a box of nails on a corrugated roof. And amid all those crashes and bangs, I hear voices. Listen! There's loveable wingman Big Bo roaring his encouragement. And there's Cain, a flamboyant French robot wearing a red neckerchief, briefly pausing between volleys of machine-gun fire to praise my leadership. Read more
- Get Binary Domain for $1 in the latest Humble Bundle - 18 September 2018
If you haven't played Binary Domain, now's the time to do so: you can get it for a mere buck in the latest Humble Bundle sale, which supports the charity SpecialEffect. That dollar also gets you Streets of Rage, Crazy Taxi and Olli Olli 2. Frankly, even if you're not a fan of third-person shooters (I'm not), I reckon Binary Domain is worth a look. If you donate more than the average (which at the time of writing, is $6.52), you'll also get Surgeon Simulator, Grid 2, Operation Flashpoint: Red River and Alpha Protocol. You're probably sick of hearing it, but it bears repeating: Alpha Protocol is an underrated gem.  If you pay more than $9 there are two other games: Stronghold Crusader 2 and the Guardians of the Galaxy Telltale series. Check out the bundle over here .
- Have You Played Binary Domain - 23 March 2018
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. My cursor lingers over Binary Domain whenever I pass it in my Steam library, accompanied by memories of bullets slamming into metal skeletons and malevolent robots slowly marching towards my vulnerable squad of fleshy humans. No other game has made shooting up machines so satisfying. (more…)
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- Company of Heroes and Alpha Protocol among the deals in Sega’s Humble Weekly Sale - 14 March 2014
Sega used to spend their time faffing about with console boxes and a blue hedgehog. Now they spend their time more productively: publishing cool PC games (and occasionally trying to resurrect the blue hedgehog). Sometimes these many projects collide into a single, gloriously incomprehensible mess of different games and styles. It happened with the bizarrely compelling Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed - a game in which an anthropomorphic fox could lose a kart race to the football manager from Football Manager. It's also now happened with this week's Humble Weekly Sale. The pack collects some of the publisher's more celebrated series, along side smaller projects and a collection of classic console games. At the lowest pay-what-you-want tier, you'll get Alpha Protocol, Company of Heroes, Rome: Total War and Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit. Pay more than $5.99 and you'll also receiv…
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- New Weeklong Deals are now available on Steam! - 18 March 2013
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- Binary Domain Update Released - 19 February 2013
Fixes: Updated launcher featuring gamepad navigation in Steam Big Picture mode. Fixed issues launching the game on Optimus graphics cards. Known issues: Custom configurations for some DirectInput pads may not save correctly. This will be fixed in an update soon.
- Stop making horrible console ports – a guide - 2 February 2013
Broken menus, wonky mouse controls, single figure framerates - this is the familiar story of PC gaming prowess held back by consoles. We understand why it happens: console-land was where the majority of sales were, and thus the focus of development. But that reasoning has never seemed, well, reasonable: a trashy console port can knock a chunk off your Metacritic rating, sour a huge potential audience against you forever and lose you loads of sales on a platform that can be extremely lucrative if only you know how to approach it. It's really not that hard or expensive. After all, a pair of talented modders managed to make Dark Souls' PC version immeasurably better within the space of an evening, and while devs might not want to spend resources making hi-res assets just for PC, there's plenty of really basic stuff that can be done to not totally fuck up a game. Which, given the amount of…
- Binary Domain review - 11 August 2012
You are Dan, walking jawline, international supersoldier. One of several tasked with infiltrating a futuristic Tokyo. ‘Infiltration’ in this case means ten hours of noisy third-person gun battles with shiny bipedal gun-bots, to stop a powerful tech company from producing androids that look human. It’s boilerplate stop-and-pop fare in the Gears of War mould, appended with light squad management from Mass Effect, buried in an adolescent parable about artificial life. You’d hope that this sort of paragraph would constitute the most pertinent information about Binary Domain, but, as a PC gamer, you’ll have other things on your mind: namely, why the developers hate you. The UI designer may never have seen a keyboard: I wasn’t even able to identify the icon used to represent ‘Tab’ during the tutorial. How do I reach the main menu? Oh, that’s right, it’s ‘Enter’. Of course. There’s no mouse mo…
- Daily Deal - Binary Domain, 75% off! - 10 August 2012
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- Binary Domain Update Released - 8 June 2012
In-Game • Fixed an issue with cover-to-cover movement when using mouse and keyboard controls . • Corrected jumbled Options menu tooltips. • Voice controls are now disabled by default if no valid microphone is recognised. • Updated keyboard controls for menu navigation (the cursor keys, ESC, and Return should now function correctly). • Adjusted mouse movement for menu navigation (will now be less twitchy/sensitive). • Fixed issue with minor corruption of the ‘Talk’ prompt in some languages. • Fixed water corruption issue with certain Nvidia graphics drivers. Configuration Tool • Added an option to return the Field of View settings to the default. • Added an option to switch the voices to English when playing with a non-English language pack installed (for example, the game can now be played with French text and English voices). • Added an option in the Configuration Tool to dis…
- Now Available - Binary Domain Dan Marshall Pack & Multiplayer Map Pack - 1 June 2012
The Dan Marshall Pack and Multiplayer Map Pack are Now Available for Binary Domain on Steam! The Dan Marshall Pack includes a brand new weapon and skills for Sergeant Dan Marshall to enhance the single player experience making him more resilient, stronger and faster in combat action. The Multiplayer Map Pack includes an exclusive map, a new ninja class for each team and two exclusive weapons, all to be used in a variety of the multiplayer modes of Binary Domain. Set in futuristic Tokyo, you mission is to bring the robotic community under control as they begin to infiltrate society and slowly take over undetected, leaving humans redundant in their wake.
- Binary Domain Update Released - 3 May 2012
Patch notes: * FOV options have been added in the Configuration Tool for Aiming and Normal views. * Fixed Configuration Tool crash when modifying options for DirectInput control pads. * Restored missing Controller Sensitivity options to Configuration Tool. * Added basic keyboard and mouse navigation to the menus. * Updated mouse sensitivity; mouse aiming should generally feel more comfortable now. * Added Volume option in the Configuration Tool. * Changed the Screen Size setting to be 100% by default. * Changed the default button prompts to the keyboard icons. * Fixed a crash on game exit. Hardware issues: * On Intel Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge processors, users may experience a graphical issue during the cutscene in Chapter 1 when you let go of the ship and swim over to the gangway, just before using the grappling hook. Intel is aware of the issue, and the fix will be rolled out in a f…
- Wot I Think: Binary Domain - 2 May 2012
Sega’s third-person shooter, Binary Domain , presents itself as having more in common with Mass Effect than Gears Of War, but what does it achieve itself? I’ve played all the way through the voice-commanded robot apocalypse, and can tell you Wot I Think. Shout “MORE” to read on. (more…)
- New Release - Binary Domain - 26 April 2012
Binary Domain is Now Available on Steam! Please check the game page to see release times for your region. Set in futuristic Tokyo, you mission is to bring the robotic community under control as they begin to infiltrate society and slowly take over undetected, leaving humans redundant in their wake.
- Pre-Purchase Now: Binary Domain - 19 March 2012
Binary Domain is now available for pre-purchase on Steam! Pre-Purchase and receive the Multiplayer Pack, which includes an exclusive map, two weapons and ninja costumes! Set in futuristic Tokyo, you mission is to bring the robotic community under control as they begin to infiltrate society and slowly take over undetected, leaving humans redundant in their wake.
