Alien: Isolation trademark filed by Twentieth Century Fox
The Aliens game franchise hasn’t done terribly well of late, following the shambles that was Aliens: Colonial Marines. Yet it’s too lucrative a license to be abandoned, and now a trademark filed by Twentieth Century Fox suggests that we’ll be returning to the Alien universe at some point in the near-future. Is Alien: Isolation the long-awaited Creative Assembly project?
Rhianna Pratchett “would be interested” in a new Discworld game
Rhianna Pratchett, writer on Mirror’s Edge and Tomb Raider, has admitted that she and her father Terry Pratchett would be interested in making another Discworld game, but only if the right pitch comes along. And they’ve had several that just haven’t been right.
Mojang will consider free-to-play for Scrolls if player numbers don’t grow
Mojang’s collectible card game Scrolls could end up going to free-to-play if sales don’t pick up soon. The game has been in paid beta since June, where it quickly racked up 100,000 sales. However since July it has only managed 10,000 sales, with around three or four thousand players a day.
Endless Space: Disharmony getting The Search for Auriga add-on next month
Amplitude Studios’ sci-fi strategy game Endless Space is getting a free major update in November. The Search for Auriga follows 4 post-launch free add-ons, and promises a great deal of new content. “‘The Search for Auriga’ will include new heroes, a special wonder, a unique planet, in addition to new features such as Rally Points as well as AI and balancing improvements,” reads Amplitude’s development blog.
Windows 8.1 is causing mouse lag, which is bad news for gamers
Everyone loves Windows 8. So it comes as a real shock that the newly released Windows 8.1 is causing issues with mouse lag and cursor jumping in some PC games. Games said to be affected are Deus Ex: Human Revolution, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, Metro 2033, and Call of Duty games.
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine trilogy’s unfinished story has been told
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine fell foul of scheduling conflicts and THQ’s bankruptcy before two further parts in the intended trilogy could be developed, meaning players never got to find out what befell Captain Titus. Now there’s no need to use your imagination, as director Raphael van Lierop has discussed where he planned to take the story.
Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol: Pacific Skies arrives on Steam and the App Store this autumn
The sequel to Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol is coming very soon, as 2K and Firaxis Games have announced Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol: Pacific Skies for Windows PC, iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. It’s set during the First World War and, as the name suggests, enters you into aerial battles over the Pacific Ocean.
Battlefield 4 will be available to pre-load 24 hours before launch
Battlefield 4 is out in just over a week and you will be able to download the game on PC 24 hours prior to its launch.
Nosgoth closed alpha opens up for Europe and North America
Square Enix and Psyonix have confirmed that European and North American players are now eligible to participate in the Nosgoth closed alpha. They’ve released some in-game screenshots to mark the occasion.
Call of Duty: Ghosts gameplay launch trailer very much on form
“Outnumbered and outgunned, but not outmatched,” is the tagline of this new gameplay launch trailer for Call of Duty: Ghosts, which lands on November 5 for PC, PlayStation 3, Wii U and Xbox 360, before heading to PS4 and Xbox One when the new consoles launch later in the month. It’s full of explosions, which is just how we and the franchise’s seventy bazillion fans like it.
Slender: The Arrival draws on Marble Hornets canon, Oculus Rift compatible
Following a teasing announce last week, Slender: The Arrival’s Steam release has been officially announced with details of the new content and features coming later this month.
Alien: Isolation stars Ripley’s daughter, going cross-gen in 2014 – rumour
As we suspected when an Alien: Isolation trademark turned up overnight, it looks like the Creative Assembly’s Aliens project is finally coming to light.
Titanfall gets new screenshot, “special announcement” coming tomorrow
Respawn’s new shooter has produced a gorgeous new screenshot ahead of some sort of new reveal tomorrow.
Monaco: What’s Yours is Mine updated with zombie mode, mini-campaign
Monaco: What’s Yours is Mine has been updated with a pile of new, free content – and it’s also on sale.
Free-To-Play “Warface” Has Been Launched In North America & Europe
Crytek announced today that its new online shooter, Warface, is now live and playable for free in North America, Europe and Turkey on GFACE. Players can gain instant access to the game by signing up at its official website. Continue reading
X Rebirth Gets A New Trailer That Focuses On Space Firefights
Deep Silver and Egosoft have released a new trailer for X Rebirth that focuses on the game’s space firefights. X Rebirth promises to feature action-packed combat in space, a realistic trading system, and a multitude of opportunities to make exciting discoveries. The game is scheduled for an November 15th release on the PC. Enjoy! Continue reading
Wasteland 2 beta soon to be “distributed through Steam”
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InXile are about to put your money where its mouth is and let backers of Wasteland 2 try the game in its beta form. It will be the first time backers have had a chance to see what their $3 million were spent on.
They’ve “distributed standalone copies of the Early Beta to a small group of external individuals as a test run. This is the final stage where we ensure it is up to our standards and runs on a variety of machines, and we’ll then be ready to get it to you.”
Dark Matter publisher admits it's "not of the standard we would expect" but selling it on Steam anyway
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Dark Matter’s developer, Interwave Studios, has admitted the game they put up for sale on Steam last week isn’t complete “due to time and money”. Instead of releasing the complete story the developer and publisher decided to release an episode of the game. They didn't mention this in the game's title or description and players are asking for refunds.
The publisher has admitted that "at present, the end of the game may cause confusion and is not satisfactory", and that"it is not of the standard we would expect." Considering it abruptly ends the game with a black screen of text you can understand why.
StarCraft II balances see Terran explosives made less explodey
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With bonfire night on the way, Blizzard are hoping to reduce the risk of accidents around the StarCraft home. They’re reducing the damage of sentinel missiles after reports that they were plowing Protoss and Zerg into tiny pieces. Of course, such accidents can really ruin a BBQ.
The beta patch also makes changes to the Protoss Oracle.
GTA Online hasn't killed APB Reloaded
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The announcement of GTA Online was a relief for those of us who still insisted on holding a candle for All Points Bulletin, the MMO gang-shooter that wasn’t functional enough to keep its developers running for a month after its release. GTA Online meant we could pin our hopes a game that seemed capable of fulfilling its promise of open-world naughtiness, and not APB.
Not such a relief for GamersFirst, the company who bought APB after Realtime Worlds’ demise and set about re-kitting it as a free-to-play Steam offering. They had a rough month in September - though as it turns out, not as rough as you might think.
DICE's Patrick Bach on SteamOS: "If PC wants to be bigger then they need to look at ease of use"
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These days, DICE epitomise the multiplatform developer, attending to four or five variously sized plates in such a way that they’re all spinning at about the same rate. But Battlefield was once exclusively a PC shooter, and the PC remained by some margin the best place to play it until 2008 and Bad Company came along.
So executive producer Patrich Bach cares about the PC. He cares about its play for the living room in SteamOS - but worries there’s a balance to strike between ease of use and the hardware customisation we’ve all come to enjoy.
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