The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot gets in the Hallowe’en mood with new trailer
The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot is, like everything else remotely able to, throwing a Hallowe’en themed event. This trailer shows off what players will find in the free-to-play dungeon crawler – castles are haunted, for one thing.
Battlefield 4 reviews maintain franchise’s high – all scores here
Battlefield 4 is here, and the critical verdicts are in. Although not every reviewer was as blown away as the highest scores suggest, BF4 has certainly produced a respectable spread in the upper end of the scale.
Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag reviews go live – get all the scores here
Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag reviews have set sail, and as always we’re collecting them here in one feed for your reading pleasure. Get all the scores inside.
Battlefield 4: China Rising DLC dated for Premium subscribers
Battlefield 4: China Rising’s release date has been spotted in the menus of DICE’s shooter today. It’s coming first to the shooter’s Premium service.
SimCity awarded ‘Shonky’ award for business practices surrounding troubled launch
SimCity didn’t get off to the best of starts, with server issues hammering the game mercilessly. Australian consumer group Choice has awarded publisher EA with a ‘Shonky’ award for charging dismayed gamers a high fee for calling tech support during the debacle.
Deep Silver talks PC piracy: Uplay-style DRM, “is not the way we want to approach things”
Deep Silver has embraced the idea of simultaneous PC and console launches, along with open modding support for many of its titles. While some companies are still scratching heads over how to beat PC piracy, the publisher doesn’t feel it’s an issue and that DRM is not the answer.
Star Wars 1313 concept art gives us new glimpse of Boba Fett’s scrapped adventure
Star Wars 1313 is no more, and that’s sad seeing as this newly released concept art by artist Gustavo Mendonca looks absolutely stunning.
Battlefield 4 PC pre-load now live in more territories
Battlefield 4 is out later today in the States, and in several other regions from Friday. Developer DICE has now extended its PC pre-load option on Origin to more territories.
Battlefield 4 campaign opinion: welcome to ‘C Company’
Battlefield 4 reviews are spilling onto the ‘net like blood from a freshly inflicted exit wound, but while next-gen and PC multiplayer seems to be the focus, VG247′s Dave Cook’s been playing the Xbox 360 campaign.
Need for Speed: Rivals trailer aims to amp you up
As you would expect, a new trailer for Need for Speed: Rivals, now the only racing game you can get on PS4 this year, has plenty of nice-looking shots of cars driving fast. It also has some cool narration from one of the racers talking about the law vs. the outlaws. “They say we endanger the public. But they are the ones you aren’t in control.” Indeed.
Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol: Pacific Skies hitting PC, mobile next week
The sequel to Side Meier’s Ace Patrol, dubbed Pacific Skies, was announced last week with no release date, and today it has a two: November 5 on PC and November 7 on iOS. Meaning we have some counterprogramming next week for folks who won’t be getting the new Call of Duty. The World War I flight sim will be available for $5 on PC.
Slender: The Arrival has arrived on Steam at a discount
Ahead of the Steam Halloween sale expected to begin soon, you can drop a cool $8 of Steam Wallet money on Slender: The Arrival today. Majesco has also put Blood of the Werewolf on Steam for the same price. Get to screaming already.
Steam Halloween sale has begun, tons of discounts
A huge sale on horror and horror-themed and random other games has begun on Steam just now, and there are lots of deal to be had.
Roundabout: Teasdale on spinning limos and why the ’70s were best
Dan Teasdale made Destroy All Humans!, Rock Band and The Gunstringer; if that weren’t reason enough to pay attention to his new game, the fact that it stars a spinning limo and was inspired by Tony Hawk and Crazy Taxi seems sufficient.
The Walking Dead Season 2 begins this year, you play as Clementine
Telltale games has revealed on the PlayStation blog that season two of The Walking Dead is expected to kick off later this year. Trailer after the jump.
6 screenshots from The Walking Dead Season 2
Telltale dropped the bomb that we’d be playing as Clementine in The Walking Dead Season Two this year with a trailer, and also I have six screenshots for you to look at that show a rather desperate continuing situation from Clem. Check ‘em.
Nimble Quest, Shaun the Sheep and Doctor Who among 100 new Steam Greenlight approvals
Valve has passed 100 new games through its community-driven Steam Greenlight approvals process, fulfilling a promise to accelerate.
Rise of the Triad 1.2 update brings level editor
Rise of the Triad has been updated to version 1.2, adding the Ludicrous Development Kit for mods and maps, quicksaves and many fixes – just in time for a 50% off sale.
Blackguards coming to Steam Early Access next week
Daedalic’s turn based strategy Blackguards can be within your grasp as early as next week thanks to a Steam Early Access launch on November 7, three months ahead of its official release. The game will release chapter by chapter at a rate of one every three weeks, and at $25/£19/€25 is cheaper than the expected launch price. Daedalic is offering two special early access editions which cost more but come with various goodies such as an artbook, wallpapers, interviews and extra games, as well as a chance to appear in the game’s credits. Blackguards is based on the roleplaying property The Dark Eye, like Demonicon, Drakensang and Chains of Satinav.
The Mandate footage shows tsarist starships start sparring among the stars
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It’s been a couple of weeks since we last wrote about The Mandate and that’s too damn long. Jamming together, both, an isometric RPG set aboard your own customisable starship and a complex tactical space battle arena, I’m a little excited to see this one get closer to crossing its Kickstarter target.
Plus, now we have some in-game footage of spaceships blowing each other to pieces.
Runescape gold farming reduced by 81% in a month
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Since launching bonds last month, Jagex have reduced "the amount of wealth injected by illegal gold farmers" into Runescape by 81%. The bonds provide players a legitmate way to buy in-game gold, eliminating the need to turn to gold farmers. Like Eve’s PLEX system, bonds can be bought from Jagex for real cash and sold on Runescape’s market for in-game gold.
The bonds themselves can be redeemed for 14 days of Runescape membership.
Introducing KerbalEdu: a space program for schools
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Of all the satellite ventures to spring up in Minecraft’s irresistible gravitational pull, MinecraftEdu has been the most inspired. CEO Santeri Koivisto and his team had the foresight to persuade Mojang into an educational discount, and made the game primary-age children were playing at home available as a learning tool to their teachers. It’s proven wildly successful.
But there’s a nightmare scenario. If even WoW’s star must eventually wane, won’t there come a time when those children move on to something less malleable? When Planet Notch, best imagined as a bearded Earth in a porkpie hat, shrinks to the size of a pea and a helpless MinecraftEdu drops out of the sky?
That was the question I’d planned to ask Koivisto at Nottingham’s GameCity festival last week. But instead, I was ambushed with an announcement that caused me to do whatever the Google Drive equivalent is of screwing up my questions and tossing them out the window. It turns out the Edu team have safeguarded their company’s future by embracing another breakout sandbox success: dropping-out-of-the-sky simulator Kerbal Space Program.
The Deeper Dungeons: Desktop Dungeons Out Next Week
By Alec Meer on October 29th, 2013 at 8:00 pm.
After exactly 98 million years and 17 seconds in development, tiny puzzle-roguelike Desktop Dungeons will finally see its big, fat, proper, expanded, more or less finished release next week. If you haven’t played it since its superb initial, free version, you’re in for something that’s changed almost as much as L’il Kim’s face* – rather than a quickie, randomly-generated dungeon which must be ‘solved’ in a very precise order and which clearly warns you of looming death, now it’s got an overworld, quests, character upgrades, an overhauled art style, a proper soundtrack and all sorts.
It’s also got a jolly launch trailer set in a kitchen.
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Ducati Of The Dead: Joe Danger’s Undead Movie Pack
By Alec Meer on October 29th, 2013 at 3:00 pm.
Is this some sort of joke? What the hell are they playing at? Halloween was last year. What’s to be gained from releasing a Halloween-themed game now, in this, the year of Luigi? Might as well put out a London Olympics update, Hello Games, if that is indeed your real name.
The Undead Movie Pack is the first DLC for comedy bike/harrowing personal injury escapade Joe Danger 2, and despite being a full 363 days late for the event it’s celebrating it goes the whole hog with six new toonishly spooksome characters. One of which, perfectly, is Ghost Rider. Though no doubt there are any number of careful differences included in order to keep hotshot Marvel lawyer Matt Murdoch from Hello’s door.
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