http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/04/valve-steam-machine-hands-on/
Sounds like SteamOS is what Gabe was worried that MS was trying to turn Windows into. A closed OS where the only way to install software is through the walled garden store. Lol
Velocity Ultra coming to PC for the holidays
Velocity Ultra developer Curve Studios has confirmed that it’s working closely with original creator FuturLab to bring the PS Vita title to PC in time for Christmas.
Day of the Dead Kickstarter: funding tier encourages you to name zombie after an ex
Day of the Dead is the new zombie game from Funguy Studio, which sees players spreading the brain-munching infection across the world. One of the game’s Kickstarter rewards encourages backers to name zombies after their ex-partner or spouse.
Guild Wars 2: The Nightmares Within update detailed and dated
Guild Wars 2: The Nightmares Within is ArenaNet’s next living world update. The studio has now dated and detailed the release.
Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls enemies revealed, see them here
Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls will have a ton of new enemies for you to fight when the expansion launches. Developer Blizzard Entertainment has published a gallery of the various beasts and apparitions you’ll be killing in the DLC. See them here.
PES 2014 update hits later this month with new faces, 11 vs 11 multiplayer
PES 2014 will be updated later this month wither better facial quality for 800 player faces along, new kits, and the long-awaited 11 vs 11 multiplayer mode. Data Pack 2 will be a free update and will include all transfers made over the season, and enhancements to the chat elements have been made alongside gameplay tweaks. A new ‘Team Play’ lobby system has will also be incorporated, as well as online competitions and Master League Online competitions to the game’s Competition Mode. New screenshots are below.
Infinite Crisis champion spotlight shines on Harley Quinn
Infinite Crisis has a new champion video available, and it stars everyone’s favorite therapist turned psycho madwoman, Harley Quinn. Have a watch below. Be sure to sign-up for the closed beta if you haven’t already.
Metro: Last Light is now available on Linux, to support SteamOS
Metro: Last Light is now available on Linux, and all who own it through Steam will now have access to the PC, Mac and Linux versions. The game popped up on the Steam database for Linux back in August before it was later confirmed by Deep Silver. The game was released on Mac back in September. The game has also been confirmed to support Steam OS and the Steam Controller in the future.
Envision Entertainment formed by former EA Phenomic members
Envision Entertainment has been formed by former EA Phenomic members Dirk Ringe, Marco Löhlein, Volker Wertich, Boris Kunkel and Mark Novolozhilov. The German-based development studio is made up entirely of 25 former EA Phenomic employees and is already working on “several projects,” according to GI International. The studio was shuttered back in July as part of EA’s company-wide realignment process.
SimCity: Cities of Tomorrow video shows off a MegaTower
SimCity has a new intro video available for the upcoming Cities of Tomorrow expansion. The content update will include various futuristic transportation and technology options once the player has unlocked relevant research performed by The Academy. City builders will be able to make use of MagLevs, Garbage Atomizers, the Wave Generator and multi-zoned MegaTowers come November 12. The expansion is now available for pre-order.
City of Titans surpasses Kickstarter goal with over $678,000 pledged
City of Titans surpassed its Kickstarter goal yesterday with $678,189 pledged toward the spiritual successor to City of Heroes. The original goal for Missing Worlds Media was to earn $320,000 in funding, which it surpassed in early October. The game is set for a November 15, 2015 launch.
Humble WB Games Bundle contains GOTY editions for Batman: Arkham City and Batman: Arkham Asylum
Humble Bundle has gone live with a new offering this week, and it’s full of lovely Warner Brothers titles such as Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY, F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin and Lord of the Rings: War in the North. If you pay over the $4.06 average at the moment, you can also nab Scribblenauts and Batman: Arkham City GOTY. What are you waiting for? Video is below.
EverQuest Next Landmark developer diary shows in-game footage, discusses materials, tools
EverQuest Next Landmark has a new developer diary available in which Sony Online Entertainment discusses some of the tools and materials players will be using to create their own additions to EverQuest Next.
Kerbal Space Program update 0.23 to contain Tweakables, Science Lab Module
Kerbal Space Program’s next update will contain what developer Squad calls “Tweakables” as well as a Science Lab Module and 3D Mouse Support.
CoD: Ghosts and Battlefield 4 are the “end of an era”, says Avalanche boss
Christofer Sundberg, the Founder and Creative Director of Avalanche Studios, has predicted that popular shooter franchises Call of Duty and Battlefield will lose their stranglehold over the genre.
Mohawk Games: Civ 4 developers announce formation of “core strategy games” firm
Civilization 4 lead designer Soren Johnson has announced the formation of Mohawk Games, an independent development studio “dedicated to building core strategy games.”
Need For Speed joins EA Sports as EA re-examines driving games
EA will move its flagship driving franchise, Need For Speed, under the EA Sports banner, as the company undergoes a structural shift.
Activision Blizzard to sell Call of Duty dog tags for charity
Activision Blizzard will sell new, limited edition dog tags alongside the release of Call of Duty: Ghosts, with proceeds going to the Call of Duty Endowment, a not-for-profit organisation which supports veterans.
Project Zomboid at long last is launching on Steam Early Access
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Over a year ago, Project Zomboid was one of the first ten games to be approved through Steam Greenlight. In March when Early Access first launched they made plans to launch a beta version of Project Zomboid through Steam but it’s taken them another eight months to get their zombie survival simulator into a stable enough state.
It’s now ready and coming out this Friday.
Why Broken Sword: The Serpent's Curse has been split into two; "It's not that we've run out of money"
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Every Broken Sword fan is a seasoned codebreaker, so perhaps we should have seen it coming. When Broken Sword: The Serpent’s Curse arrived on Kickstarter it was pitched as one game - but its logo featured a blade snapped in two just above the pommel.
Now, the game itself has been snapped into two parts - a first episode to be released in December, and another to follow in January.
When a very busy Charles Cecil rang from Germany this afternoon, he pointed to two reasons why. The first and most important, that Revolution had promised a game to their backers before Christmas. And a second, that games are “always too long”.
The Battlefield 4 launch is just another high profile cock up
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So, Battlefield 4 has launched with a frightening array of bugs.
I mean, a lot.
Poke around forums and social media and you’ll discover that the game suffers from persistent server crashes, persistent client crashes, persistent netcode inconsistencies, malfunctioning unlocks, and more. Occasionally, vaulting over small barriers will kill you. There’s a silencer on one rifle that turns off the sound for everyone on the server when used. In single player, you'll see enemies hover in space, shoot through walls and teleport to new positions. These bugs exist over a week after the game launched, and way after the game's heavily played beta.
It’s the same old story for major PC launches. This has to change.
Procedural Tech Trees: Limit Theory Dev Diary
By Craig Pearson on November 5th, 2013 at 3:00 pm.
To recap: Josh Parnell’s lovely looking Limit Theory is a space game in the style of Elite: trade, shoot, live, SPACE! He releases a monthly dev diary charting his progress, and each video has thrilled me. This, the tenth in the series, is probably the most exciting one yet. To put that in context: previous videos have shown how the game will procedurally generate the universe in a Dwarf Fortress story-building fashion, and a morning’s worth of work that generated planet surfaces. This video talks about the tech tree and the modding UI, and you just have to watch it. He’s procedurally generated tech-trees, and the modding interface is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen.
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Call Of Duty: Ghosts – FOV Tool Taken Down After Activision Threats, New ‘Behind The Scene’ Video Released
Well, that was fast. Yesterday, a FOV tool was released by the Fovely community and today we found out – thanks Mikah – that this tool has been taken down after some legal threats from Activision. As you can clearly see, the download link has been replaced with the message “link removed due to a friendly threat from everyone’s favorite publishing firm.”
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