Blackguards is now available through Steam Early Access
Daedalic’s turn based strategy RPG Blackguards is now available through Steam Early Access, three months ahead of its official release. The game will have one chapter released every three weeks, and at present, the game is %10 off. Otherwise will run you $25/£19/€25, or you can grab one of the two special early access editions which come loaded with extras. Blackguards is based on the roleplaying property The Dark Eye, like Demonicon, Drakensang and Chains of Satinav. Teaser trailer is below.
Humble WB Games Bundle earns over $3 million with 10 days to go
The Humble WB Games Bundle, which went live earlier this week, has garnered $3,059,007 for the We Can Be Heroes charity thanks to 659,480 purchases with average price of $4.64. The highest contribution so far is $2,600. The bundle includes Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition, F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin, F.E.A.R. 3 and Lord of the Rings: War in the North. Paying over the average price unlocks Scribblenauts Unlimited and Batman: Arkham City Game of the Year Edition. There are 10 days left to purchase the bundle.
Dota 2 MLG Championship Bundle raises Columbus price pool to $90,000
MLG and Valve have teamed up to offer the Dota 2 MLG Championship Bundle, which comes with the Deathbringer Courier, HUD, Ward, Battle Bonus and purchasers will be eligible for in game item drops during the MLG Championship Columbus.
Windows 8.1 has been patched to fix mouse lag
Windows 8.1 has been patched to fix mouse lag reported after the update was released.
Heroes of the Storm unique enough that Blizzard needn’t worry about competing MOBAs
Heroes of the Storm will offer players enough to differentiate it from League of Legends or Dota 2, Blizzard believes.
WoW: accessibility is the best way to provide “an onramp to the game,” not F2P – Blizzard
Blizzard co-founder and CEO Mike Morhaime has said when it comes to World of Warcraft, it’s important to keep content fresh and new, but not so much that the game is no longer recognizable.
Reset Interview – Multicore CPU Support, Physics Middleware, Engine Details
When Theory Interactive released the debut trailer of Reset, I lot of people began wondering who the hell was Theory Interactive, and how come it has managed to achieve visuals that can rival those found in triple-A titles like Crysis 3? Well, a couple of days ago we had the pleasure to interview Mikko Kallinen, co-founder, programmer and composer at Theory, who has previously worked at Futuremark. Mikko shared with us some tech details about the engine powering Reset, its physics middleware, how big will the game’s world be, and whether the game will support Tessellation. Enjoy the interview after the jump! Continue reading
StarCraft 2 continues slow evolution into (not quite) free to play with Patch 2.1
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As Blizzard outlined how StarCraft 2 will change with the upcoming 2.1 patch, it seemed almost like a tacit admission that the future of StarCraft is not be found in balance tweaks and expansion campaigns and units. Not that many people want to commit to playing competitive StarCraft on the ranked ladders, and even fewer want to play ranked year in, year out. The 2.1 patch reflects a slight expansion of Blizzard’s focus, away from the people who just want to play and watch StarCraft, and onto the people who want to play with StarCraft.
StarCraft 2.1 is about playing team games with friends, playing mods, or even building new kinds of games. And as Blizzard are also drastically expanding what they offer in the StarCraft 2 Starter Edition, it’s also about making StarCraft, if not quite free-to-play, then as free-as-possible.
League of Legends Featured Gameplay Modes offer “a unique spin on the classic formula”
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Riot have been experimenting with recreational game modes again. It started with a new map or two and before long they were onto the harder stuff, a new game type that has all the players rolling the same champion.
What’s worse than their own game mode abuse is that they’re planning on sharing it with all their fans, too. They’re going to give away these new Featured Gameplay Modes soon and there’s nothing we can do to stop them.
Valve apologise for lack of Diretide and say it's on its way with a new update
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Valve have been doing a fair bit of instrospection of late. Despite saying last year that their Halloween Diretide event would be “the annual suspension of Roshan's enchantment”, they didn’t run it this year. This made the community quite unhappy and, for tangential reasons, troll the car company Volvo. Valve have admitted they did wrong by their fans and wanted to explain how the error occurred and how they’re going to fix it.
They also say sorry for not saying sorry sooner.
Steam In-Home Streaming group opens. Beta to start "later this year"
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Steam In-Home Streaming will be a key part of Valve’s Steam Boxes. Machines running SteamOS are only capable of running Linux games natively, all Windows games will have to be streamed from a nearby gaming PC.
Valve want to make sure In-Home Streaming is up to scratch when they launch their OS and Steam Boxes next year. To that end they’ve set up a Steam group that will be inviting members to participate in the beta.
Titan was not going to be up to Blizzard quality
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Titan was put out to pasture before we even got to know it: a top secret MMO and new IP that never - and will never - see the light of day, at least not in its original form. "We recognised the path we were on was not going to be up to the Blizzard quality in a reasonable time frame," Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime reveals. "We asked a lot of hard questions about what it is we should be doing, and I think we've come up with something really great."
That's all Morhaime was willing to say about Not Project Titan, the game that's sprung from the ashes of the retired concept. It's going to be "pretty different" from the original vision, but that doesn't tell us much when we knew nothing about said original vision. This lack of information is unlikely to stop rampant speculation, so without further ado: what's the new MMO (maybe it's not even going to be an MMO) going to be all about? The comment section is hungry for your ideas.
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