InSomnia 50: Intel, Scan and other PC brands sponsor UK eSports festival
InSomnia 50 is kicking off on November 29, and several PC brands have stepped in to sponsor the eSports and LAN event.
Kingdom Under Fire 2 trailers and gameplay details escape Korean expo
Kingdom Under Fire 2 developer Blue Side has published two new trailers of the strategy MMORPG, along with a slew of new details.
Eve: Rubicon sets up CCP’s greatest mystery yet – interview
Eve: Rubicon is the devilishly clever 20th expansion to CCP Games’ sprawling MMO sandbox. VG247′s Dave Cook quizzes the studio about how the race for new frontiers is only just beginning.
Star Citizen will never be dumbed down for consoles, says Roberts, but next-gen could happen one day
Star Citizen creator Chris Roberts has addressed the likelihood of the crowd-funded RPG heading to consoles in future. While he’s loathe to dumb the PC title down for a “lesser platform” such as PS3 and Xbox 360, he’s not ruling out PS4 and Xbox One.
Dying Light trailer shows the game’s lighting and engine capabilities
Warner Bros has released a new trailer for Techland’s Dying Light. The trailer focuses on the game’s advances in lighting and shadows courtesy of Techland’s Chrome Engine 6.
Dota 2 to receive a Stanley Parable announcer pack
If you are one of the many fans of the narrator in The Stanely Parable, and you happen to play Dota 2, you’ll be happy to know that Valve’s MOBA will be getting an announcer pack featuring the voice of Kevan Brighting, the narrator of the indie effort.
Owlchemy’s Dyscourse To Feature Schafer, McMillen And More
By John Walker on November 18th, 2013 at 8:00 pm.
Alec mentioned Dyscourse a couple of weeks back, rather rightly pointing out how good it looks. I’d have thought it would be a sure thing to see its Kickstarter funds ding the modest $40,000 they’re after in moments, and far beyond. Yet it’s only reached just over $13k at this point. Weird. Maybe the news that the likes of Tim Schafer, Ed McMillen and Robin Hunicke are contributing personalities to the project?
Glitch Free: Art From Closed MMO Enters Public Domain
By Graham Smith on November 18th, 2013 at 5:00 pm.
Glitch was an ambitious 2D MMO that focused on crafting and socialising instead of combat or grinding. It launched its original beta in early 2009, came out of beta in September 2011, went back into beta that November due to a lack of accessibility or depth, and finally closed down in November 2012.
Or maybe that wasn’t final. Maybe that was just the beginning of something else. Tiny Speck, the developers of Glitch, have just released all the game’s artwork and some of its code into the public domain. That means you can now use it for whatever you want, including new commercial games.
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Crew Control: The Mandate Interview
By Adam Smith on November 18th, 2013 at 12:00 pm.
Currently, I don’t think there’s a more interesting Kickstarter project than The Mandate. When I first saw footage, I was confused – was it a 4X space game, an RPG or a turn-based tactical combat sort of a thing? It contains all of those aspects in one great smouldering fusion of sci-fi concepts but that’s not all. The Mandate is a lore-rich story of Tsars in space, with procedurally generated galactic sectors and strongly defined crew members, each with their own personality, skills and cultural attachments. It’s a complex game and hard to summarise, so I spoke to Ole Herbjørnsen (Executive Producer) and Michael Douse (Community Manager) of Perihelion to uncover some details. There’s an enormous amount of information about this hugely promising game below.
Eve Online: Rubicon will kick off a "multi-expansion" race to reach Star Gated new galaxies
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You might have heard about the fictional hook of Eve Online’s new expansion, the fruitily named Rubicon - dangerous and forbidden ghost sites, which promise unpreceded technological discoveries. But you couldn’t possibly have guessed what it’ll build to - a race to reach and colonise new tracts of space in a game where land, in an abstract sense, is everything.
League of Legends preseason changes continue: roles and positions see improvements
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Riot are continuing to tinker with League of Legends during the game's preseason sleepytime, having already taken a scalpel to the League system, as well as changed how map vision works. Now they're casting a critical eye over their support roles and jungler positions, while also introducing a host of improvements to the game flow of Summoner's Rift. With all of these transformations taking place over the coming days and weeks, Riot have helpfully launched a mini-site dedicated to tracking League of Legend's Preseason changes.
Parasite lost: co-operative alien-hunt Mush playable in browsers from today
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If games were hashed out according to the shape and sound of their names in a process I’ve just now christened Onomatopoeic Development, Mush would be a slightly rough physicsy platformer, starring a malleable and squishily-animated protagonist.
It’d be Gish 2, and the appropriate reaction would be something along the lines of: “Okay, huh”. But Mush isn’t an amorphous platformer, and nor is it an “Okay, huh” kind of game. It’s a multiplayer browser game about waking up aboard a ship with 15 other players - two of whom are infected by an angry alien parasite. The Mush.
The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot crashes onto Steam Early Access
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The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot is the cutest looking dungeon crawler known to man and it’s appeared on Steam Early Access. Although it will eventually be free to play Ubisoft are selling entrance to the game’s closed beta for £15 a head.
It's nice to see companies like Ubisoft running good longform betas to run their game through the paces. Mighty Quest's been in closed beta for more than a year now, looks like Ubi are taking their time to get this one right.
Heroes & Generals Manstein update brings destroyable fences and fog of war
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“The fences, they’ll have to go,” said the general to his men, remembering the harrowing events of the 1927 picnic. Till now his men looked at him quizzically thinking “But the fences are a permanent fixture. It would take godly power to shift them.” But, with the newly released Manstein update, those fences will fall beneath the tread of a tank and shatter when shot with a gun.
That’s not all the Manstein update does. Not by a long way.
Witchmarsh has you and your friends recruit a team of investigators and head into the swamp
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Something dark’s going on deep in Witchmarsh, folk are going missing and it's up to you to work out what's going on. You're going to have to assemble a team and investigate. You’ll need strength, so you best bring that fella who only talks in Wingdings, Moose; oh, and don’t forget the innkeeper, she’s a brawler who can help you out in a scrap; and if ever you spirits are low you’ll want to call on the bard for a tune.
It’s still in development now but when it’s ready to play you and three friends will be free to dive in.
Activision Claims That There Is No Patch For Call of Duty: Ghosts PC On The Horizon
And we are going in circles. A couple of days ago, we informed you about a possible patch that could fix the ridiculous RAM requirement for Call of Duty: Ghosts. Activision claimed back then that it was looking into this issue, however it seems that a PC patch is not a priority for the company. When a fan asked yesterday about a patch for Call of Duty: Ghosts PC in order to fix the game’s fps and lag issues, Activision claimed that there won’t be such a patch anytime soon. Continue reading
Sui Generis – RPG with procedural animated movement and combat system – Pre-alpha gameplay video
Bare Mettle Entertainment has released a new video for its upcoming RPG that sports procedural animated movement and combat system, Sui Generis. The game is set in a dark, hostile mediaeval world pervaded by intrigue and treachery, and this pre-alpha video gives us a glimpse of what we can expect from it. Sui Generis features an amazing animation and physics system, though it still needs a lot of work. Keep in mind that this is pre-alpha footage, so glitches and bugs can be easily spotted. Enjoy! Continue reading
Hilarious Times Part #9999 – Need For Speed: Rivals Does Not Support Driving Wheels
Man, it seems that EA wants to simply ruin the NFS franchise. We first got the 30fps lock and according to EA’s official Q&A page, the game won’t support any driving wheels. Yeap, a driving game that does not support wheels. Yes, we’re talking about an arcade title but last time I checked, all arcade driving games (from Outrun to Sega Rally and Ridge Racer) supported driving wheels. Continue reading
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