Wing Commander complete series now available on GOG with arrival of Armada
GOG customers can now purchase the entire Wing Commander series through the DRM-free service, as today marks the release of Armada for $5.99. One of the first games in the series, it comes with a new 3D rendering engine, multiplayer modes, and more. An announcement video is below.
Borderlands 2: The Horrible Hunger of the Ravenous Wattle Gobbler screenshots released
Borderlands 2: The Horrible Hunger of the Ravenous Wattle Gobbler, the second Headhunter add-on for the game, will be hitting Steam for Mac and PC, PlayStation 3 , and Xbox 360 on November 26 for $2.99. In The Horrible Hunger of the Ravenous Wattle Gobbler, players will meet up with Mr. Torgue’s “super buff grandmother” while he hosts a hunger-themed competition to hunt down a giant turkey, the Wattle Gobbler, and selects sacrificial recruits from all of the districts of Pandora to participate. Screenshots are below.
The Banner Saga’s latest video “Rough Guide to Travel” is a tutorial
The Banner Saga has a new tutorial video available called “Rough Guide to Travel” which summarizes “the key attributes you’ll need to take into consideration” when deciding the travel strategy during your journey in the game.
Total War: Rome 2 patch 7 now available
Total War: Rome 2′s latest patch is live. The Creative Assembly states that this is “the most significant gameplay-enhancing patch yet,” as includes framerate improvements to high-end systems, and substantial gameplay, AI and behavioral improvements, particularly in settlement and siege battles. The attacking siege AI is more active, and the patch also bring about the first targeted unit re-balances. For full details, check out the patch notes. Steam users will be automatically updated upon logging into the service.
Warframe Update 11: Valkyr now available on PC
Warframe is available in North America on PS4 now and will soon be in Europe, and today on PC, Update 11: Valkyr Unleashed has been released. It includes new environments, Damage 2.0, the Codex, trading, a new titleset, Warframes, weapons, the introduction of the new Berserker Warframe Valkyr and more. The development team has released a video showing some of the highlights. It’s posted below.
Minecraft Snapshot 13w47c adds Twitch integration
Minecraft players can now use Twitch to stream their gaming sessions, as promised. Before you can start streaming, you will need to visit your Mojang account settings and link a Twitch account to your Mojang account. Some features still need to be added, and so far, it’s supported on Windows XP and higher and Mac OS X Lion 10.7 and higher. If you cannot start broadcasting in-game, go to the options screen and it will tell you why. You can check out the blogpost on Minecraft Snapshot 13w47c through the link for more information.
Neverwinter’s Shadowmantle expansion coming next month
Neverwinter’s second free module – that’s expansion, for those not totally savvy with RPG terminology – drops next month, bringing a new class and zone.
Crimes & Punishments screenshots show Sherlock Holmes point his finger accusingly
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments has new screenshots available below, showing off the Unreal Engine 3 game. You can expect to solve cases in the Frogwares Studios-developed title on PC, PS3, PS4 and Xbox 360 in Q2 2014. Enjoy.
Magicka: Wizard Wars heads to Brazil, Oceania and Russia
Sponsors of the Wizards Without Borders movement, Paradox Interactive has opened early access to Magicka: Wizard Wars to three new regions. Local servers have been enabled in Brazil, Oceania and Russia, competing on new global leaderboards. Sign up via Steam Early Access; there are several purchase tiers available offering add-on content for the multiplayer title.
SteamWorld Dig making the jump from 3DS to Steam next month
SteamWorld Dig is headed to PC, having released to quiet but almost untempred praise on 3DS earlier this year. The new version will be upon us sooner rather than later; check out fresh footage through the break.
TF2 Two Cities Update includes major Medic overhaul
Team Fortress 2′s Medic is even more useful now that the Two Cities update has arrived; it takes us to his hometown of Rottenburg, gives him a revive ability, and powers up the shield’s capabilities. Also: here’s one of Valve’s famous videos.
Cast your vote for the Saxxy Awards
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It’s time for the biggest, glitziest, most glamorous awards ceremony of the year. The Third Annual Saxxy Awards only offers out hunky gold statues to the very best collection of moving images, as judged by a demanding panel of film critics and movie connoisseurs. Are you one of those? Then you’d best start voting.
League of Legends November bundles available now
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If your champion selection screen is looking a little undernourished at the moment, League of Legend’s November bundles could just be in time to save you from using that champion for the thirtieth time in a row. Four new packages, seventeen different champions, hundreds of hours of practice to master the lot of them.
Warframe update 11 brings scrap-collecting drones and new bosses into the dojo
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Warframe has launched update 11 today, slapped with the exciting tite ‘Valkyr Unleashed’. The titular Valkyr is a Berserker Warframe armour that allows some pretty awesome punishment to be doled out by your future-ninja self, but update 11 also includes a stack of other content including a new damage system, more environments, and two new bosses to challenge.
RPS Exclusive: SteamWorld Dig Coming To PC!
By John Walker on November 21st, 2013 at 9:00 pm.
There’s a good chance you’ve not played one of the best games of 2013. Back in August, 3DS download game SteamWorld Dig came from nowhere, to receive a flurry of 8s and 9s. It was a breakout hit on the portable platform, and deservedly so. At that perfect meeting point between Metroidvania and Mr Driller, capturing the essence of Spelunky, and achieving absolutely precision platforming, it was a massive, joyful surprise. And yet, as I devoured it, I kept thinking: wouldn’t this be even better on PC?
RPS can exclusively reveal that it is to be. An HD remake will be arriving on Steam on the 5th December. We’ve got the world’s first footage of the new version below, and the first interview with the team about the transition to the Mother Platform.
I Wrote Some Beat Poetry About Nuclear Throne…
By Alec Meer on November 21st, 2013 at 8:00 pm.
…because I was struggling to find a way to discuss a game that’s so, uh… Well, perhaps you see my problem.
I’ve also included a video of myself experiencing a particularly pathetic death. Perhaps it’s a clue that you shouldn’t take any of this seriously.
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Week in Tech: The PC is Doomed, Long Live the PC!
By Jeremy Laird on November 21st, 2013 at 7:00 pm.
Or maybe it’s the other way round. Anyway, the Xbox One only has 16 ROPs. I know, 16 ROPs. The humiliation. The humanity! Nvidia’s GeForce 6800 had 16 ROPs in 2004. No idea what I’m on about? It’s cheap point scoring from a smug PC evangelist, of course, but also just a single entry in a long list of reasons why the PC is looking pretty clever now the new consoles are roaming the wild. On the other hand, I’ve had a grope around the latest factoids and rumours relating to PC processors for the next year or so and the shape of things to come feels awfully familiar. Maybe the prophets of doom are right, after all… Read the rest of this entry »
Rebellion: Sniper Elite 3 – And All Future Titles – Will Officially Support AMD’s Mantle
And here comes another developer. Rebellion announced today that it will officially support AMD’s Mantle and that its first title with support for it will be Sniper Elite 3. Rebellion has also revealed that its future games will support this new API and will be powered by its in-house engine, Aurora; an engine that supports tessellation, DirectX 11 Compute Shaders, AMD Eyefinity technology, multi-GPU support and more. Continue reading
Beyond Flesh and Blood – 3rd Person Action/Shooter Title – Gets A Kickstarter Campaign
Pixelbomb Games, an indie developer that are set to release Beyond Flesh and Blood – a 3rd person action shooter with horror overtures – announced a Kickstarter campaign for it that will aim to raise £30,000 over the next 30 days. Continue reading
Drakensang Online Hits 20 Million Registered Users
Bigpoint today announced that its award-winning MMO Drakensang Online had eclipsed the 20 million registrations mark. The company also posted a rousing new trailer on the new Steam Mechanicus class that can be viewed below. Continue reading
Ubisoft: “If we didn’t care about PC, we wouldn’t bother making our games work on it at all”
All hell has broken loose yesterday when Videogamer reported that Ubisoft does not care for PC optimization. As we said when we reported that story, that quote seemed to be taken out of context and it appears we were right. As an Ubisoft employee commented on that story, Ubisoft actually cares about the PC. After all, as Ubisoft’s employee claimed, the company wouldn’t bother making its games work on the PC platform at all if it didn’t care about it. Continue reading
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