12-Year-Old Learns to Program Graphics Chips, Aims to Build Ultimate Minecraft Server
Julia is a normal 12-year-old. She’s on her school’s basketball and volleyball teams. She’s into swimming. Now and then spends a little time with... Read More
Shadowrun Returns now available on GOG.com, coming DRM-free to Linux soon
Shadowrun Returns developer Harebrained Scahemes has made good on its promise to release a DRM-free version of the old school RPG.
World of Wacraft pets, mounts now available at in-game store
Blizzard has added an in-game store to the World of Warcraft client, meaning you no longer need to alt-tab out to the web-based store when you espy a mount or pet you simply cannot live without. The developer is now expected to begin implementing other up-to-the-minute next-gen features like metal tools instead of those clumsy old stone things, and planting fields rather than just wandering around hoping enough food grows in the wild. Pets and mounts are currently on sale, by the way.
Thanks, games.on.net.
Proteus patch improves frame rate, adds “wild” Sony content
Proteus has been patched with fixes for a couple of niggling issues and the introduction of optional content found in the PlayStation 3 and Vita builds.
Dota 2 Frostivus cancelled, to nobody’s surprise
Dota 2′s end of year event has once more been interrupted by in-canon interference, this time from “the only king that matters“. Destructoid points out that the Skeleton King is no longer playable in-game, and his puppet has vanished from the Frostivus page. Scour the page to harvest clues from the barely decipherable text in the background, and stay tuned to Valve to find out what it all means.
Battlefield 4 Top Issues Tracker follows DICE’s patching progress
Battlefield 4 developer DICE has dropped everything to get the beleaguered shooter into shape, and has introduced a new resource to help you keep track of its progress.
Project Eternity now Pillars of Eternity, gets first gameplay trailer
Project Eternity has been dubbed Pillars of Eternity by developer Obsidian Entertainment, which also offers a first gameplay trailer for the crowdfunded classic RPG.
Samurai Gunn out now on PC
Samurai Gunn, the “lightning-fast Bushido brawler”, has arrived on PC ahead of Sony platform launches next year.
Double Fine announces Hack ‘N’ Slash, another Amnesia Fortnight alumni
Hack ‘N’ Slash, on of the prototype games included in Double Fine’s Amnesia Fortnight 2012 bundle, is being rejigged for full release.
Humble Jumbo Bundle bonus games include Cities in Motion 2
The current Humble Bundle, dubbed the Jumbo Bundle, has reached its midpoint, meaning it’s bonus game time. Today sees three additions to the beat-the-average part of it, and they are Cities in Motion 2, Orcs Must Die 1 GOTY and the Sanctum Collection. The average sits a bit over $4 right now.
Company of Heroes 2 gets two free maps, Southern Fronts pack out today
Company of Heroes 2 has been updated with a significant slice of new free content and improvements, as well as receiving a hefty new premium DLC pack.
First Rome 2: Total War expansion pushed to next week
Rome 2′s Caesar in Gaul DLC was announced eight days ago (find out all about it here) and planned for release on Thursday for $15, but now Creative Assembly are pushing it back to December 17 to give them time to add more fixes to the patch that will download when the DLC goes live.
Notch wanted to “create a Valve,” not work for actual Valve
Years ago when Minecraft was still in beta — only on computers back then, but still very popular — Markus ‘Notch’ Persson was invited to visit Valve in Washington, and while there he received a job offer from the juggernaut publisher. He turned it down, and explained why in new book Minecraft: The Unlikely Tale of Markus ‘Notch’ Persson and the Game that Changed Everything.
Titanfall beta “definitely” being thought about at Respawn
Titanfall got a paid of hard-hitting trailers during the VGX awards over the weekend, and Respawn co-founder Vince Zampella has said that the team is “definitely” thinking about a beta trial before the game drops on March 11.
Train Simulator 2014 dev re-branded as Dovetail Games
Train Simulator 2014 developer Rail Simulator has re-branded itself Dovetail Games with immediate effect.
Entropy: Battlestar Galactica Online studio launches new space MMO
Entropy is the new space MMO from Battlestar Galactica Online developer Artplant, and it’s live today via Steam Early Access.
Guild Wars 2 starts laying out the presents for Wintersday
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If your personal highlight of last year’s Guild Wars 2 calendar was the present-packed Wintersday festival, then start getting your best festive armour out the wardrobe. Wintersday is back for 2014, and with it comes Toymaker Tixx and his flying workshop of wonders!
Work in-progress HistWar: Napoleon marches in time for Christmas
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In my dreams, we'd get turn-based wargames based on the engines from Company of Heroes and the Total War series. That way we could have visually stunning, realistic portrayals of historical conflicts. But while I doubt I'll ever see a Close Combat game with the production values of Company of Heroes, I do believe my ship may have come in with HistWar: Napoleon.
Seriously, this trailer makes it look like a dream for people who care about historically accurate regimental uniforms and the difficulties of Napoleonic command and control.
Eldar warp into Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade
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In the dirty future of the 41st Millenium, the Space Marine is the M16 assault rifle of races. They’ll always be there, but with familiarity comes a little boredom. We’ll always love the Imperium of Man and its nutty techno-god beliefs, but sometimes tanks dressed in gothic architecture isn’t enough to satisfy our sci-fi cravings. We want flying tanks, exploding minds, and towering avatars sweeped in flame. It’s not something Space Marines, nor their usual adversaries the Chaos Marines or Orks can provide.
Luckily the Edar have enough shuriken rifles and Wraithguards to fulfil our needs for brightly coloured particle effects. They’re the latest addition to Eternal Crusade, the MMOFPS in development at Behaviour Interactive.
Riot Games API now in beta
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League of Legends developer Riot Games has just gone and slammed the launch button on their new API beta. For anyone with a League of Legends account, you can now have a tinker with a new piece of software that allows you to build tools and apps that link in to the League of Legends experience (provided you’ve got some coding know-how, of course).
Creative mod(e): Minecraft Modjam to envelop this weekend
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Modjam is a 96 hour competition in which participants are tasked with building a Minecraft project from scratch. Not the usual tools, the pickaxes and shovels and hoes, for them: instead The Code, the arcane stuff the game is made of. Nominally unofficial but run by a member of Mojang’s hallowed Minecraft team, it’s a very special event indeed.
Nu-Thief to feature 'Classic' difficulty mode and entirely removable UI
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Eidos Montreal have tackled the decidedly mixed response to early Thief footage in a fashion that’s either incredibly accommodating or take-my-lunch-money feeble. They’ve cut the XP system, scrapped QTEs, and now introduced enough turn-offables to their options menu to reduce the game to a camera on a stick in a dark place with nothing left to complain about.
John Carmack Talks About Doom 4: “id Software should do more things more often”
Today is Doom’s 20th anniversary and Wired has a long interview with John Carmack about this legendary FPS title. At the end of the interview, Wired asked John what was going on with Doom 4 and as most would expect, John did not reveal much. John claimed that this subject is something he can’t really go into much in detail, though he did reveal some tiny bit information about its development. Continue reading
Legends of Persia – New Hack n Slash RPG – First Gameplay Footage Revealed, Releases This January
Sourena Game Studio announced today the impending release of Legends Of Persia to the PC and has released a new trailer featuring gameplay footage from this new hack n slash title. Scheduled for release in January of 2014, the game is an ambitious Action RPG Adventure in style of Diablo incorporating bloody battles, item usage, character building, and storyline incorporation. Continue reading
Awesomenauts: Starstorm Expansion Launches On December 12th
Ronimo Games has announced that Starstorm - an epic expansion of the multiplayer action game Awesomenauts – will be released on December 12th. This initial release will be an early access package for the Starstorm DLC, which was successfully funded on Kickstarter last September. The early access pack is all about the first of five upcoming characters: Ted McPain. Continue reading
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