TellTale discusses new Game of Thrones & Borderlands titles
TellTale Games may be working on the second season of The Walking Dead right now, but it’s got a busy 2014 ahead with new games based on Borderlands and Game of Thrones. The studio has explained how both deals happened, and what they’ll involved in a new interview.
Get Even: Painkiller dev reveals next-gen shooter, first images inside
Get Even is the new PC and next-gen shooter from Painkiller: Hell & Damnation studio The Farm 51. The developer has released its first batch of screens. Check them out here.
Oculus Rift-supported World of Diving shows off its multiplayer
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Multiplayer underwater romp World of Diving didn't manage to secure the $75,000 it asked for on Indiegogo earlier this year, but that hasn't stopped Dutch developer Vertigo Games from going ahead with the game anyway. After getting Greenlit on Steam, Vertigo reinvested their time and money gained from other projects into the aqua caper, and now they've got some pre-alpha footage to show off.
It certainly looks relaxing, like a lovely soak in a tub filled with turtles.
Team Fortress 2 gets frosty, big plans are in the works for 2014
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Team Fortress 2's holiday celebrations are already in full swing. With Smissmas comes a slew of festive weaponary, winter-themed community cosmetics, and a big holiday sale in the Mann Co. store. If you play during Smissmas, you'll find your stocking filled with special goodies, to boot. Free stuff is what the season is all about.
Valve's also working on some big surprises for 2014, but of course they're keeping things close to their chest. Take a gander below for the full list of changes for the Smissmas update.
An interview with Fullbright's Steve Gaynor: what made Gone Home work?
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“How are we going to allow the player to fully, interactively inhabit a role in this immersive space that is non-linear?,” Steve Gaynor asks us. He has the luxury of doing so rhetorically, having worked over the details at length with his four-strong team in Portland during the development of Gone Home - a game about rifling through an empty house to discover that it’s brimming with life.
The kind of studios that have asked this question before are mostly dead and buried. Looking Glass Studios met an ignoble demise at the turn of the century amid cardboard boxes and blank plaster walls unbothered by award cabinets. Deus Ex originators Ion Storm Austin took custody of their charge, Thief, but followed soon after. And great recent hope 2K Marin - founded by the level designer behind Thief: Deadly Shadows’ infamous Cradle and BioShock’s Fort Frolic, Jordan Thomas - succumbed to the very vocal critics of their first-person XCOM before folding themselves.
Smashing stuff: Next Car Game Early Access launches
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Since cars are essentially metal coffins on wheels, I don't drive. But people have explained to me that it's a fairly popular pursuit, and that sometimes folk even race these speeding death traps and even crash them into each other for kicks. Maybe everyone would be safer if these people just played Next Car Game, a demolition derby themed racer that's conveniently just hit Early Access.
It's only available through developer Bugbear's website, but you'll be able to download it on Steam and you'll get some extra goodies for chipping in early like a special supporters car and your name in the game.
Elite: Dangerous alpha augmented with early VR support
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There’s not an awful lot of Elite: Dangerous there at the moment. A set of combat scenarios for Kickstarter backers. An array of admittedly beautiful cockpits, which beep and rattle and set on fire. Many asteroids. That’s okay, because it’s not due out for another three months or so.
But it’s already got convincing VR support, according to an RPS report. A little low-res, a tad pixelated, but quite a bit like being in the most exciting possible version of space.
Hartacon Tactics – Online Turn-Based RPG – PC Demo Out Now
Charlie Fleed announced today the release of the PC demo for its upcoming online strategy turn-based RPG, Hartacon Tactics. According to its description, Hartacon is an online RPG game developed with XNA that allows players to challenge each other in online battles. Battles take place in 2D isometric maps with 4-angles view and zoom. A player can create one or more parties of characters of different classes, each with peculiar stats, skills and weapons. Continue reading
Reset Struggles With Its IndieGoGo Campaign, 18 Hours Left To Raise €10K [UPDATE: Funded]
Reset is a game I really want to see hitting our platform. And although it looked like its IndieGoGo campaign would be failing a week ago, today we can say that there is still hope. Theory Interactive has managed to get really close to its initial €65K goal as it needs to raise €10K in the next 18 hours in order to meet it, so here is a final push for that crowd-funding game. Continue reading
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