RuneScape celebrates 13th anniversary by “going back to its roots”
RuneScape is celebrating its 13th anniversary today, and to help ring in the milestone, Jagex has released a video showing what’s in store for players in 2014. According to the developer, the game is “going back to its roots,” via a collaborative effort between developers and the community. “We want to give the power to the players to decide what we do and when it happens,” said the firm. “In mid-January, we’re going to launch a new in-game poll system, which will give members at least one new content poll to vote on each week.” More information can be found through the official website. Thanks, TenTonHammer.
Throne Together now available through the Windows Store for W8.1
Throne Together, which popped up recently through a trademark application, has been released on the Windows Store. The free, Windows 8.1 block-based puzzle game tasks players and their dragon assistant Fidget with placing blocks to build castles for their “royal clients” while pleasing the Castle Inspector in the process. Build wisely, or risk being “overthrone as the kingdom’s premiere architect.” More through the link.
The Evil Within concept art surfaces
More concept art for The Evil Within has been posted over on CGHub by freelance artist Lu Cheng. The shots were dig up by fan site TheEvilWithin.net. You can check out the gallery below; however, as the poster over on the site notes, they may contain spoilers. You have been warned. The Evil Within is in development for the Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and PC and is slated for release sometime this year. Thanks, AGB.
SOE making changes to premium membership benefits for some of its MMOs
Sony Online Entertainment is making changes to premium membership benefits to EverQuest, EverQuest 2, PlanetSide 2 and some of its other MMOs, starting next month.
Rekoil releasing on PC later this month, releasing as Rekoil: Liberator on XBL
Plastic Piranha has announced it will release Rekoil, its multiplatform team-based shooter with a strong community focus, later this month. The console version will be known as Rekoil: Liberator.
Twitch personality claims home was raided following DDoS – report [UPDATE]
Reports have surfaced that YouTube personality and prominent Twitch streamer James “PhantomL0rd” Varga , whose streams were hit with a DDoS attack, was well aware that DERP were planning to bring his stream down – so he struck a deal with the lot.
Steam Family Sharing now limits sharing to 10 friends
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Turns out Steam users are quite the sharers. At least, that’s what I’m guessing from the new rule change to the Family Sharing Beta. Previously you could grant access to your game library to as many machines as you wanted. Now there is a ten shares limit. Sounds like Valve found people were sharing their games with many more accounts than they expected.
Plus, you have to authorise specific users, too.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive breaks 100,000 concurrent players
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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive continues its rise to dominance as, last night, it broke through 100,000 concurrent players. It’s by far the most played Counter-Strike on Steam but it’s difficult to gauge it’s popularity in relation to the other versions of the franchise as records simply don’t exist.
Gabe Newell: “being really good at Half-Life level design is not as nearly as valued as thinking of how to design social multi-player experiences”
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Where’s Half-Life 3? Eh, Valve? Well, it’s hardly new discussion and Newell’s not gone and said anything about it to the Washington Post. Instead, their recently published interview looks into the structure of the developer. It makes for a fascinating read, too.
What the interview does give us a little of is why Valve weren’t initially, at least, keen to crowbar a sequel out of the design team. It would have them too set in their ways.
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