Guild Wars 2 trailer teases end of Living World story, next chapter coming Jan 21
Guild Wars 2 publisher NC Soft has sent us a new trailer that recaps the story of ArenaNet’s ‘Living World’ updates so far. The clip teases something leading up to the end of the tale on January 21.
Saints Row 4 anime costume pack hits Steam, is nuts
Saints Row 4 developer Volition Inc has released the game’s anime costume pack on Steam, and it’s pretty bonkers.
Nosgoth inviting more players into testing phase as trial moves into closed beta
Nosgoth publisher Square Enix has confirmed it will begin inviting new players into the multiplayer test, as it moves from closed alpha to closed beta.
First impressions: the Steam Machine and its confounding controller
Phil Owen plays Metro: Last Light and Portal with Valve’s new controller and finds it an utterly bewildering experience. More »
The Banner Saga: Journey composer opens soundtrack pre-orders
The Banner Saga features a wonderful score by Journey composer Austin Wintory, and he’s opened up pre-orders of the arrangements on his BandCamp profile.
Alien: Isolation’s survival horror format brings the fear factor – interview & impressions
In space no one can hear you scream but in West Sussex they sure can. Stace Harman puts on a brave face for the reveal of The Creative Assembly’s multi-format survival-horror title, Alien: Isolation.
Alien: Isolation gameplay and screens reveal Amanda Ripley & her xenomorph nemesis
Alien: Isolation publisher Sega has revealed the official batch of screens and character art from The Creative Assembly’s horror title. They show new hero Amanda Ripley, a xenomorph and many eerie environments. There’s gameplay too!
Alien: Isolation trailers reveal The Creative Assembly’s horror project
Alien: Isolation publisher Sega has revealed the first trailers for The Creative Assembly’s horror tie-in. Watch them here.
Evolve is Game Informer’s February cover, is next-gen shooter from Turtle Rock
Evolve has been revealed as Game Informer’s February cover reveal – it’s a four-player co-op alien shooter coming to PC, PS4 and Xbox One.
Evolve boxart shows monster’s footprint
Evolve, the Turtle Rock multiplayer shooter headed to PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, is apparently far enough along that 2K Games has already finalised its cover art. Hit the break to see the result.
South Park: The Stick of Truth release slips by a few days
South Park: The Stick of Truth has encountered the smallest of delays. Don’t worry, it’s not as bad as it sounds.
Steam Machines promo runs through gameplay, OS, library and more
Want to see the controller and games in action on Valve’s new Steam Machine platform? We’ve got what you need. More »
Humble Bundle X includes Joe Danger 2, To The Moon, Papo & Yo
Popular games bundle hits tenth edition, pay more than average to unlock Surgeon Simulator 2013. More »
The Stanley Parable, Device 6, Papers Please among IGF finalist favourites
Finalists for the IGF Awards have been announced, with a couple of favoured titles popping up again and again across categories.
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Thief development troubles not “all that different” to other projects – Bucci
Thief technical art director Jean-Normand Bucci has played down the reboot’s rumoured development issues, suggesting the project’s rough patches are par for the course in triple-A development.
Oculus Rift developing games internally, Carmack on board
Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake and Rage creative John Carmack is lending his talents to Oculus Rift’s internal games development program.
Nvidia reveals GameStream-ready PCs and routers optimised for PC and cloud streaming
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Streaming games! It's what everyone's talking about, even my mum. Well, maybe not, but she did post a picture on Facebook of a stream that she took on a countryside walk with the family dog. That stream was streaming water. Close enough, I reckon. And I'm sure she'd be fascinated by Nvidia's list of GameStream ready PCs and wireless routers, which was recently unveiled.
Razer's Project Christie modular gaming PC is from the sexiest of futures
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One of the coolest - and weirdest - things to appear at CES has to be Razer's new modular gaming PC, Project Christie. It's only a concept right now, though a working, tangible one, but it's already looking stunning and a bit of a dream for people who hate faffing about when upgrading their desktop.
It's beautiful and understated, and strikingly simple, at least on the surface. There's a bay station, which just looks like a single, thick strip that surrounds all the modules, and upgrading the desktop just requires you to plug a new unit into it, connected to the bay through Razer's proprietary interface. Simple as that.
All the modules are mineral oil cooled, so it's as quiet as death, and the quick release fittings mean that you can just swap modules easily, upgrading from a single GPU to SLI in a matter of seconds. It's like something out of Star Trek, if Star Trek wasn't really dated.
DayZ beta almost a year away, with a new roadmap coming this month
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A post on the DayZ dev blog from Bohemia Interactive's Marek Spanel confirmed the long wait we have ahead of us until the Early Access title reaches beta, which is almost a year away. "[W]e do not expect to reach Beta status sooner than the end of 2014."
Its alpha status hasn't put many people off, however, as Dean "Rocket" Hall revealed that 800,000 copies of the game had been sold in less than a month on the weekend, a figure that has continued to increase dramatically since then. Spanel notes that over 875,000 copies have now been sold.
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