Call of Cthulhu inbound from Sherlock Holmes developer Frogwares
Call of Cthulhu is a new Lovecraftian adventure from Frogwares and publisher Focus Home Interactive. Take a look at a first batch of suitably atmospheric concept art through the break.
US digital games market grew 11% in 2013 – report
Don’t let that nasty slump in software sales on the NPD’s 2013 report get you down; digital games market analyst firm SuperData has found plenty of positivity in non-traditional channels.
TF2, Dota 2 creators have earned an average of $15,000 each
Remember how Team Fortress 2 and Dota 2 item creators had earned over $10 million in royalties by June 2013? Turns out that figure was generated by a surprisingly small number of creators.
League of Legends: Little Wraith team members handed ban after server crackdown
League of Legends pro team Little Wraith’s players have been hit with bans just a couple of months after qualifying for the Intel Extreme Masters Regional Invitational. Riot Games has since responded to the matter.
Evolve: Trapper & Support classes detailed, new images inside
Evolve developer Turtle Rock Studios has detailed the co-op shooter’s Trapper and Support classes, and their abilities, along with some new screens. Get the skinny here.
Battlefield 4: PC server update reportedly breaks spawn mechanic, fix rumoured for today
Battlefield 4′s most recent PC server update is said to have botched the shooter’s spawn mechanic. Rumblings from the community suggest a fix is coming today.
Microsoft will “act expeditiously” to complaints of cloned games on Windows store
Following the outing of Braid clones by Jonathan Blow, Microsoft claims to move swiftly where IP rights are threatened. More »
Don’t Starve: Reign of Giants DLC gets teaser trailer, watch here
Don’t Starve developer Klei Entertainment has released a teaser trailer for the survival title’s DLC expansion, dubbed ‘Reign of Giants.’ Watch it here.
Titanfall dev discusses dedicated dual-core server, cloud functions work ‘like loading a webpage’
Titanfall developer Respawn Entertainment has shed light on the shooter’s dedicated server tech and cloud functionality in a new interview. Apparently, the cloud server features will be like loading up a webpage. “It just works,” one interviewee said.
Project Spark beta tester makes Fable’s Oakvale in-game
Project Spark beta testers are currently tinkering away with Team Dakota’s game-creation toolbox, and one user has re-created Fable village Oakvale in-game.
Etherium: sci-fi RTS gets its first trailer & details
Etherium is the new sci-fi RTS from Stellar Impact developer Tindalos Interactive, and its just received its first trailer, along with a handful of details. Watch the clip here.
Bethesda hiring next-gen talent to push “bleeding-edge of RPG development”
Bethesda Game Studios has posted a few job adverts online relating to RPG development on PC and consoles.
Square Enix closes its Core Online streaming service
Square Enix has ended its Core Online game streaming service just 18 months after it launched. In fact, it ended in November, but with little fanfare.
Bound by Flame screenshots and concept art show a dangerous world
Bound by Flame, the RPG in the works at Spiders Studios, has set of screenshots and concept art available courtesy of its official website.
Warlords of Draenor pre-purchase nets automatic level 90 boost
World of Warcraft players who pre-purchase Warlords of Draenor will be handed the bonus ability to boost one of their characters to level 90 immediately.
Tomb Raider was profitable and “in the black” by the end of 2013
Tomb Raider’s initial sales may have been disappointing to Square Enix at launch, but the game was profitable in the end, according to executive producer Scot Amos.
Divinity: Original Sin is now available through Steam Early Access
Divinity: Original Sin is now available through Steam Early Access, Larian Studios has announced. After last year’s $1 million crowdfunding campaign, the single-player and co-op RPG is available through early access in two editions: standard (€39.99/$39.99) and the Co-Op Deluxe Pack (€59.99/$59.99) which comes with two copies of the game and a double pack of Divine Divinity plus Beyond Divinity. A new video is below the fold. The game is slated for release on February 28.
AMD's Mantle API: how it works and why PC developers will adopt it
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Since the fall, we’ve heard some eyebrow-raising claims about Mantle, AMD’s new API (application programming interface). The numbers being tossed around in terms of performance-gain seem almost hard to believe, with Battlefield 4 running up to 45% faster via Mantle over DirectX.
It seems too good to be true, so we talked with AMD’s Robert Hallock. He explained how AMD have been able to achieve these kind of results with their API, and why he thinks it has such a strong case for being adopted as a standard. If he’s right, Mantle could spell huge changes for how games are made, and what kind of performance PC gamers can expect from their own machines.
China’s free-to-play shooter CrossFire earns more than League of Legends and World of Warcraft combined
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Tencent must be pretty chuffed right now. Their latest earnings report for 2013 shows that CrossFire alone, their free-to-play shooter, earned them $957 million. If that wasn’t enough, their other major free-to-play game, League of Legends, earned them another $624 million.
Free-to-play is clearly huge in China. Shows why quite so many developers are eager to tap into the market.
Assetto Corsa – New Screenshots
KUNOS Simulazioni has released a new set of screenshots for its sim racing title, Assetto Corsa. In addition, the team revealed that a new version of its game is available on Steam, featuring AI events, BMW 1M Coupe Series and Lotus Evora GTE. Enjoy! Continue reading
THIEF – PC System Requirements Revealed, Requires 20GB Of HDD
EIDOS Montreal has revealed the PC system requirements for THIEF. According to the team, THIEF will at least require a high performance dual core CPU or quad core CPU, 20GB of free disk space, 4GB of RAM and DirectX 10. Continue reading
Teotl Studios Reveals Its “Survival” “Sci-fi” and “Discovery” Unreal Engine 4-powered Game, Solus
Teotl Studios has revealed its new survival sci-fi discovery game that will be powered by Unreal Engine 4 and will be called Solus. In Solus, players must survive on an uninhabited planet amid incredibly harsh conditions with the player under constant threat from extreme highs and lows of temperatures, rising and falling tides, shifting winds and fog, and dozens of other variables that affect everything from the ground-level atmosphere to the stars above. Continue reading
Project Tower – Puzzle/Hack’n'slash Title Powered By Unreal Engine 4 – First Early Footage Revealed
Springboard Interactive has released the first video footage from its upcoming puzzle/hack’n'slash title that will be powered by Epic’s Unreal Engine 4. Now while this may be THAT impressive, keep in mind that it is early WIP footage (hell, the game does not even have a proper title). Although we don’t have much information about it, we suspect it is a mobile/PC title. Springboard promised to reveal more soon, so stay tuned for more! Continue reading
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