Far Cry 4 really very likely to exist, with a little help from Ubisoft Shanghai
Shanghai by night. It’s raining. Everywhere’s a film noir set in January. A slender figure, framed against neon, runs as if pulled by his nose. He reaches the postbox, thrusts something inside, and slumps; assailants close over him like a venus fly trap.
Four days later, a dossier falls across my desk. From our man in China, it spills the beans on a Far Cry sequel. The case, it is blown wide open.
Oh, alright. It was a LinkedIn profile.
Eve Online's largest ever battle is underway - because one corp forgot to pay their rent
More than 2,200 players are fighting a battle that dwarfs all previous contenders for the largest skirmish in Eve history. Hundreds of thousands of dollars are estimated to have been lost in destroyed ships since yesterday afternoon - and the back-and-forth is expected to continue for several hours yet.
The conflict began by accident, when one corporation failed to pay their station rent - and an entire sector promptly unravelled around them.
SOE’s Next Game ‘Dedicated’ To Star Wars Galaxies Fans
By Nathan Grayson on January 28th, 2014 at 12:00 pm.
Back in my day, we played the original pre-NGE Star Wars Galaxies, and we liked it. No seriously, we really did, and I think the tide of public (or at least, gamerly) opinion has started lapping at those same shores over the years. Sure, the MMO was a mess when it first tractor-beamed money out of thousands of wallets, but it tried to be legitimately different. It set out to let us authentically inhabit the Star Wars universe, a brilliant vision hampered by half-finished, well, everything. But then the New Game Experience happened, everybody became a Jedi, and SWG was never the same again. SOE, it turns out, regrets that one big time, and they’d like to apologize. With a new game.
LoL Gets 27 Million Players A Day And Other BIG NUMBERS
By Nathan Grayson on January 28th, 2014 at 11:00 am.
Time for more numbers from the LUDICROUSPHERE, aka League of Legends. The MOBA with mo’ mo(nies) than any other ba is now at 27 million players per day. 27 million different people. Every day. And per month? 67 million unique human beings, each snowflakes in their own rights, all crashing blizzard-like into Riot’s behemoth. Those are impressive numbers, certainly. RPS, however, would like to announce some even more impressive numbers.
Gender Swap Is A Fascinating Use Of Oculus Rift (NSFW)
By John Walker on January 27th, 2014 at 8:00 pm.
I’ve yet to put on some Oculus Rift goggles, which rather annoys me. I imagine March’s GDC will see that cherry popped for me, but I suspect not in a way as innovative or intriguing as is offered by Gender Swap. As part of The Machine To Be Another, an ongoing experimental art project, this uses the virtual reality headset to give users the experience of being someone else – and in this case, someone of a different sex.
I Very Much Roguelike The Humble Weekly Bundle
By John Walker on January 27th, 2014 at 7:00 pm.
While the main Humble Bundle is diverting itself from gaming with a really quite splendid collection of audiobooks, it seems to have snuck out one of the best collections of games so far in its Weekly Bundle. Rather than showcasing games from one studio, this week it’s a collection of Roguelikes. (Everyone who wants to have a fight about the terminology, please do so here.) That’s Paranautical Activity, Dungeons Of Dredmor Complete, Hack Slash Loot, The Binding Of Isaac + DLC, Teleglitch Die More Edition, and Sword Of The Stars: The Pit Gold. Cor.
BioShock Infinite – Burial at Sea Episode 2 Trailer
2K Games and Irrational Games have released a trailer for the second episode of Bioshock Infinite’s single-driven episodic DLC, Burial at Sea. Spoiler alert: do not watch this trailer if you have not completed the first episode of Burial at Sea. Burial at Sea Episode 2 will put the player in the role of Elizabeth as she explores Rapture during its fall, and will be priced at $15. Enjoy! Continue reading
Alien: Isolation Will Be Playable At This Year’s “Rezzed: The PC and Indie Games” Event
Gamer Network announced today that Alien: Isolation, the new survival horror game from Creative Assembly, will be available for the public to play for the first time anywhere in the world at this year’s EGX Rezzed. Published by SEGA, Alien: Isolation will be playable on three formats: PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Continue reading
Square Enix reveals first Collective games
In October 2013 Square Enix announced it was partnering with Indiegogo to create a new crowdfunding platform called Collective, to help developers turn their pitches into games. Today, Collective went live, revealing the first three games that users can vote on.
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