Battleblock Theater trailer shows PC release was worth waiting a year for
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It may have been sat idle on Xbox 360 for the past year but, finally, Battleblock Theater is coming to the PC. The Behemoth's follow up ot Castle Crashers sees you and a friend race through platformer levels full of lava traps, TNT, and exploding goats.
As well as a PC release - along with the extra lovelies that come with Steam support - Battleblock is set to have a private beta event later this month. At least, that’s what the new trailer tells us.
Crawl is a dungeon runner where your friends play the monsters
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“Your friends are all bastards.” That’s the message Powerhoof seem to be sending with their game Crawl. One player controls a dungeon explorer as he moves from tomb to tomb collecting loot, the other three are disgruntled spirits trying to kill them. Possessing traps or using arcane symbols to rise as a monster, the spirits have a lot of tools at their command for splatting the human.
However, whoever kills the human is resurrected themselves and must fight off the other three players.
Mists of Pandaria Digital Deluxe edition being put to rest
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The World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria Digital Deluxe edition is going the way of the dodo, or a more appropriate extinct animal from Azeroth. In a week (no sooner than March 10th), Blizzard will be discontinuing the edition. So if you have been contemplating upgrading or maybe jumping back into WoW after a prolonged break, you’ll want to grab it as soon as possible.
It seems likely that Blizzard is doing a bit of spring cleaning before announcing the Warlords of Draenei Digital Deluxe edition.
OnLive reveals CloudLift: pick up where you left off using your Steam cloud saves
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“So I’ve been playing Lego: Lord of the Rings. If I were to load up OnLive, and connect my Steam account right now, I could just pick up where I left it?”
“Yes,” responds Bruce Grove, OnLive’s UK General Manager, “CloudLift will pull the savegame down from Steam’s cloud, open it on one of PCs in a datacenter, and you can start playing it from there.”
“Really? I mean, really?”
“Yup.”
Shoot Hitler over and over again in Sniper Elite 3's preorder DLC
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Rebellion’s shooting men in the testicles game, Sniper Elite 3, has just been shot with a release date. It’s coming out on June 27th, worldwide. And, of course, there’s some preorder bonus DLC. It asks an important question: DID HITLER REALLY DIE IN BERLIN? It asks this in caps because when you ask that sort of question, you’re probably shouting it at people while drunk.
Titanfall season pass and deluxe edition detailed
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Respawn’s Titanfall is getting a season pass. Of course it is. It offers access to the three planned slices of DLC for £19.99/$24.99, saving you a whopping £5/$5. Looks like we’re saving a little bit more over here in blighty. With that spare fiver you could buy a burger and a beer at a questionable bar.
On Origin, you can also grab the Titanfall Digital Deluxe edition which chucks in the season pass as well. That’ll set you back £59.99/$79.99.
Star Citizen dogfighting module launch planned for April, reveals monthly progress report
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To keep backers and those hungry for information up to date on Star Citizen, Chris Roberts and Cloud Imperium are kicking off a new monthly production progress report from the different teams working on the increasingly ambitious game. The first one is up now, and reveals that the long awaited dogfighting module - which was pushed back last year - will be playable very soon.
Hideo Kojima would like to bring Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain to PC
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Metal Gear Solid 5 has been confirmed for every non-handheld platform apart from the Wii U and PC. But series creator Hideo Kojima would like to change that, bringing the latest installment of the venerable franchise to PC, according to Gamespot.
Ashen Rift: A man and his dog – New first person survival horror – gets a Kickstarter campaign
Barry Collins has informed us about the launch of a Kickstarter campaign for his upcoming first person survival horror title that will be powered by Unity 3D, Ashen Rift: A man and his dog. Ashen Rift is a game for PC, Mac and Linux that places you and your canine companion Bounder in a barely recognizable Earth which has been twisted and drained of almost all life. Continue reading
World of Tanks gets a new Dev Diary that Focuses on its Upcoming Physics Enhancements
Wargaming has released a new dev diary for World of Tanks in which the development team gives us a glimpse at the upcoming physics enhancements. The new physics engine of World of Tanks looks spectacular, and will give players the ability to completely destroy buildings. Enjoy! Continue reading
Chris Roberts; 4K on PC more beneficial, can’t appreciate resolution at certain distance
Lately we’ve been hearing a lot about resolutions and how console gamers are unable to distinguish the difference between 720p and 1080p. And while most of you will raise your hand and say that you can easily notice the difference between these two resolution standards, Star Citizen’s Chris Roberts claimed that really high resolutions can’t be really appreciated when players are gaming on their HDTVs.. Continue reading
Frictional Games Releases New Teaser Trailer For SOMA
Frictional Games has released a new teaser trailer for its upcoming sci-fi horror title, SOMA. SOMA seems to be powered by a modified version of Amnesia’s engine and is planned for a 2015 release on PC and PS4. Enjoy! Continue reading
Croteam Reveals New IP, Serious Sam 4 Coming Q4 2014
Croteam has just revealed that Serious Sam 4 is currently planned for a Q4 2014 release. In addition, Croteam revealed a new IP that it is currently working on and is described as a mixture between Portal and The Witness. Continue reading
That Was Fast: Crawl, NIKO, 48 Others Greenlit
By Nathan Grayson on March 5th, 2014 at 8:00 pm.
Seems like only yesterday that we were posting about Crawl’s spiffy new hot-pink-emblazoned Steam Greenlight page, and that’s because it was. In what has to be some kind of record, it’s already emerged from Valve’s crowd-run dungeon with keys to the Steam kingdom in hand. Why, before you know it, Crawl will probably be learning to drive, graduating from college, and serving minimal time for its first white collar crime. They grow up so fast. Other standouts from this week’s 50-strong Greenlight selection include NIKO: Through The Dream and open-world horror-thon Memories of A Fisherman.
After The Zeno Clash: Abyss Odyssey
By Adam Smith on March 5th, 2014 at 7:00 pm.
With Zeno Clash developers ACE Team at the helm, Abyss Odyssey will no doubt take place in quite an odd world, but it definitely won’t take place in Oddworld, even if the title does look a bit like Abe’s Oddysee. The newly announced game is a side-scroller like Oddworld’s first, but ACE Team are sticking to their principles by concentrating on creatures engaging in fisticuffs. Taking place in a randomised world, Abyss Odyssey is a beat ‘em up in which every enemy has a full moveset and enough artificial gumption to offer a challenge. This is demonstrated by means of a video showing a lady fighting a skeleton.
Larian On Near-Closure, Divinity’s Future, Gender Parity
By Nathan Grayson on March 5th, 2014 at 5:00 pm.
Divinity: Original Sin is looking positively divine. Honestly, in the sheer heat of the moment, I might be more excited about it than Pillars of Eternity or Wasteland 2. I already spoke at length with Larian head Swen Vincke during a massive video play session, but that wasn’t enough. Afterward, we chatted about everything from the studio’s rocky, too-close-to-closure-for-comfort history to the possibility of using Divinity’s engine on a non-fantasy RPG to the chances that Larian goes back to Kickstarter. On top of all that, Vincke told me why having gender parity (one male, one female) on his writing team turned out to be the “best decision ever.”
Vincke’s admirably frank answers to roughly a million questions are below.
Interceptor On 3D Realms, Gearbox, Blood, The Future
By Nathan Grayson on March 4th, 2014 at 5:00 pm.
It hasn’t exactly been “business as usual” for Interceptor lately. First the Rise of the Triad necromancer stealthily didn’t quite reveal a new Duke Nukem game, and then Gearbox *did* entirely sue them for it. But while the Borderlands creator is flinging around 87 bazillion pieces of supposed evidence to the contrary, Interceptor believes it’s in the clear – especially in light of the fact that it now owns original Duke Nukem creator 3D Realms. What does all of this madness mean for Interceptor’s future, though? Is owning 3D Realms even a good thing these days, what with the stinking stain of Duke Nukem Forever still fresh on its name? And what happens to series like Shadow Warrior, which have been lent out (to great results) to other developers?
Also, Blood. Will there be Blood? Can there be Blood? All that and more below from CEO Frederik Schreiber and new 3DR head Mike Nielsen below.
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