Standby for Titanfall: PC players can now pre-load via Origin
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If you’re going to succeed in the rubble-troubled streets of Angel City, you’re going to need to improve your timing. You’ll want to engage your camo at such a time that you can dart from one window to another unseen. You’ll have to reload your rockets before that fellow Titan rounds the corner, not afterwards.
The improvement program starts here. Pre-load your copy of Titanfall before it unlocks on Origin later this week, and that’s 50GB you won’t have to install while everybody else is hopping off roofs and stabbing strangers with data knives.
Warcraft movie star Dominic Cooper talks the "terrifying" task of appeasing Blizzard fans
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Hollywood type and Best History Boy Dominic Cooper is fresh off the Need for Speed flick, which early accounts suggest has worked out rather nicely. Need for Speed, though, doesn’t have lore. It doesn’t have a decade of continuous fiction behind it, nor a playerbase with long-held ideas about the way its world looks and its characters talk.
That’s why Cooper’s pooing himself a bit about the upcoming Warcraft movie.
Tales from the Borderlands to feature not just one unreliable narrator, but two
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Update: Added full SXSW panel video on Tales from the Borderlands.
Unreliable narrators are a uniquely compelling prospect in vidyagames, where tricksy designers can force players to occupy whitewashed worlds and live through altered events dreamed up by storytellers with ulterior motives.
It’s remained a chiefly literary concept, however - until bullshitters helped elevate Dragon Age II beyond its repeating level design, and render Call of Juarez: Gunslinger an unlikely candidate for best shooter of last year.
The same trick will power the future of a post-Walking Dead Telltale - whose Gearbox tie-in Tales from the Borderlands will feature two playable liars.
MMO ecognomics: Warlords of Draenor trailer flaunts new character model and animations
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Here’s a trailer designed to exclaim three things we already knew: a new Warcraft expansion is happening! It’s called Warlords of Draenor! You’ll suddenly be level 90!
The main draw for us is a new gnome character model. We’ve already seen the updated female dwarf and modernised female orc - here we get to see how the men are shaping up.
Planets³ is a hyper-ambitious sandbox RPG that's both Minecraft and MMO
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Of all the games to attempt to one-up Minecraft, there are none more literal about it than Planets³. So you like cubes, huh, Notch? Well, what if I told you we have a cube so large it’s an entire planet? And that it and a bunch of other cube planets spin in a square trajectory around a block sun?
Fortunately, the would-be Planets³ dev team have a tentative feature set to back it up.
Diary of the Dead: Dark Souls Deaths counts your many failures
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With Dark Souls 2 looming, due out April 25th, perhaps it's a good time to reflect over your failures in its predecessor; all those untimely deaths at the boney hands of the undead or huge claws of a dragon.
Fan-made Dark Souls Deaths has you covered. Simply upload your Dark Souls save file to the site, and voila, it will tell you just how absolutely terrible you are.
Frozen Endzone Early Access kicks off today
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Frozen Endzone, the simultaneous-turn-based robot sport from the future launched on Steam today, through Early Access.
The strategy game from the makers of Frozen Synapse has been in beta since early December, and the move to Early Access brings with it a big update including a new game mode, editors and a commentary system.
World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor now available for pre-purchase; could launch in autumn
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World of Warcraft’s boost to level 90 trailer wasn’t the only thing to come out of Azeroth today. Warlords of Draenor is now available for pre-purchase. It’ll set you back £34.99/$49.99 for the standard edition and £49.99/$69.99 for the Digital Deluxe edition.
There’s also a tentative release window of autumn this year, while the product details section states that it will release on or before 20/12/2014.
EA CEO lays out virtual reality plans
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EA CEO Andrew Wilson voiced the company’s virtual reality strategy in a panel at SXSW Gaming recently. He explained that a company can’t plan its future around hardware, as it’s too volatile a space, so EA is looking at how players are consuming games right now and how technology such as VR will be used by them in the future.
"When we think about making games today, we think less about the technology or the means of experiencing the game, and we think more about the modality of play," Wilson said. "So, how are you trying to interact with that game?"
An unofficial way to play PC games with an Xbox One controller may appear as soon as tomorrow
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Despite Xbox 360 controller support being pretty common in PC titles over the last years - to the point where it’s recommended in the requirements list of some games - there’s still no official support for Xbox One controllers. Though such support is planned for this year.
Developer Lucas Assis was hunting for unofficial drivers when he discovered that one already existed, but its creator didn’t release it due to “legal issues”. That’s when he decided to make one himself, after a fashion; one he thinks is safe to release.
Monochromatic FPS Betrayer launches on March 24th
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Betrayer has made me rather scared of many things: trees, monochrome colour palettes, 17th Century Spaniards… okay, so maybe just three things. Blackpowder’s haunting FPS mystery is unsettled the bejesus out of me when I played a preview build last year, and I expect it to do the same when it leaves Early Access in the 24th.
It’s finished, revealed Blackpowder - a studio made up from ex-Monolith folk - last week. “We're grateful for all the feedback and suggestions the community provided during our Early Access. Your involvement resulted in many new features and refinements and helped us make a better, richer game experience.”
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II Comes Out On April 17th
Neocore Games has announced that its steampunk action-RPG, The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II, is now available for pre-order on PC. In addition, the company revealed that the game is set to release on PC and Mac, April 17th for $14.99 on Steam. Continue reading
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