Become a recruitment mercenary with the EVE Online Recall Program
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Space can be a lonely place: it’s big, most of it is empty of things larger than a particle and no one can hear you scream. If you’re an EVE Online player, and you lost a beloved wingman whose witty banter you miss, or you long for the days when you used to play games of cat and mouse with a wiley nemesis, you can now bribe them back into the game.
CCP has set up a Recall Program, allowing pilots, tycoons, miners and CEOs to send invites to a lapsed players, giving them seven days of free game time, potentially netting themselves rewards in the process.
The Elder Scrolls Online wants to remind you it's launching today with a flashy trailer
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Did you know that The Elder Scrolls Online launches today? You probably do, since Jeremy just mentioned it a few hours ago. Yep, haughty elves, shifty lizard folk and buff orcs will be running around killing things for the promise of experience and loot pretty damn soon.
ZeniMax Online have put together another striking, but utterly unrepresentative, trailer for you to gawp at to celebrate the launch. Plaster your eyes all over it inappropriately, below.
Battlefield 4's elusive megalodon finally discovered hanging out in a Naval Strike map
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For a good long while, intrepid shark hunters have been searching for the megalodon, the giant prehistoric shark, in Battlefield 4. There have been suggestions that it was hiding in the water since not long after the game’s launch, and despite finding further clues, players were still unable to find something that seems far to big to hide.
As it turns out, this was because it was lurking in the waters of one of the Naval Strike maps, Nansha Strike, the DLC expansion which has only just been released. But the big beastie has finally been discovered, and it’s quite the sight to behold.
Better together: ArenaNet spills the beans on how Guild Wars 2's megaservers will affect other features
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ArenaNet announced the Guild Wars 2 megaserver system a couple of days ago, as part of the April feature pack. It matches players from the same region with the same interests - in terms of how they play Guild Wars - and chucks them all into the same map. And if a chum is on a different map, you can just jump to their version of the world and play together.
But a big, sweeping change like this naturally impacts other aspects of the game, such as world bosses, map events and guilds. ArenaNet has broken down how these features will evolve to make them fit with the megaserver system.
Goodbye GameSpy: the online service will shut down on May 31st
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It seems like it’s the year for unpleasant multiplayer and online services getting shut down. The universally loathed GFWL is winding down, and now GameSpy Technologies will have the life drained out of it come May 31st.
It’s not the “bring out the champagne” moment the announcement of GFWL’s demise was, but I’m certainly not going to miss seeing “Powered by GameSpy” flash before my eyes.
Alien: Isolation's audio is dynamic, but can you hear screaming in space?
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There are many things that go into making a truly terrifying horror experience, but for me it’s the audio that has the greatest impact. The slamming of doors and rats scratching at the walls in Amnesia, the mad ranting and horrible threats of Outlast’s twisted inmates - they make me want to rip my headphones off and switch the lights back on.
In its latest developer diary, Creative Assembly offers a glimpse at their sound design process for Alien: Isolation, a game that we all hope is every bit as sweat-inducing and worrying as Ripley’s first encounter with the glossy, black xenomorph.
Down-and-out detective Tex Murphy returns on April 22nd in glorious FMV
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Of all the things I imagined returning through the magic of crowd-funding, FMV adventure games weren’t high on the list. They made up such a huge part of my youth, the likes of Phantasmagoria, Sherlock Holmes, The Beast Within, so the thought of never seeing their ilk again was a crying shame.
But here we are, in the glorious future-era of 2014, and we’re about to get another Tex Murphy game, of all things, and it’s going to be in glorious FMV. I’ve missed the downtrodden detective from post-apocalyptic San Francisco terribly.
All About Half Minute Hero: The Second Coming’s Localization And Future Steam Releases
By Spencer . April 3, 2014 . 5:31pmSiliconera caught up with producer Esteban Salazar for a brief chat about Half Minute Hero: The Second Coming, as well as Marvelous’ plans to bring more games over to PC.
Read more at http://www.siliconera.com/2014/04/03/marvelous-half-minute-hero-2-bringing-games-pc/#6Ds6WIKBo5YRUof8.99
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