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Tim Schafer would love to make Brutal Legend 2, but it probably won’t ever happen
Master of adventure Tim Schafer has been having a little chat with Edge this week, and talk soon got round to Brutal Legend, Double Fine’s best selling yet polarising heavy metal ‘em up. Despite being at the end of some acidic opinions due to the game’s odd/interesting use of RTS elements, Schafer would still love to return to his rocker universe for a second outing. One that would still involve real time strategy, too.
Don’t hold your breath though, it’s not likely to happen without $30million landing in Schafer's lap. Don’t mention Kickstarter, either.
DayZ update to hit this month, contains fireplaces, archery, and pistols
A new post at the DayZ dev blog has detailed that a patch with significant additions is on it’s way to Steam “sometime this month”. A lot of what is coming will be pushed into experimental servers first in order to gather player feedback, and will eventually graduate to public servers.
In your zombie-infested future lies fireplaces that burn, heads that turn, and a fancy new pistol for you to blast holes in people with.
Mojang prep for one of Minecraft's "most requested features since birth": name changes
One of the consequences of Minecraft’s folksy roots as a blocky prototype on TIGsource is that huge swathes of its infrastructure weren’t exactly built for, say, massively multiplayer persistent worlds.
One of those underperforming systems has been character names - which since the game’s inception have been tied to bannings. That meant that allowing name changes was tantamount to handing griefers diamond pickaxes and a complimentary bag of TNT.
Thankfully, Mojang have now just about finished a database rework that’ll soon let players switch identities without placing servers at risk.
Nvidia’s New DX11 Wonder Driver Releases This Monday, Release Notes Revealed
Nvidia announced yesterday that its upcoming DX11 driver that will improve performance on CPU bound titles will be released this Monday, and you can view its complete changelog below. According to the release notes, this new driver introduces key DirectX optimizations which result in reduced game-loading times and significant performance increases across a wide variety of games. Continue reading
Kingdom Under Fire II – Gameplay Movie of City and Field
Blueside released last week a new trailer for Kingdom Under Fire II, showing off some gameplay footage, that passed under our radar. Shame on us. Kingdom Under Fire II is a RTS and RPG hybrid that has been under development for quite sometime. The game looks cute and has nice boobs physics, but you can easily notice that: a) it’s powered by Unreal Engine 3 (it appears the game is powered by FAME Tech 2. Kudos to the devs for making the game look like an UE3-brownish title… I guess) and b) it looks similar to most multi-platform titles. Still, Kingdom Under Fire II seems fun, so go ahead and watch this new gameplay trailer! Continue reading
Silicon Studio Shows Off Its Next-Gen Rendering Engine
Silicon Studio has just released a video, showcasing its new next-gen rendering engine that will be used in its titles. Although we don’t know yet whether Silicon Studio’s upcoming title will be coming to the PC, we do know that it is working with Square Enix and if this video is any indication, it will target next-gen platforms. Enjoy and kudos to NeoGAF for spotting it! Continue reading
Ultimate General: Gettysburg Aims To Be The Perfect Game For Strategy Fans, 20 Minutes Beta Gameplay Footage
Game-Labs has released a new video for its upcoming strategy game, Ultimate General: Gettysburg, featuring 20 minutes of gameplay footage from its beta build. Ultimate General: Gettysburg aims to be the perfect game for all strategy fans, and it is being created by the man behind Total War’s DarthMod series, Nich Thomadis. It looks great and according to Thomadis, the AI will not be scripted and will behave according to personality and situations. Enjoy! Continue reading
Next-Gen MMORPG “Black Desert” Shows Impressive Character Customization
Pearl Abyss has released a new trailer for its upcoming next-gen MMORPG, Black Desert, showing off the versatile and impressive character customization system that will be implemented. Black Desert looks phenomenal it remains to be see whether its gameplay will be as good as its visuals. The game is planned for release in Korea and may come to the West in 2015. Enjoy! Continue reading
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