GTX 880 specs possibly leaked
Saints Row's Johnny Gat is ready to unleash deadly wubs in Divekick
The boss from Saints Row’s best bud, Johnny Gat, is the newest member of tongue-in-cheek fighting game, Divekick’s roster.
After leading a gang, getting killed, being locked up in a virtual prison and defeating a tyrannical alien dictator, jumping and kicking all day long seems like a logical step.
The Chaos Reborn demo lets you command vicious unicorns and illusory beasts
Julian Gollop’s Chaos Reborn Kickstarter has eight days to go and is $45,000 away from its $180,000 goal. Based on Gollop’s ZX Spectrum game, Chaos, it retains the robust magic system of the original tactics game, but adds multiplayer, RPG-style progression and a co-operative mode.
Possibly in an effort to make that final push to the target, Gollop’s released a basic demo of Chaos Reborn, available to everyone here.
Windows 8 increasingly tolerable - 8.1 update 1 now available
Windows 8 doesn’t get much love in the press, but here’s a positive. There’s a new update available today, charmingly titled Windows 8.1 Update 1, that improves the operating system for desktop and mouse users.
Here’s another positive: in my mind, thanks to some considerable improvements over the past year, I don't think Windows 8 can be considered the OS boogeyman.
Minecraft 1.7.6 is out now: but beware of offline/online compatibility
Mojang have just made the 1.7.6 patch for Minecraft live. Although there’s no player facing changes to talk about, it does include the tech required for renaming your player character.
Epic want to help you get started in UE4. They will provide tea and biscuits
Thinking of building a game in the newly announced, and newly cheap to get started Unreal Engine 4?
Epic want to help. To that end, they’re hosting a hands on getting started clinic for “ground floor” developers who can make it to the UK on Thursday 17th April at Staffordshire University.
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel goes to the moon, lets you play as Claptrap
This isn’t Borderlands 3. This is Borderlands One and a Half, an interim, standalone adventure that takes place between the first and second games. It’s being developed by 2K Australia with help from Gearbox (who are also busily working on their own new IP), will use the Borderlands 2 engine and will not be coming to next-gen consoles.
It’s a whole lot more Borderlands, just expanded outwards rather than upwards. You’ll play as one of four new characters —one of whom is the sardonic robo-sidekick Claptrap — in a quest to assist Handsome Jack’s rise to power and set the scene for the beginning of Borderlands 2. It also takes place, largely, on Pandora’s ever-visible but until now inaccessible moon.
They’ve actually called it Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, bless them.
Diablo III Patch 2.0.4 touches down and now the world will never be quite the same again
Blizzard have just launched the latest Diablo III patch and it's a big old betsy. Patch 2.0.4 is now live across all servers everywhere and introduces major changes to every class as well as to some of the game's town hubs. There's nothing any one of us can do to stop it, so we might as well embrace the change and carry on.
Latest The Evil Within trailer is sort of creepy, then very creepy, then kind of nice, but then very creepy again
The Evil Within, she ain't so pretty, but Bethesda's third person psychological horror is certainly creepy as balls. It's an unerringly scary game by the legendary Shinji Mikami, he of Resident Evil (and Dino Crisis!) fame, and sees private investigator and trilby botherer Sebastian Castellanos wandering ever deeper into the guts of an asylum. Try to piece together the plot from the latest trailer if you can. I think you'll find that Acts Two and Three are very much concerned with the pervasive themes of all of your blood spilling out.
Dawngate opens up: EA's fantasy MOBA enters community beta
EA and Waystone Games’ fantasy MOBA, Dawngate, is now open to beta registrations, if that’s your cup of tea. You can pop on over to the site, sign up and download the client.
The second of EA’s bids to break into the MOBA market, Dawngate is meant to be evocative of League of Legends rather than something starkly different. That’s not to say it doesn’t have a few tricks up its sleeve to make it stand out.
Get back to the table: Card Hunter is getting an expansion
Card Hunter is an absolute delight, being both a tight, clever strategy card game and a celebration of tabletop gaming. The halcyon days of being a child and sitting around a table with friends, roleplaying and rolling die never happened to me - I didn’t get into that until my mid-20s - but I’m still affected by the nostalgia. The excitement inherent in playing something utterly new, exploring a fantastical world for the first time, that’s pretty much ubiquitous among anyone who dabbles in gaming.
So it’s good. But it might be about to get better. Blue Manchu announced the first major expansion for Card Hunter yesterday: Attack of the Artifacts. More monsters, quests, gear and lore - oh my, I’m excited.
All Infinite Crisis champions are unlocked for a week, because Superman likes PAX East
Infinite Crisis, Turbine’s DC-themed MOBA, opens up its roster for the next week. No more worrying about what hero or villain is in the rotation, no splashing out on new characters - from today and for the next week, every one of the game’s combatants is unlocked.
So if you’ve always wanted to take a robotic Superman for a spin, now’s your chance.
H1Z1 is a post-apocalyptic MMO from SOE where you can burn everything down
Sony Online Entertainment’s newest title, H1Z1, is a post-apocalyptic MMO that’s lousy with the walking dead. SOE president John Smedley made the reveal on the Game Talk Live podcast, which goes live later today.
"H1Z1 is an MMO that allows players to take on the role of an apocalypse survivor who is in a world that is filled with zombies," Smedley said on the podcast. "A world! Not just a little tiny server."
Even esports had a montage: watch the Katowice 2014 highlights
Katowice, Poland played host to one of the biggest esports events to date, recently. Intel Extreme Masters World Championship finals featured both Starcraft II and League of Legends, while the EMS One finals pit Counter Strike: Global Offensive players against each other for a prize of $250,000. It was won by Virtus Pro, who walked away with $100,000 of the sizable prize pool.
If you missed the live streams, you can catch up with the highlight reel ESL has put together. Take a gander below.
Stay frosty: Arkham Origins' Cold, Cold Heart footage shows off fancy weapons and a very hot suit
Although Batman: Arkham Knight is on its way, this doesn’t mean that we’re finished with Arkham Origins quite yet. Cold, Cold Heart is a DLC campaign where Batman tangos with Mr. Freeze after dealing with his nasty assassin problem.
It’s separate from the main campaign and throws in some new anti-freeze gadgets and the intimidating XE suit, the Dark Knight’s special extreme conditions costume. DC All Access has put up a clip of creative director Eric Holmes and game director Benoit Richer discussing Batman’s next outing, accompanied by five minutes of in-game footage. Direct your peepers below.
Elite: Dangerous leaves alpha, enters beta and introduces trading
Elite: Dangerous is about to shed its alpha chrysalis and emerge a beautiful beta butterfly. Frontier have announced that Premium Beta players will now be able to download and play a single player combat build of Elite: Dangerous, ahead of the Beta's full launch on May 30th.
They've also hinted at what's coming next for Alpha backers: travel, trading and trousers. No, not trousers, I mean "in-system super cruise" speeds that let you zip around within a solar system without hyperspace jumping to another neighbourhood entirely.
Warframe Update 13.0 introduces a character who can turn into a puddle at will
Battlesuited third-person techno-puncher Warframe is about to receive a mammoth update, assuming it's a sort of weaponised, steel-alloy adorned mammoth with guns instead of tusks and a big sword for a trunk. The inspirationally named Update 13.0 introduces a host of changes to the futuristic scrapper, including a totally revamped melee system and a special kind of advanced superfighter who can turn into a puddle. Excuse me?
Arcade Adventure “Source” To Be Unveiled At PAX East, Gets New Trailer
Fenix Fire announced today that they are heading east to attend the PAX gaming conference in Boston, where they intend to unveil exclusive details about their up-and-coming arcade adventure – ‘Source’ – a game currently in development for the PC, Xbox One and PS4. Continue reading
Auto Club Revolution – Free-To-Play Online Racing Title – Adds Alfa Romeo Vehicles To Its Roster
Eutechnyx announced today that its free-to-play online racing title, Auto Club Revolution, will now offer Alfa Romeo vehicles to its players. The first one that is being made available is the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione, while other vehicles will be come to this F2P title at a later date. Continue reading
Dragon Age: Inquisition – Two New In-Engine Screenshots Released
Electronic Arts and Bioware have released two additional screenshots for Dragon Age: Inquisition. These new images show off the game’s Exalted Plains of the Dale environment that players will be able to explore. Dragon Age: Inquisition is powered by Frostbite 3 and will be coming on PC, as well as old-gen and current-gen consoles. Enjoy! Continue reading
Elite: Dangerous – Premium Beta Kicks Off, Full Premium Beta Phase Starts May 30th
Frontier today announced the delivery date of the next milestone in the development of its forth-coming Elite: Dangerous game. According to the press release, the Premium Beta effectively starts today, with Premium Beta players able to download a single player combat build of the game. Continue reading
Dragon Fin Soup – Classic JRPG – Gets New Alpha Gameplay Footage
Grimm Bros has informed us about a new alpha gameplay video for its upcoming classic JRPG, Dragon Fin Soup. Dragon Fin Soup is a classic JRPG style game in development by indie studio Grimm Bros which blends together Tactical Action & Roguelike elements set in a charming, twisted, dark, fairy tale inspired world. It looks beautiful so make sure to watch the video, especially if you adore old-school 16bit JRPGs. Dragon Fin Soup is coming in 2014 to Steam, PC (DRM Free version), Mac, Linux, PS3, PS4, PS Vita, iOS and Android. Enjoy! Continue reading
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