Todd Stashwick joins Visceral as co-writer on new Star Wars project
Comic and TV script man Todd Stashwick is the latest addition to the Star Wars squad. Joining Amy Hennig, he’ll be working on Visceral’s upcoming Star Wars game.
Steam Controller will release in “October or November”, Steam Machines to follow before year’s end
Steam’s bespoke haptic controller pad could be on sale as soon as October, according to a source in the hardware industry. The controller is also one of the final pieces of the Steam Machine puzzle, and their release could well herald in the first wave of SteamOS-powered PCs at the end of the year.
Historic Battlefield games are relocating from GameSpy to Origin
The Battlefield games have a strong history on PC, with massive victories that pre-date the Battlefield 4 launch fiasco by over a decade. Such fondly remembered games are not just memories though; the likes of Battlefield 2 and Battlefield 2142 still have dedicated players, still waging war on the less detailed but no less destructive fields of yesteryear.
The announcement that GameSpy will shut its doors at the end of May has potentially upset some of these online soliders, as the older Battlefield games require the service to run. But never fear, EA is here! And they plan to relocate all their Battlefield services safe and sound in Origin.
Win The Space Race: The Last Federation’s Out Soon
By Craig Pearson on April 12th, 2014 at 2:00 pm.
It’s been interesting watching post-AI War Arcen at work. Their idiosyncratic drunken approach to genres has always resulted in games worth talking about. Granted, some of those words might not be all that complimentary, but they’ve never once released a game that had any hint of hubris. Not even when they return to the space strategy genre that pays the bills. The Last Federation’s a “strategy/tactics game set inside a simulation game,” which sets it apart from AI War’s ridiculous spectacle of death. It displays the one thing that’s true of Arcen’s game: it was announced in January, and it’s coming out next week.
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Xcommunication: There Came An Echo Trailer
By Craig Pearson on April 12th, 2014 at 10:00 am.
There Came An Echo has geek credentials coming out of it’s face hole–Wil Wheaton and Ashly Burch are on board as voice actors–but I’m not all that bothered by the cast. Not when my voice is the real star. It’s a voice controlled squad strategy game where you’re shouting down orders to your team. Initially controlling a single player unused to the violence that’s being asked of him, you’ll talk him through each step required to turn a cryptographer into a corpse-maker. Follow my voice to the trailer…
City Car Driving Is As Much About Roleplay As DayZ
By Graham Smith on April 11th, 2014 at 7:00 pm.
I am in my car and I am slowly learning how to drive. I’ve put my seatbelt on, started my engine, turned on the lights, set the wipers wiping, slipped into first gear and pulled smoothly into traffic. Naturally, my instructor dryly points out that I’ve forgotten to indicate.
Pulling up at the first set of traffic lights, I lean forward and peer into the night beyond the rain-streaked windscreen. The traffic is bad tonight. I use the spare moment to take a drink of beer. My instructor – Russian simulator City Car Driving – says nothing, but drinking while driving still feels wrong. I put the beer back down on my desk, push down on the parking brake and continue my journey into the night.
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