Grid Autosport on PC will have a huge, free high res texture DLC
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“We're going to do a high quality texture pack on PC to really show off the cars,” Richard Kettlewell, senior programmer at Codemasters, tells me.
“It's quite large, isn't it?” says Clive Moody, Grid Autosport's producer
“Well, it's condensed now, it's only 5gb,” says Rich.
“Down from...?” I ask.
“30.”
Weather report: a "competitive atmosphere" is building above Loadout thanks to ranked mode
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Loadout is a multiplayer arena shooter that hides its Quake and Unreal colours behind a third-person perspective. It’s a rude, rip-roaring good time deepened by a clever weapon-crafting system. And it’s just got properly competitive, thanks to a ranked mode.
The moment CCP's CTO realised his own corp had broken Eve Online - for the better
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It is 2002, and Hilmar Veigar Pétursson is fresh from the three year development cycle of an ambitious interstellar MMO that has left him and his isolated Icelandic team somewhat “psychotic”.
He is on paternity leave; mum and baby are asleep. And so, with his new daughter coddled in arms outstretched to reach keyboard and mouse, Hilmar plays Eve Online.
He begins cataloguing its bugs. The game, he concludes, is a mess. Hilmar cannot understand why anybody would voluntarily spend their time shifting minerals between its systems. And then this sorry state of affairs takes a turn for the worse.
On Cloud9: Valve announce invitees for Dota 2 International 2014
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Valve have sent out whatever the digital equivalent is of gilded invitations to 11 pro Dota 2 teams. They’ll compete in this year’s International tournament, set to fill the Seattle Center’s KeyArena on the weekend beginning July 18.
Valve have okayed a Japanese arcade game named Left 4 Dead: Survivors
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The greatest cooperative PC game ever made meets the only genre in which you can take a hand from your machine gun to high-five the shooter next to you. Coming to a cabinet near you (or a monster closet directly behind you), it’s the redundantly subtitled Left 4 Dead: Survivors.
Zenimax Online recruit players to "name and shame" Elder Scrolls Online gold spammers
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The Elder Scrolls Online developers Zenimax Online have called on players to “name and shame” would-be gold spammers who might have contacted them - despite previous rules that prohibited naming offending players on the game’s forums.
Food for the pyre: here are some screenshots from CCP's cancelled World of Darkness MMO
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How do you follow Eve Online? It turns out you don’t - not with a permadeath vampire MMO, anyway. CCP finally put World of Darkness to bed and affectionately nailed it to the mattress earlier this month - one of the “hardest decisions” CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson has ever had to make.
56 staff at CCP’s Atlanta studio have been scattered to the winds, and the remainder put to work on one or another of the company’s Eve universe spinoffs. Which makes these leaked screenshots the last we’re ever likely to see of a game five-years-in-the-making.
Brighten up your day with the Child of Light launch trailer
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Ubisoft’s gorgeous fairy tale RPG Child of Light launched today. You can pick it up on Uplay and Steam for £11.99/$14.99 right blooming now.
To celebrate its arrival into our reality from its fairy tale realm, Ubisoft’s put up a spiffy new trailer, so why don’t you take a load off and watch it, below?
Grab yourself a free copy of Watch Dogs with select GeForce GTX graphics cards
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Ubisoft and Nvdia are best buds right now. They’ve partnered up to work some visual magic on Ubisoft’s upcoming Watch Dogs, throwing in TXAA anti aliasing and HBAO+. But it looks like this is more than a fleeting romance.
Pick up one of a select group of Nvidia graphics cards, and you’ll net yourself a free digital copy of Watch Dogs, redeemable on Uplay.
Tanks for the memories: Rebellion showcases vehicular murder in Sniper Elite 3
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The latest dev diary from Rebellion showcases the long-range vehicular murder of Sniper Elite 3. No more are humans the only sniper victims to get special x-ray kill cams. Tanks and other vehicles are getting in on the action too, flashing their innards for all to see.
Direct your eyes below for some exploding tank porn.
Techland's Hellraid has been given a glossy new coat of blood
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Hellraid is Dead Island developer Techland’s gorey first-person hack and slash RPG, and we’ve not heard much about it for a while. That’s because Techland have been presumably rather busy making significant changes.
So it’s being re-announced: a new Hellraid, not the old Hellraid. That means a new engine, new combat systems both for melee and magic, and a crafting system.
Become an infamous rug abuser in Quest for Infamy on June 26th
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Glory is a bit overrated. It requires a lot of effort for a thing that’s not really tangible. Infamy, now that’s more like it. You can become infamous for all manner of things. Burning someone’s house down. Peeing on the furniture. It’s easy and infinitely more satisfying.
Quest for Infamy lets you pee on a rug. It’s also an adventure-RPG with more than a passing resemblance to Sierra’s classic Quest for Glory series. You’ll be able to pee all over rugs yourself come June 26th, when it launches. Strictly speaking you could pee on a rug now, but let’s hold it in shall we?
Last Life gets funded: the dead will walk
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Sci-fi noir adventure game Last Life broke past its $75,000 Kickstarter goal yesterday. It’s currently just shy of $80,000 with eight days left in the campaign. This means that developer Rocket Science can finish episode one, but it’s still $20,000 of it’s first stretch goal: voice overs and interactive flashbacks of Earth.
Paradox Development Studio gets sentimental; Runemaster footage shown off
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Paradox Development Studio is getting a wee bit sentimental in its old age. The Swedish studio has put together a short documentary detailing its history, from creating the first Europa Universalis based on a board game to the surprising - but well deserved - success of Crusader Kings II.
PDS head honcho Johan Andersson and his fellow devs chart the course of the developer, but it’s also forward facing. Dan Lind talks about the upcoming Hearts of Iron IV, which we got to check out earlier this year along with Runemaster, some new footage and concept art of which has also been smuggled into the documentary.
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