Away with the clouds: League of Legends to ditch Adobe Air for its new pre-game client
At any one time, nearly every part of League of Legends is being sized up for a revamp. Urgot is just the latest of many champions to get a new lick of paint, and the Summoner’s Rift is headed for the biggest update in its existence. But as everything changes around it, the game’s client has aged noticeably - creaking under the weight of every new character.
No longer. Riot are busy laying the foundations for a new client, built on brand new tech.
Titanfall's Frontier's Edge DLC will bring parkour to the beach, somehow
Thud, thud, thud. The titans will not be dissuaded from falling in one of the 15 best PC first-person shooters around. Respawn’s second-ever DLC release for their ground-averse FPS will be named Frontier’s Edge, and will take us to the most remote corners of its thinly-sketched universe.
Battlefield 4 PC patch sees off Battle Pickup exploit, debugs Commander mode on mobile
DICE were going for Dambusters when they designed Battlefield 4’s levolution shtick, but eight months on they’re still plugging holes. Yesterday’s patch has tackled several bugs in the game’s Commander App, extracted an exploit and, gosh, acknowledged the existence of joystick users.
Valve launch new Team Fortress maps and Robot Destruction mode in 'Early Access'
There were no Heavy-humour comics or cartoons to trumpet its arrival, but yesterday’s Team Fortress 2 update was its most important in quite some time. Though the TF2 community long ago became accustomed to helping in the development of their favourite game, this patch was the first in which Valve were comfortable releasing unfinished maps and modes.
Assassin's Creed Unity is a "new narrative start"; "best entry point" since the series began
Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag was one of the best games of 2013 - not least because it ditched the contemporary landlord antics of its predecessors completely. In their place were first-person sequences set in offices a lot like those Ubisoft occupy in Montreal. It worked, really well. But it wasn’t a meta-trick the studio could repeat twice, and Assassin’s Creed Unity marks the beginning of a new story cycle.
Alien: Isolation sets the standard for pre-order DLC with Weaver-voiced missions
Benjamin Button wasn’t the first film star we saw age backwards. Jeff Bridges lost more than a beard in Tron: Legacy, and the wrinkles have evaporated from Patrick Stewart’s face in more than one X-Men movie. But there’s something about seeing Sigourney Weaver and crew as they were in ‘79 that tickles the nostalgia glands just so. Check out the picture below.
Trains, planes and Dovetail Games: Train Simulator developer working on new Microsoft Flight Simulator
I don’t think I’ve managed to land a single plane in Microsoft Flight Simulator X. I’m better off sitting in the passenger compartment, guzzling down tiny bottles of whisky and peering at the tiny screen attached to the chair in front. A new flight sim is on its way, but I suspect I won’t have any better luck with landings.
Dovetail Games, the creators of Train Simulator and the upcoming Dovetail Games Fishing, today announced a deal with Microsoft. The studio has been granted the rights to develop new flight sims based on Microsoft’s tech, along with distribution rights for Microsoft Flight Simulator X.
Battlefield 4: Dragon's Teeth is definitely coming out on July 15th; no take backs this time
EA’s Origin Twitter account spilled the beans on Battlefield 4: Dragon’s Teeth’s release date back on Friday. July 15th, the tweet revealed. Then it was taken down and replaced with one absent the release date.
The release date has now been confirmed, and shocker, it is indeed July 15th.
That's a relief: Grim Fandango to be released on PC alongside PS4 and Vita
When a remastered version of Grim Fandango was announced at E3 last month, my heart skipped a beat. And then it broken when there was no mention of a PC version, only PS4 and Vita. The pieces were put back together again when Tim Schafer tweeted that other platforms would be talked about soon.
Today, Double Fine has announced that PC, Mac and Linux versions of the classic adventure game would release alongside the Sony’s consoles. And all is right with the world once more.
Dragon Age: Inquisition's E3 demo makes October 7th seem too far away
When Tim saw Dragon Age: Inquisition at E3 2014, he called the demo “absolutely stunning”. Seeing it now, just posted today by BioWare, with Mike Laidlaw narrating, it looks like he was right.
The demo shows a mage and her party travelling through the Hinterlands and through Redcliffe, eventually facing one of the titular dragons in a flashy, but still rather tactical, battle. Take a gander below.
What Borderlands 3 would need to be intimidates Randy Pitchford
What would Borderlands 3 be like? It’s a question Gearbox have been mulling over, even though the game isn’t currently in development.
The answers intimidate head honcho Randy Pitchford. “We imagine what that might be, and frankly it scared us,” he told Game Informer in the latest issue. “It's like, 'That's so crazy and so big that I'm not sure we can succeed'.”
Lords of the Fallen will haunt PCs on Halloween
Halloween, a time for getting sugary treats, carving fruit and drinking so much that dressing up as a sexy ghost no longer seems ridiculous. It’s also a time for demon-slaying and wielding big weapons, because that’s when Lords of the Fallen is coming out.
On October 31st, City Interactive’s action RPG will launch and put players in the shoes of a condemned ne’er-do-well as he hacks monsters with nasty looking weapons and blows them to smithereens with magic.
Modding support for Banished coming: "It just needs a few more features"
Golden Grove, I remember you well. My first ever settlement in one-man indie endeavour, Banished. It was meant to be a utopia, where there would be food, clothes, medicine and plenty of firewood during winter for every resident. After 50 years, half the town was dead. The other half, struggling through a winter seemingly without end.
Maybe some of those poor folk wouldn’t have needed to die if I’d been using a mod that allowed me to grow food out of thin air. That glorious dream could soon be a reality, as Banished appears to be well on its way to getting oft-requested mod support.
It’s too late for Golden Grove, though.
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