| JEMC said: ^Those requirements for Project Cars are surprisingly reasonable. |
Throw it in the bin, not demanding enough.
It is done: YouTube reported to have bought Twitch for $1 billion
Google’s YouTube division have taken ownership of streaming site Twitch for a reported $1 billion. The deal is testament to the ubiquity of eSports, confirmed again just three days ago as gazillions tuned in to watch the victory of NewBee in the Dota 2 International.
Overkill bolster Payday 2 Steam community with in-game stretch rewards
If I told you there was going to be a Crimefest in October, would you come? Or would you plan to be away that weekend?
Overkill are hoping you’ll stick around for the Purge. They’re celebrating three years of Payday in three months’ time, and want to top up their Steam following some before then.
Think of it as a Kickstarted community: join up, and you’ll help unlock weapons, heists, playable characters, and free weekends come October.
Some thoughts on Kerbal Space Program: First Contract
Everybody loves space. All those planets and black holes whizzing around, orbitting things and getting into scrapes. All the tinfoil spaceships we've sent out to look for interstellar treasure. Those screaming cats and dogs we were sending up in rockets for a while. They must have been especially excited about the wonders of the universe. Yes, it's round the clock, cosmic fun wherever space is concerned, and videogames are certainly no exception.
The indelible Kerbal Space Program is one such space videogame. It recently received its huge First Contract update, which is not only a tremendous pun but a comprehensive overhaul of the game's fledgling career mode and an update that's been years in the making. What was once a sandbox free-for-all ship builder is now a sort of aerospace tycoon game in which you take on government and private contracts in order to raise cash and progress along a branching tech tree. I've been playing it. Here's what I think so far.
2K are dropping BioShock hints like a burst water pipe
2K must be undecided about their favourite plasmid, because they’re blowing hot and cold over BioShock’s future. Ba-dum.
Seriously, though: the publishers closed (or “wound down”) Irrational Games earlier this year, and gutted BioShock backup studio 2K Marin a few months before that. But they’ve since said the next BioShock game will be made in Marin - and have now started posting wistful imagery on their Facebook page.
What on Earth have they got in the pipeline?
Fallout: New Vegas director thinks there's "potential" in a Fallout MMO
Now that the Elder Scrolls MMO that everybody bugged Todd Howard about for a decade has finally come to pass, for better or worse, it’s hard to imagine Bethesda haven’t thought about giving Fallout the same treatment.
One man involved with series has definitely given it some thought: Josh Sawyer, project lead on Obsidian’s Fallout: New Vegas.
“I think there’s interesting potential for an online version of Fallout,” he said.
Microsoft Flight Simulator X to be refueled with new updates post-Steam release
Microsoft Flight Simulator X was the tenth and last game in the venerable series. Flight1 are the enthusiastic cockpit-modellers behind the Ultimate 146 Collection. The genius of Dovetail Games, the publishers who’ve acquired the rights to distribute X’s Gold Edition, was in pairing the two.
For the first time in a good long while, new add-ons for the Flight Simulator series will be developed and sold on Steam.
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