Crytek Issues Official Statement About The Current Situation Of The Studio
Crytek has just issued an official press statement regarding the situation of the studio. As the German company noted, it has laid the foundations for securing its future as it has secured enough capital from a new unnamed source. Not only that, but Crytek admits that it has evolved from a development studio to an… Online-Publisher? Continue reading
Something pew: Facepunch Studios is working on Riftlight, an arcade space shooter
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Rust developer Facepunch Studios has been working on a number of prototypes along with their flopping dong and survival simulator. Yesterday, Garry Newman promised that the studio would stop hiding these prototypes, even though it’s hard to do “especially when you’re quite early on and it looks like total shit”.
Today, Facepunch’s Adam Woolridge revealed his prototype in the first weekly devblog: Riftlight. It’s an arcade twin-stick space shooter with RPG elements like loot, classes and talent trees.
CCP producer wants to empower EVE Online players and bring in new ones
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EVE Online has, since its inception, been a game where players are in control. While most MMOs are heavily scripted and players can only affect the world in fleeting, temporary ways, New Eden is filled with player driven stories and events.
But EVE’s new executive producer, Andie Nordgren - previously a technical producer - wants to empower players even more. In an interview with Polygon, she explained that she wants to give players even more of the universe, giving them more control and hopefully expanding the community.
The Air-Raid Siren Song of War Thunder
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A few weeks ago, I was talking to a friend about flight sims and learning what’s changed in a scene that I abandoned around the time I went to college. I got to reminiscing about the flight sims I’d fallen in love with, like Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, Red Baron, and the Jane’s series. Games that were smart enough to know that most of us who gravitated to combat flight sims weren’t having daydreams about managing arcane avionics and reading 15 pages on cold-starting an engine. “What happened to all the people that just loved dogfighting?” I asked, wistfully.
“Well, a lot of them play War Thunder now,” he told me. Having just spent a week in glorious combat among the clouds, I can see why.
Back From The Depths: Risen 3 Tries To Raise My Hopes
By Alec Meer on July 25th, 2014 at 8:00 pm.
Risen 1 was 50% dark, strange brilliance and 50% a frustrating descent into grindy nothingness. Diarising that first, fascinating, cruel, strange half was one of my favourite experiences on RPS. Conversely, playing Risen 2 was one of the most deflating, despite it being about pirates and featuring a pet monkey. If you’ve got pirates and monkeys in your game and you still mess it up, you really have gone wrong.
Now Risen 3 looms, and returning devs Piranha Bytes (they of the original Gothic games) are trying ever so hard to convince us that fans of brutal, gritty, wide-ranging fantasy RPGs are getting what they want this time around. Their 11 minute sermon about how Risen 3: Titan Lords will Do It Right even kicks off with an F. Scott Fitzgerald bon mot: “don’t forget who you are and where you came from”. I.e. “look, honestly, we’re basically making a Gothic game again.”
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Dead Rising 3 Goes Apocalyptic With DLC
By Ben Barrett on July 25th, 2014 at 6:00 pm.
Vvvwwwaaaarrrrmmm. That’s the Hans Zimmer style combo zombie warning/incoming news alarm! It also doubles as a word to describe how hot it currently is on the British Isles. It’s here to remind us that not only is Dead Rising 3 making the jump to PC, but has now been renamed to the hopefully exaggerating APOCALYPSE EDITION (emphasis writer’s own). And what do subtitles mean, kids? Additional content, that’s what, you little toerags. This version will be shipping with the four ‘Untold Stories of Los Perdidos’ episodes that were released as DLC on Xbox. Each puts you in control of a different character from the main game and shows how they ended up where Nick, the main character, met them.
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