Open Call: Epic Offering EGX Floor Space To Unreal Devs
By Graham Smith on August 4th, 2014 at 8:00 am.
At any big gaming conference or expo I’ve been to there’s been a strong dividing line between mainstream and indie. Both are awful labels, but for sake of simplicity: the former fills cavernous halls with booths, music, and major publisher money, while the latter normally finds itself a corner of carefully curated darlings, most featuring sprite graphics and other symbols signalling that the game is made by one person or a small team.
What of single persons or small teams making indie games with the tools of the mainstream? Do developers making oddities within Unreal Engine 4 find they fall between two stalls, and so find no stall at all at gaming conferences? Would they benefit from Epic offering them one of eight spots at this year’s Eurogamer Expo?
Just Stare At Drift Stage For A While
By Ben Barrett on August 4th, 2014 at 9:00 am.
Is this picture not sexy enough for you? How about this animated gif? Or this one? These are Drift Stage, an arcade racer in the style of vintage Sega. The stunning art is courtesy of Charles Blanchard, who you might remember from the similarly-styled Sky Rogue. He specialises in visualising ’90s 2D art in 3D and is, in case you hadn’t noticed, absurdly brilliant. He’s teamed up with Chase Pettit to create Drift Stage and please, for the love of all that’s holy, just come see it in motion.
Mammoth Planetside 2 update to land on Tuesday; new directives system, resource revamp and more
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It was only last month that Planetside 2 received a huge update in the way of the Hossin continent, but that won’t stop Sony Online Entertainment from bringing us another. This coming Tuesday will see the deployment of a huge patch that will bring in new features and improvements, such as the Directive system and resource revamp.
Wasteland 2 beta update rebalances weapons and adds "tons of new audio"
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A new beta update to kickstarted Wasteland 2 has introduced numerous features and tweaks. Enemies will now drop better loot, which also extends to vendors and breakable objects. Weapons have had a major rebalance pass to improve their stats and feel. Finally the audio system has seen a number of additions to help flesh out the experience.
50 more games Greenlit on Steam; includes Deep Space Settlement and Jotun
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The beginning of August sees another 50 games Greenlit and heading their way to Steam for global distribution. Notable games include Homeworld inspired Deep Space Settlement, and hand drawn 2D Viking game Jotun.
A la cart: Nemesis DLC takes Call of Duty: Ghosts players to the coalface
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There’s been a trend in Call of Duty development over the last few years. Expect po-faced geopolitics from the single-player campaigns - it’s only in post-release DLC you’ll see its developers having any fun.
Activision have begun rolling out preview footage of Call of Duty: Ghosts’ last map pack, Nemesis, to YouTubers. And it looks commendably silly.
Facepunch's arcade shooter won't be called Riftlight, because Trion Worlds' Rift exists
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Facepunch Studios last week enacted a new policy: they’d open up about the various prototypes they’ve been working on. In the case of colourful space shooter Riftlight, that’s yielded some interesting reactions.
“We got an email from Trion World’s lawyers,” said Facepunch founder Garry Newman. “Apparently there’s a game called 'Rift' and apparently its demo is called 'Rift Lite'.”
Late launch: Wasteland 2 delay till September "pretty likely"
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Those iguanas won’t stick themselves, y’know. There’s still plenty of prep to be done ahead of Wasteland 2’s full launch, and Steam Early Access has got nothing to do with it. In fact, ye olde discs are to blame.
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