Space Hulk rises above criticism with RPG-infused Ascension edition
Travel is dangerous in the warp - and somewhere between the board and the PC, Full Control’s Space Hulk was lost in translation. It was a good adaptation, but a worse game - and nothing in its subsequent DLC releases changed that.
Ascension isn’t a sequel, but it is a major enough rework to warrant the sending of another search party. Full Control have introduced Terminator-naming and an XP system to their claustrophobic corridors.
Sega plan to pay $1.25m to escape Aliens: Colonial Marines false advertising lawsuit
Sega of America hope to pay $1.25 million to extricate themselves from a class action suit brought against Gearbox over pre-release demos of Aliens: Colonial Marines. The publisher filed a settlement plan yesterday that will see them cleared of further litigation if approved.
Activision's indie-friendly Sierra label will publish new King's Quest and Geometry Wars 3
Ohh. Activision dredged up the good name of Sierra a few days ago, and nobody was clear on why. As it turns out, Sierra is going to be the mega-publisher’s esoteric indie label, distinguished by an arm’s length from the Activision name shareholders don’t want to see attached to anything that isn’t CoD, Skylanders or WoW.
First to rise from the crypt of the necro-publisher is a new entry in Sierra’s best-known adventure game series, King’s Quest. And a second sequel to a game that was never part of the Sierra stable: Geometry Wars.
This Assassin's Creed Unity GamesCom trailer is bloodless and beautiful
Did you know? Assassin’s Creed Unity protagonist Arno is named after the noise you make when you trigger the wrong contextual action and send your robed killer hurtling off a church spire and into a courtyard full of imperialists.
There’s none of that going on in Ubisoft’s GamesCom demo. Instead, a series of vignettes revealing the texture of Parisian life that we’ll be pushing, shoving and shanking our way through.
Atari announces RollerCoaster Tycoon World; it's micro-transaction free
RollerCoaster Tycoon 4 was a cynical thing, laden with microtransactions and Facebook tomfoolery. It was the kind of mobile game that makes people go “ewww, mobile games”, but Atari promised that the PC version would be different.
The publisher revealed this new version at Gamescom today, and yep, it’s different. Different name, different developer and no microtransactions. RollerCoaster Tycoon World is due out early next year.
The killing fields of Far Cry 4: from civil wars in forests to magical tigers in spirit realms
Far Cry 3’s islands were lovely, but most of the world was tropical forests and pristine beaches. In Far Cry 4, there are three distinct areas with their own challenges beyond chaps with guns.
Ubisoft’s been showing off the diverse locations at Gamescom, but you can get a glimpse of the killing grounds without going to Cologne.
A new game announcement from Volition will kick off PAX Prime
Kicking off PAX Prime this year - the schedule was recently released - will be a quiz hour with Saints Row and Red Faction developer Volition. If you like quizzes, then that’s grand, but the end of the panel might be of greater interest.
Volition will be showing off footage, art and some details for their newest project, whatever that might be.
Grand Ages: Medieval gives you a crown to wear and an empire to carve out
I’d probably be a bloody great king. If you ever see me say otherwise - I have - then know that I’m merely being humble, which is another reason I’d be an excellent replacement for any royal ruler.
I can tell serfs where to go and chop down trees no matter how drunk I am, and I’ve been known to erect walls within minutes of thinking “I should erect some walls”. And there’s nobody that sorts out supply chains like me. You might not think that last part - or indeed any of those things - are particularly kingly, but you’d be wrong.
I don’t know how many of those things will be in Grand Ages: Medieval, the sort of sequel to Grand Ages: Rome, but I’m guessing that at least one of them will feature. So I’m confident I’ll have no problem taking on the mantle of king in Kalypso’s real-time medieval city-builder. Take a gander at the announcement trailer below. There’s a regal beard in it, so that’s nice.
More changes are coming to Steam, including ominous groups of curators
Steam sleuths SteamDB spotted an update Valve pushed through the Steam Translation Server today, and it confirms some of the big changes coming to the store.
They are meaty additions, like personalised front pages, a better search tool, changes to tabs and the introduction of curators, which seems to ape features from social networks.
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