Elite: Dangerous voice pack lets you talk to your ship
Since watching Knight Rider as a kid I’ve wanted to chat with my car, Elite: Dangerous fans have skipped that generation of vehicle and let you talk to your spaceship.
The Elite: Dangerous Voice Pack loads your ship with an AI entity called ASTRA who you can instruct with voice commands. Primarily she can fly your ship but she also has a pretty big database that you can query at any time, the GalaXapediA.
World of Warcraft tenth anniversary detailed. You get a free corgi
It’s a bumper year for Blizzard. World of Warcraft’s fifth expansion, Warlords of Draenor is set to release on 13 November and this year also marks ten years since the MMO originally launched.
Blizzard have announced how they plan to celebrate the game’s first decade, it includes gifts, fighting, and corgis. As all good parties do.
Garry’s Mod sales figures just topped 6,000,000 copies
Garry’s Mod has sold more than 6,000,000 copies. That’s a whole lot of folk poking and pulling at the faces of Valve’s characters. Garry Newman, founder of developer Facepunch Studios, is reported to have celebrated the news by buying three fist-sized balls of cocaine and a bouncy castle.
Newman went onto break down the sales figures into a bit more detail.
The Sims 4: I trapped a man in a box and forced him to learn to play the piano
The Sims 4 allows you to virtually recreate any human being, from their hair colour and whether they walk a bit funny, down to the beautiful nuances of their souls and how their skeleton tastes. The Sims you control can have skills and hobbies that they can practise and improve over time. Besides clicking on a postman over and over again until he has sex with you, improving these skills is one of the few things to do in the game.
But how quickly can you drag a sausage-fingered sim from amateur keyboard smasher to virtuoso pianist? I found out by locking one in a room and not letting him out until he'd learned to play. This is his story.
Crime supergroup: Payday 2 is getting Hotline Miami DLC
Do you like hurting other people? Don’t worry, it’s not a trap or a Voight-Kampff test. Payday 2 developer Overkill just wants to know, because it’s collaborating with Dennaton Games on DLC - Hotline Miami-themed DLC.
And you’ll only have to wait until September 30th.
Fable Anniversary launches tomorrow; will have limited modding support
Fable Anniversary got a lukewarm reception when it launched in Xbox 360 way back in February, but Lionhead’s offering a little bit more with the PC version: modding support.
On top of the HD textures, improved lighting and tweaked UI, Fable Anniversary on PC will come with a version of the Unreal Engine 3 editor, allowing players to fiddle around with the art and animation, putting their own stamp on the decade-old RPG.
Get your face ready: a consumer beta for the Oculus Rift could kick off as early as next April
Oculus VR has yet to spill the beans on its plans for the consumer version of the Oculus Rift, and when we’ll actually be able to slap the headset on our eager faces. However, a public beta of the consumer version may kick off as early as April, 2015.
That’s less than a year away, so start moisturising your face now.
Surprise! Resident Evil: Revelations 2 is going to be a weekly episodic mystery
I was extremely excited when Capcom announced Resident Evil: Revelations 2, the sequel to the best Resident Evil game since the fourth one. It really is. It's great. And it's even - amazingly - brilliant on the 3DS, though the PC version is the one you should really play. But the publisher has now released a launch schedule and pricing model that has replaced the initial excitement with just a wee bit of confusion.
Resident Evil: Revelations 2 will be an episodic game, split into four parts across a single month. And it will cost you more to buy them all together. What.
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