Football Manager 2015 release date set for November 7 (after traditional two week beta)
The new year’s Football Manager for Windows, Mac and Linux will launch comfortably in time for Christmas on November 7, Sports Interactive have announced. There’s a beta version available if you pre-order, and careers started there will carry over into the final game.
This iteration features the most dramatically revamped Match View since the switch to 3D - achieved with a little help from the Sega Europe PC studio massive.
Michael Ironside thinks the recasting of Sam Fisher was a "great idea for Ubisoft"
For eight years and six games, Sam Fisher was synonymous with the microfilm-gargling baritone of Michael Ironside, the Canadian actor and Starship Troopers survivor. But he was ousted for last year’s (actually excellent) Splinter Cell entry, Blacklist. Asked about the publisher’s decision in a Reddit AMA yesterday, Ironside waxed entirely unbitterly about his time as the don of Third Echelon.
“I think it’s a great idea for Ubisoft,” he said. “They’ve gone to motion capture, and this spring I will be 65 years old. I don't think anyone wants to pay money seeing a 65 year old Sam Fisher bounce around on set, stumbling while he kills people.”
World of Warcraft 6.0.2 patch due Tuesday is an "overture" for Warlords of Draenor
WoW’s 6.0.2 patch has been dubbed the Iron Tide, and is best envisioned as a wave of iron filings pushed across a table by the sheer magnetic force of next month’s Warlords of Draenor expansion. Tuesday’s update will introduce an orc-caused world event, a new max-level dungeon in the Upper Blackrock Spire, and open up neglected character names to newcomers.
You'd better believe the War Thunder 1.43 update is a big one
War Thunder has just taken delivery of a huge shipment of new tanks and anti-aircraft guns and jet planes and maps and modes. Dozens and dozens of the things. More than I can possibly list here. It's a staggering number, frankly. I'm reeling. Stunned.
I'm having to re-evaluate everything I think I know about War Thunder, because War Thunder 1.43 has flipped Gaijin's free-to-play warfighter MMO on its helmet.
Where do we start? Well howabout here: you can turn off weapons and race planes through canyons. Fantastic.
Your call is important to us: Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number delayed for "tweaks and polish"
Dennaton Games’ sequel to celebrated fancy dress murder simulator Hotline Miami is to be lavished with extra attention before its release, the developers have revealed. It’s not expected to be ready until late this year - and might yet kick down the door of 2015.
Ian Livingstone, Games Workshop co-founder and President of Eidos, wants to open a free gaming school
School’s a gloomy place, full of arbitrary tests and crap school dinners. Or at least it was for me, though that is going quite far back. But that could be set to change for some kids in London in 2016.
Games Workshop co-founder and Eidos CEO Ian Livingston has applied to launch a free school in London that will use gaming and problem solving to teach children instead of “relentless testing”.
Nvidia's plans to become a "full-service" video performance company
Nvidia aren’t just selling video cards anymore. They’re trying to sell a package of services and performance-related products that attempts to make “The Way Its Meant to Be Played” into something more than a slogan on a splash screen.
Nvidia has been heading in this direction for a few years, but at Red Bull Battle Grounds Washington, D.C., they were bringing all the threads of their strategy together to show an eSports-focused audience that Nvidia has more to offer than higher benchmarks.
Devour Dragon Age: Inquisition PC screenshots and system requirements
While it released on consoles and was plagued by muddy textures, Dragon Age: Origins felt like a game made specifically for PC. Lamentably, this was far from the case with Dragon Age II, with the dismissal of proper tactical combat and the focus on enemy waves and more immediate action.
BioWare’s promising that it will be better this time around, with Dragon Age: Inquisition. With 4K and AMD Mantle support, a customisable interface and combat that’s got more in common with Origins than its sequel, it sounds like that promise might not be hollow.
Infinifactory: the spawn of SpaceChem and Infiniminer
When two games love each other very much, they rub up against each other and spawn another game. At least, this seems to be the case with Zachtronics’ Infinifactory, which looks a lot like a combination of the developer’s earlier games, Infiniminer and SpaceChem.
Zachtronics describes it as “Like Spacechem… in 3D!”
Painting Paris red with Killing Floor 2's M.E.A.T. system
Grisly, bloody gore is so important to Killing Floor 2 that Tripwire Interactive developed an entire system for it: M.E.A.T. The studio’s latest dev diary peels back the flesh and reveals how it all works.
It’s inspired by Soldier of Fortune, which gives some idea of how unabashedly violent it is.
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