Ubisoft on the "no respawn rule" for Rainbow Six Siege: "we wanted to revive that lethality and tension"
Rainbow Six has always been known for its tendency to create tense situations. Ubisoft are keen to capture that same experience, which is why they’ve stuck with their “no respawn rule" for their upcoming addition to the franchise: Rainbow Six Siege.
In their regular “behind the walls” blog series, Ubisoft developers have explained why it’s important to go back to the roots of Rainbow Six. “When you go back to Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six, you go back to one of the first tactical shooters” said game designer Andrew Witts. ”Seeing what makes it tick, deconstructing it and then reassembling it for the current generation. Being a part of that is really cool as a fan of the previous games”
Planetside 2 to receive deployable automated turrets; "the lethality of these turrets is still being discussed"
Systems and UI design lead, Jon Weathers, has revealed plans to add an automated deployable sentry turret for the Engineer class in Planetside 2. The addition could come as soon as next month, but not until extensive playtesting has been held on the PTS server.
“If our tests go well, we are aiming for auto-turrets to go live late November/early December.” said Weathers.
Ultra Street Fighter IV netcode patch lands today amongst balance changes
An update to Ultra Street Fighter IV will see the culmination of a two month long collaboration with the games community to stamp down on netcode issues. Patch 1.03 will include fixes to how Endless Battle lobbies work in order to reduce the amount of network pings, and hopefully lag. As well as the netcode band-aid, there’s some new training options as well as balance updates to most of the fighters.
Civilization: Beyond Earth intro cinematic is as beautiful as you'd expect
The official intro cinematic for the next installment in Sid Meier’s turn-based wonder, Civilization: Beyond Earth, has just been released for the masses to see. The Civilization games have always had a knack in giving us some spectacular cinematic eye-candy, and Beyond Earth is nothing less.
GOG's giving away Aliens vs Predator Classic to Galaxy beta testers
Alien: Isolation is the most authentic Alien experience you can have beyond watching the film. But if you’re looking for some xenomorph action that has less crawling around on all fours crying to yourself and more shooting and a lot more aliens, then perhaps Aliens vs Predator would be more your speed?
The classic from Rebellion is free on GOG right now, if you sign up for the next round of Galaxy beta testing. But you’ll need to sign up within the next 48 hours.
Halo is kind of coming to PC again with Halo: Spartan Strike
Microsoft and 343 Industries have announced a new Halo game, and it’s not going to be shackled to Xbox One, indeed it’s not coming out on the console at all. Halo Spartan Strike is a twin-stick shooter and spiritual successor to Spartan Assault.
It’s due out on December 12th, and if you buy it for any device, be that your desktop or a tablet, you’ll unlock the game for all windows platforms - which is quite nice.
League of Legend’s Halloween content isn’t in-game
We’re half-way through October, so everyone’s on guard for their favourite gaming communities to throw a sheet over their head and start shrieking “BOO!” very soon. Whilst many games have already geared up their Halloween events already, League of Legends is taking a different approach. To win the big prize this year, you’ll need to be handy with a real knife, rather than your Q key.
Yup, this year Riot are handing out massive RP prizes to summoners who can carve the best LoL-themed pumpkin.
Saints Row: Gat out of Hell is coming sooner than you thought, armed with the seven deadly sins
Johnny Gat is on a mission, and that’s to get on your hard drive as soon as possible. Deep Silver have announced that the standalone expansion to Saints Row 4 will be released a week earlier than planned, hitting our shores on January 23rd.
Bundled along with the news is this assuredly bonkers trailer showing off seven new weapons, all influenced by the deadly sins.
Octodad catches new levels and co-op in latest patch
Despite being one of the most bizarre niche games of the year, Octodad: Dadliest Catch seems to have happily secured itself quite a following. Developer Young Horses has been nothing but supportive of their game, regularly throwing out updates. This weeks patch is quite a net-full: two new levels and support for co-op, as well as the expected fixes.
World of Warcraft's handsome new character models in action
The pre-Warlords of Draenor patch hit World of Warcraft today, bringing with it new dungeons, graphics options and big changes to classes and races. But one of the most immediately noticeable changes is to the character models.
I jumped in after a wee break to take a gander at how lovely everybody looks. Join me.
Battlefield 4: Final Stand now available on Community Test Environment
Online warriors who are part of the Battlefield Premium program can now take to a slightly more futuristic war zone than they’ve been used to for the last year. Battlefield 4’s next DLC pack - Final Stand - is fast approaching, and a beta version is now available to play on the Community Test Environment.
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