Prey 2 cancelled by Bethesda
Prey 2’s been in on/off development since 2011 but now Bethesda’s vice president, Pete Hines, confirms the game is firmly in the off position. They cancelled it.
That’s a damn shame because Prey 2 was looking fantastic from the trailer footage released a couple of years ago and the premise of the thing was compelling, too. You played a US Marshall who’d been abducted from Earth and was now working as a bounty hunter on an alien world.
Watch Dogs sold 9m copies. Ubisoft expect to make €1.4bn by end of financial year
Ubisoft are sitting pretty on a big pile of money and it’s thanks, in large part, to Watch Dogs. The company’s published it’s earning report of the first half of their financial year, stating they’ve made €484 million in sales and that Watch Dogs has sold 9 million copies since launch.
More than that, they predict they’ll make a further €1 billion by the end of the financial year.
Hearthstone win trading results in permanent bans and tournament disqualification
It starts off innocently enough, you trade a win or two in Hearthstone just to get by. You want your MMR to be a little higher so your friends will still look at you with respect. Soon it spirals. You’re botting game after game, using your newfound rank to reach for glory in a tournament.
It’s not till you wake up in a bathroom, vomiting on the cracked tile floor that you realise you have a problem. By then it’s too late. You can’t stop.
Blizzard are here to save you from that future, win trading will now result in a permanent ban on your account and disqualification from tournaments.
One Minute to Midnight lets you start a revolution for free
One Minute to Midnight puts you in charge of your own revolution and has you watch as your movement turns sour.
It’s a free Unity game and it’s a great way to while away an hour.
Ubisoft reveals what you'll need to drive around in The Crew
With The Crew, Ubisoft continues to be best buds with Nvidia and - just like in Assassin’s Creed Unity (and most Ubisoft games for the last year or so), Nvidia GPU owners will be able to get a few more bells and whistles.
When fiddling around with the ambient occlusion, you’ll be able to select HBAO+ for all your sexy shadow needs, while you’ll also get an extra anti-aliasing option in the form of TXAA.
Ubisoft’s also revealed the system requirements for the game, which are a lot more reasonable than Unity’s. You’ll only need a GTX 670 or its equivalent to get the optimal experience, but the recommended requirements are actually lower.
Watch four levels of Sneaky Sneaky, a stealthy dungeon adventure
Stealth and puzzle games sit pretty close to each other on the family tree of genres, which the best of the former transforming stealth into complex conundrums. Even a quick glance at Sneaky Sneaky hints at its puzzle roots, which isn’t surprising given that developer Naiad Entertainment includes ex-PopCap folk.
But it’s also a turn-based dungeon crawler, with loot to be grabbed and enemies to be avoided, or snuck up upon and stabbed in the back.
Tome: Immortal Arena is another MOBA, but it's doing away with a lot of genre mainstays
Every time I invite company over, it’s embarrassing. Someone sits on the sofa, starts squirming, and digs out a MOBA from under the cushions. A friend opens the fridge to grab a beer, and three MOBA fall out, smashing on the floor. Somebody else wants to use the loo, but when they open the door to the bathroom, a tide of MOBAs floods the entire place.
This is really why I thought MOBAs should take a break, but they are continuing their relentless march to engulf the world. And another one has joined their ranks: Tome: Immortal Arena. It’s due out on Steam on November 21st.
Buzz Aldrin's Space Program Manager launches by aiming for the Moon
Buzz Aldrin’s Space Program Manager launched today, giving players command over NASA, the Soviet Space Agency or the fictional Global Space Agency. Starting in the ‘50s, there’s one big goal: get to the Moon.
The name alone invites comparison with Kerbal Space Program, but developer Polar Motion emphasises that they are two rather different games, with SPM focusing on management, which Kerbal focuses on engineering.
Star Citizen unveils demo video of FPS combat at PAX Australia
I’m not sure what I expected from Star Citizen’s first-person mode, but I know it wasn’t something this impressive. The new footage of the FPS module, revealed at PAX Australia, shows some cool (if conventional) squad-on-squad combat and some less-conventional zero-G firefighting... in a warehouse full of crates.
Yep, it's a shooter.
Valkyria Chronicles releases in 10 days, discounted for preorder
Better late — very late — than never. I was thrilled to hear that PC gamers would finally be getting a chance to enjoy Valkyria Chronicles, which was a much-needed breath of fresh air for the squad-based tactical wargame at a time when the genre seemed all but abandoned.
Now, we only have ten days to wait until this gorgeous combination of JRPG, third-person shooter, and turn-based wargame finally comes to the PC.
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