Gin and jungling: Snoop Dogg supports fan petition for Dota 2 announcer pack
Dota 2 players have petitioned Valve to add another optional announcer pack to their MOBA. They’d like the voice of Snoop Lion (formerly Snoop Dogg, formerly Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr) to sit alongside that of System Shock 2’s SHODAN and Stanley Parable’s Narrator on the loadout screen.
Among the 1,700 fans on board with the idea is Snoop to the dee-oh-double-gee himself.
Frontier rethink refund policy for those that wanted an offline mode in Elite: Dangerous
Elite: Dangerous developer Frontier recently upset a lot of people by revealing that their epic-scale space sim would be online-only. For many this was a deal-breaker, and gamers began to approach Frontier to request a refund.
Frontier have been willing to play ball in many cases, but initially made one thing clear: pre-orders of the full, final game would be refunded no-questions-asked. Purchasers of the beta version who have already been playing the game online, however, were flat-out denied a return on their investment, as were Kickstarter backers. But that approach is about to change following studio head David Braben’s discussion with fans in an AMA on the Elite forums.
Dota 2 Nemesis Assassin event paints targets on hero heads
Valve have kicked off a new event in Dota 2 that demands you seeks out specific targets in return for trophies and other rewards. Until December 7th, a list of targets will be available on the Dota 2 website that must be slain in battle by the community.
Blow up spaceships in the name of trade in Wayward Terran Frontier: Zero Falls
Wayward Terran Frontier: Zero Falls is quite the mouthful and the sort of name you’re going to forget in five minutes, but maybe you shouldn’t. It’s an indie space game that’s part trading and spaceship sim, part action RPG, with a style that’s not unlike Gratuitous Space Battles.
Players will be given command over a space station and custom ships in a procedural, infinite universe where NPC factions go about their business, at least until you board their ships and start murdering their crews, if that’s your cup of tea.
EVE Online's "This is EVE" trailer uses player voice comms to capture the MMO
A couple of months ago, CCP put out a call to EVE Online players, asking them to submit voice comms for a secret project. At the end of the keynote at EVE Down Under in Sydney, CCP revealed how they’d used the player’s voices and experiences.
EVE Online is a bit hard to describe, particularly in a trailer, but this is why CCP wanted the voice comms of fleets and players - to create a new trailer that shows off EVE in a way that professional voice overs or flashy cinematics alone can’t down. The end result is “This is EVE”, and you can direct your eyes towards it below.
Chivalry isn't dead - Chivalry: Medieval Warfare is free for the weekend
What is a weekend without decapitations and the din of battle and steel clashes with steel and dozens of voices scream out in pain or roar in victory? A rubbish weekend, that’s what it would be. You can avoid a rubbish weekend by playing first-person fantasy hack, slash and stab ‘em up, Chivalry: Medieval Warfare for free over the next two days on Steam.
It’s brilliant, so you should probably start hacking away at foes right bloody now. Or, after it’s downloaded. You probably shouldn’t go outside and start a fight.
The Game Awards 2014 announces fan and jury nominees and categories
The Game Awards is Geoff Keighley's VGX alternative, a show he also produces. It’s being advertised as a celebration of games, but like VGX it looks like as much attention will be given to trailers, announcements and random musical acts.
The 2014 awards show kicks off next month, on the 5th, but you can already read the nominations below.
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