Only 50 teams have beaten Final Fantasy XIV's Final Coil of Bahamut raid
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In the latest Letter from the Producer for Square Enix’s Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, director and producer Naoki Yoshida revealed that only 50 teams across all servers had bested the games hardest raid. The Final Coil of Bahamut was released with patch 2.4 a month ago.
“For those of you still making your way through, or preparing to step foot into the Final Coil─only about 50 teams have cleared the entirety of the Final Coil across all servers,” said Yoshida. “So there’s no need to rush.”
Ultra Street Fighter IV version 1.04 coming in December; includes Omega Mode, Edition Select and trials
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Ultra Street Fighter IV is due to receive a new patch shortly after the Capcom Cup in December. Version 1.04 will bring with it some new features, such as Omega Mode - a mode where every fighter is re-imagined with new moves and abilities. Training Mode Trials that help you learn specific fighters will also be debuting for Ultra’s newest characters, such as Decapre, Elena, Poison, Hugo and Rolento.
Finally, Edition Select will be made available for online play, allowing you to select specific patch versions for each character.
Broken Age Act 2 has been delayed; will launch in early 2015
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Double Fine have announced to backers that they’ll have to endure a slightly longer wait for the second part of their crowd-sourced Adventure game: Broken Age Act 2. The game is due to be in alpha testing by the end of this year, with a release date coming early in the next year.
“The game is looking really good and the team is working super fast” said Double Fine. “but we just gotta give the game the time it needs to really deliver on everything we’re hoping it will be.”
Wave your oversized wands in the air in Chaos Reborn's latest trailer
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Harry Potter taught us that the key to using your wand is all in the motion: swish and flick as they’d say. A new trailer for Julian Gollop's Chaos Reborn shows off quite a few fancy swishes and flicks with even bigger and gigantic wizard staves. The results are fireballs, explosions, summoning giants and even the odd blunt club round the head.
It’s also really pretty, so you should take a look at the trailer below.
Team LDLC overcome exploits to win Counter-Strike: Global Offensive finals at DreamHack
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The Counter-Strike wing of French pro-gaming force Team LDLC claimed the top spot in the 2014 DreamHack CS:GO Championship this weekend - and with it, $100,000 of the tournament’s $250,000 community-funded prize pool.
It’s a surprising result - not because LDLC aren’t capable, but because they were briefly knocked out of the championship a day earlier.
Chortle: The Beano commission official Dennis and Gnasher Minecraft mod
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If you were to pick a cartoon archetype for the average Minecraft player, you’d probably wind up somewhere between Dennis the Menace and simpering perma-pushover Walter: knees grazed and outgoing, but with the patience required for wiki study and a penchant for flowers.
It's Dennis we'll soon be able to play as, however. Canadian game devs Frima Studios are working on a Minecraft mod with Beano publishers DC Thomson - with an eye to bringing more characters over from the comics if demand is there.
League of Legends dragon champ Ao Shin "on hold"; "We do intend to make him someday"
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The white, wispy mane of early Ao Shin concept art suggested a champion who was barely there, and so he has proven. Scheduled for release behind at least two other League of Legends champions, the storm dragon has never been anything other than the distant prospect of electrical abilities - and is now officially on hold.
Dustforce DX update tidies up levels to make it easier for new players
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Dustforce is almost three years old but that’s not stopped Hitbox Team from cooking up a massive update to expand and rework sections of the original game.
The free Dustforce DX update adds more than 100 new maps, fixes bugs, and redesigns the overworld system to make it friendlier for new players.
It does a stack more, too.
EVE Online Input Broadcasting and Input Multiplexing become permaban offences
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CCP have clarified their position on players using multiple accounts, saying what is and isn’t allowed. You’re still allowed to run multiple subscriptions - even playing them at the same time with the help of multiboxing software - but automating actions, using Input Broadcasting & Input Multiplexing, have been banned.
Getting caught performing either within Eve can result in a permaban.
Hearthstone: Goblins vs Gnomes: all the new cards
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It was a busy time for Hearthstone at this year’s BlizzCon - a new expansion was announced: Goblins vs Gnomes. It’ll feature 120 brand new cards themed around the fantastical, and often random inventions of both races. Unlike the latest Adventure, Curse of Naxxramas, you won’t need to buy the expansion as a whole, instead you’ll purchase a new Goblins vs Gnomes booster pack; or win them from the arena.
We’ve gathered all the cards that have been spoiled to date - 62 at the time of writing - so you can take a gander at them all, and start plotting your explosive decks today. Check back regularly as more cards are spoiled!
Red 5 on fixing Firefall: “Usually the right decisions are the toughest”
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Firefall was finally released in July this year, though work began on the MMO back in 2005. In that time the game changed radically, as did the studio making it: it’s dropped its Arena PvP, its eSports aspirations, and none of Red 5’s founders remain at the studio.
I gave Firefall 4/10 when I reviewed in in August, though an update released shortly after launch addressed a lot of its problems.
We recently sat down with Firefall’s lead designer Scott Youngblood and design director Scott Rudi to talk about the Firefall’s potted history and their plans for its future, beginning with how it could have been the Tribes MMO.
I am Bread pops out of the toaster and onto Steam Early Access this week
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I am Bread, Bossa Studios’ breakfast time physics-gone-mad simulator, will be leaping out of the toaster and onto Steam Early Access this week.
Like a bizarre cross between Surgeon Simulator, Goat Simulator and QWOP, I am Bread gives players control over a slice of bread as they attempt to increase its deliciousness just in time for the most important meal of the day, by sticking to things and jumping around the place before evolving into lovely toast.
The Batmobile is integral to Arkham Knight: "Batman wouldn't use it if he didn't need it"
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Rocksteady have posted the second part of Batman: Arkham Knight’s Ace Chemicals infiltration mission, with the Batmobile once again front and centre, and amid the flashes of gunfire and the battle between drone tanks and the Dark Knight’s favourite mode of transport, I started to forget that I was watching something that was related to the Caped Crusader.
How does the World’s Greatest Detective deal with a bunch of futuristic tanks? He uses a gattling gun, apparently.
Put your hard hat on: Fortnite's alpha begins tomorrow
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I don’t have enough pillows and blankets to make a really good fort, and that’s a crying shame. It’s for the best, though, as my otherwise well behaved dog, Max the Labradoodle, has a fixation on such things, and would inevitably savage every single pillow, knocking down the entire fortress.
Max isn’t allowed to play Epic Games’ Fortnite, though, nor are the bases constructed in this sandbox made out of pillows. Fortnite’s alpha will be kicking off, sans Labradoodles, tomorrow, and running until December 19th.
Sledgehammer comes down on Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare map exploits
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Democracy? To paraphrase Spacey, people don’t want democracy - they want Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, especially when it’s going cheap for Black Friday. Sales of the gadget-laden shooter leapt 110% during last week’s festival of commerce, and Sledgehammer want to ensure they give the new lot a proper welcome - by squeezing out some of the bad vibes still affecting multiplayer.
Project Zomboid is nearly finished; "final march" will introduce cars, stealth and NPCs
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Project Zomboid has been shambling onwards in the public eye for nigh on four years now. Bits of it have fallen off in the process, but the game’s been sustained the whole time by an otherworldly undead force: the sheer strength of its central survival pitch.
The Indie Stone are now implementing endgame features like vehicles, stealth and NPCs - and shooting for a finished game in the first few months of 2015.
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