Dota 2's Frostivus event is cancelled, again; team to instead work on engine update
For the third year in a row, Dota 2’s Frostivus festival has been canceled. But unlike the previous two, it won’t be replaced by another e.g. The Greevling, Wraith Night. Valve’s Dota 2 team have made a statement on the matter, and their excuse is rather exciting.
Valve are planning an engine update to Dota 2 in the first half of next year, and committing resources to a winter themed game mode would sap too much manpower from this exciting addition. But rejoice, as Valve have assured that this doesn’t mean we won’t see feature filled patched in the near future.
“We are already hard at work on our next major update,” said Valve. “Although we will continue to avoid building new game modes until the engine improvements come along.”
The Banner Saga 2 unveiled at The Game Awards
Stoic have formally announced The Banner Saga 2 at this year’s Game Awards, in the form of a short teaser trailer. The original Banner Saga debuted with a mix of turn-based strategy, a powerful Norse mythology narrative and beautiful animation.
Details are naturally sparse, but we have the trailer below.
The Witcher 3 has a second playable character, but you'll need to play Where's Wally to find out who
CD Projekt RED have cryptically announced a second playable character in The Witcher 3 at this year’s Game Awards, although we’re still non the wiser about who it is. All we have to go off is a new trailer of the game, one that contains our mysterious sidekick.
Bioshock Infinite is heading to Linux; scheduled for early 2015
2K Games have officially announced that their much loved Bioshock Infinite will be available on Linux early next year. The first hints were picked up by a redditor, who saw new string updates to the game make multiple references to the Linux platform.
Shortly after, this was confirmed by a tweet from the publisher themselves. “More details coming after the New Year.” said 2K.
Street Fighter V will feature cross platform play between the PC and PS4
Sony and Capcom have (this time) officially announced Street Fighter V for both PS4 and PC at this year’s PlayStation Experience event. The next installment in the franchise aims to envision the best of Street Fighter, as well as give the game a subtle yet welcome facelift. The most exciting news though is that the game will feature cross platform play between PC and PS4.
The Street Fighter community is about to get a whole lot bigger!
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