Citybound sounds pretty interesting, hopefully it will turn out good, otherwise Banished might be the best single player city builder game lol
Demons don’t get many chances to impress their mums. Work is mostly evil, and so they don’t mention it on the phone - instead mournfully consigning her suggestive emails about job listings to the spam folder.
For the next month, though, things will be different. Demons will make their mums proud. They're going to be on the telly.
‘Netcode’ sounds like a term so broad that it could mean absolutely anything, and it is. In Battlefield 4 it refers to problems ranging from faulty latency compensation to glitches in movement and shooting.
DICE have made these issues and everything in between one of their “top priorities”, effective immediately - and plan to keep players updated on their progress in tackling the most worrisome issues.
Dishonored 2 is in development at Arkane, according to somebody with a photo of a TV screen. That’s not entirely a surprise: since Bethesda’s Pete Hines started making positive noises, an Arkane-developed Dishonored 2 has been the worst kept secret since “Corvo didn’t kill the Empress”.
What’s more surprising is just how soon it’ll be upon us. The photograph indicates that we should expect a “full reveal” at E3 in June this year.
MMO players are used to flinging bits of their interface around, snuggling chat bars in convenient corners of their screen and gluing quickbars to the ceiling to suit their needs. But Zenimax Online have gone one step further, allowing players access to a modding API that allows for dramatic revisions of the game’s UI.
Some of those modder-built add-ons have - and that’s concerned some beta players, who worry The Elder Scrolls Online is only one step away from normalising game-breaking macros.
End of Nations is like that friend you’re expecting to visit who keeps ringing you with updates. “I’m on the train, be with you shortly,” they say. And then an hour later, “I’m on the bus, just around the corner.” And then, at dusk, “I’m practically outside.” But they never turn up, and instead turn up dead in a ditch the next day. You know the type.
Trion Worlds ceased their efforts to revive End of Nations at the tail end of last year, it turns out - and ever since it’s been “on hold” while the company work out what to do with it.
The next entry in the Arkham series has been outed by UK retailer GAME - and marks the return of Asylum developers Rocksteady to the streets and vents that made their name.
Don’t fell a Titan without recourse to this graphics driver - or risk marginally inferior performance and graphical glitches. That’s the dire warning issued by Respawn Entertainment yesterday - and they really ought to know.
Vlambeer’s hectic retro dogfighter, Luftrausers, feels like it’s been a long time coming, and not just because of its sepia filter and minimalist aesthetic. It was announced in March, last year, and was said to be coming out “soon”. A year later, we’re getting our dirty mitts on it.
The developer revealed the release date of March 18th on Twitter, complete with a shuddering vine. The battle begins.
Attendees at the Gadget Show Live 2014 will be able to check out Jagex’s MOBA/MOTA, Transformers Universe months before it launches in the Summer. The consumer tech event takes place between April 9th and 13th at the Birmingham NEC and will host over 200 exhibitors showcasing technology and games.
Diablo 3’s patch 2.0.1 launched a wee while ago, getting everyone ready for Reaper of Souls while overhauling a lot of the core game. To get you up to speed with the massive, game-changing update, Blizzard Community Manager Lylirra breaks down the patch in a new video. She covers Loot 2.0, the Paragon system, the new difficulty tiers and the game’s new social features.
Rocksteady’s Batman: Arkham Knight has been confirmed. Earlier today, UK retailer GAME let the bat out of the bag by listing it on its website. Now, Game Informer has given a sneak peak at its next cover, which is Batman: Arkham Knight, confirming its existence.
And now there’s a trailer, “Father to Son”, which shows how Bruce’s deceased father’s will drives him to protect Gotham City. There’s an official site, to boot.
Cryptic sure does love to dole out free expansions like there’s no tomorrow. Every time I pop back into Star Trek Online or Neverwinter, there’s a healthy chunk of free content. In the case of Star Trek, it’s meant that a fairly mediocre MMO has blossomed into a compelling space adventure.
Neverwinter got off on the right foot, anyway, launching as a F2P game instead of moving to the model when subscriptions dwindled, and Cryptic has ensured there’s no dearth of content for free players. Two modules have been released, for free, since the MMO launched in June, and now there’s a third one in the works: The Curse of Icewind Dale.
Gabe Newell vanished yesterday after arranging a Reddit AMA, certain sensationalist individuals might say that it was because he was busy with Half-Life 3 business. Whatever the reason, he returned today. For an hour, the Valve head honcho along with Greg Coomer, Ido Magal, Erik Wolpaw and Erik Johnson answered Reddit’s questions. Some of them. And no, they didn’t say anything about Half-Life 3. Which obviously means it’s on its way.
Eidos Montreal, the studio behind Thief, which launched last week, has laid off 27 employees. The temptation is to somehow tie this to Thief’s uneven critical reception, but without sales numbers it would just be an assumption. And one without much merit. It’s sadly common for studios to let go of some staff when a project finishes and people are no longer needed. This seems to be the case here.
Square Enix confirmed the unfortunate situation in a statement earlier today.
Square Enix today confirmed supernatural detective thriller Murdered: Soul Suspect will go on sale in North America June 3rd, 2014. European fans will have to wait three more days as the game will be released on June 6th. Continue reading
The Skywind team has released a new trailer for its mod, featuring clips from the very first quest to travel to the town of Balmora from Seyda Neen, and all the exploration to be had on your way there. Skywind is a mod for Skyrim that aims to bring Morrowind’s world to it. It looks interesting, so make sure to give this video a go. Enjoy! Continue reading
Ubisoft has just released a new screenshot for Tom Clancy’s The Division. Yes, it looks good but what worries me at this point is that since the game’s debut, Ubisoft has been really silent about it. Sure thing, we’ve been getting screenshots from the environment that was initially unveiled, but we haven’t gotten any brand new information about it. The Division is planned for a 2014 release but I’m pretty sure that it will get delayed to 2015 given Ubisoft’s current stance. Enjoy! Continue reading
Gamebase announced today that it will showcase Reach3dx at Game Developers Conference 2014. Gamebase will be in booth 424 at the GDC Expo, which will be held from March 17 to 21, 2014 in San Francisco. Continue reading
Coffee Stain Studios announced that its ridiculously amazing Goat Simulator will be released on April 1st. The game started out as early alpha footage of a tech demo that quickly snowballed out of control with people demanding the game be released for real. Coffee Stain answered by turning Goat Simulator into a real game, announcing it to be released on Steam. Continue reading
You know what? I find it really funny that the PC platform is getting more JRPGs than current and next gen consoles. Grimm Bros today announced the launch of Steam Greenlight campaign for its upcoming debut PC title, Dragon Fin Soup. Dragon Fin Soup is described as a charming hybrid tactical action RPG with roguelike elements, and is set in a world inspired by fairytales and classic JRPG’s. Continue reading
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| KingKazuma34 said: Citybound sounds pretty interesting, hopefully it will turn out good, otherwise Banished might be the best single player city builder game lol |
Is it?
Don't get me wrong, I haven't played the game and I haven't seen a review saying that it is a bad game, but what I have read is that while the simulation is very good, it lacks the ability to make you care for the inhabitants. It's just a game to build buildings, not to create cities.
Please excuse my bad English.
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JEMC said:
Is it? Don't get me wrong, I haven't played the game and I haven't seen a review saying that it is a bad game, but what I have read is that while the simulation is very good, it lacks the ability to make you care for the inhabitants. It's just a game to build buildings, not to create cities. |
Ehh idk because for example in one of my play sessions, my citizens started to starve to death and I started to panic and build multiple sources of food, but they still died anyway and I felt bad for not providing enough food. It may just be me, but I feel as though the game does a decent job of making you care a little.
It may have been sat idle on Xbox 360 for the past year but, finally, Battleblock Theater is coming to the PC. The Behemoth's follow up ot Castle Crashers sees you and a friend race through platformer levels full of lava traps, TNT, and exploding goats.
As well as a PC release - along with the extra lovelies that come with Steam support - Battleblock is set to have a private beta event later this month. At least, that’s what the new trailer tells us.
“Your friends are all bastards.” That’s the message Powerhoof seem to be sending with their game Crawl. One player controls a dungeon explorer as he moves from tomb to tomb collecting loot, the other three are disgruntled spirits trying to kill them. Possessing traps or using arcane symbols to rise as a monster, the spirits have a lot of tools at their command for splatting the human.
However, whoever kills the human is resurrected themselves and must fight off the other three players.
The World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria Digital Deluxe edition is going the way of the dodo, or a more appropriate extinct animal from Azeroth. In a week (no sooner than March 10th), Blizzard will be discontinuing the edition. So if you have been contemplating upgrading or maybe jumping back into WoW after a prolonged break, you’ll want to grab it as soon as possible.
It seems likely that Blizzard is doing a bit of spring cleaning before announcing the Warlords of Draenei Digital Deluxe edition.
“So I’ve been playing Lego: Lord of the Rings. If I were to load up OnLive, and connect my Steam account right now, I could just pick up where I left it?”
“Yes,” responds Bruce Grove, OnLive’s UK General Manager, “CloudLift will pull the savegame down from Steam’s cloud, open it on one of PCs in a datacenter, and you can start playing it from there.”
“Really? I mean, really?”
“Yup.”
Rebellion’s shooting men in the testicles game, Sniper Elite 3, has just been shot with a release date. It’s coming out on June 27th, worldwide. And, of course, there’s some preorder bonus DLC. It asks an important question: DID HITLER REALLY DIE IN BERLIN? It asks this in caps because when you ask that sort of question, you’re probably shouting it at people while drunk.
Respawn’s Titanfall is getting a season pass. Of course it is. It offers access to the three planned slices of DLC for £19.99/$24.99, saving you a whopping £5/$5. Looks like we’re saving a little bit more over here in blighty. With that spare fiver you could buy a burger and a beer at a questionable bar.
On Origin, you can also grab the Titanfall Digital Deluxe edition which chucks in the season pass as well. That’ll set you back £59.99/$79.99.
To keep backers and those hungry for information up to date on Star Citizen, Chris Roberts and Cloud Imperium are kicking off a new monthly production progress report from the different teams working on the increasingly ambitious game. The first one is up now, and reveals that the long awaited dogfighting module - which was pushed back last year - will be playable very soon.
Metal Gear Solid 5 has been confirmed for every non-handheld platform apart from the Wii U and PC. But series creator Hideo Kojima would like to change that, bringing the latest installment of the venerable franchise to PC, according to Gamespot.
Barry Collins has informed us about the launch of a Kickstarter campaign for his upcoming first person survival horror title that will be powered by Unity 3D, Ashen Rift: A man and his dog. Ashen Rift is a game for PC, Mac and Linux that places you and your canine companion Bounder in a barely recognizable Earth which has been twisted and drained of almost all life. Continue reading
Wargaming has released a new dev diary for World of Tanks in which the development team gives us a glimpse at the upcoming physics enhancements. The new physics engine of World of Tanks looks spectacular, and will give players the ability to completely destroy buildings. Enjoy! Continue reading
Lately we’ve been hearing a lot about resolutions and how console gamers are unable to distinguish the difference between 720p and 1080p. And while most of you will raise your hand and say that you can easily notice the difference between these two resolution standards, Star Citizen’s Chris Roberts claimed that really high resolutions can’t be really appreciated when players are gaming on their HDTVs.. Continue reading
Frictional Games has released a new teaser trailer for its upcoming sci-fi horror title, SOMA. SOMA seems to be powered by a modified version of Amnesia’s engine and is planned for a 2015 release on PC and PS4. Enjoy! Continue reading
Croteam has just revealed that Serious Sam 4 is currently planned for a Q4 2014 release. In addition, Croteam revealed a new IP that it is currently working on and is described as a mixture between Portal and The Witness. Continue reading
By Nathan Grayson on March 5th, 2014 at 8:00 pm.
Seems like only yesterday that we were posting about Crawl’s spiffy new hot-pink-emblazoned Steam Greenlight page, and that’s because it was. In what has to be some kind of record, it’s already emerged from Valve’s crowd-run dungeon with keys to the Steam kingdom in hand. Why, before you know it, Crawl will probably be learning to drive, graduating from college, and serving minimal time for its first white collar crime. They grow up so fast. Other standouts from this week’s 50-strong Greenlight selection include NIKO: Through The Dream and open-world horror-thon Memories of A Fisherman.
By Adam Smith on March 5th, 2014 at 7:00 pm.
With Zeno Clash developers ACE Team at the helm, Abyss Odyssey will no doubt take place in quite an odd world, but it definitely won’t take place in Oddworld, even if the title does look a bit like Abe’s Oddysee. The newly announced game is a side-scroller like Oddworld’s first, but ACE Team are sticking to their principles by concentrating on creatures engaging in fisticuffs. Taking place in a randomised world, Abyss Odyssey is a beat ‘em up in which every enemy has a full moveset and enough artificial gumption to offer a challenge. This is demonstrated by means of a video showing a lady fighting a skeleton.
By Nathan Grayson on March 5th, 2014 at 5:00 pm.
Divinity: Original Sin is looking positively divine. Honestly, in the sheer heat of the moment, I might be more excited about it than Pillars of Eternity or Wasteland 2. I already spoke at length with Larian head Swen Vincke during a massive video play session, but that wasn’t enough. Afterward, we chatted about everything from the studio’s rocky, too-close-to-closure-for-comfort history to the possibility of using Divinity’s engine on a non-fantasy RPG to the chances that Larian goes back to Kickstarter. On top of all that, Vincke told me why having gender parity (one male, one female) on his writing team turned out to be the “best decision ever.”
Vincke’s admirably frank answers to roughly a million questions are below.
By Nathan Grayson on March 4th, 2014 at 5:00 pm.
It hasn’t exactly been “business as usual” for Interceptor lately. First the Rise of the Triad necromancer stealthily didn’t quite reveal a new Duke Nukem game, and then Gearbox *did* entirely sue them for it. But while the Borderlands creator is flinging around 87 bazillion pieces of supposed evidence to the contrary, Interceptor believes it’s in the clear – especially in light of the fact that it now owns original Duke Nukem creator 3D Realms. What does all of this madness mean for Interceptor’s future, though? Is owning 3D Realms even a good thing these days, what with the stinking stain of Duke Nukem Forever still fresh on its name? And what happens to series like Shadow Warrior, which have been lent out (to great results) to other developers?
Also, Blood. Will there be Blood? Can there be Blood? All that and more below from CEO Frederik Schreiber and new 3DR head Mike Nielsen below.
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I'm curious about Goat Simulator, while it probably would be more appropriate if it was a MOD or a cheap add on. Looks like it can give me a good hour of fun and then like the rest of the simulators out there I'll grow bored of it.
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KingKazuma34 said:
Ehh idk because for example in one of my play sessions, my citizens started to starve to death and I started to panic and build multiple sources of food, but they still died anyway and I felt bad for not providing enough food. It may just be me, but I feel as though the game does a decent job of making you care a little. |
I see.
This review sums pretty much the feeling of other reviews I've seen around
http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/pc/2014/02/28/banished-review
Still, I may give it a chance during the Steam Sales...
@DirectX12: I've read that it may come with Mantle like features, which would be very good if true. Unfortunately, it's MSoft so it will be Win 8.1 or even Win 9 only :-/
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On March 18, Blizzard will break apart Diablo III’s auction house themselves. They’ve finally come to realise that it “ultimately undermines Diablo’s core play”, and that the business of killing and looting demons is better off without it.
Until that day, however, they’ll defend it to the last. The headline change for the game’s latest patch is a fix to the loot exchange system: gold can once again be purchased and sold on the Real Money Auction House.
If you haven’t heard of Three Fields Entertainment, don’t worry yourself - you’ve still got it. They’re new.
Three Fields are the indie outfit assembled in January after Criterion co-founders Alex Ward and Fiona Sperry exited stage left from a dramatically reduced version of the onetime Burnout studio.
We don’t know what they’re working on - only that they’re based somewhere in Britain (probably Surrey). Which in this age where many a talented developer is forced to board the swish, mostly-glass boats to Canada, isn’t something to be sniffed at.
It’s just twist after twist over at Game Informer’s staggered reveal of the new Batman, Arkham Knight - like being trapped in the dance hall with Cliff Richard and The Shadows for an entire month, until the torsos of young men and women have twisted clean off.
First - shock - we learn it’ll be developed by series originators Rocksteady. Second - gasp - that it’ll be the last in a quadrilogy. And now, in a scenario worthy of Patrick Stewart’s quadruple take, we’re told that not only will its map be several times larger than that seen in Arkham City, but that the Knight of the title isn’t even Batman.
“Television is virtual reality in some ways,” muses Seinfeld fan and developer Greg Miller. “We make believe that Jerry's place is actually a Manhattan studio and Monks Cafe is just down the street. We suspend the reality that his apartment is just a set in Hollywood, with tons of cameras and lighting dangling overhead.
“I thought it would be a novel virtual reality experience to take a place that only exists in Hollywood magic, and make it for the Oculus Rift as if it were real. Virtual Reality Virtual Reality.”
Watch Dogs finally has a release date after its abrupt disappearance from the 2013 release calendar. Thanks to a leaked trailer that slipped out through Xbox.com, we now know the open-world hacking game comes out on May 27.
And thanks to leaked trailer, we can also be prepared for some very dubious voice acting.
Blizzard’s latest balance patch for StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm attempts to address the disparity between Protoss and Terran, which has become one of the biggest issues in the game.
In keeping with Blizzard’s cautious approach to balance, they’ve made some significant tweaks that will hopefully address the major problems without radically overhauling the way the factions play. Still, there’s no getting around it: Protoss are hit hard with this patch.
Over the last year, Infested Planet has been one of those games I keep firing up whenever I’m at a loss for how to spend a few minutes. It’s the gaming equivalent of an earworm: something simple and catchy that I never quite appreciated how much I liked until I realized I’d invested several hours in it over the course of a week.
Today, it comes out of Early Access and emerges as a full-grown real-time tactics game, one with heavy overtones of Starship Troopers and maybe just a hint of StarCraft.
Frostbite-powered Thedas is looking very pretty, if a little bleak. Certainly not something you could say about the world as it was presented in Dragon Age: Origins or II. Apart from the bleak bit, of course.
This brand-spanking new Dragon Age: Inquisition trailer is all about places! Screw people; they aren’t nearly as nice to look at as sun-dappled forests or ostentatious ballrooms. And Inquisition has those things. Look below before you call me a liar.
So you’ve saved up for a new battleship in EVE Online, and you’re eager to start blasting stuff into space dust, but there’s one problem: your battleship looks a little boring. How are you meant to strike fear into the hearts of your enemies if you can’t paint it hot pink?
CCP are aware that this is a concern, and to give pilots more creative control, the developer is kicking off a ship painting pilot program. Yes, you are one step closer to your rainbow monstrosity.
How are your fellow Hearthstone players to know if you’ve got countless victories under your belt? When you boast about all of your fallen foes, do your chums scoff? No more, says Blizzard. Because if there’s one tried and tested method of showcasing your talents; it’s with a spot of bling.
With the next patch, when you reach 500 ranked wins with a particular hero, they’ll become gilded in gold. These golden heroes will have unique animations added to their portrait and hero power, and all the world will know that you beat up a lot of people in a card game.
The banana republic city-builder, Tropico, is returning this year with its fifth installment. Welcome back, El Presidente.
I does look a little bit like a slightly shinier Tropico 4, which looked like a slightly shinier Tropico 3, but underneath the wee visual upgrade there’s been a lot of expansion. Feast your eyes on the first gameplay trailer below.
Homeworld HD, the re-release of the classic sci-fi RTS, has become Homeworld Remastered, Gearbox’s Chris Faylor revealed in a blog post yesterday.
“Previously, we'd been referring to this effort as Homeworld HD but as work progressed it became clear that title didn't properly communicate the scope of the work,” Faylor explains in the post.
“This is more than a simple re-release or up-res -- given the input we've received from fans, mod makers and series veterans, the result is full-fledged remastering of nearly all aspects alongside the archival Classic versions.“
In a Rust weekly update, Garry Newman’s laid out Facepunch’s future plans for the Darwinian survival game. The game hasn’t seen any major updates recently, which Newman apologises for, and he notes that the team are working on getting them out quicker. But that’s going to take longer than a week.
In the mean time, there are future plans. Plans for farming, a Team Fortress 2-style item editor and a new UI.
Namco Bandai and From Software have just announced that the PC version of Dark Souls 2 will be coming on April 25th. According to the publisher, the PC & Steam version of Dark Souls 2 will benefit from PC capabilities with increased texture resolution and an enhanced frame rate option. On top of that, From Software have been working to perfectly adapt the game for a mouse & keyboard combo. Continue reading
DICE has released a new update for Battlefield 4 that increases max rank to 120, improves the game’s stability, fixes various crashes and fixes the issue with blood effects, damage indicators, and health bar updates in the HUD that were out of sync. This update will be auto-downloaded and you can view its complete changelog below. Continue reading
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Carrier Assault is the contemporary “reimagining” of Battlefield 2142’s Titan mode we learned about last month. Now we know how it works. DICE say pining 2142 players will “feel right at home” with the mode’s array of optional objectives - despite the new setting.
“We hope you will get the same thrill out of parachute-spawning down to a carrier as you did when blasting off in a rocket pod towards a Titan,” said lead gameplay designer Gustav Halling.
We’ve become accustomed to getting our open-world Ubisoft games a month later than our mates on the consoles. By that time, they’ve long since captured all their territories, talked things out with Vaas, and worn out the knees of their white robes on treetrunks. We’ve lived with it - but it hasn’t exactly engendered the sort of shared pop cultural zen moments Ubisoft would presumably like us to be having.
Maybe that’s all about to change? Ubisoft’s schedule for 2014 would seem to confirm as much. Watch Dogs is set for a May 27 release on Xboxes, PlayStations, and PCs.
Last year, Tomb Raider briefly become (for some) an emblem for the futility of big budget game development. After a warm public welcome and 3.4 million copies shifted in its first month, the reboot was nevertheless declared a disappointment by publishers Square Enix - who told investors it had “failed to meet” financial targets.
Now, maybe, the wailing can stop. A year to the week Tomb Raider was released, Crystal Dynamics head Darrell Gallagher has posted a triumphant missive about the game’s “commercial momentum”, which will likely see it become the best-selling game in the history of the series.
EVE Source hardcover edition, the massive EVE universe compendium from CCP and Dark Horse is available in comic book stores and online retailers for £29.99/$39.99.
The 200-page tome fleshes out the EVE universe with lore, never-before-seen materials and artwork. It was announced last year along with the EVE: True Stories comic, the second issue of which is also now out. You can pick that up for free at Dark Horse Digital or on the Android and iOS apps.
Free to Play, Valve’s Dota 2 documentary, which follows three pro players as they prepare and compete in the first Dota 2 International Tournament premieres on March 18th.
To celebrate its launch on Steam the next day, Valve will be putting up the Free to Play Competitors Pack for Dota 2, with items designed by Valve and contributors from the Dota community. Get a sneak peek at the items below.
UemeU (pronounced “you, me, you”) is a sandbox so large that it’s easily mistaken for an engine - a tool to create games rather than a game itself. It’s easy to see why. Look at the cascading range of symbols on its build mode interface and you’d think Photoshop before Final Fantasy - were it not for one, grounding element.
A Tron-like spectral blue hand sits on-screen at all times. To its owner it’s both 3D mouse pointer and gearstick, changing gestures to remind the player what mode they’re in. To other players, it’s a disembodied marker - a huge hand-of-god aide-memoire for where your mates are.
But more importantly than that, it’s an undeniable link to the FPS - jutting from the bottom of the screen like Doom Guy’s shotgun. A hand that claws at the faces of naysayers and screams, “I am a game”. For UemeU can be FPS, or RPG, or puzzle-platformer. It’s a game in which players make games, like Minecraft, or Little Big Planet. Only much, much more ambitious.
Up until recently, BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic had little in common with the now deceased Star Wars Galaxies. The former is a linear, narrative-driven MMO, while the latter was a huge sandbox ripe for roleplaying. But with SWTOR’s Galactic Starfighter expansion, which is like a limited, arena-based version of Jump to Lightspeed, the two MMOs have been brought ever so slightly closer together.
And now BioWare has announced player housing. How it will be implemented and what purpose it serves is still not clear. The trailer below is of a Coruscant apartment, complete with mailbox and droid pal.
When you name a location “Blood Marsh,” you are creating certain expectations; that visitors will bleed or at the very least see blood, and that it’s probably going to be a marsh.
Blood Marsh is the next location in Blizzard’s First Look series, detailing the new environments in the upcoming expansion, Reaper of Souls. It lives up to the name.
DICE has updated Battlefield 4 with a new patch. The studio is still working on stabilising the game and this update should fix some crashes, a variety of bugs and tweak pistols and grenades along with general weapon and vehicle changes.
Direct your eyes below for the full patch notes.
Sources from Irrational who worked on BioShock Infinite and were there they day Ken Levine announced that the studio would be winding down detailed the last years of the developer in an interview with Polygon, recently.
They discussed Levine’s creative process, the constant iterations and changes and the scrapping of two multiplayer modes: Border Control and Spec-Ops.
South Park: The Stick of Truth’s censorship in various parts of the world hasn’t really bothered series co-creator Matt Stone, he says in an interview with the Guardian.
The pretty lewd game - which I liked a lot - saw a couple of scenes cut in Australia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe, though the PC version was uncensored in the UK, and there was no censorship in the US. “It's not that big a deal,” Stone says.
Namco Bandai has released the system requirements for the PC version of Dark Souls 2, updating the Steam store page. It’s due out on April 25th, just over a month after the console versions.
While From Software promises upgraded textures and a better frame-rate, this hasn’t led to taxing system requirements, which are pretty low. Check them out below.
CI Games has released a new in-engine teaser trailer for it WW2 FPS title, Enemy Front. Enemy Front will allow players to choose their preferred combat techniques including all-out combat, sniping, stealth and sabotage as they assume control of American war correspondent Robert Hawkins and align with resistance fighters opposing the Nazi regime across European battlefields. The game is powered by CRYENGINE and is planned for a Summer 2014 release. Enjoy! Continue reading
Well lookie here; we got us another indication/hint/confirmation/you_name_it about the release date of Batman: Arkham Knight. Even though Rocksteady has not announced any release date for Batman: Arkham Knight, Gamestop initially leaked that the game would be coming on October 14th, something that is further strengthened by the game’s official Steam page. Continue reading
We know that a lot of you want to get your hands on a PS3 emulator. Well, that day may come sooner than expected, as a team of developers is currently working on a PS3 emulator that is able to boot a commercial game. In the realm of emulation land, this is huge. Yes, this is laggy and buggy but the fact that an emulator can boot a commercial PS3 game is HUGE. The name of the emulator is RPCS3 and you can view two videos from it running a commercial game below. Enjoy! Continue reading
By Graham Smith on March 7th, 2014 at 8:00 pm.
This week’s Humble Weekly sale is a PopCap bundle, but with an added twist: EA are giving 100% of their cut to charity. Two charities, in fact, between which you can choose your split: the V Foundation for Cancer Research, and The Melanoma Research Alliance which specifically fights skin cancer.
Pay more than $1 and you’ll get a copy of Peggle (download size: one Peggle), zen-like match three puzzler Bejeweled 3, word puzzler Bookworm Deluxe, and two other games. Pay more than $6 and you’ll also get Plants vs. Zombies, Zuma’s Revenge and Peggle Nights. You’ll even get Origin and Steam keys for each one.
Maybe this is Kindness Week and we only just realised?
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By Nathan Grayson on March 7th, 2014 at 7:00 pm.
You certainly can’t knock Zeno Clash and Rock of Ages developer ACE Team for a lack of ambition. Their previous titles’ massive scope and rampant, otherworldly weirdness demonstrated that in spades. So how do you follow that? Why, by jutting off in an entirely different direction, of course. Abyss Odyssey is a procedurally generated, Street Fighter and Super Smash Bros-inspired roguelike-like (but not quite) um… thing. ACE Team’s first set of words about it didn’t quite do it justice, which is why we’ve given them a couple thousand more to work with. Go below to get a better sense of how Abyss Odyssey will work, which utterly mad art style inspired this one (the grand ACE Team tradition), why they’re not doing Steam Early Access, and whether or not they think procedural generation will hurt their knack for insane world-building.
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