Crytek will support Mantle by adding it to their Cryengine.
http://www.crytek.com/blog/crytek-partner-with-amd-to-bring-mantle-support-to-cryengine
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If South Park: The Stick of Truth was a departure for Obsidian, with its 2D willy-bum comedy and turn-based JRPG combat system, then this is a defenestration: a tactical vehicular MMO that crushes dialogue trees beneath the tracks of “incredible, modern destructive machines”.
Furrowed brows all round, then. But if you’re looking for an explanation, it’s probably worth remembering a fundamental part of Obsidian’s business: they’re contractors.
Yesterday, Epic Games announced plans to make Unreal Engine 4 available to developers big and small as a $19 monthly subscription service. They’ll drop Unreal 3’s finickity licensing system in favour of a 5% gross revenue royalty on whatever the developer makes - and in return, the dev will get access to the Unreal Editor and C++ source code.
It’s an exercise in simplification. By Tim Sweeney’s account, that’s the philosophy that drives engine development at Epic. Last night, the company founder talked to our Rob about making something as exponentially complex as game making “affordable and fair”.
Here’s a fun fact: the nastiest 1% of League of Legends players are responsible for only 5% of reported negative experiences. Who’s ruining everyone’s evening the other 95% of the time, then? Paradoxically, it’s all the nice people: the 78% who regularly receive honor and are barely if ever reported.
It’s Riot player behaviour specialist Jeffrey Lin’s job is to track toxic chat of League of Legends players and work out how to stop it from happening. That starts, he says, with creating a context that makes it easier to for the “inherently good” majority to play nice than to start “flipping tables”.
“Our goal is to make sportsmanship the path of least resistance,” said Lin. And that's what Team Builder is all about.
Guild Wars 2’s year-long living story initiative, which ended with the death of antagonist Scarlet Briar just this week, has ensured the lion’s share of each bi-weekly update has belonged to new story content rather than features.
Consider April 15’s update an all-out features blowout, then: a “sweeping range” of new systems and enhancements - and in particular, traits - where previously we’ve become accustomed to a slow trickle.
Wildstar’s PVP is fun and chaotic. I recently had the pleasure of playing in an grudge match between EU and US games journalists in one of Wildstars battlegrounds: Walatiki Temple. It’s a capture the flag map, except the flags are replaced with voodoo masks. Spoilers: we - the EU side - lost, but the match demonstrated the kind of tactics and moves you can expect from battlegrounds in Wildstar.
While it’s not particular daring in design, it works.
Most PC shooters grow old and wrinkly fast. A little known fact: Quake’s levels shrivelled like prunes through the noughties - so embarrassing the game that it covered its shrunken scenery with cardboard boxes, now commonly mistaken for polygonal architecture.
Titanfall will escape the fate that’s befallen its predecessors, at least for a short while: Nvidia are determined to work with Respawn to keep their vertical shooter “at the cutting edge of image quality”.
Wolfenstein is a shooter, first and foremost. But it'll also take advantage of its first-person perspective to put you in a variety of palm-sweat inducing situations. You might remember one from our Tim's The New Order hands-on, involving a leather-clad Delores Umbridge and her pet Nazi, named Bubi.
It's every bit as unnerving in the frame as it was in text - an Inglorious Basterds table scene infused with Blazkowicz's B-movie monotone. Enjoy.
Warlock 2: The Exiled is finished, apart from the editor tool, but it won’t be released until April 10th. Ino-Co Plus and Paradox Interactive think that it’s a wee bit silly to make you wait for that long when you could dive in right now. So they’ve decided to let you do just that.
Buy any of the game’s three versions and you’ll be able to play straight away. Bonus and special edition content as well as the editor tool will be available on the launch date. That’s all rather lovely, as waiting is just awful.
Blizzard call Heroes of the Storm a hero brawler. Others call it a MOBA. We call it a triumph. It is Blizzard’s version of what Dota and League of Legends do so well: a compulsive mix of strategy gaming, timing, 5v5 teamplay and ridiculous shoulderpads. Even now, in it’s early alpha stage, it feels a complete blast.
Here’s why.
It’s hard to just play one Blizzard game. It’s not just that they are rather moreish; they keep bloody offering you things in other games. Splashing out on the deluxe versions of World of Warcraft expansions nets you a plethora of stuff for Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2, playing Hearthstone lets you ride a flying horse in World of Warcraft and now there’s another offer dragging you between games.
Pick up the upcoming Diablo 3 expansion, Reaper of Souls, and you’ll find yourself in possession of a pack or packs of expert cards for Hearthstone. This is something you probably want, because Hearthstone is simply delightful.
During this year’s GDC, Microsoft has unveiled its latest DirectX API, DX12. DX12 will be a faster API than its predecessors, and will let developers create more complex scenes. This new API will work across all Microsoft platforms, and will be supported by excellent tools. Continue reading
Epic Games has unveiled the first details for its Oculus Rift title that will be powered by Unreal Engine 4, Couch Knights. Couch Knights is described as a multiplayer game, in which you control half of a cheeky battle set in a metropolitan living room scene. Continue reading
Rebellion has released a new developer diary for Sniper Elite 3 in which the development team answers the community’s questions. Sniper Elite 3 is coming to the PC on June 27th and will support AMD’s Mantle API. We’ll have an interview with Rebellion about the PC version of Sniper Elite 3, so stay tuned for more. Enjoy! Continue reading
Phoenix Online Studios has released the GDC 2014 trailer for Gabriel Knight: 20th Anniversary Edition. Gabriel Knight: 20th Anniversary Edition is a remake of the first Gabriel Knight game that packs high res graphics, an all new remastered soundtrack, behind-the-scenes goodies, and the great gameplay and story of the original. Enjoy! Continue reading
Microsoft and Turn 10 Studios showcased earlier today a tech demo of Forza 5 running on the PC via its new API, DirectX 12. Well, time to take a look at what was shown. YouTube’s channel ‘Bright Side Network’ has uploaded the video showing off Forza 5 running with constant 60fps at 1080p on the PC. The PC that was used was equipped with an Nvidia GTX Titan Black. Enjoy! Continue reading
Rising Star Games, in conjunction with Swedish developer, Coilworks, today announced that their free-running platformer, Cloudbuilt, is now available on Steam for PC. Continue reading
Focus Home Interactive and Eugen Systems announced today that Wargame: Red Dragon is available in beta phase via its Steam Early Access program. According to the press release, the Beta will let all players who pre-order the game to start playing now in the very first multiplayer battles of Wargame: Red Dragon. Continue reading
Oddworld Inhabitants has today released a new gameplay trailer for its upcoming platformer-adventure Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty. According to the press release, the gameplay footage, which shows off the game’s dynamic lighting, organic animation and special effects, is designed to showcase the vast improvements made over the original Abe’s Oddysee, on which New ‘n’ Tasty is based. Continue reading
Kotaku has leaked some new images from what seems to be the next Assassin’s Creed title. This new Assassin’s Creed game will be called – according to the leaked images – Assassin’s Creed: Unity and will be set, at least partly, in 18th-century Paris. Continue reading
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Anyone picked up Lichdom: Battlemage on Steam? I'm kinda want to play the game but I think I might just wait until it's out of early access.
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Physics-mad FMX stunt game Trials Fusion is getting a closed beta tomorrow, March 21st, for everyone who pre-orders the game on Uplay and some digital retailers.
The full game launches next month, on April 24th, a week after its console launch. So the beta is a bit of an apology, I suppose.
Attention, inquisitive people. Our Steve wrote a preview of Sniper Elite 3 a wee while ago, but you might still have questions. Rebellion thinks so, anyway. Maybe you didn’t have time to read his lovely words or maybe your question is very specific like “can you shoot a nazi in both of his testicles?” So Rebellion’s put together a Q&A to answer the big ones, and the first part went up today, covering community, choice, environments, AI and relocation. Take a look below, sniper people.
You’re never too far away for a massive PC sale, whether it’s Steam or Green Man Gaming’s seasonal price slashing or GOG’s massive reductions across most of its library. Games you’ve been too broke to buy or you simply aren’t sure about become within your grasp or safer bets, and pretty quickly your digital libraries grows into a behemoth.
But it’s not all rainbows and unicorn kisses. There are concerns that frequent sales devalue games and stop consumers from purchasing at launch, limiting the chances of developers, especially of the indie variety, from being able to make further games.
Positech Games’ straight shooting Cliff Harris (Democracy 3, Gratuitous Space Battles) has weighed in on the subject in a blog post, and he makes no bones about his dislike of the trend. “t’s a bad thing, and if we can (and I think we probably can’t) we should stop it,” he says.
Say what you like about Malthael, the Silent Angel, the Guardian, the Angel of Death, Architect of the Eternal Conflict, former Archangel of Wisdom, ex-leader of the Angiris Council. Say what you like about that bloke, but he doesn’t discriminate when it comes to eradicating humanity and the nephalem.
New servers have been deployed ahead of the release of Reaper of Souls on Tuesday. They should result in a “smoother” looting experience for players in Australia and New Zealand.
Beastliness isn’t a trait much prized in high society - but that’s what Uber Entertainment are determined to reward in the first ever official tournament for their interstellar RTS, Planetary Annihilation.
A handful of the “beastliest teams” in the game will compete next weekend for a “unique (and beastly)” custom commander.
“Also glory,” note Uber.
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| BasilZero said: "DX12 will work on all Microsoft Platforms"
Also thanks Zarx *-*! |
I'd take it more like "DX12 will work on PC, consoles and mobile".
Later they will clarify that it will not work on the Xbox360 and neither on older versions of WindowsPhone and prior versions of PC Windows... You can never trust these megacorps.
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Crytek today announced a CRYENGINE licensing deal with independent game studio, Robotoki, who will use its engine to create a new game for PC and consoles. Continue reading
Square Enix has released a new trailer for its upcoming supernatural detective thriller, Murdered: Soul Suspect. Murdered: Soul Suspect challenges gamers to solve their own murder as Ronan O’Connor, a detective with the Salem police, has his life brought to a brutal end by a masked killer. The game is planned for a June release on PC, old-gen and current-gen consoles. Enjoy! Continue reading
During this year’s GDC, Xbox boss Phil Spencer claimed that Microsoft will start focusing – yet again – on PC gaming. As Phil Spencer said, PC gamers can expect more focus from Microsoft in the PC gaming space. And while the company has made such statements in the past, we have to admit that DX12 is a game changer. So yeah, things may turn good this time around… or not? Continue reading
God bless the community. Unreal Engine’s forum member ‘vblanco’ has showcased dynamic global illumination in Unreal Engine 4. According to vblanco, game developers can take advantage of GI via Light Propagation Volumes (the same GI system that CRYENGINE uses) and you can enable it by following his guide. Kudos to NeoGAF for spotting it. Enjoy the videos showing off dynamic global illumination in Unreal Engine 4! Continue reading
In a presentation at GDC, “Narrative Legos with Ken Levine”, the System Shock 2 and BioShock Infinite creator discussed how designers can explore narratives that are non-linear, replayable and player-driven.
He was riffing, a little bit, exploring what developers - including himself - can do when they don’t limit players with artificial boundaries. He wasn’t announcing a new game, but rather detailing how he would like to approach game development in regards to the story.
Don’t you hate it when you’ve spent weeks tracking down a treasure chest, cursing the drunken pirate who inaccurately scrawled an ‘x’ on your laptop screen when you showed him a Google Gaps view of the area, only to find it contains a Tigger mug - the exact same Tigger mug you already owned!
Valve hate that, too. That’s why they’re changed the chests in Dota 2 to stop them giving duplicate rewards. Plus, there are lovely bonuses thrown into the mix.
We’re just days away from the release of Battlefield 4’s next DLC expansion: Naval Strike. DICE are waving in the new by bringing up the old, the latest trailer shows how a 16th century cannon is completely capable of taking out a 21st century helicopter.
It all looks like blisteringly good fun.
Neon blur, motorbikes, and guns: this game throbs with cool. Protocol sits you in the saddle of a motorbike, racing down a motorway in a futuristic world all watched over by an authoritarian police force. They want you dead and they’ll shoot at you and smash you with their vehicles until they get their way.
It’s free, too.
Jet Set Radio Future and Mirror’s Edge have been at the hanky panky. The child’s not born yet but we’ve been sent a copy of the four month scan and, unlike most in-uterine baby videos I've seen, this is one to make you smile.
Hover: Revolt of Gamers is a colourful, cel shaded sports game that lets you leap and run over a futuristic city.
Survive/Adapt/Win, that’s Arma 3’s motto. It doesn’t roll off the tongue but then armies don’t often go in for lyricism, they prefer guns and killing people. There’ll be plenty of that in the concluding part of Bohemia’s miltary simulator’s campaign - guns and killing, not lyricism. (Though, I’m only assuming on the lyricism part, it could all end with a song or go a bit Oh, What a Lovely War.)
Bohemia have published a trailer announcing the release of Win.
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"Microsoft: PC Gamers can expect 'more focus' from us"
Coming from almost zero in the last years, that doesn't sound like much.
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| JEMC said: "Microsoft: PC Gamers can expect 'more focus' from us" Coming from almost zero in the last years, that doesn't sound like much. |
they have been saying the same thing every year for like 10 years, and yet they seem yo do the opposite. I'm not holding my breath for that to change any time soon TBH.
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There’s an itch in Planetside 2 that needs to be scratched. It’s helicopter shaped and there’s a tinge of Norse mythology to it. Yup, we didn’t know it but till this day we’ve been wanting the Valkyrie, a fast attack aircraft which is designed for dropping small squads of troops at the front line.
It’s coming this Summer.
Tall people are often harassed by small people for piggy backs. It’s a common sight at festivals and supermarkets with high shelves. The tall person will be minding their own high minded business when, out of nowhere, a low to the ground blur will leap onto them, trying to crawl to their peak. If the tall person has been properly trained then they will activate their shoulder-mounted cannons and blast the little person into meat paste.
Burden lets normal sized people experience what it’s like to be a tall person.
Well, that was quick, wasn’t it? EverQuest Next Landmark was only in alpha for two months and it’s already entering closed beta, bringing with it all them types what bought the game’s Founder’s Pack.
The closed beta will launch on 26 March.
Responding to questions on a Reddit AMA, Julian Gollop, creator of the original XCOM, who is currently working on a remake of Chaos, Chaos: Reborn, criticised the lack of development in game AI.
“AI should be a lot better now,” wrote Gollop, “since the amount of processing power is huge, but I am not convinced it really is that better. The original X-Com had an AI programmed in a few Kb and was designed to run on a 80386 PC. I think the new XCOM does a good job, but it seems more behaviour based and relies a lot on the player triggering stuff. At least that is my impression.”
He had more to say about the state of game development.
Titanfall’s taken over the internet of late. As it should, Rob gave it a 9/10 (even if Tim did call the campaign a “misery inducing failure”). And with all those players rushing in to play the game bugs and imbalances have been spotted all over the shop, something Respawn are addressing with this patch.
It seems that Nvidia has been working on a truly amazing new driver for its graphics cards. Even though MS has just announced DX12 – a new API that promises to offer better performance on CPU heavy titles – the green team is developing a new driver that will lessen the CPU overhead on a variety of DX11 titles. Continue reading
By Craig Pearson on March 21st, 2014 at 8:00 pm.
The Stomping Land sprinted into my heart–much like Jeff Goldblum fleeing the T-Rex in Jurassic Park–and I’ve been anxiously awaiting more news from what appears to be DayZ with dinosaurs. The silence has been broken! Not hugely. Not like the roar of a T-Rex with a bellyful of goat, but more like the squirty trill of the dilophosaurus*. The developers have been updating their site for the past week with more information about character customisation, taming, and tracking. Follow the footprints to find out more.
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