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http://www.gamespot.com/articles/bey.../1100-6418906/

Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth will propel the development of human civilization beyond the traditional timeline of a Civilization game, by exploring humanity’s future on an alien world. For the first time, players will lead factions divided by contrasting cultures and evolve their new civilizations to reflect their chosen destiny. Players will experience an array of new gameplay possibilities, including nonlinear technological progression, deeper customization of chosen factions, and an entire alien world that will change the very identity of each faction based on their choices.

• Seed the Adventure: Players will establish a cultural identity, select a leader and sponsor an expedition by assembling the spacecraft, cargo and colonists through a series of choices that directly impact starting conditions when arriving on the new alien planet.

• Alien World: Exploring the benefits and dangers of a new planet filled with dangerous terrain, mystical resources and hostile lifeforms unlike those of Earth, players will build outposts, unearth ancient alien relics, tame new forms of life, develop flourishing cities and establish trade routes to create prosperity for their people.

• New Technology Web: Reflecting forward progress in an uncertain future, technology advancement will occur through a series of nonlinear choices that affect the development of mankind. The tech web is organized around three broad themes, each with a distinct victory condition.

• New Quest System: Quests are infused with fiction about the planet, and will help guide players through a series of side missions that will aid in the collection of resources, upgrading units, and advancing through the game.

• New Orbital Layer: Players will build and deploy advanced military, economic and scientific satellites that provide strategic offensive, defensive and support capabilities from orbit.

“Having celebrated its 23rd anniversary last year, Civilization has cemented its reputation as one of the greatest and longest running franchises in video game history,” said Christoph Hartmann, president of 2K. “Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth builds upon that success by pushing the series in new directions with players exploring an unknown future on an alien planet.”

“The Civ team was excited about the opportunity to continue the story of Civilization into the future, because it allows the team to break free of historical context,” said Sid Meier, director of creative development at Firaxis Games. “We’ve always let our fans create the history of mankind, and Civilization: Beyond Earth will now let them create the future.”
In addition to its use of DirectX 11, Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth will be among the first wave of products optimized for the latest in AMD graphics technologies, including: the new Mantle graphics API, for enhanced graphics performance; AMD CrossFire™, for UltraHD resolutions and extreme image quality; and AMD Eyefinity, which allows for a panoramic gameplay experience on up to six different HD displays off of a single graphics card.

Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth is not yet rated by the ESRB, and will be available for Windows PC, Mac and Linux in North America this fall for $49.99. Take a look at some of the debut screen shots below. If you're interested in finding out more, you can head over to its official Civilization website right here.

Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth will propel the development of human civilization beyond the traditional timeline of a Civilization game, by exploring humanity’s future on an alien world. For the first time, players will lead factions divided by contrasting cultures and evolve their new civilizations to reflect their chosen destiny. Players will experience an array of new gameplay possibilities, including nonlinear technological progression, deeper customization of chosen factions, and an entire alien world that will change the very identity of each faction based on their choices.

• Seed the Adventure: Players will establish a cultural identity, select a leader and sponsor an expedition by assembling the spacecraft, cargo and colonists through a series of choices that directly impact starting conditions when arriving on the new alien planet.

• Alien World: Exploring the benefits and dangers of a new planet filled with dangerous terrain, mystical resources and hostile lifeforms unlike those of Earth, players will build outposts, unearth ancient alien relics, tame new forms of life, develop flourishing cities and establish trade routes to create prosperity for their people.

• New Technology Web: Reflecting forward progress in an uncertain future, technology advancement will occur through a series of nonlinear choices that affect the development of mankind. The tech web is organized around three broad themes, each with a distinct victory condition.

• New Quest System: Quests are infused with fiction about the planet, and will help guide players through a series of side missions that will aid in the collection of resources, upgrading units, and advancing through the game.

• New Orbital Layer: Players will build and deploy advanced military, economic and scientific satellites that provide strategic offensive, defensive and support capabilities from orbit.

“Having celebrated its 23rd anniversary last year, Civilization has cemented its reputation as one of the greatest and longest running franchises in video game history,” said Christoph Hartmann, president of 2K. “Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth builds upon that success by pushing the series in new directions with players exploring an unknown future on an alien planet.”

“The Civ team was excited about the opportunity to continue the story of Civilization into the future, because it allows the team to break free of historical context,” said Sid Meier, director of creative development at Firaxis Games. “We’ve always let our fans create the history of mankind, and Civilization: Beyond Earth will now let them create the future.”
In addition to its use of DirectX 11, Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth will be among the first wave of products optimized for the latest in AMD graphics technologies, including: the new Mantle graphics API, for enhanced graphics performance; AMD CrossFire™, for UltraHD resolutions and extreme image quality; and AMD Eyefinity, which allows for a panoramic gameplay experience on up to six different HD displays off of a single graphics card.

Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth is not yet rated by the ESRB, and will be available for Windows PC, Mac and Linux in North America this fall for $49.99. Take a look at some of the debut screen shots below. If you're interested in finding out more, you can head over to its official Civilization website right here.

http://www.gametrailers.com/news-post/73123/sid-meiers-civilization-goes-sci-fi-with-beyond-earth

I'm just gonna wait for an 890....... whenever that decides to come out, and completely upgrade my platform when pascalx2 card comes out.

There is definitley a difference between 4x and 8x MSAA.

Its not massive though so for many people it may be better to stick with 4x as the cost is pretty big for not a huge improvement.

Beyond Earth, I honestly can't wait.
Alpha Centauri is one of the *greatest* games of all time and having Beyond Earth borrow heavily from that has made me giggity.

Todd Stashwick joins Visceral as co-writer on new Star Wars project

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Comic and TV script man Todd Stashwick is the latest addition to the Star Wars squad. Joining Amy Hennig, he’ll be working on Visceral’s upcoming Star Wars game. 

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Steam Controller will release in “October or November”, Steam Machines to follow before year’s end

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Steam’s bespoke haptic controller pad could be on sale as soon as October, according to a source in the hardware industry. The controller is also one of the final pieces of the Steam Machine puzzle, and their release could well herald in the first wave of SteamOS-powered PCs at the end of the year. 

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Historic Battlefield games are relocating from GameSpy to Origin

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The Battlefield games have a strong history on PC, with massive victories that pre-date the Battlefield 4 launch fiasco by over a decade. Such fondly remembered games are not just memories though; the likes of Battlefield 2 and Battlefield 2142 still have dedicated players, still waging war on the less detailed but no less destructive fields of yesteryear. 

The announcement that GameSpy will shut its doors at the end of May has potentially upset some of these online soliders, as the older Battlefield games require the service to run. But never fear, EA is here! And they plan to relocate all their Battlefield services safe and sound in Origin. 

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Win The Space Race: The Last Federation’s Out Soon

Civilization: Beyond Earth interview - everything you need to know about the new factions, aliens, technology and more

Civilization: Beyond Earth has been announced. We're the first in the world outside of Firaxis to play it, and you'll be able to read my hands-on impressions in the next issue of PC Gamer UK. While I was at Firaxis, I had the chance to sit down with the two lead designers, Will Miller and David McDonough for a comprehensive hour-long chat about every aspect of Beyond Earth. Read on for details on Beyond Earth's affinities, its dramatic sci-fi tech research web, orbital gun platforms, alien Siege Worms, new high-concept win conditions and loads, loads more.

gog has a sale on, you can pick up the witcher games for a song

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World of Tanks will even the playing field for 2014

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World of Tanks has come a long way since its inception, but 2014 looks to be quite a game-changer for the free-to-play game. Wargaming is developing some notable improvements to the game, with a great focus on wrestling away the dominance the big clans have on the game, and evening the playing field so smaller, less experienced clans can still have fun without inevitable defeats. 

New game modes are the way forward for Wargaming’s plan, and a whole host of new abilities that means your tank isn’t the only thing to rely on in battle. 

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DLC Fall: Titanfall Expedition map pack coming in May

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Respawn has revealed a small selection of details on the first Titanfall DLC pack at PAX East. The map pack will release next month and contain three maps. A new game mode will also be coming along for the ride, and will be a free update for everyone. 

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Half-Life speedrun record smashed, video evidence is nauseating

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The original Half-Life game has been the running track for many speed runners over the years, with the usually 15-20 hour story being blitzed through in less than an hour. But now the fastest players alive have thrown down a new gauntlet and broken the existing speedrun record. 

Their new time: 20 minutes and 41 seconds. That’s nine minutes faster than the previous record. Nine. 

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League of Legends pro fined over "one of the highest harassment scores" in LCS history

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To his fans, he is FORG1VEN -  AD carry for the Copenhagen Wolves and habitual flamer of solo queue games in League of Legends. To Riot Games’ player behaviour tribunal, he is Konstantinos Tzortziou - a bad example to the community, guilty of multiple violations of the LCS ruleset.

Riot have fined Tzortziou $1000, after a number of official warnings failed to lower one of the highest harassment scores in professional LoL.

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Titanfall plagued by load time problems post-patch, proclaim pilots

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The latest Titanfall patch has done some good - namely private matches for between two and 12 players, from ages 0 to 99. But it’s inadvertently done some bad too. Players are reporting load times so long that they’re now missing the opening dropship sequence altogether, instead beginning matches with their feet on terra firma.

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Here's Watch Dogs running on an Ultra spec PC - and the hardware you'll need to do the same

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Watch Dogs’ most recent trailer was recorded on a rig rocking an Intel Core i7-3930K and a GeForce Titan. It could hardly be more unattainable if the GPU was cooled using a steady supply of dragon’s blood, or if its disc drive read DVDs via a diamond needle.

You needn’t own the most powerful graphics card in existence to run Watch Dogs on ‘Ultra’, though - merely something in that ballpark.

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A cheeky bug has been building invisible walls in Battlefield 4 - and we've only just noticed

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Fleshy men repelling rockets; bullets dissolving on contact with oxygen; grenades bouncing off patches of thin air. These are just some of the unexplained phenomena that have been confusing Battlefield 4 players.

In a game that began life riddled with bugs, their cause has been left undiscovered. But Youtuber Jack Frags might have just uncovered the culprit - the newly-named ‘Death Shield’ bug.

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Sci-Fi Horror ‘Caffeine’ Will Support 4K Textures, Skydome Texture Was 8K

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Evolve Gets A New Set Of PAX East Screenshots

April 13, 2014 John Papadopoulos 8 Comments

2K Games has released a new set of PAX East screenshots for Turtle Rock Studios’ upcoming sci-fi MP title, Evolve. Evolve is powered by CRYENGINE and pits a four-player crew of alien hunters against a separate player-controlled monster. The game is scheduled for a 2014 release on current-gen consoles and PC. Enjoy! Continue reading →

 

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New Beautiful Star Citizen PAX East Screenshots Unveiled

April 13, 2014 John Papadopoulos 19 Comments

Cloud Imperium has released a new set of PAX East screenshots for its upcoming space title, Star Citizen. Star Citizen is powered by CRYENGINE and promises to be one of the best PCexclusive titles released. The game will take advantage of AMD’s Mantle API and its dogfighting module will be released in the end of this month… hopefully. Enjoy! Continue reading →

Open season: Sir, You Are Being Hunted hits v1.0 on May 1st

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Procedurally-generated stealth and survival romp, Sir, You Are Being Hunted is getting close to a major milestone: v1.0. Come May 1st, the game will escape the shackles of the 0.Xs, and that’s not far away at all. 

Just a dash over two weeks, and you’ll be able to sneak around moors, industrial towns and woods while being hunted by gentlemen robots and metallic poachers. Of course, you could be doing that right now, as it’s been in Early Access for a while.

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World of Darkness MMO gets a stake driven through its heart

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Put away your bloodsucking dentures, because as of today, CCP’s World of Darkness MMO is no more. CCP’s Atlanta studio has been hit hard by the cancellation, with 56 employees losing their jobs. Some have been offered positions in other parts of the company, while the remaining staff will focus on developing games in the EVE universe.

“The decision to end the World of Darkness MMO project is one of the hardest I’ve ever had to make,” said CCP CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson. “I have always loved and valued the idea of a sandbox experience set in that universe, and over the years I’ve watched the team passionately strive to make that possible.”

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Subnautica screenshots rise up out of the depths

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I went snorkeling once, in Australia. I was scared I’d be eaten by a shark, but that fear soon revealed itself to be silly when compared to the real dangers of the sea. When I surfaced and swam back to our gently bobbing platform, I watched as a man tried to stem the blood pouring out of his leg. He’d brushed up against the reef and now had a big hole where flesh should be. 

So it is with nervous, almost fearful anticipation that Iap up these Subnautica screenshots. Unknown World’s new game - in a new genre, they say - is all about exploring alien, underwater realms. They are places to build in, navigate through and encounter life within. They are also strikingly pretty. 

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Oculus Rift officially a big deal: David Attenborough's making a nature documentary for it

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There are a lot of animals I don’t care about. For instance, I couldn’t give two hoots about ants. Or lemurs. But show me some footage of them with David Attenborough’s soothing but authoritative voice narrating their antics, and I’m suddenly hooked. 

The nature boffin and documentary maker’s latest project, Conquest of the Skies, is being filmed for the Oculus Rift. Viewers will be able to witness panoramic scenes from the jungles of Borneo, filmed using a special 360° camera setup that utilises eight different cameras. 

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Get your nanomachine fix while you still can: Crysis and Crysis 2 multiplayer shutting down

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If you still dabble in the occasional spot of Crysis and Crysis 2 multiplayer, you only have until May 31st to get all of your kicks. Both games will lose online functionality when GameSpy officially shuts down at the end of next month. 

Some developers and publishers are seeking alternatives; some by migrating to Steam, others by creating their own online support. This will not be the case with Crysis and Crysis 2.

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The Elder Scrolls Online fansite creates a trading system because ZeniMax Online won't

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ZeniMax Online decided not to create an auction house or any serious trading system into The Elder Scrolls Online. I’d say commerce in TESO is very Dark Ages, but the early medieval era actually had markets, traders and some form of organisation. 

So it’s come down to players creating a system. A marketplace that doesn’t exist in-game, but in the TESO Elite fansite, devised by players. The official TESO Twitter account has endorsed the system, probably so the developers can get back to squashing all the bugs that have been plaguing the game since launch. It's an odd endorsement, though, as ZeniMax previously defended its no auction house stance by saying such things ruin game economies and trivialise getting good gear.

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Anti-insurgent detergent: Soap MacTavish to return in Call of Duty: Ghosts, somehow

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The improbably named Soap, lesser known as John, MacTavish was the protagonist of the Modern Warfare series - when the protagonist wasn’t some poor blighter about to be shot in the head in first-person so we could all share a big gasp.

He was forcibly retired at the close of the trilogy - but creators Infinity Ward have hinted at his return to active doody in upcoming DLC for Call of Duty: Ghosts.

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Why X-COM creator Julian Gollop left handheld gaming behind and came back to the PC

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Before the (hopefully) imminently Kickstarted Chaos Reborn, X-Com creator Julian Gollop hadn’t made a PC game in over a decade. As an independent developer and as a producer at Ubisoft Sofia, he’d made games mainly for Nintendo handhelds - the platforms which for some time he considered the “last refuge” of turn-based strategy.

But now he’s back, building a PC-first tactics game. Something - a couple of things, actually - changed his mind.

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Pitch perfect: here's some match footage from Blood Bowl 2

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Back when Dawn of War was the only real prospect of PC gaming in a war-only future, we used to moan. We used to hanker after the one-to-one adaptations of Games Workshop’s more accomplished tabletop games they weren’t commissioning.

Well: be careful what you wish for. Space Hulk happened, and it wasn’t so hot. Cyanide’s Blood Bowl had a buggy beginning, but fared better - by the time of its Legendary Edition, it’d built up a committed amateur league following.

With Blood Bowl 2, Cyanide plan to deliver on that initial promise that kept players fighting through the bugs with a more accessible, feature-heavier revision of the formula. Here’s what it looks like.

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Caffeine Tech Interview – FOV Slider, Global Illumination, Tessellation, Dynamic Shadows & More

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Interceptor Launches New Countdown Page For Duke Nukem: Mass Destruction

April 15, 2014 John Papadopoulos 13 Comments

Interceptor Entertainment has launched a new countdown page for its latest Duke Nukem title, Duke Nukem: Mass Destruction. According to the source code, the countdown will most probably end next month (2014-05-15), though that’s not confirmed as of yet. Continue reading →

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NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: Ultimate Ninja STORM Revolution Is Coming To PC This September

April 14, 2014 John Papadopoulos 5 Comments

Our readers ‘Gianluca Manocchio’ and ‘Noctis Caelum’ have informed us about NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: Ultimate Ninja STORM Revolution; the latest installment of the NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: Ultimate Ninja STORM series that will hit our platform this September. Continue reading →

 

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MechRunner Announced – New High-octane Action Game – Coming This Summer

April 14, 2014 John Papadopoulos 2 Comments

Spark Plug Games unveiled today its newest game -  MechRunner - that will launch this Summer on PC, PS4 and PSVita. MechRunner is a high-octane endless action game that casts you as a powerful mode-changing mech. Blast your way through decimated urban landscapes at incredible speeds while switching between robot and tank modes to rain punishment on endless waves of mechanical foes.  Continue reading →

 

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Child of Light – Lemuria Trailer

April 14, 2014 John Papadopoulos 0 Comments

Ubisoft has released a new trailer for its upcoming JRPG, Child of Light, that welcomes us to the world of Lemuria. Child of Light is described as an RPG inspired by fairy tales, created by the talented team at Ubisoft Montreal using the UbiArt Framework. The game is currently scheduled for an April 30th release. Enjoy! Continue reading →

 

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Outcast Reboot HD – New In-Engine Video Shows The Tech Behind This Remake

April 15, 2014 John Papadopoulos Leave a comment

Fresh3D has released a new video for the upcoming remake of Outcast, showing the tech powering it. As its description reads, this is a WIP video of our current prototype map of Shamazaar, meaning that it does not reflect the quality of the final product. This reworked version of Shamazaar looks sweet and is packed with full dynamic shadows. Enjoy! Continue reading →

 

StarCraft & Conquer: One-Man RTS Meridian Now On Steam

By Nathan Grayson on April 15th, 2014 at 2:00 pm.

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Here it is: the moment of truth. Meridian: New World, the RTS that should still still be impossible, can now be played by the masses. The shiny new space-base base-race is largely the work of one man, which is the sort of information that makes my mind both boggle and Super Puzzle-Bobble All-Stars. It’s now available on Steam Early Access, so probably get on that because it looks kinda great.

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Deus Next: Technolust Is Cyberpunk VR

By Nathan Grayson on April 15th, 2014 at 11:00 am.

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“Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo,” lamented Juliet’s disembodied cyber-spine from her mechanized gelatinous vat while wistfully tearing the arms from a cleaning droid the way one might pick petals from a flower. That is what the name Technolust makes me think of. The game is not at all about that, but it is about as cyberpunk as cyberpunk gets. It’s got monolithic, neon-glistening structures, drone-eclipsed skies, and copious references to the likes of Blade Runner and Neuromancer. The twist? It’s a made-for-VR experience, and it looks mighty attractive despite its somewhat generic leanings.

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Spitfire Spit Take: Cult Of The Wind Has Human Dogfights

By Graham Smith on April 15th, 2014 at 9:00 am.

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If you can look beyond their booger-noses and barely masked sociopathy, children make excellent game designers. They do this stuff for free all the time, just to amuse themselves. Every weekend is crunch time. Developers North of Earth are wise to look to them for inspiration, making a multiplayer shooter about human dogfights. “In Cult of the Wind, players compete and cooperate in ritualistic multi-player human dogfights, complete with imaginary weapons, pretend explosions, and airplane noises made with their mouths.” It looks delightful, it’s on Greenlight, and there’s a trailer below.

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Found: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Lost Alpha Mod Coming This Month

By Alice O'Connor on April 15th, 2014 at 8:00 am.

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Like old Stalker tales told around the campfire, a lot of strange and wonderful things were once said to be in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, from naked green dwarves to driveable vehicles and a whole extra city. Several mods have restored various bits of cut content, based on leftover files and leaked dev builds, but Lost Alpha is one of the more ambitious. What began as a project to remake and reintegrate these leftovers has blown up into a new parallel story which includes (new) old content and a bits of the creators’ own design too.

In response to some ruffian leaking a scrappy old build from November, developers Dezowave Group have decided to release Lost Alpha earlier than planned then keep working on it. It’ll arrive on April 26, the 28th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster which started all this.

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2 Pc titles back to back number 1 selling's games of the week. Such a great sight to see:)