The world ran out of reasons to buy an Ouya the day irresponsible archery sim TowerFall grew its ‘Ascension’ subtitle for the PC and PS4. Would-be pincushions have swarmed to both versions, enabling creator Matt Thorsen to support himself and his future work “for quite a while”. But intriguingly, the PS4 lot have swarmed ahead.
“It’s actually doing better on PS4, but it’s still doing well on PC,” said Thorson.
More than 15 million Minecrafts raised in captivity have now been successfully introduced into the wild, Notch announced this morning. Some of them were wide-open sandboxes when purchased half a decade ago, filled with potential and not much else. Others found their owners just this weekend, as fully-featured platforms for unbounded creativity and horse-riding.
It seems a bit silly to quibble about missing saved games in FTL - the roguelike space game in which the oxygen never lasts and every hulk must eventually be claimed by the vacuum. But there is a degree of persistence to be found in its achievements and unlockable ships.
Players of its iOS version have been dismayed to find their PC and Mac records wiped on the new platform, as if their many horrible deaths had never happened. But there is a way.
Sony Online Entertainment are building a survival game about unusually active dead people, inspired by DayZ and its ilk. They’ve never done that before! What they have done, though, is a humongous open-world shooter with plenty of complex systems the H1Z1 team are taking advantage of.
Zenimax have deployed their sixth patch in their effort to step up the fight against an endless torrent of bots and gold spammers, while also squashing some bugs in the process. Highlights of Patch 1.0.6 include a fix for Nightblades becoming stuck, the implementation of timers on loot acquisition from delve bosses and cash on delivery parcels actually requiring cash to accept (instead of netting the item for free).
Cloud 9 mid laner Hai suffered a collapsed lung this weekend. He’s expected to make a full recovery - but the injury has put him out of action for next week’s League of Legends All-Star event at Le Zenith in Paris.
It’s also left him exceedingly bored. Hence the first pro-level LoL match to be streamed from a hospital bed.
When Blizzard launched their Hearthstone beta, they said it was free to play - and they meant it. But they weren’t prepared to see Twitch fill up with streamers who hadn’t bought a single pack, playing Hearthstone at the highest levels.
It was “unexpected but also very reassuring,” said production director Jason Chayes. “We really wanted to make sure that it wasn't just lip service.”
Team 17 has been rather prolific, putting out Worms after Worms. The wriggly, slimy little fellas haven’t had a break from their various wars in ages. Perhaps that’s why Team 17 decided to focus their energy on tormenting sheep with Flockers.
The sheep-based puzzle game is inspired by the spectacularly wonderful Lemmings franchise, with some trademark Team 17 silliness thrown in for good measure. And it’s hitting Steam Early Access on May 6th.
Ubisoft’s let the cat dog out of the bag, announcing the Watch Dogs season pass details. The £15.99/$19.99 season pass adds an extra single-player adventure with a different character: T-Bone, an eccentric hacker and, perhaps, steak lover.
Slap your eyes on the trailer below to get acquainted with Mr. Bone and the rest of the season pass content.
Telltale’s foray into the world of George R. R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire saga sees author and assistant to Martin, Ty Corey Franck brought on board. He joins the Telltale team as a story consultant, assigned by HBO, the network that brought the books to television.
With Martin still working away on the next book and working on the show in his capacity as executive producer, it’s probably for the best that he’s not also working with Telltale.
It’s been almost a year since Riot added Howling Abyss, the ARAM (All Random All Mid) mode map to League of Legends. To celebrate the impending anniversary, Riot details the origins of the fluffy love balls, the poros.
Artists RiotOtown, RiotEarp, and RiotCaptainLx explain how the wee creatures went from concept to in-game beasties.
With Sunday being May 4th, Star Wars Day, BioWare’s no longer canon Star Wars: The Old Republic is planning a celebratory weekend. The jedi won’t be participating, of course, because fun probably leads to the dark side like every other damn thing. Bloody jedi.
BioWare’s celebrating with an XP bonus weekend and a free mini-pet for all players.
Blizzard’s been delving into World of Warcraft’s almost decade-long history of raids to put changes that Warlords of Draenor will bring to raiding into context. In part 2, Blizzard looks at the era of Catacylsm and Mists of Pandaria, which saw some significant changes.
During this four year period Blizzard removed multiple difficulties from the equation, then added Raid Finder, which split difficulty up again, into three categories, and then added Flexible Raid mode, adapting raids to various sizes. It’s been quite a meandering journey.
Thanks to Outlast, there’s evidence of me being a terrible coward on the internet. So I’m understandably torn now that its DLC expansion, Whistleblower is coming out next month. It was originally due out this month, but was delayed. Thank you, Red Barrels Games. Postponing fear and sweat and lots of other horrible things is okay in my book.
Anyway, it’s impending. May 6th is the release date. I suspect I’ll grab it. I loved Outlast, even when I was busy hating it. Take a gander at the launch trailer below.
Rebellion has released the last developer diary for its upcoming FPS, Sniper Elite 3, in which we see how the team’s passion for authenticity has brought a whole new tactical element to the sniper gameplay with vehicle takedowns and explosive results. Sniper Elite 3 releases June 27th on PC, PS4, Xbox One, X360 and PS3. Enjoy!Continue reading →
Our dear friends over at PCGamesHardware have posted some interesting benchmarks for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Lost Alpha. According to the graphs, Lost Alpha brings high-end GPUs to their knees as even the most powerful single-GPU is unable to maintain 60fps at 1080p with max settings. Continue reading →
Warhorse Studios has released a new batch of screenshots for its upcoming CRYENGINE-powered realistic open-world RPG, Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Kingdom Come: Deliverance will be released in three acts, and aims to offer you a world similar to the size of Oblivion. The game is scheduled for a 2015 release on PC, PS4 and Xbox One. Enjoy! Continue reading →
Ubisoft and Nvidia have released a new set of screenshots from the PC version of Watch_Dogs. According to the green team, these shots were taken at max details. In addition, Nvidia revealed that free copies of Watch_Dogs will be offered with the purchase of a number of Nvidia GTX cards for a limited time. Enjoy and kudos to our reader ‘Sean’ for informing us! Continue reading →
Artist ‘Orihaus’ has been hard at work creating a new, impressive environment in Unreal Engine 4. This map is so promising and so cool that the official UnrealEngine Twitter has been constantly supporting it. Orihaus has released a new set of images from the latest version of his environment, showing off visuals that come really close to CG quality. The lighting system in particular looks lovely. Orihaus’ map is full of atmosphere and packs amazing reflections (after all, reflections are the most crucial ‘next-gen’ feature nowadays). Enjoy! Continue reading →
Reto-Moto has released a new gameplay trailer for Heroes & Generals, showcasing the various different roles you can take in the war between Axis and Allies in the European theater of war and reminding you that you need soldiers to win a war – not just tanks and planes. Continue reading →
There's nothing too special about it... until someone tells you that this is a 28" monitor supports 4K resolutions at 60Hz over DisplayPort's Single-Stream Transport. Not too bad!
The caveat? Well, it's not the price because it will cost $649. The "problem" is that it uses an 8bit with dithering TN panel.
But it doesn't look bad at all and they say that it looks almost as good as a much more expensive 4K monitor.
" Some may be tempted to write off the PB287Q due to its TN roots, but that would be unwise, because the picture quality is excellent. To my eyes, the colors look nearly as good as those produced by Asus' 31.5" PQ321Q, which is based on IGZO tech and sells for $2,999."
Please excuse my bad English.
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Loadout is a multiplayer arena shooter that hides its Quake and Unreal colours behind a third-person perspective. It’s a rude, rip-roaring good time deepened by a clever weapon-crafting system. And it’s just got properly competitive, thanks to a ranked mode.
It is 2002, and Hilmar Veigar Pétursson is fresh from the three year development cycle of an ambitious interstellar MMO that has left him and his isolated Icelandic team somewhat “psychotic”.
He is on paternity leave; mum and baby are asleep. And so, with his new daughter coddled in arms outstretched to reach keyboard and mouse, Hilmar plays Eve Online.
He begins cataloguing its bugs. The game, he concludes, is a mess. Hilmar cannot understand why anybody would voluntarily spend their time shifting minerals between its systems. And then this sorry state of affairs takes a turn for the worse.
Valve have sent out whatever the digital equivalent is of gilded invitations to 11 pro Dota 2 teams. They’ll compete in this year’s International tournament, set to fill the Seattle Center’s KeyArena on the weekend beginning July 18.
The greatest cooperative PC game ever made meets the only genre in which you can take a hand from your machine gun to high-five the shooter next to you. Coming to a cabinet near you (or a monster closet directly behind you), it’s the redundantly subtitled Left 4 Dead: Survivors.
The Elder Scrolls Online developers Zenimax Online have called on players to “name and shame” would-be gold spammers who might have contacted them - despite previous rules that prohibited naming offending players on the game’s forums.
How do you follow Eve Online? It turns out you don’t - not with a permadeath vampire MMO, anyway. CCP finally put World of Darkness to bed and affectionately nailed it to the mattress earlier this month - one of the “hardest decisions” CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson has ever had to make.
56 staff at CCP’s Atlanta studio have been scattered to the winds, and the remainder put to work on one or another of the company’s Eve universe spinoffs. Which makes these leaked screenshots the last we’re ever likely to see of a game five-years-in-the-making.
Ubisoft’s gorgeous fairy tale RPG Child of Light launched today. You can pick it up on Uplay and Steam for £11.99/$14.99 right blooming now.
To celebrate its arrival into our reality from its fairy tale realm, Ubisoft’s put up a spiffy new trailer, so why don’t you take a load off and watch it, below?
Ubisoft and Nvdia are best buds right now. They’ve partnered up to work some visual magic on Ubisoft’s upcoming Watch Dogs, throwing in TXAA anti aliasing and HBAO+. But it looks like this is more than a fleeting romance.
Pick up one of a select group of Nvidia graphics cards, and you’ll net yourself a free digital copy of Watch Dogs, redeemable on Uplay.
The latest dev diary from Rebellion showcases the long-range vehicular murder of Sniper Elite 3. No more are humans the only sniper victims to get special x-ray kill cams. Tanks and other vehicles are getting in on the action too, flashing their innards for all to see.
Direct your eyes below for some exploding tank porn.
Hellraid is Dead Island developer Techland’s gorey first-person hack and slash RPG, and we’ve not heard much about it for a while. That’s because Techland have been presumably rather busy making significant changes.
So it’s being re-announced: a new Hellraid, not the old Hellraid. That means a new engine, new combat systems both for melee and magic, and a crafting system.
Glory is a bit overrated. It requires a lot of effort for a thing that’s not really tangible. Infamy, now that’s more like it. You can become infamous for all manner of things. Burning someone’s house down. Peeing on the furniture. It’s easy and infinitely more satisfying.
Quest for Infamy lets you pee on a rug. It’s also an adventure-RPG with more than a passing resemblance to Sierra’s classic Quest for Glory series. You’ll be able to pee all over rugs yourself come June 26th, when it launches. Strictly speaking you could pee on a rug now, but let’s hold it in shall we?
Sci-fi noir adventure game Last Life broke past its $75,000 Kickstarter goal yesterday. It’s currently just shy of $80,000 with eight days left in the campaign. This means that developer Rocket Science can finish episode one, but it’s still $20,000 of it’s first stretch goal: voice overs and interactive flashbacks of Earth.
Paradox Development Studio is getting a wee bit sentimental in its old age. The Swedish studio has put together a short documentary detailing its history, from creating the first Europa Universalis based on a board game to the surprising - but well deserved - success of Crusader Kings II.
PDS head honcho Johan Andersson and his fellow devs chart the course of the developer, but it’s also forward facing. Dan Lind talks about the upcoming Hearts of Iron IV, which we got to check out earlier this year along with Runemaster, some new footage and concept art of which has also been smuggled into the documentary.
Once not so long ago, I wrote a ’90s Saturday morning cartoon theme song for Techland’s Hellraid. Name aside, however, the first-person Diablo-esque RPG never struck me as particularly inspired, and apparently Techland agreed. The Dead Island developer has spent the past year rebuilding many elements of its demon-bopping opus, with melee combat and magic apparently gaining double the complexity. A transition into the “next-gen” Chrome Engine 6, meanwhile, is imminent, and that’ll bring better graphics, adaptive AI, and a slew of other upgrades. It’s all coming to Steam Early Access this fall, but for now I met up with producer Marcin Kruczkiewicz to discuss changes, delays, developing for PC first and foremost, the possibility of mod support, and why training with real swords is something every game developer should do.
Zero is a customer service representative for one of the biggest video game cheat providers in the world. To him, at first, I was just another customer. He told me that the site earns approximately $1.25 million a year, which is how it can afford customer service representatives like him to answer questions over TeamSpeak. His estimate is based on the number of paying users online at any given time, the majority of whom, like me, paid for cheats for one game at $10.95 a month. Some pay more for a premium package with cheats for multiple games.
As long as there have been video games, there have been cheaters. For competitive games like Counter-Strike, battling cheaters is an eternal, Sisyphean task. In February, Reddit raised concerns about lines of code in Valve-Anti Cheat (VAC), used for Counter-Strike and dozens of other games on Steam, that looked into users’ DNS cache. In a statement, Gabe Newell admitted that Valve doesn't like talking about VAC because “it creates more opportunities for cheaters to attack the system." But since online surveillance has been a damning issue lately, he made an exception.
Newell explained that there are paid cheat providers that confirm players paid for their product by requiring them to check in with a digital rights management (DRM) server, similar to the way Steam itself has to check in with a server at least once every two weeks. For a limited time, VAC was looking for a partial match to those (non-web) cheat DRM servers in users’ DNS cache.
I knew that cheats existed, but I was shocked that enough people paid for them to warrant DRM. I wanted to find out how the cheating business worked, so I became a cheater myself.
You can't keep a serious man down. You can try: firing out jokes at his ears, hoping he'll crease up in diaphragmatic agony. It won't work, as he's simply too serious. For Serious Sam, it's an understandable affectation—likely cultivated from the mass culling of headless bomb-men. And so, rather than leave him to his own devices, a group of fans have gone about retooling his first two adventures. Serious Sam Classics: Revolution is the result, giving Sam advanced graphics shader support, 64-bit compatibility and full Steamworks integration. The game is now available on Steam Early Access, and is free to all owners of both classic games.
When we first got the news about GameSpy shutting down, the situation looked pretty bad. Once the online matchmaking client shuts down on May 31, the games that still rely on it will have to either transition to a new solution or go offline. Luckily, many developers are working on alternative solutions, and today we learned even Halo: Combat Evolved will still be playable online thanks to GameRanger.
Pemalite said: JEMC, Don't feed my desire to upgrade. o.o
I want IPS and I am trying not to compromise on that. :P
I'm on the same boat, except that I do want to upgrade my GPU.
It's just that I've been wasting using my time in knowing what's going on with the latests monitors, and I thought about share some of that here. I mean, c'mon, don't tell me that that 21:9 from LG (Dell version incoming) isn't something apart from the rest or that the ASUS TN monitor is far, far better than the usual TN crap we see, and being SST it would have none of the problems people have with the other 4K monitors with MST.
Please excuse my bad English.
Currently gaming on a PC with an i5-4670k@stock (for now), 16Gb RAM 1600 MHz and a GTX 1070
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Pemalite said: JEMC, Don't feed my desire to upgrade. o.o
I want IPS and I am trying not to compromise on that. :P
I'm on the same boat, except that I do want to upgrade my GPU.
It's just that I've been wasting using my time in knowing what's going on with the latests monitors, and I thought about share some of that here. I mean, c'mon, don't tell me that that 21:9 from LG (Dell version incoming) isn't something apart from the rest or that the ASUS TN monitor is far, far better than the usual TN crap we see, and being SST it would have none of the problems people have with the other 4K monitors with MST.
Yeah the main draw card is SST, however I do like IPS for it's viewing angles and especially the higher bits on the panel available in higher-end panels that helps eliminate colour banding. For now, I'll continue to keep my old CCFL 1440P monitors in eyefinity untill the perfect panel eventually arrives. :P
But... why not go with 2xAMD R9 295?
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