Step into the shoes of legendary heroes from history and fantasy and lock horns in "Arena of Fate"; an action-packed online multiplayer game coming to PC and consoles soon from Crytek.
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Polygon today revealed that Zenimax has – once again – filed a lawsuit against Oculus. Zenimax believes that Oculus is wrongfully benefiting from years and millions of dollars worth of ZeniMax research and blah blah blah. What really caught our attention, though, was a comment from a current id Software about the state of the company after Carmack’s departure and the well-known Zenimax purchase. Continue reading
Zero Point Software today released the latest update to their Steam Early Access sci-fi FPS, Interstellar Marines. According to the press release, the top features for the new update are a brand new game mode called Deadlock, and the introduction of the first new weapon in Interstellar Marines. Continue reading
Wargaming today unveiled a brand new tutorial video for the flight action MMO World of Warplanes. As part of the Flight Academy video series, the guide provides players with helpful tips and strategies to effectively fly ground attack aircraft, discusses superiority in battles and concealment tactics. Continue reading
Slightly Mad Studios has released a new set of screenshots for its upcoming free racer, World of Speed. According to the company, World of Speed won’t rely on free-to-play mechanics, meaning that there won’t be walls into this game that require people to pay money to get over. World of Speed looks great for a F2P title, and comes real close to Project CARS’ visuals. Enjoy! Continue reading
Warner Bros and Monolith today released a new trailer and some new screenshots for Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. Also, Warner Bros announced the acclaimed game talent and musical composer behind Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor who is no other than Garry Schyman (the man behind Bioshock: Infinite’s soundtrack). In addition, the game’s story is written by Christian Cantamessa (Red Dead Redemption), and will be set between the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Last but not least, many of gaming’s best actors will lend their voices, including Troy Baker and Nolan North. Enjoy! Continue reading
2K Games announced today that Evolve will be released on October 21st and in order to celebrate it, the publisher has released a new batch of screenshots. Evolve is being developed by Turtle Rock Studios – the team behind Left 4 Dead – and is powered by Crytek’s CRYENGINE. The game aims to be as addictive as L4D was, though we have to wonder whether Turtle Rock Studios will be able to offer something unique or will this new MP-only game turn into another Titanfall? Enjoy! Continue reading
Square Enix has released a new trailer for its upcoming supernatural detective thriller, Murdered: Soul Suspect. In this game, players take the role of Ronan O’Connor, a detective with the Salem police that has been killed a masked murderer. Players will have to combine their investigative skills with powerful supernatural abilities to uncover the shocking link between their own death and a series of killings in Salem. Murdered: Soul Suspect releases on June 3rd. Enjoy! Continue reading
4A Games and Deep Silver have officially announced Metro Redux. Metro Redux features fully re-mastered and improved versions of both METRO 2033 and METRO: LAST LIGHT, creating the most compelling Metro experience ever. This package is scheduled for a Summer release on PC, PS4 and Xbox One, and you can view its announcement trailer below! Continue reading
LIVENDA has released a video, showing its advanced real-time Global Illumination plugin for Unity Engine called SpectraGI. SpectraGI promises to offer high quality global illumination effects, as well as dynamic path tracing. According to the studio, this solution has zero performance impact at 20 bounces, and will work in all platforms (DX9, DX11 and OpenGL). It looks promising, so go ahead and take a look! Continue reading
Ubisoft has released the launch trailer for Watch_Dogs. Watch_Dogs releases on May 27th and uses a new engine developed by the French company (called Disrupt). The game requires a quad-core CPU and despite its minimum requirements, it will run on systems with only 4GB RAM. Enjoy and stay tuned for more! Continue reading
Telltale Games announced today that the fourth episode of ‘The Wolf Among Us,’ ‘In Sheep’s Clothing,’ will be available starting Tuesday, May 27th on PC/Mac as part of a season pass for $24.99 USD on the Telltale Online Store, Steam and other digital distribution services. In order to celebrate it, Telltale has released a trailer for this new episode of ‘The Wolf Among Us’ that can be viewed below. Enjoy! Continue reading
Krillbite Studio has released the launch trailer for Among The Sleep and announced that this new first person horror adventure title will be released on May 29th. Among the Sleep explores horror through atmosphere and exploration, not with scores and combat systems. The game will come with support for Oculus Rift and is powered by the Unity engine. Enjoy! Continue reading
Neocore Games announced today that The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II is now available on Steam and in order to celebrate it, the studio has released a launch trailer for it. The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II is an action RPG that features three playable classes, an extended Tower defense mini-game, resistance management, a Rage system, as well as runecrafting and MP for up to 8 players. Enjoy! Continue reading
These past days, our reader ‘Dirty Dan’ has provided us with a number of tweaks via which PC gamers can properly adjust the game’s FOV (including arms and weapons), completely disable Depth Of Field, as well as forcing the game to use more than three or four CPU cores (though there might not be any performance gain with that tweak as you’re simply brutally forcing things). Continue reading
Our reader ‘Inhuman0′ has informed us about the graphics options that are being supported by the PC version of Watch_Dogs. While the image is from a French copy, we went ahead and translated those settings for you. So, PC gamers will have access to Overall Quality, Level of Detail, Shadows, Reflections, Ambient Occlusion, Motion Blur, Depth of Field, Water Quality and Shaders quality. Enjoy the graphics settings image after the jump. Continue reading
Blizzard make a point of fortifying all of their games on battle.net, keeping them online even when they don’t necessarily need to be. That seems to make life tricky for would-be hackers, who for the most part are kept at bay by the developer’s server walls.
It turns out they’re the lucky ones. The hackers that do slip through, who manage to sell software that throws the competitive founding of games like StarCraft 2 into disarray - they’re the ones Blizzard take to court.
Elite: Dangerous has now finished its run of Alpha releases, a set of four milestone early versions of the game made available to the most generous Kickstarter backers. It's about to phase into its Premium Beta stage, throwing open its doors to the next tier of backers and chucking them the keys to their first Sidewinder. Development is rocketing forwards at remarkable clip, with new ships, interstellar exploration, interplanetary supercruising and a full trade-fight-upgrade gameplay loop already implemented.
Frontier head David Braben is understandably pleased with how things are going so far. Here's his latest progress report, which includes a look at the highly sought after Anaconda ship, a big old craft that can barely squeeze its heft through a docking port. Also look out for the impressive rocky rings around Braben's gas giant, of which he's especially proud.
Less than a month ago, Zenimax publically claimed that John Carmack took VR tech with him when he left id for the Rift manufacturers. This is the legal consequence of Oculus’ incredulous response - a full blown lawsuit, in which the VR manufacturer and founder Palmer Luckey stand accused of misappropriating trade secrets.
Before Zenimax, reads the suit, Luckey was just a “college-aged video game enthusiast” with a “crude prototype”.
It turns out Diablo III is one of those insufferable types who insists everybody celebrate their “birthday week”. But it at least had the decency to put a buff behind the bar - double Rift Fragments for all, and an 100% boost to our chance of finding Legendary items.
Once the knees-up began last Thursday, however, it became clear there was a problem - players much preferred this version of the game, with its unending stream of lovely new gear. And so Blizzard have decided to keep it that way.
Space Hulk is a board game about combat in cramped quarters, in which short missions are cut shorter when chitin appendages inevitably find a gap in your squad’s terminator armour.
What it’s not is an FPS. And yet here is Space Hulk: Deathwing, an Unreal Engine 4 shooter about leading a squad of bulky spacemen into battle with genestealers aboard a mangled mass of asteroids and rotting spaceships.
TPS, PvE, PvP and WTF. Nobody enjoys a three-letter acronym better than an MMO publisher like Infernum - and the way they describe it, Hazard Ops is full of them. This third-person shooter collects together practically every mode the genre has ever known.
There’s more to it than that, though. With a little unpacking, it becomes clear why the Germans who bankrolled Dragon’s Prophet are interested in this self-consciously silly Shanghai import.
Built by a studio formerly known as Epic Games China, Hazard Ops wants to be your go-to Steam game to play with friends - a cutscene-light, intensely cooperative alternative to raid night.
Usually when a major eSports event is announced, I’ll need to head to Wikipedia to find out what the venue’s normally used for. Not this time: London’s Wembley Arena hosted bits of the 2012 Olympics, which you probably watched, and the 1948 Olympics, which you probably didn’t.
In the years between it’s hosted inaudible gigs from The Beatles, The Beach Boys and The Rolling Stones - and will now play temporary home to the League of Legends Championship Series for week five of its EU summer split.
Total War: Rome 2 is getting smacked with some culture with the Pirates and Raiders DLC. Creative Assembly is tossing the new, Ardiaei, Odrysian Kingdom and Tylis factions, all part of the new Balkan culture group. These guys are the first playable Thracian and Dacian factions in Rome 2 and come with their own specialisations.
They’ll crop up as mercenaries, too, so you don’t need to play as one of these factions to send their warriors into battle, though you would miss out on their cultural traits. The pack is due out soon, priced at £5.99.
Splash Damage, developers of Brink, can’t seem to make their mind up about the name of their latest game, the F2P shooter, Dirty Bomb. It was called Dirty Bomb, but last year Splash Damage decided to rename it Extraction. This also happened to be the first thing they wanted to call it before settling on Dirty Bomb. And now it’s back to Dirty Bomb again. Yes, it's confusing.
This will ”almost definitely” be the last name change, they say. Apparently this has been done to “better fit the game’s unique personality,” says the developer.
Gosh, it’s a competitive world out there. We’ve got the Dota 2 International qualifiers going on right now, and soon the Hearthstone World Championship American Qualifier Tournament will be kicking off, with warriors, mages, paladins and the rest all duking it out for a spot in the finals at BlizzCon later this year. It’s all very stressful.
Blizzard has just announced the prize pool for the championship, which amounts to $250,000. That’s rather a lot of money, even if it’s not quite as gigantic as some esports pools. The winner of the competition will receive $100,000 of it. That’s enough money to buy a lot of decks.
Jeff Vogel, creator of a mountain of indie RPGs such as Avadon and Geneforge, warns that the indie bubble is primed to burst. “I've been threatening to write about the popping of the Indie bubble for some time,” Vogel says on his blog. “Everything has finally started to come together. It's a miserable thing to have to talk about, but the conversation is long overdue.”
It’s a bit gloomy, but he’s not just spouting doom. He does reckon that the current model is unsustainable, though, and that a shakeout is due.
Troubled space sim X Rebirth is plotting a course for a star system where second chances might be possible. A buggy game at its fall launch, the latest entry in the X universe didn't impress when we reviewed it in February. But with the release of a massive, 2.0 feature update this week, Egosoft's space adventure might have found a better heading for itself.
Sentient robots really need to rethink their public relations strategy. The mainstream media will have you believe that they’re all T-800s, IG-88s, chrome skulls, and glowing red eyes, but as Metroid-inspired indie game The Fall proves, not all killer robots are evil. They’re all pretty creepy still, but some of them kill on our behalf.
What happened to our pixels? They used to be innocent and carefree; playing cheerfully amid the parallax landscapes of simple geometry. And yes, occasionally they'd have to fireball a reptile or bash in a robot bee, but that was a small price to pay. Now look at them, cavorting, pining, and huffing god knows what from a rudimentary bong. Always Sometimes Monsters is corrupting our pixels! Ban this sick launch trailer, etc.
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I’ve been waiting for Hegemony Rome for a long time. Longbow’s previous Hegemony game has endured long in the memory, even if I haven’t played it for years now. Boasting an enormous map with seamless zooming from a broad imperial view to the details of the battlefield, it’s the kind of RTS that I can get behind. The grand scale means that decisions rarely have to be made quickly and you won’t need the world’s fastest fingers to succeed – expect to plan around seasons rather than split seconds. When battle is joined, however, the pace and your pulse may quicken if you’re a map-happy sort of person like myself.
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Also Ghostlight the publisher that put out the Agarest games on Steam have announced their latest port.
When we first spoke about bringing JRPGs to Steam, one of the things we were excited about was that if JRPGs were successful for us, we might get the opportunity to bring over games that had never been released outside of Japan before. Well, I’m pleased to say that we’re now starting to make good on that opportunity.
That’s because later this year we’ll be bringing the classic Japanese dungeon crawler, Elminage Gothic, to PC. Elminage Gothic, originally known as Elminage Gothic: Ulm Zakir to Yami no Gishik, is the 4th entry in Starfish SD’s popular Elminage series of dungeon crawlers, originally released in Japan for PSP in 2012 and on 3DS in 2013.
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So The Witcher 2 is now touting SteamOS support, it has begun
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| zarx said: So The Witcher 2 is now touting SteamOS support, it has begun |
Oh, so that's the reason why it is one a 80% sale?
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Oh, my... There we go again. Valve + pre-E3 rumors =
I did see some concept art for Half-Life 3" says Counter-Strike co-creator. Left 4 Dead 3 "looks great"
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Counter-Strike creator Minh Le has been talking to goRNGtv about Valve's most anticipated projects. He's seen artwork of Valve's next Half-Life game, and more of Left 4 Dead 3, which has been rumoured since the Valve database leak late last year.
"I don't know if I can talk about that, to be honest," says Minh of the new Half-Life, "but I think it's kind of public knowledge that people know that it is being worked on. And so if I were to say that yeah, I've seen some images, like some concept art of it, that wouldn't be big news, to be honest." Sorry Minh.
"But yeah, I guess I could say that I did see something that looked kinda like in the Half-Life universe. It wouldn't surprise anyone if I said they're doing it, they're working on it, yeah. So to go on a limb I'd say I did see some concept art for Half-Life 3."
Minh doesn't sound entirely sure, there. The artwork could have been for Half-Life 2: Episode 3, which Valve promised a long, long time ago. Everyone assumes that Valve have dropped the episodic structure to start a full sequel, but Valve have never commented on those specifics. Gabe Newell has repeatedly confirmed that Valve are still working on Half-Life, though, sometimes in code.
Valve haven't talked officially about Left 4 Dead 3, however. "The one thing I'm really excited about is Left 4 Dead, the new Left 4 Dead," says Minh Le. "I saw it, it looks great. I was really excited when I saw that. I was like 'wow, this looks great'.
"I really enjoyed Left 4 Dead, it was just one of those games that really just changed the industry. I think at the time there wasn't many good co-op games, so it was like yeah, this is a great co-op game."
Mihn Le left Valve years ago, so it's not clear when he saw the work he's talking about in this interview, recorded last week. He was hired by Valve to work on Counter-Strike, but he left in the late 2000s to work on Tactical Intervention. Valve, meanwhile, are also supposedly working on a new iteration of the Source engine. Will L4D3 take advantage of that new tech? Will we learn more at E3 next month?
Theya can't give it a rest, can't they?
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When Valve announced a new round of International prize pool stretch goals two days ago*, there was a yawning gap between the remarkable $6 million marker we’d just crossed and the Daily Hero Challenge at $6,800,000.
Money has continued to tumble into the pot steadily since, however - and just now overturned a “hidden stretch goal”. The first of many?
John Sawyer joined Black Isle too late to work on the original Fallout games - but became series custodian for 18 months during the development of New Vegas at Obsidian.
As such, he has some pretty strong opinions about the future of the series with Bethesda, and in particular about modding - which he calls “one of the greatest things about [Bethesda’s] technology”.
The Banner Saga was one of the top 10 best-selling games on Steam yesterday. The indie RPG did away with 40% of its asking price for its second mid-week sale since release in January, and seems to have done rather well out of it.
“It’s like a cultural thing now on Steam,” Stoic programmer John Watson told PCGamesN. “Where unless it’s a game that you’re really looking forward to and you’ve got to get it right now or you have some other motivation - you want to play with friends - most people are very savvy and they just say ‘Wishlisted’ and then in a month or two, it’ll go on sale.”
Have you signed up for the closed beta of Infernum’s absolutely ridiculous third-person shooter, Hazard Ops? If the answer to that query is now, then I must wonder if you’re mummy, dinosaur, evil robot, demon, zombie and zombie dog sympathiser.
For everyone else who knows that the best kind of undead, mechanbical or demonic beastie is one riddled with bullets, there’s some good news. Hazard Ops’ closed beta is kicking off very soon. The European beta will begin on May 28th, that’s next Wednesday. Get prepared.
Turtle Rock understands the impact modders can have on the longevity and depth of a game. Left 4 Dead, as wonderful as it was at launch, only got better as the community started to tinker and add to it.
Unfortunately, the studio’s latest game, Evolve, will not launch with any kind of mod support, Turtle Rock co-found Phil Robb told RPS. There are no plans for it at all right now or before launch.
It only took me an hour, six years ago, to figure out that MapleStory was not for me. But it certainly floats a lot of boats, as it boasts pretty huge user numbers. While it’s evolved over the years, adding PvP and other MMO mainstays, the 2D side-scrolling MMO is about to make way for its successor, MapleStory 2.
Get a first look below.
The Elder Scrolls Online’s first major piece of post-launch content is now live. Veteran adventurers can now explore the new region of Craglorn - the first Adventure Zone - where they can wander around new delves (hopefully finding fewer players camping spawns), participate in a new storyline and dabble in the 12-player trials.
While ZeniMax’s focus for the rickety MMO has been end game content, there’s also been a number of bug fixes and tweaks across the board.
Things have been getting strange in the Rust “reboot” version. That’s the experimental version where all the updates are being tested rather than the boring default one. Weapons models, crafting, terrain, all of these things are being fiddled around with. But none of that’s important.
What is important is that there’s a glorious future ahead of us where Rust is populated with people who have lathered their cock and balls with mud. Why, you ask? Well, why not.
Star Wars Attack Squadron, the F2P multiplayer space shooter being developed by Area 52, has been the victim of a blast from the Death Star, and is no more.
The developer made the abrupt announcement on the Attack Squadrons site earlier today. “We want to thank all of the fans who participated in the closed beta of Star Wars: Attack Squadrons,” Area 52 said. “After much consideration, we have decided to cease development so that we can focus on other Star Wars game experiences. We truly appreciate the time you spent engaging in the beta.”
Last week, Respawn removed the Capture the Flag mode from the matchmaking list in Titanfall. The developer stated that not enough players were queueing for the mode, and this led to extremely long waits in matchmaking.
“The reality is that less than 1% of the player base was even trying to play CTF, let alone actually able to get in to a game,” said Respawn. “With that few players attempting to connect, our matchmaking would just sit there, spinning forever, waiting to find a game to play.“
After some improvements to the matchmaking system, however, it’s returning.
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Untold Games has released a new dev diary that dives deeper into the new storyline for Loading Human, the virtual reality adventure game powered by groundbreaking controls and set in a thrilling sci-fi world. Continue reading
NeoGAF’s member ‘twisted89‘ has early access to the PC version of Watch_Dogs and captured some screenshots at 3840×2160 (4K resolution). This will give you an idea of what Watch_Dogs looks on the PC, though do note that gaming at 4K is really demanding for a title such Ubisoft’s open-world. Enjoy! Continue reading
Reddit’s member ‘stevenwongo‘ had early access to the PC version of Watch_Dogs and shared all the PC options and settings that are being supported. The game features a Controller Aim Assist (that most of you should disable if you are playing with keyboard+mouse). In addition, you’ll be able to calibrate the controls, adjust audio settings, and enable (or disable) adversarial free roam and online invasions. Last but not least, there are options for AA and Textures (two settings that were not included in our previous article about the Graphics settings of Watch_Dogs). You can view all of the game’s settings below. Enjoy! Continue reading
CI Games has unveiled the official minimum and recommended requirements for its upcoming CRYENGINE-powered WWII FPS title, Enemy Front. According to the company, PC gamers will need at least a Core2Duo processor with 3GB of RAM and a DX9.0c compliant GPU. Moreover, this new game will support Windows XP. You can view the complete requirements list below. Continue reading
OPQAM announced today that its classic shoot’em up with open scenarios, Project Root, is now available on Steam. Project Root is priced at 9,99€ and there is also a demo that you can try before purchasing it. OPQAM has not provided us with any information about the game itself, and its Steam page feels kind of ‘empty’. Hell, even the game’s key features are not listed to it. Continue reading
Codemasters revealed today a new video showcasing the Endurance racing discipline, one of the five unique styles of racing set to star in this new GRID game. In the video, gameplay footage of GRID Autosport’s Endurance racing discipline reveals spectacular sports cars racing into the night in extended events where “you can never win a race on the first corner.” Enjoy! Continue reading
Risen fans, get ready for a treat. YouTube’s member ‘Gronkh’ has posted a video featuring 30 minutes of gameplay footage from Risen 3: Titan Lords. Contrary to our previous story that featured a gameplay video from Piranha Bytes’ upcoming RPG, this new video is from direct feed. The bad news is that it’s in German, so most of you won’t understand a thing. Still, this will give you an idea of what you can expect from this new RPG. Enjoy! Continue reading
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we have known they have been working on both for ages
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Yep, the problem is not Valve working on them, is Valve launching them!
Let's face it, Half Life 3 is like the new Duke Nukem Forever. We know they've been working on it for ages, yet it never materializes into anything tangible.
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