Hmm. I'd love to believe that Nvidia rumor, but I won't hold my breath for it... August is too far! 
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There are things we’d change about League of Legends but it’s not their cinematics.
Riot don’t often have call to release a cinematic trailer, they don’t exactly release sequels, expansions, or new campaigns for their one map MOBA. Instead they release cinematics whenever they damn please.
It’s good thing, too, because when they do release them they’re bloody gorgeous.
Nvidia are ushering something in, we can’t tell what it is because there’s a big black tarpaulin over it. It could be a whole stack of Titan cards, it could be a white rhino in a tutu. Whatever the case we can’t get at it until we’ve solved their Ultimate Quest, a tweet-based text adventure. It's one of them ARGs.
There are a couple of news pieces that we can’t escape repeating. Star Citizen’s made x amount of money, for instance. Or, World of Warcraft’s lost x subscribers. The one I’m happiest to write about it ‘Project CARS screenshots continue to be awesome’. Every time I write about this game I’m reminded by how damn good it looks.
I’ve never played it, and for years it’s seemed like it’s always on the cusp of release, but these are apparently all in game screens taken by players.
Those lucky bastards.
The Dragon Age demo at E3 already had us thinking October was too far away now we have to wait a whole other month for Inquisition. “This last bit of time is about polishing the experience we want you to see,” writes executive producer Mark Darrah. “Ensuring that our open spaces are as engaging as possible. Strengthening the emotional impact of the Hero's choices. And ensuring the experience you get is the best it can be in the platform you choose to play on.”
Hostage situations, deadly viruses, and torture scenes; Gods will be Watching’s action isn’t your usual point’n’click fare.
The game is coming out tomorrow and you should see the launch trailer to get a grip on why this is so exciting.
Daggerstone Pass is a 15 v 15 battleground that will be added to Carbine’s MMO, Wildstar, in the Sabotage update. The battleground is unique in that it lets you use mounts to get across the map quickly.
Post-apocalyptic survival shooter, Areal, has been plagued with problems since its Kickstarter began. This culminated in Areal's suspension on Kickstarter yesterday afternoon.
Developer West Games released a statement explaining the situation last night, and it looks like the suspension is not temporary. The crowd-funding drive begins anew, this time on the Areal website.
Eugh, bloody scamers
Few things stoke my coals more than a good civil management sim, SimCity, Prison Architect, and Banished have all sucked up my team recently but nothing’s scratched my municipal transport itch. That’s where TrainFever comes in.
The game kicks off in the 1840s and runs up to the modern day, letting you build networks for horse drawn carriages, steam trains, and electric overhead rails of today.
Options are lovely. Both the brand of hot chocolate and choices. Sometimes you want to fall down cliffs and then climb back up them again while wolves chase you and men with guns shoot said guns right at your face. Other times you want to befriend ancient deities and solve puzzles with them.
So it’s rather nice that, with Lara Croft, we can enjoy both. Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris was a pleasant surprise at E3 this year, and now we’ve got a release date for it. Crystal Dynamics’ second foray into the world of co-operative puzzle solving will launch on December 9th.
Kerbal Space Program is rapidly becoming a more expansive and complex rocket simulator. The recent First Contract update added a more fully featured career mode, with currency and science and missions and reputation and explosions. But as well as Squad's own stellar work, there's also an enthusiastic community of modders constantly pumping out their own brand of features and enhancements.
New clouds, better physics, catalogues of new rocket parts. You name it, and within reason, it probably exists somewhere in the Kerbal SpacePort add-on repository. But without a guiding hand it's difficult to know where to begin. So I offer you mine. My guiding hand, that is. Take it, hold tight, and let's fly, like a cosmic Peter Pan, through the magical world of Kerbal Space Program mods.
With the Humble 2K Bundle only just behind us, Square Enix is now getting in on the cheap games and charity action with the Humble Square Enix Bundle. Some cracking games, like Thief and the woefully under appreciated Anachronox - which is, incidentally, one of the titles in our 15 best RPGs on PC - are up for grabs.
The charities being supported by this bundle are GameAid and Make a Wish. Though I’m not sure anyone would want Daikatana, even if it is for charity.
Tactile puzzle game, The Room, is leaving Android and iOS devices this month and making its way onto PC. If, for some reason, you know nothing about one of the most successful mobile games out there, you should still be excited, because it’s great.
The Room’s central conceit is that you’re stuck in the titular room, which contains a box you must open. No, you can’t just leave and hire a locksmith. Instead, you’ve got to go through a series of lovingly crafted, tactile puzzles, leading you to fondle many a gear and fiddle with lots of locks. And come July 28th, you’ll be able to do all of that on your PC.
Double Fine has, in the last five years, has gone through quite the transformation. The studio was treading water after Brutal Legend in 2009, but now it has complete control over its IPs, has successfully experimented with emerging business models - in many ways setting a trend - and is now assisting other developers with the Double Fine Presents label.
Speaking with Games Industry International, Tim Schafer chalked the big shift up to not liking being told what to do. And now he wants to help new indie developers chart their own course.
Cliff Bleszinski’s new studio, Boss Key Productions, have moved into their base and started hiring. So Project BlueStreak has formally begun. While the ex-Gear of War developer has left AAA console development behind, the new studio has snatched up a fair few employees from that world.
Designers from Epic Games, Bleszinski’s old stomping grounds; Ubisoft Montreal; and Irrational Games number among them. Between them, there’s a lot of experience in designing successful shooters, so BlueStreak is off to a strong start.
IL-2 Sturmovik ruled the World War Two flight-sim roost like few games ever have. Not only did it expose sim audiences to the often-overlooked Eastern Front air war, but it proved to be a gift that kept on giving: its lengthy series of expansions covered everything from early jet-fighter combat to the Pacific air war.
But from such a height came a similarly precipitous fall with the with the disastrous (and awkwardly-named) IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover, an ill-fated take on the Battle of Britain that led to the departure of series creator Oleg Maddox and a terrible, buggy release that left many fans feeling burned.
Now, with IL-2: Battle of Stalingrad and a new development team, 1C are trying to get the king of WW2 aviation back in the air.
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By Adam Smith on July 23rd, 2014 at 9:00 pm.
While visiting Firaxis to play Civilization: Beyond Earth, I spent a couple of hours talking to members of the team and learning how the company works. As the current creators and curators of two of my favourite series of games, Firaxis rank among the most interesting studios in existence, and their history is also a large part of the history of PC strategy gaming. With one eye on the future and the other on the past, here are extended thougts on the utilitarian nature of Civilization, the role of Sid Meier and much much more.
By Adam Smith on July 24th, 2014 at 8:00 am.
As soon as I read the press release, it was inevitable that I would be spending time inside Velvet Sundown‘s ‘roleplaying game’/'social experiment’. It is the first in the ‘brand new genre of Dramagame‘ and I want to be one of the first actors in that genre. Sadly, I’m far too busy to dive in right now but the game is available, for free, on Steam. Set on board a luxury yacht, it’s a roleplaying game in all of the ways that The Crew isn’t. No action sequences, no power-ups, no collectibles – just a group of players attempting to perform the roles they are assigned. Like Spy Party, except up close and personal, and therefore open to all manner of immersion-shattering behaviour.
By Alice O'Connor on July 24th, 2014 at 9:00 am.
Conspiracy theories are fanfic for reality, aren’t they? That particular sort which knows how stories should really have gone. They pack history with exciting twists and turns, jazzing up origin stories with alien intervention, adding excitement and danger to even aeroplane vapour trails, splashing in sexy murders all over the place, and revealing that beloved characters are actually lizard people.
They are all, of course, entirely true. Majestic Nights knows this too. It’s a period RPG set during the ’80s, with two playable characters tangled up in the deepest, darkest conspiracies. Though I suspect it’ll ‘conveniently’ leave out the lizard people.
By Alice O'Connor on July 24th, 2014 at 10:00 am.
“Imagine a world where Doom II was never released, and the levels never saw the light of day. The only bit of information that ever saw the light of day were the titles of the 32 maps, cryptic as can be. What kind of map would ‘The Crusher’ be, or ‘O of Destruction,’ who knows?”
That beautiful thought from Liz Ryerson (who Cara recently embedded with) sparked Doom 2 In Name Only, a community project where members of the Doomworld forums reimagined Doom II’s campaign based purely on its level names. D2INO was released in June, 666 days after starting. It’s worth waiting for a number like that to roll around when dabbling in Doom (‘cos Satans etc).
By Alice O'Connor on July 24th, 2014 at 1:00 pm.
“The year of the Linux desktop” is a phrase people have tossed around with increasing irony since the nineties, but it was never going to arrive explosively. Linux has slowly grown and spread into homes through friendly distributions like Ubuntu and Mint, installed as easy and safer alternatives to Windows or to freshen up old duffers (my netbook is Minty fresh now). Games have followed.
Steam and Humble Bundles have helped urge devs to make Linux versions, and now GOG are in on it. The virtuous virtual vendor of vintage (and virgin) video games launched Linux support today, starting with 50-odd games new and old. It’s the first official Linux store release for some. And loads of them are on sale too.
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The Steam Controller, as it was first pitched to us, was a totally alien way to play a game. Two flat radar dishes, resembling the subwoofers in the back of a an 18-year-old’s car, represented the promise of mouse-controlled games on the couch. A touch screen at its centre stood in quiet tribute to the Dreamcast. Possibly.
Nowadays it looks much more familiar. Four Xbox port-friendly letters sit below the Steam Controller's pause button, and a thumbstick - a new addition - in place of the last prototype’s d-pad.
Riot Games have loud ways of dealing with the very worst players in one of the best free PC games around, League of Legends - like the tribunal, and the head-on-a-spike reports that follow their rulings.
But one of the quieter tools in their arsenal is the temporary chat ban. Not only does it dissuade players from bad behaviour, say Riot, but it actually tends to improve their performance in the lanes.
In retrospect, overarching MMO plotlines can sound like supervillain whack-a-mole. The Galactic Republic and Sith Empire might be at war, but together they’ve bopped the Hutt Cartel’s invasion of Makeb on the head, and given the Dread Masters of Oricon a good malleting.
For now, though, Star Wars: The Old Republic’s next major storyline is swathed in mystery, preceded by two new flashpoints that make up its prelude. It might be time to take another look at Star Wars: The Old Republic.
A decade ago, you might have complained that The Sims 2 had turned the PC games charts into a permanent expandaland. But a comprehensive version of the game might be exactly what you're looking for today, on the eve of a Sims without swimming pools or toddlers.
Boot up Origin this afternoon and you can be adding Maxis’ finest hour of the 21st century, stuffed with Stuff Packs, to your library for free.
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Respawn are currently turning the Titanfall community on to the idea of ‘black market’ currency, which is a funny thing to call an developer-designed point system. Talk to Blizzard: they’ll tell you all about real black markets.
In any case, players will soon be able to earn in-game cash by completing challenges or selling on unloved burn cards. But don’t call it a microtransaction system: there’ll be no means of acquiring ‘black market’ money with real-life debit cards.
Kickstarter funded Wasteland 2 and Torment: Tides of Numenera from InXile, and Pillars of Eternity and its expansion pack from Obsidian - essentially plotting out the second Infinity Engine Age in advance.
For Obsidian, the hope is that initial kick will be enough to see them through Eternity’s sequel, too.
“That’s the dream of any independent developer,” said project director Josh Sawyer. “That they get the cash reserves that they don't need to ask anybody for money.”
A hundred years ago today, a fictional American doctor named Robert Cath boarded the Orient Express to Constantinople. Over the course of his journey, tensions between various European parties on the continent and on the train would boil over into violence.
As the centenary of the First World War nears, Jordan Mechner remembers a rare game in which the goal was to avoid conflict. An adventure game that took him and a team of 100 over four years to make. The Last Express.
Mike Weatherly is MP for Hove and Portslade, and a World of Warcraft player. He recently proposed that online criminals in the UK receive the same sentencing as IRL criminals who steal items of the same value.
The proposal was turned down. But can you imagine the ramifications for Eve players?
A lot of rather large worlds have been created in Minecraft. There are builders creating Middle-Earth, software that’s rendered World of Warcraft’s Azeroth in blocky detail and even the entirety of Denmark. We rather like big Minecraft projects here, which is why those three are all in our list of the 15 best Minecraft servers.
Aerna is another humongous server, and its creators claim that it’s the largest and most detailed Minecraft server out there. It’s a work in progress, but is already massive, 102,400 blocks across and 84GB in size.
Gratuitous Space Battles 2, sequel to 2009’s excellent game of building ships and watching them blow each other up in simulated space battles, has been in development over at Positech Games since last year. The original was a great deal of fun, mixing modular ship design with tower defence-like mechanics. Cliff Harris has been posting regular updates on his blog and in the GSB forums, but today marks the official announcement of the game.
It’s on its way, probably this year. It will be playable at Eurogamer 2014, but that’s not until September. I’m impatient, so I got in touch with Cliff to get the skinny on his latest game.
The Elder Scrolls Online is still a young whippersnapper - and you can see what our Nick thought about it in his Elder Scrolls Online review - but ZeniMax Online are already thinking about the future. At QuakeCon, the team held a panel teasing the audience with what’s to come for the fantasy MMO.
One of the big things is the centre of the titanic PvP war that’s consumed the Imperial province of Cyrodiil. At the heart of the region sits the Imperial City - that place you probably spent a lot of time in while playing Oblivion - and the for the time being, it’s impenetrable. But that will change.
If you’re anticipating a dead weekend, you might as well embrace it. From now and until July 28th, Dead Island, Dead Island: Riptide and all the bits and pieces of zombie-slaying DLC are 75 percent off on Steam.
Dead Island: Epidemic, Stunlock Studios’ MOBA spin-off - which is in Early Access right now - is also free for the entirety of the sale. Our Matt’s played around with it, so you should check out his Dead Island: Epidemic Early Access review.
I have been building robots and tanks! Oh, yes. Tanks with shark guns. Mechanical spiders with alien brains. Invisible cardboard boxes balanced precariously on balls of goo. I am not, as you might assume, attempting to take over the world like a cartoon supervillain, though. I’ve been playing a spot of Gear Up.
It’s a very silly vehicle-based multiplayer shooter that lets you make very silly vehicles that shoot. It’s also on Steam Early Access and, conveniently, totally free.
The Unreal Tournament Development Team have put together a concept map for the upcoming Unreal engine 4 shooter. It’s the first map they’ve shown, but it’s very much a proof of concept rather than a proper level.
Art director Chris Perna does a fly through of the map, noting that he went for a sci-fi industrial look, but this isn’t representative of the entire game. “We could go grimier with this, but when we talk about visual clarity and things like that, I think this kind of thing hits that mark.”
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Frozenbyte announced that Trine Enchanted Edition for PC is released today on Steam, GOG.com and Humble Store, and will be priced at $14.99. Continue reading
VooFoo Studios and Ripstone announced today that Pure Pool; the latest addition to the Pure series will release for PC via Steam on July 31st. Renowned for beautiful high definition graphics and silky-smooth gameplay, not only can players expect full immersion in a living, busting pool hall, but the team at VooFoo have raised the quality bar higher than ever resulting in the ultimate digital pool game. Continue reading
Kalypso Media announced today that the first DLC for Tropico 5, The Big Cheese, is now available alongside the game’s latest update. According to the press release, The Big Cheese DLC challenges players to create and promote an artisan cheese brand by introducing a new production chain with the Creamery. Continue reading
My.com announced today the European Premiere of its three upcoming massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) World of Speed, Armored Warfare and Skyforge at this year’s Gamescom. Media are welcome to try out the games in the business area in hall 4.1 at booth A-020. Continue reading
Slightly Mad Studios has just revealed the official PC system requirements for its upcoming racer, Project CARS. According to the team, PC gamers will need at least a quad-core CPU and 4GB of RAM. Quite surprisingly for this gorgeous looking title, the game’s recommended VRAM requirements are quite low (2GB). Obviously, those seeking to enjoy it at 4K will need more than that. You can view both minimum and recommended PC specs below. Continue reading
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^Those requirements for Project Cars are surprisingly reasonable.
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Throw it in the bin, not demanding enough.
Google’s YouTube division have taken ownership of streaming site Twitch for a reported $1 billion. The deal is testament to the ubiquity of eSports, confirmed again just three days ago as gazillions tuned in to watch the victory of NewBee in the Dota 2 International.
If I told you there was going to be a Crimefest in October, would you come? Or would you plan to be away that weekend?
Overkill are hoping you’ll stick around for the Purge. They’re celebrating three years of Payday in three months’ time, and want to top up their Steam following some before then.
Think of it as a Kickstarted community: join up, and you’ll help unlock weapons, heists, playable characters, and free weekends come October.
Everybody loves space. All those planets and black holes whizzing around, orbitting things and getting into scrapes. All the tinfoil spaceships we've sent out to look for interstellar treasure. Those screaming cats and dogs we were sending up in rockets for a while. They must have been especially excited about the wonders of the universe. Yes, it's round the clock, cosmic fun wherever space is concerned, and videogames are certainly no exception.
The indelible Kerbal Space Program is one such space videogame. It recently received its huge First Contract update, which is not only a tremendous pun but a comprehensive overhaul of the game's fledgling career mode and an update that's been years in the making. What was once a sandbox free-for-all ship builder is now a sort of aerospace tycoon game in which you take on government and private contracts in order to raise cash and progress along a branching tech tree. I've been playing it. Here's what I think so far.
2K must be undecided about their favourite plasmid, because they’re blowing hot and cold over BioShock’s future. Ba-dum.
Seriously, though: the publishers closed (or “wound down”) Irrational Games earlier this year, and gutted BioShock backup studio 2K Marin a few months before that. But they’ve since said the next BioShock game will be made in Marin - and have now started posting wistful imagery on their Facebook page.
What on Earth have they got in the pipeline?
Now that the Elder Scrolls MMO that everybody bugged Todd Howard about for a decade has finally come to pass, for better or worse, it’s hard to imagine Bethesda haven’t thought about giving Fallout the same treatment.
One man involved with series has definitely given it some thought: Josh Sawyer, project lead on Obsidian’s Fallout: New Vegas.
“I think there’s interesting potential for an online version of Fallout,” he said.
Microsoft Flight Simulator X was the tenth and last game in the venerable series. Flight1 are the enthusiastic cockpit-modellers behind the Ultimate 146 Collection. The genius of Dovetail Games, the publishers who’ve acquired the rights to distribute X’s Gold Edition, was in pairing the two.
For the first time in a good long while, new add-ons for the Flight Simulator series will be developed and sold on Steam.
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CI Games has released a new trailer for its upcoming action RPG, Lords of the Fallen. In Lords of the Fallen, you are Harkyn, the best of the worst of humanity; a convicted criminal that is given a chance for redemption when an army of the long-ago defeated God attacks the human realm. Lords of the Fallen is planned for release later this year and is inspired by the gameplay mechanics of the Dark Souls series. Enjoy the trailer, courtesy of IGN! Continue reading
bitComposer and Games Farm released today the second part of the developer diaries for its upcoming action RPG, Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms. The second part of the developer diary contains an interview with Chris Bateman, author of the Heretic Kingdoms universe. In the second travelogue, Tom Baker, former Doctor Who actor, presents another region from Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms: the Broken Spear Pass. Continue reading
BioWare has sent us an email about – what seems to be – a new IP franchise that will be unveiled during this year’s Gamescom. Although we don’t have enough information about it, you can find a teaser trailer below. Moreover, and according to the image that was included in the email, this new game may be called Shadow Realms. Enjoy the teaser and stay tuned for more! Continue reading
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