That poll results look fishy. There can't be so many PC fans of Assassins Creed!
Please excuse my bad English.
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| JEMC said: That poll results look fishy. There can't be so many PC fans of Assassins Creed! |
At this point I am convinced that it is viral marketers from Ubisoft.
Ludicrously exciting prospect, this: BioWare’s first brand new idea in a half-decade. The new game is rumoured to be titled Shadow Realms, and was revealed last week via a brief live-action teaser trailer.
We begin to see familiar themes emerging in this week’s clip: rings of fire, bad dreams and young men thrown from their everyday lives.
We weren’t sure we’d hear anything new out of Facepunch this week. Garry ‘sMod’ Newman recently announced his intention to reveal some of the little games his studio has been working on - but elements of the Rust community leapt on space shooter Riftlight last week as evidence that Facepunch weren misusing their manpower.
Thankfully, Facepunch programmer Ian James hasn’t been scared off. He’s built a tennis prototype, and begun documenting his efforts to make a sports game he and his colleagues can “play over lunch instead of FIFA”.
The past is history, my arse. The release of Human Revolution has demoted Invisible War from Deus Ex 2 to footnote curio. And since Eidos Montreal turned Thief into an anti-open world, Ion Storm stablemate Thief: Deadly Shadows has suddenly become essential.
With an unusually good sense of timing for a mod, here comes Thief 3 Gold to remove Deadly Shadows’ most tangible misstep: its loading screens.
One of things we lost when John Carmack left id was his QuakeCon talks - the rambling, unapologetically jargony but uniformly gripping addresses he’d give to the Doom-weaned masses each year.
Not even the Doom reveal at QuakeCon 2014 could fill that hole, so here’s the next best thing: a hours-long visit in April to the Lyle School of Engineering at Dallas’ Southern Methodist University.
While our own universe will eventually shrink to the size of a thrupenny bit, Frontier’s version of space only pushes further outwards.
Elite: Dangerous docked at standard beta this week, growing to a total of 50 systems over a 21 lightyear radius and asking its players to worry about fuel consumption for the first time.
Nobody could possibly complain about the speed at which Frontier have gone about realising their Kickstarter pitch. But Braben’s bunch aren’t resting on their Lakons - they’ve already tackled a long list of bugs in the beta.
There are a lot of things that are probably going to be just awful in the future: the cost of fuel, environmental decline, the robot uprising. Sports, though, they are probably going to be awesome.
You can get a taste of future sports today, because FPS ball game Epigenesis is launching. It’s all leaping and shooting and cool costumes, and we should probably all just play that instead of watching men in wee shorts kicking a ball.
If you’re thinking of picking up Maxis’ twisted dollhouse, The Sims 4, when it launches in September, you might be able to claim some free digital junk just for owning a copy of The Sims 3 and its expansions.
There are 13 rewards waiting to be claimed: one for owning The Sims 3, one for each expansion, and another for owning all of them like a giant Sims junkie. So the good news is that you could end up with a lot of free stuff.
The bad news? It’s lamps. That’s what you get: a great big pile of lamps.
If you cast your mind back a couple of months, you might recall the bizarre reality webshow, Azeroth Choppers. In it, two teams of Blizzard folk constructed choppers based on the Horde and Alliance factions, overseen by that professional shouty man and bike maker from American Choppers.
Upon creation of the choppers, folk were asked to vote for the best one, which would make it into the game. Of course, that meant that one faction would miss out. It was the Horde bike that won - because tusks on a bike are pretty wonderful - leaving the Alliance with nothing. Blizzard have backpedaled, however, and now both bikes will be available for World of Warcraft players.
I’ve been playing a spot of Pokémon on my PC. Not through a hack or an emulator, though, because I’ve been exploring Pokémon Zeta. It’s a fan-made homage made using RPG Maker, and it’s pretty damn good.
Redditors thesuzerain and Sir_Willis_CMS are the masterminds behind the game, which also comes in Omicron flavour, and there’s a public beta going on at the moment. So you can download it right blooming now.
The Mass Effect panel from San Diego Comic-Con, where we got to see our first look of the new Mako concept, has been posted by BioWare in its entirety on YouTube. The entire thing was pretty vague besides the concepts for the Mako and armour designs, mainly because very little has been locked down at this point.
“We’re years away from being able to say this is the exact game we’re making,” stated Mass Effect producer Mike Gamble. So there’s not much to the 30 minute panel. Since you might not have half an hour to spare when pickings are so slim, take a gander below for some highlights.
When Blizzard revealed the artifact system for Heroes of the Storm last week, the reaction from alpha players and prospective players was overwhelmingly negative. Myriad concerns were voiced, including how it would potentially lead to grinding for gold and players with more time to grind having a distinct advantage over other players right from the start of a match.
Blizzard has taken the backlash in its stride, noting that the whole point of the technical alpha is to gather this type of feedback. “As a result, we have decided to remove the artifact system from Heroes of the Storm with a patch scheduled for later today,” the HoTS team revealed today.
Toxikk is a classic FPS that’s going back to the roots of the arena shooter, if their debut trailer is anything to go by. It’s taking a stance on equality by doing away with classes, leveling systems and weapon upgrades, and also getting rid of cover systems, automatic health regen and iron sight aiming (IAS).
What you will get is double jumps, booster pick-ups, infinite weapon capacity and a multitude of multiplayer maps that promote a variety of playstyles. Some of the bigger maps even contain vehicles wreak havoc on the battlefield. Toxikk has also shunned free-to-play, saying that it “contradict[s] the idea of classic arena FPS gaming” with paid for unlocks and upgrades.
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By Graham Smith on August 4th, 2014 at 8:00 am.
At any big gaming conference or expo I’ve been to there’s been a strong dividing line between mainstream and indie. Both are awful labels, but for sake of simplicity: the former fills cavernous halls with booths, music, and major publisher money, while the latter normally finds itself a corner of carefully curated darlings, most featuring sprite graphics and other symbols signalling that the game is made by one person or a small team.
What of single persons or small teams making indie games with the tools of the mainstream? Do developers making oddities within Unreal Engine 4 find they fall between two stalls, and so find no stall at all at gaming conferences? Would they benefit from Epic offering them one of eight spots at this year’s Eurogamer Expo?
By Ben Barrett on August 4th, 2014 at 9:00 am.
Is this picture not sexy enough for you? How about this animated gif? Or this one? These are Drift Stage, an arcade racer in the style of vintage Sega. The stunning art is courtesy of Charles Blanchard, who you might remember from the similarly-styled Sky Rogue. He specialises in visualising ’90s 2D art in 3D and is, in case you hadn’t noticed, absurdly brilliant. He’s teamed up with Chase Pettit to create Drift Stage and please, for the love of all that’s holy, just come see it in motion.
It was only last month that Planetside 2 received a huge update in the way of the Hossin continent, but that won’t stop Sony Online Entertainment from bringing us another. This coming Tuesday will see the deployment of a huge patch that will bring in new features and improvements, such as the Directive system and resource revamp.
A new beta update to kickstarted Wasteland 2 has introduced numerous features and tweaks. Enemies will now drop better loot, which also extends to vendors and breakable objects. Weapons have had a major rebalance pass to improve their stats and feel. Finally the audio system has seen a number of additions to help flesh out the experience.
The beginning of August sees another 50 games Greenlit and heading their way to Steam for global distribution. Notable games include Homeworld inspired Deep Space Settlement, and hand drawn 2D Viking game Jotun.
There’s been a trend in Call of Duty development over the last few years. Expect po-faced geopolitics from the single-player campaigns - it’s only in post-release DLC you’ll see its developers having any fun.
Activision have begun rolling out preview footage of Call of Duty: Ghosts’ last map pack, Nemesis, to YouTubers. And it looks commendably silly.
Facepunch Studios last week enacted a new policy: they’d open up about the various prototypes they’ve been working on. In the case of colourful space shooter Riftlight, that’s yielded some interesting reactions.
“We got an email from Trion World’s lawyers,” said Facepunch founder Garry Newman. “Apparently there’s a game called 'Rift' and apparently its demo is called 'Rift Lite'.”
Those iguanas won’t stick themselves, y’know. There’s still plenty of prep to be done ahead of Wasteland 2’s full launch, and Steam Early Access has got nothing to do with it. In fact, ye olde discs are to blame.
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Kojima pls, new about phantom pain on pc...
| generic-user-1 said: Kojima pls, new about phantom pain on pc... |
well he did say he would like too
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E-Line Media has released a new behind-the-scenes video from Never Alone, in which Ron Brower, Sr, an Inupiat Elder and Cultural Ambassador to the Never Alone project, describes the importance of making a videogame to pass traditional knowledge to the next generation. Continue reading
ESTsoft, developer of the highly acclaimed MMORPG, CABAL Online, has announced support of the Oculus Rift VR platform for its upcoming groundbreaking flagship title, CABAL II. Continue reading
YouTube’s member member ‘jackfrags’ has released a new video, showcasing the alpha build of Evolve running on PC. Evolve is powered by CRYENGINE, and pits five hunters against a monster. The game is being developed by the team that offered as Left4Dead, is currently under closed alpha phase and is planned for an October release on PC, Xbox One and PS4. Enjoy! Continue reading
Well this is a nice surprise. As ShonenGamez revealed, Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 Full Burst sold well enough on the PC, meaning that the next entry in the series (or the next Naruto game in general) will also hit our platform. Continue reading
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Star Citizen received a huge patch last week, one that added new enemy ships to the Arena Commander mode and made many fixes to its network code. The rubber banding issue’s been solved for multiplayer deathmatches and Roberts Space Industries’ reckon they’ve made gret strides for eliminating it in the final, larger, persistent game.
Most importantly, though, there are now flushable toilets.
While no formal announcement has been made, Nvidia have been sending out invites to the tech and gaming press asking them to attend a product briefing in San Francisco. A number of sites are reporting that this product will be Nvidia’s new graphics card the Geforce 880 GTX, possibly also the Geforce 870 GTX.
There’s a chance Nvidia might tease an announcement at Gamescom later this month but the full announcement and launch is likely to occur in September.
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He also said that he would like to develop for Wii/WiiU or that he wanted to do other things besides Metal Gear... and he hasn't done any of them.
What Kojima says and what Kojima/Konami does, are two very different things.
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Dr Fahrenheit is the best villain name I’ve heard this month.
He’s just one of the five new bosses added to Tango Fiesta in its latest update. It’s not just new bosses, though. Spilt Milk have thrown in four new weapons, six new enemy types, and a whole new game world.
It’s a massive update to the game that pits you against AI and other players in this 80s action movie-inspired arena shooter.
Size Five Games recently giveaway 1 million copies of their brilliant two player dueller Gun Monkeys. Dveloper Dan Marshall’s revealed a couple of his findings from the event. For instance, at its peak he says they were “giving away over 100,000 keys per hour.”
But there’s more than that.
Stardock are continuing to build an awful amount of infrastructure for their next generation of games. Not content with moving their games over to 64-bit, or financing a new studio to produce a dedicated engine for strategy gaming, Stardock are now working on creating their own cloud-based service. To build it, they’ve brought in Adrian Luff, a former Battle.net engineer with 17 years’ experience at Blizzard.
Online services and “connected gaming” might smack of DRM by another name, but Luff is emphatic that this is not the case.
“We are absolutely not changing our stand on DRM. In fact one of our design goals is to avoid any dependency between the single player game and Tachyon,” Luff said.
Maxis’ massive dollhouse, The Sims, might sugar coat life, but it still tries to present it in an inclusive way. The inmates sims can embark on same sex relationships, building a family is more representative of reality than the idealised nuclear family, and they can be victims of their emotions, wallowing in depression or having their day spoiled by stress.
But, speaking with Polygon, associate producer Graham Nardone said that the studio tries to strike a balance between being fun and respectful. They’re still trying to perfect that balance, which is why, so far, The Sims - including the upcoming The Sims 4 - has not allowed players to create characters who aren’t either male or female. And it’s also why grim subjects like death through depression have not been broached.
Kalypso Media has confirmed, today, that Tropico 5 has been refused distribution in Thailand. The Board of Film and Video Censors said that it could not be released, because “some contents of the game are not appropriate for the current situation”. The board did not mention what content was inappropriate, but it doesn’t take a genius to figure out.
In May this year, The Royal Thai Army declared martial law, and then announced that it was a coup. Curfews were put in place, people were rounded up and political gatherings were banned. Though tongue-in-cheek, Tropico 5 is a political simulator, where tyrannical regimes can be built and overthrown. It probably cut too close to the bone.
Trust is important when it comes to Kickstarter and early access titles. People are spending money on intangible things and proofs of concept; hopes, really. I think we’ve been traveling down this road for long enough to know that a finished game isn’t always going to appear. There’s an element of risk inherent in the model. But there’s still an expectation of communication and transparency. It’s slowly being eroded.
Last year, dinosaur survival romp, The Stomping Land, made $114,060 on Kickstarter. On May 30th, an Early Access version was released on Steam, costing £18.99/$24.99. Since its alpha launch, there’s been one update. That was back on June 6th. Since then, the developer SuperCrit has gone quiet. Eerily quiet.
Everyone knows The Fullbright Company - creators of Gone Home - as Fullbright. So the developer has pulled a Cher, and is now officially just Fullbright. New name, a new logo too - what’s all this about then? Well, the changes come about at the same time as Fullbright’s announcement that it's working on a new game, and it’s on the look out for a programmer and an animator.
I suppose when you’ve got a customer base as large as Blizzard and World of Warcraft’s, then you don’t just announce the launch date for an expansion in a press release. No, you make an event out of it.
On August 14th, at the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles, Blizzard will be premiering the Warlords of Draenor cinematic trailer and revealing the launch date for the fifth expansion. I confess that I’m more excited about the trailer - a rarity - because WoW cinematics are, as a rule, a treat.
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Dylan Browney has informed about a new demo for his sci-fi horror title, Caffeine. This new demo packs many improvements, bug fixes and features, and is based upon the short demo that was shown at AVCon 2014 in Adelaide, Australia. Continue reading
The Astronauts has released three new screenshots for its upcoming PC exclusive game that uses Photoscan technology, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter. These new images show incredibly detail environments, making this indie title a beauty to behold. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is coming later this year on our platform, and among other things it will feature a FOV slider. Enjoy! Continue reading
Three days ago, Doom 3 turned 10 years old. While Doom 3 was not as action-packed as its predecessor, it did look amazing for its time. Doom 3 tried to experiment and adopted a more ‘survival’ gameplay. And while the end result may disappointed a number of gamers, it definitely looked spectacular. Fast forward ten whole years and here we are today, with a game that looks even great for today’s standards (provided you use a number of mods and texture packs). Continue reading
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