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Riot spend most of their time chiseling away at a five-year-old sculpture. Featured Gameplay Modes are their chance to just hack at a piece of rock and see what emerges. First implemented last year, the system has seen extreme and absurd variations on League of Legends introduced to the game for short stretches.
It’s worked rather well: in fact, Riot might yet succumb to players clamouring for the return of their favourites.
To understand why The Crew is probably going to be a bit brilliant, you need to know where it’s come from. First, Ubisoft hooked the Test Drive team up to a money-drip capable of feeding their sandbox ambition without compromise. Then, they chucked in the Driver team from Newcastle - men and women who understand the art of careening and collision.
The result looks like a standout of the “action-driving” genre, as Ubisoft have coined it - a fantasy US open world where metal meets metal as often as pedals do. Take a look.
Irrational Games are gone. But SHODAN voice actress Terri Brosius is still about, and so is husband Eric - the sound engineer who distorted her voice into the terrifying monotone of the mother of all malevolent AIs.
Both are down for the idea of a SHODAN announcer pack for Dota 2 - and Night Dive Studios, the outfit who ported System Shock 2 to Steam, have convinced Valve. But they have one reservation.
Mojang have pre-released Minecraft’s 1.8 patch today. It represents more than 300 days of work - the longest amount of time its dev team have spent on a single update. And it’ll be officially published in the launcher on Tuesday, September 2.
Rustie is some sort of cool guy musician man from Glasgow, who Wikipedia reliably informs me belongs to a sub-genre of music called "lazer hip hop". I don't quite know what lazer hip hop is, but having strolled and bounced around the browser-based virtual world promoting the guy's latest album, I think I quite like it.
You might too! And if not, you'll probably still enjoy poking about the beautiful, pixelated and Proteus-esque cubeworld that houses his music.
The rush of new sign-ups for Mists of Pandaria was a blip; World of Warcraft player numbers are now at their lowest point since 2006. Even with the release of Warlords of Draenor on the horizon, Blizzard don’t expect subscriptions of the world’s biggest subscription MMO to grow again, ever.
WoW lead designer Tom Chilton told us why.
When Godus was released in Early Access last year, it was not good. We took another look in March, after 22cans had implemented an update they claimed would hugely improve the game. And lo, it was still not good.
Now it’s August, and Peter Molyneux believes the studio couldn't have done more to fulfil Godus’ initial promise.
“We must be up to about 12 versions on Steam Early Access by now,” he pointed out. “You look how building a house has changed, and how making settlements has changed, and how the world itself has changed. We have done everything we possibly can in the name of making a great game.”
There are two network parties at the Hilton Anatole this weekend. The first is for KPMG, the giant accountancy firm. They are suited and booted, ready to talk. You can spot them a mile off, smart little white badges, free (expensive) coffee and a rare confidence. This is their summer event, and they are here to work.
On the other side of the lobby is the early arrivals for the other party. It’s a Quake team. They only get together at QuakeCon. But they play together every night. They hug, smile, laugh and joke. They trail PCs and monitors and network cables in little carts. They are so happy to be here.
The KPMG lot spot the gamers. You can see them trying to mask their curiosity. Unfailing politeness, but with eyebrows raised.
“Some gaming convention.”
EA is really making the most out of Origin’s Game Time program. This month we’ve seen Battlefield 4, Kingdoms of Amalur and Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare all up for grabs, and now they are joined by Titanfall.
Red Bull Battle Grounds Detroit kicks off today after last month’s event in Atlanta. Once again, 128 StarCraft II players will send their forces against each other in hopes of making it to the final in Washington DC this September.
Seven players have already secured their slots from the previous Battle Grounds, including last month’s Atlanta winner, Choi “Bomber” Ji Sung. You can watch this weekend’s fights below.
Only a truly awful person would hack a mate. But Watch Dogs protagonist Aiden Pearce is a terrible person. Gone are the days where you can only pester complete strangers and faceless players. Now you can take your brand of vigilante justice to your friends’ games.
It’s taken a while for folk to get used to Windows 8, and some of us are still holding onto 7 with grim determination. But reports suggest that Microsoft will be showcasing its next OS, codenamed Threshold, as soon as next month at a press event on September 30th. A preview build will be released to developers at the same time or soon after.
This date could change, however.
In an industry where so many games are marketed almost exclusively at teenage boys, it’s been harder for some than others to accept that, actually, quite a lot of women play games. A lot more than you might expect given some unpleasant attitudes.
A study from the Entertainment Software Association reveals that, in the US, more adult women play games than teen males.
In Civilization, when picking a faction to play, you’re getting a whole package of bonuses and traits based on the history of that culture. But Civilization: Beyond Earth has left history, and those factions, far behind. So that means you have to build your own.
The latest Beyond Earth livestream, which has been uploaded to YouTube, details exactly how future rulers will construct their infant factions, building them with different bonuses, selecting the special citizens, even choosing the spaceship they land on.
Artillery RTS Cannon Brawl hasn’t been in beta for long, but it’s already gearing up for a full release next month. Developer Turtle Sandbox announced the September 19th launch date a couple of days ago. While beta went by quickly, the game has been on Steam Early Access for a bit over a year.
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Refract Studios has released a new trailer to accompany the release of an exclusive private beta to everyone that backed Distance on Kickstarter and its website. Distance is basically the spiritual successor to Nitronic Rush and looks fabulous. The team aims to release a public beta soon, but until then enjoy the trailer! Continue reading
The official Steam store page for NBA 2K15 has unveiled the game’s PC system requirements. According to the listed specs, PC gamers will need a 64bit OS, at least a DirectX 10.1 compatible GPU and 50GB of free HDD. The game will hit Steam on October 10th, is full priced (compared to last year’s offer that was based on the old-gen version), and you can view the full PC specs below. Continue reading
Firefly Studios has announced that the release date for Stronghold Crusader 2, their upcoming RTS ‘castle sim’ sequel, has been moved back from September 2nd to September 23rd. Continue reading
Paradox Interactive has revealed that Ancient Space, a new story-driven real-time strategy (RTS) game from developer Creative Forge, will be coming to PC and Mac in Fall 2014. Continue reading
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| zarx said: I'm not quite sure why I am watching this AMD livestream but I am |
Nope, I don't know why you are watching it either.
In any case, if something interesting is announced, I'm sure you'll tell us 
.
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
Steam / Live / NNID : jonxiquet Add me if you want, but I'm a single player gamer.
R9 285is pretty disappointing. Man the GPU market is really stagnated these last couple years. 20nm not being readdy has really killed advancement. And with all signs that Nvidia's next batch of GPUs apparently being stuck on 28nm as well it's looking like we won't get a real shakeup of the market until late next year.
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Yep. TSMC is holding everything back. While Nvidia and AMD have new architectures ready, TSMC is still fumbling with <28nm chips. It's been quite a boring year for PC enthusiasts.. no real progress with GPU's side, nor CPU for that matter.
Oh well, 2015 should be a lot better.
| hinch said: Oh well, 2015 should be a lot better. |
I hope so!
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
Steam / Live / NNID : jonxiquet Add me if you want, but I'm a single player gamer.
At the Japan Expo USA 2014, Sekai Project and Key Visual-Arts announced that they will be localising the cult classic visual novel, Clannad, for western release. What’s more is that the visual novel will be releasing on Steam. The version being localised will be the “full voice edition” of the game, and a release date is still yet to be determined.
By Graham Smith on August 24th, 2014 at 12:30 pm.
Cass picked up on this in yesterday’s Bargain Bucket, but it deserves a post of its own. Show Me The Games are currently running the Dirty Dozen sale in which a 12 games are substantially discounted. What makes it special? These are direct-from-the-developer discounts, meaning Show Me The Games isn’t taking a cut and every penny you pay goes to the people who actually made the games.
The games on offer include Gone Home, Frozen Synapse, Infested Planet, Democracy 3, and some game I’ve never heard of* called Sir, You Are Being Hunted. That’s a good haul.
By Adam Smith on August 22nd, 2014 at 12:00 pm.
Cloudbase Prime is a first-person platformer with shooting elements. That’s a fine change from first-person shooters with ‘platforming elements’ in the form of a context-sensitive ‘jump’ button used once during a fourteen minute long singleplayer campaign. Originally created as part of the 7 Day FPS Challenge back in 2012, it’s a game about survival on a floating mining platform in deep space. Enormous robots are attacking the platform and your goal is to survive for as long as possible by propelling them (and yourself) from hex to hex. The key to your survival is not found in the barrel of a gun but in the terrain-manipulating Architect tool. The freshly baked alpha is free.
By Adam Smith on August 22nd, 2014 at 5:00 pm.
Do you remember a time when msuic games were so rugged and wild that they required the use of a tiny plastic guitar peripheral? I certainly do. Some people formed bands during their university years and frittered away precious hours creating melancholy joy, entertaining the tune-hungry populace of bee-soaked university bars. Other people – people like me – perfected I Wanna Be Sedated on Guitar Hero while jumping up and down on a bed with a cig in my mouth. Health and safety be damned, this was rock ‘n’ roll and I liked it.
Rhythm games have moved on since then and Sentris, launched into Early Access seconds ago, looks and sounds absolutely delicious. And you can play it while sitting comfortably at your desk.
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