Future Hearthstone expansion includes around 100 cards; "It'll be booster pack format"

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If you thought the new cards within the Hearthstone: Curse of Naxxramas expansion were overwhelming, think again. Speaking on Value Town, a podcast about everything Hearthstone, senior designer Mike Donais revealed some interesting information about the next expansion. Most notably was that it will include “around 100 cards”, and they’ll be gathered mainly via booster packs.

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Screencheat is a game that encourages you to be "that friend" who, well, screen cheats

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I’ll admit - I used to screen cheat. Back in the days where I gamed on the couch with friends, I just couldn’t help glance over and quickly scan over my opponents screen for valuable information. Eventually I became so proficient at it, I did it entirely subconsciously.

Today I can bring back that hidden talent to lay waste to my foes in a new game, aptly dubbed Screencheat. It’s a game where you’re actually encouraged to look at your friends screen in order to win. Why you ask? Well because you’re both invisible.

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Mojang postpone Minecon until 2015; still to take place in London

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Mojang have announced that there won’t be a Minecon this year as previously planned, instead being moved to “spring” next year where it is still to take place in London. The exact reason for the postponement is unknown, but the Mojang blog post by COO Vu Bui seems to suggest it was a problem to do with the venue.

“We want to make sure we can follow through with the event and we never want people to start planning to attend something that might not happen.”

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How the indie community united to save survival game Duskers, a studio, and a dream

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Duskers is a defiantly singular game. It’s “indie” in more of a “to hell with it, this one’s for me” kind of way rather than as a way to denote studio size or aesthetic. It’s unforgiving and, at first glance, deliberately obscure. You control drones exploring derelict starships in a galaxy that has gone dead, gathering scraps of supplies and avoiding combat at all costs. You have to meet Duskers on its own terms, because it makes few concessions.

It’s also Misfits Attic’s second game, and a passion project for designer Tim Keenan. It’s the game he started making just as he started to realize his indie dream was about to die. Duskers was how Keenan was choosing to go out, and he suspected he’d never even be able to finish it.

Then the indie community came to the rescue.

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Star Citizen Features Really Detailed Ships – Scratches & Dents Remain, Materials Degrade Over Time

During this year’s Gamescom, Dualshockers had the chance to talk with Cloud Imperium’s Technical Designer, Dan Tracy, and revealed some interesting new information about this upcoming PC exclusive title. As Dan told Dualshockers, Star Citizen will pack ships that are made by 100,000 polygons, as well as really high detailed textures (4096×4096). Continue reading →

 

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Titan Souls – New 2D Retro Isometric Action Adventure – Gets New Screenshots + Trailer

August 25, 2014 John Papadopoulos 4 Comments

Devolver has released a new set of screenshots and a trailer for its upcoming 2D retro action adventure, Titan Souls. Titan Souls is coming in early 2015 on PC, PS4, PS Vita, Mac, and Linux, and will feature colossal titans to fight, a simple combat system and lots of secret areas to explore. Enjoy! Continue reading →

 

 

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Fenix Rage To Be Released On September 24th On Steam, Gets New Trailer

August 25, 2014 John Papadopoulos 2 Comments

Green Lava Studios and Reverb Triple XP announced today that Fenix Rage, the hardcore 2D action-platformer with slick retro roots and fast-paced level design, will be available on Steam on September 24th. Fenix Rage aims to deliver more than 200 levels of frustratingly addictive gameplay, as demonstrated in its brand new “Get the Cookie” trailer that can be viewed below. Continue reading →

 

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Depth Hunter 2: Deep Dive – Now Available On Steam

August 26, 2014 John Papadopoulos 1 Comment

Biart Company announced today that its first-person underwater game Depth Hunter 2 is now available through Steam platform. Depth Hunter 2 offers 25 exciting missions in 3 huge locations around the world. Continue reading →

 

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NBA 2K15 Gets New In-Engine Trailer

August 26, 2014 John Papadopoulos 1 Comment

2K Games has released the first in-engine trailer for its upcoming basketball game, NBA 2K15. Now while the video is titled as a ‘gameplay’ trailer, it only contains replay scenes and nothing more. So yeah, that’s not gameplay trailer our dear 2K Games. NBA 2K15 aims to hit the court with unprecedented life-like graphics, ultra-realistic NBA gameplay, and will pack over 5,000 new animations. Enjoy! Continue reading →

 

 

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It’s Official: Amazon Acquires Twitch

August 26, 2014 John Papadopoulos 1 Comment

Today is the dawn of a new age as Twitch has just announced that it has been acquired by Amazon. Yes yes, those Google rumors were false after all as Amazon has – apparently – made a better offer to Twitch. Continue reading →

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AMD Releases Two Hours Video From Its “30 Years of Graphics & Gaming Innovation” Event

August 26, 2014 John Papadopoulos 2 Comments

AMD has released a two hours video (in two parts) from its recent event that was held to celebrate the company’s 30 years. During that event, AMD invited a number of game developers and showed a small demo from Civilization: Beyond Earth, talked a bit more about its new API, Mantle, and has overclocked an FX CPU at 8Ghz. Enjoy! Continue reading →

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The Legend of Korra Is Coming To The PC On October 21st

August 26, 2014 John Papadopoulos 1 Comment

Platinum Games’ JP Kellams revealed today that The Legend of Korra will be coming to the PC on October 21st. The Legend of Korra is a single player, action-packed brawler, in which Korra’s mastery of martial arts and the four elements – fire, earth, air and water – can be used on the fly to bolster her combos and counters against foes. Continue reading →

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The Crew Will Support 5760*1080 Resolutions On PC, Targets 30FPS, Hard-Lock Via XML At 60FPS

August 26, 2014 John Papadopoulos 9 Comments

The second closed beta phase of The Crew is currently under way and some new information about the PC version of the game has surfaced. According to Ubisoft, the development team targets a 1080p+30fps experience on all platforms (PC, Xbox One and PS4), though the PC will also support 5760*1080 for triple screen set-ups. Continue reading →

zarx said: News The Crew Will Support 5760*1080 Resolutions On PC, Targets 30FPS, Hard-Lock Via XML At 60FPS August 26, 2014 John Papadopoulos 9 Comments The second closed beta phase of The Crew is currently under way and some new information about the PC version of the game has surfaced. According to Ubisoft, the development team targets a 1080p+30fps experience on all platforms (PC, Xbox One and PS4), though the PC will also support 5760*1080 for triple screen set-ups. Continue reading →

Well, that supposed better support for their PC games that Ubi promised stated not long ago has been quite short lived.

Oh, well. I guess it comes as a surprise to no one.

Dark Souls II: Crown of the Old Iron King DLC Releases Today On Steam

FromSoftware today announced the release of Crown of the Old Iron King, the second chapter in its The Lost Crowns DLC trilogy for Dark Souls II. Each chapter is specifically designed to enhance, challenge, and bring players to their knees as they experience the peril that is awaiting them in the Dark Souls II The Lost Crowns trilogy. Continue reading →

 

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Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth – Here Are 50 Minutes Of Gameplay Footage

August 26, 2014 John Papadopoulos 1 Comment

2K and Firaxis Games have released a new video for their upcoming strategy game, Civilization: Beyond Earth, featuring 50 minutes of gameplay footage. Civilization: Beyond Earth is currently planned for an October 24th release and will support AMD’s new API, Mantle, from the get-go. Enjoy! Continue reading →

 

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Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms Gets New Developer Diary

August 26, 2014 John Papadopoulos 1 Comment

BitComposer Games has released the third developer diary for its upcoming action RPG, Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms. In this new installment of the developer diary series for Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms Games Farm presents the Shadow Realm . As the press release reads, this parallel world constitutes one of the Action-RPG’s biggest features and is crucial for both story and gameplay mechanics as players can travel to the Shadow Realm to find clues to solving puzzles or destroy demons, which keep reanimating their enemies in the human world. Enjoy! Continue reading →

 

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Ubisoft Will Bring Mantle-like Performance Boost To All Platforms Thanks To New Renderer Architecture In ACU

August 26, 2014 John Papadopoulos 40 Comments

A couple of days ago, we had the pleasure of interviewing Ubisoft’s Pipeline Technical Director, James Therien, who shared with us some interesting new information about the new Assassin’s Creed game. As you may have guessed, we asked James whether the PC version of ACU will be better optimized than its predecessor, to which James said that ACU packs a new render architecture that will scale well on multi-CPUs and will bring Mantle-like performance boost on all platforms. Continue reading →

 

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LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham Releases November 14th

August 26, 2014 John Papadopoulos 0 Comments

Warner Bros announced today the release date for LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham. As the company revealed via a press release, LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham will be released on November 14th. In LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, Batman will join forces with the super heroes of the DC Comics universe and blasts off to outer space to stop the evil Brainiac from destroying Earth. Continue reading →

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Breach & Clear DEADline – Steam Early Access This Fall, Gets Behind-The-Scenes Video

August 26, 2014 John Papadopoulos 0 Comments

Gambitious and Devolver Digital released today a behind-the-scenes look at Breach & Clear: DEADline, the all-new PC action game based on the iOS tactical strategy hit from Gun Media and Mighty Rabbit Studios. The video shows all new pre-alpha gameplay footage fresh off their award-winning appearance at Gamescom 2014. The game will be coming to Steam Early Access this Fall. Enjoy! Continue reading →

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World of Diving – VR-Enabled Underwater Exploration Game – Now Available Via Steam Early Access

August 27, 2014 John Papadopoulos 4 Comments

Vertigo Games announced that the VR-enabled underwater exploration game World of Diving is available from today as an Early Access game on Steam and various other digital download portals. Continue reading →

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Dragon Age: Inquisition – Multiplayer Details Revealed

August 27, 2014 John Papadopoulos 2 Comments

Bioware has released a FAQ for the Multiplayer mode for its upcoming strategy game, Dragon Age: Inquisition. According to the team, this new Dragon Age will feature action-packed, four-player cooperative quests for its MP mode that will be separate from the single-player open-world story. Continue reading →

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Deep Silver Has A Secret Title For PAX Prime, Will Show Gameplay From Volition’s Next Project

August 27, 2014 John Papadopoulos 1 Comment

Deep Silver has just informed us about its PAX Prime plans. According to the publisher, the first gameplay footage for Volition’s next project will be revealed at the end of its Friday PAX Prime Volition Quiz Show. Continue reading →

Diablo III gains ladder-like Seasons system in Reaper of Souls 2.1

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On the face of it, Diablo III is a cooperative game - but it’s always been played competitively, with one eye on the wider Blizzard community. This first major patch for Reaper of Souls will finally acknowledge that tendency in-game, with a Seasons system that starts players at the bottom, brigand-bothering rung of demon-hunting and compares their performance on leaderboards.

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Age of Empires: Castle Siege is a Clash of Clans-ish Windows 8 exclusive

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If you want to gauge Microsoft’s changing attitude toward PC gaming at any given point, look at what it’s doing with Age of Empires. The long dark age of Games for Windows Live was heralded by Ensemble Studios’ closure in 2008. And renewed efforts to “up Microsoft’s gaming presence on Windows” have seen the company take stock in recent months, releasing extended editions of Age of Empires II and Age of Mythology on Steam.

What are we to make, then, of Castle Siege? A touchscreen-focused Clash of Clans homage found only on the Windows 8 Store?

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Loadout is getting a co-op campaign mode; expect a Steam beta within weeks

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Writing his Loadout review, our Tim discovered that Edge of Reality’s free-to-play Quake throwback was secretly one of the best shooters to come to Steam in years. It’s also the only shooter on Steam to let you take your pants off and run about the battlefield with your physics-enabled johnson waggling back and forth like a pendulum for your thumping heart.

In acknowledgement of those truths, let’s look forward with all our might to Update 5.0 - Loadout’s biggest update yet.

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Gotta have wraith: Zenimax to give pets as rewards to Elder Scrolls Online subscribers

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The pre-release conversation around The Elder Scrolls Online was all about that subscription - a monthly tithe of the kind so many other prominent developers had roundly condemned. 

But launch came and went, and it seemed there were more than enough Elder Scrolls Online subscribers. Now, Zenimax Online intend to sustain momentum not only with September’s Update 4, but with a series of conspicuous rewards for subscribers to flaunt all round Tamriel.

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"Ungh!": voice actors take damage in the latest Evil Within trailer

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The Evil Within is, first and foremost, a twisted imaginarium filled with things nobody should have thought of.

That leaves its set of well-established US voice actors with an intriguing challenge. They're left pretending to be “covered in acid” or suffering from “itchy brain”. But they seem to enjoy it.

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Hazard Ops launches with mech-on-mech action and zombie attacks

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Hazard Ops, the nutty free-to-play shooter from Infernum and Yingpei Games, has blown up the walls of open beta with C4 and has now escaped. 

That also means more shooting, more modes and big mechs, because Hazard Ops launches with a meaty update to get things started. 

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Siege Warbear: Orcs Must Die! Unchained update introduces Tundra, the polar bear

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A big update is coming to the Orcs Must Die! Unchained closed beta tomorrow, introducing a bunch of new stuff including a new playable character, big polar bear fella known as Tundra. He wears a lot of fur, which seems a bit unnecessary. I mean, he’s probably not bothered by the cold. Maybe it’s for modesty’s sake? Nobody wants to see a polar bear’s crotch in the middle of a battle, I guess. 

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Smuggling booze in Elite: Dangerous is challenging, noble work

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Elite: Dangerous is a game where people get excited about docking. And they should be, because docking with a space station is an involved, exciting process. It’s not as hard as it was back through the mists of time, when you’d never make it without a docking computer, but it still requires that you stay alert. 

Especially if you’re smuggling illicit goods. 

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League of Legends hits 4.15 and another champion, Azir, is on its way

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Riot has been busy lately. With 4.15, the League of Legends developer has buffed newcomer - and Gremlin - Gnar, introduced the new Master Tier and improved the client patcher. And, in an effort to minimise the eventual Summoner’s Rift update, some of the finished parts are being patched into the live game. 

A new champion’s been revealed to boot: Azir, the Emperor of the Sands. He’s a snazzy-looking mage with a heavy Egyptian vibe. 

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The Sims 4 recommended system requirements: can you reticulate the splines?

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EA revealed the minimum system requirements for The Sims 4 last month, which were comfortably low so that few rigs couldn’t handle it, and now the recommended requirements have snuck their way into the FAQ. 

While not exceedingly demanding, they are quite a bit higher than the minimum specs, and will likely leave anyone with a PC that’s more than a few years old struggling a little bit. 

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Dragon Age: Inquisition – Five New Screenshots Released, New Gameplay Trailer Released

EA hope to make $1 billion from DLC this year

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As your newspaper-reading relatives have no doubt informed you by now, these videogames sure do make people a lot of money. And they do. But what your relatives don't know yet is how much the invisible bits tacked onto games make for those same people.

First, Black Ops II DLC make Activision as much money as they’d expect from a standalone, best-selling game. Now, EA expect to take $1 billion in DLC revenue from their 2014 roster of games.

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British geologists fill the gaps in Ordnance Survey's Minecraft Great Britain

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An awful lot of comprehensive geographical, topographical and geological data about Great Britain has been compiled and compressed on computers. And for decades, nobody knew quite what it was for. Some vaguely recalled that we started mapping in the wake of the Jacobite Rebellion, but that no longer seemed particularly relevant.

Then, with a collective sigh of academic relief, we hit upon the reason: it was all necessary to create an accurate replica of the British landmass in Minecraft. Inspired by the Ordnance Survey’s Minecraft map of Great Britain’s mounds and motorways, the British Geological Survey have recreated the real geology beneath the surface - right down to the bedrock.

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SimCity modders do what Maxis couldn't: expand its maximum city size

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Is SimCity finally fixed? The server fires that hobbled Maxis’ game at launch were put out and, many months later, we got our much-coveted SimCity offline mode. Now we might even see an end to that third great quibble with the rebooted city builder: its claustrophobic city limits.

Project Orion is a mod already published in beta which pushes back those boundaries - with a few, heavy compromises.

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Watch Blizzard explain the Diablo III ladder system new in Reaper of Souls 2.1

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Diablo III is unprecedented, which is an odd thing to say about a sequel to anything. But it is: an action RPG with the post-release support of an MMO. That means it’s warped into a substantially better game since it was first, briefly finished two summers ago - and even now, after its wildly successful Reaper of Souls expansion, the game grows.

Over the course of a seven-minute video, Blizzard rummage through the new junk in Diablo III’s trunk.

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CCP rework wormholes in Eve Online's third mini-expansion: Hyperion

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The appeal of a wormhole is its mystery: what will you find when you come out of the other end, if you come out at all? But Eve players have had wormholes for yonks, and nowadays publish guides about the best wormholes to live in.

Yesterday’s Hyperion update is CCP’s attempt to inject a little of the unknown back into wormholes and their space game at large.

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GOG grows: now there's optional regional pricing and DRM-free movies

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GOG has gone through a dramatic change today. There are new appendages sticking out of its torso, which might be a bit shocking, but don’t worry, it’s not a freak mutation. 

Regional pricing, which was planned and subsequently scrapped earlier this year, has returned, but in an entirely optional format. And the DRM-free platform is attempting to beat Steam to the punch when it comes to movies, offering 21 films - documentaries, all - about our funny old industry. 

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There was an Elite musical co-written by Ian Bell's brother. You can read the whole thing online now

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Hidden in plain sight on Elite co-creator Ian Bell's homepage is a semi-complete Elite musical, with tunes from the developer's brother Aidan Bell and lyrics by writer Brian Phillips. The musical, which as far as I can tell never entered production, is simply titled Elite: The Musical — The Elite Musical and it's brilliant. It's about some space folks who head off into the stars in pursuit of a notorious pirate, with unexpected twists and turns along the way.

You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll damn the cruel universe that did not allow this to reach the West End. There's a plot synopsis if you'd rather not try to guess how all the songs work, but otherwise, here are some of the best bits.

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Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut turns the expansion into a standalone next month

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While Shadowrun Returns did a lot of things very well, particularly in the writing, it didn’t quite offer the freedom that its tabletop forebearer was known for. Its expansion, Dragonfall - a proper expansion like the ones found in ye olden tymes - made strong moves in that direction though. A big hub to explore, lots of optional quests, a proper cast of party members who don’t mind a bit of a gab - it was quite the improvement. 

And now soon you’ll be able to pick it up as a standalone. Shadowrun: Dragonfall Director’s Cut will come with the expansion’s campaign, five new missions and a slew of changes and new features that might even make it worth dipping in a second time. It’s free if you own the expansion already, too. 

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StarCrawlers makes dungeons out of spaceships

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Despite its apparent heyday being far behind us, there does seem to be a healthy number of modern first-person dungeon crawlers around. Surprisingly, many of them are handheld games, but on PC we’ve not been left out in the cold. Legend of Grimrock and Might & Magic X are the most notable ones, but there’s StarCrawlers, too, and it looks rather promising. And the dungeons are spaceships rather than crumbling ruins and dark caves, which is definitely a welcome shift.

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Supply drops are how you gear up in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare multiplayer

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Acquiring futuristic killing tools and bulky armour that makes you look a wee bit like a robot is one of the ways future soldier sorts will be progressing through Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’s multiplayer modes. What’s the point of going to war unless there’s loot at the end? 

Direct your eyes below, where Sledgehammer Games’ Michael Condrey gives up the skinny on the shooters supply drop system. 

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Quake Live gets a massive, newcomer-friendly update in anticipation of the Steam launch

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When free, browser-based Quake Live was announced for Steam back at QuakeCon, bringing with it changes and new features, details on what these changes would actually be were sparse. But now the curtain has been lifted, and a hefty update has been applied to the game to get it ready for what the team no doubt hopes will be an influx of new players when it launches on Steam. 

Most of the changes are built around the team’s goal to broaden its appeal, making it more welcoming to newcomers. This includes things like letting players select their loadout - their primary and secondary weapons - and scrapping gun-specific ammo packs for global ones. 

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Magicmaker trailer shows build-your-own spell system, customisable wizards

An email comes in for 2D RPG-platformer Magicmaker. In it appear phrases like "total wizard customization," and "poisonous exploding suns". Also a number: 2,193,360. That, according to developer Tasty Stewdios, is how many spell combinations you can potentially craft in game. Naturally, I am powerless to resist.

Steam client beta update enables simultaneous game installs

 

Andy Chalk at 06:14 on 28 August 2014

A recent update to the Steam client beta has made it a whole lot easier to install multiple games at the same time.

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Gauntlet reboot delayed, but only slightly

 

Andy Chalk at 07:15 on 28 August 2014

Remember Gauntlet? Not the arcade stand-up that made such a splash in the 1980s, but the reboot that was announced earlier this year. It was intended to be out on September 3, but that's not going to happen; fortunately, the delay is only a short one, and in the meantime there's a flashy new trailer to look at.

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Do you guys think it will be worth it to save up for a 780ti or should I stick with my 680 lightning and wait for the inevitable 800 series?

Might as well wait, October isn't that far off. Tho there likely won't be an actual 780 Ti replacement for a while. 880 should get close to the performance for a lot less money.