Rumor – Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes Hits Steam On December 18th

So, will the new president of Microsoft be like the others, or will he be like them?

If he's like them, DX12 will be Win10 only, if (by some magical trick) he's not like them then DX12 will also launch for Win8 and maybe, maybe Win7.

But I think it will be Win10 only.

Bomb scare at Gearbox HQ; "someone is out of control" says CEO Randy Pitchford

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CEO of Gearbox Software, Randy Pitchford, revealed on Twitter that Gearbox HQ was the victim of a bomb scare yesterday. Plano Police Department sent out a response of police officers and bomb removal squad to deal with the possible threat, including a nifty robot. Thankfully, no evidence of a bomb was found, and staff could quickly return to the HQ safely.

Claptrap would be proud.

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Meet the life cycle of your typical bug in Planetside 2

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We all hate bugs, and Planetside 2 developers Sony Entertainment Online are no different. They’ve released a video detailing the process of finding, fixing and squashing them; all within the representation of bugs everyday life.

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Steam Halloween Sales kicks off on October 30th according to leaked dev post

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A leaked post to developers from Valve has revealed the start date of this year’s Halloween Sale. The sale is scheduled on Halloween weekend, between October 30th and November 3rd, naturally. Any games that “fit into the general Halloween theme” can participate, including those with the appropriate themed tags.

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Firefall devs plan for revenge in the "final chosen offensive" event tomorrow

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You’ve gone and done it now. Developers of FPS-MMO, Firefall, are out for blood tomorrow as they try and get their own back, after last weeks defeat at the hands of the players. The “Chosen Offensive” event is simple really: players vs the almighty developers as they attack the most popular outposts in all Accord-owned territories.

Tomorrow is the final event, and the developers will be out in full force in the form of powerful Chosen bosses. Slay them and you'll be rewarded for your war efforts.

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We're prepared: Battle.net launcher update adds Warcraft III icons and background

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An update to Blizzard's Battle.net launcher has revealed some behind the scenes support for legendary strategy game, Warcraft III. Icons, backgrounds and logos are now locked within the launcher, primed and ready for use.

It was mentioned at Blizzcon 2013 that Blizzard had a small team working on updating the old Warcraft RTS games to work on present day Windows.

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ArenaNet want your ideas on how raiding should work in Guild Wars 2

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Last week, ArenaNet was spotted looking for a new game designer for “raid content”. Today, a forum post by studio design direction, Chris Whiteside, has confirmed that ArenaNet have their thinking hat on about bringing raids to Guild Wars 2. What’s more, is that they want your ideas too.

“Just wanted to let you know that we will be discussing raiding in the next phase of the Guild CDI.”

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Crusader King 2 Charlemagne expansion is arriving on October 14th

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The new Charlemagne expansion Crusader Kings 2 is due sooner than you think: October 14th to be precise. You’ll get another 100 years to play with, among other features such as new kingdoms, characters and events.

We’ve got a new developer diary so you can get up to speed before the expansion hits in just a little over a weeks time.

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Dragon Age: Inquisition – Two New Screenshots Released

Formula Fusion – Spiritual Successor To Wipeout – Officially Announced, Early Access Version In June 2015

8 Games Ltd and The Designers Republic announced today that they will be joining forces to develop a newspiritual successor to Wipeout; Formula Fusion. Combining decades of development and design expertise, Formula Fusion aims to represent the next big leap forward for the genre onto next gen consoles. Continue reading →

 

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Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare – New Screenshots In All Their 4K Glory

October 6, 2014 John Papadopoulos 10 Comments

Activision has released a new set of screenshots for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, and below you can view them in their 4K glory (two of them were only available at 1080p, but still). Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is currently planned for a November release, and those who pre-purchase the game’s Day Zero Edition will have a 24-hour early access to the game starting November 3rd. Enjoy! Continue reading →

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Launch Trailers Released For Alien: Isolation & Styx: Master Of Shadows

October 6, 2014 John Papadopoulos 0 Comments

SEGA and Focus Home Interactive have released the launch trailers for Alien: Isolation and Styx: Master Of Shadows, respectively. Both Alien: Isolation and Styx: Master Of Shadows release on the same day (October 7th). And if that wasn’t enough, Crytek’s Ryse releases three days afterwards. October and November will be busy months, so get ready for lots of games. Enjoy! Continue reading →

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CD Projekt RED Reassures Fans That There Won’t Be A Downgrade For The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

October 6, 2014 John Papadopoulos 3 Comments

A couple of days ago, we shared with you some new images for The Witcher 3. Apparently, those shots were not as mind-blowing as previous screenshots and some people began suggesting that the game has been already downgraded. Therefore, CDPR felt the need to clarify things, and claimed that the final version won’t be downgraded visually in any possible way. Continue reading →

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MGS V: Ground Zeroes Hits Steam On December 18th, Will Pack Superior Graphics, 4K Support Confirmed

October 6, 2014 John Papadopoulos 4 Comments

Konami has officially announced today that it will release the PC version of METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES via Steam on December 18th. The company also confirmed it will be 4K compatible and will feature an increase in the number of simultaneous light sources, the number of models that can be displayed on-screen and increased shadow resolution. Continue reading →

One of Warlords of Draenor's eight new dungeons will arrive early

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Every copy of Warlords of Draenor comes with a single character boost - enough juice to have you wearing that level cap sideways with the cool kids, you might think. But just as you hit level 90 on November 13, the game will push back the limit another ten levels.

You’ll need to find another way to scale those final ranks. Enter four new WoW level-up dungeons - and beyond those, another four max-level dungeons, including one that'll arrive early.

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive pros will grapple for $250,000 at DreamHack Winter

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Valve announced plans this weekend for a $250,000 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive prize pool at DreamHack Winter 2014. The Swedish eSports and LAN organisation’s Jönköping flagship event will welcome eight quarter-finalists from ESL One Cologne, plus eight teams yet to be decided by regional qualifiers.

This will be the fourth $250,000 CS:GO Major prize pool offered in the space of a year - rounding off a total $1 million awarded to CS pros since last November’s DreamHack SteelSeries Championship.

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Football Manager documentary screenings are one-night-only - and selling out

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Football Manager isn’t just the sim for PC users whose gaming education began and ended with Encarta. It’s the reliable biscuit base of male existence in the UK, where the game has spawned books, stand-up shows, and now a documentary.

An Alternative Reality will be shown in 35 cinemas in the UK and Ireland tomorrow evening - and via 47 broadcasters across the world.

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Sledgehammer ripped apart, "rebuilt" Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare maps for double jump

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What has an extra year in development done for the latest Call of Duty, Advanced Warfare? Well: it’s ensured we haven’t been lumbered with a load of maps ill-built for its boost-jumping exo-soldiers, for one thing.

It took new CoD custodians Sledgehammer two years to get their multiplayer spaces right. The studio set out to design traditional CoD maps - but came to a realisation when double jump became the game’s standout mechanic:

“Oh, they can get on the roof.”

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The uneasy brilliance of This War of Mine

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For a while, This War of Mine felt like a refugee tycoon game. I’d scavenged enough medicine to make sure everyone was healthy. My characters had warm, dry beds and freshly-cooked food. Suddenly, war didn’t seem so scary. This siege was turning into an adventure in self-reliance, a kind of wartime Walden.

Then I couldn’t find food for two nights in a row, and some thugs came to our hideout and hurt Pawel before stealing our supplies. Once again we needed medicine we didn’t have. The food ran out and suddenly everyone was tired and slowly starving.

That’s why I found myself breaking into another family’s home one rainy night, to steal food and medicine from another group of people not unlike my own. My scavenger, Katia, got caught rummaging through their kitchen.

There wasn’t time to think. I just want straight at this middle-aged husband and father and started kicking the shit out of him. “Why are you doing this to us?” he pleaded.

Because my people were going hungry, and I was out of options. It was them or us.

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Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare's new multiplayer mode is basketball with jetpacks

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A part of me was all Call of Dutied out, I admit. A very big part of me. From my thighs downwards, for example, had simply had enough of Call of Duty. All of my right arm had given up after Modern Warfare 2. Entire portions of my face struggled to register any enthusiasm for Black Ops. Largely speaking I had ceased being able to care about Call of Duty, the most popular shootyman videogame in the world.

But hey, this one. This one has Kevin Spacey hovering in the corner of your screen telling you to rescue Nigerian prime ministers. This one has double jumps and exo-suits, and a development studio that's been given time (three years) and space (erm, I don't know, something the size of a football pitch I suppose) to make something good.

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare isn't just a new Call of Duty game I will download. It's a new Call of Duty game I will download and then probably play. It's that exciting.

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WildStar cancels Christmas

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Christmas or the winter holidays or whatever you want to call it is still a long way off, but Carbine Studios has deflated festive anticipation early this year by cancelling the celebrations in WildStar. Halloween’s been struck by the same bullet. 

Content designer Kristen "Caydiem" DeMeza took to the forums to explain why the Grinch and whatever his Halloween counterpart is called were unleashed on Nexus. 

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Stark Revan mad: The Old Republic's next expansion has been revealed

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Star Wars: The Old Republic’s getting another expansion, and it’s all about Knights of the Old Republic’s Revan - who’s popped up a few times in the MMO, along with the delightful HK-41, but hasn’t been focused on until now. 

Shadow of Revan pits both Republic and Imperial forces again the titular villain-turned-hero-turned-villain-again. He’s put together an army of loopy Revanites with one goal: demolish both factions and probably other megalomaniacal stuff. 

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Ubisoft has parked The Crew until December 2nd

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Ubisoft’s absurd release schedule, which was going to see The Crew, Assassin’s Creed Unity and Far Cry 4 all release not only in the same month, but within a week of each other, has become a wee bit more sensible. 

Unity and Far Cry 4 will still arrive on the 13th and 18th of November, respectively, but The Crew has been pushed back to December 2nd.

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Family Misfortunes: Children Of Morta

By Adam Smith on October 6th, 2014 at 8:00 pm.

Children of Morta is attractive in a way that few games manage to be. You might think it’s going to be a retro pixel art thing at first but then you see the animations, you see how every single one is packed with more frames than an entire NES cartridge. There’s hardly any information about what the game is on the official site but it was described to me as a ‘narrative-based roguelike’. As well as looking the part, it appears to have a family-based class system, nifty hacking and slashing, and rad birthday parties, complete with cake and jiving. All of that is present and correct in the video below.

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Epic Mickey 2 leads parade of Disney games onto Steam

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You probably haven’t given much thought to Disney Interactive as a PC publisher lately. It’d be a bit odd if you had - they shut down Warren Spector’s Junction Point just after Christmas, and have since pumped out two Where’s My Water? sequels.

But that back catalogue is not to be sniffed at, and a big chunk of it just landed on Steam in one big, snow-off-the-roof thwump.

Epic Mickey 2 gets its first international PC release alongside Black Rock racer Split/Second, family-friendly MMO Disney Universe, and Steam versions of 18 other Disney games.

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StarCraft II WCS Global Finals tickets go on sale today

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In exactly a month, a news post with a header image quite a lot like this one will let you know that the last leg of the StarCraft II WCS finals have started, and you should already be in your computer chair with your player reference tabs and family-size bag of jelly babies open.

But today is your chance to alter that timeline a little. Buy an arena ticket this evening and you could be at the Anaheim Convention Center in California on November 7 and 8, cheering on the oblivious pros sat in their tiny, noise-cancelled booths.

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Massive Chalice Steam beta open to some from October 21

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Once upon a time, a game named Massive Chalice was Kickstarted to the tune of $1,229,015.

Double Fine’s community capital might have diminished a little in the wake of Spacebase DF-9’s early exit and the overscoping of Broken Age - but that second Kickstarter win remains a very compelling turn-based tactics concept in the hands of a deeply capable studio. So it’s a pleasure to know it’ll be on Steam in some form by the end of the month - even if access is fairly tightly restricted for now.

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Australian consumer rights regulator sues Valve over Steam refund policy

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Valve’s refund policy is easily summarised: they don’t do ‘em. And while they have been known to reach into their own pockets to recompense, for instance, Earth: Year 2066 players, the blanket ban has often rubbed consumer watchdogs the wrong way - so that all their watchdoghair stands on end.

Enter the Australian Competition and Consumer Authority, who last week began proceedings in the country’s federal court against Valve. They allege that Valve have made “false or misleading representations” to their Australian customers.

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Planetary Annihilation update switches on offline LAN

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LAN’s been a staple of RTS games since Warcraft. Beating your friends over the web is fine but nothing beats seeing their panic as your troops overwhelm their poorly built defenses. Till now Planetary Annihilation’s missed that joy.

However, this week sees the launch of offline LAN multiplayer.

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Hints of Warcraft 3 remake spotted in Battle.Net launcher

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During Blizzcon 2013, World of Warcraft production director J. Allen Brack revealed that a small team was working on updating the old Warcraft games to run on modern PCs. The first hints of these updates might have been spotted in a recent Battle.Net Launcher update.

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"Every star in the night sky exists in Elite: Dangerous" — Braben on recreating a galaxy all over again

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Last week Elite: Dangerous reached a milestone update, boosting the number of star systems by about a factor of ten, introducing new weapons, stations and planetary rings made of massive chunks of floating ice. With the ever expanding galaxy map comes the option to explore and scan distant frontier worlds for profit, with mapmakers now racing across the sky to be the first to log their findings with the board of stellar cartography. It's all terribly exciting.

I sat down with David Braben to discuss how Beta 2 is unfolding, what all this extra space means for players, when we can expect to start landing on planets and astronomy in general. Lovely, lovely astronomy. You can read our conversation below. And here's why Elite matters.

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Broforce's Bro-ctober update gives power to the masses with Steam Workshop support

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Hyper-hectic carnage and freedom simulator Broforce has just been struck with a new Early Access update, and it’s a big ‘un. New bros, more missions, a whole new region to blow up in the name of America and Steam Workshop support have been chucked into the game. Brodical. 

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The return of Heroes of the Storm's technical alpha will introduce custom games, observer mode and replays

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Update: The technical alpha is live once more.

Heroes of the Storm’s technical alpha took a break last week, but it’s set to return soon with a whole bunch of new features that Blizzard want players to put through their paces. Today, the studio introduces three big ones: custom games, observer mode and replays. 

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League of Legends' Sion has been taken apart and put back together again

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I like to think that there’s a retirement home for old League of Legends characters, where they are tossed when new and improved versions get added to the game. Sion’s probably in there, confusing his fellow residents by being a gigantic mage with an axe and smelling of rotting flesh. He’s in there because Riot have put together a new Sion, an unstoppable undead general. 

The new version of the old champion was revealed a couple of weeks ago, and now you can take a look at him in action with the latest Champion Spotlight. 

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Costume Quest 2 launches today, pitting time-travelling scamps against an evil dentist from the future

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The last time I checked, Double Fine’s Halloween-themed Costume Quest 2 was set to launch some time in October, but what day it would pop into existence wasn’t clear. It turns out that day is today, October 7th. 

You can now reacquaint yourselves with the precocious duo of Wren and Reynold as they once again attempt to save Halloween, but this time in the future. Expect time travel, evil dentists and costumes that are more than meets the eye. 

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The Black Glove, ex-BioShock devs' surreal narrative game, gets a Kickstarter

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After Ken Levine decided to “wind down” Irrational Games, a bunch of BioShock and BioShock Infinite devs banded together to create Day For Night Games and their first project, The Black Glove. Announced earlier this year, The Black Glove sounded like a tantalising game, where players are called on to alter the pasts of three artists in attempt to improve their works in the future. 

Unsurprisingly, it’s ended up on Kickstarter. A strong pitch reveals more about the game, and I find my interest piqued even more, where experimentation, art and even arcade games have been squeezed together to create something utterly bizarre. 

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Resident Evil Remaster HD – Gameplay Footage From Current-Gen Version Unveiled