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Of course lol, I really should buy at least one of Carpe Fulgur's projects before it goes on sale. Considering how much I liked the others lol. Plus TitS how can I say no to that....
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Dark Age of Camelot has turned 12 years ago, and the MMORPG is celebrating the anniversary with a bonus event and a retrospective written by Mythic co-founder Rob Denton. The list of celebratory bonuses include various XP gained in both PvP and PvE, crafting speed bonuses, and more anniversary goodies are planned so keep an eye out for those here. You can also read Denton’s retrospective through the link. Thanks, TenTonHammer.
EVE Online will be getting a four-part series of graphic novels titled EVE: True Stories. It will contain artwork from artists who worked on 28 Days Later, Daredevil Noir, Star Wars: The Old Republic and more. Wolverine: Origins writer Daniel Way will be penning the story which is based on actual player events from the EVE universe starting with the fall of the Band of Brothers in 2009. The first issue will be available on February 19, and it will run through April. A hardback anthology of the series will release on June 4. A guide for EVE Online and DUST 514 will also be released called EVE: Source and will release on March 5. Thanks, Shack.
DICE is interested in developing for Linux, and feels the OS need only one “killer” game for the platform to become mainstream.
Zen Studios announced during New York Comic Con 2013 today that a Doctor Strange Pinball table will be made available for Marvel Pinball in December.
Although its presented like a real commercial, this Star Citizen trailer introducing the 2944 Aurora does a great job of showing off how many options players have to customise their ship even within just one product line.
As you may have noticed, the OS-X version of The Wolf Among Us: Episode One did not release this weekend alongside the PC and Xbox 360 launch. According to an update on the Telltale Games forums, the Mac version ran into an “unforeseen issue” but the developer is working on update and expects it to go live “within the next few days”. That’s also the release window we got for the PlayStation 3 version, which presumably means in this week’s network update. The Wolf Among Us is an interpretation of comic series Fables from the team behind The Walking Dead.
League of Legends developer Riot Games has a completed but unreleased card game on the backburner, according to materials leaked by a hacker.
Natural Selection 2 developer Unknown Worlds has given its blessing to a crowdfunding campaign for an official international tournament.
Pretend you’ve been around League of Legends for a lot longer than your weak ladder standing suggests by snapping up some vintage Limited Edition skins.
Broken Glass Studios has announced that its homage to Thief, The Dark Mod, is now a completely standalone stealth game, meaning you no longer need Doom 3 to play it.
With Stalker 2 now a distant pipe dream we need to look elsewhere for our toxic environment survival fix. Wasteland 2 will cater to the folk that like it in an RPG flavour but what about the first-person gamers out there?
Raindrop should fill that need. It’ll even let you hunt down a friend for good measure.
Teleglitch is a terrifying game. It’s essentially a top-down Doom-like roguelike where you can craft your own weapons. You’re always low on ammo and an inch from death. The new DLC may provide comfort but the comfort is a lie, the new guns won’t stop you from dying. A lot.
We knew Towerfall was on its way to PC. It was originally due out later this year but that plan’s had to change. Instead, the game is now due for a January 2014 release.
The reason for the delay in the PC release is because developer Matt Thorson is working on a huge batch of new content for the game. There’s two new archers and five new towers for a start.
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That raindrop trailer looks good (it's nice to see "my" legs on a FP game), but it shows no real gameplay at all :-/.
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Batman: Arkham Origins just had another assassin reveal over at New York Comic-Con during the weekend, and members of the audience have snapped it on their phones. Watch it here.
Football Manager 2014 developer Sports Interactive has posted a new dev diary that shows the game’s match engine in action.
Dragon Age: Inquisition will once-again allow players to forge romantic relationships with other party members, but this time BioWare is binning the lace pants in favour of something more realistic and tasteful.
The Walking Dead: Season Two developer TellTale Games has teased big news regarding the new season later this month.
Nosgoth publisher Square Enix has announced that the closed alpha trial for its Legacy of Kain off-shoot will start rolling out certain territories next week.
For a while there it looked like The Long Dark would never return from the wilds of Kickstarter - an accidental Captain Oates in the face of crowdfunding (or perhaps just wallet) fatigue. But enough backers have now claimed a future copy of the survivalism sim to guarantee that it won’t itself be claimed by gangrene or frostbite. Hinterland hit their $200,000 CAD goal over the weekend - and the game has its sights set on higher peaks.
By Craig Pearson on October 14th, 2013 at 12:00 pm.
There was always going to be a catch when I finally got my hands on X Rebirth. On the evidence of the previous games, I’d need about a week to get myself settled comfortably in the cockpit of Egosoft’s vast space sim, and I was never going to get that. The demo that was sent to me was the Gamescom floor demo, and it wasn’t set up for the sort of game X is. It was ten minutes long. I can’t say I got a true understanding of what it’s like to play Rebirth, but I still managed to explore a little, and discovered that there’s a lot you can do in an open-world in ten minutes.
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Maxim Kalyuzhny and Artem Bochkarev talk to TPG about their experiences developing the new Match 3 game, The Snow.
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Watch Dogs has been delayed into spring 2014, Ubisoft announced today, along with a delay for The Crew, it’s open-world racer. Due to the delays, the firm has revised its financial expectations for fiscal year 2014.
The Scrambled Continents map pack for Civilization 5 has been released. It includes real geographic locations with special scripts that produce randomized interiors each time a new game begins. While geography stays constant, the inner part of the world changes each time you play, giving you many plausible worlds. Maps include: Africa, Eastern Asia, North and South America, Western Europe, the Middle East, a thawed Antarctica, new scripted maps for Small Continents and Oceania, plus one map including all of Earth’s continents. You can download it through Steam now for $4.99.
Extraction’s closed beta has launched, Splash Damage and Nexon America have announced. Originally known as “Dirty Bomb”, the closed beta for the online multiplayer shooter has limited openings, so only a select number of players will be able to participate. Notifications should be in your inbox if you have signed up, but more will be sent out in waves, so don’t despair. Testers will be helping out with stability and balancing.
Star Wars: Battlefront is a dream project for Battlefield developer DICE – but also something of a nightmare, because “you can only screw up”, apparently.
Deadly Premonition finally makes the jump to PC at the end of the month, more than three and a half years after the cult horror classic’s Xbox 360 exclusive debut. Steam has opened pre-orders, which will save you 10% on the $25 ticket price. This latest re-release includes all the extras from the recent PS3 Director’s Cut as well as new material not found in any other version.
The base World of Warcraft game package now includes second-most-recent expansion Cataclysm at no extra cost. Previously called the Battle Chest, the pack includes the original release plus early expansions The Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King as well as the world-changing Cataclysm, and has a North American RRP of $20 – not bad when you consider the MMORPG is free-to-play to level 20, although you’ll probably want to shell out for latest add-on Mists of Pandaria, too. All features from the first three expansions are now free to all subscribers at no extra cost. You’ll be able to pick up the new pack in stores soon, or you can grab it directly from Blizzard’s store immediately.
Ubisoft has admitted that couple of key current-gen titles have under-performed, contributing to revised financial forecasts issued earlier today.
The final chapter in Daedalic’s award-winning adventure series Deponia drops this week; here’s a launch trailer to celebrate.
Today’s something of an historic occasion; Zynga has released its first game on Steam. Solstice Arena is a free-to-play MOBA also available for iDevice, developed by A Bit Lucky, which Zynga acquired last year. It was nominated for a Unity Award for Best Gameplay and Community Choice this year. A Zynga game! On Steam! Madness, chaos, cats lying down with dogs, et cetera.
Harebrained Schemes hasn’t stopped working on Shadowrun Returns since its release a few months back; the latest update will add Linux compatability and a swathe of preview features.
Panzer General Online has gone into closed beta; if you’re keen to check out the free-to-play version of the long-running PC series, register now. Co-developed by Ubisoft Blue Byte and Funatics Software, Panzer General Online boasts tactical battles and card collecting in your browser. It has both a single-player campaign and several multiplayer modes, and battles are set in historic clashes such as Monte Casino and the Battle of the Bulge.'
How to Survive puts players on a zombie-infested island, but as the title suggests it doesn’t just leave you to your own devices, providing useful advice on how to stay alive. This gameplay trailer presents “Kovac’s Rules”, which are a good start to your quest to secure food, water and shelter.
League of Legends developer Riot Games has announced a new Team Builder queue that lets players queue up certain champions and strategies, with a view to slotting people into teams that best compliment their set-up.
Rakuen is the brainchild of Laura Shigihara, composer of Plants Vs Zombies, To The Moon and World of Warcraft. It’s a PC adventure title that has seen Shighara handle almost every aspect of development.
The Witness, and open-world puzzler from Thekla Inc.’s Jonathan Blow, will not force you onto a linear path, according to the developer.
Football Manager 2014 is now available through Early Access Beta through Steam to anyone who pre-ordered the title. The beta is fully playable and contains the main career mode and Football Manager Classic. Careers started in the Beta version can be continued once the finished game is installed. The Early Access Beta version of Football Manager 2014 will be playable until the Monday after release, November 4. The game releases on October 31.
Valve has greenlit another batch of 37 titles through Steam Greenlight, which will be offered via worldwide distribution through Steam.
Fight fire with fire in this new DLC pack for The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing, which puts the power of weird science at your fingertips thanks to an all new class.
Thief will no longer make use of an experience points system, Eidos Montreal has confirmed, after series fans made their opinion on the matter loud and clear.
One of the joys of FTL was that it was one of the few games that put your crew front and centre. When it came to battles, your attention was on maintaining the ship’s subsystems not flying about the vastness of space. The Mandate taps into a similar micromangement vein but under the umbrella of an RPG.
You think internet commenters put Ubisoft through the wringer for delaying Watch Dogs? You should’ve heard the phone voices that pay their bills. Investors hounded the French publisher this morning to account for drops in their income prediction - and one did his level best to persuade CEO Yves Guillemot to cut funding to Ubi’s new ideas squads for the next year.
But to their credit, Ubi stood strong.
One of the game’s developed by Double Fine during last year’s Amnesia Fortnight was a god game where you’d build your own space station. Now Spacebase DF-9’s being released as a fully-fledged standalone game and you can buy yourself early access to get playing the thing now.
By way of celebrating its 20th birthday, Stardock has announced Galactic Civilizations III. According to the press release, the follow up to 2006’s sandbox galaxy game adds “new features including multiplayer, political intrigue, vastly improved visuals.” That’s right, the developers have made intrigue.
More importantly the game allows modding.
You've probably done this in XCOM: quicksaved before a risky 10% chance to hit shot, missed, guiltily quickloaded to before you took the shot and tried again. Except it doesn't work. XCOM cleverly saves the seed of its random number generator after every turn, meaning that you'll always get the same result even if you reload a previous save game. There are loopholes of course. You can reload and force the enemy AI to take the same crappy shot you would have taken, knowing that their dice roll will miss and your next one will probably succeed.
In XCOM: Enemy Within, Firaxis are extending an olive branch to these players. The developer has cottoned on to this manipulation of fate and chance and implemented a new menu option for players whose F9 buttons are worn down. It's called 'Save Scum', and it lets you play quicksave god.
By Graham Smith on October 16th, 2013 at 12:00 pm.
Michael Dailly created Grand Theft Auto and Lemmings in his time at DMA Design, and is now Head of Development at YoYo Games, the company responsible for entry-level game creation tool Game Maker. To help illustrate the power of Game Maker: Studio, the modern version of that tool, he’s doing something cool. As reported by USGamer, he’s re-building the world of Grand Theft Auto 1 in it, in 3D.
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By Adam Smith on October 16th, 2013 at 11:00 am.
If turn-based strategy games tickle your fancy and you’ve never heard of the Dominions series, it might be best to turn away now. That is if you don’t want to spend the next couple of days poring over a hefty manual, the next couple creating a succession of pretender gods, and the following weeks and months attempting to ascend to a Position of Ultimate Power. I dabbled briefly with Dominions 3 but since the release of the fourth instalment a few days ago, I’ve lost most of my self to the game. I’ll write much more as soon as I’ve managed to win the game while playing as a totem pole, but for now, I shall compile a brief list of reasons as to why you may be interested, whether you’ve played Dominions 3 or not.
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The Mandate looks interesting, I hope they make their goal.
About Galactic Civilizations, I haven't played the first 2, but I'll keep an eye on this one. Is it comparable, gameplay wise, to Sid Meier's Civilization?
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Kerbal Space Program developer Squad has released a new 0.22 update that adds career mode into the mix, and more. The studio has released a charming new trailer and some gameplay footage to mark the occasion.
Windows 8.1 is being rolled out across the world today. Consider this your friendly reminder people.
Daedalic Entertainment has delayed its grim fantasy, turn based strategy RPG Blackguards into January. The game, based on the German role-playing game The Dark Eye, needs some extra time so it will shine, and to “ensure the highest quality,” said senior producer Kai Fiebig. Blackguards will now be available January 2014 for PC. A set of screenshots are below.
Hearthstone’s doing a decent job of ruining Pat’s life. Find out why inside. Nearly 30 minutes of gameplay video from the beta included.
The Elder Scrolls Online has a character customization video available in which art director Jared Carr demonstrates the system for you. It looks rather robust and is full of options. Hopefully this means there won’t be too many doppelgangers running around. Watch below. The MMO hits PC, PS4 and Xbox One in 2014.
Tale of Tales has announced its latest game, Luxuria Superbia, will be released on November 5 for iPad, Android tablets, Ouya, Mac and PC.
Blizzard All-Stars has been renamed Heroes of the Storm, Blizzard has announced. A trademark for the name popped up last month. BlizzCon will contain new information on the MOBA and there is a trailer below. BlizzCon takes place November 8-9. Via Polygon.
Contary to popular tabloid beliefs, sometimes we play violent games and think “Boy, I’m glad I don’t have to do this in real life”. The original Call of Duty’s Starlingrad mission springs to mind. Despite the fact we’d never want to go to war though, we won’t mind if your development team strives as much as it can to make virtual war as realistic as possible. That’s what Gaijin Entertainment has been doing for War Thunder. They’ve strapped a bunch of microphones to a load of WW2 era tanks to record every squeak, tick and roar. All in the name of historiacal authenticity.
War of the Vikings, from those who forged War of the Roses, is currently in Early Access over yonder on Steam. A new content patch for the early build is adding three new profile classes to use in combat, including a fearsome Champion.
Total War: Rome II is getting better - and not even ‘buy in the Steam Christmas Sale’ better. If the patch notes of the recent flurry of weekly updates are anything to go by, it’s already significantly closer to being the game players had hoped it would be.
Tomorrow’s patch will bring new, free DLC to the game and Creative Assembly’s “next major step towards mod support”. Beyond that, the Total War series will enjoy a path of post-release betterment it never has before.
There are five people in Riot’s e-commerce squad. Most have backgrounds in money maths, but all are “hardcore” LoL players who find time for at least one match a day. It transpires that the same balance informs their approach to business.
“A lot of our features are about player value,” they explain. “So we try to maximize things that help players and help Riot.”
PC-based computer game State of Decay for Windows will likely grow the necessary protrusions to support keyboards and mice by the end of the week - a month after its alpha release via Steam Early Access.
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All Stardock titles are 50-75% off this weekend on Steam to celebrate the developer’s 20th Anniversary. Titles on sale include: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes, Galactic Civilizations 2, Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity, Fallen Enchantress, Galactic Civilizations Ultimate, Demigod, and The Political Machine 2012. Hit up Steam for more details.
Obduction, is an adventure game on Kickstarter from Cyan, Inc., the creators of Myst and Riven which is in need of $1.1 million to develop the title.
The Stanley Parable releases today on Steam and you can watch the launch trailer below. The game began life as a Half-Life mod and was greenlit by Valve through Steam Greenlight a year ago. You can get 20% off the game until October 23.
EverQuest Landmark pre-alpha shots of a keep built using the game’s voxel tools have been posted by the game’s director of development David Georgeson on Twitter. The free-to-play title ties into EverQuest Next and the games will share the same combat system mechanics and emergent AI system -only the latter may not be used in the same manner in Landmark. Combat won’t be available in Landmark at launch but till be released soon afterward. EverQuest Next and the free-to-play Landmark have not been dated. Shots are below. Thanks, Erthazus.
The UK government has selected online retailer Green Man Gaming and Moshi Monsters developer Mind Candy for inclusion in its Future Fifty list. According to MCV, the list is designed to help upcoming companies towards an initial public offering by matching them with financial incentives and services appropriate to their status. To qualify, companies must have an annual net revenue with a run-rate of at least £10m over the coming year, and have increased net revenue by at east 30% year-on-year in the last two years. Congratulations to both companies on this acknowledgment of their success.
Great news for all gamers as Unreal Engine 4 will natively support the latest version of the PhysX SDK, PhysX 3.0. This was revealed by Nvidia’s AndyBNV, who claimed that the launch titles for next-gen consoles – that will be obviously coming to PC too – will support PhysX 3.0. PhysX 3.0 features better multi-threaded capabilities, something that will benefit both Nvidia and AMD users. Continue reading
We’ve been constantly asking developers in our past interviews whether their games were supporting Global Illumination. You see, we strongly believe that GI – as well as Ray Tracing or Path Tracing – are the future of PC (and next-gen consoles) graphics. And thankfully, Nvidia has presented some new GI techniques during its Montreal event earlier today. Not only that, but the company has also unveiled some new Flame effects that put Deep Down’s flame effects to shame. Instead of presenting 2D flames with lots of particles, Nvidia implemented some stunning volumetric flame effects that can interact with objects and the environment. You can find videos from the aforementioned techniques below, so go ahead and take a look at the future of gaming graphics! Continue reading
Nvidia has unveiled a new technology for its PhysX SDK called FLEX: Unified GPU PhysX. According to the team, this is a unified solver that works wonderfully with multi-GPU systems. FLEX: Unified GPU PhysX supports two-way coupling effects, shared collision detection and parallelism at all stages. This practically means that there can be more complex physx calculations without major performance hits – something that was quite common on the previous builds of PhysX. Continue reading
During Nvidia’s Montreal event – which is underway as we speak – the green team announced that Project CARS will support DX11 (okay, we already knew that), as well as Nvidia’s PhysX particles and Turbulence effects. Although the green team did not reveal any additional details about it, it was well known that Slightly Mad Studios was looking for ways to further enhance its racer’s tech. Well, now we know some of the additional features that will be featured in it. Continue reading
Some of the season’s most important PC games have been built with technology developed by NVIDIA.
We have a proud heritage on the PC platform, delivering amazing performance and advanced technologies for gamers. Technologies developed as part of our “The Way It’s Meant To Be Played” program are among the most deployed in the industry.
To keep the momentum going, we’re expanding “The Way It’s Meant To Be Played” – which represents our promise to gamers and developers to make the best game experience possible – with an effort we call GameWorks.
Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag, Batman: Arkham Origins, and Call of Duty: Ghosts are all among the new titles built with the help of NVIDIA’s GameWorks program.
We are announcing a special holiday game bundle. Buy our GTX660 or GTX760 and you get a free copy of Assassins Creed IV Black Flag and Splinter Cell Blacklist. If you buy a GTX770, GTX780 or GTX Titan, and we will also include a free copy of Batman: Arkham Origins.
But that’s not all. We’re also offering $50-$100 off the purchase of an NVIDIA SHIELD with your GTX purchase.
This promotion represents our commitment to the PC platform, one we’re extending and expanding with our investment in GameWorks.
We’re also leading the charge to redefine the Android market with high performance gaming devices and games – such as our own SHIELD gaming portable – and building the next generation of cloud gaming services that allow gamers to play what they want, when they want, on whatever device they want.
GameWorks puts NVIDIA’s tools and technologies – and some of our best engineers – into studios building games that push the boundaries of what’s possible.
At its heart are more than 300 world-class NVIDIA engineers, with thousands of years of collective experience, working at the cutting edge of the art and science of gaming.
Over the years, these passionate gamers – who also happen to be some of the best visual effects artists, engineers and computational mathematicians on the planet – have built a sprawling collection of tools that includes visual and physical simulation software development kits, algorithms, engines, and libraries.
Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag uses NVIDIA technologies to create dramatic lighting effects.
We’ve dispatched our engineers to work onsite with top game developers and add effects, fix bugs, tweak performance, and train developers in open standards and work hand-in-hand with our game laboratory.
Here’s a taste of what our team has helped accomplish:
As gamers, we couldn’t be prouder of our contribution to these games. They represent still more reasons why our “The Way Its Meant To Be Played,” signature will continue to represent industry leadership and unmatched technical excellence.
http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/the-way-its-meant-to-be-played
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Presumably as a counter to Nvidia’s press event, which is currently happening in Montreal, however, the company is giving me the go-ahead to publish a couple of my results a bit early.
AMD was very specific that the only numbers it’s approving come from BioShock Infinite and Tomb Raider. We’re only able to show you R9 290X compared to GeForce GTX 780, and only at 3840x2160. But despite those limitations, these numbers were run in our lab, on our own equipment.
We could have dialed this one back a bit, but because Tomb Raider moves a little slower, and because this benchmark sequence is both very demanding and highly repeatable, I wasn’t bothered by the R9 290X’s performance, but was impressed by what I was seeing at Ultra HD.
I backed off a bit in BioShock Infinite, although the Very High detail preset still looks great. As you can see, Radeon R9 290X has little trouble posting higher average frame rates yet again. It’s worth noting that these are Fraps-based numbers—in single-GPU configurations, the results from Fraps and FCAT track closely anyway.
There’s not much more I can say at this point, except that I have several cards tested at 3840x2160, and R9 290X doesn’t just do well against the GeForce GTX 780…
With that, I should probably get back to the lab before I get myself into trouble.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-radeon-r9-290x-benchmark-performance,24732.html#xtor=RSS-998
Battlefield 4′s beta has been heavily criticised, but DICE producer Patrick Bach has said the build on show is well out of date and that players are often “objectively wrong” with their critiques.
Warner Bros. has detailed how the PC versions of Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City will be migrated to Steam from the soon-to-be-closed Games for Windows Live.
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So based on those limited benchmarks, the 290X is between 10 and 15% faster than a 780.
I can't wait to see the whole reviews... and know the price!
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