Football Manager 2014 reviews drop, get all the scores here
Football Manager 2014 reviews have begun and as always we’re scooping all of those lovely scores up in our goal net and hurling them in front of your eyes. See how well it’s scored here.
Battlefield 4 hasn’t been limited by modern day setting, says DICE over Battlefield 2142 demands
Battlefield 2142 seems to have a lot of love out there, so it’s natural gamers want a sequel. However, DICE’s Lars Gustavsson has stressed that while the reality attached to modern day settings may prove limiting, it only serves to push the studio’s creative mind-set further. So that’s a ‘no’ to Battlefield 2143 just now, basically.
Roam creator retracts How to Survive copy-cat accusations, full statement inside
Roam creator Ryan Sharr has retracted claims that 505 Games latest publishing effort How to Survive has ripped off his Kickstarter project, and has published an explanation on the campaign page. Read it here.
Nvidia to drop prices of high-end graphics cards, include free games
A price drop is imminent for the high-end segment of Nividia’s 700 series to combat AMD’s latest addition to the market, the R9 290x and R9 290 graphics cards. Nvidia is also adding free games and significant discount coupons for Shield to sweeten the deal.
Call of Duty: Ghosts’ Extinction mode is alien sci-fi shooter – report
Call of Duty: Ghosts features a new mode called Extinction that appears to involve aliens. Reports have come in following the leak of loading screens, and a teaser trailer from Activision. Check out the details and the clip here.
Rift goes free-to-play on Steam, three new bundles announced
Rift developer Trion Worlds has made its MMO free to all on Steam. The studio has also announced three new game bundles filled with digital bonuses.
Razer: Min-Liang Tan talks the power and the passion
Razer has grown to much more than just a peripheral manufacturer, and rivals established gaming PC companies like Alienware. CEO Min-Liang Tan’s insistence on quality and community is a major factor in this success.
Neverwinter: Shadowmantle update to add Hunter Ranger class and new content later this year
Neverwinter’s next update will be titled Shadowmantle, and it will add a new Hunter Ranger class into the mix, along with other content free of charge. Get the details here.
Call of Duty: Ghosts’ Extinction mode officially revealed, trailer inside
After rounds of teasing, leaks and slips, Infinity Ward has finally unveiled Extinction mode, a four player survival co-op mode that will be released with Call of Duty: Ghosts next month.
Chris Roberts and co. hire a fan after witnessing "just gorgeous" Star Citizen video
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Star Citizen is a huge vessel, still under construction - and it won’t be leaving the hangar any time soon. That’s no barrier to its thousands-strong community, though, who have filled the game’s forums with Eve-like plans for system takeovers and videos built from early in-game files. One fan used the scant available assets so creatively, in fact, that Cloud Imperium have offered him a job.
Battlefield 4 Origin pre-loads now possible in the US and Europe
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For a certain kind of power-prone individual - maybe you - PC gaming is all about optimisation. Min-maxing these stats and picking up this item to ensure that boss explodes instantly, covering your smiling face in precisely the kind of fine red mist extensive research had led you to expect.
Let’s not pretend that kind of thinking doesn’t extend beyond the boundaries of Diablo III. For instance: right now you could pre-order Battlefield 4, pre-load the game via Origin, and be totally primed for the moment the ‘Play’ button turns green tomorrow (or in three and a half days’ time, or next week, depending on how lucky you've been with the regional launch lottery).
Optimise your route to that point by following this direct link to the Battlefield 4 pre-order page. Perfect.
Oculus are "applying insights" from Valve’s new VR prototype to the Rift
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Valve aren’t your average competitor. As the proliferation of early Steam Machines has shown, they’re more concerned about improving the lacklustre state of PC hardware than in locking it down with their own premium tech.
So it was that, armed with the most promising goggles on the fledgling VR hardware market, Oculus lately found themselves invited to Bellevue. There, Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe tried on the latest iteration of Valve’s own prototype - and left with a better idea of how to improve the consumer version of the Rift.
The Mandate Has (Literal) Space Opera
By Jim Rossignol on October 28th, 2013 at 4:00 pm.
There’s Space Opera, and then there’s dudes singing opera over space opera. The Mandate is both of these in its new trailer, which shows off some in-game footage from the Kickstarting starship management game set against a backdrop of Imperial Russian space expansion (Tsars Vs The Stars, I call it.) The devs explain: “The gameplay trailer begins with neutral starship Zukov issuing a distress signal after it is assaulted by pirates. This signal is intercepted by a player who is commanding battle squadron Azimov which is loyal to the Empress of The Mandate. The player engages the pirates giving them the chance to surrender and withdraw, but battle ensues.”
Battle! Oh and also character customisation. Our two darkest loves.
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Exo-suits You, Sir: Reset Returns With New Beautiful Trailer
By Graham Smith on October 28th, 2013 at 3:00 pm.
Why do exo-suits look at their best when caught in a sudden downpour? Theory: we are all spawned by the same universe-birthing robo-horse, and the sight of graceful machinery being battered by the forces of nature triggers an emotional response like remembering our communal womb.
Other places exo-suits look great include Reset, a self-cooperative first-person puzzle game about time travel set in a rain-soaked city. Theory: is the name of the Finnish indie studio developing it. A new trailer soaks below.
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Dungeon Keeper Vs. War For The Overworld
By Rich Stanton on October 28th, 2013 at 2:00 pm.
Giant corporations traducing classic games to swing a buck – dontcha love ‘em? A top-of-the-line current example is EA Mythic’s ongoing brutalisation of first Ultima and now Dungeon Keeper into bad freemium tablet games. “If you want to play Dungeon Keeper or Dungeon Keeper 2,” says senior producer Jeff Skalski, flipping the bird and using a golden zippo to torch the Bullfrog logo, “go to Good Old Games and download them.” At first I considered this a slightly dickish thing to say but, after playing the kickstarted War for the Overworld, I’ve come to realise Skalski has a point.
Let’s take a look at what happens when Dungeon Keeper gets remade by its biggest fans.
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What You Want To Hear: Saints Row IV Sold Well
By Graham Smith on October 28th, 2013 at 1:00 pm.
Deep Silver have had quite the couple of years. They’ve gone from a European publisher of quietly successful strategy games and RPGs (the X games, Gothic, others), to finding mainstream success with Dead Island, to picking up where THQ left off with Metro: Last Light and Saints Row 4.
In an interview with Deep Silver’s CEO, The Penny Arcade Report mention that Saints Row IV has sold triple that of Saints Row 3 on PC over the same time period, and that Metro: Last Light sold more across all platforms in a single week than the original did in three months.
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Sleep Between The Stars: InSomnia
By Adam Smith on October 28th, 2013 at 11:00 am.
Everyone at RPS suffers from insomnia once in a while, or at least we all spend the early hours of every Tuesday morning clutching bedclothes tightly around our chests, in the grip of a sweat colder than a British summer, wondering if rolling our eyes at Call of Duty is an actual job. It’s natural to assume that a game that goes by the name Insomnia would be a survival horror game about such acts of lonely introspection but the trailer and press release for the first project from Russian studio MONO reveal something entirely different. It’s an online RPG with tactical combat and procedurally generated sandbox elements, set on a generation ship of sorts. The video is a demonstration of the tech and setting rather than an exposition-packed chunk of narrative.
Family Business: The Dark Eye – Demonicon
By Adam Smith on October 28th, 2013 at 9:00 am.
I am able to inform you that The Dark Eye: Demonicon is out today and that it is an RPG wit a fair bit of action in it. Other than that, I don’t know a great deal – the list of features on the official website could have been taken from almost any fantasy role-playing game. It contains crafting, spellcasting, third-person combat and decision-making. In my desire to find the game’s unique selling point, I ventured into the archives and found a preview from Gamescom 2011 but that contained little more than a demonstration of Alec’s ability to predict Nathan’s arrival at RPS and a frightening threat to my own existence. Expecting to learn nothing, I watched the launch trailer. At 1.13, I found the unique selling point – unexpected revelation of incestuous desires.
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