Compulsion Games explains the origins and development of its gorgeous puzzle platformer Contrast in the behind the scenes video through the break.
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Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada was asked if he’d ever bring the iconic fighting series to PC. How does a potential Steam release sound?
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Destiny is an online shooter with MMO sensibilities, so it seems like a natural fit for the PC market. However, Bungie community manager Eric Osborne has stressed that it’s not the focus right now as it would spread the studio too thin.
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Valve has reportedly sent a call for submissions email to developers regarding its Autumn and Christmas sales on Steam. Said email has reportedly leaked on Reddit and list the dated for both promotions.
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Codemasters has begun fielding for testers to help give feedback on a new title at the studio. The studio’s explanatory blog post makes an awful lot of mentions to GRID 2, so naturally, rumours of a third game have followed.
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Battlefield 4′s Second Assault DLC will see a selection of Battlefield 3 maps return, and DICE has now confirmed the full list.
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War Thunder developer Gaijin Entertainment has announced its air combat MMO has acquired five million registered players within a year since open beta testing began in Russia. It’s currently in development for PC, Mac and PS4.
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Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues is six months into development and developer Portalarium has brought you a video taking a look at the state of the game, narrated by Lord British himself. Watch the 25 minute video after the jump.
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Company of Heroes 2 publisher Sega has outlined a new free update dubbed ‘Turning Point.’ It’s coming next week and the company has outlined what it involves
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Sega has announced that The Creative Assembly’s strategy title Total War: Rome 2 has sold over 800,000 units since launch. The news was revealed as part of the firm’s earnings report for the six-month period ending September 30.
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Valve has lifted the curtain on its Steam Machine prototypes as part of a Seattle Times article. Get photos of the rig and insight from the designers here.
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Speaking to Kotaku, Electronic Arts’ new CEO Andrew Wilson spoke about why he thinks the company has won Consumerist’s “Worst Company in America” poll two years running and what he intends to do to fix that. In the interview he highlights annual sequelization as one of the potential problems, as well as establishing a “culture of innovation” at the company that “kills” bad projects before they get to market.
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Call of Duty: Ghosts is one of the first big budget PC games to demand its users have more than 4GB of system RAM, so much so that the game simply refuses to launch if it detects there’s less available. However, users on Guru3D and other forums are reporting the game only occupies between 1.5 and 2GB of RAM on the game’s highest settings. Additionally, unlike Treyarch’s Black Ops 2, Ghosts is locked to a 65 degree field of view, which can lead to motion sickness among some users. Luckily, some modders have created a utility that will unlock the FOV in the game’s Multiplayer to help you avoid some headaches.
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Valve’s Greg Coomer confirmed to IGN the studio will not making an “exclusive killer app for SteamOS”, going on to say it was against Valve’s philosophy to “artificially drive customers” onto a Steambox. However, he did acknowledge that smaller studios might end up making SteamOS exclusive titles if they don’t have the resources to port the game elsewhere.
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Heart Machine has released the first combat video for its upcoming “Zelda meets Dark Souls meets Diablo” Hyper Light Drifter. It lasts about three minutes and showcases a pre-alpha that easily looks like a final release, thanks in no small part to Disasterpeace’s wonderful ambient music.
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By Adam Smith on November 4th, 2013 at 6:00 pm.
Defender’s Quest is my favourite tower defence game. The designers managed to combine the basic idea of positioning units on a series of paths with RPG upgrade systems without botching the balance of the entire campaign, or limiting player choice. It’s a quietly brilliant piece of work and news of a sequel is most welcome. Level Up Labs are taking preorders for Defender’s Quest II: Mists of Ruin now, with Kickstarter style reward tiers. I’d never suggest that anyone preorder anything that isn’t in extremely limited supply but $15 will secure a copy of the sequel on release and a copy of the original game right now. If you haven’t played it already, that’s worth considering. There’s even an online demo of the first game. Teaser trailer beyond the ramparts.
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By Craig Pearson on November 4th, 2013 at 3:00 pm.
For the purposes of this news post, I am going to run with the question that the Car Mechanic Simulator 2014 press release ponders: “Have you ever wondered what’s it like to own a mechanic workshop?” Yes. Yes I have. I long for the nuts, the bolts, the oil changes, and the satisfying clink of metal tools on metal bits. It’s everything I’ve ever dreamed of, but because of a horrendous allergy to the smell of pine, and a fear of breaking brakes, I am unable to be one. If only there was a way that I could have all the work of a car mechanic, but with none of the responsibility? If only I had a pair of trailers that would somehow lead the way, like a racing line to my heart.
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Valve have shed a little light on how Steam’s Offline Mode works and how they’re working to improve it. One of the developer’s programmers, Henry Goffin, took to Steam’s forums to answer a question about how the client’s offline mode is supposed to work: “[it’s] designed to be indefinite,” he wrote. “You can't access any of Steam's online features such as friends lists or saved game synchronization, of course, but the client should allow you to run in Offline Mode for as long as you like.”
Since the client’s launch back in 2004 users have come across bugs with the feature and being able to play your games without an internet connection has never been a guarantee. According to Goffin, the developer’s been working on improvements that will go live "some day soon".
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04 November 2013 • 9 hours 10 min ago •
Story by Jeremy Peel
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Europa Universalis IV is to have its first expansion by Christmas. First of many, one would expect - Crusader Kings II has had four, and its successor’s response has been every bit as glowing. No incremental improvement this, though. Conquest of Paradise offers nothing less than an experiential shake-up - the promise of true discovery in place of our usual historical omniscience.
In Conquest of Paradise, the atlas has yet to be drawn, and we’ll have to discover the Americas without already knowing where they are.
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04 November 2013 • 14 hours 32 min ago •
Story by Jeremy Peel
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Battlefield 4 was a boxed PC game that came out last week. But despite levelution, despite umpteen trailers, it was ultimately no match for the quiet landslide that happens when the latest iteration of Football Manager hits shelves in the United Kingdom, where people famously quite like football.
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04 November 2013 • 15 hours 26 min ago •
Story by Jeremy Peel
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This time last year, Valve launched Dota 2’s Diretide update - an alternate Halloween replete with a 30 minute game mode and rash of new couriers. As you know, once is the requisite number of times a thing must happen before it’s declared tradition, and so the Dota 2 community sat up on October 30 again this year and waited. On October 31, they waited. And on November 1, when a new patch introduced some distinctly unfestive cosmetic items, they waited.
Now, they’re done waiting. And with no explanation forthcoming from Valve, they’ve turned their complaint cannons against the corporation with the nearest possible nomenclature: car manufacturers Volvo.
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Call of Duty: Ghosts has just been released in a number of regions, and we have some good and some bad news for PC gamers. The good news is that Infinity Ward will introduce PhysX Fur (same technique that will be used in The Witcher 3) via a future patch. The bad news is that the game won’t be able to launch on systems without – at least – 6BG of RAM. What’s really funny here is that the game does not use more than 1-2GB of RAM. Continue reading →
AMD announced today that Cloud Imperium Games, Eidos Montreal and Oxide Games are the latest game developers will be using its latest API, Mantle, in order to optimize the way PC games are developed as a means to ‘extract maximum performance from a modern graphics architecture that spans desktop PCs, notebooks and consumer devices like tablets‘. Continue reading →
When we first laid eyes on Outerra, we could not help but be impressed by its huge environment. And today, we present you a new video from this engine that will leave you speechless with how huge its environment actually is. Captured by YouTube’s member ‘Brano Kemen’, this video demonstrates a flight over Mexico showing new biome colors and vegetation distribution. Continue reading →
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