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zarx on 07 November 2013

Deathfire Ruins of Nethermore is a CRPG Kickstarter with 30 reward tiers

G3 Studios’ Deathfire: Ruins of Nethermore is an classic first person dungeoneering RPG in the vein of Wizardry or the Legend of Grimrock on Kickstarter. For what it’s worth, it looks alright and smartly targets an audience whose “heart sings” for the games of yore. However it’s also the latest in a troubling Kickstarter trend: over half of this new IP’s Kickstarter page is dedicated to backer rewards and merch. It has 30 different tiers to back the game with.

In the latest update to backers, inXile’s project lead Chris Keenan announced that the studio’s rerelease of Wasteland 1 – The Original Classic has been submitted to both Good Old Games and Steam for approval and should be available on those stores before too long. All backers of Wasteland 2, including those who are getting a copy of the game through their Planescape Torment pledge will be receiving either a Steam or Good Old Games key for Wasteland 1 free.

Blizzard has released the first artwork for its upcoming MOBA Heroes of the Storm and in doing so, revealed some of the heroes which will probably feature. In no particular order the characters featured are: Anub’arak, Illidan, Lady Sylvanas Windrunner, the Witch Doctor from Diablo, Chen Stormstout, Diablo himself, Noba, The Lich King and Starcraft’s own Tychus Findlay. Check it out after the cut.

To celebrate the 18th anniversary of You Don’t Know Jack’s release, developer Jackbox Games has fixed up almost the entire series to run on modern computers and released them on Steam. This includes the first six volumes of the series, alongside the special movies, sports and television titles.

The first stage of Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues’ early access will launch on December 12, allowing players to create characters and claim their own slice of real estate after experiencing the game’s first town. However, it’s only going to be available for two days and although the access will require you to play online, you’ll have to play single player, online. The game’s full schedule after the jump.

After Season 3 ends, League of Legends will no longer ‘clamp’ League Point gains for players below Diamond tier, so that everyone advances through the ranks a little bit faster and combat a trend of players reaching a tier’s fifth division, burn out of low LP returns and become “increasingly toxic”.

InSomnia is the new online tactical-RPG from developer MONO. The team has taken to Kickstarter in an attempt to raise $70,000 to make the game happen.

Valve will ship its Steam machine prototypes with copies of 4A Games’ shooter Metro: Last light.

Deadfall Adventures has a new video available showing gameplay in the Sahara. The video is rather short, and is the first of three which will be released by The Farm 51 showing off the picturesque environments. Deadfall Adventures will be released on November 15 on PC and Xbox 360.

Victory at Stalingrad, the premium content for Company of Heroes 2’s Theater of War mode, is available for pre-order on Steam and is 10% off until Monday, November 11.

Blizzard have “more resources focused on building content for World of Warcraft than ever before”

07 November 2013 • 4 hours 59 min ago • Story by Jeremy Peel

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The headline news for the Blizzard bit of Activision’s earnings call last night was that World of Warcraft subscriber numbers are still declining, and appear to be picking up speed. That’s a disconcerting thought for Azeroth’s inhabitants, who can see Blizzard pumping cash into what they hope will be new floats for the company to bob along on once WoW is fully deflated - Hearthstone and Heroes of the Storm.

But Blizzard haven’t begun the long, finickety process of pulling out of WoW just yet. Indeed, they’ve upped its budget to ensure that “it can continue having a long and happy life”.

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X Rebirth Gets A New Trailer That Focuses On Exploration

Posted on November 7, 2013 by John Papadopoulos

Egosoft has released a new trailer for X Rebirth, in which the company explained the game’s exploration by demonstrating the long range scanner, an upgrade which can detect even the smallest objects in quite a long distance if you have the right upgrade and use it in a skillful manner. X Rebirth is currently scheduled for a November 15th release, exclusively on the PC. Enjoy! Continue reading →

Grim Dawn Now Available via Steam’s Early Access Program

Posted on November 7, 2013 by Thomas P

Great news for all action RPG hack n slash fans, as Grim Dawn is currently available on Steam via its early access program. Grim Dawn is a classic action role-playing from the lead gameplay designer of Titan Quest, and features satisfying combat, strategic character development, frenzied loot collection and quests with choice and consequence. Continue reading →

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JEMC said:

allblue said:
PC gaming is dead, nobody plays on PC anymore, PC gamers are cheap they never buy games anyway.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/star-citizen-funding-passes-26-million/1100-6415940/

That game, and other successes like the point'n'click games from Telltale, prove how wrong and misleading are the market researches most Co. now use to decide what kind of games we want.

The market researchers are pretty ignorant about the PC.
The PC is great for the fact no multi-billion dollar for-profit company is in total control and reaping in all the profits, lots of competition and openness, which really doesn't make allot of news headlines, but is great for the consumers pockets.

I also would not be surprised if Star Citizen hits 40 million before it's released.

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EVE Online: Rubicon developer video features deployable structures, new ships, more

EVE Online: Rubicon has a new developer video available discussing features such as deployable structures, new ships, assessing “progression” in piloting and more. It’s the first video in a series of two and is below the break. Rubicon releases November 19.

A Walk in the Dark, the lovely indie platformer greenlighted through Steam, now has a Steam Edition which includes 10 new levels which “go a step further in exploring the platforming mechanics of the 100 story levels.” The game also has Steam achievements, leaderboards and cloud saves integrated. A Walk in the Dark has you take on the role of a cat running through a dark, dangerous fantasy world, trying to avoid the various traps and enemies you’ll face – all the while trying to save your best friend, a darling little girl. Have a look at the trailer below.

WildStar’s latest DevSpeak video focuses on one the game’s classes, the Warrior. Don’t worry: it’s not shooting down the walls of heartache or anything. Instead, it bashes enemies to bits. Literally. Have a look below. Carbine Studios is “just about ready to start,” a round of beta testing and you can sign up here.

The developer of indie horror hit Outlast is advising developers to ensure they know the risks associated with going indie, and to not romanticise the idea.

The Debut 6 Bundle from Indie Royale is now live and features seven indie titles ranging from sports to music games. The titles included are: FootLOL: Epic Fail League, Reversion – The Meeting, Subject 9, Dualsus, ARKADIANAX, Champions of Chaos II: Ambassadors of the Arena and Rhythm Destruction. All the games are available for Desura and are in Greenlight seeking a place on Steam. FootLOL, Subject 9 and ARKADIANAX are also available for Mac. ARKADIANAX is also available for Linux. The current minimum is $2.99 and if you pay $5 or more, you will also net the chiptunes album Microsongs by YERZMYEY. Hit up the link for more information and have a look at the video below.

A sequel to the 2D MMO MapleStory was announced today, with news the beta will open in 2014.

November 7 is N7 Day, according to Bioware, and it’s celebrating by teasing fans with images from “the next chapter of Mass Effect”.

The universe is expanding for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, with the Stellar Phenomena DLC pack introducing new deep space hazards.

Grudge Match: Street Basketball, from the creator of Madden, aims to give players more freedom over how they play than any other sports game.

Online FPS Quake Live will transition to a standalone game client by the end of the year.

Firefly Studios has detailed the contents of the newest monthly update to medieval strategy game, Stronghold Kingdoms.

Total War: Rome 2 has been confirmed for release on Steams Linux-based operating system SteamOS.

Project CARS Will Support Nvidia’s APEX Tech

Posted on November 7, 2013 by John Papadopoulos

Project CARS fans, get ready for some more news about your favourite racing game. Slightly Mad Studios’ Ian Bell recently revealed on NeoGAF that this next-gen racer will support Nvidia’s APEX tech. Although we don’t have more details about it – and don’t know whether this feature will be coming on next-gen consoles or will remain exclusive to the PC – we can only imagine what smoke and rain will look like when powered by it. Let’s hope that Nvidia and Slightly Mad Studios will reveal more in the coming weeks. Ian Bell Christopher Dorn have also shared some – older – tech videos from Nvidia, showcasing what APEX is all about. Enjoy! Continue reading →

How A Lifetime Of Heart Disease Birthed Hyper Light Drifter

By Nathan Grayson on November 7th, 2013 at 9:00 pm.

Hyper Light Drifter is looking magnificent. It’s playing quite beautifully too, and you will hear my impressions of it very soon. But first, let’s delve into the stylishly pink wonder’s past, which definitely isn’t all roses. Heart Machine head Alex Preston was born with a number of life-threatening heart defects, and he’s spent his life alternatively triumphing over them and falling at their feet. Hyper Light Drifter is, in large part, inspired by those struggles – a swarm of ideas that have been flitting and buzzing about in Preston’s mind for as long as he can remember. It was only this year, however, that he finally realized he *had* to breathe life into this game. Good ideas are infinite, but time, unfortunately, is painfully limited.

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Week in Tech: Flicker-free Screens, AMD Noise, Nvidia 780 Ti

By Jeremy Laird on November 7th, 2013 at 8:00 pm.

Suffering from headaches, tired eyes and all-round gaming fatigue? Must be that flickering LCD monitor ripping up your retinas. No idea what I’m on about? BenQ would have you believe flickering LCD monitor backlights are the new evil and it has the solution. Flicker-free backlight tech. I’ve tried it and can reveal whether it’s the next big thing after 120Hz-plus panels. It’s not. Next! Graphics. AMD and Nvidia are currently squelching about and looking grumpy following of one of their traditional pissing contests. An unpleasant image but it’s good news because it means things are very closely matched. Still, we need to tidy up a few details after all the new GPU launches and some last minute changes including AMD’s Radeon R9 290 and its dodgy cooling and final specs on the Nvidia Geforce GTX 780 Ti. Read the rest of this entry »

Diary: Never Been Half-Lifed, Part One

By Cara Ellison on November 7th, 2013 at 7:00 pm.

In the depths of late night despair you might sometimes lie awake thinking about how you are a life-long PC gamer and have never played through the original 1998 PC darling Half-Life. The thought lingers on you like some grotesque bug with the ability to whisper: ‘You are an impostor. You are fake. You are phoney.’ Well even if you don’t have terrible self-esteem, I do. I’m like Drew Barrymore in Never Been Kissed. Except the kiss is Half-Life. And Gordon Freeman is that guy from Alias that ends up kissing Drew Barrymore awkwardly on a baseball pitch.

Or whatever.

Here’s my first time with Half-Life, documented in badly made videos recorded whilst I was travelling Europe.

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Let’s Sing, Suggests New PC Karaoke Game

By John Walker on November 7th, 2013 at 2:00 pm.

One of the best things about PC gaming is the paucity of karaoke games. Oh, what’s this? Curses. Voxler Games have just announced the release date of Let’s Sing. Let’s not, eh?

Oh, okay, my loathing of karaoke is not shared by, well, anyone else as far as I can tell. So perhaps you’re desperate for a way for your PC to hear your pitchy screeches, which you’ll be able to do on the 12th December? However, we all may want to agree to raise an eyebrow at their peculiar claim of being “the first karaoke game for PC”. Um.

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This is something that I can't understand:

Panasonic unveils 20" 4K tablet PC

"...with an impressive 20" diagonal, the IPS Alpha LCD screen offers a 3,840x2,560 resolution - meaning 230 pixels per inch (PPI) and a 15:10 aspect ratio."

If they can make 4K screens (well, technically more as 4K is 3840x2160) in 20" size, why can't they make a 24" 2560x1440 screen? Some of us want more resolution without having to deal with bigger monitors!

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Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls gameplay trailer shows off new features

Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls developer Blizzard Entertainment has published a new trailer showing off the expansions many new features. Watch it here.

Minecraft creator and Mojang founder Notch appeared on The Late Late Show in the US last night. Watch his interview with host Craig Ferguson here.

Contrast, the puzzle-platformer game developed by Compulsion Games for PC, the PlayStation Store and Xbox Live arcade release next week, so in order to reacquaint you with it, four new screenshots featuring Dawn and Didi have been released.

Rift, the free-to-play MMORPG from Trion Worlds, has gone live with update 2.5, Song of Dreams. This update features all new content, including an all-new underwater mini-saga called Song of Dreams and Gifts of the Fae, as well as a new Level-60 version of a Telaran instance every week starting November 13. Other additions include: a reduction of the level requirement on quests and content in Iron Pine Peak; improved PvP matchmaking; a new Planar Attunement Nexus; new Infinity Gate Dimension; International Shards and much more. Hit up the official patch notes for more information.

The Banner Saga will be released in January, Stoic has announced

The Banner Saga will be released in January, Stoic Studio has announced. The full game will have a single-story campaign where choices will impact the game, and characters can die permanently. The multiplayer version of the game, The Banner Saga: Factions, was released in February 2013. Expect it on January 14 on PC and Mac. A new video is below.

The latest Humble Weekly Sale features eight adventure titles from German publisher Daedalic Entertainment, including the recently released Journey of a Roach. Pay $1 and pick up: Edna & Harvey: Harvey’s New Eyes, A New Beginning – Final Cut, The Whispered World, The Chronicles of Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliette and The Chronicles of Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Pay $6 or more and receive: The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav, Deponia and Journey of a Roach as well as the soundtracks and other extras. As ever, you choose how the money is split between developer, organizers and charities.

The Daedalic Entertainment Humble Weekly Sale will run until November 14.

BlizzCon 2013: Warlords of Draenor detailed, Heroes of the Storm beta sign ups live

BlizzCon 2013 kicked off today with Blizzard boss Mike Morhaime providing the opening keynote . During the course of the opening, Warlords of DraenorM was announced as the latest expansion for World of Warcraft, and beta sign-ups went live for the firm’s Heroes of the Storm MOBA.

World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor was announced as the next expansion to the MMO today during BlizzCon 2013, and below the break you will find a couple more videos showing faction zones, and the orc homeworld of Draenor. Screenshots and art are below along with an FAQ as well.

Heroes of the Storm was revealed in full today during BlizzCon 2013, and along with a cinematic trailer and gameplay preview, Blizzard has released a set of screenshots for the MOBA as well as a developer interview with game director Dustin Browder, senior game producer Kaeo Milker, and senior art director Samwise Didier

During BlizzCon 2013, Blizzard’s CCO Rob Pardo took the stage to discuss Hearthstone, the developer’s strategy card battle game. The game will go into open-beta next month and the tablet version is playable at the show today.

Activision: “We Are Looking Into The 6GB RAM Lock Of Call of Duty: Ghosts”

Posted on November 8, 2013 by John Papadopoulos

And finally we got some official news about the 6GB requirement, though it may not be what most of you are currently wishing for. When a fan asked Activision about the ridiculous 6GB RAM requirement of Call of Duty: Ghosts, the big publisher responded and confirmed that it is currently looking into this. Now don’t get your hopes up as the publisher has not promised to remove it – it is just looking into it. Continue reading →

Next-Gen Racing “Assetto Corsa” Available Now On Steam Via Its Early Access Program

Posted on November 8, 2013 by John Papadopoulos

Awesome news for all PC racing fans as KUNOS Simulazioni has released its highly anticipated racer, Assetto Corsa, on Steam via its early access program. Assetto Corsa is described as a next-generation driving simulator for PC which reproduces real-world circuits, as well as road and racing cars. The game includes a single player career,special events and allows the player to create and customize offline competitions and multiplayer races to challenge other players. Continue reading →

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also greenmangaming is having a sale of PC exclusives
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Blackguards is now available through Steam Early Access

Daedalic’s turn based strategy RPG Blackguards is now available through Steam Early Access, three months ahead of its official release. The game will have one chapter released every three weeks, and at present, the game is %10 off. Otherwise will run you $25/£19/€25, or you can grab one of the two special early access editions which come loaded with extras. Blackguards is based on the roleplaying property The Dark Eye, like Demonicon, Drakensang and Chains of Satinav. Teaser trailer is below.

The Humble WB Games Bundle, which went live earlier this week, has garnered $3,059,007 for the We Can Be Heroes charity thanks to 659,480 purchases with average price of $4.64. The highest contribution so far is $2,600. The bundle includes Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition, F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin, F.E.A.R. 3 and Lord of the Rings: War in the North. Paying over the average price unlocks Scribblenauts Unlimited and Batman: Arkham City Game of the Year Edition. There are 10 days left to purchase the bundle.

Dota 2 MLG Championship Bundle raises Columbus price pool to $90,000

MLG and Valve have teamed up to offer the Dota 2 MLG Championship Bundle, which comes with the Deathbringer Courier, HUD, Ward, Battle Bonus and purchasers will be eligible for in game item drops during the MLG Championship Columbus.

Windows 8.1 has been patched to fix mouse lag

Windows 8.1 has been patched to fix mouse lag reported after the update was released.

Heroes of the Storm will offer players enough to differentiate it from League of Legends or Dota 2, Blizzard believes.

Blizzard co-founder and CEO Mike Morhaime has said when it comes to World of Warcraft, it’s important to keep content fresh and new, but not so much that the game is no longer recognizable.

Reset Interview – Multicore CPU Support, Physics Middleware, Engine Details

Posted on November 9, 2013 by John Papadopoulos

When Theory Interactive released the debut trailer of Reset, I lot of people began wondering who the hell was Theory Interactive, and how come it has managed to achieve visuals that can rival those found in triple-A titles like Crysis 3? Well, a couple of days ago we had the pleasure to interview Mikko Kallinen, co-founder, programmer and composer at Theory, who has previously worked at Futuremark. Mikko shared with us some tech details about the engine powering Reset, its physics middleware, how big will the game’s world be, and whether the game will support Tessellation. Enjoy the interview after the jump! Continue reading →

StarCraft 2 continues slow evolution into (not quite) free to play with Patch 2.1

09 November 2013 • 12 hours 17 min ago • Story by robzacny

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As Blizzard outlined how StarCraft 2 will change with the upcoming 2.1 patch, it seemed almost like a tacit admission that the future of StarCraft is not be found in balance tweaks and expansion campaigns and units. Not that many people want to commit to playing competitive StarCraft on the ranked ladders, and even fewer want to play ranked year in, year out. The 2.1 patch reflects a slight expansion of Blizzard’s focus, away from the people who just want to play and watch StarCraft, and onto the people who want to play with StarCraft.

StarCraft 2.1 is about playing team games with friends, playing mods, or even building new kinds of games. And as Blizzard are also drastically expanding what they offer in the StarCraft 2 Starter Edition, it’s also about making StarCraft, if not quite free-to-play, then as free-as-possible.

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League of Legends Featured Gameplay Modes offer “a unique spin on the classic formula”

09 November 2013 • 13 hours 11 sec ago • Story by Julian Benson

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Riot have been experimenting with recreational game modes again. It started with a new map or two and before long they were onto the harder stuff, a new game type that has all the players rolling the same champion.

What’s worse than their own game mode abuse is that they’re planning on sharing it with all their fans, too. They’re going to give away these new Featured Gameplay Modes soon and there’s nothing we can do to stop them.

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Valve apologise for lack of Diretide and say it's on its way with a new update

09 November 2013 • 13 hours 37 min ago • Story by Julian Benson

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Valve have been doing a fair bit of instrospection of late. Despite saying last year that their Halloween Diretide event would be “the annual suspension of Roshan's enchantment”, they didn’t run it this year. This made the community quite unhappy and, for tangential reasons, troll the car company Volvo. Valve have admitted they did wrong by their fans and wanted to explain how the error occurred and how they’re going to fix it.

They also say sorry for not saying sorry sooner.

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Steam In-Home Streaming group opens. Beta to start "later this year"

09 November 2013 • 14 hours 21 min ago • Story by Julian Benson

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Steam In-Home Streaming will be a key part of Valve’s Steam Boxes. Machines running SteamOS are only capable of running Linux games natively, all Windows games will have to be streamed from a nearby gaming PC.

Valve want to make sure In-Home Streaming is up to scratch when they launch their OS and Steam Boxes next year. To that end they’ve set up a Steam group that will be inviting members to participate in the beta.

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Titan was not going to be up to Blizzard quality

08 November 2013 • 1 day 2 hours ago • Story by Fraser Brown

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Titan was put out to pasture before we even got to know it: a top secret MMO and new IP that never - and will never - see the light of day, at least not in its original form. "We recognised the path we were on was not going to be up to the Blizzard quality in a reasonable time frame," Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime reveals. "We asked a lot of hard questions about what it is we should be doing, and I think we've come up with something really great."

That's all Morhaime was willing to say about Not Project Titan, the game that's sprung from the ashes of the retired concept. It's going to be "pretty different" from the original vision, but that doesn't tell us much when we knew nothing about said original vision. This lack of information is unlikely to stop rampant speculation, so without further ado: what's the new MMO (maybe it's not even going to be an MMO) going to be all about? The comment section is hungry for your ideas.

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Dirt 3 Steamworks support due ahead of GFWL closure

Codemasters has confirmed it will be porting Dirt 3 over to Steamworks ahead of the impending death of Games for Windows Live.

The upcoming Warcraft movie was discussed in a panel during BlizzCon 2013, with director Duncan Jones, visual effects supervisor Bill Westenhofer and a team from Blizzard giving first plot and character details.

Valve will allow multiple manufacturers to produce Steam Machines, but its unique controllers are an in-house affair only.

Valve has opened a Steam Group for potential Steam In-Home Strreaming beta participants.

Graphics tech guru John Carmack sees a very bright future for PC gaming just a few years into the future, predicting huge leaps in GPU output before the end of the coming console generation.

Classic RTS titles Warcraft and Warcraft 2 may get a new lease on life, making them playable on modern PCs.

Valve has purchased the domain name SteamStatic.com. The domain’s WhoIs records show Valve Corporation as the registrant, having picked up the name earlier this month. Fusible reports Valve transferred the domain to its own name servers this weekend. It doesn’t yet resolve, and there’s no clue as to what it might refer to – could Valve have yet another hardware or service surprise on the way?

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Trion Worlds registers several domains related to “Trove”

Trion Worlds, its CEO Scott Hartsman, and regular registrar Mark Monitor have all made a number of domain registrations related to the word “Trove”. Fusible spotted the registrations, which include variants like PlayTrove.com and TroveGame.com. All the domains have been transferred to Trion Worlds’ own domain server, too. No word on what this could mean, although a new game named Trove seems pretty likely, y’know? Trion is a US MMO publisher best known for Rift and Defiance.

DayZ Standalone being held up by bugs & optimisation, Hall reveals

DayZ Standalone creator Dean Hall has taken to Reddit to give fans eager for the new zombie sandbox release an update on how it’s all going, and why it’s being held up. It should clear the air a little for those growing impatient.

Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn has been hailed as a key success by Square Enix, following the company’s most recent financials. Now, CEO of US and Europe Phil Rogers has stressed that the game has re-focused the publisher, but that ultimately the notion of games as services doesn’t resonate with gamers.

XCOM: Enemy Within is the standalone expansion pack to the Firaxis strategy reboot. Does it stack up to the gruelling brilliance of its predecessor? Find out in our review round-up.

BioShock: Infinite – Burial at Sea Episode One reviews have begun, get all the scores here as they drop.

Humble Store launches. Daily sales to celebrate

11 November 2013 • 57 min 17 sec ago • Story by Julian Benson

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The folk over at Humble Bundle have moved beyond sporadic bundles of joy to a constant storefront of special deals. There are to be daily sales, too, so this looks set to be a digital store to return to regularly.

The store won’t replace the Humble Bundles or Weekly Deals, instead it will run separately.

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FTL: Advanced Edition adds a hangar-full of new content. Chris Avellone comes on board as a writer

11 November 2013 • 18 min 28 sec ago • Story by Julian Benson

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FTL merged a space-based roguelike with elements of a choose your own adventure book and, when it was released last year, it stole a lot of the hearts of the team here at PCGN. (We’d like those back, Subset Games. There’s blood everywhere.) It’s set to do it all over again next year as Subset have announced they’re releasing a free update.

FTL: Advanced Edition will bring new weapons, drones, augments, systems, enemies, and missions. In a hookup that’s a little dreamlike, Chris Avellone - yes, that Chris Avellone - has supplied his writing talents to the new update.

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EverQuest Next Landmark Founder’s Packs let you buy into next year’s alpha

11 November 2013 • 1 hour 36 min ago • Story by Julian Benson

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EverQuest Next is one of the most promising games currently in development. That is, SOE have made a lot of promises of what the game will be capable of but we’ve seen exceedingly little of it in action. You can be among the first to see if the developer has managed to follow through and create a destructible MMO that does away with the D&D ruleset and static design model we’ve come to know so well.

Well, sort of.

SOE have begun selling Founder’s Packs for EverQuest Next Landmark. The offshoot project that will precede EverQuest Next.

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Riot to move into "bodaciously productive" new workspace a la Pixar and Google

11 November 2013 • 5 hours 5 min ago • Story by Jeremy Peel

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We’ve meticulously tracked the growth of League of Legends as it's unapologetically burst through every invisible barrier holding back online gaming. We applauded as the LCS found a new venue alongside the NBA in the LA Staples Center, and cheered on the pros now recognised as proper athletes in the eyes of the US government.

What we haven’t been keeping an eye on is its developers, whose girth has grown in tandem with their game. So much so that they’re having to unbuckle their belt and find a new place to live.

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Open-world survivalist horror meets the Oculus Rift in The Forest

11 November 2013 • 8 hours 30 min ago • Story by Jeremy Peel

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Survival horror means struggling to line up a shot on a zombie because your PlayStation controller is a bit funky. It’s mostly something that happened in the ‘90s.

Survivalist horror means scraping together scant defence against the emergent threats audibly moving about the woods outside. In both technology and design, it couldn’t be more now. It’s defined by games like The Forest - part Tomb Raider, part Minecraft, and all a bit much. Am I okay to crawl under my desk now?

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Planescape Producer’s Deathfire: Ruins Of Nethermore

By John Walker on November 11th, 2013 at 9:00 am.

Guido Henkel may not be one of the most immediately familiar names, but there’s a good chance you’ve played a game he’s worked on. As well as being co-creator of the German RPG series Realms Of Arkania, he also just happened to produce a game called Planescape: Torment, and had a hand in Fallout 2. Oh, and he’s the guy from the front cover of Planescape! And now he’s after some of that sweet, sweet Kickstarter cash to fund a new fantasy roleplayer in the Grimrock mould. And it couldn’t have a more RPG name: Deathfire: Ruins Of Nethermore.

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Thief Will Officially Support AMD’s Mantle, TressFX 2.0 Announced

Posted on November 11, 2013 by John Papadopoulos

AMD’s Developer Summit will begin shortly, and we’ve already got some interesting news for you. A couple of days ago, Square Enix stated that it would support AMD’s Mantle, though we had no official word on Thief supporting it. Well, we just got a confirmation. During AMD’s event, Nixxes Software’s Jurjen Katsman (yeap, once again Nixxes is handling the PC version of EIDOS Montreal’s title) will speak about Thief, Mantle, 4K gaming and AMD’s TrueAudio. Continue reading →

Pirates of New Horizons Is An Interesting 3D Action Adventure, Gets A Kickstarter Campaign

Posted on November 11, 2013 by John Papadopoulos

Our reader ‘Dakan45′ has informed us about an interesting Action Adventure/3D Jump’n Run title that focuses on looting, pillaging and… throwing cats. Pirates of New Horizons is inspired by Mario, Monkey Island, God of War and Zelda. The team has launched a Kickstarter campaign for it, and aims to raise $10K in the next 20 days. Continue reading →

Take On Mars – Deimos Content Update Trailer

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Thomas P

Bohemia Interactive has released a new trailer for the latest content update of Take On Mars. Featuring two new locations and the Zero-G Probe vehicle, this content update also implements new features such as dynamic mission generation and a spectacular new weather system. Continue reading →

Reset’s IndieGoGo Campaign Is Now Live

Posted on November 11, 2013 by John Papadopoulos

Theory Interactive has launched today the crowdfunding IndieGoGo campaign for Reset. The team aims to raise €65K in the next 43 days, and those interested can back it up by visiting its IndieGoGo page. Reset is described as a sci-fi noir, a mystery, a first person puzzle game that is infused with mind boggling puzzles, a grippingly haunting but beautiful story and an unparalleled immersive atmosphere. Continue reading →

IndieGoGo Campaign Launched For Interference; a technoir stealth puzzle-platformer

Posted on November 10, 2013 by John Papadopoulos

Andrew Silverman has informed us about a new IndieGoGo campaign for a new title. French artist Anthony Beyer has just launched the Indiegogo campaign for his technoir stealth-based platformer, Interference. Interference is a stealth puzzle-platformer set in the tech-noir city of Arachnopolis, a place where citizens’ rights have been replaced by totalitarianism, oppression, and a robotic police force. Continue reading →

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World of Warcraft’s sixth expansion already in the works

World of Warcraft’s fifth expansion Warlords of Draenor was only unveiled at BlizzCon this weekend, but the one after that is already on the go.

Diablo 3 on PC has a “very different rhythm” to the console versions, which is why it will be sticking with keyboard and mouse rather than getting controller support.

“The Injustice saga is finally complete,” the narrator says in this trailer for Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition, which includes all DLC add-ons.

Greetings Citizens,

First the Xi’an and now the Banu – Star Citizen’s backers are making it possible to greatly expand the user experience! Here’s the stretch goal you unlocked at $27 million:

Banu Merchantman Unlocked – Banu traders are renowed for their merchant prowess, traveling the spacelanes and trading with everyone from humans to the Vanduul! Their sturdy, dedicated trading ships are prized beyond all other transports, sometimes passing from generation to generation of Banu. At $23 million we dedicated additional resources to making Xi’An spacecraft a unique experience. At $27 million, we will expand that same thinking to the Banu! Starting with the merchant ship, the design team will expand Banu technology to offer players a completely different way of experiencing their universe.

We’re eager to get to work building out the Banu spaceflight systems… watch this space to learn how we’re going to make it a distinct experience from flying a human-designed ship. And since we hit this goal before November 26th, the Banu merchantman will be one of the ships available during the sale (you heard it here first!)

Now that we’ve reached $27 million, the Banu merchant ship will be sent to top concept artists for further development. In the meantime, I’d like to share with you some of the art that has resulted from the previous Xi’An stretch goal: the first concept painting of a Xi’An capital ship!

We’re going to devote the $29 million stretch goal to more resources for the single player game, Squadron 42. With Erin Roberts and the other veterans at Foundry 42 hard at work on the game, you can trust that it’s going to be great. Now we’d like to give them some extra resources to work with!

Enhanced Mission Design for Squadron 42 – The team at Foundry 42 has big plans for Squadron 42, and we’re going to provide extra funding to make it a true spiritual successor to Wing Commander! Squadron 42 can go above and beyond anything you’ve seen before. From opening with an epic battle instead of a training patrol to missions that seamlessly combine boarding and space combat, we aim to put you right into the action! Additional funding will let the team realize this, with enhanced mission design and more resources and animations to enhance fidelity.

Big publishers haven’t been willing to invest this kind of money to improve PC games in a long time… we’re going to prove it’s worth it. That wouldn’t be possible without your support; thank you to all backers for helping make this game possible.

— Chris Roberts

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