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Torment: Tides of Numenera vote decides in favour of turn-based combat

Torment: Tides of Numenera crowdfunding backers have voted for inXile to implement turn-based combat rather than a real-time with pausing system as seen in spiritual precursor Planescape: Torment and many classic CRPGs.

Riot Games has elected to change policies on professional League of Legends players’ streaming activities following negative community reaction.

Galactic Princess gives you a ship, a universe, and tells you to go make money however you can

08 December 2013 • 11 hours 10 min ago • Story by Julian Benson

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“In the wild space, everyone tries to survive the best they can,” writes Mickaël Mancini. “Some use diplomacy, some prefer sneaky methods, but most of them will find a greater interest in fighting.”

You’ll build a ship, crew it with a multitude of alien species - all of whom are suited to different tasks - and explore the galaxy making profit where you can.

Brutal Doom Looks Ludicrously Amazing – New Video Showcases Blood Decals On Sprites

Posted on December 8, 2013 by John Papadopoulos

Modder ‘Sergeant_Mark_IV’ released a new video, showcasing a new feature of Brutal Doom that will be implemented in its next version. As a result of Sergeant_Mark_IV’s work, all decorative actors and objects – in other words, all 2D sprites – will be covered by blood when players explode an enemy to pieces. Brutal Doom looks ubber sexy, and gives a new meaning to the word ‘brutal’. There is no ETA yet about Brutal Doom v19b but we’ll be sure to keep you posted. Enjoy! Continue reading →

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Sleeping Dogs: Triad Wars gets first off-screen photo from United Front Games

Sleeping Dogs follow-up Triad Wars has been given the blurry photo treatment courtesy of developer United Front Games. Get a glimpse of the title here.

Alien: Isolation developer The Creative Assembly has been quiet on the project for some time now, but two pieces of concept art have revealed what could be Ripley’s daughter, and the space station where it’s set.

The Division publisher Ubisoft revealed a new trailer at the VGX awards, showcasing the shooter’s Snowdrop engine. Now, the studio has published a blog that goes into the tech in greater detail.

Online game retailer Good Old Games has confirmed it will offer refunds to unsatisfied customers with 30 days of purchase.

Fallout 4′s Survivor 2299 teaser site was confirmed as fakeby Bethesda over the weekend, and now the perp behind the prank has come clean to explain why he did it.

Without prior notice, DICE has released a new server and a new client patch for Battlefield 4 on PC. The changes include fixing some collision bugs along with some client crash bugs, get the full list below.

Eve pilots raise $185,175 for Icelandic Red Cross in PLEX for Good charity drive

09 December 2013 • 8 hours 29 min ago • Story by Jeremy Peel

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A year and a half of the most entertaining PCGN news stories are testament to the fact that PLEX makes people do very bad things. Best was http://www.pcgamesn.com/eve/eve-online-spy-disbands-major-alliance-inside-takes-400-billion-isk">the spy who disbanded a major alliance from the inside and made off with 400 billion ISK (one of Ian Fleming's lesser-known novels).

But occasionally, PLEX sees a group of like-minded Eve fans do something very good. Over the last couple of weeks, for instance, they’ve raised 12,345 PLEX for the Icelandic Red Cross - $185,175 in real-world currency.

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Solarix is a new first-person survival-horror game that is powered by Unreal Engine

Posted on December 9, 2013 by John Papadopoulos

Pulsetense Games has informed us about its new first person survival-horror title called Solarix. Solarix is powered by the Unreal Engine and follows the story of an electrical engineer on an orbital research station, desperately fighting for his life after an infection wipes out his isolated community. Continue reading →

Ubisoft On The Division’s Destruction: “The destruction effect is not pre-baked in the game”

Posted on December 9, 2013 by John Papadopoulos

Tom Clancy’s The Division looks sexy as hell and today Ubisoft revealed some new information about its Snowdrop engine. According to the French company, the destruction system is procedural and real-time, and nothing is pre-baked or pre-computed. Continue reading →

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Fez sales reach 1 million across all platforms

Fez has passed the million sales milestone, triumphantly overcoming its scandal-ridden history.

Dead Space developer Visceral Games seems to be hiring for an unannounced new project.

The Walking Dead developer Telltale has released a Vine teaser for Season Two, which comes with a content warning for feelings.

Dota 2 is hosting an end-of-year holiday event called Frostivus this month, and although we don’t have concrete details yet, Valve has begun teasing the festive happenings.

EA, the publisher voted Worst Company in America two years running, has just scored at least its third gong as one of the best places in the nation to work.

Hand of Fate’s development team has successfully wooed David Goldfarb, best known for Payday 2 and Battlefield 3, into serving as a guest designer.

Tactical RPG The Banner Saga will launch on January 14, over a year after it was funded on Kickstarter. VG247′s Dave Cook talks with ex-BioWare developer Alex Thomas to discover why this could be the biggest release of his career.

Minecraft developer Mojang has confirmed that – unless the world implodes or something cataclysmic like that – its latest update will bring Twitch broadcasting to its blocky world of creation.

Camelot Unchained developer City State Entertainment has posted a Q&A update for its Kickstarter-funded realm v realm successor to Dark Age of Camelot. In it, the game’s creators talk stretch goals, physical copies and the ability for users to create custom add-ons.

TellTale Games was unveiled as developing a Game of Thrones title at the VGX awards over the weekend, but HBO has now confirmed that that’s ‘titles’ plural. The deal between both parties has been explained in some more detail by the TV firm. Still no word if you can decapitate that horse though.

Call of Duty: Ghosts looks like it’s getting some white wolf micro-DLC that transforms your guard dog killstreak into a snarling mess of bloody teeth and snowdrop fur.

The Division: Snowdrop trailer

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The Witcher 3 VGX trailer

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CD Projekt RED released this veru high quality version of the VGX trailer of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt . And as usual with this polish developer, it doesn't disappoint!

Outcast II: The Lost Paradise – Real-Time Prototype Footage Unveiled

Posted on December 10, 2013 by John Papadopoulos

Outcast is now considered a classic PC game that blown everyone away with its amazing reflections and its clever use of voxels. However, it appears that the game did not sell well back in the days, which is why its sequel – Outcast II: The Lost Paradise – would be coming first on consoles. As Franck Sauer – one of the original developers – revealed, Outcast sold 400K copies (way bellow Infogrames’ goal that was one million copies), Outcast II: The Lost Paradise was meant to have more action and less adventure, and a prototype video from it has just been unveiled. We highly recommend visiting Franck’s blog as it contains lots of juicy information about Outcast II: The Lost Paradise. Kudos to NeoGAF for spotting it. Enjoy the prototype video after the jump! Continue reading →

TitanFall Will Be Playable At 4K On A Single Nvidia GTX Titan

Posted on December 10, 2013 by John Papadopoulos

Nvidia has released a new video in which its engineers and military personnel traveled to Los Angeles to bring the Respawn Development team GeForce GTX TITANs and NVIDIA SHIELDs. It’s an interesting video but what’s buried in that video is more interesting than the fact that TitanFall will work great with Nvidia’s GPUs. Continue reading →

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Hey zarx, I just noticed that "Race The Sun", that indie game you posted about here with its developers saying that it was hard to make money if you're not on Steam, and then mentioned that it was in the Greenlight section, is the 26th best selling game on Steam right now. And it's even in the top slideshow! (thanks to its 25% off but whatever).

I hope things are going well for them.

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JEMC said:

I hope things are going well for them.

Yea I saw it pop up. While I wish them all the best (it's a neat little game) I can't say that 26th is too impressive a debute, while it varies I have seen some games get to the top ten with ~10k sales (in a day but still) and it will probably quickly drop off from that point. Tho there are plenty of sales on at the moment so maybe it's not too bad at all. It will surely increase their sales by a good margin probably double them easily. It is a niche game with limited appeal and is probably still a tad overpriced for what it is considering the genre and platform (tho I felt it was a fair price for myself I can't see a lot of people jumping in even at 25% off). Which is a bit sad, hopefully they get into a sale or a good bundle. They are talented people with interesting ideas and it would be sad to see them fail. Maybe they will release sales data, and I hope to be wrong and the steam release to be very successful for them.

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We are working on a new video that will show the open world mystery aspect of Reset. Here is a teaser screenshot from it. The video will be coming at the end of this week!

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12-Year-Old Learns to Program Graphics Chips, Aims to Build Ultimate Minecraft Server

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GeForce Experience 1.8: Introducing Adjustable Optimal Playable Settings & Significant ShadowPlay Updates

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With the new Adjustable Optimal Settings feature, GeForce Experience now supports user customization profiles in addition to automatic settings. Also, your most-requested features are now available in ShadowPlay. Download now to optimize your experience.

Shadowrun Returns now available on GOG.com, coming DRM-free to Linux soon

Shadowrun Returns developer Harebrained Scahemes has made good on its promise to release a DRM-free version of the old school RPG.

Blizzard has added an in-game store to the World of Warcraft client, meaning you no longer need to alt-tab out to the web-based store when you espy a mount or pet you simply cannot live without. The developer is now expected to begin implementing other up-to-the-minute next-gen features like metal tools instead of those clumsy old stone things, and planting fields rather than just wandering around hoping enough food grows in the wild. Pets and mounts are currently on sale, by the way.

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Proteus patch improves frame rate, adds “wild” Sony content

Proteus has been patched with fixes for a couple of niggling issues and the introduction of optional content found in the PlayStation 3 and Vita builds.

Dota 2′s end of year event has once more been interrupted by in-canon interference, this time from “the only king that matters“. Destructoid points out that the Skeleton King is no longer playable in-game, and his puppet has vanished from the Frostivus page. Scour the page to harvest clues from the barely decipherable text in the background, and stay tuned to Valve to find out what it all means.

Battlefield 4 Top Issues Tracker follows DICE’s patching progress

Battlefield 4 developer DICE has dropped everything to get the beleaguered shooter into shape, and has introduced a new resource to help you keep track of its progress.

Project Eternity has been dubbed Pillars of Eternity by developer Obsidian Entertainment, which also offers a first gameplay trailer for the crowdfunded classic RPG.

Samurai Gunn, the “lightning-fast Bushido brawler”, has arrived on PC ahead of Sony platform launches next year.

Hack ‘N’ Slash, on of the prototype games included in Double Fine’s Amnesia Fortnight 2012 bundle, is being rejigged for full release.

The current Humble Bundle, dubbed the Jumbo Bundle, has reached its midpoint, meaning it’s bonus game time. Today sees three additions to the beat-the-average part of it, and they are Cities in Motion 2, Orcs Must Die 1 GOTY and the Sanctum Collection. The average sits a bit over $4 right now.

Company of Heroes 2 gets two free maps, Southern Fronts pack out today

Company of Heroes 2 has been updated with a significant slice of new free content and improvements, as well as receiving a hefty new premium DLC pack.

Rome 2′s Caesar in Gaul DLC was announced eight days ago (find out all about it here) and planned for release on Thursday for $15, but now Creative Assembly are pushing it back to December 17 to give them time to add more fixes to the patch that will download when the DLC goes live.

Notch wanted to “create a Valve,” not work for actual Valve

Years ago when Minecraft was still in beta — only on computers back then, but still very popular — Markus ‘Notch’ Persson was invited to visit Valve in Washington, and while there he received a job offer from the juggernaut publisher. He turned it down, and explained why in new book Minecraft: The Unlikely Tale of Markus ‘Notch’ Persson and the Game that Changed Everything.

Titanfall got a paid of hard-hitting trailers during the VGX awards over the weekend, and Respawn co-founder Vince Zampella has said that the team is “definitely” thinking about a beta trial before the game drops on March 11.

Train Simulator 2014 developer Rail Simulator has re-branded itself Dovetail Games with immediate effect.

Entropy is the new space MMO from Battlestar Galactica Online developer Artplant, and it’s live today via Steam Early Access.

Guild Wars 2 starts laying out the presents for Wintersday

10 December 2013 • 6 hours 29 min ago • Story by Matt Purslow

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If your personal highlight of last year’s Guild Wars 2 calendar was the present-packed Wintersday festival, then start getting your best festive armour out the wardrobe. Wintersday is back for 2014, and with it comes Toymaker Tixx and his flying workshop of wonders!

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Work in-progress HistWar: Napoleon marches in time for Christmas

10 December 2013 • 6 hours 41 min ago • Story by robzacny

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In my dreams, we'd get turn-based wargames based on the engines from Company of Heroes and the Total War series. That way we could have visually stunning, realistic portrayals of historical conflicts. But while I doubt I'll ever see a Close Combat game with the production values of Company of Heroes, I do believe my ship may have come in with HistWar: Napoleon.

Seriously, this trailer makes it look like a dream for people who care about historically accurate regimental uniforms and the difficulties of Napoleonic command and control.

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Eldar warp into Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade

10 December 2013 • 6 hours 50 min ago • Story by Matt Purslow

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In the dirty future of the 41st Millenium, the Space Marine is the M16 assault rifle of races. They’ll always be there, but with familiarity comes a little boredom. We’ll always love the Imperium of Man and its nutty techno-god beliefs, but sometimes tanks dressed in gothic architecture isn’t enough to satisfy our sci-fi cravings. We want flying tanks, exploding minds, and towering avatars sweeped in flame. It’s not something Space Marines, nor their usual adversaries the Chaos Marines or Orks can provide.

Luckily the Edar have enough shuriken rifles and Wraithguards to fulfil our needs for brightly coloured particle effects. They’re the latest addition to Eternal Crusade, the MMOFPS in development at Behaviour Interactive.

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Riot Games API now in beta

10 December 2013 • 7 hours 54 min ago • Story by Matt Purslow

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League of Legends developer Riot Games has just gone and slammed the launch button on their new API beta. For anyone with a League of Legends account, you can now have a tinker with a new piece of software that allows you to build tools and apps that link in to the League of Legends experience (provided you’ve got some coding know-how, of course).

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Creative mod(e): Minecraft Modjam to envelop this weekend

10 December 2013 • 11 hours 55 min ago • Story by Jeremy Peel

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Modjam is a 96 hour competition in which participants are tasked with building a Minecraft project from scratch. Not the usual tools, the pickaxes and shovels and hoes, for them: instead The Code, the arcane stuff the game is made of. Nominally unofficial but run by a member of Mojang’s hallowed Minecraft team, it’s a very special event indeed.

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Nu-Thief to feature 'Classic' difficulty mode and entirely removable UI

10 December 2013 • 15 hours 33 min ago • Story by Jeremy Peel

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Eidos Montreal have tackled the decidedly mixed response to early Thief footage in a fashion that’s either incredibly accommodating or take-my-lunch-money feeble. They’ve cut the XP system, scrapped QTEs, and now introduced enough turn-offables to their options menu to reduce the game to a camera on a stick in a dark place with nothing left to complain about.

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John Carmack Talks About Doom 4: “id Software should do more things more often”

Posted on December 10, 2013 by John Papadopoulos

Today is Doom’s 20th anniversary and Wired has a long interview with John Carmack about this legendary FPS title. At the end of the interview, Wired asked John what was going on with Doom 4 and as most would expect, John did not reveal much. John claimed that this subject is something he can’t really go into much in detail, though he did reveal some tiny bit information about its development. Continue reading →

Legends of Persia – New Hack n Slash RPG – First Gameplay Footage Revealed, Releases This January

Posted on December 10, 2013 by Thomas P

Sourena Game Studio announced today the impending release of Legends Of Persia to the PC and has released a new trailer featuring gameplay footage from this new hack n slash title. Scheduled for release in January of 2014, the game is an ambitious Action RPG Adventure in style of Diablo incorporating bloody battles, item usage, character building, and storyline incorporation. Continue reading →

Awesomenauts: Starstorm Expansion Launches On December 12th

Posted on December 10, 2013 by John Papadopoulos

Ronimo Games has announced that Starstorm - an epic expansion of the multiplayer action game Awesomenauts – will be released on December 12th. This initial release will be an early access package for the Starstorm DLC, which was successfully funded on Kickstarter last September. The early access pack is all about the first of five upcoming characters: Ted McPain. Continue reading →

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