Archived News:
Heroes Over Europe Detailed on IncGamers checks in with Justin Halliday to
discuss progress on Heroes Over Europe, the upcoming World War II air
combat sequel. The conversation covers a variety of topics, including a couple
of points they highlight separately, one on
the game's four online multiplayer modes, and
another detailing the "Ace Kill" feature where keeping an enemy plane in
your sights long enough will provide an opportunity to take it out with a single
shot.
A new patch is automatically available for America's Army 3 through
Steam. The new version
has a few tweaks, fixes a number of bugs, and adds PunkBuster setup steps to
installation.
Steam News announces an
update for Trine is now automatically available to update Frozenbyte's
action/platformer. Here's what's new:
• Fixed alt-tab crash after 1.02 patch
• Fixed developer controls that broke the game after 1.02 patch
• Fixed Steam Achievements
A new "villains" cinematic trailer brings on the bad guys from Batman: Arkham
Asylum, the upcoming superhero action game. Joker, Poison Ivy, Killer Croc,
and Bane are all featured, with glimpses of a couple of other characters thrown
in for good measure. The clip is posted on
ActionTrip,
AtomicGamer,
FileFront, and Gamer's
Hell.
Thanks Mike Martinez and Ant.
Thanks Mike Martinez and Ant.
Link of the Day:
Happy Birthday, Electric Guitar. Thanks Ant.
R.I.P.:
Charles N. Brown, 1937-2009. Locus publisher, editor, and co-founder.
Thanks Fran.
The gaming mavens at the
Wall Street
Journal report BioShock 2 is delayed from the October 30 European
release revealed all of six weeks ago. The delay is until Take
Two's fiscal 2010, which begins on November 1, 2009, though the safe presumption
is the game will be delayed from its planned November 3 release in North America
as well. The announcement is accompanied by word that Take Two is revising their
financial projections downward, and the statement from Chairman Strauss Zelnick
reads: "We recognize that our revised outlook for the balance of fiscal year
2009, due to both internal and external factors, is a disappointment. That said,
we concluded that moving the release of 'BioShock 2' into fiscal year 2010 was
the right decision for the product." There's an additional comment on
Kotaku
(thanks nin) where Take Two says the delay is to "provide additional development
time for the title."
The RAGE Official Website is
online as an elaborate Flash home to the racy post-apocalyptic shooter in the
works at id Software. The theme of the site is "follow my journey" and it's a
bit of a hunt for hidden clues. According to
this Tweet, "make
sure you return to the site every day this week to learn more," and the site
seems to indicate this journey will go on for four weeks.
A new patch for Geo-Political Simulator 2009 is now available to update
this strategy game also known as Commander-in-Chief to version 2.36. Downloads
of the new version can be found on
The
Patches Scrolls, where they also offer
the complete patch
notes.
Gamersyde has some info
on the next Tomb Raider game based on
a post on fourplayercoop from a fact sheet that's been subsequently "lawyered." What
remains are indications that the next installment in the action/adventure series will carry
an "M" rating, and will be set on an island featuring open-world gameplay.
Thanks Gamer's Hell.
Malfador Machinations ( Space Empires)
reveals development of World Supremacy, though
a batch of screenshots on the
game's preliminary product
section offers about all there is to know about this project so far other
than plans to release the game by the end of this year. Thanks
Big
Download.
Command and Conquer DEN reproduces a forum post from EA community manager
APOC refuting rumors that the version 1.3 patch for Command & Conquer 3:
Kane's Wrath has been cancelled (thanks Ant). Here's a bit: What I
can tell you right now is, this patch is not can cancelled. I will be working
with the dev team to see what kind of production timeline we can accomplish
within our resources, and I’ll keep you posted as much as possible.
To set expectations, we will not look to release a KW patch until after the
ladder season completes. This will also help us properly reset the competitive
playing field under new balance rules and strats once the ladder season is
complete.
The
Call of Duty: World at War Forums have news from Treyarch that owners
of the Windows edition of Call of Duty: World at War can expect the second map
pack for the World War II shooter sequel to be included in the coming version
1.5 patch (thanks ClanBase).
Word is: Hey PC fans,
I just wanted to give a brief update to let you know that Map Pack 2 will be
included in Patch 1.5!
It’s in test right now, and is looking great – I will have more information next
week.
The
Warhammer Herald has some answers to fan-submitted questions about future
plans for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (thanks
IncGamers). The answer to the final question about server populations
indicates further server merges may be coming: The concern with scaling
the population display so that it is relative is that we might show a server
population as “High” when it actually isn’t, because it just happens to have the
highest population at that time. We do not wish these labels to be misleading in
any way. That being said, we are expecting to resolve our long term population
issues on our lower population servers and see high populations regularly as
part and parcel of server merges that are currently in discussion.
Gaming Made Me: Ken Levine on Rock, Paper, Shotgun offers the verbose
designer's version of a brief rundown of the games that influenced him and the
direction of his career in game development. He specifically mentions
Adventure, Castle Wolfenstein, The Legend of Zelda, and
Ultima Underworld.
Gameplayer - Online Multiplayer is Under Threat.
At the birth of this generation everyone was doing multiplayer. It held
equal gravitas to single player on almost all the major game releases. The
consoles were fully online, the marketplace was lucrative, Halo 3 and
Resistance were leading the charge and it was simply the done thing: the no
brainer. At this year’s E3, however, we were startled by the number of games
which did not have any multiplayer at all. A common retort to questions
regarding multiplayer being “we decided to concentrate fully on making the
most compelling single player experience possible.”
Last week's episode of Penn
& Teller: Bullshit! on game violence is on the YouTube (thanks
GamePolitics). Here's
Part 1, Part 2, and
Part 3 (NSFW).
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