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Longbow Games announces Hegemony Rome: The Rise of Caesar, saying the sequel to their RTS game Hegemony Gold: Wars of Ancient Greece is expected in spring 2012. The new installment in the series jumps ahead a few centuries: "Hegemony Rome: The Rise of Caesar takes you to the plains and forests of ancient Gaul where the proconsul Julius Caesar will wage a decade long war to subjugate the barbarian hordes that so often threatened the Eternal City and establish a power base for his political ambitions at home. Like Hegemony Gold, Rise of Caesar will immerse you in the history like no other real time strategy game on the market, forcing you to pay close attention to the changing seasons and a rapidly changing military situation." The Hegemony Rome: The Rise of Caesar Website is online, offering this trailer. Continue here to read the full story.
Battleblog #13 on the Battlefield Blog outlines features of some multiplayer maps in Battlefield 3, DICE's upcoming military shooter sequel. Designer Niklas Åstrand gives the lowdown on Operation Firestorm, Operation Metro, Tehran Highway, Damavand Peak, accompanied by screenshots of each. They promise a similar rundown on the remaining multiplayer maps from the game will be posted tomorrow.
The Team Fortress 2 Website announces that the Steam Workshop is live, offering a new submission hub for community-created content. Word is this: "makes it easy for you to upload entries, check on their status and get feedback from us at Valve." Speaking of Team Fortress 2, they also announce that the Mann Store went live exactly one year ago to sell user-created items for the teamplay shooter, and that item creators have raked in more than $2,000,000 in that time. To celebrate this anniversary, they are having a Manniversary Sale, where "almost everything is on sale" between now and Monday.
This auction on charitybuzz offers the chance to bid on a package to benefit the Call of Duty Endowment. The winner will receive a Call of Duty: Black Ops Edition Limited-Edition 2011 Jeep Wrangler, a tour of Treyarch Studios, and a chance to meet the creators of Call of Duty: Black Ops.
A new Dev Diary trailer #4 for Dungeon Defenders takes a look at the role-playing elements in Trendy Entertainment's upcoming tower defense/action/RPG. In the clip: "The devs show off how players can level the four different character classes, find tons of loot, raise and collect a variety of pets with different abilities, and forge and trade equipment." Continue here to read the full story.
Mod DB now offers THE CORE, a custom campaign for Portal 2, Valve's first person puzzle/platformer. Apparently some "fiddling" was required to get this working after the release of the new co-op DLC for the game, but it is now ready to roll. Here's word on what it offers: "THE CORE is a custom campaign for Portal 2 with a new testing approach called "fake coop". You will always be required to manipulate a cube ore a sphere trough the levels in order to complete them. In addition to 6 maps with new puzzles, the campaign contains additional GLaDOS lines as well as new music, madia and lines for the companion sphere you'll be working with..." Thanks Ant.
- Football Manager 2012 on Steam. Pre-purchase and get three TF2 items.
- Heroes of Might and Magic V on Steam. Save 50%.
- Homefront on Steam. Save 50%.
- Homefront Fire Sale Map DLC on Steam. Save 50%.
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- Tomb Raider: Anniversary on Steam. Save 66%.
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The Deus Ex: Human Revolution Facebook Page now offers release date and pricing details on The Missing Link, the upcoming DLC for Deus Ex: Human Revolution (thanks nin). Here's word on availability of new content for Eidos Montreal's action/RPG prequel, which now has a Steam Page: The Missing Link will be released on October 18th, 2011 on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC in North America! Will retail for 1200 MSP / $14.99. In Europe, it will be released on October 18th for Xbox 360 and PC, and October 19th for PS3, and priced at 1200 MSP / €11.25 (PS3) / €10.99 (PC).
Might & Magic Heroes VI is now available from Ubisoft, offering Windows PC gamers the chance to revisit this turn-based strategy series with Black Hole Entertainment's reboot that serves as a prequel to Heroes of Might and Magic V. Simultaneous with the release is a "day one" patch with bug fixes as well as five new multiplayer maps, a download which is mirrored on AtomicGamer, Gamer's Hell, and The Patches Scrolls. The release is also accompanied by a huge batch of screenshots and a launch trailer. Here's word on the game: Today, Ubisoft announced that Might & Magic Heroes VI is now available worldwide. Developed by Black Hole Entertainment, Heroes VI is the prequel to Heroes V and showcases a family of heroes in a thrilling, epic story where Angels plot to revive an unfinished war. Might & Magic Heroes VI is rated T for Teen and is available exclusively on Windows PC.
In celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Might & Magic universe, Heroes VI reboots the acclaimed classic by rediscovering the essence and richness of previous universes and introducing a high-fantasy atmosphere in Ashan. In this updated installment, the landscapes and creatures from the World of Ashan are presented in improved 3D designs and includes an exclusive new bestiary. Also new to the franchise is the Reputation System, which allows Heroes to shape their own destiny through two intriguing scenarios, Blood and Tears.
Heroes VI is available as a PC Download for $49.99. A Deluxe Edition is also available for $54.99. This bonus edition of Heroes VI contains exclusive content including one bonus single player Skirmish map, four Dynasty Heroes, two Dynasty weapons, a one month subscription to Might & Magic Heroes Kingdoms, game soundtrack, artbook and poster.
For more information, visit: www.mightandmagicgame.com
To Purchase M&M Heroes VI, visit the UbiShop: http://shop.ubi.com/store/ubina/en_US/pd/productID.212641600
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The Syndicate Website now offers a new trailer (NSFW) from Syndicate, offering almost 11 minutes of gameplay from Starbreeze's upcoming first-person shooter remake of Syndicate (thanks VG247). The clip is narrated by EA's Jeff Gamon, the game's executive producer, who outlines the elements of the "executive search" mission it depicts from an early level of the game. Several gameplay elements are revealed along the way, including environments; the implanted chip that augments (for lack of a better term) your character with navigation, hacking, and psionic abilities; stealth; combat (both melee and shooting, with each weapon having an alternate fire mode); cover; gruesome chip harvesting; and more on-screen text than most web-browsers. The clip shows ample use of the "X" button, so it is probably from the Xbox 360 version.
The Cliffhanger Productions Newsletter reveals plans for Shadowrun Online, an upcoming browser-based MMOG from the folks behind Jagged Alliance Online, and according to Eurogamer, Shadowrun creator Jordan Weisman is involved in the project. The newsletter offers a screenshot from an "early prototype," and here's word on the game: The game will feature two major parts – the action map, where you (and your friends) do missions from stealthily infiltrating a secret Renraku research facility to punching the lights out of a major Aztechnology outpost with guns blazing. Hacking, magic and gunfights are all part of that and will be done simultaneously (so nobody needs to go for pizza while your hacker battles Black ICE for two hours).
The second part will be the legwork and mission preparation. This will happen on a city overview map, where you can try and use your contacts, skills or resources to gain info on the mission goal, acquire blueprints, bribe guards or prepare the right soft or spell for your endeavor. This will be closer to rolling the dice on an action and getting a short narrated outcome. Each of those actions will cost action points (and if you want to get better odds you may want to spend more action points on a specific objective).
So if you don’t have the time for an extended session, you may just want to spend a couple of AP to prepare and make sure you get the most out of your mission when you actually want to tackle it.
Update: There's more detail in this FAQ (thanks Creston), including this: Question: "What can you tell us to scare away the evil spirit of the recent xbox 'shadowrun' game?" Answer: "it is nothing like the xbox game."
This interview on Skewed and Reviewed talks with Jon Jacob about Hunt The THING, a new CryENGINE 2 MMOFPS tie-in with The Thing, both the John Carpenter movie and the upcoming prequel. Jon is the NEVERDIE famed for buying and selling virtual items for record prices in Entropia Universe, and the game is a product of Neverdie Studios as part of their ROCKtropia virtual world, which itself is a subset of the Entropia Universe. Here are a couple of answers that outline how this all works: How did the idea for the game come about and what is the background and setting for the game and how close does it follow the new and previous film?
We were discussing with Universal the possibility of using ROCKtropia as a backdrop for Movie length MMO’s and The THING stood out as a perfect fit. Our Platform Entropia universe features the Cryengine2 which is an amzing graphics engine for creating stunning Landscapes and the Antarctic is such a powerful setting. We chose to draw our inspiration primarily from both John Carpenters’ The THING and the upcoming prequal, but our story is set on our Virtual World ROCKtropia which exists in a parallel Universe so we are not Locked into the specific storylines of the movie.
How is player vs. player going to be handled?
Well since this is a free to play adventure inside an MMO with a micro transaction economy, you need to be super careful with Your free Ammo, if you blow too much, then you are going to have to visit the Supply Dump and try to pick up enough free oil barrels to trade for ammo, but the supply dump is a PVP combat Zone, so You are gonna have to fight for it. When you are ready for your final showdown with The THING, you are also going to be in a PVP combat zone so you are going to need to make alliances to survive.
Rockstar Games announces it is celebrating the tenth anniversary of the release of Grand Theft Auto III, the life-of-crime game that pioneered open-world sandbox gameplay. Here's word on what they are doing to commemorate the occasion: Mobile versions of the game will be available to play at the 2011 New York Comic-Con from October 14-16, 2011. Attendees of the show will be able to tour the Grand Theft Auto III gallery featuring the game’s signature art, and will also have the opportunity to win special anniversary edition Grand Theft Auto III and Rockstar Games merchandise. For those unable to attend, the Rockstar Warehouse (www.rockstarwarehouse.com) is relaunching today, where the special anniversary edition items will be available for purchase throughout October.
Beginning today, the limited-edition action figure of Grand Theft Auto III lead character, Claude, will be available for pre-order through the Rockstar Warehouse. The action figure will be on sale on October 20. The fully articulated 1:6 scale Claude figure comes dressed in his original attire of cargo pants and a bomber jacket, and is also supplied with his iconic Liberty City Prison-issued jumpsuit. The Claude figure is equipped with an arsenal of classic weapons from Grand Theft Auto III, including a bat, knife, grenades, pistol, sniper rifle, and assault rifle. Rockstar Social Club members can enter to win one of three Claude action figures through October 16 by visiting www.rockstargames.com/socialclub*.
*No purchase necessary to enter. Void in certain countries and where prohibited. Must be 18 or older. Ends 10/16/11. See www.rockstargames.com/socialclub/events for complete official rules and eligibility details.
An article on Gamasutra outlines reasons for the recently announced plans to reset stats in Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad based on a conversation with Alan Wilson of Tripwire Interactive. "Basically, the system was over-recording the points scoring in the system and 'leeching' points from one player to another on servers, so artificially boosting players," Alan explains. "Once we had thousands of people playing, this problem became really obvious - instead of it happening slowly, it suddenly started happening really quickly. This was crediting players with kills they hadn't got and so on, at the end of rounds. That would then push the players' rankings way up, as well as their weapon experience." Alan also admits this situation has "probably" put off some players. "Some people, who put in a lot of hours after launch, are unhappy, but that is why we are running at double XP right now - so people can get back to where they actually should be, reasonably quickly," he tells them. "For most people, it was more of a relief - more of an indication that we have been fixing stuff!"
Matrix Games announces a new patch is now available for Combat Command: The Matrix Edition, updating this World War II strategy game to version 1.03. Word is: "The 1.03 update corrects problems with withdrawals, improves the editor, and brings a variety of other fixes and improvements." The patch can be downloaded from this page.
Fed up with Chrome almost always starting up with a complaint that it hadn't been shut down properly, I did a little Googling to see if the source of this problem could be identified. I found threads on this dating back years, with the most tried and true solution being to uninstall the browser, delete all its orphaned subdirectories, and start from scratch. Not having the time or inclination to subject myself to all that, I tried a secondary solution that involved deleting some .tmp files Chrome seems to have generated somewhere along the way. This seems to have mostly cured things, though I had a single incident since trying it. Hopefully this will stick, as it was a bit of a pain.
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