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Daedalic Entertainment and Deep Silver announce The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav, an adventure game due for Windows PC on March 23rd. This seems to be a separate project from The Dark Eye – DEMONICON, the frequently renamed action/RPG using the same setting. The game's German Website features a teaser trailer and images showing off the game's hand-drawn graphics style, and here's the announcement: Hamburg, February 8, 2012. Daedalic Entertainment and Deep Silver present a video-teaser for the PC-game The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav, in which sequences of the game are shown. The gripping The Dark Eye-Adventure takes place in the familiar fantasy world Aventuria. In the tranquil Andergast the protagonist Geron gets on to the track of a mysterious crow plague and, with the help of his mystical companion Nuri, starts a mission to find the source of the evil. What dangers will be in their way are shown in the video. The teaser trailer, footage and further information can be found on the official homepage at: http://www.satinavsketten.de.
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World of Warcraft Website has an updated list of World of Warcraft version 4.3 hotfixes applied to the server-side of Blizzard's MMORPG. These don't directly impact any classes, the small number of changes mentioned cover Dungeons & Raids, Events, and Items.
Fall of the Space Core, Vol. 1 on the Steam Workshop is a Portal 2-themed mod created by Valve and Bethesda for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim using the new Skyrim Creation Kit (thanks GameInformer). Word is: "To celebrate the opening of the Steam Workshop for Skyrim, Valve and Bethesda have teamed up to bring you the Portal 2 Space Core mod, which will let the aggressively space-centric little robot tag along on your adventures in Tamriel." VG247 makes the case for suspicions that this might hold one of Valve's Easter Eggs.
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A tweet by Future Shop Game revealed artwork for a game called Sleeping Dogs, saying this will be available for preorder "soon," and that the game's release is expected for Windows PC and consoles in August of this year. MCV noted has a style indicating that this is actually Square Enix's release of the game known as True Crime: Hong Kong before the True Crime series was cancelled by Activision almost a year ago to the day. This was followed up by an official announcement that does not directly address the True Crime connection, though it seems to be quite evident. Here is the Announcement Trailer, and here's part of the announcement from this page: Square Enix London Studios is proud to announce the upcoming release of Sleeping Dogs, a gritty and visceral open-world cop drama set in the vibrant city of Hong Kong.
Developed by United Front Games, Sleeping Dogs catapults players into the role of undercover cop Wei Shen. His mission: taking down the Hong Kong Triad from the inside.
As players explore the bustling and crowded island of Hong Kong, through its neon-lit side streets and sprawling street markets, an incredible story unfolds of loyalty and betrayal, where Wei begins to question his own motives as he is sucked in deeper than he could ever imagine.
Every street corner, market stall, harbor dock or city skyscraper can become an opportunity for intense shoot-outs, adrenaline-fuelled street races and intense, brutal martial arts combat.
Featuring an intuitive and imaginative combat system, Sleeping Dogs empowers players to take on whole gangs with bone-crunching kicks and combos, vicious counters and a cinematic set of environmental takedowns using improvised weapons from circular saws to phone booths, incinerators to refrigerator doors.
Sleeping Dogs is coming to your PC, PS3 or Xbox 360 in 2012. Until then, keep a close eye on this site for news, updates and exclusive images!
The Ubisoft Forums has a post about a user unable to play Driver: San Francisco because the driving action sequel was unable to authenticate itself over the internet. This seems to be a result of the recently announced server move, which was not supposed to impact this game, as Eurogamer notes a Ubisoft tweet saying: "We apologize for the inconvenience, it seems some of you can't connect to games announced as playable during migration." They also say users have been having trouble accessing Anno 2070, which was also supposed to be playable during this transition. There may be a simple explanation for this, however, as the original forum post was edited when the posted discovered he could play Driver: San Francisco by using the provided "offline mode" option, though he does defend his oversight saying the large banner saying: "Ubisoft services are unavailable at the moment. Please try again later." There's no indication in the thread about Anno 2070 downtime that this workaround is available in that game.
Alex Seropian, the New York Giants have just won the Super Bowl! What are you going to do? I'm going to leave DisneyWorld! Okay, that's probably not how it played out, but GameInformer does report the Bungie cofounder is partying ways with Disney after one year as head of game development. They say an official announcement is expected today, but that the move has been confirmed by Disney. Word is Seropian's position at the Mickey Mouse outfit will be filled by Bill Roper, formerly of Blizzard, Flagship, and Cryptic Studios. Full disclosure: MrsBlue is employed by the Walt Disney Company.
Paradox Interactive is holding a live streaming demo today to show off Naval War: Arctic Circle, Turbo Tape Games' upcoming naval combat real-time strategy game. This will take place on their TwitchTV channel, and the festivities get underway at 2:00 pm EST. Word is the developers will be on hand to chat with viewers about what they are seeing.
Matrix Games now offers a new patch for War in the Pacific – Admiral’s Edition, updating the seafaring World War II strategy game to version 1.01.08r9, which they describe as comprehensive (which one would naturally assume from the nice, round version number). The patch is available on this page, where they say: "The sixth official update for War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition, including hundreds of fixes, tweaks and improvements. This installer will update all previous versions to this latest release."
Bitmob.com - Publishers must stop pass-locking multiplayer modes.
And while I'm here, allow me to challenge the notion that publishers pass-lock content for anything other than commercial gain, as opposed to guarding against financial loss. EA now typically online pass-protects multiplayer modes in projected hits (Battlefield 3, Mass Effect 3), so don't think they opened up Syndicate in an altruistic display of heroism. No, they're re-launching a dormant franchise from the '90s, and they don't want to hobble its chances by selling half a game. Same goes for SSX...its online pass doesn't block an entire mode, but will affect how fast you unlock gear.
Sony feels Twisted Metal can ride its reputation all the way to the bank. Syndicate doesn't earn that level of confidence from EA. Mass Effect 3 does. Demand determines accessability. They lock their content accordingly, without regard to the game itself or the people who might want to play it.
These decisions look great on a balance sheet, I'm sure, but those are disastrous moves and here's why: Mode locking keeps people from playing the game, and any plan requiring used-game buyers to pay extra for something they bought on the cheap qualifies as advanced dementia.
There's a crew working on a street somewhere semi-nearby, using something that must be grinding something from the noise it makes. The thing is that from this distance, that noise sounds exactly like a cell phone set on vibrate, and it's intermittent enough that it keeps fooling me whenever it happens. Oddly, I rarely even have my phone on vibrate, so how ingrained my reaction to that sound turns out to be is a little surprising. Wait, was that my phone?
R.I.P.: Dick Tufeld, voice of Lost In Space's Robot. Danger!
R.I.P.: Roger Boisjoly obituary: Engineer tried to stop Challenger launch. Warning!
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