World of Darkness News reports on the
World of Darkness EVE Fanfest presentation for CCP's upcoming WoD MMORPG. They offer new details on the game from the presentation, all sorts of images, and
a brief trailer showing the first footage from within the game shot pretty cleanly off a monitor. The clip shows environments, but no gameplay.
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The
Age of Decadence Website now offers a public beta/demo of Iron tower Studios' upcoming turn-based RPG set in a "low magic, post-apocalyptic fantasy world, inspired by the fall of the Roman Empire." There's no word on what the beta offers.
An
interview on Sneaky Bastards focuses on stealth gameplay in talking with Harvey Smith & Raphael Colantonio of Arkane Games about
Dishonored, their upcoming steampunk shooter. They discuss the appeal of stealth, it's relative popularity as a mode, whether it works better as an option or the only path in a game, and the future of stealth gameplay.
Cliffski's Blog has word on the release of a new patch to update
Gratuitous Tank Battles to beta version 1.003. Preorder customers with the beta will get the new version as an auto-update. The accompanying comments indicate at least one if not two more betas are expected before release of the tower defense game, though "that's without adding any more shiny."
Here's Valve's report on the ten bestselling titles on
Steam for the week:
- Portal 2
- Total War: Shogun 2
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution
- Total War: Shogun 2 - Fall of the Samurai
- Dungeon Defenders
- Assassin's Creed Revelations
- Anno 2070
- Portal/Portal 2
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
- Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
I was going to comment on the
National Day of Unplugging today (thanks
HARDOCP) except it turns out it was yesterday. I guess the result is the same for me, I wasn't going to be any more unplugged yesterday than I would have been today. Oh well, there's always next year (who am I kidding?)
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