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Archived News:
Steam News announces the
release of the promised
playable demo for
Resident Evil Revelations: Horror fans will soon be able to get a
taste of Resident Evil
Revelations with today’s release of a downloadable demo on Steam.
Acting on orders from the BSAA director, the demo will see players infiltrating
the cruise ship ‘Queen Zenobia’ as Jill Valentine and attempt to rescue missing
fellow BSAA members Chris Redfield and Jessica Sherawat whose last known
location pinpointed them onboard.
Gamers will be able to experience the full game when Resident Evil Revelations
releases on in North America on May 21 and across Europe on May 24.
Trion Worlds announces RIFT is
succumbing to the pressures of the market, and the MMORPG is going free-to-play
as of June 12th. This
page has details on the move and an explanation of what this means to
current players of the game along with a trailer where Bill Fisher and Simon
Ffinch discuss the changes. Here's word: All players will be able to
explore the entire world of Telara for free and will have access to the expanded
in-game RIFT Store where a variety of services--mounts, boosts, wardrobe items,
and more--will be available for purchase. An optional subscription will still be
available that grants a slew of “Patron” benefits and bonuses to maximize the
RIFT experience. Trion will celebrate its current and previous subscribers with
loyalty and currency rewards for their time spent playing RIFT thus far.
The Survivor Squad website now
offers the release of Survivor Squad, along with a playable demo of this
action strategy game, which is currently also running a
Steam
Greenlight campaign. Here's
a trailer, and here's
word on the game: Survivor Squad is a Strategy Action game where you
control a Squad of up to four survivors and guide them through a highly
randomized world looking for supplies to aid you on your journey.
Scavenge for supplies in every corner of every building, craft your gear, pick
your skills and loadout while keeping your Squad alive by covering every corner
and moving as a group.
It is a game that encourages quick thinking and fast paced play since you need
to pay attention to all of your squad mates. If you leave someone behind,
chances are they will be pounced on and die. Move as a Squad and cover every
corner.
Three game modes: Campaign, Survival and Death Lab.
The
Kickstarter for Among the Sleep now shows that Krillbite Studio's
upcoming horror-themed, first-person adventure has passed its $200K funding goal
with three days remaining in the campaign. There is also
this update announcing that a playable alpha build is now available for
Windows, Linux, and OS X. Alpha access is one of their backer rewards, and they
explain that qualified backers will now receive a more expanded alpha and that
those tiers now include beta access as well. Thanks nin.
A
Kickstarter update for Grim Dawn has word that their alpha release
will happen tomorrow, providing Kickstarter backers with a first chance to play
the action/RPG from Crate Entertainment, the startup developer that includes
some of the folks behind Titan Quest (thanks Joao). While they emphasize
that they still plan on providing a DRM-free version of the final game as promised,
they also explain the alpha will be released via Steam, and anyone put off by
the Steam DRM can get a refund. Here's why they are doing things this
way: The initial alpha release will be distributed through Steam because
that proved to be the easiest way to provide an exclusive alpha for backers and
put out patches while we are still actively developing the game and fixing
issues. Other download options may be rolled out later depending on how long
alpha lasts / what we are able to manage. We realize that some people have a
hatred of Steam and hope that it will not upset anyone excessively, but it was
the fastest and best solution given the complexity of trying to set up our own
authentication server due to the numerous different pre-Kickstarter /
Kickstarter / post-Kickstarter reward tiers with different levels of access and
numbers of keys, partnering with Humble Store to handle all the key distribution
and not having given out keys that were uniquely tagged to each reward / game
tier.
- Ace Combat Assault Horizon - Enhanced Edition on
Steam. Save 50%.
- Proteus on
Steam. Save 50%.
- Terraria on
Steam. Save 66%.
Gearbox Software announces the release of The Psycho Pack add-on for
Borderlands 2 for PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3, adding Krieg the
Psycho, a new Psycho Bandit vault hunter for the role-playing shooter sequel.
They offer a launch
trailer where Sir Hammerlock introduces us to Krieg, and here's word: Krieg
arrives today! Check out the newest playable Vault Hunter for Borderlands 2, the
Psycho Bandit, in the video above as Sir Hammerlock explains all of Krieg's mad
and marvelous abilities, skills and powers.
The Psycho Pack add-on for Borderlands 2 is now available on Xbox 360 (Xbox
Live Marketplace), PC / Mac (Steam)
and PlayStation 3 (PlayStation
Store - North America) at 800 Microsoft Points / $9.99 -- look for Krieg to
be available in the European PlayStation Store when it updates on May 15.
The Borderlands 2 Season Pass, which bundles four campaign add-ons and the
Ultimate Vault Hunter Pack at a discount, does not include additional characters
like Gaige the Mechromancer or Krieg the Psycho.
Continue here to read the full story.
Ubisoft announces that Anno Online
is now in open beta for players in North America and "and all English speaking
countries," offering a crack at this "browser-based world-building strategy game
that challenges players to build and manage a medieval kingdom and trading
empire." The game is free-to-play and requires use of a new or existing
Uplay account (also free). Word is closed
beta accounts are carrying into the open beta with no wipes, suggesting this may
be a soft launch with no further wipes going forward, though this is not
explicitly stated. They also are giving closed beta participants special statues
and offering them a special premium ship with enhanced speed and cargo capacity
if they join the open beta during the first week.
Blizzard announces that
tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of the release of Diablo III, their
action/RPG sequel. The game has had its ups and downs over its first year,
claiming the biggest PC game launch
in history followed by 12 months of scrambling to better
align the game with player expectations, resulting in changes to its
difficulty level, items, co-op, and more. They are celebrating the game's
birthday by requesting players send them birthday greetings, saying they will
retweet the best of them, though the worst of them might make for some
entertaining reading as well.
As announced here,
steampunk MMOG City of Steam is now
in beta testing, noting that although
last week they announced this
was change from an "early access" beta to an open beta, they've since changed
their minds again, and it's in early access mode again. Here's the explanation:
"Now you’re of course all saying: 'But hey, you said that you were going to do
Open Beta next!' …we still are! This is a prelude to that. Think 'early
admission'." This post
explains how things have changed for the beta, and developer Mechanist Games
says: "We're also working together with R2Games to make a VERY aggressive
content release schedule possible that will make a lot of new content available
to play and test over the coming weeks and months." Though the beta is not
"open," it actually shouldn't be hard to join, since they say they are
guaranteeing keys for newsletter subscribers.
A
Kickstarter campaign is now underway for Shadow of the Eternals in
addition to the looser "donation" campaign
being run directly for this
"spiritual successor" to Eternal Darkness. It was recently reported that
this game was not using Kickstarter because developer Precursor Games is based
in Canada, but the campaign is live, even though this developer consisting of
Denis Dyack and other Silicon Knights veterans is still located in the great
white north. The campaign seeks $1.35 million, and is currently $1.32 million
shy of that goal. Thanks
Develop.
Here's a new trailer
from Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag where Ubisoft offers some cinematics
and couple of glimpses of gameplay to promote how they will tell the "true
stories" of famous historic pirates in "the real golden age of piracy," which
followed the golden age of highway robbery, and proceeded the golden age of
stock swindles, glorious times villainized by the lamestream media. Here's a bit
on the truthiness this all exposes: Included with the trailer is an
infographic riddled with facts about the Golden Age of Pirates in the 18th
century. We’ve referenced multiple sources to provide a visual introduction to
the period. You’ll learn about the events that made this Age of Piracy possible,
get a taste of the living conditions that might make an honest sailor turn
pirate, and uncover some of the key places, people and events that you will
experience in Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag.
Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag tells the story of Edward Kenway, a young British
man with a thirst for danger and adventure, who falls from privateering for the
Royal Navy into piracy as the war between the major Empires comes to an end.
Edward is a fierce pirate and seasoned fighter who soon finds himself embroiled
in the ancient war between Assassins and Templars. Set at the dawn of the 18th
Century, the game features some of the most infamous pirates in history, such as
Blackbeard and Charles Vane, and takes players on a journey throughout the West
Indies during a turbulent and violent period of time later to become known as
the Golden Age of Pirates.
Continue here to read the full story.
Thanks Acleacius and nin.
- Metro: Last Light on
AngryJoShow,
Computer and Video Games,
Destructoid,
Eurogamer,
Gaming-Daddy,
Game Over Online,
GamesRadar,
GameSpot,
GameSpot,
GameTrailers,
God is
a Geek,
IGN,
Joystiq,
PC Gamer,
PC Games (in German),
Polygon,
Shacknews, and
Strategy
Informer.
- Nancy Drew: Ghost of Thorton Hall on
True PC Gaming.
- StarDrive on
GameSpot and
IGN.
- ADATA DashDrive Elite UE700 32GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive on
ThinkComputers.org.
- Astro A40 Audio System 2013 Edition Xbox, PS3 and PC Headset on
eTeknix.
- ASUS Maximus V Gene vs. Gigabyte G1.Sniper M3 on
AnandTech.
- CM Storm Recon Gaming Mouse on
Pure Overclock.
- Cooler Master N200 Case on
Ninjalane.com.
- Dell Latitude 6430u Ultrabook on
OCWorkbench.
- ECS GeForce GT 640 on
Overclockers
Club.
- Enermax ELC120 Kühler on
Technic3D. In German.
- Gigabyte G1 Sniper M3 microATX Motherboard on
HARDOCP.
- Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H on
HCW.
- Icy Dock FlexCage MB975SP-B Tray-Less 5 x 3.5- HDD Dock on
TweakTown.
- Kingston MobileLite Wireless Card Reader on
Legit Reviews.
- Mionix Ensis 320 Mousepad on
RBMODS.
- MSI GX70 3BE- Richland A10 APU and Neptune 8970M Gaming Notebook
on
AnandTech.
- Noctua NH-U12S and NH-U14S on
Guru3D.
- Otterbox Commuter Series Case for HTC One on
Testfreaks.
- ROCCAT Hiro Gaming Mouse Pad on
Neoseeker.
- Sapphire Radeon HD 7790 2GB OC Edition Video Card on
TweakTown.
- Seagate Thin SSHD 500GB on
PC Perspective.
- Shuttle Slim-PC DS61 on
techPowerUp.
- SilverStone Argon Series AR03 CPU Cooler on
ProClockers.
- SilverStone Strider Gold ST65F-G 650W on
APH Networks.
- Toshiba 256GB THNSNH256GCST on
Vortez.
I'm having a little frustration with my mobile service, as I've learned some of
the texts I'm sending don't go through and others are cut off. As far as I know
this is isolated to texts sent to one other person, and poking around online
suggests this may be because I'm sending from the Verizon network across to the
AT&T network, though we are also caught in the brand war, as this involves an
iPhone 5 talking to a Galaxy S4 S3. I've seen a lot of reports
online about similar problems, but not much suggests how to solve this, and some
seem to think it's an inevitable complication of translating across networks or
carrier technology or something, but I thought I'd throw this out there to see
if anyone had any experience that might lead to a suggestion of how to work
around this annoyance.
R.I.P.:
Farewell Dhama - Eidos Forums - Tomb Raider Blog. Thanks Gamer's Hell.
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