GamesIndustry International has word from a Russian Game Developer's
Conference that Mail.ru announces Obsidian Entertainment will be participating
in the development of
Skyforge, an MMORPG announced a year ago as being
in development at Allods Team. Word is this will be a collaboration, but details
are scant for now. "Skyforge is very interesting and promising project. I am
glad that Obsidian Entertainment is involved in working on this game," said
Obsidian CEO Feargus Urquhart. "I am confident that the cooperation with the
Allods Team will be a great experience for all of us." Here's
a Russian trailer from
when the game was announced.
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The
16 Bit Arena website has word that
their
promised
experiment is underway to see if this multiplayer came can be supported by
free downloads and donations. The game is offered free on most digital
distributors, and they are offering free direct downloads from their website
with no signups required. Here's word:
FREE PROMOTIONAL GIVEAWAY IN ALL
STORES MAY 16-31! Tell your friends so they can get their free copy and join
with you! All stores in the Buy section should have it free by the end of day
May 16, but in case you'd like to skip signing up on a store's website to
download it, here's a
direct link. (Note: Downloading from Desura may currently have some
media installation issues that are also resolved if installing from this link.)
If we get enough people (filling even one server completely with 9v9s), we'll be
experimenting with something new. We'll open up donations, and every $5 you send
will put you in a drawing to get a character made just for you! And if this is
successful enough, we'll keep the game free permanently and do the drawing on a
regular basis. If you don't win, 10% of everything sent will still go to
ChildFund (supports hungry children around the world), so either way somebody
wins.
Here's Valve's list of the ten bestselling games on
Steam for the week:
- Borderlands 2
- Metro Last Light
- XCOM: Enemy Unknown
- Borderlands 2 Psycho Pack
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- Total War: ROME II
- Call of Duty: Black Ops II: Uprising
- Reus
- Call of Duty: Black Ops II
- Don't Starve
I really want to go out and grill, but the weather is just not cooperating. I
occasionally see gazebos that seem to be intended as grilling shelters, and
today would certainly be a good day to have one, so that is something I need to
look into.
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