Archived News:
Slitherine and Games Workshop announce Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon, a
turn-based strategy game using Games Workshop's "Battle for Armageddon" setting
they plan on releasing in the first quarter of next year for Windows and iOS.
"It is very exciting to see a game like this come alive - I just can't wait to
play it," said Iain McNeil, Development Director of the Slitherine Group. "It's
been almost 15 years since a turn-based strategy game set in the Warhammer
40,000 universe has been released and we think it is now time to deliver that
experience to all fans around the world." Here's a feature list:
- The game portrays the Second War for Armageddon™
in great detail, from the initial Ork landings to the final liberation of
the planet;
- It contains a large branching campaign with 30
major scenarios, plus additional 5 tutorial scenarios that explore the story
in detail;
- A complex plot, which can develop during a
mission, right in the middle of battle, creating an engaging story line with
unexpected twists;
- Players lead Imperial troops of the Armageddon™
Steel Legion, with supporting assets from a number of Space Marine chapters
against the ferocious Orks;
- Fight alongside Commissar Yarrik and Commander
Dante against the cunning Ork Warboss Ghazghkull Thraka;
- Carry over battle-hardened veterans from scenario
to scenario, using their experience and upgrading their equipment;
- Detailed combat model with terrain, weather and
morale effects;
- Extensive modding options delivered through a
powerful and easy-to-use game editor.
This video is the
official reveal trailer for Call of Duty: Ghosts, the next installment in
the Call of Duty military shooter series. The clip looks like a movie trailer,
which makes sense, since it's all cinematics. There is also a
longer video with a
behind-the-scenes look at the game's development that discusses the premise of
the game, the power of their new game engine, smart dogs, smart fish, and
more. Continue here to read the full story.
Rockstar Games has details on a triple experience points event this weekend
for several games, with the PC edition of Max Payne 3 included in the
mix. They are also offering prize packs as part of the festivities, and plan six
hours of live stream video. Things kick off Friday, May 24th and will run
through Sunday, May 26th.
Link of the Day:
Cats vs
Printers Compilation. Thanks nin.
Wired.com
has details from Microsoft's announcement of the Xbox One, the third installment
in their Xbox series of game consoles, using the name a lot of us have used
for the original Xbox since the Xbox 360 was announced. The announcement seems
to stress the new unit's ability to handle living room entertainment like
watching movies and TV over its gaming prowess. As for games, MS touts an
improved Kinect and cloud integration, and Wired infers that games will be
locked to an individual console based on word that games must be installed to
the hard drive and can be played without the game disc inserted. They say
Microsoft has confirmed there will be a way to sell used games where they
receive a cut (you can pay them a fee to install the game again on a different
system) but say MS did not answer of there would be a way to sell games to be
played from the disc without their intervention, but they already stated that
HDD installs are mandatory, so this seems moot. They also say that the new
console will not be backward compatible with games for the Xbox 360 or the
Xbox 1 (1).
GamesIndustry International has details on the hardware, saying it has an
8-core CPU, 8 GB of RAM, a Blu-Ray disc drive, 500 GB hard drive, USB 3.0,
Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi, and HDMI In/Out. Word is it will launch later this
year, but pricing is not being discussed yet.
John Smedley's Twitter feed has a
series of tweets indicating SOE is planning on making the original
PlanetSide a free-to-play
game, like PlanetSide 2, the sequel to the MMOFPS. They are starting out
by granting
anyone who has previously played either game with free PlanetSide time, and
Smedley
indicates this is part of the conversion from their subscription
system, and suggests this will all be formally announced at some point today.
Thanks
Strategy Informer.
Here's a
new
Kickstarter from Stompy Bot Productions for Heavy Gear Assault, a
revival of the Metal Gear series of mech combat games. The plan is to raise at
least $800K to recreate the game "with the technology of tomorrow," which is how
they describe the Unreal Engine 4 (thanks Neutronbeam). This is planned for
Windows, OS X, and Linux, and there are also plans to support a subset of game
features for smartphones, and there is a clear focus on e-sports support. Here's
the pitch: The world of Heavy Gear Assault is unforgiving – but so is
your lust for glory. A pilot on the distant planet Terra Nova, you play the
high-stakes game of competitive Gear Dueling. You earn fame and fortune by
making a name for yourself on the arena floor. You stand out from the crowd by
customizing the look and style of your Gear. You manage corporate sponsors, hire
a support staff and fine-tune your Gear’s performance in the Gear Bay. You rise
to the top, claim your position – and with every cannon shell left in your
magazines, you refuse to let go.
The
Perfect World forums have details on a rollback in
Neverwinter after the discovery of
a bug that some users exploited to their economic advantage in the beta RPG.
Noting that damage to the game's economy had already been done, they rolled back
user accounts to undo this, and offer
this FAQ with all the details on the process (thanks
Polygon). This brings to mind the
recent exploit in Diablo III
that also impacted the economy but was not rolled back. There is no proper way
to judge the impact of the problem on the game, however, because Blizzard was
maintaining an artificial floor in selling gold for cash of $0.25 per million, a
limitation they removed just a week ago, so there's no way of separating the
impact of the exploit from the impact of removing their price fixing. But for
the record, according to
this Gold Price
Tracker the cash price of gold in Diablo III has dropped close to 1000% in
the past week.
Battle.net now offers
the patch notes for the version 5.3 "Escalation" patch going live soon in
World of Warcraft, Blizzard's MMORPG. They also offer
this roundup of articles
on the new features and content in the new version.
So today is the next Xbox reveal, huh? I wonder if this includes actually
showing off the console, or has Sony lowered the bar on this for everyone?
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