Archived News:
Eidos
Montreal tweets this tease: "Are YOU ready for The Fall?" This would seem to
tie in with recent registrations by Square
Enix for domains for Deus Ex: The Fall. Adding fuel to the speculation
this provokes about plans for a new Deus Ex game, they followed this
a few
hours later with: "Who is Ben Saxon? #DeusEx."
Shacknews offers the answer, pointing to the
Deus Ex Wiki where it
states: "Ben Saxon is one of the two protagonists of the book Deus Ex: Icarus
Effect."
Battlefront.com announces the release of a playable demo for Strategic
Command WWII: Assault on Communism, an assault that had mixed results at
best, as half the world was communist by the end of the war. Here's word on what
the sample offers: "Monday, 03 June 2013 Strategic Command World War Two Assault
on Communism is an expansion to the original SC WWII Global Conflict game of
grand strategy and global world dominance in the 1940's, including new GOLD
features, rules, maps, campaigns and units! This brand new and totally free demo
includes the 1941 Operation Barbarossa campaign with just the first two months
of the war included, or until August 27th, 1941. Multiplayer modes, saving and
unit purchases are disabled in the demo."
Steam News announces the
release of Gunpoint,
the platformer (as much as we tried to mistakenly convince the world this is an
action/RPG) from PC Gamer's Tom Francis. A playable demo
is available, and here's
word: Gunpoint is a stealth puzzle game that lets you rewire its levels to
trick people. You play a freelance spy who takes jobs from his clients to break
into high security buildings and steal sensitive data. To get past security,
you'll need to make creative use of your main gadget: the Crosslink. It lets you
see how all the security devices in a level are wired up, and then you can just
click and drag with the mouse to wire them differently. So you can connect a
lightswitch to a trapdoor, then flick it when a guard walks across to make him
fall through.
Link of the Day:
Best News
Bloopers - May 2013. NSFW. Thanks Ant. Is the boat guy the bubble guy from
that recent clip?
NeoGAF has an
image showing Dark Souls II has a March 2014 release date. This is the
first of the this year's E3 revelations from the signage around the Staples
Center leading up to next week's trade show, as they have a photo of a gigantic
banner with the date. This is the first release window offered for the
action/RPG sequel, which was announced
last December. Thanks
GameInformer.
The
EVE Community website has word that EVE Online and DUST 514
are back in action following this
weekend's distributed denial of service attack on CCP's games. Here's the
explanation of what happened, which reassures their players that personal
information was not accessed at any point during the breach: What we can
now confirm is that a person was able to utilize a vulnerability in one of the
back-end services that support the operation of the Tranquility server. This
vulnerability has now been secured and thoroughly tested.
We would like to stress that at no time was customer data compromised or
accessible in any way.
The effort of returning the complex server structure of the EVE Universe and
associated websites to service in a methodical and highly-scrutinized fashion
began hours ago and Tranquility has now been brought online (at 10:13 UTC). Our
teams will monitor the situation carefully in the coming hours to ensure that
our services are accessible and that all customer data remains secure.
We will be looking at ways to compensate players in both EVE and DUST for the
outage and expect to announce what that compensation will be very soon.
We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our players on EVE
Online and DUST 514 for their patience and understanding during this unexpected
downtime and the investigation. We are grateful for your support, as
always.
Deep Silver announces some sales figures for Metro: Last Light, showing
4A Games' shooter sequel is selling far better than its predecessor. Here are
some facts and figures:
- On Windows® PC, the game more than tripled Metro
2033's worldwide sales over the same opening week period
- In the US, Metro: Last Light sold through more
boxed units in its first week of sale than Metro 2033 has managed lifetime
to date
- Across all formats worldwide, Metro: Last Light
has sold more units in its first week of sale than Metro 2033 managed in 3
months
- Metro: Last Light has shot to #1 in the weekly
charts in multiple European territories including Germany, Austria,
Switzerland, France, and also in the UK, where publisher Deep Silver
recorded their fourth straight week at number 1
The U.K. sales charts for the week ending June 1st art up on GfK, where they
have
the full-price PC top 20, where Football Manager 2013 maintains its toehold
on number one and GRID 2 enters the chart at number eight. On their
all formats/all prices chart GRID 2 launches at number one. Here's the easy
to read (for HAL 9000) summary: Codemasters speed to the top of the All
Formats Chart for the first time since ‘F1 2010’ back in W38 2010 thanks to
‘Grid 2’.
The sequel goes one better than its predecessor which could only manage No2 five
years ago, however launch week sales are 29% down on the original. ‘FIFA 13’
holds on to No2, enjoying a healthy 17% weekly increase in sales during this
Half-Term week. ‘Dead Island: Riptide’ (-0%) is up one place to No3, ahead of
‘Far Cry 3’ (+35%) which climbs 4 places to No4, boosted by a new budget price
point. Last week’s No1 is No5 this week as sales of ‘Resident Evil: Revelations’
fall by 45%. ‘Assassin’s Creed III’ (+10%) has to settle for the title of
Ubisoft’s second biggest selling game this week behind ‘Far Cry 3’, despite
holding on to No6. No1 three weeks ago, ‘Metro Last Light’ (-40%) slips from No3
to No7, ahead of ‘Donkey Kong Country Returns’ (-17%) at No8. ‘Lego Batman 2: DC
Super Heroes’ (+35%) bounces back into the Top 10 for a second time, at No9
(having made another reappearance back in W15). ‘Tomb Raider’ (+0%) clings on to
the Top 10, falling 3 places to No10. There is only one other All Formats Top 40
debut this week; ‘Fuse’ from EA, new at No37.
Remember Me edition.
- Eador: Masters of the Broken World on
Gaming Nexus.
- Gunpoint on
Eurogamer and
games.on.net.
- The Incredible Adventures Of Van Helsing on
Rock, Paper, Shotgun.
- Prison Architect on
TechSpot.
- Remember Me on
Computer and Video Games,
Destructoid,
Eurogamer,
GameSpot,
Gaming Nexus,
IGN,
Joystiq,
Kotaku,
NowGamer, and
Polygon.
Wow, I'm still in shock over last night's Game of Thrones. I will avoid
spoilers for those who haven't seen it, so if me talking about it here inspires
forum comments, please use proper secret/spoiler tags. Anyway, thanks to the
show I recently started reading the books, but am only partway through book one,
so I had no forewarning of what would happen, other than the knowledge that the
series is known to take no prisoners, and it certainly showed last night.
R.I.P.:
Entertainers mourn Jean Stapleton: 'A great actress and wonderful lady'.
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