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Archived News:
A
new Developer Blog #3 for Metro: Last Light tells us that new
Developer Pack DLC for 4A Games' first-person shooter sequel is coming on
September 17th. The describe the Spiders' Lair solo mission it includes along
with a reworking of their internal "gun table" that's now a shooting range
complete with marksmanship challenges. They also tease how the pack will offer a
brand new weapon, and conclude with word on the fourth and final DLC pack that
will follow at some point after: Our next piece of DLC is the ‘Chronicles
Pack’ – after our more experimental forays into new gameplay experiences with
the Faction, Tower and Developer Packs, this final DLC most closely resembles
the Metro campaign experience as you take controls of Pavel, Anna, and Khan and
Ulman as we tie up some unanswered questions away from Artyom’s quest. We’ll
take a look at it in more detail in our next and final blog!
Card Hunter is now live, offering a new
browser-based virtual card-based strategy game. Card Hunter is
free-to-play, and there is also a basic edition with a bunch of in-game items.
Here's word on the game's strong pedigree: "Created in collaboration with
legendary Magic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield, Card Hunter is
Irrational Games co-founder Jonathan Chey’s first game since BioShock. Its
unique mix of card collecting, board gaming and fantasy role-playing is set to
reinvigorate the collectible card gaming scene."
A free weekend is now underway for Call of Duty: Black Ops II
on Steam, where the game
is also on sale for 25% off. The free weekend runs until some point Sunday.
Blizzard now offers sales of virtual tickets to BlizzCon 2013, to allow
those interested in their November gaming convention to attend from the comfort
of their own homes: The BlizzCon Virtual Ticket will give you live online
HD coverage of the event, taking place Friday, November 8 and Saturday, November
9 at the Anaheim Convention Center. You’ll get access to both days of the show
via two exclusive channels, including the developer panels, exclusive
interviews, community contests, and the closing ceremony, along with on-demand
replays and DVR functionality. Note that Virtual Ticket coverage will be
available in English language only, so keep that in mind before you purchase.
Bonus Loot
Since we know everyone likes epic loot, anyone who orders a Virtual Ticket
will also receive this year’s BlizzCon-exclusive in-game goodies for World of
Warcraft®, StarCraft II, Diablo III, and Hearthstone™: Heroes of Warcraft™
(details coming soon).
You’ll also get access to an exclusive, limited-time online pre-BlizzCon
merchandise sale featuring a selection of commemorative items that will be
available for purchase at the show.* This special pre-BlizzCon sale is scheduled
to take place over a 5-day period in the weeks leading up to the show, and will
be followed by a public sale offering a more limited selection of items. We’ll
have more details on the pre-sale in the coming weeks.
Free WCS and Warcraft eSports Tournament Streams
Even if you don’t purchase a Virtual Ticket, you’ll still be able to catch
plenty of BlizzCon action online for free. Coverage of the BlizzCon opening
ceremony and this year’s BlizzCon eSports tournaments—including the StarCraft II
World Championship Series Global Finals and the World of Warcraft Arena Global
Invitational—will be streamed for free in HD at
www.blizzcon.com and the official
WCS website.
For more information on the Virtual Ticket, check out the
Virtual Ticket page or
read the FAQ.
This trailer shows
off multiplayer play from Titanfall and offers an accompanying interview with
Respawn about what playing their upcoming mech combat game will be like. Continue here to read the full story.
A new trailer from Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag, offers a look at the upcoming stealth
sequel narrated by associate producer Sylvain Trottier. Today we learn more
about the various systems used to depict the ocean, the weather, ship
boarding, fully dynamic 3D foliage, and more. Continue here to read the full story.
The Star Wars: The
Old Republic website has details on a new version 2.4 patch that will go
live on October 1st, and the new Dread War multiplayer mode. They also now offer
the game's first expansion as part of their free-to-play component: "Players can
look forward to many gameplay additions including Game Update 2.4: The Dread War
coming out on October 1, which will introduce new 4v4 Player-vs-Player (PvP)
Warzone Arenas into the game. And starting today, new and previous subscribers
who join or re-join the fight as a subscriber, will automatically receive the
game’s first Digital Expansion: Rise of the Hutt Cartel for free*."
The Arma 3 website announces that Arma III has deployed, and Bohemia
Interactive's military shooter sequel is now available worldwide as either a
standard edition or as a Digital Deluxe edition. The game is available at retail
and via digital distribution through
Steam directly, or
through the BIS Store,
which fulfils through Steam anyway. The
launch trailer shows
off gameplay, and here's word: OUT NOW - Available in digital and physical
retail stores worldwide, Bohemia Interactive is proud to announce today’s
much-anticipated release of Arma 3. The brand new launch trailer introduces
players to the authentic, diverse and open combat in Arma 3’s massive military
sandbox.
Set on the Mediterranean islands of Altis (270 km²) and Stratis (20 km²), Arma 3
features 12 singleplayer showcases, 3 factions showcases, 9 multiplayer
scenarios, 10 firing drill challenges, more than 20 vehicles and 40 weapons, 5
factions, the scenario editor and modding support. The post-launch campaign will
be made available via free DLC episodes after release. The complete overview of
content can be found here.
“We’re incredibly proud of the release of Arma 3, as well as of the
unique collaboration with the people who joined for the early-access
development. We experienced some significant setbacks in the past years, but
the fantastic public response to the Alpha and Beta kept us going,” said
Joris-Jan van ‘t Land, Project Lead on Arma 3. “Together we’ve made a game
that truly meets its potential - while establishing a platform to build upon
and grow even further. Our long-term commitment to Arma 3, in combination
with the creative modding community and Steam Workshop, means this is just
the kick off. We thank everyone for their splendid support and welcome you
all to join our journey ahead.”
Continue here to read the full story.
Positech Games is now offering beta access to Democracy 3 to those who
preorder the next installment in their strategy series based on the intricate
inner workings of government. Preorders are being accepted
through this site,
and the beta is available for Windows, OS X, and Linux, and all customers will
also get a Steam key for the final release. Here's their campaign: Positech Games, developers of Gratuitous Space Battles, Are happy to announce
that once more they are bringing Democracy to the people of the world! Democracy
3 is the third in their series of complex and deep political strategy games
where the player takes on the role of President or Prime Minister, charged with
the task of keeping the population happy, the economy booming and preventing
society collapsing around them.
Democracy 3 is the only game of its kind. Not an election-simulation, but a
government-simulation, built around a custom-programmed neural network and
unique iconic user interface that represents the thousands of simulated voters,
pressure groups, policies, laws and statistics that make up a detailed model of
a western democracy.
As president, you decide what laws to set, which taxes to raise (or cut)
which government programs to expand, introduce or cancel, whilst keeping one eye
on the countdown to the next election. All political careers end in failure, and
Democracy 3 is thus a game that cannot truly be won, only eventually lost.
A report on
SuperData
Research has some speculative analysis about World of Warcraft revenue
rates, saying they "believe" that Blizzard's MMORPG earned about $93 million in
April, compared with $204 million seven months earlier. Saying this is partly
due to the game's slow but steady subscriber loss, they say that it's to the
point where the game needs to place greater emphasis on microtransactions, but a
switch to a full free-to-play model "is currently too much of a jolt for WoW,
and doesn’t make sense with the current metrics." Thanks
ComputerAndVideoGames.
I've been continuing to pound away at the mysterious graphics glitches on my PC.
The good news is I identified one of the problems as a simple settings issue,
and a clean driver install fresh settings has stopped games like Borderlands
2 from locking up cold. The somewhere in-between news is that I replaced my
PSU along the way, which didn't change anything but the old one was getting on
in years anyway, so if this all leads to me building a new rig, that can be part
of it. The bad news is there is still definitely something wrong: In particular,
the machine will still not complete a run on 3DMark without quitting with one of
a variety of errors, and not being able to run a benchmark is not a crisis (or
crysis) in itself, this still suggests something is wrong, and true to that, the
logs show the video card is still throwing bunches of 500 and 501 errors. I'm
also seeing artifacts on my desktop with whichever drivers I use, so I still
have some sort of mystery here, though at least I can play games again.
R.I.P.:
Manson Whitlock, Typewriter Repairman, Dies at 96. Thanks
Slashdot.
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