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Archived News:
EA SPORTS announces
FIFA 14 is available now available in North America, offering the latest
installment in the association football/soccer series. A playable demo was
released earlier this month. Here's a bit:
FIFA 14 features 14 different online and offline game modes—including
FIFA 14 Ultimate Team and new Co-op Seasons—and delivers the emotion of scoring
great goals. Innovations to the award-winning gameplay make the game more
authentic and more fun. A new feature called Pure Shot and a brand-new ball
physics system transform shooting while Precision Movement delivers the
authentic motion of real athletes. Fans playing on the Xbox 360 and Xbox One
will be able to craft their FIFA 14 Ultimate Team with a mix of legendary
players, such as Pelé, playing alongside today’s football stars.
Paradox Interactive offers "a tremendous free update" for the Windows, OS X, and
Linux editions of Europa Universalis IV with hundreds of fixes for the
strategy sequel. Also now available are two new DLC packs with scenarios from
the American Revolution: NEW YORK — September 24, 2013 — Paradox
Interactive, a publisher of games and a dabbler in patchwork, today issued a
tremendous free update to Europa Universalis IV, the award-winning grand
strategy game of empire building developed by Paradox Development Studio for
Windows, Mac, and Linux. The new update, available today as a free downloaded
patch, implements hundreds of fixes, feature updates, balance adjustments,
checks and balances, including support for windowed fullscreen, new idea groups
for more than 20 nations, and a “suggest demands” button which will
automatically populate a peace offer that the AI will accept when trying to end
a war. Full patch notes for this massive update can be found here:
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?723913-1.2-Released
New DLC packs have also been released for those players who would like to expand
upon their empire expansions, entitled “American Dream” and “National Monuments
II,” adding in the opportunity to live out the inspiring tale of the American
Revolution through in-game events, and then go out and conquer several new
iconic landmarks around the world. The new update is free to all Europa
Universalis IV players whether or not they purchase the DLC. Buy the new DLC
here: europauniversalis4.com/buy
Devolver Digital and Deep Silver announce a collaboration between Flying
Wild Hog and Volition to bring the penetrator from Saints Row to the upcoming
Shadow Warrior remake for owners of both games. Word is: "Again, not sure what
else to tell you all that hasn’t been summed up already. If you own Saints Row
IV on Steam and purchase Shadow Warrior, you can literally use the big purple
Penetrator in place of a katana in Shadow Warrior to sever the heads off of
demons. We know, and yet we can’t really believe it ourselves."
The lawsuits between Alexandra Miseta and Stardock Corporation have been settled
out-of-court, reports
Kotaku, saying the court has dismissed both cases with prejudice, so they
cannot be reopened. Part of the settlement is a letter of apology from Ms.
Miseta, who
sued Stardock
CEO Brad Wardell for sexual harassment, retaliation, and wrongful termination
shortly before Stardock sued
her for deleting their analytics and marketing data before leaving the
company without notice. Brad Wardell tells the site that no money changed hands
in this, but that each side dropped their case contingent on the apology, which
he says represents "vindication." Thanks nin.
The listing of topics on EA's
Battlefield Bad Company 2 Answer HQ is dominated by a single topic,
which is players' inability to login or retrieve their soldiers from EA's game
servers. Posts on
the EA forums and German site
theorigin.de state that some players have been told the game is being taken
down to free up resources for the upcoming release of Battlefield 4, but as far
as we know, no such move has been officially announced. We have contacted EA for
a clarification on this, and will follow-up if we receive one.
ArenaNet announces a new Twilight Assault update will go live on October 1st in
Guild Wars 2, their MMORPG
sequel. Word is: "Lionguard intelligence reports have been rife with hints of
suspicious activity in Caledon Forest. Someone is mixing up a new kind of
trouble from within the Twilight Arbor. Caithe, the sylvari hero, is concerned.
She’s in need of brave fighters to help her infiltrate the arbor and set things
straight. Will you answer the call?" They also announce that an extended free
trial of the game will be made available on Friday for an expanded chance to
sample the game. Here's word on that followed by a new
Twilight Assault trailer:
BRIGHTON, UK – 24 SEPTEMBER, 2013: NCSOFT® and ArenaNet™, developer of
the popular Guild Wars franchise, today announced an extended free trial and
sale for Guild Wars 2, its critically acclaimed massively multiplayer online
role-playing game (MMORPG), starting 27th September. The offer allows players to
experience the game free for seven days, and to purchase it for a limited time
at a historically low price.
The free trial period, which is open to all players in North America and Europe,
starts Friday, 27th September at 08:01 BST and ends Friday, 4th October at 07:59
BST. Players can create the free trial accounts at
https://register.guildwars2.com/trial.
Continue here to read the full story.
There's an
NVIDIA Interview on PC PowerPlay Magazine titled "The Sky Isn’t Falling," as
it hears from NVIDIA's Tony Tamasi about graphics cards, who tells them: "It’s
no longer possible for a console to be a better or more capable graphics
platform than the PC." Surprisingly, he says one of the reasons for this is
that the console giants don't have the cash to compete in this area: By
the time of the Xbox 360 and PS3, the consoles were on par with the PC. If you
look inside those boxes, they’re both powered by graphics technology by AMD or
NVIDIA, because by that time all the graphics innovation was being done by PC
graphics companies. NVIDIA spends 1.5 billion US dollars per year on research
and development in graphics, every year, and in the course of a console’s
lifecycle we’ll spend over 10 billion dollars into graphics research. Sony and
Microsoft simply can’t afford to spend that kind of money. They just don’t have
the investment capacity to match the PC guys; we can do it thanks to economy of
scale, as we sell hundreds of millions of chips, year after year.
A tweet from
Ubisoft's Gabriel Graziani responds to a follower questioning why the PC edition
of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag will follow the last-gen console
editions, explaining that it is getting the same treatment as the
next-generation consoles: "Since PC is capable of delivering a comparable level
of quality, we have to put the same amount of work into it." Thanks
Strategy Informer.
Nordic Games and KING Art announce the release of A Murder Of Ravens for
Windows, OS X, and Linux, offering the third and final chapter of The Raven –
Legacy Of A Master Thief, their heist/whodunit adventure. With the
completion of the trilogy, they turn their attention to a retail release, saying
a box with all three chapters will be released soon. In the meantime the latest
installment is available via digital distribution through
Steam or the Nordic
Games Shop ( Standard
or
Digital Deluxe). Here's word: A Murder Of Ravens is a stimulating,
charming and gripping chapter in The Raven – Legacy Of A Master Thief
heist/whodunit adventure. Strong emphasis is placed on the narrative of this
last chapter; the player needs to pay close attention to every detail as this
will put their investigative skills to the test whilst keeping them guessing
until the very end of the tale.
Ars Technica - Can SteamOS drag the PC game industry over to Linux?
Today, Valve said we should watch for "announcements in the coming weeks
about all the AAA titles coming natively to SteamOS in 2014." There is one
AAA announcement in particular, though, that would be bigger than all the
others combined. It could instantly get millions of gamers to seriously
consider making the jump (or at least adding on) a Linux-based OS for their
gaming needs. That announcement would be a SteamOS-exclusive version of
Half-Life 3 (or, somehow, if another Valve sequel or franchise with
HL3-levels of buzz).
- Wolfenstein: The New Order on
VG247.
After yesterday's DNS issue, I found myself unable to reach the site again this
morning. Looking into this, I was relieved to see that the site and server were
actually online, so there were some backbone issues between here and there.
Obviously I was not happy that the site was unreachable, but at least it was
nothing I had to deal with fixing.
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