Archived News:
Mad Otter Games follows up their
recently launched Red Baron
remake
Kickstarter with word that a
Steam
Greenlight campaign is also underway for the World War I aerial combat game.
They also offer a video
that hears from designer Damon Slye and shows off prototype gameplay footage.
Finally, they now offer some tentative system specifications: Minimum:
- Operating System: Windows® XP, Windows® 7, or
Windows® 8
- Processor: Intel® Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz, AMD Athlon™
64 X2 2.6GHz or better
- Memory: 1 GB
- Video: Nvidia GeForce 7XXX series or higher; AMD
Radeon 1XXX series or higher
- DirectX: Version 9.0 or better
- Hard Drive: 4 GB available space
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
Recommended
- Operating System: Windows® 7, or Windows® 8
- Processor: Intel® Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz, AMD Athlon™
64 X2 2.6GHz or better
- Memory: 4 GB
- Video: Nvidia GeForce 460 or higher
- DirectX: Version 9.0c or better
- Hard Drive: 4 GB available space
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
Continue here to read the full story.
This Kickstarter looks to jumpstart development of Super Roman Conquest,
an upcoming side-scrolling strategy game from SeaCliff Interactive, an indie
developer founded by a pair of veterans of LucasArts who most recently worked on
Star Wars: 1313 and Star Wars: First Assault.
This trailer shows off
Super Roman Conquest gameplay, and here's a bit on the game: "We've teamed up to
build Super Roman Conquest which is a mix of Total War and FTL wrapped in a
16-bit side-scrolling package. The 3D environments allow units to be moved
deeper into the landscape -- you aren't bound to a single axis like most
side-scrollers." Their goal is to raise $30,000 to release the game next summer,
though they plan on offering a closed beta by this holiday season. Continue here to read the full story.
CCP Games announces the release of EVE: The Second Decade Collector's Edition,
creating the challenge of finding collector's interested in their MMORPG who
have been holding out in buying it for ten years. Following that theme, it is
described as an homage to people who already own and play the game. "This
collector's edition is not only a celebration of EVE Online's history and a
glimpse towards its future," said Hilmar Veigar Petursson, CEO of CCP. "But also
a tribute to its players and the legendary stories and adventures that they have
brought to the EVE Online experience. It is their universe after all!"
The Unboxing Trailer
mentioned earlier today offers a look at the CE's contents, which include a
board game, a spaceship-style USB hub, an art-book, in-game items, and
more. Continue here to read the full story.
Daedalic Entertainment announces A Journey of a Roach begins on November
5th, as that's when Koboldgames' point-and-click adventure will be released for
Windows and OS X (roach clip not included). A
new trailer celebrates
the news, and here's a refresher on the game: "Journey of a Roach, developed by
the Swiss team of Koboldgames, in cooperation with Daedalic Entertainment, takes
players to a post-apocalyptic world: Roach Jim and his pal Bud are out and about
to find their way from a bomb shelter up to Earth's barren surface. Players
solve classic point & click adventure game puzzles. However, certain challenges
can be overcome by using the roach's special abilities: being roaches, Jim and
Bud can crawl up walls and ceilings, as well as climb items." Continue here to read the full story.
Matrix Games announces the release of Alea Jacta Est - Parthian Wars, a
new expansion for Alea Jacta Est, the Ancient Rome strategy game with a title
specifically selected to repel non-grognards. The new expansion, which requires
the original game, pits the Roman forces versus their enemies from the Middle
East. The release is accompanied by a new patch to update Alea Jacta Est and the
Birth of Rome expansion to version 1.03a, and
this page has all the details on that. Here's the thumbnail view of the new
expansion: "PARTHIAN WARS is a historical operational strategy game with
simultaneous turns (WEGO system) that places you in command of Rome or their
Eastern nemesis, the Parthians (from 53BC to 197AD). You play the part of the
military and political leadership, guiding your nation to victory, through some
of the toughest conflicts of the Ancient world, represented by 5 challenging
scenarios."
A new official trailer
from Ærena - Clash of Champions, Cliffhanger Games' upcoming cross-platform ærial combat game. Word is: "In an alternate age of mad science and military
marvel, a twisted reality of Tesla-meets-Dr. Frankenstein dieselpunk, Ærena:
Clash of Champions is a game of tactical, turn-based strategy; a duel to the
death in airborne arenas for the ultimate resource." Continue here to read the full story.
Oxide, a new studio that boasts a talent pool that includes veterans of
companies like Firaxis and Microsoft announces the Nitrous engine, a new
cross-platform 64-bit game engine specifically designed to accommodate
development for PCs, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. "As the sole industry provider
of technologies powering both PCs and major next-generation consoles, AMD is a
natural fit for Oxide’s Nitrous engine, an evolutionary leap in PC and console
gaming development," said Ritche Corpus, director of ISV gaming and alliances,
AMD. "Oxide’s Nitrous engine supports thousands of high-detail animated models
on screen simultaneously. Nitrous makes tomorrow's designs come to life on
today's top hardware like AMD’s new AMD Radeon™ R9 Series GPUs, unrivaled APUs
and powerful CPUs." Here's more: In addition, with its unprecedented
utilization of multiple cores, Nitrous is able to realize the potential of new
architectures such as Intel’s Haswell CPU. “The Nitrous engine has made great
progress on the fundamental substrate for parallel compute in PC games. Their
tasking system shows near-linear scaling across Intel’s high-end desktop PCs,
which translates into players being able to control an unprecedented 10,000
interactive units in their engine,” said Mike Burrows, principal engineer and
technical director for visual computing engineering at Intel® Corporation.
By natively supporting 64-bit computing, Nitrous is able to support very high
resolution texture models while its multicore capability enable vast numbers of
light sources on screen simultaneously.
Tripwire Interactive is once again offering a special Halloween event in The
Killing Floor, their co-op survival shooter, announcing the Halloween
Hillbilly Zeds return for their Hillbilly Horror Fright Yard event. The game and
all its mods are on sale for 75% off
on Steam for the duration
of the event, which runs through November 7th. Here's word on what the Fright
Yard contains:
- New map - Fright Yard - both Objective Mode and
Wave Mode
- Them and Us Weapon Pack
- Camo Weapon Pack - introducing the camo you really
need for the zombie apocalypse - splatter camo!
- New premium character - Reggie the Rocker.
Orlright, mate?
Paving the way for tomorrows release of The Dark Eye – Demonicon, Kalypso
Media is holding a livestream session today on
Twitch. Here's word from
the announcement: "With the imminent release of dark fantasy action-RPG The
Dark Eye – Demonicon this Friday (October 25), Kalypso Media is thrilled to
announce a free public live stream of the game via Twitch.tv on Thursday, the
24th of October at 19:00 GMT/20:00 CET. To be hosted by Project Manager Johannes
Bickle and Executive Producer Marc Buro of developer Noumena Studios, the stream
will be an intimate look at unseen locations, new enemies and the rich combat
system of The Dark Eye – Demonicon."
AMD Radeon R9 290X review day.
- AMD R9 290X & R9 280X Vs Nvidia GTX Titan & GTX 780 on
eTeknix. 4K Gaming Showdown.
- AMD RADEON R9 290X on
AnandTech,
eTeknix,
Guru3D,
HARDOCP,
Hardware Canucks,
Hardware Heaven,
Legion Hardware,
Legit Reviews,
PC Gamer,
PC Perspective,
techPowerUp,
The Tech Report,
TechSpot,
and
Vortez.
- AMD Radeon R9 290X CrossFire on
techPowerUp.
- ASUS ROG Orion for Consoles Gaming Headset Video on
Hardware Heaven.
- Cooler Master HAF Stacker 935 Case on
ThinkComputers.org.
- Cooler Master V Series 850 W on
techPowerUp.
- Corsair GS800 (800W) Non-Modular Power Supply on
eTeknix.
- EVGA X79 Dark on
AnandTech.
- Gigabyte Uranium Wireless Mouse & Ghost Station on
eTeknix.
- Gigabyte Z87X-UD4H on
Overclockers Club.
- Mach Xtreme MX-ES SLC 32GB Flash Drive on
eTeknix.
- MyDigitalSSD 128GB mSATA SuperCache 2 Caching SSD on
The SSD Review.
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 On Linux on
[Phoronix].
- Samsung 840 Evo 120 Gigabyte on
ocaholic.
- Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (Verizon Wireless) on
TechReviewSource.com.
- SilverStone ML05 on
ocaholic.
- Team Group Vulcan Series DDR3-2133 16 GB und 32 GB Kit on
PC-Experience. German.
The coffee we make at home is from Starbucks beans we get at the big-box store
in 2½ pound bags, and presumably to encourage recycling, Starbucks promises a
free cup of coffee if you return the empty bag to the store. So in spite of not
having much occasion to use them, we save them, and they have piled up to the
extent that MrsBlue finally declared we were just dropping the whole pile of
them off at the store to be done with it. I objected strongly on principle, as
it seems silly to forego freebies, but she pointed out that a bunch of them have
already expired, and I couldn't argue that this didn't demonstrate that these
were going to waste anyway. But when we showed up at Starbucks, the person at
the counter actually looked aghast when we offered this large bag of empties.
She said if we dropped off the whole pile they would just be thrown in the
garbage, and she wouldn't even take two bags in exchange for our coffees. So we
got our free coffee, and walked out with exactly the same number of bags as we
walked in with (and the impression that our sack of empty bags entitles us to
Cosmo Kramer-style free
coffees for life). The married men among you know what I mean when I say
it's hard to eek out even a small win an argument like this with one's wife, but
a resounding victory like this is pretty unprecedented.
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