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This teaser trailer
introduces Insomnia, an online RPG coming by the end of next year from Russian
startup developer MONO described thusly: "a real-time tactical sandbox MMORPG.
It combines elements from strategy, tactical, and real-time action games."
The Insomnia Project website is
online with details on the game, including a
FAQ, as well as
screenshots and other art. Their description of the game's setting gives an idea
of what to expect: The bulk of the action in the game will take place on
an enormous, half-deserted space station that has spent more than four centuries
traveling to its ultimate destination: the Evacuation Point. Most of the station
is abandoned and has come to be known as “the Dump,” but there are also many
sectors that have never been explored. The survivors are trying to maintain
order within a manned sector called URB-e in the hopes that the station will one
day reach its destination.
Continue here to read the full story.
Kotaku has an unconfirmed rumor that Eidos Montreal has cancelled an
upcoming game, saying they have heard this from multiple sources. They also say
this is not the new Thief game, but is rather a new IP, saying it may have been
connected to the Japanese branch of Eidos parent Square Enix. So to recap: An
unannounced game from an unknown IP may have been cancelled. We're guessing this
actually happens a lot. Thanks nin.
Techland announces a delay to Hellraid, the upcoming zombie game formerly
known as Project Hell. They say the game is now expected in 2014, and there is
an explanation of why from game producer Marcin Kruczkiewicz on the
Hellraid blog: Why? The additional time will give us the chance to add
new features and completely new game modes for single player and co-op that
until now we haven’t had time to finish. We also want to use this time to
rethink a few things. Playtesting our game with fans and players who visited our
office gave us a lot of fresh insight and new perspective on many aspects of the
game. For example we want to redesign the magic system to make it even more
powerful and diverse, add new ways of casting spells and a set of new, more
visually stunning spells.
Soldak Entertainment now offers Drox Operative: Invasion of the Ancients,
the first expansion for Drox Operative, their sci-fi action/RPG. Word
is: Drox Operative: Invasion of the Ancients is the first expansion for
the unique action RPG Drox Operative. It adds ancient invasions, space stations,
persistent galaxies, Scavenger race, new Talon, Legion, and Overlord monsters,
19 playable subraces, and much more.
Before the Drox ruled the galaxy, before they were even sentient, there were
older races now known as the Ancients. Using their Operatives, the Drox crushed
and enslaved most of these races. The rest fled known space. When the Drox
turned on their own Operatives, the Drox were utterly destroyed. Newer races
emerged and thrived in the power void, never knowing the menace waited. Seizing
their chance, the Ancients are invading to take their rightful place in the
galaxy, as rulers! Thirsting for revenge, the Ancients can't harm the extinct
Drox, but they can crush the next best thing, the Drox Operatives.
The Ancient enemies are back! Can you defend the Drox Operative Guild and
younger races against the Invasion of the Ancients?
CD Projekt RED has a statement on their
Official Blog re-stating their hard-line stance against DRM for The
Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, saying that while the game will be distributed on
Steam where it will be protected by Steamworks, on all platforms within their
control, their RPG sequel will have no digital rights management
whatsoever: Hey, following our recent announcement of the distribution
deals of The Witcher 3 in North America and Europe, there have been some
concerns regarding DRM and previous legal issues with The Witcher 2. We’ve seen
a lot of comments in various places around the web and we would like to join in
on the conversation.
I’d like to say it loud and clear: The PC version of The Witcher 3 will have
absolutely no DRM from day 0. Zero. Zip. Nada. It doesn’t matter if you choose
to buy it on GOG.com and support us directly or buy the game in box format,
you’ll still get the 100% DRM-free experience. And this goes for the whole
world.
We’ve fiddled with DRM in the past (Oh boy! How young and naïve we were;)) and
that’s enough. Lesson learned.
Having said that, I’d like to thank you for your continuous support. You’ve
bought six million copies of the Witcher games so far. Whoo-hoo! Let’s
celebrate. Here, have some cake!
UPDATE:
It’ll be on Steam; the team isn’t going to exclude that community by any means.
Gamers have a choice in where they buy their games, but where CDPR does have
control — like GOG.com — there will be absolutely no DRM.
A new Meet the Slave
King trailer from Stronghold Crusader 2 introduces a new character to
Firefly's siege warfare series. Here's word on this AI opponent: "His methods
and style of attack may be more direct than other AI characters, but the Slave
King is not to be underestimated! Commanding the loyalty of large armies of
torch-wielding Slaves freed from their lives of imprisonment, the Slave King is
more than likely to rush players early on at the start of a multiplayer match."
Continue here to read the full story.
- Joe Danger 2: Undead Movie Pack on
Steam. Save 20%.
- Papers, Please on
GOG.com. Save 40%.
- Pro Cycling Manager 2013 on
Steam. Save 66%.
- Rise of the Triad on
GOG.com. Save 50%.
Valve announces a milestone for Steam, saying their online service now boasts
65 million accounts after a 30% growth spurt over the past 12
months: Valve today announced 30% growth in active accounts during the
trailing 12 months on Steam, a leading platform for PC, Mac, and Linux software.
Now offering over 3,000 games and software titles to over 65 million accounts,
2013 also marked Steam's 10 year anniversary of providing services to gamers.
Expanding upon that history, Steam gamers saw the introduction of several new
service features during the year, including Family Sharing, Steam Trading Cards,
Early Access, and support for Linux titles.
Looking ahead to 2014, Valve looks to expand Steam's services and offerings to
gamers and developers by holding the Steam Developer Days in Seattle, WA this
January and rolling out the recently announced Steam Machines with a variety of
hardware partners later in the year.
"The main goal of Steam has always been to increase the quality of the user's
experience by reducing the distance between content creators and their
audience," said Gabe Newell, co-founder and president of Valve. "As the platform
grows, our job is to adapt to the changing needs of both the development and
user communities. In the coming year, we plan to make perhaps our most
significant collaborations with both communities through the Steam Dev Days and
the Steam Machines beta."
HARDOCP has a tip for playing Battlefield 4 on Windows they came up with
while putting the military shooter sequel through its paces for their technical
evaluation. They encountered some odd results in the game's antialiasing, and
have this preliminary tip for users looking to improve the game's visuals:
We are hard at work testing BF4, and the first thing we discovered was
that the textures did not seem up to par for a new Frostbite 3 engine game. We
quickly found out that by turning the "Antialiasing Post" (inherently FXAA)
graphics setting to "Off," fixed this problem. The textures were now much
sharper, clearer, and the fidelity in the entire game was better.
Post AA seems to be adding blur over the entire image, even though it does
reduce aliasing on everything. It is the nature of FXAA, but it seems apparently
bad in BF4 according to our testing so far. You have an interesting choice. We
have a poll and a discussion thread which we would love to hear your feedback on
what settings you prefer while you play BF4.
This teaser trailer
reveals plans for an "ultra drop" for WildStar, as Carbine Studios plans
on unveiling six classes from their upcoming sci-fi MMORPG over the coming six
weeks. They say this info stream will include "devspeaks" (huh?), live streams,
reveals, and a new trailer, and the new clip offers glimpses of gameplay in the
meantime. Continue here to read the full story.
A new trailer from
Need for Speed Rivals highlights the "Ultimate Cars, Speed and Rivalry" in
the upcoming car chase sequel. Here's the description of the clip: "As the
hottest, fastest cars in the world tear up the streets of Redview County, Zephyr
and the racers like him, risk it all as the Cops cross the line to try and stop
them in the ultimate rivalry of the roads. The power of AllDrive brings the Cops
and Racers together in a seamless world where races and chases collide to create
a white knuckled experience found nowhere else but in Need for Speed Rivals."
Continue here to read the full story.
Steam now offers new
Smashing Pumpkins DLC for
Rocksmith 2014, so owners of the music game sequel can party like it's 1979.
The songs included are Today, Bullet with Butterfly Wings, 1979, Disarm,
and Tonight, Tonight.
I've been working on getting both morning and evening updates online earlier,
which I think makes sense. Last night's went up at a good time, but this
morning's is later than I'd have hoped, but I'll continue working on it.
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