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Archived News:
Telltale is Developing a Game of Thrones game, states
an unconfirmed report on IGN citing" multiple sources." They are not clear
what portion or portions of the books or TV series will be covered by this, and
they have an official response from Telltale, who offer "no comment" at this
time.
The Team Fortress 2
website announces the release of the A Tale of Two Cities update for
Team Fortress 2, adding a new map to the teamplay shooter, new medic
content, a new "Rocket Specialist" upgrade for Soldiers, and more.
This page has
more details on the update, along with a new
Mann vs. Machine - The
Sound of Medicine trailer showing it off. Continue here to read the full story.
Mojang announces Minecraft now supports one-button Twitch integration
in their latest snapshot: "At Minecon we announced our new partnership with
Twitch to bring one-click broadcasting to Minecraft. After a little wait, we’re
now ready to make this publicly testable! This is the very first snapshot to
include this functionality and it may be a little buggy, and we’re not finished
with all the features yet, but hopefully it’ll be enough for you to play with
and give feedback on!"
Steam News announces a
free weekend is underway for RAGE, id Software's game of shooting and
driving: Play RAGE
for FREE starting now through Sunday at 1PM Pacific Time. You can also pickup
RAGE at 75% off the regular price!*
RAGE is a groundbreaking first-person shooter set in the not-too-distant future
after an asteroid impacts Earth, leaving a ravaged world behind. You emerge into
this vast wasteland to discover humanity working to rebuild itself against such
forces as bandit gangs, mutants, and the Authority – an oppressive government
regime that has a special interest in you in particular. Featuring intense
first-person shooter action, breakneck vehicle combat, an expansive world to
explore and jaw-dropping graphics powered by id’s revolutionary id Tech® 5
technology, RAGE promises an experience like no other.
Fearing a planet-wide extinction from a massive asteroid headed towards Earth,
world leaders are faced with the inexorable task of ensuring human survival.
Left with few alternatives, life-sustaining pods filled with select people are
buried deep beneath the earth’s surface. You are one of the chosen members of
these modern day arks and abruptly enter the RAGE universe after surfacing
alone. Leaving you to your own devices to stay alive in a world filled with
those who prefer you dead, RAGE combines powerful storytelling with
heart-pounding action.
The Soldak
Entertainment Website has a couple of Drox Operative clips for our viewing
pleasure. They have a new trailer
showing off the features of the new Invasion of the Ancients expansion for Drox
Operative as well a another new clip
showing off the base version of the sci-fi action/RPG. Continue here to read the full story.
Spice Road is now available from
Aartform Games,
offering a trade simulation based on the 18th century spice trade that made
east/west relations of the time so darned spicy. A playable demo is available
for your sampling pleasure, and they are also working a
Greenlight campaign to establish trade relations with the nation of Steam.
Here's word: You are a colonial governor in the 18th Century, building a
town on the Spice Road in a time of war and discovery. More than spice travels
your roads - musket armies, philosophies, and power plays that span the globe
are at your control. From palace to monastry, trade post to smugglers den - your
town is worthless without the nobles, monks, merchants and rogues that chose to
live in it - and keeping them all happy at the same time is never
simple.
A new update is now available for Gas Guzzlers Extreme to update the
driving game with some multiplayer improvements. The
Steam Community has the patch notes, and word is: "Today’s update focuses on
improving the multiplayer lobby environment while also fixing other minor
issues. Gamepires is still in full-throttle development and will have some
further news soon on the exciting future of the Gas Guzzlers Extreme franchise."
GOG.com
announces their DRM-free marketplace now offers Wing Commander: Armada,
calling this "a unique entry in the all-time favorite space combat sim series."
They
also note that this completes their presentation of the entire
Wing
Commander Series, which they are celebrating with a half-off sale.
The calendar keeps ignoring my requests to stop, and so it turns out today is
another birthday for me. Celebrations are pretty subdued here, however, as we
spent the day in the hospital yesterday saying goodbye to my step-grandma, as
she requested to be taken off all of her life-support after her kidneys finally
gave out. If she hasn't passed yet, she'll go soon, and we are heartbroken. She
was a remarkable woman who lead a magnificent life for 93 years, and she will be
missed... one of the next couple of days I'll write up a bit to justify that
hype. On the brighter side, I'm considering my present this year to be Hudson
the wonder dog, and the way she is hanging in there pretty well for the time
being. There had been indications her kidneys were likewise failing due to her
medications, but they have rebounded and she's doing better at the moment.
Hudson and Grandma Belle are the same age (if you do that dog years math), and
in an odd coincidence, each suffered a bout of congestive heart failure at the
same time, and have spent the past several weeks sharing symptoms and prognoses
in an eerie way, and only just in the past week did their seemingly intertwined
outlooks diverge. Hats off to Belle, Hudson, and all their fellow elders who
have to have the final frontier so bravely, and who have less need to live for
themselves than for the rest of us who struggle so hard to let them go when they
are ready.
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