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Archived News:
The Arma
III website has the announcement of
Arma III: Zeus, a free DLC pack coming
to Bohemia Interactive's military shooter sequel in Q2 of this year (thanks
Gamer's Hell). Here's a
reveal trailer, and here's a bit of
the announcement:
Improvisation is the ultimate key to success in
Arma 3 Zeus. Inspired by popular tabletop games such as 'Dungeons &
Dragons', a limited number of players can assume the role of Game Master,
and influence the multiplayer experience of those with boots on the ground.
Watching the battlefield from a bird's-eye view, wielding an intuitive
real-time editor, Zeus can create, manipulate or expand mission content to
generate new stories and a flow of challenges. The result is incredibly
dynamic, unscripted combat gameplay - and multiplayer sessions which are
filled with unexpected, challenging, and creative events.
The Zeus multiplayer concept works across all familiar multiplayer game
types, such as Team Deathmatch and Sector Control, where players can either
work with or go up against Zeus. The most distinctive game type in Arma 3
Zeus, however, is ‘Zeus Game Master’. Here, Game Masters are entirely free
to create objectives, spawn units, and steer players across Arma 3’s massive
Altis and Stratis terrains.
On top of the diverse range of official Zeus scenarios that will be
available, Arma 3 Zeus can also be implemented into player-created
multiplayer scenarios.
The
Eidos Montreal community website now offers
a new video showing a
playthrough of the Lockdown mission from Thief, the upcoming
stealth/action remake. The post has a Q&A on the clip and how it was made, and
the description of the video offers the specs of the Windows PC on which it was
recorded:
Enjoy this pure, unedited, uncommented playthrough
of the first mission of THIEF.
After a heist gone wrong, Garrett is trying to make his way back to his
hideout in the clocktower. Along the way, he happens upon a jewelry store.
Garrett being who he is, you can imagine what happens next...
This playthrough was recorded on a PC with fully optimized AMD hardware.
Here are the specs, for you hardcore PC gearheads:
CPU: AMD FX 8350
RAM: 8GB
Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 7970
Hard Drive: 125GB SSD
OS: Windows 7
THIEF will be out on February 25 (North America), 27 (Australia) and 28
(worldwide) for PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.
Steam News announces
that Eschalon: Book III
is now available:
Eschalon: Book III brings the trilogy to a
climactic end as you seek to uncover the mystery of your past, the secrets
of the Crux stones, and who the Orakur really are. You’ll traverse miles of
virtual wilderness and dungeons, filled with secrets and danger, in an
unparalleled role-playing experience designed to feel like a true
pen-and-paper RPG.
Early Access to Ground Pounders is now available
through Steam. Here's
the explanation from Steam
News:
Ground Pounders is a hex-based, turn-based strategy
wargame. Inspired by classic strategy games like Panzer General, and steeped
in the lore of the Sword of the Stars universe, Ground Pounders offers a new
generation of gamers an updated taste of turn-based strategic warfare. Best
of all, you can play it cross platform between desktop machine and mobile
devices.
Ground Pounders lets players control an army from one of three factions.
Each army is comprised of dozens of different unit types. You will lead your
ground pounders across a variety of worlds, increase their experience levels
and abilities over the course of three campaigns, and use them to unlock
special action cards that can add special effects to single-player games, or
to up the stakes in your cross-platform multi-player battles.
- be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3 CPU Cooler on
TweakTown.
- Raijintek Pallas Low Profile CPU Cooler on
eTeknix.
A reminder for those who may not be aware, but we are in the midst of recovering
from some hardware problems, so we ask your patience while the site's database
functions are restored, which will probably take a few more days. We had some
more downtime earlier, apologies for that. And we've gotten a couple of reports
of fake AV ad dealies which are obviously sketchy at best, so I've yoinked the
ad code until this can be straightened out. Apologies for that as well.
I looked out upon my shoveling handiwork this morning to see that a good deal of
our sidewalk had iced over during the night, making it a very hazardous looking
skating rink. This set off a mission to find rock salt, which turns out is in
extremely short supply at the moment, as there was none to be found in our local
hardware store, the Home Depot, or any of the dozens of other places we tried
such as AutoZone, a 7-11, and every gas station in the area. We'd completed the
full circle and were heading home empty handed when we decided to try the local
convenience store, which turned out to have a couple of bags left, in what
seemed like a miracle by that point. We had to laugh at that point, because
after driving about 20 miles for this, we finally found what we were looking for
in what is literally the closest possible store to the BlueTower.
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