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Archived News:
The Memoria website now offers
downloads of playable demos for the Windows and OS X editions of The Dark
Eye: Memoria, offering the entire first chapter of the Dark Eye RPG. Word
is: "The demo contains the whole first chapter and follows the trail of Sadja,
an adventurous princess, striving to be the greatest hero of all time." The
samples of the game are also available
through Steam.
Focus Home Interactive announces Space Run, a tower defense/spaceship
construction games from Passtech Games (not to be confused with
Gratuitous Space Battles
a tower defense/spaceship construction games from Positech Games). The game has
an official website and a
first teaser trailer,
and here's word: We are thrilled to unveil today, with a video, Space
Run. This PC game mixes strategy and space ship construction in real time,
borrowing certain mechanics from the "tower defense" system with numerous twists
and hyper dynamic gameplay. Space Run is a nod to '80s science fiction and pays
homage to many of its tropes and references.
Space Run is a true indie title developed by a "one-man studio", namely Sylvain
Passot who, after spending 10 years in a large French development studio,
decided to develop his own concept, "'Space Run''. Although nowhere near the
scale of the productions he had previously worked on, Sylvain was supported with
enough resources to complete and add the finishing touches to his game, and
Space Run still has plenty of surprises in store with its well-oiled game
mechanics, addictive gameplay and intense, exciting missions.
Continue here to read the full story.
This post outlines the release of a new "tasty walls" patch for Strike
Vector, updating the aerial combat game to version 1.0.3162, which includes the
first of the promised
free content releases for the game. Also, the game is on sale this weekend
on Steam for 20% off.
Here's word on the new stuff: Firestorm:
The most harcore map of Strike Vector.
Explore this gigantic foundry and fight for your life in narrow corridors and
take hazardous
shortcuts to bring your team to the victory in CTF.
Sanctuary:
Fly through gigantic debris floating in the sky around a giant mystic temple!
Beware of the everchanging environment!
Leaderboards:
A world leaderboard have been implemented. You can know who’s the best at Strike
vector
in real time!
Stainless Games announces a March 27th launch date for the
Carmageddon: Reincarnation Steam Early Access they
teased in September. Here's a wacky new
Damage Tech trailer to
celebrate the news, and here's word: From the 27th of March 2014, the
legion of long time Carmageddon fans, plus lovers of excess virtual violence
everywhere will get to wreak havoc, pain and hilarity once more. This Early
Access release is a milestone, as it marks the beginning of a new era in the
Carmageddon story. Kickstarter Backers will be able to get behind the wheel two
weeks before the Steam Early Access release.
The resulting game (which is now at the Pre-Alpha phase) has even more laughs,
more bodily fluids, more thrills, more smashes and more... cows than
ever.
Continue here to read the full story.
Wargaming has released the soundtracks for a couple of their games, offering the
music from World of Tanks and World of Warplanes. The respective
soundtracks can be found on the
World of Tanks North
American website and
European website and the
World of Warplanes North
American website and
European website. Each site offers direct downloads and links to Google
Music where this is free, as well as links to the iTunes store in case you just
cannot suppress the impulse to pay for this.
- Chuck's Challenge 3D on
Steam. Save 10%.
- Helicopter Simulator 2014: Search and Rescue on
Steam. Save 25%.
- One Way Heroics on
Steam. Save 15%.
- Waking Mars on
GOG.com. Save 80%.
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II: Retribution on
Steam. Save 75%.
Link of the Day:
Starfox Fanfilm is like Michael Bay with Arwings. I was thinking J.J.
Abrams. Thanks Ant.
Deadline.com reports on plans for a Minecraft live-action film,
inspiring Markus
"notch" Persson to tweet: "Someone is trying leak the fact that we're
working with Warner Brothers on a potential Minecraft Movie. I wanted to be the
leak!" The Minecraft creator later followed this up with a comment on
Polygon. "It's for real. I think every part of that tweet was real,
including me wanting to be the one to spill the news about a potential movie,"
he tells them. "Also, I [am] very well aware that this might be Minecraft
jumping the shark, but how often do you get to be part of making a movie?"
Steam News announces the
release of Resident Evil
4 HD (though the "HD" isn't listed), the updated version of the
survival/horror sequel also known as Biohazard 4. The game's details all fall
under the following Umbrella: In Resident Evil 4, special agent Leon S.
Kennedy is sent on a mission to rescue the U.S. President’s daughter who has
been kidnapped. Finding his way to a rural village in Europe, he faces new
threats that are a departure from the traditional lumbering zombie enemies of
the earlier instalments in the series. Leon battles horrific new creatures
infested by a new threat called Las Plagas and faces off against an aggressive
group of enemies including mind-controlled villagers that are tied to Los
Illuminados, the mysterious cult which is behind the abduction.
- Stunning HD running at a smooth 60 frames per
second for the first time.
- A complete visual overhaul has been performed to
bring this revered title to the highest graphical quality ever.
- Fully optimized for the wide screen, texts have
been sharpened and textures have been upgraded on characters, backgrounds
and in-game objects.
- Steam platform support with Steam Achievements,
Steam Cloud, Steam Trading Cards, global leaderboards, and full game
controller support.
- Native keyboard and mouse support with
customizable key binding, mouse sensitivity, and mouse acceleration
settings.
- This new PC version will include everything from
the prior iterations including subtitle support in English, French, Italian,
German, and Spanish as well as previously released bonus content such as the
Separate Ways epilogue.
The Undead Labs
blog offers details on Lifeline, an upcoming DLC pack for State of
Decay, their survival/horror game, saying this will "explore new
perspectives" as it "exposes the military side of the zombie apocalypse" (thanks
CVG). They accurately note that this is a chance to depict the military in a
different role than secondary antagonist in such a game: In zombie
fiction, the military is often the go-to badguy. They’re the hammer to which
every problem is a nail, blindly mowing everything down to serve some unknown
goal.
But this view is fairly one-sided and naïve. On the State of Decay team, we have
a different perspective (some of us firsthand) — the military is made up of many
good men and women who stand on the line that divides safety and civilization
from chaos and war.
Few people have a greater opportunity to make life-altering choices than
soldiers. They’ve played that role as side characters in the original State of
Decay...but now we are adding a new story, in which you take on that
responsibility yourself.
The
Roberts Space Industries website has details on a new version 11.1 patch
that's now available for the Hangar module for Star Citizen, the upcoming
space combat game (thanks
TweakTown). Here are the
complete patch notes: A new Hangar patch is now available via your
launcher! Patch 11.1 adds support for the Oculus Rift to the Hangar module,
which was promised as part of the $12 million stretch goal! Oculus owners can
now get a first look at their ship collections using the 3D headset. Be sure to
let us know what you think! This is a pre-alpha release. There are a number of
known issues regarding the Rift support; a complete list is available in the
patch notes. Please report any additional bugs on the forums!
Years ago I mentioned a quest for the legendary Kosher for Passover Coca-Cola,
which is apparently made with sugar, rather than high-fructose corn syrup. I
never succeeded at this, though I did eventually locate the sugar-based Mexican
Coke. In what was a completely unrelated thought, last weekend I had the impulse
to pick up some Fox's U-Bet syrup to be properly equipped to make egg creams. I
picked up a bottle of the chocolate and strawberry syrups, and each noted that
the corn syrup ingredient is swapped out in favor of sugar during Passover, and
vaguely recalling that we are getting into Easter/Passover season I checked, and
sure enough, this is the sugar variety, which was pretty cool. By the way, for
the record, I don't think HFC is worse for you than sugar (they are each treats,
neither is health food), I just find things sweetened with sugar to taste
better.
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