Steam News announces the
release of the most serious game of the day,
Goat Simulator.
Here is where to goat to
get the game, and here's word:
Goat Simulator is the latest in goat
simulation technology, bringing next-gen goat simulation to YOU. You no longer
have to fantasize about being a goat, your dreams have finally come true! WASD
to write history.
Here's
a new trailer
showing off more of
Call of Duty: Ghosts Extinction: Episode 2 Mayday,
the new chapter included in the upcoming
Devastation DLC for Call of Duty:
Ghosts. Here's word on what this brings to the military shooter sequel:
"Following the events of Nightfall, the Quick Reaction Force team has been sent
in to investigate a high-tech ghost ship adrift in the South Pacific. They will
find new weapons and items to aid their fight against the alien hoard. But new
terrors also abound, such as the insidious wall-crawling "Seeder" and the
skyscraper-sized "Kraken." The epic four-part Extinction series returns with the
all-new Episode 2: Mayday!"
Continue here to read the full story.
A new episode of
10 for the Chairman on the Roberts Space Industries website answers further
questions about development of
Star Citizen, RSI's upcoming space combat remake.
Also, there's more to the
$41 Million funding announcement that we
noted last
night where Chris explains that they have no intention of selling out to a
bigger company and disappointing their backers
like
some crowd-funded projects have:
Now to answer the myriad forum threads
that popped up worrying about the possibility of Cloud Imperium being acquired
by another, bigger company – don’t worry! We have no plans nor interest in
following this path! We don’t need to go to anyone with deep pockets to make OUR
dream a reality. To mass-produce hardware like the Rift, you need an outlay of
hundreds of millions of dollars. Luckily our ships are digital so we have hardly
any cost of goods, just the cost of developing the universe of Star Citizen and
running servers that Star Citizen’s universe will be simulated on. Thanks to the
generosity of the Star Citizen community we have these two things covered
And last but not least I’m having way to much fun building the universe of my
dreams for everyone to adventure in! I’ve been down the big company acquisition
route twice before and there’s a reason I am making Star Citizen totally
independently!
This trailer offers a
look at the Unreal Engine 4 version of
Caffeine, celebrating the launch
of the
Indiegogo
campaign for this upcoming first-person psychological horror game. Here's an
outline of the project and its goals:
Caffeine will primarily be a Sci-Fi
Horror game, but at the same time employ a strong focus on both adventure and
narrative and will include some smart puzzle game play.
There will be no weapons in Caffeine but you will be able to use the environment
around you.
Scattered around the environment there will be a mass of notes, audio logs and
clues to what the employees at the station were up to and what was going on in
their lives, hopefully creating a great deal of lore for the world of Caffeine.
Caffeine started out as an Unreal Engine 3 game but is now being built upon the
power of the brand new Unreal Engine 4 which gives me the freedom to push the
limits of visual fidelity and game play.
Taking inspiration from Doom 3, Condemned and FEAR 2, I plan to create a
chilling, often unsettling game with some amazing visuals and a great
interesting storyline to go along with it.
Continue here to read the full story.
Valve announces tickets for this year's installment in The International, their
Dota 2 tournament are going on sale on Friday. The event will be held in
Seattle, WA in mid-July, and here's the deal:
Tickets for The
International Dota 2 Championship will go on sale this Friday, April 4 at 3 pm
Pacific time via Ticketmaster.
The finals for this year's International will be held July 18th - 21st at the
KeyArena in Seattle, WA. Four-day ticket prices are $99 for General Admission,
$199 for Floor seating, and $499 for VIP level.
The International was first held three years ago in Cologne, Germany during
Gamescom with 16 of the best Dota 2 teams in the world competing for a grand
prize of $1 million.
In 2013 the prize pool was bolstered beyond Valve's contribution by Dota 2
player participation in the Interactive Compendium, driving the total prize pool
to over $2.8 million, up from $1.6 million. This year's Compendium will be
unveiled soon.
Held at Seattle's Benaroya Hall, the 2013 finals achieved peak simultaneous
online viewership of over 1 million, plus international television broadcasts
and Pubstomp viewing events held in over 40 countries worldwide.
Dota 2 is a free-to-play, online action strategy game created by Valve
(Bellevue, WA based makers of multiple game franchises and the leading online
distribution platform, Steam).
This year's tournament will again be broadcast worldwide, free of charge, with
play-by-play commentary in multiple languages.
Happy April Fools' Day! So we all know the drill by now... The day will involve
some jokes, some laughs, and some klunkers that demonstrate that while everyone
thinks they're funny, not all of them are correct (if that looks like cover
for when we inevitably post a joke as a real story, it's because it is). Oh, and by the way, we have
totally changed our name here to Pink's News, which is totally serious, and not
at all a joke we've made before. You may have to force a browser refresh to see
our elaborate makeover.
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