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Archived News:
Battle.net announces a
50% XP bonus weekend is underway for Diablo III tonight until Monday. Word is: Over
1.5 million players around the world have stopped Death since Reaper of Souls™
launched last Tuesday, March 25. To celebrate this achievement and help support
your ongoing crusade against the forces of evil, all nephalem who log into
Diablo III this weekend will receive a +50% bonus to XP! This bonus XP period
begins in the Americas region tonight, April 4 at 5:00 p.m. PDT and ends on
Monday, April 7 at 5:00 a.m. PDT.
Thank you so much for being a hero of Sanctuary. We hope you have fun this
weekend, and we'll see you in Westmarch!
This trailer announces
preorders are underway for Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure,
revealing the upcoming FMV revival is due for release on April 22nd for Windows
and OS X. Here's the tease for the game: "Tesla Effect begins with Tex Murphy --
the down-on-his-luck gumshoe in the post-apocalyptic future -- regaining
consciousness on the fire escape next to his office with a head wound and an
injection mark on his arm. With the last seven years of his life wiped from
memory, the private eye has no choice but to figure who was behind the
mysterious attack and why." Thanks nin via
Polygon.
This
Steam announcement has word that 75 more titles have been greenlit for
release on Steam.
This page outlines all the new approvals. Word is: "As with past batches,
these titles will be released independently in the weeks or months ahead, as
they complete development and integrate any Steamworks features they are
interested in utilizing."
The
Age of Wonders III website has a new feature on the level editor in Triumph
Studios' just-released turn-based strategy game, including
this video with a
narrated introduction to its capabilities. Word is: While most of you have probably just begun delving into the depths of AoW3;
we’re already getting questions about the editing tools. Designer Narvek has
prepared this tutorial video, showing the core features. The Editor allows you
to create your own worlds and paint terrain features with ease. Place armies,
cities, and resource structures with the click of a button. Create your own
heroes, and set default diplomatic states between sides. Tech savvy editors can
script interactive events such as quests and create entire campaigns, including
story scenes with custom art and voice tracks – just like the campaigns shipped
with the game!
Continue here to read the full story.
Soldak Entertainment now offers a Linux edition of
Depths of Peril,
saying their flurry of penguin ports means they now have Linux editions of Drox
Operative, Invasion of the Ancients, Din's Curse, Demon War, and
Depths of
Peril. All of these can be found in their
online store and
there are now Linux demos for each on their
demos page.
Ubisoft now offers
Episode One and
Episode Two of a series called Ghost Recon Phantoms: The Journey, looking at
the process of creating Ghost Recon Phantoms from Ghost Recon Online. They plan
on releasing two episodes a week through the rest of this month. Here's word on
the series: "Discover the story behind the evolution of Tom Clancy's Ghost
Recon, from Future Soldier to Online, from Retail to Free-to-Play. Learn how the
project went through a full year of Closed Beta up to Open Beta and now to full release." Continue here to read the full story.
- Broken Sword 5 - the Serpent's Curse on
Steam. Save 50%.
- Full Steam Ahead Sale on
ShinyLoot.
- Oknytt on
Steam. Save 20%.
Link of the Day:
Jumpy, Skidboot. Thanks nin.
The
Bethesda Blog announces the launch of The Elder Scrolls Online, saying the
game is available for purchase from
The Elder Scrolls Online Store for Windows and OS X. "We are grateful for
the overwhelming response to The Elder Scrolls Online," said Game Director Matt
Firor. "With 5 million people registered for beta, it’s clear that a large
number of fans are eager to jump online and experience everything the game has
to offer. We couldn’t be more excited to get it into everyone’s hands." A
new "Siege" cinematic
trailer celebrates the news, and here's word, which concludes with plans for
console releases down the road: Bethesda Softworks®, a ZeniMax® Media
company, today announced that The Elder Scrolls Online is now
available for PC and Mac at retailers worldwide and on the official online
store. Developed by ZeniMax Online Studios, The Elder Scrolls Online
is the latest chapter in the award-winning franchise and brings the
legendary experience online for the first time.
The Elder Scrolls Online allows gamers to choose their own style
of play as they embark upon an epic adventure across all of Tamriel. Players can
adventure alone on heroic quests as in previous Elder Scrolls games, explore the
huge, rich world with a few friends, or join with hundreds of others in massive
Player vs. Player (PvP) battles to save the Empire.
Continue here to read the full story.
Battle.net announces that alpha testing is now underway for the upcoming
Warlords of Draenor expansion for World of Warcraft, Blizzard's
MMORPG. They offer a technical discussion of a new proprietary file
format they are introducing, outline how to sign up to be a beta tester, and
remind users how to keep their accounts more secure. Here's what they say about
testing the new addon: We’ve been hard at work on World of Warcraft®:
Warlords of Draenor™, and today we’ve entered the Alpha phase of our expansion
testing. As part of this, we’ll begin using public servers to host the data,
which means you may begin seeing some datamined information show up in the usual
places.
One of our goals for this very early stage of the Alpha is to test out some new
technology in the wild with employees and friends and family, including a new
file format called CASC (more on that below). As such, the expansion content
available during this first phase will be quite limited—many of the expansion’s
major features, such as Garrisons, won’t be available until a later point in the
testing process. This early phase of testing will help us ramp up for our larger
beta phase later on, when we’ll be inviting more players.
The
Telltale Community blog has the news that we should expect the release of A
Crooked Mile next week, which is the third episode in The Wolf Among Us
(thanks nin via
Joystiq). This new trailer
celebrates the news, and here's word, including a release schedule for various
platforms: We have release dates for A Crooked Mile, the third episode of
The Wolf Among Us... it arrives NEXT WEEK!
- PC/Mac (worldwide) - Tuesday, April 8th
- PlayStation 3 (North America) - Tuesday, April 8th
- Xbox 360 (worldwide) - Wednesday, April 9th
- PlayStation 3 (Europe) - Wednesday, April 9th
- iOS - also coming next week!
In this episode, Bigby is just steps behind the prime suspect of a horrific
murder, but he’s not the only one... other forces in Fabletown will stop at
nothing to protect their interests.
Check out this trailer for a little taste of what's to come! A word of warning
though: this video contains huge spoilers for Episodes 1 and 2. If you've yet to
catch up with the season so far, definitely do that before watching the trailer
for Episode 3 (we think you'll be glad you did).
Continue here to read the full story.
A new DOOM Beta FAQ on the
Wolfenstein: The New Order website has details on how those who preorder
Wolfenstein: The New Order can get in on beta testing of id Software's next
installment in DOOM, their seminal FPS series. They say beta keys will be
included with the new Wolf game on May 20th, but refer to "once it begins" as
when to expect the beta to begin. They add that the DOOM Beta will only be
available on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC, and say it is not certain whether
DOOM will also have an open beta. Thanks
Eurogamer.net.
A new
Kickstarter seeks $80,000 in funding to complete Popup Dungeon, a
procedurally generated roguelike-like that will offer players unprecedented
control over the environment. Here's more on how this will work: "Popup Dungeon
is a procedurally generated roguelike with several inspired twists. The first
is that you can make anything and the system will balance it. Want nyancat's
face on bullwinkle's body wielding a tommy gun that shoots ice beams? It can all
be made through their system. The second is the unique art style, creating the a
game for PC that feels like it took a dungeon master a long time, a lot of
cutting, and several reams of cardstock to create." Continue here to read the full story.
Sorry to hear
David
Letterman is retiring... He's always been a favorite of mine, as I still
get a kick out of his curmudgeonly wackiness, and I will miss him. I'll never
understand how Jay beat him over all those years, but in my opinion, he was
always the winner of the late night wars, even if the ratings didn't show it.
And now, here are some links, as always, compiled in our home office in Wahoo,
Nebraska:
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