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Archived News:
The
Firefall website announces that Firefall is out of beta, marking the
official launch of this free-to-play MMO shooter, offering a
launch trailer to
celebrate the news with a look at the game. Here's the news of the
release: We are excited to announce that the beta tag is gone and Firefall
is now officially launched and available to play for free! This day has been a
long time coming and we couldn’t be happier to finally be sharing Firefall with
the world. However, just because we’re no longer in beta doesn’t mean that we no
longer need your feedback. This is only the beginning of the journey, and only
together can we make Firefall the game we all know it can be!
If you don’t already have the game installed, you can find a link to download it
here.
New players should make sure to check out our updated
New User Guide for
information about some of the game’s basic systems.
Continue here to read the full story.
Ubisoft now offers Riders of the Rustlands, for Trials Fusion, the first
of six planned DLC packs for the racing game, adding new tracks, challenges,
editor objects, and achievements. This is available separately, or as part of a
Season Pass. Here are the details on the contents: In Riders of the
Rustlands, players will meet the forgotten people that live just outside the
boundaries of Trials Fusion. Ignored by the government and left to their own
devices, these rogues are forced to use, build and scavenge what they can to
make a living. Rival camps have sprung up in the battle for resources and
once-thriving facilities have been reduced to wastelands. Drastically visually
different from the gleaming cities in Trials Fusion, the Rustlands give players
a new playground to explore as they learn more about these outcasts.
Ten new tracks have been added, consisting of six Classic Trials tracks, two
Supercross tracks, one Skill Game, and one FMX track. In addition, there are 18
new Track Challenges, including secret locations and more hidden squirrels to
uncover. Track editors also have dozens of new obstacles at their disposal
including wrecked vehicles and the warehouses featured in the Rustlands to help
create the track of their dreams.
The Battlefield Blog announces the Dragon's Teeth expansion for
Battlefield 4 is now available to all owners of the military shooter sequel,
following an exclusivity period for premium subscribers. Here's word on the new
maps and new content it offers: Get ready to fight in dense Asian Pacific
cities as today Battlefield 4 Dragon’s Teeth is rolling out for all Battlefield
4 players. Take part in epic urban battles across four new maps including:
- Pearl Market: Wage war within the bustling
alleyways and upon the rooftops of the marketplace
- Propaganda: Fight amongst massive despotic
monuments in the grey concrete battleground
- Lumphini Garden: Cruise with fast-moving PWC’s on
the canals in the pristine park to get the upper hand
- Sunken Dragon: Battle between modern high rises as
you wreak havoc in a floating restaurant or drain the lake opening up for a
frontal vehicle assault
In addition to four new maps, player’s will get five new weapons including
the Ballistic Shield. Dragon’s Teeth also introduces a Battle Pickup, the
R.A.W.R, a heavily armed remotely operated ground vehicle armed with a machine
gun and grenade launcher, as well as a new game mode called Chain Link. Bringing
another layer of depth and strategy, Chain Link is a twist on Conquest where
teams need to act fast and link together capture points to ensure
victory.
A new campaign story
trailer from Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare introduces the role of the
military industrial complex in the upcoming installment in the military shooter
series. Word is: "With nations brought to their knees by a global terrorist
attack, the world turns to Atlas, the largest private military company on the
planet. Power, though, changes everything." Also, Activision announces details
on three different collector's editions of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, an
Atlas Pro Edition, an Atlas Limited Edition, and an Atlas Digital Pro Edition,
the first two of which are now available
for preorder. This
involves a dizzying combination of options, so feel free to study the details in
chunks:
- Inspired by the Atlas Corporation, the leading
Private Military Corporation (PMC) in 2054 and lead by the influential
Jonathan Irons, the Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Atlas Limited Edition
features an extensive array of both digital and physical content, including
a bonus multiplayer map Atlas Gorge, a collectible SteelBook™, the Welcome
to Atlas: Advanced Soldier Manual, and the Atlas Digital Content Pack, a
collection of digital content that includes an Atlas-themed exoskeleton,
Atlas-themed weaponry, and more. (SRP $79.99)
- Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Atlas Pro Edition
is the ultimate package, including everything available in the Atlas Limited
Edition version (bonus multiplayer map Atlas Gorge, the collectible
SteelBook™, the Welcome to Atlas: Advanced Soldier Manual, and the Atlas
Digital Content Pack), as well as the Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Season
Pass featuring four action-packed DLC Map Packs*, each delivering a
collection of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare multiplayer content and more (SRP
$119.99)
- Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Atlas Digital Pro
Edition is perfect for fans that prefer to access all of their content
digitally. The Atlas Digital Pro Edition includes all of the same bold
digital content as the Atlas Pro Edition, including the Call of Duty:
Advanced Warfare Season Pass, bonus multiplayer map Atlas Gorge, and the
Atlas Digital Content Pack. Also included with this version is the Atlas
Digital Edition Personalization Pack, with more details to be revealed soon.
(SRP $99.99)
All three versions include the following: Continue here to read the full story.
The
UbiBlog now offers a
new trailer from Assassin's Creed Unity introducing Elise, another of
the characters in the upcoming installment in the stealth/action series. As they
explain, Elise will also be featured in an upcoming novel tie in. Here's the
story: This new trailer for Assassin’s Creed Unity shows Arno racing
against time through a dense and chaotic central Paris in order to prevent the
beheading of Elise, a character central to Assassin’s Creed Unity’s story. As an
independent young noblewoman, Elise is determined to secure her place in the
Templar dynasty amidst the chaos of the French Revolution. Her quest leads her
to cross paths with Arno and establish an unlikely bond with him.
Elise will also be featured in a new paperback, also titled “Assassin’s Creed
Unity,” by Oliver Bowden from Penguin Random House. The story examines an era
when the divide between the rich and poor is at its most extreme, and a nation
is tearing itself apart. Told from Elise’s perspective, “Assassin’s Creed Unity”
follows her and Arno as they are drawn into the centuries-old battle between the
Assassins and Templars. In a world with dangers more deadly than they could ever
have imagined, they must fight to avenge all they have lost. “Assassin’s Creed
Unity” builds on Bowden’s past Assassin’s Creed novels with millions sold
to-date.
Continue here to read the full story.
A new trailer from
Dragon Age: Inquisition takes a look at combat from EA's upcoming action/RPG
sequel. Here is their outline of the clip: "Join us for an in-depth look at the
multi-faceted combat system of Dragon Age: Inquisition. Learn how to command the
battle with a demonstration of both real-time action and the strategic tactical
camera." Continue here to read the full story.
Polygon - The days of owning games are coming to an end.
What EA is offering in this case is ephemeral, just like the games we buy
digitally through Sony and Microsoft and install directly on our hard
drives. One day the servers will go down, and the games will be gone. The
hardware will die. The companies will stop supporting these services and
they'll cease to host games. It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when.
The digital coupons for content and games are a great deal for this
generation, but let's not fool ourselves into thinking we're buying anything
lasting.
We may complain about this in the comments, but the reality of the situation
is that this is the future we've built. We support this new age of limited
ownership, of products that exist at the pleasure of the publishers and
developers. We spend money on games and services, we prop up the minimum
viable products that we like and support their ongoing development. We talk
about convenience when we buy digitally, and we worry about things like
pre-loading so we can play the moment the game is out, but we're ultimately
discussing impermanence.
A
Steam community announcement has word that Pixel Piracy will be
officially released on Steam
on Thursday at 1:00 pm EDT, less than one year after development began on the
open world pirate game (thanks Batman). They say Valve has informed them that
that the game is one of the first and quickest to actually leave the early
access stage, after a little over six months with that status. Alexander Poysky
explains that two hundred thousand players are participating in the early
access, and express gratitude in explaining the game's success has meant to the
two-person development team, and hints at plans for the future: It's so
rewarding to see that our little motto of "do things in a correct fashion
without ever abusing or taking advantage of anyone." has worked so well, and we
hope to prove that the Early Access system works.
Vitali and I both do this for a living now. We were able to leave our respective
jobs, to help our families, to do what we love most in life, all thanks to you.
You are the ones who support our endeavours, you are the ones who help us march
along and get the job done. You put your money where your faith in us was, and
we are making due on that faith by finishing the game.
I want to take this opportunity to explain that launch and 1.0 DOES NOT mean we
will stop updating the title! Mikko will come to work the day directly after,
just as any other day, and keep on plugging away. I will continue to think up
new things to add to the game and business will go on as usual. Expect to see
many new and exciting things soon in the world of Pixel Piracy!
It's been an amazing, thrilling, fun, insane, and spectacularly rewarding ride,
and I want to let you all know that the Pixel universe isn't just going to stop
at Pixel Piracy... what the future brings... only we know ;).
Expect something big soon!
The
GeForce website now offers new GeForce 340.52 WHQL Windows Drivers for
NVIDIA graphics cards. Along with the usual assortment of improvements and
fixes, the new drivers also support the GameStream streaming features of the new
NVIDIA
SHIELD tablets that are available as of today in the U.S. These are also the
optimal drivers for Metro: Redux and the Chinese release of Final Fantasy XIV
(and here's a shout out to all our Chinese readers!). The drivers should be
delivered automatically to those using the
GeForce Experience.
Indie developer Two Tribes announces RIVE, a "metal wrecking, robot
hacking" 2D shooter/platformer coming to Windows and consoles which is the first
project for the studio since restructuring as a three-person team. They plan on
revealing more next month at Gamescom, and in the meantime offer
this trailer,
these screenshots,
and this description: Announcing a new game is always a major event, but
since it's the first game since the Two Tribes reboot, this one is extra special
for us. We've been working feverishly with our new base team of just three
people to be able to announce RIVE to the world.
So what did we make!? We call it RIVE and we describe it as 'the metal wrecking,
robot hacking shooter'. It's a 2D shooter / platformer with old school gaming
values in a decidedly new school execution. During the game's intense 360 degree
shooting and platforming action, players learn to alter the behavior of their
robotic enemies by collecting and uploading hacks.
Continue here to read the full story.
Some digging by the DRM detectives at
Reclaim Your Game uncovers the presense of SecuROM copy protection in the
version of The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection currently
being offered for free
by EA. They have noted no problems specific to this, saying it looks like an
unscrubbed version of the original release, but they put out the
word for those who don't want the unpopular DRM on their systems. For those
who have already installed the game, they offer instructions on how to remove
all traces of SecuROM after uninstalling it. Thanks
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Happy birthday Professor Irwin Corey,
as the "world's foremost authority" turns 100 today. I would have bet
he would be about 120 by now. Anyway, this man ran for president on the Playboy
ticket, accepted a National Book Award for Thomas Pynchon, is mentioned in a
Robert Heinlein novel, and was married to the same woman for 70 years! Here's to
the next 100, professor!
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