Ubisoft announces a
Video Gamer Night to be held on September 7th in San Francisco as part of
the S.F. Giants baseball game that evening. The video game part of this is one
of the more unusual such promotions we can recall, as it offers a limited
edition baseball-themed
Assassin's Creed action figure, an invite to a
pre-game party where you can rub elbows with Todd McFarlane (who created the
figure), and participation in a Q&A session with the Assassin's Creed Unity
developers.
Kalypso Media announces
Crookz, a heist strategy game set in the 1970s
coming next year to Windows, OS X, and Linux. The
Crookz website is online,
offering a live-action
trailer. Here's word:
Crookz is a tactical strategy game set in the
funky 1970’s with a slick and groovy atmosphere. Show off the art of thieving by
plotting stylish heists and robberies; utilizing espionage and quick-thinking to
avoid detection. Implement a successful strategy by assembling and kitting out
your team before the job and planning the best way in.
Features of Crookz
- Diverse and thrilling Single player campaign
- 20 missions set in a colorful and stylish 70’s
setting
- Customize your gang of thieves with a variety of
playable characters. The powerful bruiser makes a good hatchet man, while
the lock-picker is responsible for the finishing touches.
- Kit out your team with all manner of elaborate
tools: like camera jammers, chloroform or explosive charges
- Challenge Mode: Create and share challenges with
other players
- Unique gameplay mixes quick-thinking with in-depth
strategy
Publisher Versus Evil and developer Swordtales announce
Toren, a fantasy
adventure coming to Windows, OS X, and PlayStation 4 early next year.
The
Toren website is online, which
is Portuguese, but an
English
translation is also available, explaining this game is being created with
the support of a "Brazilian Cultural Incentive Law." An
IGF trailer from last
year shows this off, and here's a bit:
Toren is an adventure game with
beautiful graphics, innovative puzzles and immersive gameplay, which leads the
player through an introspective and captivating journey to explore deep concepts
and existential questions. In the game, players will witness the birth and the
growth of a lonely girl named Moonchild, guiding her on a dangerous journey of
discovery and transformation as she unlocks the mysteries of the tower, known as
Toren.
Continue here to read the full story.
The
Steam forums announce that Codemasters is offering refunds for customers who
purchased the recently released
Colin McRae Rally
on Steam who
are unhappy with this Windows and OS X port of the Colin
McRae Rally game released last year for mobile devices (thanks nin via
Kotaku). The game's description now more clearly explains this, and they
will accommodate those who feel they were misled by the previous description:
At Codemasters, we care about our customers and pride ourselves on
listening to our community.
We understand that some people who bought Colin McRae Rally on Steam are upset
and feel that it isn’t the game they thought it would be. We have now updated
the product description
for clarification.
Furthermore, as an act of good faith, we have worked with Valve to enable anyone
that bought the game to claim a refund. The ability to refund will be available
until the 19th August.
To process a refund, please go to your account transactions page and you will
see a “Refund” button for Colin McRae Rally. We hope this goes some way to
restoring any lost faith and thank you as always, for your continued
support.
The
July Steam Hardware &
Software Survey results are online, analyzing the setups of
Steam gamers.
There are no sweeping changes to report, though maybe we're just not trying hard
enough or we could draw a conclusion like
More Linux Gamers Now Use Steam Despite Apparent Drop in Percentages. Thanks
Ant via
Linux Today.
I am going to beg your indulgence for a day or so, as I have plans for what
amounts to a vacation, which will run almost a full day. I plan to head off in a
bit to watch some canoe racing and meet up with some dear old friends from my
childhood days at summer camp, which has become an annual reunion. This will
lead to dinner, and perhaps a few oat sodas, so I plan on catching up tomorrow
morning on news from later today. This will be complicated by the fact an
appointment is scheduled for tomorrow to rewire the BlueTower that will knock
everything offline for a while, so there's a slight possibility that my plan to
catch up in the morning will get pushed into the afternoon. But my goal is to
update before the outage hits, and I'm pretty sure I'll accomplish that. So
subject to change, that's the plan. Thanks!
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