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Archived News:
The
Alien Isolation website now offers system specifications for Creative
Assembly's now gold survival/horror
shooter: Minimum PC Specifications are:
Operating System: Windows 7 (32bit)
Processor: 3.16Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo E8500
RAM: 4GB RAM
Hard Drive: 35GB required for installation
Video Card: 1GB DirectX® 11 (AMD Radeon HD 5550 or Nvidia GeForce GT 430)
Broadband Internet Connection
Recommended PC Specifications are:
Operating System: Windows 7 (64bit)
Processor: AMD: Phenom II X4 955 – 4 Core, 3.2 GHz or INTEL: Core 2 Quad Q9650 –
4 Core, 3.0 Ghz
RAM: 8GB RAM
Hard Drive: 35GB required for installation
Video Card: 2GB DirectX® 11 (AMD GPU: AMD Radeon R9 200 Series or Nvidia gpu:
GeForce GTX660)
Broadband Internet Connection
Prepare your systems and get ready for October 7th….
A headline on the
Line of Defense website announces the release of the Line of
Defense on Steam early access, though the body of the announcement clarifies
that today marks the beginning of pre-purchases and preloads, and that actual
early access to 3000AD's MMOG will begin on Monday. Here's word on how this all
works: After some delay while we create new Early Access tiers, work
through the kinks, last minute tweaks etc, the game is finally going live on
Steam Early Access.
At some point today, it will be available to pre-purchase and pre-load at a 50%
discount for all three Early Access tiers (Commander
($99.99),
Ambassador ($69.99),
Emissary ($39.99)).
This one-time only discount will run from today, Wed, Sept 10th through to
midnight on Mon, Sept 15th.
The game is going live (playable) on Tue, Sept 16th. At which time if you
already pre-purchased and pre-loaded the game, you will be able to join a server
and get going.
It is very – very – important that BEFORE you buy any tier, that you please read
our Early Access FAQ
in order to get a better understanding of what this is about and what we’re
doing. This FAQ text is identical to what you will see on the game’s Steam page
as well once it goes live.
Direct Steam Store links.
Commander, Ambassador,
Emissary
Slitherine announces that beta testing is now underway for
Legions of Steel, the
upcoming sci-fi strategy game based on the boardgame of the same name. Those who
sign up through the Slitherine
beta page have a chance of being selected, and here's word on what they can
expect: Thanks to 2 single-player solo campaigns, hotseat and skirmish
modes, various multiplayer scenarios and a gameplay that both captures the
essence of the original board game and introduces new features to adapt the game
to modern standards, Legions of Steel is the digital adaptation that the fans of
tactical sci-fi games were waiting for!
This captivating multiplatform tactical game is now ready to enter the beta
phase on PC, iPad and Android Tablets. And we invite players to help us test it!
By signing up for the beta, players will have a chance to be selected to be one
of the lucky few who will be able experience Legions of Steel before release and
help us with the final touches, ensuring a smooth release later this
year.
This video offers a
look at a co-op mission in Assassin's Creed Unity, accompanied by developer
commentary from creative director Alex Amancio to help understand what we're
seeing. Word is: "In heist missions you’ll have to coordinate your skills and
attacks to infiltrate, steal the artifacts, and escape without being detected.
The less you’re seen, the higher your reward for finishing the mission will be.
Heists are just one type of co-op mission and with constantly changing goal
placement as well as a variable number and location of guards you can replay
heists again and again for a fresh experience every time." Continue here to read the full story.
Here's a behind-the-scenes
trailer from Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor actors Troy Baker and Nolan
North talking about their roles in the project. Here's the story: "Troy and
Nolan discuss their experiences working on the new action game and how they
brought their characters, Talion and The Black Hand, to life. They also comment
on their relationship with each other." Continue here to read the full story.
Publisher Iceberg Interactive and developer Amplitude Studios announce that the
wait for Endless Legend is about to end, as the 4X strategy game is slated to
leave early access on September 18th with an official release on Steam, which
will be followed by the release of a boxed version in Europe the next day.
The celebrate the news by releasing the Endless Legend soundtrack for free
on BandCamp, accompanied by
a trailer on the
making of the soundtrack. Word is: "Endless Legend is designed to satisfy 4X
gamers' deep needs for complex, rich, and surprising strategy games. Endless
Legend follows 2012's seminal 4X space-strategy title, Endless Space, with huge
advances in every facet – from military combat to diplomacy to stealth, travel,
and colonization – all on the labyrinthine planet of Auriga." Continue here to read the full story.
Microsoft is maneuvering to acquire Minecraft creator Mojang in a deal that
could be worth more than two billion dollars, reports the
Wall Street Journal, based on information from "a person with knowledge of
the matter." This seems surprising since Mojang founder Marcus "Notch" Persson
is famous for lashing out at some of the big players in the tech industry,
including
Microsoft, but they characterize the discussions as "serious," and say a deal
could be closed as soon as this week. Neither company responded to WSJ's request
for a response to this report.
Bloomberg two-ups WSJ, saying they've heard from "three people with
knowledge of the talks," adding that Notch himself seems to have initiated these
alleged negotiations, and that he would likely leave the company if a deal is
consummated.
Origin
now offers a
free playable demo for FIFA 15, offering the chance to kick around the
latest installment in the association football/soccer simulation, and see how
your system can handle EA's new Ignite engine (thanks Quboid). Word is: "This
engine drives the incredible visuals and dynamic physics of FIFA 15 and makes
this year’s version the most realistic and beautiful edition of the soccer
franchise." If this concerns you, they also
offer system specifications:
Minimum Specifications
- OS: Windows V/7/8/8.1 - 64-Bit
- CPU: Intel Q6600 Core2 Quad @ 2.4Ghz (or AMD
Phenom 7950 Quad-Core, AMD Athlon II X4 620 equivalent)
- RAM: 4GB
- Hard Drive Space Required: 13.0 GB
- Minimum Supported Video Cards: ATI Radeon HD 5770,
NVIDIA GTX 650
- DirectX: 11.0
- Single System Multiplayer: 2-4 players + 1
keyboard on a PC
- Disc Drive: DVD-ROM at 8x Speed
- Input: Keyboard, Mouse, Dual Analogue gamepad,
VOIP Headset
Recommended Specifications
- OS: Windows V/7/8/8.1 - 64-Bit
- CPU: Intel i5-2550K @ 3.40GHz (or AMD FX-6350
Six-Core equivalent)
- RAM: 8GB
- Hard Drive Space Required: 13.0 GB
- Minimum Supported Video Cards: ATI Radeon HD 6870,
NVIDIA GTX 460
- DirectX: 11.0
- Single System Multiplayer: 2-4 players + 1
keyboard on a PC
- Disc Drive: DVD-ROM at 8x Speed
- Input: Keyboard, Mouse, Dual Analogue gamepad,
VOIP Headset
Some community concerns about Transverse have appeared since
the announcement of this upcoming sci-fi
MMORPG from Piranha Games, and these are summarized by
IncGamers. The game is drawing understandable comparisons to Elite
Dangerous and Star Citizen, and some less understandable comparisons
as well, as the
RSI Community Forums notes similarities between the designs of some
Transverse ships to those from Star Citizen. IncGamers also quotes Cloud
Imperium's Ben Lesnick saying: "It’s a real project. We were worried it was
going to be Wing Commander: Online – EA offered them the license at one point."
The Transverse website shows this has
attracted only 36 backers as of this writing, and the
Transverse forums have comments from many users taking a wait-and-see
approach to this after their experiences backing MechWarrior Online.
These pledges total $3,840, while the
project's goals are $1
million for space flight, $1.5 million for ship construction, $2 million for
space combat, and $2.5 million for "spaceships harvesting," leaving open the
possibility of a game where you can build a ship with weapon systems but not
engage in spaceship combat.
Speaking of Piranha Games, the
MechWarrior Online Forums have a note from a couple of days ago revealing
that the developer has retrieved the publishing rights to MechWarrior Online
from IGP, who had published the MMORPG for the past three years (thanks
Rhialto). Here's what happened: It's with great excitement that I share
with you that Piranha Games Inc. has reached a deal with Infinite Game
Publishing for the return of all MWO publishing rights to PGI as of September
1st 2014. Over the past three years Piranha enjoyed a good working relationship
with IGP. From the beginning IGP brought passion and dedication to the
MechWarrior brand and had many employees that were completely dedicated to the
products success. However it can still be very difficult at times to make the
corporate needs and strategies of two companies align, for this reason we were
able to come to agreement with IGP for all publishing, marketing and hosting
responsibilities to move to Piranha. With these responsibilities now here,
everything from design, development, marketing and control of hosting resides
within Piranha's offices. It is our expectation that this will lead to much more
efficient development and marketing of the product. Although we just signed the
deal at the end of Aug, we have been operating under this model since the
beginning of August, this is reflected in the increased community efforts and
updates over the last five weeks. This, along with the marketing efforts of the
many events and faction based sales. This is a good example of how efficiently
things can be with all facets within the same office space, were committed to
continuing this efficiency throughout the entire project.
The Steam Page for
Counter-Strike Nexon: Zombies is online, revealing a September 23rd launch
date for Nexon's free-to-play zombie shooter.
This announcement clarifies this will still be considered an open beta, and
outline more of what to expect: A huge number of modes will be available,
featuring both PvP and PvE gameplay. Possess and use, to a dangerous effect, the
various unique abilities in Zombie Hero; lead a team of survivors to build and
defend a base against continuous waves of zombies in Shelter Mode; or advance
through intense Zombie Scenarios that will throw players into boss fights, among
other activities. Even outside of zombies, there are more than 20 modes to
explore, such as Beast Mode, Bazooka Mode, and Football Mode. Veteran fans of
the Counter-Strike series will also surely be glad to see a number of offerings
from the original iteration, such as Bomb Defusal and Hostage Rescue.
Goodell address [sic] when
NFL saw second Ray Rice video. I'm no body language expert, but when someone
blinks over 25 times (some of them literally come too fast to count) during a 15
second statement, my alarms go off.
R.I.P.:
Bob Suter, Miracle On Ice hero and father of Ryan Suter, dies at 57.
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