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Elf needs food badly!
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announces they've thrown down the
gauntlet with the release of Gauntlet,
a remake of the arcade classic for Windows PCs. Here's word: “This new
digital version of Gauntlet innovates on past titles while staying true to the
brand’s legendary four-player format,” said David Haddad, Executive Vice
President, Publishing Operations, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.
“Multiplayer gameplay is at the core of Gauntlet’s appeal and now gamers have
the option to play with friends and family locally and online.”
Players select from four classic fantasy-based characters: Warrior, Wizard,
Valkyrie, or Elf. Each character has its own distinctive play style and unique
strengths and weaknesses. Upon selecting a playable character, the gameplay is
set within dungeons where the object is to fight through the chambers slaying
evil creatures and completing challenges. An assortment of special items can be
located in each dungeon that can restore the player’s health, unlock doors, and
shift the odds in the player’s favor with magical relics which can aid the
player in surviving longer in the Gauntlet. The enemies are a vast assortment of
fantasy-based monsters, including ghosts, grunts, demons, spiders, sorcerers and
skeleton warriors.
Players can improve their heroes’ abilities and powers by unlocking achievements
called “perks.” Multiple difficulty settings add to the game’s
replayability.
EA News announces
the release of FIFA 15 in North America for Windows, Xbox One, and
PlayStation 4, offering the latest installment in the association
football/soccer series: The wait is finally over for fans in North
America. FIFA 15 is available for Xbox One, PS4 and PC today!
Watch dynamic match presentation unfold featuring unique fan reactions, chants
and behaviors that make you feel like you’re on the pitch. Next-gen goalkeepers
are here in FIFA 15, with over 50 new save animations, improved goalkeeper AI
and more realistic tips and deflections.
Experience unrivaled intelligence, emotion & intensity in FIFA 15 with players
who will show emotion based on the context of the match.
You’ll see stadiums that are alive in FIFA 15 with surfaces that wear down as
the match progresses and corner flags that move and goal frames that shake. Play
in all 20 stadiums of the Barclays Premier League as authentic radio &
commentary unfolds. Over 200 new player models make sure you will Feel the Game
with FIFA 15.
Are you ready for FIFA 15 Ultimate Team? New features like Concept Squads, Loan
Players and Legends only on Xbox make FUT even better.
FIFA 15 is now available in North America for Xbox One, PS4 and PC. Fans around
the world can play on Thursday, September 25.
Pick up
your copy today
The Guild Wars 2 website announces a free trial for Guild Wars 2 gets
underway on Thursday (thanks Paul). Here's word on how you can access the MMORPG
sequel for free for a week: For a limited time, play Guild Wars 2 for
free and experience why Guild Wars 2 is the fastest selling MMO in history!*
The free trial begins at 12 a.m. PDT September 25, 2014 and ends at 11:59 p.m.
PDT October 1, 2014.
We’ve opened up free trial account registration, so you can create an
account now, download the
game, and get ready to explore the world of Tyria on September 25!
If you participated in an earlier Guild Wars 2 free trial, you’re invited and
your existing account will work for this trial too.
Download the game now!
Have a question about the Guild Wars 2 free trial?
Visit our
Support Site.
*Based on initial 9 months physical and digital unit sales against PC
pay-to-play games including North America, Europe, and Australasia. Source – DFC
Intelligence
Tripwire Interactive and Antimatter Games announce the release of the Rising
Storm: Armored Assault Free Content Pack, which contains new content for both
Rising Storm and Red Orchestra 2, their World War II shooters. Here's
a trailer showing off
what this includes, and here's word: Armored Assault Free Content Pack
Features Include:
New Weapon
- German MG 42 light machine gun added as veteran
unlock for the Axis MG class (belt version as default in classic)
2 New Tanks
- Russian T-70 light tank - small, fast 2-man tank
with a 45mm cannon, but lightly armored
- German Panzer III - smaller version of the Panzer
IV, equipped with a 50mm cannon
New Official Custom Maps
- Kobura - Japanese attacking US defensive positions
through jungle, streams and ruins
- TulaOutskirts - re-make of a classic map from the
original Red Orchestra - a tough assault for the Germans through forest
against prepared Russian positions
General
- Added a Greylist to allow mods to show up on the
ranked server browser page but set servers into Custom mode
- Official Community Map Mods - Alpha and Beta
versions of community-made maps, curated by Tripwire, for ease of access for
players
The Rising Storm: Armored Assault Free Content Pack is available NOW on Steam
(http://store.steampowered.com/app/234510/)
as well as many other digital outlets. Rising Storm is also on sale at a 75% off
discount during Steam's Midweek Madness Sale!
Continue here to read the full story.
Gearbox Software now offers
a new trailer from
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, showing off almost 10 minutes of gameplay from
the upcoming shooter. The clip is narrated by Gearbox producer James Lopez and
2K Australia producer Joel Eschler, and features a presentation from PAX Prime
centered on Nisha the Lawbringer. Word is: "In addition to lots of dead Scavs
and low gravity jumping, you'll be able to get your best look at yet at Nisha's
action skill, Showdown, as well as some of the skills from her various Skill
Trees." Continue here to read the full story.
The Battlefield Blog has an update on how DICE is "using every additional
day to make the game better," as they work to "perfect" Battlefield Hardline,
the upcoming installment in the military law-enforcement
shooter series. The update is penned by Visceral Games lead multiplayer designer
Thad Sasser, and one of the topics he tackles is the doubts they've met with:
"I’ve seen some comments skeptical of us being able to create a
competitive-focused mode – I think that’s healthy! Help us understand what
challenges you see ahead for the competitive Rescue mode. The development team
and the players have a unique opportunity to work together and craft a fun new
experience for all of us to play, so let’s make sure to take advantage of this!"
- PC and Android 11 on
Humble Bundle.
- Kentucky Route Zero on
Steam. Save 50%.
- Outlast on
Steam. Save 66%.
- Rising Storm Game of the Year Edition on
Steam. Save 75%.
Blizzard has confirmed the cancellation of Titan in an interview
with Polygon, though strictly speaking the MMOG was never announced in the
first place. That said, Blizzard was widely known to be working on a new MMORPG
for some seven years, since the heyday of the genre. "We had created World of
Warcraft, and we felt really confident that we knew how to make MMOs," Blizzard
cofounder and CEO Mike Morhaime told them. "So we set out to make the most
ambitious thing that you could possibly imagine. And it didn't come together."
He explains that they "didn't find the fun," or "the passion," and after a
reevaluation period, decided they did not want to continue developing the game. Blizzard's
Chris Metzen, calls the decision "excruciating, though he adds: "The discipline
of knowing when to quit is important. We were losing perspective and getting
lost in the weeds a little. We had to allow ourselves to take that step back and
reassess why the hell we were doing that thing in the first place." Morhaime
also recalls past games that Blizzard cancelled like Warcraft Adventures
and StarCraft Ghost, saying the moves have "always resulted in
better-quality work." Both speak of breaking from MMO development while implying
taking a run at a second was a miscalculation, though they hope to continue to
support World of Warcraft for the indefinite future. As for where they go
from here, they speak of the positive experience the studio had creating the
less-elaborate Hearthstone. "Maybe we can be what we want to be and
inspire groups around the company to experiment, get creative, think outside the
box and take chances on things that just might thrill people," Metzen said.
"Maybe they don't have to be these colossal, summer blockbuster-type products."
The Triad Wars website is now live,
and is accepting signups for closed beta testing of Square Enix's upcoming
Sleeping Dogs follow-up, along with word to expect its full release next
year. The news is celebrated with a new
Welcome to the Triad
trailer described like so: "Set in the vibrant city of Hong Kong & Sleeping
Dogs universe, Triad Wars is an online open-world action adventure PC game where
you rise to power as a criminal kingpin of the Triad underworld. Experience the
unrivaled combination of fighting, shooting & driving or succeed through
strategy via extortion, hacking & money laundering - It’s your city to claim &
how you do it is entirely up to you. Register now for the Closed Beta at
www.triadwars.com." Here's more from
the game's about page: On
the mean streets of Hong Kong, however, brawn alone won’t be enough – you’re
going to need money first, and for that you’ll need brains.
First you’ll need to establish your Turf and set up a range of lucrative, albeit
questionable operations to build and expand your reach into the underworld –
stacking dirty money to the sky, arming you to battle against rival gangs and
claiming the streets before they do.
That being said, money alone isn’t going to win you any fights, or any face for
that matter. To survive, you’ll need to hone your driving skills, get
comfortable with a gun, and also be generally proficient at punching guys in the
face. In Hong Kong, the action never stops and your rivals aren’t going down
until you put them there.
Whether you choose to excel in extortion, hacking, money laundering, stolen
cars, or even just good ol’ fashioned violence is strictly situational and will
be representational of your playstyle. It’s your city to claim, and how you do
it is entirely up to you.
Continue here to read the full story.
Alientrap announces
Autocraft, an upcoming physics-based puzzle game for PCs that will soon head
into full development after starting off as a side project (thanks Gamer's Hell).
They've launched the alpha as an early access title, saying this "is the type of
project that is best built with a community." The
Autocraft website is live, offering
an alpha trailer, and
here's word: Inspired by games such as Bad Piggie’s and Kerbal Space
Program, Autocraft is a game about constructing vehicles and other automatons to
accomplish objectives. Currently the game has 21 challenge levels, and a sandbox
mode for experimentation. We are still prototyping the design of the Sandbox
area and other game modes, but feel the game is fun enough to release to players
in alpha now.
Continue here to read the full story.
Happy autumn to those of us in the northern hemisphere, as today marks the autumnal
equinox. It was a very comfortable summer in these parts... the downstairs air
conditioner was never put in a window, and I doubt I ran the AC in my normally
hot office more than a half-dozen times. This made up for the horrid winter that
preceded it, so I am calling it even with Mother Nature, hoping for a little
mercy from the blizzards this year.
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