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Archived News:
Steam News announces the
Steam Music player is now out of beta, and available to all Steam users,
offering an integrated way to enjoy your personal music collection while playing
games on Valve's service. They celebrate the news with the release of
Valve soundtracks DLC for all who own the corresponding games, and have put
a bunch of their games on sale in case anyone was holding out for a free
soundtrack before finally committing to a purchase. Here's word: Now it’s
easy to listen to your music collection while you play games on Steam.
Point Steam to the MP3s on your computer, then browse your collection of albums
and artists. You’ll also find your Steam Soundtracks DLC in your Steam Music
library when the associated base game is installed. Listen to albums, queue up
mixes, and create playlists you love, right in your Steam library. Best of all,
it’s all available right within the Steam Overlay, so you can control playback
without leaving your game. The Steam Music library and player consist of all the
basics you need to enjoy your music without switching tasks.
Ubisoft has released the Bad Blood add-on for season pass holders of
Watch Dogs for Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and Xbox One, with the
Xbox 360 edition to follow "soon." The add-on brings new content to the
open-world action game also known as Watch_Dogs, and word is this will be
released for everyone on September 30th. Here are the bloody
details: Watch_Dogs Bad Blood builds upon what made Watch_Dogs a
record-breaking success by delivering a potent combination of action-adventure
missions, seamless multiplayer modes and open world exploration. In Watch_Dogs
Bad Blood, players take on a new campaign starring Raymond “T-Bone” Kenney, the
brilliant and eccentric hacker from the original campaign. Players pick up
T-Bone’s story as he’s planting a false trail at Blume and receives a panicked
phone call from his former Blume colleague, Tobias Frewer, in desperate need of
help. T-Bone decides to help Tobias, but quickly realizes the details of his old
friend’s story aren’t adding up…
Watch_Dogs Bad Blood also grants players access to Street Sweep contracts, a
dynamic new system of side missions offering endless hours of challenges. A
first for Watch_Dogs, Street Sweep contracts are playable in co-op, friend or
public sessions, allowing two players to work together to combat Chicago’s
criminal groups. The popular online Hacking and Tailing modes, as well as the
ctOS mobile companion app, are fully playable with T-Bone in Watch_Dogs Bad
Blood.
In addition, Watch_Dogs Bad Blood features exclusive weapons, perks and outfits,
including the remote-control car, Eugene, T-Bone’s latest creation, which can be
upgraded with both offensive and defensive perks.
Ubisoft announces Welcome to the Abyss, a DLC coming next month to
Trials Fusion as the third of six planned releases of new content for the
racing game. There are screenshots and details on the
UbiBlog, and
here's a bit: We’ve been out in the wastelands and up among the clouds,
and now Trials Fusion is taking us under the sea. The game’s third DLC pack,
Welcome to the Abyss will have players exploring mysterious underground ruins.
Surrounded by ancient machinery powered by strange relics, players will take on
10 new tracks and 24 challenges (with 5 new achievements that can be earned). In
addition, you’ll have access to over 100 new objects for the track editor so you
can build a beast of your own and send it out in the world for others to
try.
A new trailer titled
"Power Changes Everything" from Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, shows off
the upcoming next installment in the military shooter series. Here's a
debriefing on the new clip: "Power changes everything in Call of Duty: Advanced
Warfare, from the Private Military Corporation-driven storyline in the
single-player Campaign to the innovative exoskeleton movements in Multiplayer.
Take a look at what makes Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare the total gaming
package, including the world premiere of the four-player co-op mode: Exo
Survival." Continue here to read the full story.
Here's a new video
from the upcoming Gat out of Hell expansion for Saints Row IV, offering a five
minute walkthrough of what this adds to the sandbox action game. Word is: "Deep
Silver Volition's Jim Boone is taking you on a journey to a place that you have
dreamt of in your sweetest nightmares... In the new Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell
video walkthrough, follow Johnny Gat on a trip through Hell and see some of the
devilish weapons he will use. Although as a Saint, would you consider
Armchair-a-geddon, a fully-armed chair equipped with a sloth gun a heavenly
gift?" Continue here to read the full story.
Wasteland 2 has earned over $1.5 million in the four days since the
release of the post-apocalyptic RPG sequel last Friday. There's word on this on
CVG, where they note that the original announcement of this news erroneously
stated the game had sold 1.5 million copies, which obviously would represent
even greater earnings if it was accurate. They offer a quote from inXile
Entertainment founder Brain Fargo: "We are ecstatic that the style of game we
love so much has been embraced so well."
Blizzard announces that background downloads are now available of the new
version 6.0.2 patch for World of Warcraft that will accompany the release
of the upcoming Warlords of Draenor expansion for World of Warcraft. On a
related note,
Battle.net offers system requirements for Warlords of Draenor, showing
you'll probably be able to run this if you have a computer made after 2006.
Digital Dream Entertainment announces Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter Reborn,
an upcoming simulation of the popular sport of dinosaur hunting. The pedigree
for this game is rather circular, as Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter was a 2010
mobile remake of Carnivores 2, a game which was released for Windows back in the
20th century, making this is a Windows remake of a mobile port of a Windows
game. They are looking to raise additional funds
via Kickstarter, and you can find more on the game on its
official website, where they
offer a promotional
trailer. Word is they're getting the band back together: The game was
originally released for the PC back in 1998 to great reviews and a loyal fan
following. Since then there have been several Carnivores versions on mobile and
one for the PlayStation Network. Key members of the original team have been
reunited to develop this game. Yaroslav Kravchenko, the games original creator
says, “I’m very excited to work with members of the original team, to bring
Carnivores: Reborn back to its rightful home on the PC. We will make this the
best Carnivores yet!”
The game takes place in the distant future, when a space-roving vessel discovers
a planet that has conditions similar to those on Earth. But this Earthlike
planet proves to be too dangerous for colonization because its Jurassic period
is not yet over. Back on Earth, however, the lure of the hunt is tantalizing,
and a corporation known as DinoHunt, Inc. claims the planet so that rich
customers can hunt living, breathing dinosaurs. As one of these hunters, you
will track and stalk your prey. But this isn’t a hunting trip where the quarry
is easily conquered; in this match of man versus monster, survival is not
guaranteed.
Knowing your environment is key to the quest and the 3D landscape is vivid and
beautifully created. The new game offers a variety of lush environments
including islands with pristine beaches, dense jungles, and arid deserts.
Knowing the environment is crucial and so is selecting the right weapon. Is a
high-caliber rifle, a sniper rifle, or a silent crossbow the weapon of choice,
or do you want to use a tranquilizer gun that will put your prey to sleep rather
than kill it? A handheld GPS with radar will make tracking your prey easier. But
remember, you’ll need Cover Scent to prevent your alert quarry from locating you
by your smell, and turning you from hunter into hunted. Each dinosaur is
different, with realistic, advanced AI logic, and your trek will take you from
the dimmest of dinosaurs who seem to be no threat at all to others who possess a
heightened sense of hearing, sight, and smell.
Continue here to read the full story.
Paradox Interactive announces the release of the Windows edition of Ancient
Space, saying the OS X edition of Creative Forge's sci-fi real-time strategy
game will follow "soon." Their intent is to offer purchase options
on this page, though there's
nothing there at the moment. Here's
a gameplay reveal trailer
from earlier this month, and here's word: "Paradox Interactive today announced
the galaxy-wide launch of Ancient Space, a new real-time strategy (RTS) game
from developer Creative Forge. Featuring deep strategic gameplay and starring a
cast of fan-favorite sci-fi actors from film and television, Ancient Space will
challenge gamers to navigate a suspenseful single-player story campaign as they
guide their fleets beyond the edge of the known universe. Purchase of the game,
which is available at digital retailers for $19.99, includes a digital art book
and the game’s original soundtrack."
Here's a new trailer
from Mechs & Mercs: Black Talons,
showing off this upcoming sci-fi real-time tactics game. As the game's release
draws near they will be releasing more such videos to introduce the game's
various factions. Today's clip introduces the game's titular Black Talons.
Here's word: In Mechs & Mercs: Black Talons you take command of the Black
Talons company, a fearless mercenary unit currently stationed in the Oberon
system, torn apart by ruthless dictators and power-hungry warlords.
The Black Talons provide everything from specialist squads and supplies, to
entire armies, bases and powerful mechs of warfare to fight the warmongering
Tzanar.
This comes at a price, of course -- but in a universe controlled by the corrupt,
is it enough to stand by and watch while great cities burn to the ground and
whole civilizations are destroyed in the name of conquest?
Continue here to read the full story.
Here's a follow-up to the ItB post last night about the NY Mets
hashtag disaster, which, of course, also follows up on my comments about the
team over the years. Perhaps you think I've been exaggerating? Well, according
to an (infallible) ESPN
poll, not only are the Mets the least appealing club to root for in Major
League Baseball based on a variety of criteria, but out of 122 major sports
teams encompassed in their survey, they rank as the 118th most attractive to
fans. Oh, by the way... one of the four teams to rank worse than the Mets are
the Knicks, who can thank the Toronto Maple Leafs from keeping them from ranking
122 out of 122.
Here's a breakdown of exactly why the Mets landed where they did, which
somehow manages to avoid the word "suck."
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