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Archived News:
The Next Car Game blog has word from
Bugbear that Next Car Game has been renamed from its uninspired working title,
and is now known as Wreckfest. The news is accompanied by the release of update
#6 for the early access racing game, which implements the first pass at
multiplayer support. Here's an excerpt that covers each bit of news: The
name reveal is certainly not all, for Wreckfest has also evolved to include 18
player multiplayer! The players can now challenge their friends to share the
most visceral demolition racing mayhem in existence! With four different game
modes, Racing, Demolition Derby, and the new Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch,
Wreckfest’s conjunction of purity of driving and the innate beauty of twisted
metal creates massive amounts of emergent glee when punishing your friends and
foes alike.
We’re pushing the limits to get the number of simultaneous players to 24, but
optimizing the network code will take a bit longer. Because the code is not yet
optimized, remember that the speed of your ISP has a tremendous impact on how
the races will run. Check the Recommended Upstream figure when you host a game,
and you’ll be fine.
Steam News announces a
free weekend is underway for
Rise of the Triad,
corresponding with a 75% off sale on the shooter revival. The free weekend runs
until Sunday at 4:00 pm EDT while the sale runs until Monday morning.
Frontier Developments announces beta two has launched as planned for Elite:
Dangerous, adding new content to the testing of this space combat revival as
they prepare for its launch later this year. They also offer first word on beta
three, saying that will commence on October 28th. Here's word: Beta 2 marks a major update to the game, with new ships, new outposts and even
more of the galaxy unlocked for exploration. Highlights include:
- Reputations per system and per faction that
influence attitudes and prices offered to players.
- 570 star systems and 381,033 cubic light years to
explore.
- Discovery, exploration and charting of new systems
and the option to trade gathered data.
- Detailed system maps.
- New Outposts (small, exposed ‘roadside café’
stations in remote systems).
- New Ocellus starport.
- Further upgradeable Life Support modules, Engines,
Hyperdrives, Power Distributors, Sensors, Shield Generators and Cargo Racks
for all ships.
- New weapons, including mines and a Cargo Hatch
Limpet built for non-lethal piracy.
- Visibility of other ships in supercruise, and the
ability to track pilots through supercruise and hyperspace.
- In-game GalNet newsfeed, reporting story events
from around the galaxy and each system.
- Gradual ‘wear and tear’ on ships.
- New Lakon Asp Explorer ship.
- All backers names from the appropriate
crowd-funding reward tiers have been added to the NPC naming database.
Beta 2 also includes a host of other improvements and optimizations including
additional rock, ice and metal-rich planetary rings, new music, optional
‘simulator’ tutorials and optional pre-flight control checks. SLI/Crossfire
support allows play in 4K ultra-high definition (with appropriate
hardware).
Mercenaries DLC pack is
now available for
Hegemony
Rome: The Rise of Caesar on Steam, adding some hired guns
spears to the strategy game. Here's a rundown on what this adds: Fill the
ranks of your army with professional foreign soldiers to demonstrate your
superiority on the battlefield once and for all. Make use of the newly added
mercenary recruiting mechanic of Hegemony Rome: The Rise of Caesar. The
Mercenaries DLC adds six all-new mercenary units from cultures around the Roman
world to a city's ‘Mercenary Post’ building including the Garamante spearmen of
North Africa, the raiding ships of the Suiones or Dacian swordsmen from the
East.
- 6 unique units with special traits: Garamante
spearmen, Dacian swordsmen, Sarmation lancers, Thracian peltasts, Iberian
swordsmen and Suione raiding ships
A new trailer on
the
Gearbox Software website offers a look at around 11 minutes of gameplay
footage from Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel featuring Claptrap, everyone's favorite
unicycle robot. Word is: "Today we're excited to share the final Borderlands:
The Pre-Sequel narrated gameplay walkthrough, featuring Claptrap! This video
features the second half of the mission we showed at PAX Prime and once again
includes commentary from two handsome gentlemen, James Lopez (producer at
Gearbox) and Joel Eschler (producer at 2K Australia)." Continue here to read the full story.
The Alien: Isolation website now
offers the last few trailers in the #HowWillYouSurvive series of clips to
promote the survival/horror shooter, which will sneak into stores next week. The
latest clips are Crowd
Control, Stomp,
and Creating The Egg,
which thankfully deals with practical effects, rather than alien reproduction.
The game is due on October 7th, and here's what SEGA wants you to know about it:
"Alien: Isolation is a first-person survival horror game capturing the fear and
tension evoked by Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic film. Players find themselves in
an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger as an unpredictable, ruthless
Xenomorph is stalking and killing deep in the shadows. Underpowered and
underprepared, you must scavenge resources, improvise solutions and use your
wits, not just to succeed in your mission, but to simply stay alive." Continue here to read the full story.
The
Bethesda Blog follows up on
the recent post
revealing system specifications for The Evil Within, which implied it was
impossible to pin down a minimum spec for the upcoming survival/horror game. Now
another trip to the testing labs has finally allowed them to commit to the
lowest end system they will trust to run the game. Here's word on the specs and
preorders: Minimum requirements for The Evil Within can now be found
below. You won’t be experiencing the game at 1080p and you’ll likely need to
turn off some features, but you will still be able to have a great experience
with the game.
- Minimum Requirements
- OS: windows 7/8.1
- GPU: GTX 460 or an equivalent 1 GB VRAM card
- CPU: i7 or an equivalent 4+ core processor
- RAM: 4 GB
- HDD: 50 GB
If you meet the
recommended specs, you’re in for the ideal experience. The game looks
amazing with full-screen anti-aliasing, full shadow quality, motion blur,
tessellation, SSAO, and 1080p visuals.
PC users can
pre-order The Evil Within today on Steam — where we’ve updated the game page
to account for both the minimum and recommended system requirements, or your
favorite digital or physical reseller.
Trion Worlds announces the open beta testing of the
Nightmare Tide
expansion for RIFT will be
extended by a couple of weeks, and the free add-on is now expected to go live on
October 22nd, rather than next Wednesday as originally planned. Word is:
"Trion’s goal is to make Nightmare Tide the best expansion it can be, and this
new launch date gives RIFT developers the time to batten down the hatches and
blow players out of the water with a high quality release that they can be proud
of!" There are more details in
this blog post penned by producer Bill Fisher.
ArcheAge now has over two million players, announces Trion Worlds, saying that in
spite of head start issues and
founder unrest, their new
MMORPG has attracted a strong following since launching.
This producer's letter talks about the game's launch, battling bots, and
plans for future updates. Here's the deal: "In his letter, Hartsman also
describes how, in the past few days, the team at Trion drastically improved the
overall player experience in ArcheAge. Among other things, Trion Worlds has
undertaken a huge bot sweep, eliminating false accounts throughout the game,
worked on better spam filtering and have dramatically shortened queue times in
both the US and Europe by introducing new servers and taking measures to deal
with AFK players more efficiently."
A playable demo for NASCAR '14 is now available
through Steam, offering
test drives of this racing simulation that was released back in February. Here's
word on the demo: "It’s your turn to immerse yourself in the full-throttle
thrill of the world’s most exciting motor sports racing series in NASCAR ’14.
Take the wheel from your favorite driver and participate in the racing
experience with this exciting demo - featuring all your favorite personalities!
The NASCAR ’14 demo gives you a taste of the full-throttled thrill of the full
game...it's THE authentic NASCAR experience for fans!" Thanks Frans.
Ubisoft announces that all preorders of Far Cry 4 will receive the "Hurk Limited
Edition" of the first-person shooter sequel with some special perks. Word is:
"The Limited Edition includes 3 exclusive missions and one ridiculously powerful
Harpoon gun: 'The Impaler'." Here's
a new trailer showing
off the upgrade. Continue here to read the full story.
First Alien: Isolation reviews are in.
I want to once again thank all of you who have been making their Amazon
purchases though this site, allowing us to collect affiliate commissions. We
just completed our first month under the program, and I have to admit this was
more successful than I anticipated. Existing on display advertising alone as a
smallish indie unaffiliated with any of the players in the industry has become
ever-more impractical, so this is a step in the right direction of trying to
ensure sustainability here. Thanks again!
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