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Archived News:
Take-Two Interactive beat expectations with the
fiscal Q2 2015 results they released today, showing a GAAP net loss of $41.4
million and a non-GAAP net loss of $35.4M, causing them to raise their outlook
for the year. Word is: "For fiscal second quarter 2015, GAAP net revenue was
$126.3 million, as compared to $148.8 million for fiscal second quarter 2014.
GAAP net loss from continuing operations narrowed to $41.4 million, or $0.51 per
diluted share, as compared to a net loss of $124.1 million, or $1.40 per diluted
share, for the year-ago period. GAAP results for fiscal second quarter 2014
excluded net revenue and cost of goods sold related to sell-in of the Grand
Theft Auto V® game during that quarter, as Grand Theft Auto Online launched
during fiscal third quarter 2014."
Unknown Worlds website has details on Natural Selection 2: Combat,
saying this will be released on Friday
on Steam as a standalone
game after originally being developed as a modification for Natural Selection 2,
their multiplayer shooter. NS2: Combat turns Natural Selection 2 into an aliens
vs. space marines MOBA, which they describe like so: "NS2: Combat includes seven
different player-controllable lifeforms, a vault full of weapons and abilities,
a stats system, full modding support and 5 original maps. Games last around 15
minutes and players may join and leave at any time. You can try unique abilities
such as 'Devour', where the largest alien eats her enemies, or pilot the hulking
mechanized 'Exo Suit' and punch aliens in the face." The chance for an extended
look at the game is underway on
Twitch where developer Faultline Games is in the midst of a 96 hour
livestream marathon session to raise money for
Médecins Sans Frontières' fight
against Ebola.
Square Heroes is now available
on Desura, offering a
stylized arena shooter for Windows, OS X, and Linux that's a sequel to
Square Off. Here's word:
"Square Heroes is a comical arena shooter with local, LAN and online
multiplayer; a single player Tournament, and an arsenal of weapons to blast your
friends out the sky. Square Heroes combines the competition of twitch shooters,
local multiplayer fun of Goldeneye with an art style reminiscent of Worms. The
final level in the single player tournament is an unexpected twist from the
previous levels with an insane fight that we hope will be spoken of for years to
come."
SEGA announces a couple of community-requested features for
Company of Heroes 2
are out of beta, saying Relic's World War II RTS sequel now supports an observer
mode, and also now offers modification tools for the creation of custom content.
Here's word on the mod tools: "Allowing players to modify existing content to
refine the game experience and giving them options to establish their own win
conditions and game rules will ultimately create even more and diverse content
available for everyone to enjoy." And here's the deal on observation mode: Observer
Mode allows players to sync up and watch live multiplayer matches as they
unfold. The feature will let them view games from a variety of different angles,
at different speeds and player perspectives and grants access to live data that
was previously inaccessible. It provides viewers the opportunity to analyze
strategies and learn from the best players in the world. Players can also
broadcast their feed through our integrated Twitch interface and showcase their
skills to a broader audience.
An update to Endless Legend
on Steam adds modification tools to the strategy game, as well as a new
Halloween-themed quest. Full details can
be found here, and here's the short version: "The highly popular 4X
fantasy-strategy game that resonated with fans and critics this September on
Steam will now offer powerful modding tools enabling gamers to add new faction
traits, technology, city improvements, items, skills, and more, plus an all new
Halloween-inspired quest: “A Tale from the Dark Season”. The quest will unlock a
special Halloween prize for the players that complete it…"
Steam now offers
Where the Dead Lie for Windows, OS X, and Linux, the first episode of The
Detail, kicking off the crime adventure series by offering it at a 10%
discount. Here's word: Controlling the actions of a bitter veteran
detective investigating a brutal gangland murder and a reformed criminal trying
to protect his family, the player is forced to make tough choices and deal with
the resulting consequences of those moral dilemmas. The gameplay focuses on
storytelling through point n’ click gameplay mixed with interactive comics, and
is completed by a professional audio track.
The
GeForce website now offers
a new trailer from
Assassin's Creed Unity showing off GeForce-exclusive visual effects the stealth
action sequel will feature thanks to NVIDIA Gameworks support. Here's word on
these features: Looks pretty good, if I do say so myself; here are some extra details about
the features that flew by in that spectacular video:
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NVIDIA HBAO+ adds
realistic Ambient Occlusion shadowing and shading around objects and
surfaces that occlude light, with a higher degree of precision than other AO
techniques, significantly improving image quality in every scene.
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NVIDIA Percentage-Closer Soft Shadows
add contact hardening soft shadows throughout the game, increasing image
quality in every scene.
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NVIDIA GeometryWorks Advanced Tessellation
adds real DirectX 11-powered geometric detail to roads, rooftops, buildings,
and many more game elements, improving the realism and detail level of
almost every game scene. Furthermore, with the addition of real geometric
detail, enhanced surfaces and objects can be accurately shaded and shadowed
by HBAO+ and PCSS, increasing realism and graphical fidelity by an even
greater degree.
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NVIDIA TXAA
temporal anti-aliasing eliminates the distracting movement of anti-aliased
lines and edges, and also eliminates other artifacts associated with
anti-aliasing. Edge anti-aliasing is comparable with 8xMSAA, but at the
performance cost of 4xMSAA.
You’ll also receive the usual PC benefits such as improved textures, effects
and assets, along with control options, faster framerates, the ability to render
the game at higher resolutions, such as 4K, and the ability to play the game at
a higher resolution on your HD monitor with new NVIDIA Dynamic Super Resolution
(DSR) technology.
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A new
Letter from the Chairman on the Roberts Space Industries website announces
that Star Citizen has now passed $59 million in crowd-sourced funding.
They describe the new stretch goal ship this will bring to the game, and outline
the next goal in a fundraising campaign that seems as open-ended as space
itself. Word from Chris Roberts is: "none of this would be possible without
backers like you." The chairman also discusses plans to show off the space game
at PAX Australia: "The team is hard at work prepping for the PAX Australia demo,
and we’re all looking forward to giving an audience of Star Citizen’s backers
their first look at something extremely cool this weekend. I think you’re going
to be surprised: the FPS module isn’t an aside… it’s a fully featured game in
and of itself!" Thanks 88fingers.
Origin's On
the House program now offers
Crusader: No Remorse as a free game for those with Origin accounts
(thanks
VG247). The offer may be revoked at any time, but the game will yours to
keep once claimed. Here's a refresher on the 1995 action game, which was
developed by the original Origin: As a Silencer, one of the elite
enforcers of the World Economic Consortium, you're supposed to be incorruptible.
But if the system you serve is utterly corrupt, where does that leave you? You
go over to the Resistance, the same pack you used to hunt down. Now, your former
employers better watch their backs because you're coming after them with all the
firepower at your command.
No pity. No mercy. No Remorse.
Blowfish Studios announces
Gunscape won the PAX Australia indie
showcase even though the show is not yet underway, saying "their innovative and
groundbreaking feature-packed FPS builder, has won the PAX Australia Indie
Showcase, and is presented and demoed during the event taking place between
October 31st and November 2nd at stand #AIS5." For those not in attendance, the
pre-alpha version of this crafty shooter is available on
its official website for Windows, OS X,
and Linux. Those who are at the show have a chance to compete
in
some tournaments: "We are holding our first public Gunscape tournaments at
PAX Australia! If you can visit our booth on any of the 3 days you might be able
to play for 1 of 6 coveted, extremely, limited edition Gunscape figurines."
Also, there's a preview of Gunscape on
Grab It (thanks Ant via
Slashdot).
The Torment: Tides of
Numenera website has that inXile entertainment's upcoming RPG has hit
another stretch goal, which was set for when inXile entertainment's upcoming RPG
hit the $4.75M mark (thanks Acleacius). They say this increases the size of the
game Bloom by about 10%, but there's no indication at this point that this will invoke
another delay. Here's
the
outline of the specific changes this goal triggers: All pledges are
applied to improving Torment: Tides of Numenera, but with this Stretch Goal, one
specific improvement we can commit to is restoring the Gullet to the Bloom, per
George Ziets' original design. We had cut this area to control scope of the
Bloom zone. Restoring it to the design would complete George's original vision
for the Bloom and increase its scope by roughly 10%.
CCP announces Phoebe, saying the next major content release for EVE
Online should launch on November 4th for their sci-fi MMORPG. In short: "Get
your Fleet Commanders to the war room and your industrialists back in the labs,
because some major changes are on the horizon. Nullsec force projection,
invention on steroids, an unshackled skill queue and a whole lot more are headed
your way in Phoebe, 2014’s fifth feature release."
This trailer takes a
look at development
and this page
has tons of details in several different articles on the expansion. Continue here to read the full story.
The
WildStar Forums announce realm transfers to improve the "health" of
PvP servers in Carbine's MMORPG since their "megaserver" deployment (thanks
Massively). Here's word: As of 10/28/14, once NA servers come back
online, we will enable free PvP to PvE and PvE to PvP realm transfers. You will
be able to transfer from PvP to PvE servers and vice-versa, for free, for your
games account region. Normal realm transfer rules will still apply, for more
information on server transfer restrictions please see this
Support article.
For the time being, these transfers will remain open indefinitely, but we will
be closely monitoring the situation and if we feel it necessary we will remove
this service. Rest assured, we will ensure to give you appropriate notice if we
do decide to shut these free transfers down, as well as an explanation as to
why.
We expect there will be some concerns about players using PvE servers to level
up, without the dangers of a PvP server, and then transferring across once they
reach max level, however we felt that ensuring the health and community of each
server is more vital. We will be keeping a close eye on things for any
shenanigans or foul play though.
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- SteelSeries Siberia V3 on
LAN OC.
Today is opening day for the NBA. For the Knicks, this marks the beginning of
the Phil Jackson era. Can he save the team from the ownership's seeming
indifference towards winning? I don't know. But as the only executive in the
league with a Knicks championship ring, he brings more hope than we've had in a
long time (and if you're kind, you won't throw Dave DeBusschere back at me to
undermine that point).
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