The
Making History website
now offers playable demos for
Making History: The Great War, Muzzy Lane's
World War I strategy game. There are demos for the Windows and OS X editions,
which can be found on
the game's
website and
on Steam
(thanks Frans). And for those who already own the game, a new patch is now
available which adds a new scenario in addition to fixes and tweak.
This page has the
patch notes (formatted upside down with the new notes at the bottom), and here's
word on the demo and the patch:
Spread the word to all your friends who need to try before they buy -- we have
just released a free demo of TGW ! For those of you already playing you now have
access to a new scenario: "The July Crisis." Set in 1914 just prior to the
Austrian Archduke's fateful ride into Sarajevo, TJC will highlight the difficult
and very different decisions you will make depending on which nation you decide
to play. The demo begins in the same time frame as the full length scenario but
limits the number of turns and only Austria-Hungary is playable.
These are just the biggest features in what is otherwise a huge update including
many fixes, AI improvements and content additions. For a detailed look at what's
new, check out the latest
RELEASE NOTES.
The
Sledgehammer blog reflects on the launch of
Call of Duty: Advanced
Warfare, discussing plans for the first patch for the military shooter
sequel and addressing questions about dedicated server support (thanks
GameSpot). They defer to Activision's inscrutable statement about dedicated
server support, which says: "Advanced Warfare employs game servers hosted at
data centers globally on all platforms and listen servers as part of our
proprietary matchmaking system. Our goal is to ensure the best possible
connection and greatest gameplay experience regardless of location and time of
day." While you work on interpreting what that actually means, you can also
peruse their plans to patch the game:
There’s an update in the works that
includes a number of polish items, fixes, and community requested changes. Below
is a list of some of the improvements you can expect to reflect in-game soon.
- Prestige reset issues, including emblems and
challenges.
- Adjustment to the in-game chat names notifications
placement.
- Fix for weapon reloads counting as speed reloads
in certain circumstances.
- Connectivity optimizations.
- Fix for stats accumulating towards leaderboards
after prestiging.
- Adjustment to challenges to unlock Camos for
weapons.
- Fix for round-based game modes, affecting Win/Loss
ratios.
- Implemented ability to unlock eSports Rule options
in Private Match.
Valve reveals the following list of the bestselling titles on
Steam last week:
- Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
- Football Manager 2015
- The Binding of Isaac Rebirth
- Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Digital Pro Edition
- Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth
- Farming Simulator 15
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- Wolfenstein: The New Order
- Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
- Banished
Actual email from Twitter this morning: "Blue's News, Some people you may know
on Twitter. Justin Timberlake, KATY PERRY, Kevin Hart." So does that mean they
mailed the three of them this morning suggesting they may know Blue's News? Nah,
I didn't think so.
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