Archived News:
Patrice
Desilets tweets an announcement of the launch of a new studio following his
firing by Ubisoft earlier this year. So
far most of what we have to go by is a URL and a hashtag: "My new studio in
Montréal:
http://www.panachedigitalgames.com Talk to you soon!
#playwithpanache." Thanks
All Games Beta.
A big fall sale is underway on GOG.com,
offering over 700 games discounted up to 90% off, along with free gifts from
their DRM-free marketplace. The first freebie is a copy of Mount&Blade,
which is being offered to all registered users for 48 hours, and they are also
offering the chance to get a free copy of The Witcher 2. Here's word: It
kicks off with an exceptional offering: the bottomless sandbox action-RPG Mount
& Blade is available for free for the first 48 hours of the sale. You can sign
up for your free copy on our front page. You
can also complete the
Mount and
Blade collection with the remaining titles bundled 75% off.
Impressive? We've only just begun. Look here, what's that? Another bundle? Yes!
It's the all-time favorite
Ultimate
Dungeons and Dragons Bundle making a comeback by popular demand. Only $21.10
for a collection of ten D&D classics with hundreds of hours worth of gameplay
time. Available for 24 hours only, as tomorrow this amazing deal will step down
to make room for another gratuitous daily offer. Not feeling like waiting an
entire day for a new offer? No worries, we've got you covered. Throughout the
sale a line up of flash deals will be available on our front page to give you
amazing offers on great games hour, by hour, by hour.
This forum post has links to where to turn for support for problems with the
Windows edition of Assassin's Creed Unity.
Also, a post on the
Assassin's Creed Unity Forums from Ubisoft addresses AMD owners playing the
just-released stealth/assassination sequel (thanks
IGN), explaining what's being done about some of the reported
issues on their systems: We are aware that the graphics performance of Assassin’s
Creed Unity on PC may be adversely affected by certain AMD CPU and GPU
configurations. This should not affect the vast majority of PC players, but rest
assured that AMD and Ubisoft are continuing to work together closely to resolve
the issue, and will provide more information as soon as it is available.
Steam News announces
that Darkfall Unholy Wars
is free to play on Steam for the next week: "Play
Darkfall Unholy Wars for
FREE starting now through November 18th at Midnight. You can also pickup
Darkfall Unholy Wars one
month subscription at 75% off the regular price for the first month!"
A new
Roberts Space Industries Letter from the Chairman announces the Espera
Prowler stretch goal is unlocked for Star Citizen as the upcoming space
combat game has now passed the $61 million crowd-funding goal. The game hitting
another plateau at least comes as a surprise to one person, Chairman Roberts,
who says: "It’s good to be home! After a fourteen hour flight home from
Australia, it was a nice surprise to see that Star Citizen’s backers had once
again hit another milestone."
- ReignMaker on
Steam. Save 50%.
- Sneaky Sneaky on
Steam. Save 10%.
- Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms on
RPGWatch. Thanks Acleacius.
- World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenort on
Battle.net. Feature
overview.
In announcing the availability of the Handsome Jack Doppelganger Pack for
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel,
Gearbox Software also announces plans for a free update to satisfy requests
for an Ultimate Vault Hunter mode. Word is: "Additionally, free updates to the
game are currently in the works, including a highly requested Ultimate Vault
Hunter playthrough mode that allows players to go through the game a third time
as well as reset campaign progress at any time."
Steam news announces the
release of Space Hulk
Ascension Edition, saying the standalone Space Hulk expansion is 10% off
for the next week. Here's word: Set in the isolated corridors and
tomb-like chambers of ancient vessels lost in the graveyard of space, players
lead a small force of fearless Space Marine Terminators in a ferocious fight for
survival against hordes of predatory, alien Genestealers.
The standalone sequel to Space Hulk brings an all new and improved single-player
experience for the turn-based strategy game.
Daedalic Entertainment announces today is Randal's Wednesday with the release of
Randal's Monday for Windows and OS X. The
official website has details on
where to get this "point & geek" adventure from Nexus Game Studios, and
the official trailer
offers a look at what to expect. Here's a bit: Randal’s Monday features
cynical humor, geek culture references and classic point & click adventure
gameplay at its best: being stuck in a space-time-odyssey that makes main
character Randal having to go through the worst day of each week– a Monday –
over and over, players can experience an epic story about friendship in seven
huge chapters and more than 20 hours of gameplay time.
The story of Randal’s Monday is way more than an homage to movie classics such
as “Groundhog Day” or “Clerks” that the developers consider being both the best
entertainment and also friendship stories. “It’s one of the best scripts I read
in years”, states “Clerks” legend Jeff Anderson. He stars not only as voice
actor for the game’s cynical main character, Randal, but also consulted the
developers, Nexus Game Studios, by working with them on the game’s
script.
Continue here to read the full story.
Paradox Interactive and Obsidian Entertainment announce that preorders are now
being accepted on this page for
Pillars of Eternity, Obsidian's crowd-funded role-playing game. They
celebrate the news with word they plan a livestream of the game tomorrow at 4:00
pm EST, and offer the following word on preorder bonuses: Paradox
Interactive and Obsidian Entertainment today announced that Pillars of Eternity,
the fan-funded role-playing game (RPG) inspired by classics of the genre, is now
available to pre-order from digital distributors everywhere with a discount
available for early purchasers. Pre-orders of the game will also include special
in-game bonus items – while fans who backed the game on Kickstarter will receive
these extras free of charge.
- ASRock Z97E-ITX-ac Intel LGA 1150 Motherboard on
OCInside. German.
- ASUS X99-E WS (Intel X99) Workstation Motherboard on
TweakTown.
- Best Graphics Cards: Nvidia vs. AMD at Every Price Point on
TechSpot.
- COUGAR 700M Aluminium Gaming Mouse on
Tech ARP.
- Das Keyboard Model S Professional on
pcGameware.
- DimasTech Bench-Test Table EasyXL on
Technic3D. German.
- G.Skill Phoenix Blade 480GB PCIe SSD on
PC Perspective.
- HIS Multi-View X2 USB Dual Display Docking Station on
Christ Centered Game.
- MSI GT72 Dominator Pro on
AnandTech.
- MSI Z97 Gaming 9 AC Motherboard on
Techgage.
- netTALK DUO WiFi VOIP Phone on
ModSynergy.com.
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 SLI Overclocked GPU on
HARDOCP.
- NZXT GRID+ Fan Controller on
ThinkComputers.org.
- Scythe Mugen Max CPU Cooler on
pcGameware.
- Seagate NAS Pro 4-Bay on
TweakTown.
- Silicon Power Thunder T11 120 GB on
techPowerUp.
- Speedlink KudosZ-9 & INVICTUS Core Gaming on
ocaholic.
I've been getting around pretty well on my twice-sprained ankle thanks to some
help from a neoprene brace. The itch of healing is starting to make me nuts
because it's below the skin, but it also hasn't healed up enough to put it
through much without a brace, and I can't really say when I'll get past this
point, as the last time I had a high ankle sprain it took ages to recover, and I
was much younger at the time. Actually, if I'm smart, I'll continue to wear the
brace for a while after it's no longer a necessity, since it helps remind me to
be careful on it. Besides, I think the orthopedic look is in this year.
R.I.P.:
Hip-hop loses a legend: Sugarhill Gang's Big Bank Hank dead at 57.
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