Archived News:
Steam News announces the
release of Company of
Heroes 2 - Ardennes Assault, the standalone expansion for Company of
Heroes 2, Relic's World War II real-time strategy game. Here's
a new live-action trailer,
and here's word: Company of Heroes™ 2: Ardennes Assault is a harrowing
new chapter in the critically acclaimed series. Continuing the story in World
War II, this exciting campaign places you in the heart of the battle, once
described by Churchill as “...undoubtedly the greatest American battle of the
War”. This pivotal conflict is known to many as ‘The Battle of the
Bulge.’
Continue here to read the full story.
Independent developer Robotoki and Nexon have broken off their agreement for
Nexon to publish Human Element, the debut game from this studio formed by
Robert Bowling, former creative strategist for Infinity Ward's Call of Duty
series. Word is the goals of the companies ceased being aligned upon the
decision that this will no longer be a free-to-play game. "As the game evolved
we realized that the elements that make Human Element the most fun would be
hindered by keeping it a free-to-play experience," Bowling explains
in an email to Gamasutra. "Therefore, we made the decision to switch to a
premium experience for our players; which also meant that working with the
premier publisher in free-to-play was no longer the best partnership fit for the
game we were creating."
This video is the
launch trailer for Dragon Age: Inquisition, paving the way for tomorrow's North
American release of the RPG sequel. Here's word: "'A Wonderful World' prepares
players for their epic journey through the land of Thedas as they become the
Inquisitor and shape history through their decisions and actions. Can they lead
the Inquisition to glory and restore order in the world?" Continue here to read the full story.
Here's a new trailer
highlighting what comes with a season pass for Far Cry 4, Ubisoft's shooter
sequel. This comes with an exclusive day one mission, and carries a 20% discount
compared with buying all the DLC separately. Here's more: "The Far Cry 4 Season
Pass extends players’ time in Kyrat and includes new missions that can be
completed in either single-player or co-op. Content includes a Season Pass
exclusive day-one mission, prison break from Durgesh in an open world survival
mode for single player and co-op, exclusive missions with Hurk and his harpoon
gun, a new PvP mode that will have friends teaming up to fight opposing forces
and a chance to encounter the rarest beast in the Himalayas – yetis." Continue here to read the full story.
Game Sessions is a beta service
which offers the chance to sample games on Steam. This features the ability to
purchase full versions from within these sample sessions, and the system also
supports game rentals.
Ryse Son of Rome
is the newest game they feature, saying Crytek is allowing players one trial of
Crytek's action game that can run as long as 24 minutes. "We passionately
believe that people will buy more games if they can try them first," explains Ed
French, CEO of GameSessions. "With our free trial service our mission is to
deliver more great game experiences to more players." They also claim
compression-related download speed advantages: GameSessions’ proprietary
technology ensures publishers’ content is secure, so ensuring the best content
can be available, and typically downloads games 3x* faster. The service also
helps to avoid downloading games that won’t run well on users’ hardware, and
final peace-of-mind comes from the guarantee of always playing a game before
purchase.
Users can now download and play the free trial of the stunning ‘Ryse – Son of
Rome’ on PC as part of the Beta 2 phase. More exciting titles will be added in
the run up to the full launch of the service in early 2015.
…
* Benchmark tests show games reduced by 50% to 80% using GameSessions
compression technology.
A new video from
Coffee Stain Studios is the launch trailer for a new free expansion for
Goat Simulator which will bring
new MMO functionality to Goat Simulator when it is released as part of a new
version 1.2 patch later this week. Word is: "Goat MMO Simulator is a free
expansion for Goat Simulator. It will be released as a free DLC on Steam on
Thursday 20th November 2014." Continue here to read the full story.
Running with Scissors tweets
a confirmation
of plans for Postal: Redux, a remake of their isometric shooter, in spite
of the mediocre reviews
the game originally met with in 1997 (almost 17 years ago today). Word is:
"POSTAL: REDUX is confirmed! Faithful to the original with redrawn HD art &
redone character models. Many new features such as co-op." They also
tweet about
platforms: "PC, Mac and Linux confirmed releases for now, possibility more
platforms to follow,"
and announce
this will be build on Unreal Engine 4. Thanks
GamingOnLinux.
World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor debuts at number one on the
GfK Chart-Track sales chart of the top 30 PC games in the U.K.
Assassin's Creed Unity enters the chart at number four, Pro Evolution
Soccer 2015 launches at number seven, and LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham
joins at number 10. On the
all platforms top 40 Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare has established a
beachhead at number one, while six new games join the top 10: Assassin's
Creed Unity at number two, Halo: Master Chief Collection at three,
LEGO Batman 3 at number five, Assassin's Creed Rogue at number six,
Pro Evolution Soccer 2015 at number eight, and World of Warcraft:
Warlords of Draenor joins the chart in the ninth spot. Here's word:
‘Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’ successfully defends its position at the
top of the All Formats Chart for a second week.
This is despite a fall in sales of 77% and strong competition from new
contenders ‘Assassin’s Creed: Unity’ and ‘Halo: The Master Chief Collection’.
Ubisoft’s highly anticipated ‘Assassin’s Creed: Unity’ has to settle for second
place, missing out on top spot by 16,000 sales. It does however outsell last
year’s ‘Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag’ which originally debuted on Xbox 360
and PS3. The PS4 version of Unity accounted for 52% of sales, Xbox One 46% and
PC 2%. Older generation consoles (PS3/XB360) got a separate game, ‘Assassin’s
Creed: Rogue’ which debuts this week at No6.
Combined sales of the two different ‘Assassin’s Creed’ titles would have seen it
outsell ‘Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’ this week. Released on Tuesday, ‘Halo:
The Master Chief Collection’ enters at No3, one place ahead of ‘FIFA 15’ (+2%)
which is down 2 places to No4. It is the biggest launch for a Microsoft
published Xbox One title and the 7th biggest Xbox One launch by any publisher.
There are 6 new titles in the All Formats Top 10 this week with ‘Lego Batman 3:
Beyond Gotham’ making an appearance at No5 (Lego Batman 2 managed No1 in W25
2012), ‘Pro Evolution Soccer 2015’ new at No8 and ‘World of Warcraft: Warlords
of Draenor’ debuting at No9. ‘Minecraft: Playstation Edition’ falls one place to
No7, but sales are up 79% thanks to its release on Playstation Vita this week.
The Vita release is the biggest Minecraft launch on a Playstation console,
outselling both PS3 and PS4’s debuts. It is the third biggest debut ever on
Vita, behind console launch titles ‘Uncharted: Golden Abyss’ and ‘FIFA
Football’. The Top 10 is rounded off with ‘Destiny’ (-11%), down from No5 to
No10.
Well my brother and I survived another session of clearing the leaves from around what was my
dad's place in the country. The timing of this was probably
perfect, if lucky, as a small layer of snow fell at some point before
most of the leaves did, but it remained quite loose, so it actually helped in
blowing and raking the leaves around. This is in stark contrast to how much
worse things would have been if the leaves got snowed upon after falling (which
we've had to deal with in the past), so as I say, we got pretty lucky.
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