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Archived News:
Valve announces the first Steam
Holiday Auction is now underway. This gives the chance to recycle inventory
items into games: Recycle Steam Community items like Trading Cards,
backgrounds, and emoticons from
your Inventory into
Gems and use them to bid on games up for auction. The first auction round ends
on Dec 15 @ 10:45am with a new round ending every 45 minutes until the last
auction round ends on Dec 18 @ 1:00pm. At the end of each auction round, the top
bidder for each title wins.
Pro tip: Need more items to turn into Gems? More than 1,200 games on Steam drop
Trading Cards just for playing them. Find out which of your games has drops
remaining on your Badges page.
Also, don’t forget to craft the Trading Cards into badges, the resulting
emoticons and backgrounds have a higher Gem value. If you have nothing in your
Inventory to recycle, you can also trade for Gems or purchase them on the
Community Market.
The Auction runs Dec 15 @ 10:45am to Dec 18 @ 1:00pm when the Holiday Sale
begins.
The Bethesda Blog
has word on plans to release The Assignment early next year, offering the
first DLC in the three-part season pass for The Evil Within, the survival
horror game. Word is: "If you’ve already completed The Evil Within, you probably
have a number of questions about the ending. If you haven’t finished yet – hurry
up, as part 1 of the game’s three-part Season Pass , The Assignment, will
release in early 2015. The Assignment is the first of two DLCs centering on
Detective Castellanos’ mysterious partner, Juli Kidman." They outline the
general plan for the two packs to follow and offer more details in a Q&A with
Tango Gameworks’ John Johanas.
Steam News announces a
free weekend is now underway for
Call of Duty: Advanced
Warfare, coinciding with a 25% off sale on the military shooter
sequel: Save up to 25% and play
Call of Duty: Advanced
Warfare multiplayer for free as part of this week's Weekend Deal*!
*Free multiplayer ends Sunday at 1PM Pacific Time, discount offer ends Monday at
10AM Pacific Time
The Talos Principle is now available
on Steam for Windows,
Linux, and OS X, with the first-person puzzler from Croteam carrying a 10%
launch discount. Here's a
launch trailer showing off the game, and there's also a recently released
Public
Test version for a firsthand sample. Here's the news: The Talos
Principle is a philosophical first-person puzzle game from Croteam, the creators
of the legendary Serious Sam games, written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and
Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
As if awakening from a deep sleep, you find yourself in a strange, contradictory
world of ancient ruins and advanced technology. Tasked by your creator with
solving a series of increasingly complex puzzles, you must decide whether to
have faith or to ask the difficult questions: Who are you? What is your purpose?
And what are you going to do about it?
Continue here to read the full story.
Focus Home Interactive
announces
CitesXXL, a new, extra-larger installment in their urban planning series coming
to Steam, though they don't yet offer a release date. There are first details on
the CitiesXL website, and here's word:
"The Cities XL franchise returns with Cities XXL: a bigger, better city builder
pushing the city limits to the edge of your imagination, as seen in the stunning
world reveal trailer. Running on a vastly improved game engine, Cities XXL
offers classic and extended city-building content, including over 1000+
buildings, 70+ maps including new landscapes and environments, and ecological
features making CitiesXXL the ‘greenest’ Cities XL game yet." They also offer
a first video, a short
teaser showing "the sprawling cityscapes and city-life in action, to get a sense
of the scale and grandeur of the game." Here's more: As you’ll see in the
video, CitiesXXL lets you design and build a sprawling metropolis across many
different landscapes and maps, with varying available resources – from oil to
fertile farm land – to keep the denizens of your city content. Featuring four
classes of citizens spanning four densities of housing, you’ll watch as your
cosmopolitan paradise grows from a quiet suburban town to huge economic
powerhouse.
With varying road-sizes, including curved roads, bridges, and tunnels
unlocked from the start, you'll be able to plan the entrance to your city and
its layout before you start plotting its city-scape. As it grows, take advantage
of a unique richly detailed street-level view, and meet the citizens as they
drive to work, ski, play basketball, or even parachute of the top of towers in
unprecedented detail for the genre.
Cities XXL features low-level city management mechanics, such as local air
and noise pollution levels illustrated with the new stream-lined UI, and beauty
hot-spots suitable for holiday locations to supplement cash-flow.
At citizen management level, you'll be able to track a person's route to work in
order to best manage transport from sea, underground and over-ground rail, or
air. Cut-down on traffic queues with the park and ride and busses, or even bike
hire - reducing that carbon footprint!
Continue here to read the full story.
EGOSOFT now offers a new version 3.0 patch for
X Rebirth, along with
The Teladi Outpost,
a DLC pack they are giving as a free gift for all owners of the space combat
reboot.
This announcement sums up both releases: Egosoft is delighted to
announce the release of the X Rebirth 3.0 update along with a new DLC, The
Teladi Outpost. The DLC is available free to players who download it before 15th
December.
Highlights of the 3.0 release include:
- Interactive holomap.
- Ability to build stations in Empty Space.
- Dangerous regions that can damage your ship.
- Crafting of special items.
- New non-plot mission chains.
- Employee training to improve skills.
- Ware exchange between player ships and stations.
- Subsystem target cycling.
The Teladi Outpost DLC introduces a whole Teladi-controlled system containing
two new sectors and over a dozen zones of interest, along with new Teladi and
pirate factions, and various new Teladi ships, stations and weapon types.
MechWarrior Online website announces that the
Community Warfare update for the
free-to-play mech game is now officially in beta (thanks Rhialto). Here's how
this works: It’s been a long time coming, but it’s finally here. The team
has had their collective noses to the grindstone to bring you Community Warfare,
and we are now looking forward to watching you launch into the battle for the
Inner Sphere. This is it – House vs House, Clan vs Clan, and IS vs the Clans. We
want to see the newly updated and dynamic Inner Sphere map change because of
your actions, your efforts.
Factions have been reset with this patch - your previously chosen faction will
no longer be active. Once you log in, head to the faction tab to select a
contract with your chosen faction. There are three short-term contract options:
7, 14, or 28 days. The thoroughly dedicated can pledge their loyalty to their
chosen faction for a permanent alliance. With a longer contract comes greater
rewards, but also a greater penalty for breaking it. Once your faction choice is
made you’ll have access to the Inner Sphere map. Here you’ll find a list of
planets that you can attack or defend. So pledge your alliance to a faction and
start fighting for territory control!
Kalypso Media announces Waterborne, the first expansion for Tropico V, saying
this will be released for their city building politics sequel on December 17th.
As the Costner-esque title implies, this brings a bunch of aquatic features to
the game, which can be glimpsed in a first
brief teaser trailer.
Here's the announcement: Explore the full potential of the ocean industry
in ‘Waterborne’, the first major expansion for infamous city-builder/political
sim Tropico 5. The future of Tropico lies on its shores – and now renowned
leader El Presidente wants to spread his reign out into the sea and take
advantage of lucrative new industrial opportunities by constructing waterborne
structures across the coast. The expansion features water based game mechanics
for the first time in the history of the series and comes with a slew of new
features and enhancements: such as water traffic, larger coastal areas and new
events to keep even the most seasoned island ruler on their toes.
Build brand new off-shore alternatives for defence, food, energy, entertainment
and even housing. Organise and co-ordinate transport to production buildings
like the Oyster and Kelp farms, construct tidal power plants as an eco-friendly
alternative to nuclear power and build luxurious floating apartments. Launch
military submarines to bolster your naval forces - or create an exotic
bathysphere attraction to compliment your bustling tourist paradise. The
‘Waterborne’ expansion for Tropico 5 includes an all-new campaign spanning 6
epic scenarios, new dialogue and story. Plus, all new content and off-shore
gameplay works with existing sandbox maps and multiplayer modes.
Continue here to read the full story.
Wired Productions now offers Last Inua
on Steam, providing
Windows and OS X editions of this platformer already released for iOS. This is
25% off for the next week, and we have a
gameplay trailer and
some details: "Developed by Glowforth, Last Inua is designed for both young and
old, mixing classic platform genres as it immerses players in an Inuit family’s
fight for survival against a fearsome demon and the harsh Arctic elements. In
the game world, the demonic trickster Tonrar has awoken to spread his darkness
over the north. Tonrar’s evil is infecting and destroying three Inuit gods, the
Ice Bear, the Raven and the Narwhal. The father and son team of Ataataq and Hiko
are the only hope to restore balance in the world. Ataataq relies on brute
strength to overcome obstacles as he guides Hiko, his physically weak but
supernaturally gifted son with magical abilities, along their epic journey.
Together, Ataataq and Hiko must traverse the arctic landscape and visit The
Trinity of the Mythical Creatures to help defeat the malevolent Tonrar." Continue here to read the full story.
A new trailer from
Deep Silver goes behind-the-scenes with the upcoming Gat out of Hell expansion
for Saints Row IV, Volition's open-world action sequel with an introduction to a
couple of the game's voice actors. Word is: "Go behind the scenes to meet the
voices of the Saints and get an exclusive sneak peek of the voice recordings for
the anticipated expansion title with Daniel Dae Kim (Johnny Gat) and Natalie
Lander (Kinzie) as they talk about the joys and challenges that come with being
a Saint and more." Continue here to read the full story.
The
Scrolls website has details on plans to officially launch Mojang's
card-based strategy game today. They offer the game's
official launch trailer,
warn to expect a demo, and say they are also cutting the game's
price: We’re also releasing Scrolls on Android tablets, offering a free
demo version, and reducing the price of the full game to $5. That’s remarkably
cheap when you think about it.
An iPad version of Scrolls is also on the way, but it won’t arrive until some
time in the new year. Sorry for the delay, but putting games on the App Store is
serious business.
Continue here to read the full story.
The
Ubisoft forums have word for The Crew players who have noticed some
of their stats were lost, saying they are aware of the issue, and working on a
fix, and reassure players that that no major data like Cars, Money, or Levels
were lost (thanks
Videogamer). They say that as of now the servers are no longer resetting
these stats, but they may be continuing to display incorrectly for the moment.
Here's word: Lately, some players have been encountering an issue where
some game statistics where lost.
Our team has been looking into it and was able to identify the issue. What was
happening is that the server was sometimes unable to load your stats and erasing
them.
With today’s Patch, the server will no longer be erasing your statistics however
it might still be displaying the wrong stats.
In short, your stats are no longer reset but they might not be properly
displayed.
Be sure that the team will be fixing this last issue for good in a future patch,
until then, if you want to see your stats you can log off and log back into the
game a couple of times and you should see them properly.
We thank you for your patience and understanding.
The Crew Team.
Headup games announces TRISTOY, a co-op 2D platformer coming
to Steam on January 15th.
This trailer shows off
gameplay, including an unusual dynamic split-screen implementation, as this
apparently requires two players. Here's the announcement: Headup Games
and Merge Games today announce TRISTOY, a story-driven 2D-co-op platformer
designed from the ground up exclusively for two player co-operative gaming
enjoyment!
Set in Tristoy, an ancient fortress in the middle of the Sea of Shards you play
together as Prince Freedan and the Wizard Stayn. You and a friend must team up
to try and escape the dungeon and defeat a common enemy, the witch Ink.
Explore dungeons filled with traps and monsters - puzzle, jump and fight your
way out as you attempt to escape from Tristoy. Designed to be played together on
one screen, Tristoy’s engrossing non-linear story features multiple endings and
requires you to work together, testing your friendship and forcing you to
confront moral dilemmas and make some hard choices.
Developed by German studio Uniworlds Game Studios, the game features a dynamic
split screen, which moves, rotates and seamlessly joins back together, keeping
you locked in the action. Play with a keyboard, controller or use your
smartphone to control the game with the companion app.
Continue here to read the full story.
German publisher gamigo announces they've made a deal with Electronic Arts to
publish some of EA's online games through their
online portal. Word is: "This deal will initially encompass three of EA's
highly-attractive titles, which will be marketed via the gamigo platform.
Command & Conquer: TIBERIUM ALLIANCES, Need for Speed WORLD, and FIFA World. Of
these, Command & Conquer: TIBERIUM ALLIANCES and Need for Speed WORLD will
already be launching on the gamigo platform in 2014, and FIFA World shortly
after."
My buddy devicer got the best dig in about my current obsession with improving
my cold weather gear. He thanked me for basically ensuring that we
would end up having a mild winter, much in the same way my recent acquisition
of a hybrid car inspired gas prices to drop by a dollar a gallon. Just doing my
part to make a better world through the power of irony. You're welcome.
NFL pool players remember to make
your
picks.
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