Fluffy Kitten Studios announces that
Ascent is now available as an early access
release
on Steam,
offering a space-based PvE MMORPG with a heavy emphasis on science and
exploration.
This trailer
shows off the game, and the
Ascent
website offers a web-based demo to sample. Here's word on the game and its
enormous scope:
Ascent is a Player Versus Environment space MMO with
270,000,000,000 star systems and an emphasis on strong Sci Fi, exploration,
colonization, starbase construction, research and technology, mining and
farming, trading, and of course combat.
Outside of a pre-defined "Apollo Sector" area with nine star systems, everything
in the game is made by players - Colonies, starbases, stock markets (for
trading), the government (colony Mayors, planetary Governors, star system
Senators and a Colonial President are all elected by players) and even jump
gates between systems.
Continue here to read the full story.
There is now a demo of
Motorsport Revolution on
Oculus VR
Share, offering those who own Oculus Rift headsets to check out a sample of
Ghost Machine's VR racing game (thanks
CarGamingBlog). Here's why they think this will turn heads:
Motorsport Revolution is a single-player, physics-based racing game
inspired by classic arcade and console racing games, as well as the popular Le
Mans Series, which is considered the most challenging sport racing class in the
world. With these influences in mind, we’re creating an epic immersive VR
motorsport racing experience where players race the world’s top production-class
race cars in the ultimate test on the world’s most difficult tracks.
Motorsport Revolution provides an immersive cinematic automotive journey
featuring the world’s greatest cars and tracks. Available with standard screen
view, but built from the ground up to take advantage of Oculus Rift VR headset
and the unmatched processing power of the PC, we truly believe that there is no
experience that feels more like real world racing.
A
Steam Community post offers the release of Fluffy Manager 5000, a
modification for
Resident Evil Revelations 2, the just-released episodic
survival/horror sequel. This admittedly "doesn't support many features," but
what it does do is offer a workaround for local-splitscreen co-op which is
absent from the PC edition in spite
of it being
listed
as a game feature. Word is this "should let you play the entire game in
coop," though they warn: "Keyboard controls affect both players, so you'll need
to make sure you have 2 gamepads" and "Raid mode local coop doesn't work
(hopefully I can get that working later)." Thanks
GameSpot.
Don't know how we missed the release of
how do you Do It?
on Steam, a free-to-play
game created in just three days at Global Game Jam. Thanks to nin for passing
along word on this for the description alone, which reads: "'how do you Do It?'
is a game by Nina Freeman, Emmett Butler, Decky Coss, and Joni Kittaka. The game
puts players in the role of an 11-year-old girl whose mother has just stepped
out for an errand. The girl immediately grabs her dolls and furtively attempts
to figure out how sex works using these plastic surrogates."
Very sad about Leonard Nimoy's passing. That said, I have to admit to shedding a
tear during Star Trek 2, but not yesterday. Seems a little weird to cry over a
character's death and not a person's (dare I say illogical?), but in context I
guess it makes its own sort of sense. Live long and prosper.
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