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Archived News:
Creative Assembly follows both inadvertent
and deliberate clues to
officially announce development of Total War: WARHAMMER, a new
installment in the Total War strategy series based on
a partnership with Games
Workshop. They don't offer a release date, but say this is "coming soon" to Windows, OS
X, and Linux, and will be followed by two more standalone titles to form a
trilogy which will combine with additional content packs "to create the single
largest Total War experience ever." There is an
announcement cinematic trailer narrated by actor and favorite of limerick
writers Steven Berkoff, and here's word: SEGA® of America, Inc. and SEGA®
Europe, Ltd. today announced a new title from UK videogame studio Creative
Assembly™; the first in partnership with Games Workshop®, creators of the
well-known Warhammer® Fantasy Battle tabletop wargame and accompanying range of
miniatures.
Total War™: WARHAMMER® for PC, Mac and SteamOS, coming soon.
Now in its 15th year, the award-winning Total War™ continues to offer a unique
combination of huge-scale real-time battles and an addictive turn-based campaign
game of statecraft, politics and empire building.
Total War: WARHAMMER will take the series to a realm of grand high fantasy for
the very first time in its history. Our rules have changed, and with change
comes war on a scale as yet unimagined. The limitlessly deep and rich universe
of Warhammer heralds a new era for Total War. Gigantic monsters, flying
creatures, legendary heroes and storms of magical power take their place on the
battlefield, alongside thousands of warriors clashing in real-time tactical
battles.
In the turn-based campaign game, players will find the Old World an unforgiving
and treacherous place, filled with endless war and cunning alliances alike.
Whichever race you choose to play as and however you seek conquest, you will be
faced with a conflict that threatens to tear the very fabric of reality asunder.
The first in an epic trilogy of titles, Total War: WARHAMMER will deliver
hundreds of hours of absorbing gameplay. It will combine with two further
standalone instalments and additional content packs to create the single largest
Total War experience ever.
Continue here to read the full story.
Stardock announces a May 14th release date for
Galactic Civilizations III, their 4X
space strategy sequel. The game is still available before then through
Early Access on Steam.
Here's a video from the
other day with more than an hour of a developer livestream, and here's the
news: The universe of space strategy games is about to get a lot bigger
with the May 14 launch of Galactic Civilizations III on PC. The landmark title
from Stardock builds on the studio’s 20+ years of experience, the franchise’s
history as one of the highest-rated strategy series of all time, and modern
64-bit computing to deliver an unprecedented 4X experience.
As an absolute ruler in Galactic Civilizations III, the choices you make shape
your empire as it inevitably enters into cultural, trade, diplomatic,
ideological, and military conflicts with your neighbors. Every empire has
multiple paths of victory to pursue. Forging an empire so culturally influential
that rival worlds defect to your cause is perfectly viable, so long as you can
keep their dropships from landing on your core worlds through literal defenses
or soft-power diplomatic maneuvers.
Galactic Civilizations III is the largest and most diverse strategy sandbox to
date. Players have dozens of tools at their disposal from diplomatic treaties to
resource exchanges, United Planets resolutions to the hundreds of research
directions their scientists can pursue, and an effectively infinite number of
ways to design and deploy starfleets. Every area of the game – planetary
development, starbase construction, inter-faction negotiations, ideology, and
much more – presents players with choices that shape their galaxy.
Galactic Civilizations III brings major improvements to the franchise and the
genre aside from its triple-A presentation and the sheer size and variety that
its 64-bit engine enables. The game is extremely mod-friendly, allowing
ambitious modders to add an effectively unlimited amount of content from races
to ships to entirely new technology and ideology branches or whatever else they
think of. The in-game ship designer puts incredibly powerful tools in every
player's hands to create the starships of their dreams - some of the most
impressive ships in the game were created by the winners of the Early Access
beta ship design contest. Finally, Internet multiplayer makes its first
appearance in the franchise, along with fantastically detailed leaderboards and
metadata powered by Stardock.net.
Continue here to read the full story.
Steam News announces
preorders are underway for WWE 2K15, saying the
just-revealed PC edition of the sports
simulation simulation is due on April 28th. Word is: "WWE 2K15 ushers in a new
era of WWE video games! WWE 2K15 brings the hardest hitting and most fluid WWE
gameplay to date, closer than ever to what fans see on WWE TV. With significant
gameplay enhancements, a presentation overhaul, and all-new MyCAREER and 2K
Showcase game modes, WWE 2K15 delivers the most authentic and action-packed WWE
video game experience to date." The
game's Steam page also offers these system specifications: MINIMUM:
OS: 64-bit: Windows Vista SP2
Processor: Core 2 Duo E6600, AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 450 or AMD Radeon HD 5770, 1GB GDDR (DirectX11
compatible)
DirectX: Version 11
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Hard Drive: 22 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
RECOMMENDED:
OS: 64-bit: Windows® 7 / Windows® 8
Processor: Intel Core i5-3550, 3.30 GHz
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: nVidia GeForce GTX 570 or AMD Radeon HD 6970
DirectX: Version 11
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Hard Drive: 22 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
Additional Notes: At least 2 GB DDR Video Memory
A
story on Gamers Nexus follows up on reports that Rockstar Support is hanging
up on users complaining of lost
access to their Rockstar Social Club accounts, and therefore Grand Theft
Auto V. This
video has a recording of one such incident, and their reporter follows
this up by recreating the scenario, calling support and being hung up on after being
told that the complaint has been recorded, and that no further
support could be offered at this time. They called back and got one representative to admit
customer service reps have been instructed to hang up after registering a ticket and giving that message.
The article also takes issue with how refunds are or are not being offered, but perhaps
most interesting is their assertion that their own Social Club account which was hacked has
a unique password, which would cast doubt upon Rockstar's contention that the
security on their service has not been compromised in anyway. Thanks Smogzy.
Early Access to Kingdom Wars 2: Battles is now available
on Steam, offering first
crack at this fantasy-themed, real-time/card-based strategy sequel from Reverie
World Studios. Here's the pitch: "Kingdom Wars 2: Battles brings epic
storytelling, complex crafting and a card game to a real-time fantasy themed
strategy. Complete with brutal skirmish siege combat and complex city-building.
Players will wage total war across beautiful, yet gory battlefields; in episodic
story campaign, mmo skirmish and coop modes."
Steam now offers
Kalimba, the Windows edition of a platformer already available for Xbox One.
This comes along with two new DLC packs, which are temporarily free for the
console version. Word is: "Kalimba is a side-scrolling platformer in which
players control mirrored pairs of mystical totems to overcome challenging tests
of precision coordination and movement in either single-player or two-person
local co-op. Coming to life in a colorful trixelated art style, the adventure
features multiple characters with varied powers, climactic boss battles and high
score leaderboards. Kalimba supports both gamepad and keyboard controls on PC."
The Steam page for
NOT A HERO now includes a playable demo for this 8-bit styled
action/adventure. Here's a quick description: "Not a Hero features a
time-travelling purple rabbit attempting to become elected mayor, and has
received considerable backlash for its criticism of political systems and its
satirical take of democratic elections in the Great Britain." Developer Roll7
also announces that preorders of the game are underway in advance of its
release next month, and preorders also get a free copy of OlliOlli, their
skateboarding game.
Link of the Day:
Whomp! - Bargain
Bane. Thanks JDreyer.
The
GeForce website now offers a PC Graphics & Performance Guide for Grand
Theft Auto V. They offer an in-depth look at the various setting for the
open-world action game, and how to best tweak them for best performance and
visuals on NVIDIA accelerators. They include a bunch of interactive comparisons
showing the impact of these changes. Thanks
VG247.
Finnish developer Polar Bunny wants you to check out their package, as Parcel
is now available on Steam
Early Access, offering a block-pushing puzzle game co-published by Frozenbyte.
Here's a trailer and
here's word: "Parcel is a cyberpunk puzzle game where the player has to solve
interlocking laser puzzles using the unique abilities of different characters.
The game can be played alone or cooperatively with friends, and features over
120 fully playable puzzles. A level editor is also included, enabling the amount
of playable content to grow within the community." Continue here to read the full story.
Slinki is now available
on Steam, a 2.5D
action/platformer described as "hard-as-nails" by developer Titan Forged Games
and publisher TheGameWall Studios. Here's a bit of the description, which is
reminiscent of Bionic Commando: "Slinki is a hard-as-nails 2.5D
action-platformer where your own prosthetic arm is the ultimate multipurpose
weapon: Use it as a bladed boomerang to control the population of mutated
critters, pull levers towards you to get through puzzles and zip-line across
grappling surfaces. Furthermore, instead of having your weapon return to you,
why not return to it instead with the power of Slinki's slingshot? All this to
find out what happened to the once peaceful forest you used to live in."
The
Noble Master Developer's Blog announces Demise of Nations is now
available for Windows, OS X, and Linux as an early access deal after 2.5 years
of development. This is set during the rise and fall of the Roman Empire and
described as a mix of Civilization and Unity of Command "featuring
deep game-play including research, city-building, trade and resource
management." Here's more on the game: In Demise of Nations a player
commands his armies in one of the many ancient countries including the Roman
Empire, the Greeks, Carthage and Sparta. From Rome to Celtic nations, one
creates his own warring experience. Wage colossal wars solo, against the AI, or
take on your gaming friends in cross-platform multiplayer games. Form alliances
and fight co-op style with the AI and other players for ultimate victory. The
game supports cross-platform multiplayer matches against players on PC, Mac and
Linux.
Nordic Games announces Legend of Kay Anniversary is coming this summer,
offering a remake of KAIKO's platformer released in 2005. The game already has a
page on Steam with
images and details. Word is: "In this action-packed 3D platformer, gamers will
play as the cat Kay, who is a real martial arts aficionado and very much adept
in frightening foes with his paws and his weaponry."
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Freak - Steam Greenlight. "Freak is a top down stealth shooter with a
focus on strategy. In Freak players play as Tinker, a fourteen year old
autistic boy who has recently been turned into a zombie but somehow retained
his humanity."
Happy Earth Day! Here's hoping you remembered to get the Earth something nice,
or at least a card. This past weekend I spotted the oddest reference to the
occasion I can recall, which was in the sales flier from the Shop-Rite
supermarket. It included a side page with "Earth Day Specials" which included
not one, not two, but three different deals for coffee in K-cups, which are not
exactly ecologically sound products. Odd, to say the least.
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