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Archived News:
Ubisoft is
teasing an Assassin's Creed world premiere livestream next Tuesday
(thanks
Polygon). Word on this is short and sweet for now: OPPRESSION HAS TO
END
ASSASSIN’S CREED WORLD PREMIERE LIVE STREAM
12.05.15
17.00 UK TIME
WWW.ASSASSINSCREED.COM
Rockstar Games answers some questions about Grand Theft Auto V.
Several topics of interest are covered, including a clarification of the sort of
modifications that will get players in trouble, which focuses on GTA Online: We
have always appreciated the creative efforts of the PC modding community and we
still fondly remember the awesome
zombie invasion mod and
original GTA map mod for GTAIV PC among many other classics. To be clear,
the modding policy in our license has not changed and is the same as for GTAIV.
Recent updates to GTAV PC had an unintended effect of making unplayable certain
single player modifications. This was not intentional, no one has been banned
for using single player modifications, and you should not worry about being
banned or being relegated to the cheater pool just for using single player PC
mods. Our primary focus is on protecting GTA Online against modifications that
could give players an unfair advantage, disrupt gameplay, or cause griefing. It
also bears mentioning that because game mods are by definition unauthorized,
they may be broken by technical updates, cause instability, or affect your game
in other unforeseen ways.
Sinister Design announces the release of playable demos for Telepath
Tactics, offering the chance to sample their recently
released tactical RPG on Windows, OS X, or Linux. Word is: "This demo gives
you the first handful of battles and cut scenes from the main campaign, plus a
local multiplayer 1-v-1 you can play against the computer on the Little Lava
Cave map using 5 of the game’s 23 base character classes."
PlayGrid Games and Petroglyph are now accepting signups for closed beta testing
of Victory Command, their
upcoming RTS/MOBA. They say: "Get into the action early! Gamers can now sign up
for chance to enter the Closed Beta at
www.victory-command.com before it opens to the public. To command a wide
range of modern, upgradeable warfare vehicles and heavily equipped troops across
a variety of maps to dominate friends and foes alike." Here's word on the game:
Producer and publisher PlayGrid Games has teamed with globally renowned
development studio Petroglyph to create Victory Command, a fast-action, military
MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena). Victory Command expands the competitive
battlefield beyond the standard three-lane MOBA formula with RTS (real-time
strategy) controls and tactics in an open-field battle arena that gives players
the chance to engage enemies with larger scale strategies such as flanking,
ambushing, and trapping.
In Victory Command players simultaneously command multiple units of armoured,
recon, and infantry combat units to engage in 5v5 team combat. They begin their
military career with basic companies to command, and then improve their troops
and arsenal by earning experience points in combat. Combining the cooperation
and competition of battle arena games with the strategies and tactics of
real-time strategy games, this unique Military MOBA, is full of additional ways
to surprise and destroy opponents. Victory Command will be available on Steam
Early Access in just a few short weeks.
Here's a cinematic teaser
for Battlefleet Gothic: Armada, the upcoming real-time strategy game set in some
crowded areas of outer space. They say they plan on unveiling more about the
game soon, and in the meantime, accompany the clip with
a few first screenshots they say are "captured from a very early development
version of the game." Continue here to read the full story.
WBIE and DC Entertainment unveil part of the voice cast for Batman: Arkham
Knight, offering a trailer
celebrating the news. Here's word: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
and DC Entertainment confirmed the voice talent behind some of the most notable
characters in Batman™: Arkham Knight, the epic finale to the award winning
Batman: Arkham trilogy from Rocksteady Studios. Jonathan Banks (Breaking Bad,
Better Call Saul) joins the cast as James Gordon, Ashley Greene (The Twilight
Saga) as Barbara Gordon, John Noble (Sleepy Hollow, Fringe) as Scarecrow and
Scott Porter (Friday Night Lights, Hart of Dixie) as Nightwing.
Banks, Greene, Noble and Porter join an ensemble cast that includes
fan-favorites Kevin Conroy, who returns as Batman; Tara Strong as Harley Quinn;
Troy Baker as Two-Face and Nolan North as Penguin.
Continue here to read the full story.
The Heroes of the Storm website
now offers a Kael'thas
trailer showing off the next hero coming to Blizzard's MOBA.
They promise a reddit AMA next week to answer questions about what this Blood
Elf will add to the game. The 90 minute Q&A will begin on May 12th at 5:30 pm
EDT. Continue here to read the full story.
GOG.com
announces the debut of several old-school Star Trek games on their service,
boldly going into DRM-free gaming with a trio of games based on The Original
Series (thanks nin). Here's the Captain's
Log: Live long and GOGbear.
Sci-fi fans and Trekkies of GOG.com, we've got you covered: we're beaming Star
Trek straight onto your computers starting now: it's Star Trek's turn to shine
on our digital store shelves! Today, we boldly go where no store has gone
before, with three of the greatest Star Trek classics ever made premiering
digitally, right here on GOG.com!
--Star Trek: 25th
Anniversary
The smash-hit action/point-and-click adventure that has you play as Captain Kirk
himself. Take command of the Starship Enterprise and lead your landing parties
to mission completion.
--Star Trek:
Judgement Rites
The sequel to the smash-hit 25th Anniversary, with more and better everything.
The five-year voyage is about to come to a grand finale.
--Star Trek:
Starfleet Academy
It's where legends are born. A choose-your-adventure space sim, complete with
live-action sequences with star appearances by William Shatner and George Takei.
Beam us up, GOGbear! We're one a voyage to trek across galaxies, and we're
taking everyone along. Today is the beginning, who knows what the distant future
may bring?
GOG.com also now offers
RAGE & STEEL a new
trailer from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, CD Projekt RED's RPG sequel. They say: Not
for the faint of heart, the squeamish or the queasy. See the newest trailer for
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt today: it's called Rage & Steel, and that's a promise.
Check it out for yourself - and remember that you can still preorder the game
before its May 19th release. Getting the game at GOG.com is the one way to
support the developers directly, and it gets you a whole bunch of free goodies!
Continue here to read the full story.
A Wasteland 2
Game of the Year Edition is coming late in the summer to offer an enhanced
version of inXile's post-apocalyptic RPG sequel. Now inXile announces this will
be offered to all owners of the game as a free upgrade: inXile
Entertainment recently announced the Wasteland 2 Game of the Year Edition, an
enhanced and expanded update to the original game slated for late summer this
year. inXile is now pleased to announce that this upcoming edition will be
offered as a free upgrade to all previous crowdfunding backers and any
purchasers of the original edition of Wasteland 2. This update will be released
for all owners on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux platforms.
Wasteland 2 Game of the Year Edition will include a massive host of improvements
for existing fans and new players to enjoy. The game will be updated to Unity 5,
the latest version of the Unity game engine, and benefits from improved
environment textures, character models, and Physically Based Rendering for more
impressive lighting. Thousands of lines of new voice-over have also been
recorded to enrich the game's cast of original and unique characters, making
this the most immersive version of the Wasteland yet.
The Game of the Year Edition update also provides major enhancements to
gameplay. Players will have even more fun customizing their squad of Desert
Rangers with new Perks & Quirks, which allow them to customize their squad
throughout the game with unique bonuses and trade-offs. The new Precision Strike
system lets players target individual body parts on enemies to inflict
debilitating effects and gain the edge in combat. With overhauled game balance,
item drops, and reworked combat encounters throughout the game, players will
need every advantage they can get to master the dangers of the Arizona wastes.
“We wanted to re-affirm our gratitude to our backers and our dedication to RPG
fans, as we have been most fortunate to return to our roots,” says Brian Fargo,
CEO. “We plan to continue our proud tradition with Bard’s Tale IV, which we’ll
crowdfund later this year.”
A price jump may be coming to digital purchases in Australia, where gamers are
already unhappy that they often pay more
for games on Steam than customers in other territories.
Player Attack has word that the country is considering what's called a
"Netflix tax" on digital media that would tack an additional 10% onto Internet
purchases of digital media like Netflix movies and Steam games. This may not
happen immediately, but they seem to feel it is inevitable, saying: "Whether or not
it makes it in time (the 2015 Federal Budget will be handed down on Tuesday
night) is a different question, but it's certainly something being discussed in
great detail. Maybe rather than a question of 'if' such a tax will be imposed,
it's more a question of 'when' - and 'how much'."
A
Steam Community Group Announcement has word that the new patch is once again
available for Mortal Kombat X, following
news that it was revoked because it
was deleting saved games (thanks
VG247). They also address the loss of saved games players may have suffered
while the misbehaving patch was in the wild, saying impacted players should be
hearing from them by tomorrow: We understand that some PC players lost
their save data before we were able to correct an issue with the most recent
patch. An updated patch was recently released to add Jason and all of the other
patch improvements back into the game and no other players should experience
save loss when installing the patch. We are truly sorry if the recent patch did
cause you to lose your game save. Affected players should be hearing from us
soon with details on how we are addressing the situation.
If you lost your save due to the patch and have not heard from us by Friday May
8th at 12pm EST, please submit a Customer Service help request by visiting
support.wbgames.com and selecting “Ask for Help” from the menu at the top.
Select “Gameplay Help Request” as your Question Type, “Save Game issue” as your
Specific Question, and include your Steam Account Name in your help request
description. We will make sure that you are helped out if you were impacted by
this issue.
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The Human Gallery - Steam Greenlight. "The Human Gallery is an upcoming
2D psychological horror game for PC. You take the role of a painter who
ventures into the mind of a psychopath in search of inspiration. Soon it
becomes clear that you can't wake from the nightmare you find yourself in.
Your only hope for awakening is to venture deeper into his mind..."
Here's
the story, of a man named Brady, who was busy with three balls of his own.
The deflated game-ball, and the two giant cojones it took to laugh it off when
he got caught. There's something particularly irksome about someone who puts
himself out there as Captain America, and
turns out to be Nick Fury. Extra credit to Robert Kraft for doubling down on
his indignation with a "depends on what your definition of 'is' is" refutation
of the findings.
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