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Archived News:
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is now available on
GOG.com
and Steam.
GOG.com has a new
launch trailer for CD Projekt RED's RPG sequel. Here's an official
description: The Witcher is a story-driven, next-generation open world
role-playing game, set in a visually stunning fantasy universe, full of
meaningful choices and impactful consequences. In The Witcher, you play as
Geralt of Rivia, a monster hunter tasked with finding a child from an ancient
prophecy.
Continue here to read the full story.
Take-Two Interactive Reports "strong" results for fiscal year 2015, saying
Grand Theft Auto V has now sold more than 52 million copies. Here's word on the
losses these strong results produced: "For fiscal year 2015, GAAP net revenue
was $1.083 billion, as compared to $2.351 billion for fiscal year 2014, which
had benefited from the record-breaking launch of Grand Theft Auto V for
PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. GAAP net loss was $279.5 million, or $3.48 per
diluted share, as compared to GAAP net income of $361.6 million, or $3.20 per
diluted share, for the prior fiscal year. GAAP results for fiscal year 2015
reflect the deferral of net revenue and cost of goods sold related to sell-in of
certain titles during the fiscal third and fourth quarters." Here are the
highlights: Rockstar Games:
- Launched Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto
Online on the PC. Grand Theft Auto V has now sold-in nearly 52 million units
across PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PC.
- Released Grand Theft Auto Online Heists – a
four-player co-op mode for Grand Theft Auto Online that enables players to
plan, prepare and execute multi-tiered Heists across Los Santos and Blaine
County – as a free update on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox
360 and PC.
2K:
- Launched Evolve on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC.
Developed by Turtle Rock Studios, Evolve is being supported with a robust
array of downloadable add-on content, including a Hunting Season Pass, as
well as a companion App – Evolve: Hunters Quest. The game received positive
reviews from influential critics, including IGN which scored it 9 out of 10
and Game Informer which scored it 8.5 out of 10, and has sold-in
approximately 2.5 million units to date.
- Released Borderlands: The Handsome Collection on
PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The Handsome Collection includes Borderlands 2
and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel along with all of the downloadable content
for both titles.
- Launched Sid Meier’s Starships™ on PC, Mac and
iPad. This turn-based, tactical space combat game features
cross-connectivity and unlockable bonuses with Sid Meier’s Civilization:
Beyond Earth.
- Brought WWE simulation video gaming to the PC and
mobile platforms for the first time ever with the release of WWE 2K15 for PC
and WWE 2K for iOS and Android.
- Announced that Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond
Earth – Rising Tide, an expansion pack for the popular PC title from Firaxis
Games, is planned for release in fall 2015.
Welcome to the Family
trailer from Assassin's Creed Syndicate is now available on
the UbiBlog. Here's word: The year is 1868. It’s the tail end of
the Industrial Revolution in London. Money is power and those who don’t have it
are cast aside by society and left to rot. Many turn to a life of crime in order
to survive. The Assassins have been forced out and the Templars now control
every major enterprise in the city. Twin Assassins Jacob and Evie Frye take it
upon themselves to steal London back by force, uniting the local gangs under one
banner and conquering the city borough-by-borough. In this interview with Senior
Producer Francois Pelland, we meet our new Assassins, learn about their mission
in London, and familiarize ourselves with the new tools at their disposal.
Welcome to the Family.
Continue here to read the full story.
Tale of Tales announce the dawn of Sunset is coming on Thursday, as this is
the release date for their new adventure game where the player is a civilian
caught in the midst of a war. This leaves just a few days to preorder the game
from their website, which gets DRM free
copies for Windows, Linux, and OS X along with a Steam key. They celebrate the
news with this new launch trailer. "We
secretly call the trailer 'Sunset, the movie'," explains Michaël Samyn, "Kert
Gartner has captured the spirit of our story and the essence of Angela's
situation very well. Whenever I get anxious about how our game will be received
when it is launched on Thursday, I look at the trailer and feel confident again:
that's a game I really want to play!" Here's more on the game: In Sunset,
the player is cast as Angela Burnes, a housekeeper working in a fictional South
American city. Taking place in a single apartment, through weekly visits over
the course of year in the early 1970s, the game simply asks you to go about your
duties for your employer, the wealthy Gabriel Ortega. But it also lets you feed
your curiosity by exploring Ortega's home and, ultimately, discovering his role,
and your own, in the revolution that takes hold of the country.
Following today's DOOM teaser some
images of the earlier cancelled version of a new DOOM game have surfaced. There
are a bunch of screenshots on the
Doomworld Forums and
All Games Beta has an animated segment from a trailer which seems to have
otherwise disappeared. Thanks
DSOGaming.
- Deep Space Bundle on
Bundle
Stars.
- Prison Architect on
Steam. Save 80%.
- Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth on
Steam.
The Bethesda Blog has
a teaser trailer
announcing plans for a full DOOM reveal next month at E3 2015. The clip is
brief, offering a cinematic glimpse at a couple of classics from the shooter
series: a double-barreled shotgun and a revenant. Thanks MrKawky. Continue here to read the full story.
More on plans for The Bard's Tale IV are provided today by inXile
Entertainment, who unveil plans to Kickstart the
recently announce RPG sequel
beginning on June 2nd. Anyone who signs up on
The Bard's Tale IV website
can get notified when the campaign begins along with a
new teaser image to raise interest. Here's word: inXile Entertainment
is proud to return to Kickstarter for their next big cRPG project, The Bard’s
Tale IV, launching Monday June 2nd at 6 AM PST/13:00 UTC. Return to Skara Brae
for a true dungeon-crawling sequel to the original The Bard’s Tale trilogy that
helped define the cRPG genre!
On the 30th anniversary of the original Bard's Tale, what better time than now
to go on an adventure worthy of song? The Bard’s Tale IV will feature
challenging maze-like dungeons with devious puzzles and riddles to explore in
the first-person dungeon crawler style of the original trilogy. inXile has the
full rights to use everything from the original trilogy, so the game will be
rich with callbacks and old favorites such as teleporter zones and magic mouths.
Utilizing the Unreal 4 engine, The Bard’s Tale IV will also represent a
graphical leap forward in the genre, immersing you in a highly detailed and lush
world you'll want to map to is farthest reaches. inXile plans to use
photogrammetry to create in-game 3D objects from photos of architecture, taken
right in Scotland.
With the Bard leading the way, the game has a strong focus on music and sound
design. Inspired by and involving Gaelic musicians, the soundtrack and lyrics of
The Bard’s Tale IV take cues from Scottish culture, which will be used to enrich
the existing setting from the original games.
Of courses, you'll need to contend with all matter of hostile beasts, monsters
and brigands as you explore the world. The Bard’s Tale IV will feature a dynamic
phase based combat system, utilizing the complex decision making opportunities
of traditional phase based combat, but with a constantly evolving enemy strategy
and a pacing that keeps you on your toes.
2K Games announces the Rising Tide expansion pack, a new add-on
coming to Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth, Firaxis' sci-fi
strategy game this autumn. Word is this "introduces aquatic gameplay, an
overhauled diplomacy system, hybrid Affinities and more." There are details and
screenshots on the
Civilization website, and here's a feature list:
- Building floating settlements and accessing
natural resources hidden beneath the seas of the alien planet, while alien
beasts with unique abilities inhabit the water and challenge players in
distinctive ways;
- Shaping the diplomatic landscape by upgrading
traits, changing diplomatic relationships, and leveraging the benefits of
your allies, all with political capital;
- Unlocking a dynamic set of Diplomatic Traits while
activating different combinations in response to the changing world;
- Playing as one of four new factions, including the
Al Falah, a group of nomad explorers descended from wealthy and resilient
Middle Eastern states;
- Investing in multiple Affinities to unlock hybrid
Affinity units and upgrades for the first time;
- Collecting and combining alien relics via a new
Artifact System that unlocks powerful benefits;
- Exploring one of two new biomes, Primordial world,
an untamed biome rife with volcanic activity and indicative of a chaotic
landscape still forming in the new world.
The
GeForce website now offers new version 352.86 WHQL-certified drivers for
NVIDIA graphics cards, saying these are game-ready for The Witcher 3: Wild
Hunt in advance of the launch of the RPG sequel, which begins this evening.
Word is: "The new GeForce Game Ready 352.86 WHQL The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
drivers are now available to download from GeForce Experience and GeForce.com.
With Game Ready optimizations for the highly anticipated PC release of The
Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and an updated SLI profile, our latest drivers are a
recommended update for fans about to embark on their 100-hour quest." They also
offer new
exclusive Witcher 3 wallpapers.
The Sims 4 settles back into the number one spot on the
GFK Chart-Track PC sales chart for the week ending May 16th as Project CARS
moves down to the number five spot. Project CARS retains the number one spot on
the
all platforms chart where Wolfenstein: The Old Blood debuts at number two.
There are more numbers to crunch in
their write-up: ‘Project
Cars’ (-64%) holds on to No1 for a second week to become the first Bandai Namco
title to do so since ‘Ridge Racer Type 4’ over 16 years ago.
Stand-alone expansion ‘Wolfenstein: The Old Blood’ from Bethesda debuts at No2
on PS4, Xbox One and PC. Despite having been launched digitally on May 5th, the
boxed versions debut strongly in the chart, especially the PS4 version which
takes a 67% share compared to Xbox One’s 27%. ‘Grand Theft Auto V’ (-25%) makes
way, dropping one place to No3, however this is not going to trouble Take
2/Rockstar’s record breaker as it has now passed 5 million sales in the UK.
‘Mortal Kombat X’ (-28%) also slips one place, down to No4, ahead of a re-entry
for Square-Enix’s ‘Final Fantasy X / X-2 HD Remaster’ which rebounds back into
the chart at No5 thanks to the launch of a PS4 version. Big hitters ‘FIFA 15’
(-24%) and ‘Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’ (-16%) both look comfortable in the
Top 10 at No’s 6 and 7 respectively.
More previous No1s occupy the final 3 Top 10 places with ‘Dying Light’ (-33%)
down 3 places to No8, ‘Destiny’ (+0%) up one place to No9 and ‘Battlefield
Hardline’ (-34%) down 3 places to No10. Bandai Namco could well be celebrating
three 3 weeks at No1 next week as ‘Project Cars’ goes up against another of
their own titles, ‘The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’.
Weird Heroes of the Storm story. I was in a quick match and noticed Li Li
trying to solo a camp. I suggested this was not that character's role, and got a
"whatever" in return. I passed her about a minute later and cleared the camp for
her in two seconds, and typed "sheesh." A little later she was doing it again,
and I realized that we were basically going to have to play without a healer.
When the game ended I happened to see something odd at
the score screen when I noticed for the first time that mousing over a player's name gave a current
status. When I looked, the Li Li from my team was in a party with the Thrall from
their team. They couldn't have played that way, but it made me wonder if this was
some weird trolling. I looked at the replay and their Thrall was AFK for a lot
of the game and eventually dropped out. I don't know what the goal would be for
friends to mess up both sides of a Quickmatch, but if griefing was logical
everybody would be doing it. Whatever was happening, it was definitely odd.
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