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Archived News:
Blizzard announces plans
to unveil a new expansion for World of Warcraft at Gamescom next week,
saying the unveiling of new content for the MMORPG will take place at noon EDT
on August 6th. Here's the plan: Join us Thursday, August 6 at 9 a.m. PDT
for a special World of Warcraft event streamed live from gamescom 2015 in
Cologne, Germany—where we’ll be unveiling the next chapter of the World of
Warcraft saga. . . .
Tune in again Sunday, August 9 at 8:00 a.m. PDT for a World of Warcraft
developer chat before the show ends, and find out more about what’s in store.
Stay tuned to our dedicated gamescom page for
further details on the live stream. Those who are able to join us in person at
gamescom can visit us at the Blizzard booth in hall 7.1. We hope to see you
there!
With Microsoft rolling out Windows 10, hardware vendors like NVIDIA and AMD are
rolling out new drivers. NVIDIA now offers new
version 353.62 drivers
with WHQL certification for Windows 10, while AMD has new WHQL-certified
Catalyst 15.7.1 Windows 10 drivers. Both of those are for 64-bit Windows,
and for now, only NVIDIA also has
32-bit Windows 10 drivers.
Thanks
HARDOCP.
Battle.net announces
that Blizzard has fired up the ban-laser and used it on some StarCraft II
cheaters: We recently issued a new round of account suspensions and bans
to StarCraft II players who were in violation of the Battle.net Terms of Use for
cheating and/or using hack programs while playing. In addition to undermining
the spirit of fair competition that’s essential to play on Battle.net, cheating
and hacking can lead to stability and performance issues with the service.
As always, maintaining a stable, safe, and secure online-gaming experience for
legitimate players is a top priority for us, and we'll be continuing to keep
watch on Battle.net and take action as needed.
Steam News announces the
release of Magic Duels: Origins
on Steam, offering the
latest way to play the Magic card strategy game without any physical cards. This
free-to-play Windows edition follows the mobile versions, but precedes the
game's release on consoles. Here's word: Enter the world’s best strategy
card game with Magic Duels, an all-new digital experience!
Immerse yourself in the world of Magic: The Gathering’s exciting new Origins
campaign as you play through the stories of five iconic Planeswalkers. Hone your
skills and build your deck of spells from an ever-growing library of collectible
cards, then take on your friends or thousands of AI opponents in Battle Mode.
Enjoy virtually endless gameplay with regular card and content updates, quests
and achievements, multiple play modes—including fan favorites like Two-Headed
Giant—and fully earnable content. The new Skill Quest training system and
enhanced Deck Builder with step-by-step guidance ensure an epic Magic experience
for new and veteran players alike.
Ubisoft announces Toy Soldiers: War Chest is coming to Windows, Xbox One,
and PlayStation 4 on August 11th, offering a return of the toy-based
action/strategy series. Here's
a new trailer
revealing
the addition of Cobra Commander and Assassin's Creed's Ezio, and
here's word on the Standard and Hall of Fame editions of the game: Today,
Ubisoft announced that Toy Soldiers: War Chest will release worldwide on August
11, 2015. The third installment of the popular franchise created and developed
by Signal Studios offers a hybrid blend of action strategy gameplay mixed with
tower defense mechanics. Toy Soldiers: War Chest will be available digitally and
at retailers on Xbox One, PS4 and PC.
Toy Soldiers: War Chest Hall of Fame edition will be available as a
digital-download and at retailers. The Hall of Fame edition includes four
licensed armies in addition to the four armies included in the standard edition.
Toy Soldiers: War Chest (standard edition) will be available as a
digital-download only. Players will also be able to download each individual
licensed armies from the Hall of Fame edition or all four together in the
Legendary Heroes pack.
G.I. JOE
Marching into the toy box is a highly trained special mission force, code name:
G.I. JOE. Led by brave field commander Duke and armed with an arsenal of weapons
and overflowing with fighting spirit, this team works together on the front
lines to stop evil in its tracks.
He-Man
Enabled by the power of Grayskull™ is the Masters of the Universe™ army led by
He-Man™, The Most Powerful Man in the Universe™. Gifted with unimaginable
strength and fearless courage, He-Man, Battle Cat™ and his Eternian warriors
team up to protect the Eternia toy box from the forces of darkness.
Cobra Commander
Trained in explosives and martial arts, and backed by the support of a fanatical
army comprised of a deeply loyal infantry, the Cobra Commander army will not
hesitate to take on any opposing faction. With a mix of brute force, advanced
technologies and fierce tenacity, the Cobra Commander army is a force to be
reckoned with on the ground and in the skies.
Ezio
Gifted with a prowess in parkour, stealth and charisma, Ezio and the Assassin’s
brotherhood team up to create a fierce alliance of justice and protection. An
ancestor of Desmond Miles, the charming Florentine Ezio Auditore da Firenze is a
master with the hidden blade and the ladies.
Get ready to do some empire building, as
Steam now offers
Colonial Conquest, a historical strategy game from indie developer Argonauts
Interactive on sale for 10% off at launch.
This post follows the release with a day one patch fixing a number of
issues, including game freezes. Here's word: Colonial Conquest is a
conquest simulation set in the Victorian age of warfare and expansion of the
late 1800's and early 1900's. The object of the game is to become the dominant
major power throughout the world. Players can be one among six of the great
powers of the time: Great Britain, Germany, France, USA, Japan or
Russia.
Steam now offers Inferno
2, a Windows twin stick shooter carrying a 10% launch discount. Word is: "The
sequel to Inferno+, Radiangames' critically-acclaimed twin-stick action-RPG,
arrives on PC at last! INFERNO 2 boasts even more devious levels, more weapons,
more upgrades and powers, more enemies, and more customization, along with more
insane explosions and particle effects."
This video developer diary
from Just Cause 3 asks, and attempts to answer, the question of "who is
Rico" in the upcoming action sequel, and there is also a new
meet the team trailer
introducing the folks at Avalanche Studios. Here's word on the new diary, which
they say kicks off a five-part series: Today sees the first release in
the JUST CAUSE 3 dev diary series. This first video offers insight from
Avalanche Studios about who Rico Rodriguez is, what new skills and abilities
he’s bringing to the table for his third outing, and how the team have brought
him to life.
“He’s gotten older,” explains Game Director Roland Lesterlin in the video, “he’s
got his scars from his years in Panau and San Esperito. We wanted to give him
that background. What would it be like if you set off a nuke? Twice?”
Fatshark now offers
this trailer, which is part two of Inside The Vermintide, a look at
Warhammer: End Times Vermintide, their upcoming co-op action game (part one was
released last week). Word
is: "Associate Producer Liam O’Neill and Game Designer Victor Magnuson talk
co-op, design, lore, and much more for Part 2 of Inside the Vermintide." Continue here to read the full story.
A
post by developer Scott Cawthon responds to what he calls "a lot of hate"
directed towards him and the Five Nights at Freddy's series, and how
rapidly the sequels have followed (thanks
Kotaku via nin). Here's what he says: Hi guys. First of all, I wanted
to thank the community in general for the huge outpouring of support through
emails and in the forums. I know a lot of you are concerned about me or think
that I’m stressed out. It’s true that I’m stressed a little; but it’s ok because
the result was good. I’ve worked very hard this year, almost non-stop, to
produce good games for this series. Even though there may be some debate as to
how “good” the games are, I did my best to provide some good scares and a good
story. All I can do is judge from the Steam reviews that I’ve been mostly
successful; so I’m very happy about that.
It’s true that there has been a lot of hate toward me lately; on the forums, on
youtube, etc. And I’ll be honest, it’s difficult. It’s difficult when people
seem to dislike you only because you’ve found success with something. I think
some people have this idea that I spend my days swimming in gold coins like
Scrooge McDuck, cranking out games with no effort, then laughing all the way to
the bank. The reality is quite different, and I think that people who hate on me
for being successful are misguided.
Did you know that last year I was working at Dollar General? I worked as a
cashier. I had three bosses who were all still in high school. Before that I
worked at Target in the backroom freezer, unloading frozen foods. I haven’t had
a successful life; and now that God has blessed me with some success, I’m doing
my best to be responsible with that success. I don’t party on weekends, I don’t
get drunk or sip martinis. I spend my evenings playing Megaman 3, buster only,
with my kids. And I try to good with what's been given to me.
Continue here to read the full story.
Harebrained Schemes announces BATTLETECH, a PC mech combat game
Shadowrun Returns developer is planning in collaboration with Jordan
Weisman, creator of BattleTech and MechWarrior. They
plan a Kickstarter campaign this fall, and in the meantime they offer
a website with concept art, newsletter
signups, and the following outline of their plans: TACTICAL ‘MECH
COMBAT RETURNS TO THE PC.
Harebrained Schemes is pleased to announce their return to Kickstarter this Fall
to partner with Backers in co-funding the creation of BATTLETECH. Jordan
Weisman, the creator of BattleTech and MechWarrior, is back with the first
turn-based BattleTech game for PC in over two decades. Steeped in the feudal
political intrigue of the BattleTech universe, the game will feature an
open-ended Mercenaries-style campaign that blends RPG ‘Mech and MechWarrior
management with modern turn-based tactics.
Techland announces Dying Light: The Following, "a feature-heavy,
story-based" expansion for Dying Light, their zombie game. This will be offered
separately, and will be a free download for Season Pass holders. They plan on
unveiling this more fully off in Germany next week at Gamescom, and in the
meantime, offer
these screenshots and the following general overview: “For Dying
Light: The Following we’re adding a number of bold game-changers to create one
massive expansion. Something big that will give the game a brand-new flavor. The
new map alone is the same size as all the previous maps from Dying Light
combined, so there is a lot we’re packing in here.
We also kept a close eye on player feedback to help tailor what we’ve created
here. Hopefully people will see that this new expansion is first and foremost,
for the fans.”
– Tymon Smektala, producer, Dying Light: The Following
Nexon announces an agreement with Electronic Arts to bring a PC online game
based on Titanfall to Asian markets. There's no word on plans to bring
this multiplayer version of the mech shooter westward, but that's certainly an
eventual possibility. Here's word on the plan: NEXON Co., Ltd. (“Nexon”)
(3659.TO), a worldwide leader in online games, today announced its Korean
subsidiary, NEXON Korea Corporation, has entered into a game development and
publishing agreement with Electronic Arts Inc. (“EA”) to bring a PC online
version of the critically-acclaimed, first-person shooter game, Titanfall™,
originally developed by Respawn Entertainment and published by EA, to players in
Asia.
Respawn Entertainment – which was co-founded by Vince Zampella, one of the
co-creators of the multi-billion dollar franchise CALL OF DUTY™ and co-founders
of its development studio, Infinity Ward – is an independent video game
development studio located in Los Angeles, California.
“With its pilot vs. titan gameplay, among other innovations, Titanfall is a
uniquely intense game experience. We look forward to working with the talented
teams at Respawn and EA and leveraging Nexon’s free-to-play expertise to deliver
a new and engaging online game based on Titanfall to the Asian market,” said
Owen Mahoney, President and Chief Executive Officer of Nexon.
Yager Productions GMBH has filed for insolvency, reports
GamesIndustry.biz, explaining that this is a subsidiary of the developer,
and the change does not impact other divisions of YAGER or their projects like
Dreadnaught. Word is this branch of the
company was specifically created to work on Dead Island 2, and the
insolvency follows the recent
announcement that they were off the project. "As single-purpose company,
Yager Productions GmbH was assigned to the development of the Deep Silver title
Dead Island 2," says YAGER MD Timo Ullmann. "The insolvency filing is a direct
result from the early termination of the project and helps protecting our staff.
In the course of the proceedings, we gain time to sort out the best options for
reorganizing this entity."
GOG.com
announces their support of old games is mostly ready for Microsoft's new
operating system. They explain how users can help improve compatibility, and
describe where things currently stand: Today, roughly 85% of our library
is labeled as compatible with Windows 10. These games were fully playable with
no significant performance or graphical issues during our testing process and
are ready to go right now. You can filter through Windows 10 games in our
catalog, and the compatibility will be labeled on every game card.
Moving forward, we plan to continue our work to bring as many of the remaining
games as possible over to the new OS. As new updates and features are released,
we hope to see improved backward compatibility and new tools to work with, but
it's always possible for new issues to come up along the way. If you do suspect
that a game should not be labeled Windows 10 compatible, we'll appreciate your
help in getting to the bottom of things, but you can always rely on your 30 Day
Money Back Guarantee.
The most important thing to stress is that Windows 10 is a brand new operating
system, and that means we're still in the middle of a transition period. The
coming weeks or months may be rocky as the first wave of patches hits the OS, so
we'll constantly monitor the situation to quickly put out any fires.
A new Know Your Units
trailer introduces the Centaur, a tank in Company of Heroes 2: The British
Forces, the upcoming standalone RTS expansion. Word is: "In this third
installment in the series of four “Know Your Units” videos for Company of Heroes
2: The British Forces, Relic unveils the Centaur tank. Featuring twin 20 mm Polsten guns, the Centaur helps control the battlefield by serving as an
excellent anti-aircraft and anti-infantry tank." Continue here to read the full story.
King of Dragon Pass is now available
on Steam, offering a
Windows and OS X edition of this strategy game that's already available for
mobiles. You can take a look in
this trailer from last
summer with this pocket-sized description: "Create your own epic saga of
conflict, mythology and community! Rule your own clan, take important strategic
decisions, win battles and expand the territory of your people in this unique
mix of RPG, strategy and story-telling." Continue here to read the full story.
Well today is the launch day for a new version of Windows, a free upgrade for
most, no less. I've seen many comments already from those holding off on this
for now, and I'm firmly in that camp myself. It's kind of funny, as I feel
there's no reason to upgrade, but I would probably be upset if there actually
was a reason, because it would feel like I was being coerced. I guess coercion
will eventually play into this, as I will probably tumble before the free
upgrade expires, though I could go for it earlier if the reviews seem to warrant
it, and early notices seem positive.
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