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Archived News:
Developer Thekla testifies to a January 26, 2016 release date for The Witness, their
upcoming puzzle exploration game. The game is coming to Windows as well as
PlayStation 4, but it is in the
PlayStation Blog where designer Jonathan Blow discusses the news and offers
some details about the game, though they promise to share much more in the time leading up to its release. They also offer
this new trailer with
a look at the game. Here's a bit from the post on how much game to expect:
"There’s a lot here. When we started making this game, I figured it would have
between 8 and 12 hours of playtime. As it happens, the game we’ve finally built
is around 10 times as big as that: if you are a completionist who wants to wring
every last drop out of the game, you might expect to play for 80 hours, or
possibly 100. For people who don’t want to go quite that far, the game’s still
got plenty for you." Continue here to read the full story.
The
Unreal Engine website announces the release of the Infiltrator demo, which
shows off the power of Epic's Unreal Engine 4, offering all the code from the
demo for developers to play with. Word is: "Infiltrator is a high-end
demonstration of Unreal Engine 4’s rendering and cinematic capabilities.
Originally shown at GDC 2013, it’s still highly representative of the
capabilities of high-end PC GPUs."
This older cinematic
trailer shows off the demo.
Publisher Degica Games announces the release of Adventurezator: When Pigs Fly
for Windows, OS X, and Linux
on Steam. This "emergent adventure game where you can create emergent
adventure games" from developer: Pigasus Games was in Early Access, but
this post announces the game is now in on-time access, and features a 25%
discount for the next week.
This trailer shows
off the game and the ability to use it to create your own adventures. Here's
word: Degica Games in association with Pigasus Games are proud to announce
Adventurezator: When Pigs Fly is out of Early Access and now available on Steam.
This playful romp through fantasy land has two flavors. First it features a
fully narrated and high flying adventure of fairytales, pigs, and gnomes.
Second, and maybe most important, is the ability to allow users to craft their
own stories, adventures, campaigns, and then share them via Steamworks. Watch
the trailer at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4DzLkFR4I8 or get it on Steam at
http://store.steampowered.com/app/300280!
Adventurezator is more than just a game; it’s an entire adventure game building
kit! More than just a single level editor, you can craft huge branching quests
linked together in a single campaign. Create or use a huge variety of props,
characters, triggers, systems, and editors to build any adventure game you’ve
dreamt of. From combat to voice acting to scheduled events, timers, and tried
and true “pick up everything” adventure games, Adventurezator has the keys to
unlock your inner game developer.
See what has already been created in the Steam Workshop at
http://store.steampowered.com/app/300280 and discover how adventure really
begins when pigs fly!
Continue here to read the full story.
I Can't Escape: Darkness is now available
on Steam,
offering a dungeon escape adventure for Windows, OS X, and Linux with a 17%
launch discount. Here's a
launch trailer, and here's word: "I Can’t Escape: Darkness is an atmospheric
horror adventure game that pulls you into a living dungeon where everything
conspires against your escape. It is an immersive journey into the unknown,
personified by the Darkness itself. Your odds of escape are slim, and when you
fail, the dungeon will change before you can try again. Defend yourself from the
Darkness with whatever light you can find; once your light burns out, the
Darkness will consume you." Continue here to read the full story.
Steam now offers
Black Sails - The Ghost Ship, a point-and-click adventure for Windows from
Deck 13. The description explains this should be played with the lights out, and
presumably your bladder. Here goes: Best played with the lights turned
off and the volume turned up, Black Sails is a creepy and mysterious
point-and-click adventure game.
A shipwreck. Having lost all hope, two survivors cling to wreckage, trying to
survive a few more minutes in the raging sea. Until another ship appears. Hoping
for rescue, they are calling out, but nobody answers. They manage to go on
board. Will this be their rescue? Or their grave?
Inspired by a true story, the player experiences a journey into the darkest
abyss of the human soul until he cannot tell between truth and fiction anymore.
Having been released in Germany a few years ago, gathering much acclaim for its
focused story and strong plot, Black Sails is now available with full English
localization for the first time ever. We hope you'll enjoy it.
This video from
Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2 is a "deep dive" developer diary for the
upcoming action sequel, showing off some alpha gameplay footage. The clip
introduces six new character classes, new variants, and new maps. Word is:
"Learn the back story to all the new classes, and see how they bring an
increasing amount of depth and variety to the game through their abilities.
These newcomers help make up 14 classes, amounting to over 100 characters in
GW2." Continue here to read the full story.
Thursday night football tonight... don't forget to get your picks in!
The
EverQuest website has the news on a new expansion for the venerable
MMORPG, saying this will be released on October 1st, following the release of
the game's September update, which is expected next week (thanks
Ten Ton Hammer). Here's a bit on the plan: We are excited to announce
we have an expansion on the way – that’s right, expansion – not “campaign.” As
we’ve been toiling away this year, the content we’ve been working on evolved and
grew more than we expected.
We wanted this expansion to have content that reached beyond the highest-level
players. So, in addition to new and updated zones for levels 105, we are
including two instanced raid zones for levels 75 to 105 to play in together!
These “level agnostic” raid zones will balance themselves to the highest level
player in your raid. It just so happens that these two level agnostic zones are
the original Plane of Fear and Plane of Hate! So if you never got a chance to
raid in those planes, or long for them, you can relive those days with a broader
range of players when we launch.
This expansion includes over 15 raids – after getting feedback for more raids
over last year’s expansion – and a ton of level-scaling missions and Heroic
Adventures! And as with previous releases, there will be new AAs, spells, and
gear. The story is innovative and impacts gameplay in interesting ways too.
In addition, if you purchase (or pre-order) the next expansion, you’ll also get
access to ALL of the previous expansion content.
A new let's play
trailer from Total War: WARHAMMER offers a look at a quest from the Dwarf
campaign with over 15 minutes of gameplay footage from Creative Assembly's
strategy sequel. Here's the description: "This Let’s Play is an example of an
early Quest Battle from the Dwarfs campaign. In the vast tunnels of the
Underway, a Dwarfen force lead by High King Thorgrim Grudgebearer is ambushed by
a Greenskin horde. Showcasing new features and never-before-seen units battling
underground for the first time in a Total War game, this video is a taste of
things to come and a glimpse into the dark and exciting fantasy world of Total
War: WARHAMMER." Continue here to read the full story.
The
World of Warships website announces the launch of World of Warships,
the new online military strategy game from Wargaming. A new
World of Warships Action
Stations trailer celebrates the news, and here's word on a triple experience
points event to kick things off: World of Warships has officially set
sail!
Captains, thank you for all your feedback during the alpha and beta. We could
not have made it here without you. There are far more smooth seas than stormy
ones ahead of us, and we're prepared to navigate it all with your support and
enthusiasm. Today also marks the start of Ranked Battles; happy hunting!
To help get your voyage off to a swift start we're launching with a weekend x3
XP event! Details below.
We're pleased to now offer our News and other services in Portuguese and
Spanish. Check the
Latin
America Resources page for additional information.
Lauch Day Livestream
Want to meet your Community team and other Wargaming staff, ask questions about
the game, and win some prizes? Then tune into the official Wargaming twitch
stream from 11:00 PT - 18:00 PT on September 17 for your chance to score some
booty: Premium ships, Premium account time, and maybe even Doubloons! You'll
need to sign in and participate in the chat to be eligible for prizing. Be sure
to subscribe to our channel to receive updates whenever we're hosting a
stream.
Continue here to read the full story.
BANDAI NAMCO announces April 2016 is the release window for DARK SOULS III,
the action/RPG sequel in the works at FROMSOFTWARE. Here's
a new trailer with
some "early" gameplay footage, and here's the news: BANDAI NAMCO
Entertainment America Inc. today announced the release date for DARK SOULS™ III,
their highly anticipated action role-playing game from famed Japanese developer
FROMSOFTWARE. DARK SOULS III will be available throughout North America and
South America in April 2016 for the PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system,
Xbox One®, and PC via STEAM®. DARK SOULS III provides players with an all-new
world filled with heinous enemies, hidden secrets, and captivating environments
as they search to destroy the awakened Lords of Cinder and discover what has
happened to this apocalyptic land.
DARK SOULS III pushes a deeper sense of role-playing than previous iterations of
the series with key additions that provide players with a set of tools and
in-game options to customize their gameplay experience. Skills, a new addition
to the DARK SOULS combat mechanics, adds attack modifiers to each weapon type,
allowing players an increased tactical advantage in combat. Increase an axe’s
attack power with War Cry or break an enemy’s guard with a quick upward swing
from Ready Stance. The choice of if and when players use these added abilities
is up to them. Players will also be able to equip their character with a wide
variety of armor sets, medieval weaponry, as well as come across powerful
sorceries and miracles as they develop their own personal style of
play.
Continue here to read the full story.
The Dead Island: Epidemic website
has word that Deep Silver is deep-sixing Dead Island: Epidemic, the Early
Access MOBA
based on the Dead Island series of zombie games (thanks Diarmid via
GG Pocket News).
Here's the news, which says the game servers will shut down on October 15th: Ever
since starting with the Closed Alpha, and all the way through the Closed Beta
and Open Beta, we’ve received a great amount of useful criticism and encouraging
feedback from our players. This has been invaluable for all the teams involved
in developing the game.
Over the past weeks and months we’ve been evaluating how to proceed with Dead
Island: Epidemic and looking towards the future for the game. We’re sad to
announce today that we’ve come to the conclusion to cease further development.
We will be leaving the servers open until the end of October 15th (Pacific
Time), during which time we’ll run a very large discount on all characters and
boosts to give everyone a chance to spend any remaining currency on characters
and items you may have wanted to try before, but never did.
We want to thank everyone for their support, their feedback, and their time
playing Dead Island: Epidemic! The game would not have been the same without
you.
After setting a crowdfunding record
by collecting more than $6 million
on Kickstarter,
developer Ys Net has opened another round of crowdfunding on
the
Shenmue 3 website (thanks
MCV). Here's the deal: Thanks to your support, Shenmue III became the
most funded video game on Kickstarter with 69,320 people helping to bring back
the Shenmue series back to life.
However, there are so many people told us they could not pledge on Kickstarter,
or could not make the deadline, and have asked for a PayPal page for another
opportunity to contribute to Shenmue III. So here we go!
The Slacker Backer period will continue through December 31st, and just like the
Kickstarter campaign, the funds raised will be used to reach the Stretch Goals
to make the game even bigger and deeper.
The PayPal page will feature a selection of rewards from the Kickstarter
campaign including the Trial Version and the Collector's Edition.
If you missed out on the Kickstarter, you still have a chance to be part of the
Shenmue legacy!
http://shenmue.link/order/
Capcom Unity announces details on the Capcom Fighters Network and introduces
Karin, another character returning in Street Fighter V, the next installment in the fighting series. Here's a
reveal trailer showing
off Karin and screenshots of a heatmap generated by the Capcom Fighters Network
(CFN). Here's more on the CFN: The Capcom Fighters Network (CFN) is a
community building tool that will be directly built into the online
infrastructure of Street Fighter V.
Here is a list of some of the things that you’ll be able to do in-game via CFN:
- See where battles are happening all over the world
on a “heat map”
- View player profiles and detailed match statistics
- Designate “rivals” throughout the world and
monitor their performance
- Register friends and follow your favorite players
- Search and watch replay files
- Send online battle invitations
- Check out the latest patch and tournament news
- And much more!
Continue here to read the full story.
Gather your band of brothers, as Slitherine now offers Battle of the Bulge, a
Windows and OS X, edition of this turn-based strategy game based on World War II's brutal battle for the Ardennes.
This was first released for iOS, and the Slitherine
website has a launch trailer
along with details, including word on cross-platform multiplayer support between
the desktop and mobile editions. Word is: "December 1944 – The German army is
retreating on every front and the final defeat seems inevitable. But a sudden
and violent counteroffensive can change the odds. In the snow-covered forest of
the Ardennes, Panzer divisions are awaiting a signal from the High Command to
take the Allies by surprise. The Battle of the Bulge is about to begin!" Continue here to read the full story.
I'm gearing up for the end of the grilling season in style, as I have a brisket
to smoke, which will be my first effort at smoking anything larger than a rack
of ribs. I'll do this over the weekend, since it is a time-consuming affair, but
I'm looking forward to the challenge, though I'm tempering my expectations,
since it will be my first time.
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