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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six website announces closed beta testing of the
upcoming Rainbow Six shooter Rainbow Six Siege is being extended through
the end of this weekend, and will now conclude on October 4th. Word is: "Not
only will this give you all more time play, it will give us more time to collect
more data, feedback and identify potential issues." They also note that all
players who have participated in at least one closed beta match will be
receiving codes in the mail to invite one friend to join the beta on the same
platform.
Srteam News announces
the release of Armikrog,
"a unique stop motion clay animated point and click adventure game."
This announcement has a
launch trailer and
directs users to
this forum if they are encountering issues. Word is: "Armikrog is a unique
stop motion clay animated point and click adventure game from the creators of
Earthworm Jim and the Neverhood. Unravel the mysteries of the fortress that
holds Tommynaut and his blind alien talking dog Beak-Beak captive through
exploration and puzzle solving! Continue here to read the full story.
NVIDIA announces
their GRID cloud gaming service is now known as GeForce NOW, claiming this is
the first to offer 1080p, 60 FPS gaming over the internet. Word is: "GeForce NOW
is your game library in the sky. See all the titles we offer from a game series
at a glance — like the LEGO collection or the Batman Arkham series — for binge
gaming. Use voice search to find your favorite games. Search through games by
category. Or quickly browse the latest and most popular games." Here's more:
Next-Gen Quality
GeForce NOW is the first cloud-gaming service to stream at full high-definition
1080p quality and at 60 frames per second. Membership costs just $7.99 a month
with the first three months free. GeForce NOW arrives on Oct. 1 in North
America, the European Union and Japan with more than 50 popular games included.
And it offers members the option to buy and play many more in an instant.
Get the Latest GeForce Gaming Technology with a Single Click
GeForce NOW is all about instant gratification. But it took us a decade to
invent the technology behind the service that streams GeForce GTX-quality
graphics to SHIELD devices.
GeForce NOW is a service designed, built and operated all by NVIDIA. We’ve
optimized every piece of the technology behind GeForce NOW for gaming. That
includes the low-latency game controller we built for SHIELD. The Tegra
processors we built for our SHIELD devices. The advanced game engine we built
into our GeForce GTX-powered servers.
So you’ll enjoy games at their best. You’ll enjoy GameWorks enhancements for
special effects. And your experience will get better every year as we build more
powerful GPUs and gaming technologies into GeForce NOW.
Think of GeForce NOW as your gaming supercomputer in the cloud. Next-gen gaming
is now easy and instant.
The latest Fallout 4 S.P.E.C.I.A.L. video turns on the charm to explain the role of Charisma in
Bethesda's upcoming RPG sequel. Word is: "Following total atomic annihilation,
the rebuilding of this great nation of ours may fall to you. That’s why
Vault-Tec has prepared this educational video series for you to better
understand the seven defining attributes that make you S.P.E.C.I.A.L.! This
week's S.P.E.C.I.A.L. video focuses on Charisma. Study it carefully to ensure
your survival and to discover what makes you S.P.E.C.I.A.L." Continue here to read the full story.
Here is the official
story trailer from Call of Duty: Black Ops III, the upcoming installment in
the covert shooter series. Here's the description of the clip: "Black Ops III
engrosses players in a dark and gritty future, where a new breed of Black Ops
soldier has emerged, and the lines between humanity and military technology have
been blurred. You must navigate the hot spots of a new Cold War to find your
missing brothers. While much has changed, one thing remains the same: everything
you know may be wrong. How far down the rabbit hole are you willing to go to
uncover the disturbing truth?" Continue here to read the full story.
"Disc-based games will be around forever,"
GameStop CEO
Paul Raines tells Fortune. "The market has seen physical music sales down
50% from its peak and physical movie sales down 60% from its peak, but even in a
doomsday scenario, disc-based games will be around for a long time. I see a
complimentary business where we sell discs plus download like the current
console mode. Virtual reality games will also likely follow this model."
Thanks
GamesIndustry.biz.
Larian Studios announces the
Kickstarter for Divinity: Original Sin 2 has drawn to a successful
conclusion, as the RPG sequel attracted over $2 million in crowd sourced
funding. Here's word on how the campaign played out, and all the goals this
funding level triggered, including the change to help design a character thanks
to GOG.com: Thanks to the support of backers around the world, the
Divinity: Original Sin II Kickstarter campaign has been a resounding success,
quadrupling its initial funding goal and reaching over $2 million to unlock the
final stretch goal; Game Master mode.
Larian Studios has been been humbled and awed by the enthusiasm of its backers
who have given Divinity: Original Sin II the ability to reach far beyond its
original scope.
Some of the highlights the community made possible include:
- Chris Avellone joins as a writer after the
community connects him and Larian Studios.
- Strategist Mode, to put the tactical abilities of
even the most seasoned veterans to the test.
- The Undead as a playable race. Why should the
living have all the fun?
- The Hall of Echoes, a new playable area in the
land of the dead.
- Love & Hate relationships, for even deeper
roleplaying experiences.
- Racial abilities, new skill trees, and dedicated
mod support.
With the latest addition of Game Master mode, you’ll be able to craft your
own dungeons and then control them as your friends play, placing enemies on the
fly, manipulating the environment, and doing everything you can to utterly
annihilate them…or, we suppose you could give them a "fun" experience.
Even with the campaign over, don't forget that GOG.com has invited everyone to
have a say in creating a character for Divinity: Original Sin II. With their
$10,000 pledge GOG.com gets to design a character, but they have
welcomed everyone in the community to participate.
Stanley Parable creator
Davey
Wreden tweets that his next game will launch tomorrow, pointing the way to
The Beginner's Guide website
where it says this is coming to Windows and OS X. Word is: "The Beginner's Guide
is my new game and my followup to Stanley Parable. It will launch this Thursday,
October 1 thebeginnersgui.de." That's all there is for now, so we'll have to
wait for more details on what this is all about. Thanks
All Games Beta.
The
Roberts Space Industries website is now selling another virtual ship for Star
Citizen with an eye-popping price tag. The new ship for Cloud Imperium's
upcoming space combat game is the Endeavor-class
research vessel, described as "a fully modular space platform designed to be
adapted for a variety of scientific and medical tasks." The outlay for this is
$900.00 USD, which is 15 times the price of the typical AAA game, and more than
enough to buy a gaming PC. Here's more on the Endeavor: "Initially developed as
a floating laboratory, the MISC Endeavor can be outfitted for everything from
spatial telescopy to use as mobile hospital."
Jotun is now available for Windows, Linux, and OS X
on Steam,
and this indie action/adventure carries a 10% discount for the first week of
release. A launch trailer
was released last week, showing off the game's hand-drawn art style, and here's
word on the game, which is steeped in Norse mythology: Jotun is a
hand-drawn action-exploration game set in Norse mythology. In Jotun, you play
Thora, a Viking warrior who died an inglorious death and must prove herself to
the Gods to enter Valhalla. In Jotun, you explore vast regions of Norse
Purgatory to find runes that unleash the jotun, giant Norse elementals. Fight
them using only your two-handed axe, your skills and the blessings of the
Gods!
Continue here to read the full story.
UbiBlog now offers a new
London Stories trailer
for Assassin's Creed Syndicate, the upcoming installment in the stealthy
action/adventure series. Here's word on the gameplay and interview footage this
includes: While the Templar Order has been amassing power in London, the
Assassins have been hiding in the shadows, avoiding straying too far into
Templar territory. But not any longer. Twin Assassins Jacob and Evie Frye have
disobeyed the Council and made their way to London with the sole purpose of
stealing the city back from the new Templar Grand Master Crawford Starrick and
his lieutenants. They will have to take London back piece by piece and industry
by industry as they fight to weaken Starrick’s control. While Jacob Frye has
landed on a more direct path, choosing to strike at the heart of the Order with
his Rooks, Evie is on the hunt for a mysterious Piece of Eden that she hopes to
keep out of Templar hands. I spoke with Senior Producer Jeff Skalski about the
twins’ journey, Starrick and his order, and some of the other characters you’ll
meet in London.
Continue here to read the full story.
I mentioned I've recently gotten to play some Heroes of the Storm in a five-man
premade team, which has been a lot of fun. Our fearless leader SquidAlley just
posted a funny video
of him committing a little Murky-on-Murky violence, and Murky antics are always
fun. There's also a bonus of a funny Void Prison moment at the end of the game,
the second match in a row where the final VP had comedy value. As Murky would
say, mrmm rmmrm!
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