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Archived News:
Capcom Unity has details on the second beta test for Street Fighter V,
which will be the first chance for PC gamers to test the Windows edition of the
game and cross platform play between the PC and PS4 editions of the fighting
sequel. This will run from October 22nd through October 25th (subject to change)
and those who want guaranteed access must preorder the game. Here's are the
details pertinent to PC owners: PC Play
We’re opening up beta access to PC users for the first time. Please check the
minimum specs post here to make sure that your PC is able to run SFV properly.
Although the minimum specs will allow you to run SFV on your PC, the recommended
specs will ensure you have an optimal SFV experience. PC users gain access to
the beta starting October 24th.
PS4 to PC Cross-Platform Play
We will be testing out PS4 to PC cross-platform play functionality on October
24th and 25th. This is a first for us and we are very excited for players across
both platforms to finally have a chance to battle one another. Make sure to
bring your best strategies as the number of people that you can fight against
will be that much larger this time around.
Battle.net
post from Blizzard community manager Spyrian confirms that a new round of
bans and suspensions has come down in Heroes of the Storm to discipline
players found cheating and using hacks in the MOBA: Cheating and using
hacks while playing Heroes of the Storm or any Blizzard game will not be
tolerated. These actions undermine the spirit of fair competition that’s
essential to play on Battle.net, and can lead to stability and performance
issues with the service. In Heroes of the Storm, cheaters ruin the competitive
atmosphere not only for their opponents, but for their allies as well.
We recently suspended several accounts and issued permanent bans to Heroes of
the Storm players who were found to be in violation of the Battle.net Terms of
Use for cheating and/or using hack programs.
As always, maintaining a stable, safe, and secure online gaming experience is a
top priority for us. We'll continue to keep a close eye on cheating in Heroes of
the Storm and stamp out offending accounts to uphold the integrity of the
game.
Developer System Era announces Astroneer, a voxel-powered game of
interplanetary exploration coming to Windows PCs, though they are not yet
committed to a release date. This
reveal trailer offers
a look, and you can keep up with the project on the
official website and
this blog. Here's word: Astroneer,
an upcoming PC game from developer System Era Softworks, places players in a
25th century gold rush where they explore the frontiers of outer space, risking
their lives and resources in harsh environments for the chance of striking it
rich. On this adventure, a player’s most useful tool is their ability to shape
their world, altering the terrain and extracting valuable resources from
planets, asteroids, and moons. Resources can be traded on the open market or
crafted into new tools, vehicles, and modules to create everything from massive
industrial bases to pop-up tents for overnight expeditions.
Environments are procedurally generated in a uniquely rendered voxel engine,
featuring a textureless aesthetic that allows players to deform and shape the
terrain as though it were made of Play-Doh. The expansive galaxy allows the
player to explore a virtually infinite number of planets that are each unique,
malleable, and traversable from pole to pole.
Astroneer is being assembled as a labor of love by a small team of veteran
developers who have garnered experience at the likes of 343 Industries, Disney,
Valve, and Ubisoft. For us, this game is a culmination of our deep passion and
affection for the beauty of our universe. While we dream of space travel and
colonization, it will be future generations who will finally realize that
desire. We are creating Astroneer as a means to experience a piece of that
journey ourselves and to inspire in others the wonderment of voyaging to the
stars.
Continue here to read the full story.
This trailer offers
a look at gameplay from Umbrella Corps, as two squads from developer Capcom take
each other on in a three-on-three team battle in the upcoming third-person
shooter. Here are the details from
Capcom Unity: Curious to see how a typical match of Umbrella Corps plays out? Today we have
a video straight from the team in Japan that walks you through not just a few
rounds, but also takes some time to show off the game's unique weapons and
tactics. The chargeable brainer axe, zombie jammer and the zombies themselves
all factor into the game's fast-paced matches, resulting in battles that can
quickly go south if you're not on your toes.
Like we said back in September, the match type is "One Life," so when you're
down, you're down until the next round. Watch your head, your zombie jammer and
your back! Take it away, Matt & Mike...
There's a fair amount to digest there, from the shield (that protects against
headshots when you switch to your pistol) to the crisscrossing, compacted level
design that keeps the players in each others' faces.
We also have a fancy live-action trailer that helped kick off the game's
presentation at the Tokyo Game Show earlier this year. It was shot on location
at Universal Studios Japan and features a number of Umbrella toughs skulking
around a facility.
If you're heading out to New York Comic-Con this weekend, you can actually
play Umbrella Corps months before it releases! Come by Booth 1420 for it, SFV,
RE0 and MMLC!
Continue here to read the full story.
This trailer from
Zombasite offers the first look at this action/RPG in the works at Soldak
Entertainment. The two-plus minute clip shows off monsters, combats, raiding,
skill trees, dungeons, and more. Zombasite was announced with a "when it's done"
release date, but they originally projected it would be out by Q2 of this year,
which it has obviously missed. We inquired about this, and while they are not
committing to a new release window, they say they expect to enter some sort of
early access/beta program "in the next couple of weeks." Continue here to read the full story.
Steam News announces the
availability of Pool
Nation FX as an Early Access release. Queue up with your cue and read
all about it: Pool Nation FX, the ultimate Pool Game, is a visually
stunning Pool Simulation with an incredible physics engine. On one hand Pool
Nation FX is a serious Sim, you can customise your rule sets and play Pool your
way for a realistic pool experience on- or offline. On the other hand, you can
enjoy a more casual experience with our trick shot mode – which lets you suspend
objects in the air, set them on fire and create impossible trickshots.
The Team Fortress 2
blog announces that the Team Fortress 2 patch mentioned this morning includes a
community-created Invasion event.
This page has the details
and this trailer
showing off what this is all about, and here's word: The TF2 team is
proud to announce Invasion, a wholly community-created update featuring an
animated short, 16 new cosmetic items, reskinned weapons with cool death
effects, a taunt, four maps, Unusual particle effects, and even an
update landing page. It
represents a boatload of work from some incredibly talented members of the TF2
community. Buy your Invasion Community Update Pass today!
Continue here to read the full story.
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Bethesda Softworks now offers
another new trailer
for Fallout 4 with a smart look at how the S.P.E.C.I.A.L. system will work in the upcoming continuation
of the role-playing series. The new clip centers on the Intelligence trait. 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.!" Continue here to read the full story.
Origin is now allowing preloads of the Star Wars Battlefront beta
client to prepare for tomorrow's launch of open beta testing of the Star Wars
action game (thanks
DSOGaming). To download you will need an Origin account, and the client is
around 10 GB. Here's word on the testing from
a couple of weeks
ago: Get ready to be taken to a galaxy far, far away! Today, we are
happy to reveal that the Star Wars™ Battlefront™ Beta will be available for
PlayStation®4, Xbox One and on PC via Origin for players between October 8 and
October 12. The Star Wars Battlefront Beta is a technical test and will give
Rebels and Imperials alike just a small taste of the Star Wars™ battle fantasies
you can expect to live out when the game launches on November 17.
The
GeForce website is now serving up new version 358.50 game-ready,
WHQL-certified Windows drivers, saying these are the drivers to use playing the
Star Wars Battlefront open beta on NVIDIA graphics cards. Word is: "The
new GeForce Game Ready 358.50 WHQL
drivers for the Star Wars Battlefront Open Beta are now available to
download from GeForce
Experience and GeForce.com.
With Game Ready optimizations for EA and DICE's highly-anticipated Star Wars
Battlefront Open Beta, our new drivers will give up the best possible experience
when blasting Rebel scum."
Publisher Iceberg Interactive and developer Jötunn Games announce Ceres
will be released for Windows, OS X, and Linux on Friday, October 16th via
digital distribution, saying a boxed retail version will follow in select
European territories before the end of the month. In the meantime, they offer
the launch trailer to
celebrate the news. Here's a bit on the game: Ceres is a single-player
tactical space combat game, focusing on ship customization and fast, hectic
combat, and is the debut title of Icelandic studio Jötunn Games. The Coming Soon
page for Ceres is now live on Steam:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/351300.
Tryggvi Hákonarson of Jötunn Games says: “Ceres has been in development for the
last 3 years, and with the help of Iceberg Interactive, we have been able to
raise the quality bar immensely and create a fantastic, fun experience. I've
spent more time than I like to admit tinkering with the ships systems, fighting
pirates and completing missions, and now it is your turn! Skál!”
Continue here to read the full story.
Steam now offers Early
Access to Epsilon, a first-person, squad-based shooter from Serellan, an indie
developer boasting veterans of development of Shadows of Mordor and the Ghost
Recon, Halo, Killzone, and SOCOM series.
This post is a mission statement for the project, were they also confess to
being the team behind the poorly received Takedown: Red Sabre, explaining that
this game "is owned by a publisher who is no longer financially supporting the
title." As for the game, word is it "emphasizes both team and tactics, utilizing
covert surveillance technology and pre-mission planning for squad-based
strategic maneuvers." This trailer has a
look at "pre-alpha" gameplay footage. Continue here to read the full story.
I'm working on keeping on schedule as we get less daylight every day, as this
always seems to have a significant impact on my internal clock. I don't know
what the exact ratio of science to hooey is in all the talk about seasonal
affective disorder, but it does seem possible some aspect of that is a factor
here. I've had a couple of lamps in the past that cast the kind of light
spectrum they say can help with this, but they've both croaked somewhere along
the way. I can't really say to what extent they actually helped, but like
chicken soup, they didn't hurt, and a lamp has normal practical uses too, so I
think I will pick another one up and see if it helps.
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