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Archived News:
Gearbox Software announces that closed technical testing of Battleborn will
begin on October 29th, as they put the teamplay shooter through its paces.
Here's word on how to apply, why you may not get in, and what sort of system
this requires: Starting on October 29 we will need your help conducting a
series of Closed Technical Tests on PS4, XBOX ONE, and PC to balance characters,
stress servers, squash bugs, and test the online infrastructure.
If you’re interested in helping us test out Battleborn and want to be one of the
first people in the world to get their hands on this new breed of first-person
shooters, register by going to
http://rsvp.battleborn.com/.
NOTE ABOUT PARTICIPATION: We want you to play our game as much as you do…but
there are only so many seats at this party. In other words, registering does not
guarantee participation. Please keep in mind that participants are selected on a
number of criteria based on the needs for testing, including (but not limited
to) platform preference, location, availability, and acceptance of the NDA. The
Closed Technical Test file download will require between 4GB to 8GB of space
depending on your gaming platform.
PC RECOMMENDED SPEC LIST FOR BATTLEBORN CLOSED TECHNICAL TESTS: For all you
PC players out there, your system should meet these recommended PC specs for the
Closed Technical Test…
- OS: Windows 7 x64-Bit or Later
- Processor: Intel Core2 Extreme CPU Q6850/ AMD
A8-3870k (Quad Core CPU’s)
- Memory: 6 GB
- Hard Disk Space: 10 GB free
- Video Memory: 2 GB
- Video Card: AMD HD 7700/ NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or
better, PhysX support
- Sound: DirectX 11 Compliant
Steam News announces
this is a free weekend for
Grey Goo,
Petroglyph's RTS game that's also currently on sale. Here's the deal on the
deal: Play Grey Goo
for FREE starting now through Sunday at 1PM Pacific Time. You can also pickup
Grey Goo at 60% off the regular price!*
FIGHT THE CHAOS. OR HARNESS ITS POWER.
Centuries after Humanity first left Earth, all forms of life in the Milky Way
have evolved toward an inward tranquility. But there has been a mutation. A
mysterious organism barrels toward the surface of a lone, resource-rich planet
known as Ecosystem 9, on a mission to consume all it encounters.
If you already have Steam installed, click here
to install or play Grey Goo. If you don't have Steam, you can download it
here.
*Offer ends Monday at 10AM Pacific Time
A free weekend is also underway for
Chivalry: Medieval Warfare,
coinciding with an 80% off sale on the first-person melee combat game. This is
the story:
Chivalry: Medieval Warfare Free Weekend
Play Chivalry: Medieval
Warfare for FREE starting now through Sunday at 1PM Pacific Time. You can
also pickup Chivalry:
Medieval Warfare at 80% off the regular price!*
Besiege castles and raid villages in Chivalry: Medieval Warfare is a
first-person slasher with a focus on multi-player. Featuring competitive online
combat that seeks to capture the experience of truly being on a medieval
battlefield. Inspired from the intensity and epicness of swordfighting movies
such as 300, Gladiator and Braveheart, Chivalry: Medieval Warfare aims to bring
that experience to the hands of a gamer.
If you already have Steam installed, click here
to install or play Chivalry: Medieval Warfare. If you don't have Steam, you can
download it here.
*Offer ends Monday at 10AM Pacific Time
Ubisoft announces the commencement of closed beta testing of The Crew: Wild Run,
the upcoming driving MMOG expansion. Those interested in participating can still
sign up on
this
page. This is expected to be released on November 17th, and in the meantime,
here's word on the testing: Today, Ubisoft® kicks off its PC closed beta
for The Crew® Wild Run, the expansion to the action-driving MMO The Crew®.
Players will be able to access the game from now through October 19 and be the
first to try out the expansion’s new features.
Closed beta players will participate in “The Summit”, a massive gathering of
players in iconic locations around the USA, get to test out the four new vehicle
types, dragsters, drift cars, monster trucks and motorcycles as well as
experience the graphics overhaul which includes weather and lighting effects.
Kalypso has released A Game of Winter, the new expansion for Dungeons
2, offering this through the
Kalypso Launcher
and Steam. Here's last
week's launch trailer,
and here's word on the add-on: In 'A Game of Winter,' the hordes of the
undead have overrun the world of Dungeons 2 – bringing with them not just the
foul stench of blood and decay, but much more importantly a completely new,
fully-scored and voice acted campaign - once again featuring the vocal talents
of the superb Kevan Brighting (The Stanley Parable), eight maggot-ridden
missions and two new sandbox mode maps! As the Commander of the brainless army
you will control 13 gruesome new units, including brain-devouring zombies,
bone-crunching skeletons and blood-sucking vampires. Also included are eight new
rooms for your dungeon to use for your evil machinations, such as the cemetery,
the laboratory and the final resting place. As well as the single-player
campaign, the curse of the dead will also spread out to multiplayer games! Make
sure to check out the launch trailer to see all of the new gruesome gameplay in
action.
Features of 'A Game of Winter':
- New faction: The brainless army brings a new,
undead menace to the Dungeons 2 universe
- New tasks: A completely new and fully scored,
voice acted campaign with 8 extensive missions awaits you
- New subjects: Command 13 new units, including
zombies and vampires
- New rooms: Build 8 new rooms, like the cemetery
and the laboratory
- Multiplayer support: The undead can also be relied
upon to spread evil and wreak havoc in battle against your multiplayer
adversaries!
- New maps: Two new sandbox maps
Continue here to read the full story.
Broforce is now available
on Steam, as this madcap
action platformer for Windows and OS X has emerged from early access. For the
next week this can be had for 33% off the regular price. Here's the recruiting
pitch for you and all your bros: When evil threatens the world, the world
calls on Broforce - an under-funded, over-powered paramilitary organization
dealing exclusively in excessive force. Brace your loins with up to four players
to run ‘n’ gun as dozens of different bros and eliminate the opposing terrorist
forces that threaten our way of life.
A new Wanderer trailer
from Fallout 4 offers a live-action clip based on the upcoming RPG sequel set to
the classic strains of Dion. Word is: "Before wandering the wasteland on
November 10, watch the world of Fallout 4 come to life in this live-action
trailer. Welcome Home." Continue here to read the full story.
A
Steam Community Group Announcement celebrates the release of The Age of
Decadence on Steam,
an isometric, turn-based RPG for Windows from Iron Tower Studio (thanks Andrew).
The game carries a 10% launch discount, and here's word on the release where
they invoke a quote from a different kind of RPG: The Age of Decadence,
our first but hopefully not the last RPG, is now available. If you've been
following it or playing it in Early Access, you know what to expect (if you did
play an earlier version, please delete prefs.cs file from your Documents/My
Games/Age of Decadence folder before starting a new game). If you've just
discovered it, "stay awhile and listen".
The most commonly asked question is:
What Kind of Game Is It?
It’s a very different game than anything you’ve ever played. I’m sure you’ve
noticed that the RPG genre hasn’t really been explored yet and most RPGs follow
the formula that didn’t change in 20 years. While there were always games that
strayed off the beaten path – Darklands, Planescape: Torment, King of Dragon
Pass – such games were the exceptions that only reinforced the rule.
The Age of Decadence is an experiment, an attempt to explore a different
direction, taking you back to the PnP roots of the genre. It doesn’t mean that
the game is awesome. In fact, there is a good chance that you won’t like it,
precisely because we took too many liberties with the established design.
A Battle.net
forum thread points to
a reddit post from Srey, at the time the #1 rated North American Hero League
player in Heroes of the Storm, who gives a thoughts on the game from his
lofty perspective. These include some complaints, as the headline of his post is
"Matchmaking is the biggest impediment to the growth of Heroes of the Storm, &
other issues." Blizzard community manager Trikslyr
responded to the post, so Srey's high profile has drawn attention to issues
that have drawn a constant stream of complaints from players of the MOBA. Word
is they are planning some further changes to the matchmaking system. Here's a
bit: There are a couple of changes we’re implementing in a future patch
to make steps toward our ongoing goal of improving matchmaking in Heroes:
- A couple of bug fixes to help the matchmaker
identify players that are closer in skill, hopefully resulting in more even
matches
- Increasing the maximum wait time in queue to 10
minutes
- System improvements
Do note, these are not the only changes we’ll be implementing. We’ve got some
more alterations in development that will continue to be released, the moment
they’re ready, to help us further tune matchmaking. Some of the changes will be
focused on:
- Improving matches at high skill levels
- Improve the New User experience
- Adjustments to make sure players in matches are
close in experience, not just MMR
As for Srey, we’re looking into his account and identifying the matches that
could’ve been considered poor experiences. We’ll also be assessing our point
system to make sure a player at Srey's skill level won’t fall out of Rank 1 due
to a couple of losses. In addition to this data from top tier matches, we’re
hoping to extract information or identify bugs in the matchmaker that we could
alter to make everyone’s match quality better, regardless of experience or
MMR.
Paradox Interactive reveals plans for a new expansion called The Cossacks coming
later this year for Europa Universalis IV, their grand strategy sequel. They offer
a new cinematic trailer
to illustrate the news, and make the following promises about the release: For centuries, the European steppes were dominated by a unique warrior
culture. The Cossacks were fiercely independent soldiers, and some of the elite
cavalry of Poland and Russia through early-modern history.
The Cossacks, the newest expansion to Paradox Development Studios’
best-selling historical grand strategy game Europa Universalis IV, pays homage
to this legendarily proud people with a ton of new features that enhance the
diplomatic game and give you new things to tend to during peacetime. The
Cossacks will come to digital retailers and the Paradox store in late 2015.
Check out the announcement trailer below:
Continue here to read the full story.
Bohemia Interactive announces Arma 3 has sold over two million copies,
also taking the occasion to unveil plans for future updates to their military
shooter sequel. They say they have two releases coming for free between now and
the release of a full expansion in Q2 of next year.
This post
offers the roadmap, and here's a bit from a separate press release on expansion
plans: The Nexus and Eden platform updates lead up to the roadmap's focal
point: a major Arma 3 expansion in Q2 2016. Titled 'Arma 3 Apex', this expansion
will feature the 100 km2 South Pacific destination of Tanoa, which was first
shown during the PC Gaming Show at E3 this year, plus a co-op campaign, new
vehicles, weapons, and characters. One of the central themes of the expansion is
near-future combat, which players will be able to recognize by the introduction
of new vehicle classes such as VTOL aircraft and other new gameplay elements. As
with previous Arma 3 DLC, the expansion will be accompanied by a major free
platform update that seeks to address important 'legacy' issues related to Arma
3's multiplayer, interaction mechanics, and discoverability of official and
custom content. More information about the Arma 3 Apex expansion, including
specifics on pricing, purchasing options, and early access availability, will be
communicated next year.
NVIDIA announces they have bolstered the streaming capabilities of their
GeForce Experience software. The support for 60 fps HD online streaming and 60
fps 4K in-home streaming is currently in beta, but owners of NVIDIA graphics
cards can check it out now if you so choose. Here's word: "Today, we’re
bolstering Share’s streaming capabilities with the introduction of 1920x1080 60
FPS
YouTube Live Streaming and 1920x1080 60 FPS Twitch Streaming, and upgrading
our PC-to-SHIELD-to-TV
GameStream
technology with 4K 60 FPS 5.1 Surround Sound support for SHIELD Android TV.
Download the required GeForce Experience Beta client update
here."
-
Wars Across the World by STRATEGIAE — Kickstarter. "WAW is a unique game
concept which aims at simulating in one single system ALL conflicts
throughout the world (and beyond) from Prehistoric times to nowadays, from
grand massive wars to asymmetrical conflicts."
- Corsair Void 3.5mm Stereo Gaming Headset on
eTeknix.
- G.SKILL F4-3000C15D-16GVRB Ripjaws V 16GB DDR4 Memory Kit on
Mad Shrimps.
- Nanoxia Deep Silence 5 Rev. B on
techPowerUp.
- Patriot Viper 4 3400MHz CL16 PV48G340C6K 2x4GB DDR4 on
Modders-Inc.
- Supermicro Gaming S5 on
ocaholic.
Well, I seem to be surviving my colonoscopy prep as well as I could hope. I have definitely worn a
path to the bathroom, as was to be expected, but I seem to be fine otherwise.
Apparently the remaining wild card is how I come out of the anesthesia, as I'm
told it's possible I'll come away from this as "high as a kite," and may temporarily
be more loopy than normal. This means that while I expect to be back and
updating later, it's possible I'll just sleep through the rest of the day, while
I can't rule out the possibility that I will write some sort of drug-fuelled
manifesto that will have the men in black knocking at my door for a discussion
about my future confinement. So in place of certainly, all I can offer is
potential wackiness. Let the games begin! Speaking of which, NFL pool
participants should get their picks in before tonight's game.
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