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Archived News:
IO Interactive has cancelled their complicated
rollout plan for their new Hitman game, announcing the assassination
sequel will instead be released in familiar episodic format throughout 2016
starting in April, and will be followed by the release of the complete season on
disc by the end of the year. Beta testing will begin on February 12th on
PlayStation 4 and a week later on PC. A
New Year Update on the
Hitman website explains the new plan, and here's a bit of that: The
big change is that the next location, set in Italy, will now release in April
and then Morocco will release in May. From there we will keep monthly content
updates coming, including the three additional locations we have already
announced; Thailand, the US and Japan until the season concludes in Japan later
in 2016. The weekly live events and additional planned content will give you
plenty to do in the time between location releases.
The new Intro Pack, which includes Prologue and Paris will be priced at $15.
Each subsequent location can be purchased for $10 as an add-on item after you
buy the new Intro Pack. If you buy the Intro Pack and want to get into
everything the Full Experience offers, you can also choose to buy the Upgrade
Pack for $50. This will give you access to all of the content released after
March 11th and guarantees you won’t miss any live or bonus content.
Of course you can still buy the Full Experience which is the complete first
season, so all the content this year as it’s released, up front for $60 as
always promised. Whether you purchase the complete game or buy each episode
individually, we want to remind the community that there will be no micro
transactions in HITMAN.
Steam News announces the
release of new crossover DLC for both
PAYDAY 2 and
Goat Simulator,
coinciding with a 75% off sale on each title: Save 75% on
PAYDAY 2 and
Goat Simulator
as part of this week's Weekend Deal*! Plus, check out new crossover DLC from
both games.
The Goat Simulator: PAYDAY DLC is a collaboration between OVERKILL and Coffee
Stain Studios. You've crashed into people's windows with a jetpack, you've hit
level 101 in the Goat MMO Simulator, you've survived the zombie apocalypse. How
do you even top that? Introducing Goat Simulator: PAYDAY, the latest in goat
simulation technology. Being a goat has never been this realistic.
The Goat Simulator DLC is the 30th pack for PAYDAY 2, and is a collaboration
between Coffee Stain Studios and OVERKILL. Vlad has a new mission for the gang,
but things quickly get more... complicated once they arrive at the scene. With
this update we introduce a brand new two-day heist that is unlike anything we've
done before. Together with this comes a new shotgun, four melee weapons, four
masks, four patterns, four materials and finally two new tracks from Simon
Viklund.
*Offer ends Monday at 10AM Pacific Time
Mojang announces a February 2nd release date for Cobalt, following
news last year that the platformer would come in
February. This is coming to multiple platforms, and the post has some specifics
about the Windows version coming to Steam on Groundhog Day: NOW A NOTE
ABOUT THE ABOUT THE STEAM RELEASE
As mentioned earlier, Cobalt is coming to Steam for Windows. And it’s going to
have Steam Workshop support. That means enthusiastic players will get the chance
to create their own levels and share them with others around the world. Pretty
cool. Its also worth noting that anyone who’s already bought into the Cobalt
alpha will get a Steam code for free via their Mojang account. We’ll talk more
about that closer to release.
So yes! Get hyped! In around 18 days you’ll be able to download Cobalt and
experience this wonder for yourself, you lucky sons of a guns.
A new trailer from
Dying Light: The Following shows off ways you can pimp your ride in the upcoming
expansion for Techland's zombie expansion. Dirt buggy customization options
include mundane options such as paint jobs and engine upgrades, but also include
more lethal accessories such as flamethrowers, UV headlights, and ramming bars.
Here's the plan: For the upcoming Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced
Edition, Techland reimagines its proven zombie-apocalypse formula with the
addition of drivable dirt buggies. In the gameplay trailer released today, the
developer goes into great detail about the game’s three-fold nature of vehicle
development.
‘Your buggy is going to be crucial to surviving out in the open, so we want to
create an emotional connection between players and their ride’ – explains
producer Tymon Smektała. ‘On top of the lethal weapons and upgrades you’ll be
able to add, there are a lot of cool paintjobs, a number of unmistakable bobble
heads and little charms to put inside, so you can really make the buggy your
own.’
Continue here to read the full story.
Devolver Digital announces plans to publish OmniBus for Windows, OS X,
and Linux this spring, presenting a new backstory for the throwback crowdfunded
title, saying it was intended as a launch title for the Atari Jaguar in 1993.
"OmniBus will revolutionize the way we all think about video games and buses as
it totally changes the public transportation video game simulation paradigm,"
explains Devolver Digital CFO Fork Parker. "Our team debated not even releasing
OmniBus as it will make the rest of our games look bad in comparison." Here's a
bit from the game's Steam
page: OmniBus is next-to-last gen physics game about the most
powerful bus in the universe that can’t stop or even slow down for reasons
incomprehensible to the simple human mind. OmniBus must complete missions at the
behest of citizens as its speed increases to unsafe speeds and without landing
on its head or sides. OmniBus drivers will choose from the bizarre mission mode,
thrilling trick mode and versus multiplayer mode for up to four players to
achieve goals, set high scores, and receive total enlightenment.
Steam News announces
that the OS X and Linux/SteamOS editions of
Medieval II: Total
War and Medieval II:
Total War - Kingdoms are now available. That covers most of the brief post:
Both Medieval
II: Total War and Medieval
II: Total War - Kingdoms are now available for Mac & SteamOS!
Thanks to Steam Play, having either game in your library means you can play it
on any supported OS -- Windows, Mac or SteamOS.
A post from
Battle.net community manager Spyrian outlines the latest changes Blizzard
has implemented to matchmaking in Heroes of the Storm. This is intended
to address complaints that pre-made teams were sometime being matched against
groups of five strangers, leading to imbalances in communication and build
coordination between the teams. As of the most recent changes, this will no
longer happen, as they have "greatly reduced" cases where one team has a party
with three participants to prevent solo players from be matched against four or
five-player parties and duo-queues from be matched against five-player parties.
Here are more details: As part of our ongoing improvements for the Heroes
of the Storm matchmaking system, we’ve just implemented a new change that will
affect what types of parties you may get matched against while playing Quick
Match. Starting today, we’ve greatly reduced the possibility that you’ll be
matched against a party that has three more members than the largest party on
your own team.
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Let’s expand on what that means. Take a look at a few common party sizes below,
and what you can expect to see in Quick Match after today:
- Solo players: Cannot be matched against
four or five-player parties.
- Duo players*: Cannot be matched against
five-player parties.
- Three-player parties: Can match against any
party size.
It is important to note that the matchmaker will still prioritize match
quality over party size, and may pull in parties outside of these ranges if the
resulting game is the most suitable match available. This means that it’s still
possible to play against a party that’s larger than your own, but this will only
occur in rare cases.
A
Steam Community Group Announcement offers a release date for Five Nights
at Freddy's World, saying the RPG based on the jump-scare game will arrive
on February 19th (thanks
The Escapist). Developer Scott Cawthon's update on his baby also has word
that he now has a real baby, so have a cigar! Here's the news: Hi
everyone! I wanted to provide a few updates on several things!
First of all, I apologize for the lack of updates on the websites. My old
faithful computer (which I used to make FNaF 1-4) finally died the other day. I
had all of my work on FNaF World backed up, of course, but it's still quite a
delay to get a new machine and reconfigure software, etc. I hope to be back up
and running soon!
FNaF World is coming along very well, despite these delays, and I plan on
releasing it February 19th on Steam, and then for Android and iPhone in the
following weeks! I will also release a demo on GameJolt!
In other news, I had a new addition to my family today- a baby boy! I'm typing
this from the hospital now, as a matter of fact! So obviously, that has kept me
a little busy as well! :)
Stay tuned for more updates!
Frontier Developments announces Elite: Dangerous has sold 1.4 million
copies just over a year since launch of the space combat sequel. The
announcement has more on the success of this release: Frontier
Developments plc (AIM: FDEV) today announced it has sold 1.4 million units of
Elite Dangerous across PC, Mac and Xbox One.
Elite Dangerous launched for PC in December 2014 following a successful
crowdfunding campaign. Mac and Xbox One releases followed in May and October of
2015, and regular gameplay updates were released throughout the year.
Elite Dangerous has been a flagship title for virtual reality since its first
alpha test in December 2013, and in December 2015 Elite Dangerous became the
first triple A game to offer full native SteamVR support.
“We have an amazing player community,” Frontier CEO David Braben said. “The
average play time among our 1.4 million players is 60 hours – that’s a massive
84 million player hours and counting.
With the community’s feedback, we’re constantly making Elite Dangerous better
than ever. We have incredible long-term ambition and we will continue to deliver
on those ambitions. We will detail more exciting developments for Horizons very
soon.”
Today Elite Dangerous is heading into its second year with the Elite Dangerous:
Horizons season pass granting access to major gameplay expansions including
Planetary Landings, ship-launched fighters, Multicrew cooperative play and more.
Elite Dangerous: Horizons is available for all existing Elite Dangerous players
for £29.99 ($44.99, €40.49, 2,992 Rubles) at
FrontierStore.net and on Steam. New players can purchase Elite Dangerous:
Horizons with full access to Elite Dangerous for £39.99 ($59.99, €49.99, 3,990
Rubles).
Paradox Interactive now offers There Be Dragons, a new expansion for
Knights of Pen & Paper II, their meta-RPG sequel. You can pick this up on
the
Paradox Interactive Store, where they have all the details on what this
brings to the game. Here's
a new trailer, and here's word: Interactive, a Level 18 Publisher of
Chaotic Good games, today released the newest expansion for Knights of Pen &
Paper 2, the meta-RPG where players play as players and game-masters
simultaneously. The expansion, “Here Be Dragons,” is available today for
Windows, Mac, and Linux PCs, and iOS and Android devices. Included are new
features such as a new story and quests, an added character class, and more
monsters, loot, and humor than you’ll find on a d100 table. Developed by KYY
Games, “Here Be Dragons” finally enables players of Knights of Pen & Paper 2 to
play as the in-game Knight class while they slay every entry in the new in-game
bestiary.
Knights of Pen & Paper 2 offers players the chance to organize a party of
virtual friends and play a pen & paper RPG that requires neither pen nor paper.
The new expansion, “Here Be Dragons,” follows the party as they undertake a
classic RPG quest for high-level characters. Players’ in-game players will
finally go pixel-to-pixel against honest-to-goodness dragons and prove
themselves the finest adventurers in all of Paperos.
Umix and Cyanide announce the release of Pro Basketball Manager 2016,
allowing you to take on the role of GM and coach of an international basketball
team. This is offered via digital distribution through
the
official website, Steam,
Green Man Gaming, and more with a 10% discount during the first week of
availability (owners of Pro Basketball Manager 2015 on Steam get an
additional 10% off). A
launch
trailer offers a look, and here's the news: The ultra-realistic and
comprehensive management game, developed by Umix and Cyanide, is released today
on Steam, as well as on several other digital platforms.
Following in the footsteps of Cyanide's other sport management sims, Pro
Basketball Manager 2016 allows the player to take control of all aspects of the
life of a real basketball coach.
After browsing through the wide choice of teams from the smallest national side
to the world's leading clubs, the player will select the side he wishes to lead
in one of the more than 70 competitions that have been faithfully transcribed.
Dozens of features will offer each player a unique and personal experience
during which all decisions will have an impact on finances, fan satisfaction,
investor confidence or player fatigue.
For example, send your scouts around the world to uncover the talent that will
feed into your team, be it a club or at national level. Thanks to your pre-game
system settings (player tiredness/fitness and substitutions), it will be
possible to create true defensive or offensive strategies to crush the
opposition.
Moreover, customization of the game interface and swapping of databases with
other players will allow everyone to create a unique experience adapted to
his/her own style of play.
Discover, without further delay, the Pro Basketball Manager 2016 launch trailer
and some of the many features available.
Continue here to read the full story.
- Alphacool NexXxoS Cool Answer 240 D5-ST Water Cooling Kit on
Play3r.net.
- Bit Fenix Nova Chassis on
Technology X.
- Kingston HyperX Cloud MAV Edition Gaming Headset on
TweakTown.
- MSI ThunderStorm Gaming Mousepad on
LAN OC.
- Silicon Power Slim S55 240GB Solid State Drive on
eTeknix.
- Silverstone Tundra TD02-Slim AIO Cooler on
eTeknix.
- Thermaltake DPS G 1050W Platinum Power Supply on
HARDOCP.
- Vantec Nexstar MX 2.5-inch Dual-Bay External RAID Enclosure on
TweakTown.
- Vertagear S-Line SL4000 Gaming Chair on
ocaholic.
My talk yesterday of winter boots seems to have inspired old man winter, as we
have our first real snow of the season this morning. Real is relative, as the
accumulation isn't much more than an inch, but this has been such a warm, dry
winter it seems like a blizzard. That said, I'm not sure that I'll even have to
shovel this, I think it will probably melt off on its own before I get around to
it.
R.I.P.:
Actor Alan Rickman, Snape in Harry Potter films, dies at 69. Thanks nin.
R.I.P.:
Lawrence Phillips found dead in prison at age 40.
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