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Archived News:
Remedy's Sam Lake
tweets that Quantum Break is gold, so their third-person shooter is
on track for its planned April release. It was
just revealed that a
Windows 10 version of the game is coming, and presumably the announcement covers
that as well as the Xbox One edition. The announcement has a clip of Sam
partying like a rock star with a huge bottle of bubbly. Word simply is: "Gone
GOLD #QuantumBreak @remedygames."
CapCom Unity has another update on Street Fighter V issues in a post
titled "SFV Launch Status Update Vol. 3." They report they have made further
progress on fixing matchmaking and other problems with the launch version
of the fighting game sequel: Hello again World Warriors! We’re back today
with another round of updates for you all and we’re happy to report that we’re
making a lot of great progress on all fronts. Hit the jump to see the current
status of things and what we have on the roadmap as well.
Matchmaking
Matchmaking for Ranked and Casual is stable and is working as intended for most
users. Some additional tweaks were made to the servers overnight, so players
should actually be getting matches at a much faster rate now as well.
We do understand this is not the case for everyone, and the amount of matches a
user gets can vary by region.
If you’re still having issues with Ranked or Casual matchmaking (long waits,
unable to connect), please leave a comment here or tweet to @SFVServer with your
Fighter ID and provide as much detail as possible (location, platform, etc).
Continue here to read the full story.
A
Kickstarter update for CONSORTIUM: The Tower covers the fact that Interdimensional Games' fundraising efforts for the
RPG sequel will not succeed with hours remaining, and
unveils the plan they hinted at to
rescue the project with what they characterize as a "campaign intermission."
Here's a trailer on the
subject, and here's what they've got planned: The Radical Plan?
So, what is our radical plan to save this campaign? Well - we were hoping to
completely blow the lid open on the entire plan today, but unfortunately we
aren’t allowed to just yet. The official announcement will be coming in a press
release next week, but the gist is simple: The moment that the clock runs out
here, this crowdfunding campaign will officially enter an intermission period.
We have found a way to resume this campaign in just a few weeks’ time outside of
Kickstarter or PayPal. You were the first supporters of The Tower, and as a
special thank you we’ve got a bit of an extra treat.
Pledge now, you are eligible to become a SUPER BACKER...
Each and every one of you who has pledged at the Consortium Initiate level or
higher on Kickstarter will not only be able to keep your pledge and rewards when
the intermission period ends, but will eligible to become a SUPER BACKER with
us.
What’s a Super Backer? It means that in the future all games released by iDGi in
the Consortium Universe will be free for you. Forever. This will apply to all
pledges made up until the ending of our Kickstarter campaign, so if you’re
sitting at the $5.00 pledge, or on the fence about pledging, you’ve only got a
limited time to take advantage of this. There will be some more information next
week on how this will work from a technical standpoint.
We realize it may seem strange to back a campaign that isn’t going to succeed,
but all will be revealed next week.
Continue here to read the full story.
Developer Gaming Corps announces The Descendant, an episodic
post-apocalyptic adventure game debuting for Windows on March 24th on Steam.
In the meantime they offer presales of an "Exclusive Season 1 Bundle" that
covers all five episodes and offers some perks.
This teaser trailer
introduces the game, and here's a description: In the not-so-distant
future, climate change have wrecked the planet, and a man-made extinction event
has wiped humankind off the face of the Earth. Only a few thousand ‘descendants
of humanity’ were hand-picked to survive the apocalypse, cryogenically suspended
in underground bunkers known as Arks.
Centuries passed. The world recovered, and all the Arks reopened, except one —
Ark-01.
In The Descendant, from developer Gaming Corps, you play through two timelines -
in the past you’ll play as Mia, a janitor tasked with keeping the chosen humans
housed inside Ark-01 alive, while in the present you’ll play as Donnie, one of
the investigators trying to rescue any survivors trapped within the facility.
Coming to Steam for Windows PC on March 24, the game is a post-apocalyptic
narrative adventure where players solve puzzles, explore the dangerous
underground facility, and discover a far greater conspiracy buried within the
subterranean Ark complex.
Continue here to read the full story.
The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) rolled the dice last night for
their 19th annual D.I.C.E. Awards, and Fallout 4 came up the big winner, taking
home game of the year honors. Hideo Kojima was also honored as the Academy's
21st Hall of Fame inductee. Here's a bit on the proceedings from
the awards announcement: The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences’
membership also honored a variety of games, with four different games receiving
three awards each: Fallout 4, Ori and the Blind Forest, Rocket League and The
Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Other top honorees include Star Wars™ Battlefront for
Action Game of the Year, METAL GEAR SOLID V: The Phantom Pain for Adventure Game
of the Year, Super Mario Maker for Family Game of the Year, Mortal Kombat X for
Fighting Game of the Year, Fallout 4 for RPG/MMO and Fallout Shelter for Mobile
of the Year. This year’s D.I.C.E. Sprite Award, honoring a game having
disproportionate resources for development and exposure (as compared to AAA
titles), was given to Rocket League.
The Need
for Speed website now offers minimum and recommended specifications for the
PC edition of Need for Speed. Take a look and see if the game is too racy for
your computer: Minimum Requirements for 720p30 at low settings:
- OS: 64-bit Windows 7 or later
- Processor: Intel Core i3-4130 or equivalent with 4
hardware threads
- Memory: 6GB RAM
- Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB, AMD
Radeon HD 7850 2GB, or equivalent DX11 compatible GPU with 2GB of memory
- Hard Drive: 30 GB free space
Recommended Requirements for 1080p60 at high settings:
- OS: 64-bit Windows 7 or later
- Processor: Intel Core i5-4690 or equivalent with 4
hardware threads
- Memory: 8GB RAM
- Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4GB, AMD
Radeon R9 290 4GB, or equivalent DX11 compatible GPU with 4GB of memory
- Hard Drive: 30 GB free space
Supported Wheels
Continue here to read the full story.
Out of the Park Baseball continues to ramp up the authenticity, as Out of the
Park Productions announces that Out of the Park Baseball 17 will carry
official licensing from the MLB Players Association. This builds upon last
year's addition of MLB licensing, and will allow the use of authentic images for
current players for added immersion. The game is
available for preorder (discounted through March 1st), which
includes a copy of the gold master four days ahead of the official March 22nd
launch date as well as a Steam key when they become available. Here's more on
the realism of this sports simulation for Windows, OS X, and Linux: The
brand new 2016 roster sets will include all Opening Day MLB rosters, via a free
update to be released shortly after Opening Day, as well as the complete minor
league system down to the rookie leagues. Can Jake Arrieta, David Price, and
Johnny Cueto give their teams the pitching boosts they need? Will Albert Pujols,
Chris Davis, and Josh Donaldson once again help power their clubs to victory?
All MLB (and more than 2,000 MiLB) player ratings are based on ZiPS, the
projection system created by well-known baseball writer and SABR member Dan
Szymborski. The remaining minor league players are rated manually by OOTP's
established research team.
OOTP 17 also features several US independent minor leagues and eight
international leagues in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Mexico, Cuba, Italy,
Australia, and The Netherlands. All of those leagues feature real rosters, with
countless hours of work invested in researching realistic player biographical
information, statistics, and ratings.
Activision announces the PlayStation 4 exclusivity for Call of Duty: Black
Ops III Awakening is ending soon, and the military shooter expansion will be
awakened for Windows and Xbox One on March 3rd. They take the opportunity to
provide a refresher on what this brings: The first DLC map pack, for the
No. 1 top-selling video game of 2015, Call of Duty®: Black Ops III Awakening
from Activision Publishing, Inc. and developer Treyarch, is available now on
PlayStation 4 and coming to Xbox One and PC on March 3, 2016.
DLC 1: Awakening features:
- Skyjacked: High above urban Zurich,
Skyjacked is a modernized version of the popular Call of Duty®: Black Ops II
multiplayer map Hijacked. Utilizing the new core movement system featured in
Black Ops III,this map gives players new ways to explore the environment,
while still retaining the same fast and frenetic gameplay players love.
- Splash: Dive into battle in this
abandoned water park, featuring a vibrant and colorful environment,
including waterslides, a wrecked pirate ship and a lazy river. Splash
encourages an open flow of combat with opportunities for underwater
gameplay.
- Gauntlet: Delivering three unique
environments within one action-packed map, Gauntlet showcases Treyarch's
classic three-lane map structure, transporting players into battle through a
sprawling jungle, sub-zero artic zone and rainy urban cityscape.
- Rise: A versatile multiplayer map,
Rise is set in the snowy outskirts of Zurich in the middle of an ongoing
construction site for a massive subterranean Coalescence research campus.
With multiple engagement areas throughout this larger map, each section
caters to different styles of gameplay.
Awakening also introduces the first chapter of Call of Duty: Black Ops III's
Zombies DLC adventure with Der Eisendrache picking up where The Giant left off.
Set in a chilling medieval Austrian castle during World War II, players will
embark on an epic 4-part journey with the Origin characters Richtofen, Nikolai,
Takeo and Dempsey, spanning the DLC season. The ancient site on which the castle
sits was the scene of unspeakable horror where massive deposits of Element 115
have recently been discovered. Players will discover a variety of exciting plot
twists and surprises as they survive waves of the undead.
Pixel Maverick Games announces that Candlelight will launch in March on
Steam and PlayStation 4 after a single developer fanned the flames of this
project for the past three years. A demo was
released a while back on
Game Jolt with a
chance to check this out, and we also have a brand new release trailer along
with this quick description of the game: "A world cast into darkness… but there
is hope. A lone candle must journey through a dangerous land to bring light back
to the world. After a mysterious entity extinguishes all the candles in the
land, a lone surviving candle sets out on a most important adventure to bring
light back to the land." Continue here to read the full story.
A new trailer from
Zombasite offers a second look at Soldak Entertainment's upcoming undead
action/RPG. This is pretty straightforward, showing much hacking and slashing.
Word is: "Zombasite is a zombie apocalypse action RPG set in a dynamic,
evolving, fantasy world for Windows, Mac, and Linux." Continue here to read the full story.
Here's the release trailer
for Bus Simulator 16, though the video is a bit ahead of schedule, as
this game isn't going to roll out of the depot until March 2nd, when it will be
released for Windows and OS X.
Running a little late this morning... I was going to say this was because I was
playing too much last night, which is really weird, because while it was
happening, I had the distinct impression I was playing the exact right amount. I
guess that's what they mean when they say things will seem different in the
morning.
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