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Archived News:
Steam News announces the
release of The Banner
Saga 2, Stoic's RPG sequel, which is also available through
GamersGate and
the Humble Store. Here's word: The award winning and BAFTA nominated
saga continues in The Banner Saga 2. Continue your journey soon after the
climactic events of The Banner Saga. The choices you made in the first game will
affect who is alive and who is dead in this exciting sequel. As the world
continues to crumble around you, only one bastion of hope remains, but getting
there will require strong leadership, hard sacrifices, influencing new heroes,
and, as always, sound strategy in combat.
The Collider 2 is now available for Windows
on Steam, offering a
sci-fi racer with support for those newfangled VR headsets.
This announcement has
some details: Destroy the colossal mothership looming over the planet and
save your homeworld! With a fleet of high-tech starfighters at your disposal,
take on a series of suicidal missions to destroy the alien invader from the
inside. Take down reactors, collect sensitive data, and avoid lethal defenses as
you maneuver through the vents of the enemy vessel at near light-speed velocity
– you are the last hope of your people!
Speedrunners is out of early access and is now officially available
on Steam, offering a
multiplayer running game for Windows, OS X, and Linux. Here's the premise of
what's been described as a competitive Mario game: In a city filled with
superheroes, getting to crimes becomes a competition on its own. Fortunately
there are enough rockets, bombs, grappling hooks, spikes, and other goodies
lying around -- to make the competition fun and fast. Welcome to SpeedRunners.
SpeedRunners is a 4 player competitive platformer with grappling hooks,
power-ups, and interactive environments. Run, jump, swing around, fire rockets,
grapple onto people to knock them off screen.
Vagabond Dog Announces Sometimes
Always Monsters, an upcoming sequel to Always Sometimes Monsters that could not
possibly cause confusion based on its title. This is expected later this year, the
RPG's Steam Page is now
online, and here's
a trailer. They also say that PAX East attendees can earn a free copy of the
original game by playing the sequel at the show, and that everyone else
interested should keep an eye
on Steam for a 90% off sale
this weekend. Here's word on the new game from publisher Devolver Digital: In this
upcoming sequel, you've finally arrived: the love of your life is at your side,
your book is on the best-seller's list and everything is as it should be –
stable, comfortable and well-deserved. But success isn't all it's cracked up to
be. Despite all of your achievements, whispers from the shadows grow, calling
you a "monster", "manipulative", and "unrepentant."
Only you can decide if they're right.
Seeking inspiration, you join a cross-country bus tour with a band of
like-minded authors as each stop presents a new city to explore. Fans and
strangers alike invite you into their lives – forever shaping their worlds for
better or worse as you pass through town with a whirlwind of choice and
consequence.
Fork Parker explained, "When they first brought it to us, we got so confused by
the title. Totally thought it was their first game, the one I'd already paid
for. Figured the Vagabonds were trying to scam us. Put a bounty on their head
and everything. Thankfully one of the interns opened the damned thing, cleared
the whole mess up. The game's incredible. Would have been a total shame if one
of my hitmen finally got to them."
"These games are antithetical to one another, and so their naming must mirror
that," clarified Justin Amirkhani, creative director at Vagabond Dog. "We spent
a long time considering alternatives, but this was the only thing that we felt
truly fit. Adding a number to the end just didn't make sense because this game
doesn't feel like a forward progression. It's more like an opposite, or a
reflection of the first."
Continue here to read the full story.
A new patch is now available for MechWarrior
Online, updating Piranha Games' multiplayer Battletech game to version
1.4.65 (thanks Rhialto). That version number belies the size of the patch and
the
patch notes, as this introduces phase 3 of Faction Play, and other
significant changes. Here's the introduction: Faction Play 'Phase 3' has
arrived. If you've seen our Phase 3 Sneak Peak video you've already got some
idea of what's in store, but if not, prepare yourselves for a wall of
information in these Patch Notes. We'll save your eyes some effort and keep this
introduction light, so read on for all the details.
Additionally, this patch also features improvements to the Domination Game Mode
implementation for certain maps, an improvement to the responsiveness of Zoom
and Vision Mode toggles, a number of Weapon tweaks, a Quirk pass for 13 Inner
Sphere 'Mechs and 7 Clan 'Mechs, the release of the Marauder Heavy 'Mech for
C-Bills, a large number of map fixes, an array of 'Mech fixes, and a number of
general fixes, including a quality-of-life improvement for the VoIP
implementation.
The Mirror's
Edge Catalyst website now offers system specifications so you can judge
how the upcoming parkour sequel will run on your rig (thanks
DSOGaming). Here they are: MINIMUM:
- OS: Windows® 7 64-Bit (use the latest Service
Pack)
- CPU: Intel i3-3250 / AMD FX-6350. (Note: Mirror's
Edge Catalyst requires at least 4 logical cores to run.)
- RAM: 6 GB
- HARD DRIVE: At least 25 GB of free space
- VIDEO: NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 650 Ti 2GB or better /
AMD Radeon™ R9 270x or better
- INPUT: Keyboard and mouse, dual analog controller
RECOMMENDED:
- OS: Windows® 10 64-Bit (use the latest Service
Pack)
- CPU: Intel Core i7-3770 at 3.4 GHz / AMD FX-8350
at 4.0 GHz
- RAM: 16 GB
- HARD DRIVE: At least 25 GB of free space
- VIDEO: NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 970 4GB or better / AMD
Radeon™ R9 280x 3GB or better
- INPUT: Keyboard and mouse, dual analog controller
CapCom Unity announces that Guile is the next playable character coming to
Street Fighter V. Word is: "Guile will be available for free later this
month to all players until the Zenny shop launches and will receive his own set
of Trials and Character Story. His Battle Costume will be available for free to
all Season Pass holders as well." They offer details on his gameplay, and in
another update they offer
this trailer
showing the character in action. Continue here to read the full story.
A
development update on Survarium has the latest on efforts to develop
this ambitious MMOFPS and juggle various aspects of the project (thanks
Rhialto). They offer details on the project's history and lay out a roadmap for
the next 12 months, along with an overview that says: "The path described
provides for a step-by-step evolution of the project. This path requires
persistence and patience from all of us, but we are still hoping to get through
it together with all of you – today your support is more important to us than
ever before! On our side, we are prepared to inform you more regularly and more
openly about what is happening in the development of the game at those given
moments. This should enable us all to be on the same page."
2K announces an October 7th release date for Mafia III, the new
installment in the open-world crime series, adding that all preorders will
receive a Family Kick-Back bonus pack with exclusive weapons and vehicles.
Here's a "One Way Road
Story" trailer with a look, and here's word: 2K and Hangar 13 today
announced that Mafia III, the next installment in the popular organized crime
game series, will launch on October 7, 2016. Collector’s, deluxe and standard
editions of Mafia III will be available for PlayStation®4 computer entertainment
system, Xbox One and Windows PC. Those who pre-order any edition of Mafia III
will receive the Family Kick-Back, which includes three exclusive vehicles and
weapons available to players at launch.
Mafia III is set in the open world of 1968 New Bordeaux, a reimagined version of
New Orleans bustling with activity and complete with era-inspired cars, fashion
and music. After years of combat in Vietnam, Lincoln Clay knows this truth:
family isn’t who you’re born with, it’s who you die for. Now, back home in New
Bordeaux, Lincoln is set on escaping his criminal past. But when his surrogate
family, the black mob, is betrayed and wiped out by the Italian Mafia, Lincoln
builds a new family from the ashes of the old and blazes a path of
military-grade revenge through those responsible. Intense gun fights, visceral
hand-to-hand combat, white-knuckle driving, hard choices and street smarts will
all be required to survive the mean streets of New Bordeaux. But with the right
crew, it’s possible to make it to the top of the city's underworld.
Publisher Gameforge and developer Sparkypants Studios announce Dropzone,
a competitive real-time strategy game expected this year from this developer
formed by former members of Big Huge Games ( Rise of Nations). The
Dropzone website is online, offering
an announcement trailer
showing things off. Ignoring the warnings of 2010: Odyssey Two, this is set on
Jupiter's moon Europa. Here's more: Leading European video game publisher
Gameforge and developer Sparkypants Studios have introduced a transformative
entry into the real-time strategy genre with Dropzone. A highly competitive
title, Dropzone combines the intense 1v1 action, deep strategic multi-units
tactics and map control of RTS with extensive customization, pilot leveling, and
familiar controls. Players take control of a squad of three mighty war machines,
known as “Rigs”, in explosive 15-minute battles for dominance. Players can
choose from a variety of Pilots, Rigs and Gear to customize their squad to suit
their style of play. Powered by Sparkypants Studios own Sparkle Engine, a game
engine built from the ground up for competitive online play, Dropzone represents
the next generation of RTS in 2016.
Continue here to read the full story.
Petroglyph announces 8-Bit Armies will be released worldwide this Friday, April
22nd, offering a "fast-paced, friendly and accessible" real-time strategy game
from the RTS specialists. A
launch trailer
provides a look at environments and gameplay, and this announcement fills in a
bunch of details: 8-Bit Armies is a tribute to classic RTS and is
suitable to existing fans and new players of the genre seeking a friendly
approach to strategy gaming. With a colorful, blocky voxel art style, the game
is accessible to anyone regardless of experience. Your objective is to collect
resources, build up and defend your base, amass your army of military units, and
ultimately crush your opponents! Packed full of features, the game at launch
includes a 25-mission offline single-player campaign, 10 two-player cooperative
missions, 10 AI skirmish maps, and 8 Player-vs-Player Multiplayer for up to 8
players. With multiple difficulty levels and easy-to-understand modern military
units and structures, novice players will instantly feel at home. Offering
inspiring gameplay and beautifully rendered voxel-themed visuals, it excels at
bringing a complex type of game to the masses with its casual approach to the
compelling world of RTS.
Continue here to read the full story.
Publishers Merge Games and Headup Games and one-person developer Elder Games
announce Meridian: Squad 22 will enter early access on May 30th, offering
a sequel to Meridian: A New World. A
short trailer offers a
look at gameplay and cinematics from the game, and the announcement offers a few
details: Humanity is in peril. The first colonization attempt of mankind
has failed and the colonist crew is missing. The leaders of the United Earth
decide to send a highly trained specialist squad to planet Meridian to find the
crew and bring them home safely.
Meridian: Squad 22 is a single-player, science-fiction, real-time strategy game
with a focus on base building and advanced tactics. Every single choice, every
tactical decision you make, shapes the outcome of your story. Will you take the
offensive route or stay on the defensive? Will you consider the lives of your
crew a priority or will you sacrifice them mercilessly to gain the upper hand?
Key Features
- Control the fate of Squad 22 and the colonists in
the 10+ hour story-mode campaign
- Vanquish your foes on planet Meridian in over 100
procedurally generated missions in Planetary Conquest
- Polished, dynamic and fluid unit control
- Over one hour of immersive music
- Fantastic sound effects brought to you by an
award-winning sound design team.
Continue here to read the full story.
Indie developer The Puzzling dream announces May 23rd is the official release
date for The Way, a 2D pixel art platformer that originated thanks to a
successful
Kickstarter campaign. They offer
a new trailer showing
us the way of The Way, and all the details you need can be found on
the official website. Word is: "The Way
tells a story about a member of space explorers team, who lost his beloved one
and cannot accept her death. Finding ancient writtings [sic] on eternal existence
during one of his last expeditions makes him come back there in search of the
meaning of life itself." Continue here to read the full story.
The
BlizzCon website announces that tickets to BlizzCon 2016 go on sale tomorrow
at 10:00 pm EDT. A second batch will go on sale on Saturday, but those
interested in attending this Blizzard-centric gathering will need to be on the
ball, as these traditionally sell out immediately. The event is scheduled for
November 4 and November 5, 2016 in Anaheim, CA.
-
Tank Universal 2 -- Steam Greenlight. "Inspired by the shapes and spaces
of Tron and the gameplay of Battlezone, the game is heavy on action. Shells
arc in, explosions batter your tank as you judge an enemy's distance and lob
shell after shell their way. Every level is different but in combat the
player was just one unit amongst many on the battlefield." Here's
a
trailer.
It's primary day here in New York state, a chance to go out and practice
democracy (if we keep practicing, maybe one day we'll get it right). We're a
lone wolf state, and there are no other primaries today, so this is not a proper
follow up to Super Tuesday and Super Tuesday II. Maybe we can all get some
Mexican after voting and make it taco Tuesday?
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