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Archived News:
Steam News announces a
free week is underway for
The Orion Project,
coinciding with a 90% off sale on the game: The ultimate Space Adventure
and Combat Video Game for PC. The Orion Project is a living, breathing and
Persistent Universe allowing for you to travel the Galaxy and experience Open
World Gameplay like never before!
Bethesda.net announces open beta testing of modification tools for
Fallout 4, explaining they have built a new system to make mods easier and
more accessible than before. They offer a
Mods and the Creation Kit
showing things off and further explaining their outlook on supporting
user-created content. They offer instructions on how to get the creation kit and
opt in to the open beta on Steam, and promise console users mod support in
June. Here's more: Mods and the players who create them have always been
an important part of our games, going all the way back to Morrowind and The
Elder Scrolls Construction Set. We believe that our games become something much
more special, when we put the power of creation in your hands. New quests,
environments, characters, dialogue, outfits, weapons and more – with Mods, the
possibilities of what you can do are endless. You are creating new experiences
that enhance and take our games into amazing and surprising new directions.
For Fallout 4, our goal was to make Mods easier and more accessible than ever
before – for both the creators and the players. By building an all-new system
with Bethesda.net
we’ve made a huge leap forward in achieving that.
You can now browse and search for the latest and greatest Mods, choose your
favorites, post feedback, and install them – all within the game. Simply select
Mods from the main menu, and start browsing. You can also browse through mods
online on Bethesda.net.
CCP Games announces the release of Citadel, the new expansion for
EVE Online
they say "Builds Dreams and Wrecks Them" in their space-based MMORPG. They accompany the news with a recent
cinematic trailer as
well as a feature tour
video with a look at what this adds. Here's word: Today the Citadel
expansion has come to EVE Online, ushering in the biggest changes ever to player
control over space. The inventive pilots of gaming's most intriguing sci-fi
sandbox game can now build staggeringly massive structures and then tear them
down with imposing fleets of enormous starships. The delicate balances of power
will break and new ones arise, unleashing havoc and spawning future conflicts
across the universe.
Outposts and Stations were once the tools EVE players used to bring the universe
under their control. Now, in a game with near-infinite possibilities, groups of
any size can set their sights on grander ambitions.
Citadels are gargantuan player-created cities in space, dwarfing almost
everything the Empires have ever constructed. These monuments to the might and
power of capsuleers make excellent player-run trade hubs and defensive
platforms, the largest of which is massive enough to offer super-capital ship
docking bays.
With the ability to place them almost anywhere in the universe, it is truly a
new dawn of player control over the space they choose to inhabit or invade, and
their customizable nature makes it even easier to shore up defenses, manage
important player diplomacy through access and docking rights, and exercise asset
safety for even the largest alliances of tens-of-thousands of players should
they be destroyed in cataclysmic, awe-inspiring explosions.
What does this brave new world look like? The Citadel trailer paints a dramatic
picture of the cycle of life and death and in a new New Eden, and even includes
a song by CCP's in-house band Permaband.
Continue here to read the full story.
A patch is now available for Game Tycoon 2
on Steam adding Linux
support to the game as detailed in
this post (which isn't actually very detailed). This follows shortly after
this announcement of the addition of Mac OS X support. Apparently more ports
will follow: "We're very happy with the start of Game Tycoon 2 and are now
looking forward to finish ports for other systems," explains Marco Sowa from
Sunlight Games. "Moreover, we are planning to expand Game Tycoon 2 with some of
the features, which were asked for by the community. Therefore we would be happy
if the community continued to the discuss the game in the Steam forums." Continue here to read the full story.
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A
post on reddit claims this is an image of
the PlayStation Store showing a previously unannounced Call of Duty game
titled Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. This has inspired speculation that it may
be a reveal of the next title in the series. Intriguingly, the thread has been
locked, but the top comment is from the "totally not an ATI Shill" moderator
says the post "stays." Thanks
DSOGaming, who note a
tweet from Jim Sterling suggesting a new CoD title reveal is coming Tuesday.
We shall see what we shall see.
Following word that
BioWare's Alistair McNally walked around GDC and no one noticed his shirt
teasing BioWare's new IP comes
a tweet once again teasing a new project, once again, quite vaguely. This
shows a video from an internal EA document, proving not only are they actually
doing something.
PCGamesN speculates this may be related to Dragon Age: Tactics or the
Dragon Age franchise in general, but maybe they are just testing out a
new printer. Presumably we'll eventually know more.
Cliffski's Blog
announces that Big Pharma "just got BIGGER and more PHARMIER," with
the release of Marketing & Malpractice, an expansion that takes a closer look at
the seamier side of being a legal drug dealer. On a possibly related note,
Steam News has word that
Big Pharma is on sale
this week for 40% off. Here's word on the expansion: Big Pharma:
Marketing and Malpractice adds a whole bunch of cool stuff. There was a lot of
beard-stroking between me and Tim deciding what to put in an expansion (mostly
by me, Tim is too young to grow stubble). Some of the ideas in there are cool
business-geek stuff like setting individual prices for your drugs (you no longer
have to just accept the market price, you can build up stock, or sell at a loss,
undercut competitors, sell better drugs at a premium etc…) and some of them are
things that just generally expand upon the whole production-line geekery. For
example you can now link separate rooms of the factory together. Oh yeah… Plus
we have ‘stock gates’… which sound boring, but in fact I reckon are going to be
awesomely popular. Essentially these are systems that let you say ‘halt
production if we already have 100 boxes of this’, but the key thing is they can
go ANYWHERE, which means a single ingredient can come in, and be delivered to
different production lines by a branching conveyor, depending on stock level of
certain drugs, effectively letting you automate the process of switching from
one drug to another as circumstances and prices change.
Slitherine has opened beta applications for
Order of
Battle: Winter War, a new expansion for Order of War that covers the
Soviet incursion into Finland at the outset of World War II. You can sign up
though the Slitherine beta portal,
though they say that this will be restricted to a "lucky few," saying they just
need help with final touches to ensure a smooth release, which they say to
expect within "a few weeks." Here's more: Order of Battle: Winter War
closely follows the brave defence of the Finnish Army against the vast
Red Army that seeks a quick victory. In a brand new campaign that includes 14
scenarios, players will command the inflexible and stubborn Finnish soldiers
that fight for their homes and families in an inhospitable environment. The
game brings new units and a completely new climate and terrain: winter, with
its snow, impacts the movement of soldiers and the frozen lakes can be crossed
by ground units but cannot be entrenched.
Special Tactics is now available
on Steam, offering a
top-down action game offering the chance to practice some of those titular
tactics.
This post mentions a couple of changes since the last prerelease version,
and mentions that work is underway to better support playing the game on older
computer systems. This trailer offers a
look at gameplay, and here's a description: "ST brings the most intense,
tactical-action experience to Steam through killer gameplay, streamlined
controls and carefully crafted maps. Select your custom loadout, plan out
strategies and accomplish your objectives. Earn gold and trophies to unlock
custom weapons and attachments! SINGLE PLAYER, MULTIPLAYER, SURVIVAL...TACTICS
FOR ALL." Continue here to read the full story.
We're celebrating here at the BlueTower today, as it is our wedding anniversary.
This is not just any old anniversary, it's one of those cool round numbers,
specifically our 20th, which is a pretty big deal. The traditional gift for this
occasion is china, but there is a new "modern" list of gift suggestions that
calls this the platinum anniversary, with the precious metal perhaps a better
reflection of how long marriages typically last these days (platinum used to be
for a 70th!). MrsBlue and I will be hanging out today and celebrating, and I
will definitely be wrapping things up early. I hope you can forgive that, as this
helps me get out of having to buy a big pile of china, much less platinum.
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