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Archived News:
Deep Silver announces Dead Island Retro Revenge, a side-scrolling action game
set in the zombie-filled Dead Island universe. As the retro in the title
implies, this will have a throwback style, featuring 16-bit graphics. This is
expected on August 1st for Windows, and in addition to being
sold separately, it will
be part of a Dead Island
Definitive Collection which will also bundle Dead Island and Dead Island
Riptide. Here's a trailer
(NSFW) and here's more: Hell-bent on saving his cat, Max must carve a
bloody path through a zombie-infested California, tearing his way through hordes
of the undead, battalions of corrupt soldiers, and a slew of evil-minded
ex-cons. Pull off crazy combos, collect power-ups, wield super weapons, and
unleash insane magic attacks as you fight to become the amazing 16-bit
side-scrolling hero you've always believed yourself to be!
Features at a glance:
- Retro look meets melee-based combat
- Featuring leader boards, achievements and a level
of depth beyond the genre
- Game mechanics include power-ups, super attacks
and a cool combo system
Continue here to read the full story.
Steam now offers new
Performance DLC for
Car Mechanic Simulator 2015 for Windows and OS X, upgrading your ability
to upgrade cars in the automotive repair game. The add-on includes a new
drag-racing track, new cars, supercharged engines, new parts, dyno testing, and
more. This requires the base game, and carries a 20% discount during the first
week of release. If you are interested in a look, you can check out
this trailer.
The
Rockstar Newswire has details on a new updates planned for the coming months
in Grand Theft Auto Online, the multiplayer component of Grand Theft
Auto V. Along with promising more special bonus weeks, they outline the
following plans for additional content for the open-world crime sequel: We
hope that you’ve been enjoying all of the recent updates to GTA Online, like
this spring’s inventory of Lowriders Custom Classics and all of the newest game
modes – and get ready for a lot more to come in 2016, including some massive,
feature-rich updates to GTA Online in the weeks and months ahead:
- In the stealing and dealing successor to
Executives and Other Criminals, embark on further adventures in finance and
felony as your Organization enters the lucrative and dangerous world of
contraband trafficking. You’ll be working with your team from a selection of
big new properties that serve as both headquarters for your Organization and
warehouses for your hot merchandise. Manage inventory directly from your HQ,
arranging to buy and sell anything from jewels to narcotics to medical
supplies from a range of nefarious suppliers. Expect the unexpected as you
head out with your team to make each pickup. Keep your stock in mint
condition to maintain value and sell at a profit – and watch for raids on
your warehouses between shipments!
- Cunning stunts: for crazy vehicular action comes a
major update to the wild world of GTA Online racing and stunting that will
introduce a new realm of creative and fun games. Expect a slew of new
stunt-ready vehicles and gear - and the inspired Creator scene will be
getting a vast new set of props, for an evolution of stunting, racing and
trials-style creations, and other gameplay possibilities that will surely
defy imagination.
...AND MORE
Look for other additional updates to arrive, including more fun new Adversary
Modes. There are new locations coming for the recently released In and Out –
where a group of Attackers must smash-and-grab their way to steal coveted
packages from Defenders who are outnumbered, but far from outgunned. And stay
tuned for info on other fun, competitive, team-based modes to come.
UbiBlog has more details on this week's release of the Operation Dust Line
DLC for Rainbow Six Siege. In addition to more on the new operators, map, and
features in the new DLC, they also discuss changes coming to the base game in
the form of gameplay changes and bug fixes. These include gadget placement
cancellation controls, a deadzone aiming fix for controllers, new features for a
better ranked matchmaking experience, and more. The pack is expected on
Wednesday. Here's a new
trailer. Continue here to read the full story.
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Nuclear Golf -- Steam Greenlight. "Are you ready for the Dark Souls of
golf games? Fast-paced, brutal, and absolutely ridiculous to the max,
Nuclear Golf is headed to PS4 and Vita this summer! We'd love to give PC
gamers a taste of the radiation soaked chaos we've cooked up for you -- we
appreciate your support!"
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UBOOT - A WW2 Survival Sandbox by PlayWay — Kickstarter. "UBOOT is a
simulator of a submarine from WWII era, yet different than all you have seen
so far. It is a survival sandbox with game mechanics similar to that of
Fallout Shelter while it's primary theme is life of German soldiers like in
Wolfgang Petersen's film Das Boot. The boat is their home, but it can become
their grave at any time." Also on
Steam Greenlight. Here's
a trailer.
Paradox Interactive announces today marks the launch of Stellaris for
Windows, OS X, and Linux, offering their new grand strategy game set in the
depths of outer space, where no one can hear, well anything.
The launch trailer
introduces the game and shows it off, and the announcement offers some details:
Paradox Interactive, a publisher and developer of truly grand strategy games,
today released Stellaris for Windows, Mac, and Linux PCs. Stellaris is the
latest game from Paradox Development Studio, the creators of such deep strategy
series as Europa Universalis, Crusader Kings, Hearts of Iron, and more. In the
studio’s first-ever sci-fi grand strategy game, players can begin a journey into
a randomly generated universe as the species of their choice – exploring new
worlds, encountering new beings, and facing the challenges of intergalactic
colonization, diplomacy, warfare, perils, and crises.
In Stellaris, players must guide a species of their own design to power and
glory in the depths of space. From humble beginnings as players leave their home
planet and explore the unknown, to tense “first contact” moments with alien
species, to the difficult choices and responsibilities of managing diplomatic
relationships with other star-faring races, Stellaris presents the iconic
gameplay of a Paradox grand strategy title on a galactic scale. With randomly
created opponents and procedurally generated star systems, no two games can ever
play out the same way.
For more information about Stellaris, visit
http://www.stellarisgame.com/
Continue here to read the full story.
The
GeForce website has word on a press demonstration of the new DOOM game that
showed off a couple of possible points of interest. The clip shows the game with
all the visual settings maxed out running at 60 fps on a GTX 1080, their
just-announced upcoming flagship accelerator. They also say that this was
running under Vulkan, saying DOOM will be the first AAA game to make use of this
new low-level API. The kicker comes at the end when they turn off the artificial
framerate cap to show the unthrottled game can actually run at 200 frames per
second with everything set to "Ultra." Here's
a video showing the
demonstration, and here's word: At a post-announcement event for
technology journalists, id Software made a surprise appearance to demo the new
Doom. Running on a GeForce GTX 1080, the framerate was a solid 60 with every
setting turned to Ultra. It was then revealed that the demo was in fact running
on Vulkan, a cross-platform low-level graphics API, making Doom the first AAA
game to use the exciting new technology. But that wasn't all: for their big
finale, id Software announced that the framerate was being artificially capped
to 60 -- switching the cap off, Doom ran at up to 200 FPS during the
multi-minute live demo!
By eliminating most of the overheads present on DirectX 11, and by utilizing new
technologies and techniques, Vulkan can greatly accelerate framerates in games.
And with the GeForce GTX 1080 you can push those framerates higher and higher.
Continue here to read the full story.
A post on NeoGAF
has a screenshot of a listing that allegedly appeared on Steam revealing a May
30th release date for the Blood and Wine expansion for The Witcher 3:
Wild Hunt. The listing is no longer available, so this may not be accurate,
but can provide a glimmer of hope for those hoping for more content for the
action/RPG sequel. Thanks
GameSpot.
Battleborn ends its first week at number three on the
GFK Chart-Track top 30 chart for PC sales in the U.K. the week ending May
7th. At the top of that chart, Football Manager 2016 maintains a toehold
on the top spot, and The Sims 4 is still number two. Gearbox's new
shooter lands on top of the
all platforms chart, pushing Ratchet & Clank to number three. Here's
the summary: New IP from ‘Borderlands’ indie developer Gearbox Software
debuts at No1.
The 2K and Take 2 published ‘Battleborn’ takes the top spot and is a first No1
for the Take 2 family for over a year (last was GTA V in week 11, 2015). There’s
not a lot else happening this week as the UK receives some summer sunshine and
overall sales slump by 11% over last week. Activision’s ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops
III’ continues at No2 (-3%) and Sony’s ‘Ratchet & Clank’ (-51%) drops from a two
week stint at No1 to No3. Rockstar and Take 2’s ‘GTA V’ continues to climb
another 4 places to No4 this week (+20%) and Ubisoft drop one place to No5 with
‘Tom Clancy’s The Division’ (-28%), making it 9 weeks within the Top 5. It’s a
few days before the release of ‘Uncharted 4’ and Sony’s ‘Uncharted: The Nathan
Drake Collection’ re-enters the chart at No22 (+125%) thanks to some retail
promotion.
- ASUS ZenFone Zoom Phone (ZX551ML) on
Tech ARP.
- Cooler Master GeminII S524 Ver.2 Cooler on
APH Networks.
- Western Digital RED WD40EFRX 4TB SATA III HDD on
Nikk Tech.
I'm on the mend today, as I suffered a little back strain over the weekend.
These used to be pretty frequent, but at some point in the late 90s I invested
in an Aeron chair, and haven't really had any problems since. This backache is
much milder than the ones I used to suffer, and it's been so long since I've had
one that I'm hoping this as an isolated incident, rather than a warning that my
problem is returning, but I will be try to pay a little better attention to my
posture in case I've been slipping, as I have a tendency to slouch.
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