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Archived News:
Dusenberry Martin Racing announces NASCAR Heat Evolution for Windows and
consoles, a racing simulation planned for release on September 13th, just in
time for the running of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 400 (I feel like the
crazy pills just kicked in). Here's
an animated logo
(trust NASCAR to manage to squeeze a sponsor into a 10 second clip), and here's
word on the game: Dusenberry Martin Racing (DMR), NASCAR’s exclusive
console simulation-style video game licensee, today announced the future of
NASCAR gaming with NASCAR Heat Evolution – launching September 13, 2016. Marking
the debut of the NASCAR video game series on the PlayStation®4 computer
entertainment system and Xbox One, and also arriving on Windows PC, this new
title will provide fans with a brand-new and authentic racing experience.
NASCAR Heat Evolution will immerse fans in the door-to-door excitement of stock
car racing and allow users to live the experience of taking the checkered flag.
Whether a casual or hardcore gaming fan, NASCAR Heat Evolution will dynamically
adapt to any skill level and deliver a true-to-life racing experience. The new
game will feature all of the top drivers, teams, and incredibly detailed tracks
and environments, giving fans the opportunity to feel what it is like to be a
racing legend.
“Our company is a team of highly skilled gaming vertans with a proven record of
success in NASCAR game development and publishing. Our commitment to the NASCAR
community is to consistently deliver fun, engaging and high-quality NASCAR games
to the market,” said DMR Chief Executive Officer Tom Dusenberry.
DMR, whose licensing agreement with NASCAR Team Properties runs through 2020,
partnered with Monster Games to create NASCAR Heat Evolution, bringing more than
100 years of combined NASCAR games experience to the project.
DMR President Ed Martin said, “To deliver an all-new NASCAR game experience, we
assembled an all-star team of NASCAR game experts and started with a clean sheet
of paper. What the DMR and Monster Games teams have come up with is going to
amaze NASCAR fans.”
Frontier Developments announces The Engineers DLC will come on May 26th
to the PC edition of Elite Dangerous as part of the Horizons
season pass for the outer-space shooter. They say the release will be
accompanied by the biggest-ever free update for the game, adding that Horizons
will launch for Xbox One on June 3rd. Here's word: Elite Dangerous:
Horizons is your pass to a full season of gameplay expansions for the
award-winning space epic Elite Dangerous. On June 3, Elite Dangerous: Horizons
comes to Xbox One featuring the first two Horizons expansions: Planetary
Landings and The Engineers. Together, they unlock a vast range of new features
including 1:1 scale planets to explore, surface bases to raid, new mission
opportunities, new loot and crafting opportunities, and the high-speed SRV
Surface Recon Vehicle.
New to PC on May 26, The Engineers opens up a world of customization options
that change the way you fly, trade, explore and fight in the Elite Dangerous
galaxy. Hidden on planet surfaces across the populated galaxy, each Engineer has
a unique personality and history, and they just might choose to help you with
their unique weapons and specialized modules… for the right price.
On May 26 Frontier will also launch its biggest ever free update for Elite
Dangerous players on all platforms, featuring a new mission system, collectable
loot and hundreds of gameplay additions and tweaks. Xbox One players will
further benefit from the addition of Private Group play and fully customizable
controls.
Facebook
post from Dambuster Studios announces some new free content is now available
for Homefront: The Revolution and says more free missions are on the way
for the just-released shooter sequel. They also acknowledge that the game has
performance issues, and say additional patches are in the works to improve
framerates. Here's word on the content and FPS issues: The Revolution is
now finally available worldwide, and we hope you are enjoying your first steps
in Occupied Philadelphia as a member of the Resistance. It has been a long road
for us, and we're only getting started.
But we're also aware that performance - particularly frame rate - is not
currently where we want it to be, and we are working on additional patches to
help address these issues and more. Patch notes per platform will be available
on the community forums and on Steam when they go live.
In the meantime, the first free content in our post-launch Resistance Mode road
map has been unlocked for all players today. All 8 individual pieces of the two
new Punk and Anarchist outfits, plus the Punk and Anarchist full body clothing,
can be found in your character's Gear and Clothing menu for players to customize
their Fighters with. On top of that, two bonus Hail Mary boosters in your
Consumables inventory offer a free instant revive to help you on your way to
completing Missions on the hardest difficulty. Use them wisely!
Beyond improvements and content, we aim to have three additional polished
Missions for Resistance Mode available by the end of June, with more free
Missions to come after that.
The Overwatch website
has some statistics from the recent beta testing of the imminent first-person
shooter, and if you are thinking it's time for an infographic, then you're
thinking right, so cue the infographic theme song (dammit, I told someone to
write that!). We won't spoil all the joy of seeing the pictures of the numbers,
we'll just offer this one statistical tidbit they lay out in the intro: "In just
a little over 7 days, heroes from around the world joined forces for more than
4.9 billion minutes (that's over 81 million hours!) across more than 37 million
matches of intense competitive action, incredible teamwork, and all-out fun."
Also, a new Overwatch
Digital Comic called "Mission Statement" is now available, featuring Pharah.
During a
Talos Principle Postmortem, Croteam apparently revealed plans for a sequel
to this first-person puzzle game. This is noted
on Rock, Paper, Shotgun where they point out that although the initial
mention of this was somewhat vague,
a tweet on the revelation was
retweeted by Croteam, which seems a pretty definite confirmation of the
news.
Eurogamer.net has word from a conference where developer Techland revealed
they are working on two different unannounced upcoming projects. One is a new IP
described as an open-world fantasy game with RPG elements that will offer co-op
multiplayer as well as single-player support. The other game is more of a
mystery, though they speculate it may be Dying Light 2, as they got
Techland to confirm it will not be a new Dead Island game, but they would
not deny it would be Dying Light 2. They also get specific denials that
this will not be Hellraid or a new Call of Juarez game.
Xbox LIVE's Major Nelson (not to be confused with Cocoa Beach's Major
Nelson) has the news that Microsoft is planning a Windows 10 version of Forge
- Halo 5: Guardians Edition that will be completely free, and will include
some new features specifically for the PC. Here's the plan: Today, we’re
excited to announce that we’re bring this same spirit of creation and
collaboration to the PC later this year with Forge – Halo 5: Guardians Edition
for Windows 10. Best of all? It will be absolutely free. In addition to the
evolutions already present in the mode on Xbox One, Forge – Halo 5: Guardians
Edition for Windows 10 will include some exciting new features designed
specifically with PC users in mind, including:
- Keyboard & Mouse Support – For the first time ever, Forgers will
have the option of using a keyboard & mouse allowing for more precision
control than ever before.
- Increased Resolution – Support for multiple resolutions including
4k.
- Test and Play with Friends – Enlist the help of Friends to help
build, test, and play your Forge creations on Windows 10.
- Build on Windows 10 and Publish to Xbox One – Experiences built
on Windows 10 can be published to and played on Xbox One, opening the doors
for countless new experiences to be enjoyed by players all over the world.
If you’re already finding yourself excited about the incredible possibilities
that are opened up by expanding Forge to the Windows 10 platform, trust us,
you’re not alone. 343 Industries UGC Director, Tom French, and his team are
already chomping at the bit to get these new creative tools into the hands of
the community.
Since we released Forge in Halo 5 we’ve seen so many amazing new things come
from it – from weird mini-games we could have never anticipated to meticulously
crafted maps that are even approaching the visual quality of internally built
maps. The team has continued to wonder what we’d get if we could put Forge in
the hands of as many people as possible, and making it free on Windows 10
literally gives the chance to anyone who wants to jump in and try their hands at
building a cool new map for Halo 5. I’m excited to see what the future content
from the community will bring!” –Tom French, UGC Director, 343 Industries
We’ll have a lot more to share about Forge – Halo 5: Guardians Edition on
Windows 10 later this year, but look for even more exciting updates coming to
the Forge experience in Halo 5: Guardians on the Xbox One in the coming months –
including new environments, advanced file sharing capabilities, new pieces,
palettes, props, and much more.
Focus Home Interactive announces two new official Tour de France videogames, as
Cyanide Studio continues their annual development cycle for the racing series.
This includes plans for Le Tour de France 2016 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox
One and Pro Cycling Manager 2016, coming to Windows. Here are
some
screenshots, and here's word on the PC game: On PC, become the sports
manager for a team of professional riders, and take part in a great 2016 season
packed with new features, during more than 200 competitions (550 stages)
including the famous Tour de France 2016 and La Vuelta. It is up to you to
coordinate every aspect of a team's life: recruiting, contracts with cyclists
and sponsors, managing the staff, training and handling the race calendar… in
addition to making real time key decisions during the stages. Play by yourself
or challenge managers from all around the world in an entirely rethought online
multiplayer mode (create competitions, races, rules, co-op events…)!
In this new edition, the Pro Cyclist Mode, which lets you play as a young
cyclist whom you guide to the top, is back with more interactions between you,
your teammates and your manager. The Career mode provides a more intense
challenge thanks to a new objective and sponsor system. This 2016 edition is
more realistic, thanks to its graphical improvements, new sceneries, clearer
interface, improved relaying of information, and a more advanced AI that takes
into greater consideration cyclists' physiological abilities and also improves
shape and behaviors during breakaways. Finally, you will be able to share
content with the community using the Steam Workshop to constantly renew your
game experience.
Call of Duty: Black Ops III - Eclipse is now available
on Steam, offering DLC
for the Windows edition of
Call of Duty: Black Ops III, the futuristic black ops shooter sequel. This
second add-on pack adds a bunch of multiplayer environments to the game, and
expands the included zombie campaign with more undead action. Here's word: "In
the latest episode of the Zombies experience, the Origins characters head to
'Zetsubou No Shima', a tropical island where experiments with Element 115 have
created horrors beyond belief. Battle your way through four stunning Black Ops
III Multiplayer environments: Spire, Knockout, Verge and Rift."
Eugen Systems now offers the chance to go Dutch in Wargame Red Dragon
with the release of The Netherlands DLC for the Windows, OS X, and Linux
RTS game. To help make it easier to get started with this, the game is on sale
for 70% off this weekend on
Steam. Here's word on the new DLC and the sale: Wargame is back again
with a brand new DLC for the million-selling franchise's third installment,
Wargame Red Dragon. In this new expansion for the spectacular real-time strategy
game from Eugen Systems, the Dutch units are finally playable! Choose between 80
units and enter into a coalition with West Germany! To celebrate this DLC
release, the Wargame Franchise Pack will be available at 70% off this week-end
on Steam - May 19-23.
The Netherlands have a foundation of unique, indigenous, units such as the
YP-408 and the YP-104 that are joined by the Korps Marinier and the Special
Forces unit, KCT. Most nations buy foreign gear second hand and often obsolete,
but the Netherlands has access to some of the best units that other countries
have to offer. Following their units are local variations of French, English,
American and German units like the Cheetah, the YPR-765, and the AMX-13 / FL-12.
Well I got my Oculus Rift yesterday and set it up. It's a beautiful hardware
presentation, probably the nicest packaging and setup I've seen, and I have some
favorable first impressions, but haven't really had a lot of time yet to check
out the things I want to. Seems my hardware is up to the task, though I do have
a nag banner on the Oculus interface warning my system is underpowered, but so
far it's been fine. I'm looking forward to checking this out more, though I may
not be able to over the weekend as much as I want, as though the headset works
fine with my glasses, it presses them against my face, which is quite
uncomfortable. This is going to make it difficult to play for extended periods
until I get some contact lenses, which won't happen until Monday at the
earliest.
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