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Archived News:
EA announces the release of Mirror's Edge Catalyst, a sequel to
Mirror's Edge that once again takes to the rooftops of a future dystopia for a
parkour-inspired action game. The
launch trailer was
released some time ago, and the Mirror's
Edge website is where to go for more on the game. Here's the announcement:
DICE, an Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:EA) studio, today announced the
official launch of Mirror’s Edge™ Catalyst, available in retail stores and as a
digital download on Xbox One, Origin™ for PC, and PlayStation®4. The game
invites you to step into the shoes of Faith - a self-assured Runner thrown into
a struggle against the oppressive Conglomerate in the city of Glass. Explore
Glass from the beautifully lit rooftops to the dark and gritty tunnels below.
Run free in the city districts with Faith at the center of it all. Through the
first-person perspective, use your fluid movement and combat skills to master
the environment and become the catalyst of change.
“We are excited to see players explore the city of Glass and experience the
thrilling adventure we’ve crafted for the last few years,” said Mirror’s Edge
Catalyst producer, Amo Mostofi. “Players will also get a competitive experience
through the Social Play features and the online challenges coming from our team
and from the community. They’ll also be able to keep an eye on the city and
their friends’ performances through The Beat, available on Mirrorsedge.com or as
a companion app on mobile devices.”
Continue here to read the full story.
The
GeForce website now offers new version 368.39 WHQL-certified, game-ready
drivers for NVIDIA graphics cards. The new drivers are optimized for Mirror's
Edge Catalyst and Edge of Nowhere, and will also support the new
GeForce GTX 1070 graphics cards which are due on Friday. They also add a couple
of remarks about possible complications: "Please note, we have identified a
Mirror's Edge Catalyst DirectX crash issue that only occurs on Windows 8.1, and
only when SLI is enabled. We are working to rectify the issue - for updates
check our customer service forum thread. And with regards to Total War:
Warhammer, the new GeForce Game Ready 368.39 WHQL drivers introduce several
changes ahead of a game update. For further details please stay tuned to
Creative Assembly's social media channels."
Slitherine announces the last days of early access to Last Days on Earth
have passed, and the turn-based strategy game is now officially available in
full release on Steam.
Word is: "Thanks to the support and feedback of the players, today Last Days of
Old Earth has concluded the final stage of its Early Access period. With the new
patch and the recent addition of the single player campaign, the game is now
complete, though developers Auroch Digital will continue working closely with
the community to ensure Last Days of Old Earth is the best strategy experience
possible." Last Days of Old Earth is a turn-based strategy game set in a
far future world where the sun is dying. The remnants of humanity must migrate
once a generation towards the equator where it is still warm enough to sustain
life.
Last Days of Old Earth invites you to become the leader of the human Skywatchers
or the robotic Automata, two fundamentally opposed factions. In a hostile
environment, where natural resources are almost depleted, you must fight your
way to survive for one more turn. With scarcity goes rivalry, and only the law
of the wild applies in this icy and desolate world.
Steam News announces the
release of The Solus
Project, offering a single-player adventure game that's considered a
spiritual successor to The Ball, which was
released back in 2010. Word is: "A
single player exploration driven adventure with survival elements, set on a
mysterious and seemingly uninhabited alien planet. Survive through exploration,
and unlock the mysteries of Gliese-6143-C. From the creators of 'Unmechanical'
and successor to 'The Ball'."
A Paragon Essentials Edition is now available in stores, a special
edition of Paragon, Epic Games' first-person MOBA. There are a couple of
unusual aspects to this release of the game on physical media, one being that
the game is not finished yet, and the other is the $60.00 price tag this carries
for a free-to-play game. They explain that this is because this grants paid
early access, and that the package includes perks they value at over $160.00.
Here is the Essentials
Edition launch trailer and you can find more details on
the Paragon website. Here's
word on the bundle: The Essentials Edition is available at retail now and
includes everything players need to get started on the battlefields of Agora,
including Paid Early access beta and a launch-exclusive Twinblast skin. You can
find more information on what is included in the physical version below:
- Instant Beta Access - Players can get in
the game immediately.
- 6,000 Paragon Coins (Worth $60) - In-game
currency to spend on additional Master Challenges, skins, boosts and
additional content that has not yet been announced!
- Five Hero Master Challenges - Each Master
Challenge immediately grants a Challenger skin and permanent XP boost, plus
unlocks unique rewards as players play the game, including a taunt and the
Master skin.
- Includes Master Challenges for Twinblast,
Sevarog, Iggy & Scorch, GRIM.exe and Riktor.
- Five Skins, Including the Launch-Exclusive
Wasteland Twinblast Skin - The Wasteland Twinblast skin is only
available exclusively in the Essentials Edition. Players will also receive:
- War Chief Grux
- Energized Dekker
- Autumn Fire Sparrow
- Bronze Warden Riktor
- Five Rep Boosts (Each Lasts For Three Wins)
- Rep boosts speed up how quickly players earn Rep, which they can spend on
card packs, Master Challenges and more.
The Essentials Edition (valued at over $160) is now available for $59.99 at
participating retailers, including GameStop, Best Buy, Amazon, Target and
Walmart in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Brazil.
Paragon is the MOBA from Epic Games launching into open beta for PC and PS4
later this summer. Paragon puts you in the fight with explosive action, direct
third-person control, and deep strategic choice. Players can go to
www.paragon.com to learn more about the
game.
A
Battlefield tweet offers 15 seconds of gameplay footage from Battlefield
1, offering a sneak peek at the upcoming installment that will take the
military shooter series back to World War I. This is a teaser, and they tell us
we should expect a full trailer on June 12th. Thanks
PCGamesN.
AMD support offers new version 16.6.1 hotfix Crimson Edition reference
drivers for AMD graphics cards. These add support for Mirror's Edge Catalyst and
Paragon, and also include a new AMD Crossfire profile for Dark Souls III. While
these include a number of improvements, they also warn of a few remaining
issues:
- A few game titles may fail to launch or crash if
the AMD Gaming Evolved overlay is enabled. A temporary workaround is to
disable the AMD Gaming Evolved "In Game Overlay".
- Battlefield™ 4 may experience crashes when using
Mantle. As a work around users are suggested to switch to DirectX®11.
- Doom™ some game levels may experience shimmering
textures.
- The Division™ may hang when using Quad AMD
Crossfire™ technology. As a workaround users are recommended to disable AMD
Crossfire™ technology mode.
- Radeon Settings gaming profile options for Uplay
applications may not take effect.
- Forza Motorsport 6: Apex™ may exhibit brightness
flickering when using AMD FreeSync™ technology.
- Frame Rate Target Control gaming profiles may fail
to enable for some games.
- On some AMD XConnect™ technology external GPU
enclosures, a TDR may be observed when the dGPU is set to primary display
and the laptop display is set to extended display with video playback.
The Oculus
store now offers Edge of Nowhere, a third-person VR adventure
exclusively for Oculus Rift. The
game's official
website offers all the details on the game, and provides
a reveal teaser with a
look at gameplay in an unforgiving arctic environment. Here's word on the game:
Edge of Nowhere is a third-person VR adventure from acclaimed independent
developer Insomniac Games. Victor Howard is on a journey to find his fiancée,
Ava Thorne, who is part of a lost expedition in Antarctica. His rescue mission
takes a sudden turn as he ventures deeper into a dark monstrous world where
reality warps and twists around him. Desperate to find the one he loves, Victor
must encounter disturbing monsters and scale looming ice walls as he descends
further into madness. In Edge of Nowhere, nothing is what it seems and the
unexpected lurks from all sides.
Continue here to read the full story.
Cliffski's Blog announces Democracy 3: Electioneering, a new
expansion in the works at Positech for Democracy 3, their political simulation
sequel. As the title implies, this add-on will concentrate more on the election
process itself, as the base version of the game focuses on governing. This
currently is projected for release "probably" late next month, and the hope is
to make this also work with the game's Africa expansion. Here's an overview:
Yay! New stuff! For a long time, the Democracy games have basically been
‘government’ games, not election games. Making electioneering work in the
context of Democracy 3 was not easy, because frankly every country has a very
different electoral process, and electoral system. The US is NOTHING like the UK
(We don’t have primaries or caucuses, for starters), and the way elections are
fought is very different over the various countries that Democracy 3 models.
(Another example: in the UK we have no political TV advertising). Eventually, I
decided to take a few key areas of the election process, the ones that seemed
universal, and model those, whilst letting the actual ‘mechanics’ of how an
election is fought to remain abstract.
Eurogamer says a mishap over at IGN revealed some of the marketing materials
for Watch Dogs 2 that are part of the site's big advertising
splash reveal of the upcoming open-world hacking sequel. They say this
revealed the game will be set in San Francisco and is slated for release on
November 15th. Whether these details are accurate should be clear soon enough,
as a countdown is running for the game
that will conclude at noon EDT tomorrow.
Well, to basically repeat my post from Sunday, I'll say I'm feeling a little
better (again), as it ended up taking a couple of days to get past whatever
little bug I encountered. It's been no big deal, just a couple of days of mild
fever and some aches and pains, but I do wish I knew what this was. I've been
wrong about this already, but I think I'm really done with it now.
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