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Bethesda.net now offers a
this new trailer
celebrating the return of Quake in Quake Champions, the upcoming new installment
in id Software's Shooter series. The clip features concept art, cinematics, and
thoughts on the game from id's Tim Willits. Here's word: After a rousing
reveal at E3 2016, Quake Champions has ignited interest amongst Quake
aficionados and newcomers alike. But what exactly is Quake Champions? We chat
with id Software’s Studio Director Tim Willits to get the lowdown straight from
the source. Willits tells us how Quake Champions not only captures the spirit of
the original games but also brings the storied shooter into the modern era with
the addition of Champions. Along with new insights into each of the four
revealed Champions – Ranger, Visor, Nyx and Scalebearer – Willits also shares
his personal favorite of the bunch.
Continue here to read the full story.
Rebellion announces the release of The Red Odyssey, a new expansion for
Battlezone 98 Redux, the first-person action/strategy remake. This is
available
on GOG.com and on Steam,
with each site offering a launch discount. You can get a look at what this adds
in this trailer, and
here's word: Lovingly remastered by Big Boat Interactive in California,
The Red Odyssey expands Battlezone’s alternative space-race lore with two new
factions - The NSDF Black Dogs and the Chinese Red Army – as they fight a deadly
campaign of vehicular warfare and cloaked ambushes to control powerful portal
technology linking our solar system to the mysterious exoplanet of Elysium ...
The Red Odyssey expansion offers dozens of hours of new content including:
- Two new singleplayer campaigns across two planets
and 23 missions
- Over 30 new vehicles and buildings to take into
battle
- 5 new multiplayer maps, FREE for all players, not
just owners of The Red Odyssey
- Completely remastered visuals, remodelled
vehicles, enhanced lighting, detailed terrain and much more ...
Continue here to read the full story.
Battlegoat Studios announces
Trump Rising, a new
DLC pack to be released tomorrow for Supreme Ruler Ultimate, their
Windows and OS X RTS game on
Steam. As you may have inferred, this plays a trump card ripped from today's
headlines with the addition of The Donald to the game. Here's word: Within
the United States, civil unrest fueled by racial tensions reaches even higher
than in the 1960's. To China and Russia, the new US President seems so
unpredictable and reckless that it seems logical to make a pre-emptive strike
rather than wait for him to have a 'bad hair day' and launch a strike against
them. In Western Europe, leaders are shaken by their new reality and realize
they may have to make concessions to Russia now that America can no longer be
relied upon. The European Union itself is in disarray as the UK prepares to
leave and forge its own relationships. In Mexico, and even in Canada, militaries
are brought to an unprecedented level of readiness over concern of Trump's
ambitions.
How will this play out? Will you assume Trump's role as the new US leader and
guide America to renewed Greatness? Or will you instead lead another nation and
take advantage of a potentially dysfunctional America to further your own
ambition?
This DLC adds the following to Supreme Ruler Ultimate:
- New Sandbox starting on US Inauguration Day,
January 20, 2017
- Updated "Modern World" relationships, leaders, and
regional economies
- Take control as President Donald Trump, or try to
minimize the damage as another World Leader
- Build the Trump Wall - although you may have to
pay for it yourself
- Encourage regional growth with the Trump Tower
economic development zones
Developer AlternativaPlatform announces plans to launch open beta testing later
this summer for Tanki X, their upcoming casual MMO tank combat game that will be
released free-to-play for Windows, OS X , and Linux. They offer
this gameplay trailer
to show off the game's Unity engine graphics, and urge everyone interested in
what they see to sign up here. Here's word
on the game: TANKI X is all about fast-paced futuristic tank combat
against real players. This is not some detail-heavy simulation with bricks for
manuals and hundreds of statistics to memorize. Tanki X is easy to jump into,
easy to play, and offers fast and furious gameplay with fully customizable
futuristic tanks across a collection of exciting and dynamic arenas. By winning
battles, players gain experience points and unlock more powerful equipment,
making them deadlier in the arena. But in Tanki X, it isn’t just about who’s got
the bigger gun... players need tactical prowess, skill, and nerves of steel to
be victorious!
Players can build their tanks from a variety of parts, mounting Gatling guns,
flamethrowers, and other high-tech turrets upon a variety of hulls, such as the
light and nimble “Wasp” to the impenetrable “Titan”, then pit their battle
machines against tankers from all over the world. Matches can be played in teams
or solo, including PvP modes such as Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, and Capture
the Flag.
Continue here to read the full story.
LawBreakers website now offers a new
video called Play The
Assassin from LawBreakers, the first-person shooter in the works at Boss Key
Studios. This is a short introduction to the character, which they describe like
so, "You can run but you can't hide. Kitsune on the Breakers side and Hellion on
the Law side is our Assassin Role. Swift, stealthy, and deadly." They urge those
interested in this first-person shooter to sign up for future alpha testing.
Continue here to read the full story.
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POLYGOD -- Steam Greenlight. "PolyGod is a rogue-like, randomly
generated FPS where you are an assassin known only as 'Faceless the
Blessed'. You must battle the minions of malignant Gods and their Holy
Champions in an epic event known as the Trial of the Gods." Here's
a trailer.
- WarpBall – PixelFunder.
New game campaign on new crowdfunding platform (more on that in
the PixelFunder FAQ). "Inspired
by the retro classic Speedball 2, Monday Night Combat and the cult hit
Cellfactor Psychokinetic Wars, WarpBall is an online and local multiplayer
that brings the fun and accessibility back into sports games."
Digital Foundry's Gears of War 4 Tech Interview is online, discussing the
next installment in the shooter series. There is
an earlier article on Eurogamer focusing on some of the details about plans
for a PC edition, suggesting it won't be an afterthought this time around
(thanks
VG247). Here are some of the excerpted comments from Mike Rayner, technical
director for The Coalition "Our focus on PC is to deliver a highly
optimised, customisable experience first and foremost," Rayner tells us.
"Support for v-sync tearing has recently come to UWP and we will be able to
offer proper unlocked frame-rate support that gamers expect on day one. With
Unreal Engine 4 and our own custom modifications, we can take much better
advantage of multiple CPU cores, alleviating the game from being CPU-bound and
allowing more room for the GPU to shine with enhanced visual quality or higher
framerates. Single-player will not be locked to 30fps on PC."
Our analysis of the Gears of War E3 stage demo shows a rock-solid 30fps
presentation at full 1080p resolution. The demo was confirmed by The Coalition
as running on Xbox One hardware, and it looks as though the developers are
repurposing console features in intriguing ways for the PC version.
Rayner also listed "a few items of note" the team are adding to the PC version.
In his own words:
- Dynamic resolution support (any resolution will be
supported with a sensible dynamic field of view - including ultra-wide).
- Increased texture resolution (up to 4K resolution
for select texture groups).
- A benchmark mode.
- Full keyboard/mouse input remapping (including
cover/run and roll split).
- Far more comprehensive video settings.
"Today we sit at 28 different settings and we're thinking of ways to add more
for people to really have full control," Rayner tells us. "Along with more
settings, we're putting extra time into making it clear what impact a setting
will have on GPU/CPU/VRAM so there is a clear correlation between a setting
change and its performance impact."
Coincidental with the second anniversary of the game's launch
on Steam, Heroes &
Generals celebrates another milestone, as developer Reto-Moto announces the
World War II MMOFPS now boasts more than eight million registered players. "We
built Heroes & Generals from the ground up to be a unique World War II game, and
to surpass 8 million players is an achievement that makes everyone at Reto-Moto
proud," says Martin Pollas, CEO at Reto-Moto. "To see players having fun in the
game every day is a continuous inspiration to the small but very dedicated team
of game developers at Reto-Moto striving to make the game even better." A
new post from today outlines the latest plans for the free-to-play game,
showing off an upcoming new heavy variant on the medium Sherman tank.
Football Manager 2016 has a toehold at number one on the
GFK Chart-Track U.K. PC top 30 chart after kicking The Sims 4 out of the top
spot. On the
all platforms top 40 for the week ending July 23rd LEGO Star Wars: The Force
Awakens retains the top spot and FIFA 16 jumps to number two.
This write-up has all
the details: Warner’s ‘Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ (-39%) holds on
to No1 for a fourth week in a row.
It now just needs one more to equal the record of 5 consecutive weeks for a Lego
title (‘Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes’ with 5 weeks back in 2012). There are no
new releases within the Top 40 and overall sales drop -29% over last week,
partly due to summer holidays and partly due to the spike from the special
retail shopping event during last week. As such we see EA’s ‘FIFA 16’ up 5
places to No2 (-13%), followed at No3 by Activision Blizzard’s ‘Overwatch’ which
climbs 1 place (-30%). Last week’s big new entry, Capcom’s 3DS ‘Monster Hunter
Generations’ (-66%) drops 6 places to No9. The Pokemon Go mobile phenomenon
continues to affect Pokemon 3DS software sales and 3 Pokemon 3DS games re-enter
the Top 40: ‘Pokemon Omega Ruby’ (No17), ‘Pokemon Alpha Sapphire’ (No24) and
‘Pokemon Y’ (No29). This week is the first full sales week since the mobile game
was launched in UK, which means that August will show a remarkable spike in
Pokemon sales and 3DS software and hardware, plus Nintendo’s share of the
market.
I finished my antibiotics on Friday, and am pretty confident that the last of my
Lyme symptoms are gone. This was pretty good timing, because being a skinny dude
I normally handle the hot weather pretty well, but the disease had severely
curtailed my superpower in this regard, so my ability to withstand the heat
returned just in time for the current heat wave. I did make an error in not
doing enough to protect myself from the sun, which is one of the things one
should do when on antibiotics, and while I managed to avoid a sunburn, the
farmer's tan on my arms is pretty ridiculous.
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