Marvel Games creative director
Bill
Rosemann tweets that "PC fixes are on the way" to help deal with
the
recent release of
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance and
Marvel: Ultimate
Alliance 2 on Steam,
which turned out to have
a
bunch of problems (thanks
Destructoid). Details are short, but he expresses optimism, saying, "#UltimateAlliance
update! MUA1 DLC and PC fixes are on the way! More details to follow from
@Activision soon!"
The
Dota 2
website has word from Valve that they have opened up
The International website
in preparation for the upcoming main event in their annual
Dota 2 tournament.
Things get underway on August 8th in Seattle, and they have details on how to
view the action in person, though a live stream, or via the new Dota 2 VR hub as
teams vie for a prize pool that currently stands at over $19 million. They say:
Today we’re launching
The International website,
where you can find info about the tournament format, how to watch the matches,
and the rosters of teams attending the event. You can also find links to our
social media feeds and this year’s Secret Shop. Once the games begin, continue
to check in for live matches, replays, and tournament schedule and bracket
updates.
Steam News announces
the release of
Super Kaiju
in early access, offering first crack at this virtual reality game about
cancelling the apocalypse. This requires an HTC Vive or Oculus Rift headset (see
the update below), but
not even a drop of drift compatibility. Here's
a trailer and here's
word:
The Early Access release of Super Kaiju is here! We are extremely excited
to get new players into the game, and to hear your feedback. Being an Early
Access game, some of the feature are still a little rough around the edges (or
even missing). But rest assured, we are determined to push out frequent updates
to the game to bring it to a level where it is the most intense competitive
multiplayer VR game on the market.
How to play:
Super Kaiju is a first person arena shooter where two players utilize the power
of giant Kaiju’s in a battle to the death. The end goal is simple, destroy the
other player before he destroys you.
Update: A post to our forums
(thanks HoSpanky) points out that this seems to require touch controllers, so
this may not work for Rift owners in spite of it claiming compatibility, since
touch controllers for the Rift still don't even have a release date.
Update 2: The logo for the Oculus Rift was eventually removed, so this
is just a Vive title at this time.
This post notes Rift support will come with the touch controllers, and that
they are also working on gamepad support. Continue here to read the full story.
Well Microsoft's free Windows 10 upgrade offer ended yesterday. I wonder how
well their strong-arm tactics worked in improving penetration of the new OS?
They missed their chance with me, because I have no interest in updating my
Windows 7 PC, though they totally could have gotten my on my laptop if they had
extended the offer to older versions. This relic is still running Windows Vista,
of all things, and if it is capable of running Win10, that would probably be an
improvement. What it would definitely improve is that machine's ability to
update itself. I don't use it that often (obviously, or I wouldn't be putting up
with Vista), and when I fired it up recently it took about a full day to process
and install all the Windows updates it needed. This has apparently become a
widespread problem with Vista over the course of time, with some users
expressing suspicions that this is another of Microsoft's ways of forcing
upgrades. I hope that's not the case, as that might be a harbinger of what could
eventually happen to Windows 7.
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