Archived News:
Steam News announces
that Faeria is
free for the next 24 hours. The post doesn't clarify, but this is permanent.
Adding the game to your account before 7:00 pm EDT tomorrow will allow you to
keep it forever. Here's word: For a limited time, get Faeria for free!*
Faeria combines the core values of Strategy Card Games together with a Living
Board, giving you the ability to shape the board as you play to create
mind-blowing strategies. Each game of Faeria is not only unique, beautiful and
fast-paced but also highly competitive with upcoming features such as an
observer mode and integrated tournaments.
*Offer ends August 10th at 4pm Pacific.
A new patch is now available in Heroes of the Storm, Blizzard's MOBA. The main
feature of the new version is the new hero Auriel, and they celebrate with
Auriel Hero Week.
There are other changes as well, and you can read all about them in
these patch notes.
Here's a bit on Auriel: As the eternal embodiment of hope, it should come
as no surprise that Auriel’s favored role on the battlefield is one of a
backline support, bestowing clarity, hope, and healing to her allies through the
use of her Cord of Hope, Al’maiesh. This archangel is no stranger to the chaos
of battle however, as countless hell demons could certainly attest to her deadly
abilities during the Eternal Conflict. Now descending from the High Heavens and
into the Nexus, we will see what comes of those who hope to stand against Auriel!
Continue here to read the full story.
Finnish developer Frozenbyte now offers a free content update for Shadwen.
Titled Escape from the Castle, this is available for the stealth game on
Windows, OS X, and Linux. As may be inferred from the title, this reverses the
original campaign's infiltration goal. The game is also currently on sale for
half-off on GOG.com,
Humble Store, and
Steam. Here's more:
The levels are reverse and remade versions of the ones in the orignal
campaign - the objective now is to escape from the King's Castle!
The difficulty curve in the new content has been increased and players are
encouraged to search for hidden treasure maps scattered around the levels!
The update also includes numerous bug fixes and some tweaks to the game's
AI.
Heart&Slash is now available for Windows and OS X
on Steam following a
Kickstarter and early access. Publisher BadLand Games calls this a "robotic
roguelike/3D brawler-hybrid." If that doesn't paint a picture for you, they
offer this trailer to
help. Here's more: Take on the role of Heart, a malfunctioning robot, and
fight for your identity against the monolithic QuAsSy (Quality Assurance
Systems) -- an evil machine obsessed with robots that look and sound the same.
Meet Slash -- dashing veteran of the Robolution. Can you capture Slash's
attention over several playthroughs? Fair warning: Each quest is an opportunity
to woo (or anger!) the old-timer. Your choices will define the relationship
between the two robots. Go for a killing blow, and you might end the
relationship before it even begins. Choose love, and victory could slip through
your mechanical fingers ...
Continue here to read the full story.
This trailer offers a
look at the remastered version of BioShock (thanks
DSOGaming). This is part of the recently
announced BioShock collection, showing graphical improvements for the first
game in the series. Word is, "Relive the depths of Rapture and sail through
Columbia in BioShock: The Collection! Remastered for current-gen, this edition
includes all three #BioShock games, complete with all single-player DLC and a
never-before-seen video series with commentary from Ken Levine. Available
September 13, 2016 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC." Continue here to read the full story.
Here's another new
video showing off the Vanguard role in LawBreakers. Boss Key introduced
the Vanguard yesterday and follow with
a clip showing how it should be played. Word is, "The devs at Boss Key have put
together a video to share tips, tricks and everything else you need to know to
dominate with our Vanguard role in LawBreakers. He’s your run n’ gunner, but
also a killer support class." Continue here to read the full story.
Bethesda Softworks offers fans of The Evil Within and Rage hope
that follow-ups to one or both games are still possible (thanks
VG247).
Speaking with finder.com.au, Bethesda's Pete Hines tells them each game did
well enough to warrant a sequel. This topic has come up before, in particular
about Rage, id Software's 2011 first-person shooter.
In 2013 Hines said
whether a Rage sequel was coming was "TBD," and shortly after that Tim Willits
stated that the franchise was "not dead." When
asked about sequels to both games they say Hines didn't hesitate before saying
yes. He expands on that in a follow-up answer: Pete Hines: I can’t talk
about the unannounced stuff and what we may or may not do. I get myself in
trouble whenever I do that. Even when we were talking about the Morrowind
Remaster, if I come out and say, ‘I just don’t think that is going to happen,’
then people freak out. So I won’t confirm or deny stuff we may or may not do, as
people jump to the wrong conclusions. But I do think both The Evil Within and
Rage did well enough that we could make sequels. Personally I loved Rage and had
a tonne of fun playing it, but we have a lot of stuff in the pipeline right now
so you will have to wait and see.
AMD Support announces the release of new version 16.8.1 Crimson reference
drivers for AMD graphics cards. Among other things, these add support for Radeon
RX 470 and Radeon RX 460 graphics cards and a Crossfire profile for F1 2016.
This list outline other fixes: Fixed Issues
- Max memory overclock available on Radeon RX 480
being too low in Radeon WattMan has been resolved.
- Overwatch™ may experience an application crash on
some Radeon™ RX 480 configurations when using AMD Crossfire technology mode.
- The Division poor Crossfire scaling may be
experienced in some low resolution configurations when using AMD Crossfire
technology mode.
- DOTA2™ may experience lower than expected
performance when in AMD Crossfire mode.
- Radeon Settings may not report the correct Vulkan™
driver or API version information.
- Firefox™ may experience an application crash when
hardware acceleration is enabled for content playback.
- Low frame rate or stutter may be experienced
Wolfenstein®: The Old Blood™ on Radeon™ RX 480.
- Updating drivers through Radeon Settings may
sometimes fail with an error message.
Shiver Games offers a Lucius Demake for Windows
on Steam. This takes the
original Lucius back to
the 80s with throwback graphics and style. They also offer a bundle of this
along with the first two Lucius games at a discount. Here's
a trailer with a look
at this. Here's word on how this generated from a fan project: Lucius
Demake is a reimagining of the original Lucius game, made to look as if it is
actually from the late 80s, complete with 2D pixel graphics and 16 colors. Why
did Shiver Games decide to do something like this? It all started when Gergely
Sinkó, a fan of the original game, created a mock-up concept picture: The image
resonated with the team so much that they decided Lucius needed to be completely
reborn in the 1980s. Shiver Games reached out to Gergely and asked him to
recreate the whole game with them in his distinctive style. He was hired and the
devil's son was born again – this time, with only twelve pixels.
Continue here to read the full story.
I want to express my appreciation for one of the greatest hitters in the history
of baseball as he nears the end of his career. I'm tricking you into think I'm
talking about Alex Rodriguez, but you may know me too well already to fall for
that. Congrats to
Ichiro Suzuki on his 3,000th career hit. Ichiro is an amazing baseball
player, still productive at age 42, and is one of the classier players of our era.
He also managed to rack up 1,278 hits in Japanese ball so his 4,278 hits
professional hits is an all-time record. Hat's off to Ichiro, one of the
all-time greats.
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