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Archived News:
UbiBlog
confirms that For Honor is now available for all platforms, allowing players to
get in touch with their inner samurai, knights, and Vikings. Here's the
previously released launch
trailer and here's word: The war horns have sounded and warriors
around the world are answering their call: For Honor is out today! The Samurai,
the Knights, and the Vikings have finally begun their war in earnest, and there
are 12 Heroes with unique movesets to help you carve out your place on the
battlefield. Whether you’re wading into the fray as the Shugoki, swinging your
heavy kanabo, or darting in with painful dagger strikes as the Peacekeeper, it’s
up to you to declare your allegiance and join the Faction War.
Every multiplayer match you play versus humans or AI, from 4v4 Dominion clashes
to 1v1 Duel showdowns, will contribute war assets to the Faction War, the
persistent metagame that chronicles the overall conflict between Knights,
Vikings, and Samurai. In-game rewards and intangible glory await those who fight
well during each 10-week season of Faction War, and the more you play, the more
you will be able to level up your Heroes, unlocking new feats, earning new gear,
and discovering new customization options.
For Honor’s innovative melee combat system also fuels the story campaign, in
which players will experience the war from each of the three factions’
perspectives and confront the sinister machinations of the bellicose Apollyon.
The campaign can be played solo or in online co-op. For Honor is available now
for PC, Xbox One, and PS4, and season pass holders can look forward to new
Heroes, maps, modes, and gear in the coming months.
Continue here to read the full story.
The new patch is now live in Heroes of the Storm, with the promised addition of Lúcio as the newest character in Blizzard's MOBA.
This post has a
detailed look at how the transplanted Overwatch medic works.
This post has all
the details on the patch, including changes to Lúcio since his run on the PTR as
well as Murky's rework and other updates. They also kick off a "For Azeroth"
event, which rewards players for playing Warcraft heroes, since they barely
constitute half of the game's character base. Here's word on the new hero:
From the streets of Rio to the clubs on King’s Row, Lúcio’s beats bring
the party to life, and drive the people to action! Now he’s on tour in the
Nexus, ready to break it down, and to continue fighting for what’s right.
Read on for a breakdown of a few of Lúcio’s talents, a spotlight video, and some
tips and tricks around drafting Lúcio, Freedom Fighting DJ!
Though the
Apocalypse Now Kickstarter is still running, but
The Verge notes this campaign is being superseded by a new one running on
the Apocalypse Now website. The
Kickstarter only raised a small portion of its $900K goal, but the new campaign
more ambitiously seeks $5.9 million to "maintain creative freedom and produce a
daring and intense game about the horrors of war." If you picture a game based
on the war movie to be like Fallout New Vegas on acid in Vietnam, then you might
want to back this, because that is exactly what they are promising. Here's more
of the pitch: Apocalypse Now is going to be a video game.
You are an assassin. You've been given the most dangerous, most secret and most
controversial special forces mission in U.S. History.
But this game is not Call of Duty: Vietnam. You will sneak. You will hide. You
will gather resources. You will build your character. You will kill when
necessary.
To maintain creative freedom and produce a daring and intense game about the
horrors of war, the project is being financed outside the traditional system. We
want your support, please back this game.
BOOR is now available on
Steam, offering a 2D puzzle/platformer for Windows, OS X, and Linux. Word
is: "BOOR is a 2D puzzle-platformer game, where you play as a girl with the
ability to multiply herself, stranded on Eden, a beautiful but strange world,
full of challenging puzzles with platforming elements and a refreshing
gameplay." Here's a
trailer showing how that works, and here's more: Eden is a human
colony far from Earth. To develop a better society, settlers made an artificial
intelligence, BOOR, to help them, but this machine turned against them. When a
little girl accidentally lands on the planet of Eden, she discovers BOOR has
taken over and there are only a few survivors left. With her special ability to
multiply herself, she'll help them destroy BOOR and reclaim the world.
Continue here to read the full story.
Sólfar Studios now offer Everest VR for Oculus Rift and Touch, attacking a new
summit with this mountain climbing game previously exclusive to the HTC Vive.
They say this includes new content, and they provide
this trailer with a
look at what to expect. Here's word: Virtual reality developer Sólfar
Studios’ EVEREST VR is now available for Oculus Rift with support for the
recently released Oculus Touch controllers. EVEREST VR, developed in partnership
with Nordic visual effects and animation house RVX, is an immersive and
interactive recreation of summiting Mt. Everest that is both realistic and
emotionally stunning. Following its successful launch in August 2016 for the HTC
Vive, EVEREST VR has earned critical acclaim for its impressive visual quality,
with UploadVR calling it, “nothing short of breathtaking,” and Polygon stating
that “the views are amazing.” Rift owners can immediately download the
experience via Oculus Home for $14.99.
“Our team has worked tirelessly to optimize EVEREST VR for Oculus Rift,” said
Kjartan Pierre Emilsson, co-founder and CEO of Sólfar Studios. “We’ve made
numerous content updates to ensure that users have the most visually accurate
experience of ascending Mt. Everest, including an expansion to our ‘God Mode’
and the addition of The Lhotse Face ascent. We’re particularly proud of the
addition of the 1953 Hillary expedition photographs to the experience, which
brings an entirely new documentary lens to the experience of being on the
mountain in VR.”
Continue here to read the full story.
Paradox Interactive celebrates the fifth anniversary of the release of
Crusader Kings II, their "game about Medieval conquest, intrigue, diplomacy,
and faith." It's not every day that a game turns five (actually it probably is),
so they are pulling out all the stops with the release of a portrait pack and
the promise of a video tomorrow: To mark this milestone, Paradox will
dedicate much of 2017 to celebrating Crusader Kings II and its community. The
first step in this year of modern medieval pageantry is to give away a free
portrait pack to everyone that owns Crusader Kings II. This South Indian
portrait pack will add more color and personality for those who fight for
control of the great subcontinent. The pack is available
here.
And then tomorrow the celebrations continue with a celebratory video from
LongGameShort.
His humorous animated videos are firm favorites of the Dev team and the
community, so it seemed only right to involve him in our celebrations!
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Anew- The Distant Light by Resonator — Kickstarter. "An open-world
action game for fans of single-player adventures. Battle, puzzle, and
explore an exotic alien landscape. Anew: The Distant Light is an indie game
currently in pre-alpha. It is being created by veteran developers Steve
Copeland and Jeff Spoonhower, with an original soundtrack by Wilbert Roget
II." Also on
Steam Greenlight. Here's
a
trailer.
GeForce website now offers new GeForce version 378.66 WHQL drivers for
Windows. These are updated to provide an optimal experience playing For Honor,
Halo Wars, and Sniper Elite 4 along with NVIDIA Ansel support for
Paragon. For those interested in further details, they also have new
articles on
For Honor PC-exclusive effects and features and
Halo Wars 2 extras and system requirements. Here are the specs for the
upcoming Halo RTS game, though they obviously ignore AMD CPUs and GPUs:
Minimum Requirements
- OS:64-bit Windows 10
- DirectX version:DirectX 12 (feature level 11)
- CPU: Intel Core i5-2500
- GPU:GeForce GTX 650 Ti
- Memory: 6GB
- HD space:25 GB
Recommended Requirements
- OS:64-bit Windows 10
- DirectX version:DirectX 12 (feature level 11)
- CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K
- GPU:GeForce GTX 1060
- Memory: 8GB
- HD space:25 GB
Steam News announces
that Sniper Elite 4 is now available
on Steam, offering the
latest installment in this sharpshooting series. Word is: "Discover unrivaled
sniping freedom in the largest and most advanced World War 2 shooter ever built.
Experience tactical third-person combat, gameplay choice and epic longshots
across gigantic levels as you liberate wartime Italy from the grip of Fascism."
Here's more on the game: Discover unrivalled sniping freedom in the
largest and most advanced World War 2 shooter ever built. Experience tactical
third-person combat, gameplay choice and epic longshots across gigantic levels
as you liberate wartime Italy from the grip of Fascism.
Set in the aftermath of its award-winning predecessor, Sniper Elite 4 transports
players across the beautiful Italian peninsula, from sun-drenched Mediterranean
coastal towns, to ancient forests, mountain valleys and colossal Nazi
megastructures.
Covert agent and elite marksman Karl Fairburne must fight alongside the brave
men and women of the Italian Resistance and defeat a terrifying new threat with
the potential to halt the Allied fightback in Europe before it’s even
begun.
The Battlefield 1
website details the new Winter Update that's now live in DICE's first-person
shooter. This adds ribbon awards, Elite Codex unlocks, new max class ranks, new
rent-a-server features, and more. There are also dozens of bug fixes and balance
tweaks. Here's word: We’re happy to share with you some of the features
we’ve been working on the last couple of months. In the Battlefield 1 Winter
Update we’re bringing back the ever-popular ribbons from previous Battlefield
titles. We’ve also heard your request to up Class Rank caps from 10. The new max
Class Rank is now 50. Oh, and there will be unlockables on the way to maxing
your Class Rank.
There are plenty of other new features and improvements, both big and small, in
the Battlefield 1 Winter Update. We look forward to seeing you on the
Battlefield!
Kotaku has a follow-up to a recent
round of Overwatch bans in Korea. At the time it was mentioned that one of
the problems with these bans is how much of the cheating in the territory is
done at cybercafés, so the bans don't actually hit the culprits. They offer a
translation of this post
explaining the way these café licenses will change. Word is: Starting
February 17, it will be necessary to log in with a Korean Battle.net account at
the country’s PC bangs. Meaning? It won’t be possible to use those freebie
accounts.
Korean Battle.net accounts require more personal information, including a Korean
social security number. That means if someone is banned, then they’ll have to
find another social security number to enter, which should deter hackers who
previously could easily create another free one.
Blizzard announced that it will roll this same practice out for Diablo III and
StarCraft II in South Korea at a later date.
Frontier Developments explains they have ended sales of Elite Dangerous Arena,
the standalone combat spinoff of Elite Dangerous, their space sim (thanks
Eurogamer). They say most players are accessing Arena through the main game
client anyway, and that ending the standalone version will mean they have fewer
builds to support, though they also say that those who already own Arena will be
able to access the game as before. Here's the explanation, which was posted a
few days ago on the
Frontier Forums by senior community manager Edward Lewis: 'Elite
Dangerous: Arena will be removed from sale on Steam, Frontier store, and on the
Xbox store. This change is planned for later today.
We’ve been looking at our metrics which suggest that the vast majority of new
and regular Arena players tend to play Arena through the main Elite Dangerous
client rather than the standalone Arena one. We’ve made the decision to remove
the standalone version of Elite Dangerous: Arena in order to reduce the number
of builds that have to be maintained and managed across Steam, Xbox One and in
2Q'17 PlayStation Network, as well as clarifying the choices for new players of
Elite Dangerous on these storefronts.
Elite Dangerous: Arena continues to be available and supported as part of the
wider Elite Dangerous game. Existing and new players that join the Elite
Dangerous galaxy will continue to be able to enjoy the fast-paced action of
Arena through the main menu. Existing Elite Dangerous: Arena client owners will
still be able to enjoy Arena as they have always done.
Not much change but we just wanted to give you a quick heads up, to avoid any
confusion.'
Rock, Paper, Shotgun -- Steam Could Be Easily Fixed, If Only They Used
Humans.
"Yet Valve haven’t shown any sign that they’d consider that approach, or
that they see it as a possibility. It’s a task that could be completed by a
team of ten. Game is submitted to the store. Human plays game, finds it
doesn’t work. Human emails developer and says, “This game doesn’t work, fix
and resubmit.” Done. Even here, developers could benefit as well as people
buying from the store. In some cases, they might avoid that first flurry of
negative reviews, sparked by poor first impressions. Curation might not be
the the greatest job in the world, but it isn’t carrying rebar or cleaning
prison toilets. Hell, it’s a way into Valve. (And no, I have no time for the
nonsense about no job titles – even if it were true, they damn well need
some.)
Every solution they mention is always outward focused, about getting the
community to “crowdsource” the fix, about shifting the responsibility
further away from them in the guise of “opening it up to the users” or
whatever ridiculous phrasing might be used. This isn’t a beautiful
democracy, this is one of the richest corporations in the industry
outsourcing their responsibilities to their customers. We don’t know why it
is this way, whether it’s due to errant policy or dysfunction, but so far
there doesn’t appear to be any plan to change that aspect of the store."
Happy Valentine's Day! I am actually a bachelor for the occasion for the first
time in a long time. MrsBlue's new job I mentioned yesterday began already, and
she is spending a couple of days a week in Pennsylvania, which includes today.
So it's me and the Gunnar-man on our own. I'm thinking we'll order a pizza and
play some Rock Band. Here's hoping you enjoy your plans, even if you are flying
solo.
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