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Another casualty in the great console exclusivity war has taken place in the form of the bleak, post-apocalyptic survival title, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, or The Chinese Room’s latest game that doesn’t involve avoiding murderous pig monsters. Probably.
Don’t worry, you can unclench your buttocks. As a video game made in 2013, Total War: Rome 2 will have paid-for DLC, but today Creative Assembly have confirmed that their cavalcade of post-release content isn’t all destined to end life as a line on your bank statement. Alongside the additional purchases, the developers are planning to sprinkle in some free content updates and support.
Thanks to my photographic memory (read: access to the internet), I can point you to the last time we scouted turn-based strategy Battle Worlds: Kronos. That was in March, when the Kickstarter project hit its funding goal. It subsequently went on to more than double the £120,000 target, finishing on $260,235. Now the developers are drawing out their battle plans, and have picked a mid-November date for the game’s release.
The DayZ standalone no longer has a release date, as Dean Hall explained to Joystiq this week at Gamescom. The delay is for a very good reason, however – the team are waiting for the game’s “core network architecture” to be completed, which is a fairly important aspect in a complex multiplayer title like DayZ. More details after the break.
Levolution, much like Bifidus Digestivum, is a term which means different things to different people. For instance, to me it means ‘*vomits entire guts out*’, while DICE interpret it as meaning ‘Battlefield 4 features more dynamic multiplayer maps’. Language is brilliant like that. DICE demonstrate this increased dynamism in the game’s latest trailer, which shows a player manipulating car alarms, light switches and doors to get the edge/lose the edge in battle. It’s nifty stuff. But that’s nothing compared to the “massive game-changing events” like, um, flooding the whole bally map.
A week is a long time when you’re riding the PC gaming news bus. After ten days of announcement bumps and trailer plotholes, you’d be forgiven for not remembering Amplitude Studios’ mysterious announcement for Dungeon of the Endless. Luckily, we can turn this vehicle around with a link. If you’re all caught up, let’s get this engine started, because a new trailer reveals more about the game.
Simon Roth’s sci-fi survival game Maia continues to astound; in this showcase for the latest alpha version (0.32), Roth demonstrates base building, a process that promises to be regularly interrupted/made better by the addition of meteorite strikes and tremors. In a later update this will cause your colony’s staff to temporarily cease working (wusses) in order to shield themselves against the planet Maia’s primal rumblings. It’s a terrifically atmospheric, beautifully lens flary video, and another sign that Roth’s game is headed down the right track.
Star Citizen backers are going to get their first taste of the game next week. Not that they’ll be chomping on a large slice of galactic adventure, or even chewing a section of slowly roasted ship combat. Instead, they’ll get to nibble tenderly at the hangar module – the first amuse-bouche that will eventually grow into a full space sim meal. Is it lunchtime yet?
Guns, dismemberment, penis jokes and gore – if you were worried that games might somehow abandon these things, don’t be. Shadow Warrior is living, wangy proof. Flying Wild Hog’s (Hard Reset) reboot of the old PC game has a new trailer, and with it a release date: it seems we’ll be slicing and dicing demons on September 26th.
EA getting a Humble Bundle sounds like a thing that should raise eyebrows, but considering how much money is being raised for charity right now – and how many normally-quite-expensive games can be had for pocket money – I’m finding that my cynicism chip is just not activating. The explosion-studded bundle has raised nearly $8.5 million already, with EA’s entire share going to charities the Human Rights Campaign, watsi, the American Cancer Society, the American Red Cross, and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. In addition to the likes of Dead Space 3, Mirror’s Edge and Battlefield 3, you can now get C&C: Red Alert 3 – Uprising and Populous if you pay over the average of $4.84.
