The underlying suggestion of the new Wildstar video is that death will be behind every corner of its colourful MMO world. If you’re a soldier you will be killed in combat; a scientist, you’ll be killed by the things you’re researching; explorer, by the world you’re investigating; and, settler, by everyone else.
It looks like a lot of fun.
Yes, Battlefield 4 will have bullets, explosions, and tanks. We knew that. We expected that. But Dice are keen to show us that there’s so much more to their shooter, it has quiet reflective periods too.
That’s why the latest batch of screenshots show a soldier in a practically Wordsworthian repose.
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Metro: Last Light is a really very good time waiting to be had in a pipe under the ground, if our Steve’s review is anything to go by. But is it such fun that you’ll want to spend all season with it, from now til the leaves begin to fade? Til the last bit of lovely pink blossom has long since been trampled beneath a post-apocalyptic Russian boot? I’ll let you decide that, with recourse to newly announced details of the game’s DLC schedule.
When you played the original Half-Life, it was Marc Laidlaw’s words that instilled that sense of foreboding in your bones as the tram wove its way through Black Mesa. It was his books, The Orchid Eater and The 37th Mandala, that clogged up Gordon Freeman’s locker. And it was by his hand that Alyx Vance became your first embarrassing digital love.
Now he shares an office with Chet Faliszek and Erik Walpaw, where they work on the Portal series, and the shock of Episode 2’s killer twist recedes in the memory. But Laidlaw hasn’t forgotten about Half-Life. More specifically, he hasn’t forgotten about Dr. Breen.
I want you to think of your favourite competitive multiplayer map of all time. Got it? Right, hold it there. Now: can you tell me what the temperature is, on your map? How about the surface gravity? If your map is from a sci-fi shooter, could you name what planet it’s on? Or its relative position in an alien galaxy?
I don’t know whether or not MechWarrior Online’s Canyon Network is going to become anybody’s new favourite map, but you’re about to get to know it very well indeed.
Call of Duty: Ghosts was revealed yesterday, presumably via judicious use of one of those Psycho Kinetic Energy meters from Ghostbusters. It’s another “What if?” oppression fantasy about Americans losing everything and having to fight like the guerillas they’re used to beating. And it has a dog! That’s important.
All of this was conveyed in swirling pools of moving images at a hundred miles-an-hour. You probably can’t even remember most of them. Remember that shot at 10m24s? Exactly. What I have for you here are safe, reliable stills. Look at them now or look at them later, they’ll be exactly the same.
Front and centre of last night’s Xbox jockfest was Ignite, the appropriately inspirational-sounding engine built to power the next generation of EA Sports games, including the new FIFA. Oh sorry, did I say the new FIFA? I meant the new FIFA on Xbox One and PlayStation 4. FIFA 14 on PC will run on hamsters, or something.
Oh joyous day, kaloo kalay! Thief is on the Teletexbox!
Am I doing it right? The truth is I’m a bit concerned about the Thief reboot’s close allegiance to the now-here next-gen. By the time of its release next year, the new consoles will still be in their nappies. Maybe Thief will become one of those long-launch sleeper hits. Or maybe... well, it doesn’t bear thinking about. In any case, the announcement means we get to take in another vignette from Eidos Montreal’s take on The City.
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One of the more tangible selling points of Microsoft’s new smart TV is Kinect That Actually Works - a lagless version of the movement-tracking tech first introduced for PC at the beginning of last year. Thankfully, you won’t have to buy a new console at launch price to get access to the updated device.
If Microsoft were playing the Pyramid Stage of yesterday’s Glastonbury of Games, Blizzard were Radiohead, showing up unannounced to steal the show from a tiny tea-tent. To mark Diablo 3’s first anniversary, the developers last night unveiled an infographic fit to burst with astonishingly large numbers. It transpires that 14.5 million unique players have passed through Sanctuary, and together racked up a total of 2.8 billion hours. That’s an average playtime of just over 193 hours each.
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Epic Space Online is a Member Supported MMO Universe that is ever persistent and ever expanding. You play as a pilot among many all trying to live their lives in a small pocket of space.
You have limited resources, and limited ammo, but the universe that you play in has no borders or...
Battlefield 4 will launch on PC on October 29. As with the launch of Battlefield 3, pre-orderers will be granted a free copy of the first DLC pack, which will be China Rising. The DLC promises a "fight for dominance across the vast and majestic Chinese mainland in four massive maps, using all-new vehicles and high-tech military equipment.” Is this date announcement the big reveal we were told to expect, or is something bigger looming just beyond our line of sight? Keep eyes on us, soldier. We'll give you intel as soon as we know.
Residents of Neverwinter might feel like a certain bow-tie wearing Time Lord has been at work, but that’s not the case. MMO beta Neverwinter has been rolled back by a few days to undo the damaged caused by an exploit found in the Auction House and Astral Diamond Exchange.
Earlier this evening/morning a rather big corporation revealed a pretty massive glossy box that plays TV shows and does Skype calls at the same time. Also at this announcement was the reveal of the new Call of Duty trailer, because apparently those games are pretty big with their target audience. It’ll be on PC too though, so that’s pretty cool. Call of Duty Ghosts promises to be a more human experience, with a brand new world, somber music, a loveable doggy, and massive explosions.
Door Kickers is an interesting little title from Romanian indie studio KillHouse Games. The game does indeed allow you to kick in doors (and also blow them up), but that’s just the start. This is a SWAT real-time tactics game that looks like a smart blend of Hotline Miami and Frozen Synapse.
Reboots are seriously vogue right now. They’re happening every day. Only yesterday we reported that 1984 classic Deus Ex Machina was being revived. Now mech arena shooter Heavy Gear is being reassembled with a new game based on the Unreal 4 engine. Stompy Bot Productions are looking for $800,000 to make Heavy Gear Assault.
NCSoft has announced they’re slashing $10 from the price of Guild Wars 2, and this is no special offer. The exceptionally successful MMO will remain at this lower price forever (or at least until the next drop). Effective today, you can pick the game up for £34.99/$49.99.
One of the many nice things about Heart of the Swarm has been how it’s made the Zerg a much more flexible and interesting faction to watch. That really hit home for me yesterday watching the first group of the WCS America round of 16, where Norwegian Zerg Jens “Snute” Aasgaard showed off the variety of play with Heart of the Swarm Zerg, and his own resilience as a player.
You can watch last night’s play over on Twitch: his series against NesTea starts at 9:30, and his series against Alicia (highly recommended) starts at 2:15:30. The MLG-operated WCS America continues tonight (and every night this week save Friday) at 11 PM UK / 6PM Eastern. Tonight, however, the WCS America broadcast is preceded by the first-ever SHOUTcraft America Grand Finals, between Sam “Kane” Morrissette and Ryan “State” Visbeck. It starts at 8 PM UK / 3 PM Eastern and streams via TotalBiscuit’s Twitch channel.
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Wargaming.net are all about planting the odd strategic feather or necessary paperweight on one end or the other of the perpetual seesaw that is MMO balancing. And in World of Tanks’ 8.6 update, that means a complete overhall to the game's artillery tier system.
