Bohemia's confirmed that Carrier Command: Gaea Mission will arrive on September 27, delivering two literal boatloads of wet and wild, action-strategy, island-hopping fun-times. They've also revealed a creepy trailer that strikes the tone of its futuristic war-waging, beneath which is an ominous countdown clock. Oh my, it's counting down from inside the house. Get out! Hold on, no, it's counting down to four o'clock tomorrow. Phew.
The results of June 2012’s Steam hardware survey have just been published on the Valve site, and there’s something interesting going on. According to the data, PC’s are getting slower.
Left 4 Dead 2's Cold Stream DLC is here. Well not here, but there, on your PC or Mac, having surreptitiously downloaded itself while you were fast asleep in bed, creeping on to your hard drive like a digital out of season Santa Claus. The free DLC, which has been in public beta since the dawn of time, officially ports the original Left 4 Dead's campaigns into Left 4 Dead 2, while also adding the community-created Cold Stream campaign. It also introduces a dash of a sprinkling of additional stuff, like freely available mutations, the ability to import L4D characters into the Source Filmmaker, and more! More!
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It’s clearly a loooooong way off; but since we now know Battlefield 4 exists, we can start speculating on what it might include. Here’s our wishlist for Battlefield 4. We’d love to know what you’d like to see, so let us know in the comments.
Riot have just released the Champion Spotlight for their newest hero: Zyra the Plant Mage. She’s a ranged magic user who uses plants to attack her enemies.
Barbarians, clearly feeling neglected in the wake of the Invulnerable Wizard exploit, have discovered a means to become semi-invulnerable themselves. It's not quite as powerful an exploit, as it simply makes permanent the effects of Furious Charge with Dreadnought Rune. That is: almost doubled weapon damage and 8% life regeneration each time you land a hit. For most barbarians, that's as good as invincible, and this exploit hasn't yet been hotfixed by Blizzard. There's a video of the trick in action below.
Consumer rights groups in no fewer than two countries are currently taking aim at Diablo 3. First, Germany is threatening legal action if Blizzard don't update the game's packaging to emphasise its always-online requirement. Meanwhile South Korea is fining Blizzard around £4,500 for failing to appropriately refund Korean customers following its extensive launch problems. Not a wonderful day for Blizzard, then.
Thinking of spending your days capturing wild animals, taming them, and then flogging them on the auction house, condemning them to a life of perpetual combat? And in World of Warcraft? Well, you can’t. In a post to the World of Warcraft forums, Blizzard developer Cory Stockton has noted that players will no longer be able to trade wild pets for the forthcoming World of Warcraft Pet Battles.
Well this is the creepiest thing I've seen all morning. nVidia have a long-held penchant for showcasing the capabilities of their graphics cards by turning all of their polygons into a single, sexy, dead-eyed butterfly woman before repeatedly crash zooming in on her face, panning around her normal-mapped, sub-surface scattered breasts and generally hoping they'd made their graphics so realistic that you attempt to climb into your monitor, destroying the screen and the moth-lady you loved so dearly. The result, instead, is a hilarious decade-old artefact of a pubsecent, sweaty-dicked games industry, the latest iteration of which can be seen below.
That glitch that allowed Diablo 3 wizards to become invulnerable? Blizzard have hotfixed it, rolling out a patch across all servers to make it so poking the magical bastards makes them bleed like any other class. A YouTube video has now surfaced showing the exploit being used as far back as one month ago, with some reports claiming the the invulnerability trick has been known, by some, about since launch. That's alarming if true, as in the hands of botters this exploit is a bit of a golden, invincible, loot-poopin' goose.
The Guild Wars 2 release date draws ever closer, and after the weekend’s beta, umm, weekend, Arena.net are in the final stages of their launch. The latest step; they’ve invited players to reserve their character names.
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Oh, unhappy day. The Steam sale has come to a close. On the one hand, I’m sad, because the daily refresh was a little bit of excitement in my otherwise dreary life. On the other, I’m happy, because the chances of wallet ending catastrophe has been averted. So: what did you get? What did you buy? And how are you enjoying your new purchases?
