Total War: ROME II Campaign map

A nice long look at the campaign map and some new gameplay

The guys over at Gamespot had Al Bickham from Creative Assembly over, to talk about Rome II and show off some new stuff.

We got to see how massive the new Campaign map is, as well as some new features and of course some nice battle footage. 

I feel the need to Conquer it all

During the video/interview Al Bickham hinted at some new multiplayer features that were being "tested" right now, more info is bound to come about that at a later date.
He also mentions that they are trying to make the minimum specs around the same as they were for Shogun 2, that way people with low end machines can still enjoy the game at a good framerate.

As I've said before, I am looking forward to Rome II quite a bit!

Deus Ex: Human Revolution Directors Cut no longer Wii-u exclusive

Damage Control after Deus Ex: "The Fail" ?

It seems that Square Enix has decided to make Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut for all platforms now ,and one would surmise that this is some form of damage control.

Everyone were outraged when the revealed the Directors Cut would only come out on Wii-U, and now with the recent announcement of Deus Ex: The Fall, that will only come out on Tablets/iOS, It seems like Square is desperate to not throw more blood in the shark infested waters.

Obviously it's a good thing that everyone else will be able to play the DC, but again : It's clearly an attempt to gain some good grace back.

Score!

"After our Director's Cut announcement we received an overwhelming response from the community asking us to bring this ultimate edition of Human Revolution to other platforms," said Stéphane D'Astous, General Manager of Eidos-Montréal.

"We're thrilled to accommodate that request. We can now say with pleasure, 'You asked for this!'"

 I'll most likely play it but there is now way in hell I am going to pay a full retail price for it.

Battlefield 4 Can DICE redeem themselves?

Well maybe, it looks good so far.

The only thing they need to give out info on is Squad-size (6 man squads is something we want back) Seems to be 5-man squads in the video, and if they have been stupid enough to make the Commander mode only accessible on tablets (hopefully not)

Anyways, I'll let this video talk for itself :

And here is the Commander mode trailer:

I'm actually aboard this particular train

DICE Hearts Battlefront

Hoth + Lasers + ATAT Foot in a few seconds long teaser

Well it's official , DICE is making the next Star Wars: Battlefront.

And they revealed this with something that looked like it came from Vine ,a mega short CGI teaser on Hoth, lasers, explosions and an ATAT foot.

ALL ABOARD!

10 Million gathered in just crowd-funding for Star Citizen

Star Citizen is now half-way to being completely funded without any Investors

With 10.000.000 $ reached in funding just moments ago, Star Citizen is now 50% -completely- funded via crowd-funding.

The thing is, 20.000.000 $ is the "complete" cost to actually make the game (office space, hiring staff, etc etc etc etc) and Chris Roberts has always stated that 20M $ would be the cost, with or without investors.

But since it has been going so well for Star Citizen, they have turned down investors, and now they can turn down even more investors.
The less money from investors, and the more money from the consumers, the better.
It means the only people they have to "answer" to is us : the consumers/backers, and not any private investors.

Reaching 10M$ also means that they can get their own Mo-Cap Studio.


Either way, at the end of the month there will be a 24-hour Live-stream right around the time that Star Citizen launches it's new (and much prettier) website.

Let's hear it for 10M$ more!

Internet spaceships is always serious business!

TitanFall

Futuristic Infantry and Mech combat

The last game to be shown off at Microsofts press conference was "TitanFall".

I'd describe it as if, Lost Planet , Call of Duty and Hawken had a threesome and the love child that was born got named TitanFall.

Luckily it's not Xbone exclusive, it seems it will be out on PC as well.

The gameplay they showed, featured infantry combat in first person (with "jetpacks) where you fought over "capture points" ,from what I could hear, the voice over said something a long the lines of "Secure that terminal, we need to get the guns off-line ,we are getting torn to pieces up here" .

In the skies above the combat zone 2 massive ships were flying around (Reminded me of good old Battlefield 2142), taking fire from said guns on the ground, these ships also appear to deliver your "Titans" which are mechs that can be called-down and then piloted by you.

All in all it looks interesting, however as usual, I'm sceptical until I get "hands-on".

CHOO CHOO

Xbone Price "Let's Fuck over Europeans"

Big company Math 499$=499€

So the Xbone is coming out in November 2013, as we all knew before, now we know the price will be 499$ in the US, and 499€ in EU ,429£ in the UK, BECAUSE WHY THE FUCK NOT? , everyone knows that 1$=1€=1£ Right?

Sheesh.

CHOO CHOO

RYSE, Xbone exclusive

RYSE shows of the kinerrrrr QTE's

RYSE was a game that had been on my radar since E3 2011, they showed off a "concept teaser trailer" then.
It's an XBOX-ONE exclusive as well it seems.

Old trailer

However what we were showed just now , was a bunch of Quick-time events and pretty graphics.

I hate QTE's, well let's see how the hell the kinect works for it.

CHOO CHOO

Metal Gear Solid : The Phantom Pain (Xbox One)

Snake get's to play in a dynamic open world

The next instalment of the MGS game series, will let you roam free in a massive open-world environment.

A trailer shown at the conference opened with Snake and another character riding horses through a desert. Through conversation, it is revealed that Snake is headed to Afghanistan. According to the trailer, the game will feature new kinds of stealth elements, various modes of transport and a realtime weather system.

CHOO CHOO

 

Dragon Age 3 at E3

Mark Darrah Executive Producer for Dragon Age Franchies hint's at DA 3 at E3

Earlier today the EP for the Dragon Age Franchise Tweeted  "Watch the @EA conference tomorrow at 1pm PST for something new from @DragonAge"

Dragon Age 3 is the next instalment in the Dragon Age series, and since it will be running in the Frostbite 3 Engine, one would assume that it will be out for PC, and next-gen consoles.

Concept Art

EA's press conference can be found over Here, and sadly I'll be watching it, mostly to see if DICE can redeem themselves with the Battlefield 4 Multi-player.

There's a quite neat "all in one" countdown site for all the E3 press conferences over Here as well.

CHOO CHOO

Watch Dogs E3 trailer leak

CGI-Trailer for E3 leaked

According to All Games Beta, the E3 trailer for Ubisofts new game Watch Dogs has been leaked, and is available as a direct DL from their site.

It's a CGI-trailer which shows off the protagonist: Aiden, going after a guy who's involved with Human-Trafficking, it shows of some of the "gameplay" elements albeit in CGI.

"Give me four seconds and a clear signal," Aiden says in the trailer. "I'll get in and you'll never know. But I want you to know. You're not anonymous. I've seen your kind before."

If they show off some proper gameplay on E3 I'll be a bit less reserved, Watch Dogs looks good and the concept sounds good, but I want to see the -whole- thing in action first.

 

To Hype or not to Hype, That is the question

 

E3

All aboard the Hype Train!

I'll be posting as much as possible during E3, I've been slacking the past few days, mostly due to a crappy sleeping pattern. So to anyone that have been checking back everyday (maybe one or two people) Sorry!

But with E3 just around the corner there will be massive amounts of pre-rendered "gameplay" teasers and the likes, that I can bash!

CHOO CHOO!

 

Deus Ex: The Fail *update*

Quick update regarding the video

The video has been up for 30 minutes, the internet and subsequently Twitter is on fire, oh and the video already has over 1.500 Dislikes, and here's hoping for a couple of hundred-thousand more.

"I never asked for this" comes to mind

I personally think this is one of the stupidest things I have seen this year ,well If we don't count the Xbox "Go home your drunk" one. Either way, completely alienating your fan-base and making something that -no one- has asked for is the pinnacle of stupidity.

I mean, did they sit at a board meeting and say "HMMMMMM How can we possibly outdo ourself in stupidity after we did the Directors Cut with extra features and only released it on one console as a gimmick? OH WAIT I KNOW! let's make it into a Tablet/Phone game" 

New info on Deus Ex: The Fall

Eidos-Montreál reveals Deus Ex: The Fall with a video

It's a game for iPad and iPhone.........

It starts of where the novel "Deus Ex: Icarus Effect" ended, and  you will be playing as the Former S.A.S operative Ben Saxon.

"We are back in 2027 -- a golden era for science, technology and human augmentation, but also a time of great social divide and global conspiracy. Ben Saxon, a former British SAS Mercenary who underwent physical augmentation, is desperate for the truth behind the drug conspiracy. Betrayed by his private military employers, the Tyrants, not only is his own life at risk, but for all augmented humans, time is running out..."

In the video they talk a bit about the game and show of some actual gameplay on an iPad.





Well my hopes and dreams went down the drain.

Keep on looking for the truth JC

 

Deus Ex: The Fall

New Deus Ex game teased via Twitter and Youtube

Yesterday it was discovered that Squre Enix had registered several domain names related to "Deus Ex The Fall".

And about 14 hours ago Eidos-Montréal tweeted out "Are YOU ready for The Fall?"

12 of hours later the official Deus Ex youtube channel had a new video uploaded.

They also tweeted out this "Who is Ben Saxon?" and Ben Saxon is one of the two protagonists in the book "Deus Ex: Icarus Effect" which was released in 2011.
Link to the Wiki with info on Ben Saxon can be found here

Now before the video was uploaded and only the Tweet was out, some sites logically assumed we would see something at E3, however the video has "05/06/13" plastered over it, and that does not correlate to E3 which kicks off June 11th.

Well I'm excited, and I hope they manage to pull something great off, but for the love of god Eidos, make sure to include ways to beat bosses other than direct confrontation in the -standard first run- of the game, and not some "Directors cut" that only comes out as a gimmick for -one- console.

Who is Ben Saxon?

Wasteland 2 shows off the inventory

inXlie's baby Wasteland 2 shows what it has in it's backpack.

There are quite a few Kickstarter games that's being developed right now, and sometimes you loose track of them all, today tough, we take a look at some new footage from Wasteland 2!

Wasteland 2 is the sequel to the open world sci-fi game that spawned the Fallout series.
It's also worth mentioning that Obsidian Entertainment is giving a helping hand in the development.

The rough release date is currently set for October 2013, and you can still help the development by "donating" some money over at the Wasteland2 homepage and you obviously will receive a copy of the game for this. (so you might as well call it a pre-order) 

EvE Online DDOS'd

EvE online and DUst 514 servers got ganked yesterday.

Around 02:00 UTC on June the 2nd CCP's servers came under fire from a DDOS (Distributed denial-of-service) attack. 

CCP's policy in these cases are "to mobilize a taskforce of internal and external experts to evaluate the situation."

However that taskforce quickly came to the conclusion that bringing the server clusters off-line were the best action at this point.

I would not want the job of physically rebooting CCP's main server room

In a news-post over at the EvE-online site CCP said :

"What we can now confirm is that a person was able to utilize a vulnerability in one of the back-end services that support the operation of the Tranquility server. This vulnerability has now been secured and thoroughly tested."

As of 10:13 UTC today (June 3rd) both the EvE and DUST514 servers are back up and running, and CCP will "compensate" players in some fashion, CCP is nice like that, even when it comes to stuff that really are out of their hands. 
The usual thing would be Skill-points which you can just apply to any skill you want, but nothing has been said yet on what the compensation will be.

The whole news-post can be found over at the EvE-online page Here

 

Dean Hall talks about pricing model for DayZ

DayZ standalone will most likely go the "Minecraft route"

In an interview with VG24/7 Dean Hall the creator of the ARMA 2 mod DayZ, discusses his plans on the pricing model for the upcoming DayZ standalone game.

He mentions that it will "most likely" go the so called Minecraft route, of letting players purchase the early Alpha, and that the price will subsequently go up during the beta , and then finally Retail.

Hall also points out that there may be some kind of "Special Edition" further along the road, but none of this is set in stone yet.

One important thing he also mentions is the fact that he want's to be 100% sure that they have enough server capacity, and at the beginning they might have to "stop" selling keys for a little while to circumvent any major server overloads. 

I'll probably throw my money at Hall and the dev team when they start with the sales, I enjoyed the Mod quite a bit when I played it "back in the day".

I love the taste of beans in the morning

SimCity: Get your puke bags ready

The new DLC "Amusement Park" is out for SimCity

So EA have released the "first" DLC for SimCity, and lo and behold, it let's you build an Amusement Park in your city.

Apparently they thought it was a good idea to add something that takes up even more space when the city area still is extremely small (wonder when the "larger city area DLC, only 14.99$" comes out?), well it's not that often EA listens to it's consumers anyways right?

"The Amusement Park is a tourist attraction similar to casinos and landmarks, however the way in which you use the Amusement Park is very different. We really wanted to add new content that not only enhances the look and appeal of your city, but also give you even more things to do as a Mayor. And that’s what this set does – in addition to managing your city like always, running a successful Amusement Park is almost a mini-game in itself. Sound fun?"

This DLC will set you back 10$ if your in the US, and as per usual, if you live outside the US, you just have to bend over and let EA have their way with you. 

As an example since i live in Sweden, I have to pay 16'ish $ (with today's exchange rate) due to EA's regular math of 10 $=100 KR when in fact it's 10 $=62 KR , now if I decided that this DLC would be worth my money, I'd rather buy it from GreenManGaming.

All the information of what this brand new DLC entails can be found here over at the SimCity homepage.

SimCity Amusement Park DLC in a nutshell