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