The Gaming News Thread

[Fragony]

Interesting http://www.gamespot.com/articles/rep.../1100-6417875/

I don't own a ps4 yet, but this just might make me jump on earlier then I expected I would.

[Fragony]

Thief 4 reviews are in, everything screams meh.

[I of the Storm]

That seems to be the case indeed. Unfortunately, it is precisely the echo I expected...

[Crazed Rabbit]

Apparently Creative Assembly is making an Alien game;


A cautiously optimistic preview;
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014...-isolation-pc/

We have all been burned by past Alien games and I would like us to maintain a healthy scepticism about Creative Assembly’s recently unveiled Alien: Isolation, which I went to see and play just before the turn of the year. With this in mind, I believe it an obligation, before we begin discussing this new threat, to observe a moment of silence in which we can all remember the brave souls we lost to the Colonial Marines disaster.

*an eerie hush envelopes the world as billions of people solemnly mute Spotify*

Thank you.

The good news is that, despite keeping that scepticism intact, my recent hands-on with Isolation has given me cause for hope. With luck (and no small amount of effort from the development team) we are a little closer to having an Alien game that actually captures the feel of the original movie.

CR

[Gregoshi]

Apparently Creative Assembly is making an Alien game;

A cautiously optimistic preview;
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014...-isolation-pc/

I bet the Aliens will have Flaming E.T.s.

[Crazed Rabbit]

I read about the game 'Banished';


Which apparently is a rather hardcore settlement building game just released, as exemplified in this series of screenshots; http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/03/13/ba...harsh-winters/

After The PCG Herald heard about the town’s struggle to survive in the wilderness, I was dispatched as a field reporter to document its early years. What I found was a harsh reality where 10-year-olds work fields in driving rain and snow, a bad harvest kills families, and a single misstep leaves the town frozen during winter. In the end I was embedded in Dolothia for 25 years, chronicling its struggles and triumphs in photos and timelapse gifographs. This is the life of a Banished town.

In other settlement builder news, Gaslamp Games is making a sort of dwarf fortress game set in Victorian times in a world of "Lovecraftian horrors" called Clockwork Empires.



CR

[easytarget]

Here's an RPS article on it: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014...pires-preview/

[drone]

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/0...for-2-billion/

So much for the Oculus.

Wonder how much Carmack gets to walk away with.

[Gregoshi]

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/0...for-2-billion/

So much for the Oculus.

Wonder how much Carmack gets to walk away with.

On the bright side, funding for the Oculus just hit the jackpot.

[Husar]

I guess it will demand that developers integrate virtual 3D Like-buttons in their games, so that you can Like the 2nd legion in Rome 2 right from your strategic map. And maybe the banners of units in tactical battles will have "People you may know". At the end of his pre-battle speech your general goes "And by the way, your friend xyz abc has invited you to play marble ballz!"

The possibilities are endless, good times.

[drone]

Notch is out on the Oculus, and quite a few of the Kickstarter contributors are not happy. From a business standpoint, it just doesn't make sense. The only thing Facebook sells is your data, there is no product development or marketing footprint for a Facebook physical product.

[Veho Nex]

Yeah, Im not to happy I contributed to the kick starter only to watch Facebook take it over. Damn you zuckerburg and obama.

[rajpoot]

It is kind of depressing but I'm cautiously optimistic. It might mean cheaper hardware.

[Crazed Rabbit]

It is kind of depressing but I'm cautiously optimistic. It might mean cheaper hardware.

For me, it spells the end of all interest in this particular VR set.

Facebook will gather absolutely all data about you that it can when you use the device. That's up to and beyond retinal tracking (tracking what you're looking at). They will use that to sell you ads.

Plus the push from facebook will be for "social" apps and ways they can sell ads.

CR

[easytarget]

Sony is making one too btw...Morpheus.

[Fragony]

This looks like a good scarefest http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...-a-creepy-boat

[Beskar]

Youtube is buying Twitch

[Fragony]

Impressive! http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...mod-for-doom-2

[easytarget]

So have a free sniper game why don't you: http://store.steampowered.com/app/63380/

But hurry, this doesn't last long...

[easytarget]

If anyone hasn't picked up FOTS yet, there's a pack on sale at GMG for 10 bucks that appears to include the game and most of the DLC (been so long since I bought all that I don't recall all of what was originally available for it, looks to be a pretty good deal on what I thought was a really solid expansion: http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/us/e...ai-collection/

[Fragony]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...-with-splatoon

What a fantastic idea, this gives battling for territory an awesome twist.

[easytarget]

That does look pretty cool. Shame it'll never be on PC so I won't get to check it out. If you ever end up picking it up let us know if it turned out as cool as that video made it look.

[Beskar]

That does look pretty cool. Shame it'll never be on PC so I won't get to check it out. If you ever end up picking it up let us know if it turned out as cool as that video made it look.

I am sure I have seen a similar concept before somewhere but it never looked anything as polished as that video.

[Fragony]

That does look pretty cool. Shame it'll never be on PC so I won't get to check it out. If you ever end up picking it up let us know if it turned out as cool as that video made it look.

Don't worry about that personally, Nintendo is like Valve, they don't stop untill they get everything right. Rabid perfectionists.

[Fragony]

File me under interested http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...g-silent-hills

Love the series, first 3 were awesome, the ones after that good but not great.

This could be great.

[drone]

Microsoft to buy Mojang, Notch seen swimming in a pool full of money and blow while horrified gamers cry in anguish.

[rajpoot]

Microsoft to buy Mojang, Notch seen swimming in a pool full of money and blow while horrified gamers cry in anguish.

Yeah this one surprised me too given his reputation and the attitude he has held about the big 'uns in the past.
But I'm thinking as long as the deal hasn't been finalized there is still hope. Maybe it's just because I want to believe there is at least one principled man in the industry.

[Veho Nex]

Id sell my mother for 2billion. Sorry to say but everything has its price.

[rajpoot]

The game has sold 54 million copies across all platforms. In the past 24 hours it has sold more than 8000 copies on the PC alone. And the number is increasing every day. Notch is already a millionaire and has been for a while.
Everything must have its price but even from a business standpoint I don't see why anyone should sell such a profitable venture unless they already had plans to stop adding new content to the game and were just looking to get rid of it.

[Husar]

I was told lately that the seller is never to blame, only the buyer for what he does with a company.

Then again I'm not sure what's so bad about Microsoft and games. Apart from the next title coming for XBox first that is.
Of course Microsoft's PC Business was better when they still made Flight Simulator and Age of Empires but I do not remember them being a bad publisher. Should be happy that he isn't talking to Activision.