The Gaming News Thread

[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.