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Assassin's Creed: Liberation HD update

By Philip Kollar on Jan 17, 2014 01.17.14

Assassin's Creed: Liberation HD presented Ubisoft with an opportunity to fix the mistakes that dragged down the original PS Vita version of the game — to wring out more of the promise that existed in an often broken and frustrating experience. But for the second time, Liberation fails to deliver. Ubisoft has improved Liberation's looks in the transition from the PS Vita to the Xbox 360, but they only took those improvements so far. Liberation HD is still full of blurry textures and goofy-looking animation, failing to match or approach Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag or even Assassin's Creed 3. Surprisingly, Liberation HD suffers from the same texture pop-in problems that plagued the PS Vita release. Buildings, people, docks — even the ground — are sometimes invisible until a few...
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Ludum Dare 28 winner preparing One Take for a full PC release

By Dave Tach on Jan 17, 2014 01.17.14

Sheepolution's One Take, the overall winner at the Ludum Dare 28 game jam, is in development for release on PC, developer Daniel Haazen said in a We Ask Indies interview published in Gamasutra. In One Take, which beat out more than 2,000 other games at the December event, players become a cameraman trying to capture a long scene in one uninterrupted shot. When asked about his plans following his win, Haazen mentioned PC and mobile releases. "I am working on a full version for PC right now," Haazen said. "A lot of people have suggested making a port for iOS [and] Android. But I will make the PC version first, and when that is done I'll look into the possibilities for a port." He also told the story of his three-hour journey coming up with the game's conceit. "It just popped into my...
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Where to watch the Apex 2014 fighting game tournament

By Dave Tach on Jan 17, 2014 01.17.14

Super Smash Bros. players will gather at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Somerset, N.J. this weekend for the Apex 2014 tournament, and the brawls will be streamed online, according to a post on the official Twitch blog. The streams highlighting Apex's 630 challengers will run from 10 a.m. ET to 11 p.m. ET from Friday, Jan. 17, through Sunday, Jan. 19 on four Twitch channels. Team Sp00ky will include the main Apex 2014 stream. CLASHTournaments will stream pool play for most events and the finals. 8WayRun will broadcast various events. Bifuteki will show several titles, including games in the Street Fighter and Tekken franchises. You can switch between each at the official Apex 2014 page on Twitch. According to Shoryuken, Apex 2014 will include up to $1,000 pot bonuses for tournaments...
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Divinity: Original Sin now available on Steam Early Access

By Samit Sarkar on Jan 17, 2014 01.17.14

An alpha version of Larian Studios' Divinity: Original Sin, which the Belgian developer funded on Kickstarter last year with more than $944,000, is available on Steam Early Access as of today. Interested parties can get in on the alpha for the cost of $39.99, which is the same price as the eventual final version. Larian is also selling a Duo Pack for $59.99 that includes two copies of Original Sin for co-op play, along with copies of Divine Divinity and Beyond Divinity. According to the Early Access note from Larian, the alpha version of Original Sin currently contains the first 15 hours of the single-player/co-op role-playing game. The studio noted that "it's still rough around the edges and that certain features are missing." In addition, Larian will be updating Original Sin...
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Call of Duty and Skylanders went 1 and 2 in December 2013 US sales

By Samit Sarkar on Jan 17, 2014 01.17.14

Call of Duty: Ghosts and Skylanders Swap Force took the No. 1 and No. 2 spots, respectively, on the U.S. sales chart for December 2013, publisher Activision announced today, citing data from the NPD Group. Ghosts came in as the top-selling game of the month, and ended up as the best-selling title of 2013 on both Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Infinity Ward's first-person shooter extended the Call of Duty franchise's streak of being the top franchise of the year in the U.S. (in both units sold and dollars) to five consecutive years. Including revenue from software, toys and accessories, Swap Force (screenshot above) was the No. 2 best-selling game of December, which helped make the Skylanders series the top-selling kids video game franchise in the U.S. for the second year in a row. In...
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League of Legends Champion Series Season 4 kicks off this week

By Alexa Ray Corriea on Jan 17, 2014 01.17.14

Season four of the League of Legends Champion Series kicked off earlier this week with the European Spring Splits in Cologne, Germany, while matches in North America are slated to start today, developer Riot Games announced. Matches for the North American LCS Spring Split, held in Manhattan Beach, Calif. and starting at 3 p.m. ET, will be livestreamed through the League of Legends eSports site. The site will stream all LCS matches throughout the season and currently lists the spring schedule for all Champion Series matches as well as the option to buy tickets to attend LCS events. According to Riot Games, last year's League of Legends Champion Series brought in more than 32 million unique viewers, with more than 8 million concurrent viewers tuned into the final Championships. The...
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Tomb Raider reboot became profitable last year

By Dave Tach on Jan 17, 2014 01.17.14

Tomb Raider, Crystal Dynamics' reboot of the Lara Croft franchise, became profitable in 2013, executive producer Scot Amos told Eurogamer. "By the end of last year, Tomb Raider [was] in the black," Amos said. "We've crossed the line of profitability for the last-gen and PC versions." The action game was released in March 2013 for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows PC. Later that same month, publisher Square Enix revealed that Tomb Raider — along with other games like Hitman: Absolution and Sleeping Dogs — had sold more than a million units but fell short of the company's sales expectations. By August 2013, after a disappointing financial year for Square Enix, CEO Phil Rogers took to the company blog to "categorically say that we're not abandoning core, [AAA] console and PC...
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EverQuest Next Landmark claims system detailed

By Alexa Ray Corriea on Jan 17, 2014 01.17.14

In EverQuest Next Landmark, players will be able to determine who can build and use what on their claims, but will have to adhere to a maintenance system in order to keep them, according to a recent livestream from the Sony Online Entertainment development team. Claims in EverQuest Next are instant — there is no downtime set-up period — and are currently sized at 70x70x100 meters. Players won't be able to prevent others from entering their claims, but they do have the ability to choose whether they are hidden or visible and can give others permission to build things on their claims. These structures can be usable things, like a crafting forge, and claim owners can also choose whether to give others permission to use them. According to the stream, there will be different levels of...
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Respawn issues hit Battlefield 4 PC in wake of server update

By Alexa Ray Corriea on Jan 17, 2014 01.17.14

A server update that went live over night for Battlefield 4 on Windows PC has apparently caused users a number of problems and may have introduced a bug preventing payers from respawning, according to posts on Reddit and Battlelog. DICE has yet to share details on all changes made with the update, but server update R20 seems to be preventing some players from respawning after dying, according to a thread on Reddit discussing the issue. Other players are reporting on the Battlelog forums that they can't connect to servers altogether or are booted out in the middle of matches. Some players have reported that updating their Punkbuster files solves the respawning problem. According to the thread, this quick fix does not work all the time, and some have reported further crash problems...

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Broken Age Easter egg transforms the game into a retro-styled throwback

By Emily Gera on Jan 17, 2014 01.17.14

Double Fine release Broken Age features a newly discovered Easter egg that transforms the game's visuals into an 8-bit retro mode. A video uploaded by YouTube user The Phawx details exactly how you can access the mode. By lowering the resolution of the game as far as it will go then clicking "key remapping," an icon of lead characters Vella and Shay appear at the corner of the screen. By assigning a key to the icon will allow users to toggle between the HD visuals and the retro mode. Once assigned a key, you can return the game back to its original HD resolution. Broken Age received a 9 out of 10 from Polygon in a review that reads: Broken Age isn't finished, but what's there is remarkable.
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How players teach designers about their own procedurally generated games

By Ben Kuchera on Jan 17, 2014 01.17.14

Video games are much like animated films; every item in every environment is created.You design every room and every character or item in that room. It’s an act of creation that’s driven by the will of the artists working on the game, and it’s such a deliberate process that it can be rare for the game’s final form to surprise those who worked on it. "Now, a game like Nuclear Throne is different," Vlambeer’s Rami Ismail told Polygon. "You don't craft the work itself, essentially you're creating something that crafts for you." This is the fun of games that feature procedurally generated levels or multiple overlapping systems: these games don’t just surprise the players, they surprise the people who create the games themselves. Interaction as instruction The key to designing...
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Square Enix game streaming service Core Online taken offline

By Emily Gera on Jan 17, 2014 01.17.14

Square Enix-developed streaming service Core Online has been taken offline just 18 months after it first launched, according to the company. An announcement on the publisher's support page states Core Online "was released as an experiment to see what demand there would be for HD games played via the browser. However, due to limited commercial take-up of this initiative, Core Online closed on Friday 29th November 2013." The streaming service, which allowed users to stream games through their browser, included the option to buy individual games, pay a monthly subscription of $2.99, or play titles for free for up to 20 minutes every day. Available games included Hitman: Blood Money, Tomb Raider: Underworld and Mini Ninjas. Those whose subscription remained valid until the service's...
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Valve paid $10.2M to Dota 2 and Team Fortress 2 item creators

By Emily Gera on Jan 17, 2014 01.17.14

New statistics from Valve reveal the company paid a total of $10,215,796 to 661 in-game item creators over the course of 2013. The company's sponsorship of user-generated content, including Team Fortress 2's Robotic Boogaloo, has led to contributors for titles Dota 2 and Team Fortress 2 receiving earnings of more than $15,000 each on average, or roughly $4,300 for each of the 2,349 items produced. Over 90 percent of items in Team Fortress 2 are now fan-made, according to Valve, with over 500 million items sold to players so far. Valve's reveal took place during this year's annual Steam Dev Days which ran from Jan. 15 to Jan. 16.
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Don't Starve: Reign of Giants DLC teased in new video

By Emily Gera on Jan 17, 2014 01.17.14

Randomly-generated survival game Don't Starve is getting new DLC, according to a teaser video released by developer Klei Entertainment. The video, which is titled "Autumn Teaser," unfortunately doesn't offer much information on the upcoming Don't Starve: Reign of Giants update. The DLC is slated to release "soon." Klei Entertainment self-published Don't Starve on Windows PC and Mac via its own website and on Steam, before announcing its plans for a PS4 version of the game last June. In Don't Starve, players take on the role of Wilson, "an intrepid Gentleman Scientist," who must use science and magic to survive the bizarre monster-filled island. The game received an 8.5 out of 10 review from Polygon on both Windows PC and PS4.
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World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor pre-order features instant character boost

By Jenna Pitcher on Jan 17, 2014 01.17.14

Players who pre-order the Digital Deluxe Edition of World of Warcraft's next expansion, Warlords of Draenor, will instantly receive a mount, a pet and a character boost to level 90 ahead of the expansion's release, according to a Battle.net blog post. The instant level boost will also be granted to those who pre-order the standard edition and details on a physical Collector's Edition will be announced soon. Blizzard tweaked the pre-purchase plans outlined during BlizzCon because it was obvious that players wanted to get acquainted with a new class before heading into the expansion. Following a survey that was sent out to "past and current" subscribers, Blizzard is evaluating methods of purchasing a character upgrade directly for those who want to boost multiple characters to 90,...
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Valve joins forces with Oculus Rift "to drive PC VR forward"

By Jenna Pitcher on Jan 17, 2014 01.17.14

Valve believes consumer-ready virtual technology invested by the company is another two years away, according attendees at the developer-only Steam Dev Days conference, and is working with Oculus Rift "to drive PC VR forward." The company also revealed that it currently has no plans to produce its own VR hardware, instead marking Oculus Rift as "the obvious candidate" to ship Valve-invested VR tech. Valve collaborated with Oculus on the tracking for the Crystal Cove prototype headset and will continue to work with the company. Claiming that "the PC will be the hotbed for VR," Valve believes that Linux, Windows PC and Mac will be the "VR epicenter." According to Tweets from conference attendee Dave Oshry, the company estimates that by 2015 Valve-invested, consumer-ready VR will...
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Klei Entertainment's Incognita renamed Invisible, Inc.

By Tracey Lien on Jan 16, 2014 01.16.14

Klei Entertainment's turn-based tactical espionage game Incognita recently received a name change, the company announced today via its official forums. The game has been renamed Invisible, Inc. because, after focus testing, "Invisible, Inc. was better received than the old 'Incognita'," designer Jason Dreger wrote. "Our focus of the design does not change in that it will still be a game of turn-based tactical espionage." The alpha gameplay trailer (above), which also launched today, shows an isometric view of the various levels players will have to traverse as they break into highly guarded locations to steal items. Invisible, Inc. is now available for pre-order at a 20 percent discount.
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Hegemony Rome: The Rise of Caesar readies for spring campaign

By Colin Campbell on Jan 16, 2014 01.16.14

Realtime strategy game Hegemony Rome: The Rise of Caesar from Kalypso Media will launch in the spring, priced at $19.99. Based on Julius Caesar's campaigns in France, Britain, Germany and the Mediterranean, it's the first title from Kalypso's digital label Kasedo Games, formerly known as Kobalt. Developed by Longbow, it's the sequel to Hegemony Gold: Wars of Ancient Greece. Players can build fortifications, train legions and instigate sieges against barbarian and political enemies. According to Kalypso, Hegemony Rome offers an improved graphics engine, supporting ten times the terrain detail over the previous game.
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There's a next-gen Call of Cthulhu game and art to prove it

By Dave Tach on Jan 16, 2014 01.16.14

Publisher Focus Home Interactive released the first five pieces of concept art for developer Frogwares' upcoming Call of Cthulhu today. Check out the gallery below for a glimpse of a dark and foreboding world full of rundown mansions, cockeyed tombstones and hanged men. Call of Cthulhu, which may be related to the early-80s pen-and-paper role-playing game based on H.P. Lovecraft mythology, is headed to next-gen consoles and PC from the French developer perhaps best known for its series of Sherlock Holmes adventure games. We've reached out to Focus for more on the game and will update with more information as it becomes available.
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How communities formed around, helped and spread DayZ

By Dave Tach on Jan 16, 2014 01.16.14

Communities of players helped DayZ achieve its success, and creator Dean Hall traced the community's evolution alongside the game in a recent interview with Gamasutra. "I remember when it first released," Hall said, "the strongest core was actually on 4chan, and you could argue that it was actually 4chan which really promoted and pushed DayZ into the world."It then spread out among different forums, with Reddit being one of the last areas to really pick it up. Since then, Reddit has become a very big part of theDayZ community for some." Beyond internet chatter about the zombie-infested game, other users have spread word about DayZ through different means, Hall said. And that phenomenon allows individuals to gain a certain amount of fame from playing games. "I believe that the YouTube...
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World of Warcraft's latest mount is the Iron Skyreaver

By Samit Sarkar on Jan 16, 2014 01.16.14

World of Warcraft players can now purchase a terrifying new mount for their characters, the Iron Skyreaver, developer Blizzard Entertainment announced today. The dragon-like creature, which you can see in the reveal trailer above, was created by Horde blacksmiths specifically as a beast for war. The Iron Skyreaver's two heads are matched by twin afterburners attached to its hindquarters, and it is clad in armor made of black steel. The Iron Skyreaver is now available for $25 in the World of Warcraft in-game shop.
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Company of Heroes 2 and Saints Row 4 free to play this weekend

By Tracey Lien on Jan 16, 2014 01.16.14

Company of Heroes 2 and Saints Row 4 are free to download and play on Steam this weekend, with both titles being heavily discounted during this period, Valve announced today. Until Sunday Jan. 19, 2014 at 4 p.m. ET, Steam users can download and play both titles for free. Until Monday Jan. 20 at 1 p.m. ET, both titles are also on sale, with Company of Heroes 2 being discounted by 66 percent to $13.59 and Saints Row 4 getting a 50 percent discount to $19.99. The Saints Row franchise pack, which bundles together Saints Row 2, Saints Row: The Third, Saints Row 4 and their accompanying downloadable content, is also on sale for $29.99, a 60 percent discount on its regular price.
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