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SimCity modding rules detailed by Maxis

By Megan Farokhmanesh at 11:01a 01.12.14

SimCity modders cannot sell their content, affect multiplayer features or modify executable files when creating new content, Maxis announced via the game's website. According to the post, guidelines are in place to maintain the "safety and integrity" of the game while still being clear about modder rights. "EA reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to revoke permission to use, distribute or make mods at any time, to disable any mod within SimCity and to take disciplinary action against players who harm the experience of others," the post reads. Mods that "affect the simulation for multiplayer games or multiplayer features," infringe on other properties or break any rules listed on the website will be removed. "We encourage you to create, redistribute, and consume mods for S...
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Action RPG A Wizard’s Lizard to launch Jan. 22

By Megan Farokhmanesh at 9:00a 01.12.14

Lost Decade Games' upcoming action role-playing game, A Wizard's Lizard, will be available Jan. 22 for Linux, Mac and Windows PC, the developer recently announced. A Wizard's Lizard, previously known as Crypt Run, was funded via Kickstarter in August 2013. Described as a game for fans of The Legend of Zelda, Gauntlet and The Binding if Isaac, A Wizard's Lizard stars the titular pet as he explores procedurally generated dungeons to save his master. In addition to dungeon crawling, players also rescue townsfolk and recover stolen artifacts. The game is currently collecting votes via Steam Greenlight. Watch the trailer below to see it in action. A Wizard's Lizard is currently available for pre-order through the game's website for $12, 20 percent off its final price. According to the...
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Riot adds email verification to League of Legends

By Megan Farokhmanesh on Jan 11, 2014 01.11.14

League of Legends now features email verification for "any and all" changes to account credentials, developer Riot Games recently announced. According to Riot, the new system will send an email to the player's verified account whenever a change is made. To activate email verification, those interested must enable it by heading to the League of Legends website and establishing a secure address. "Baddies won't be able to change a single credential on your account without also having access to your verified email account," the post reads. "This is just a first step — we're looking into many more security features to keep your account details safe like SMS protection and more, so stay tuned." Those who register an email account will receive a 4-win IP boost, Riot added. The full post...
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Amazon Games team lists its top 10 of 2013

By Samit Sarkar on Jan 10, 2014 01.10.14

The folks on the Amazon Games team put together their top 10 games of 2013, and the online retailer is offering discounts on some of the honorees. It's a list with some eclectic choices and a few surprising rankings: Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Super Mario 3D World Divekick Rayman Legends BioShock Infinite Grand Theft Auto 5 Tearaway The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds Rogue Legacy The Last of Us The Amazon Games editors also detailed their process. First they listed approximately 40 nominees, then confined the list to "new complete games." Once they narrowed it down to 10 games, they each ordered the list themselves, and the vote totals determined the order of the final list. Discounted entries on the Amazon list include the top game, The Last of Us,...
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Broken Age part 1 launches Jan. 14 for backers only (update)

By Samit Sarkar on Jan 10, 2014 01.10.14

Double Fine Productions will release the beta version of the first part of Broken Age exclusively to the game's backers on Jan. 14, said studio head Tim Schafer on Twitter today. "Haven't shipped a game of my own in 4.5 years, an adventure game in 16, a point-n-click in almost 20. Next Tuesday is going to be exciting," he said. Broken Age, formerly known under the working title "Double Fine Adventure," is the game that Double Fine funded through Kickstarter to the tune of $3.37 million in early 2012. Those funds came from 87,142 backers, and 8,412 individuals jumped on board afterward as "slacker backers." The studio initially planned to release the old-school adventure game that fall, but the company expanded the project's scope with the extra funds. Then, last July, Schafer a...
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Quake Live standalone launcher available now

By Dave Tach on Jan 10, 2014 01.10.14

The standalone launcher for Quake Live is available now, according to a post on the Bethesda Blog. Developer Id Software announced last November that it would transition to a downloadable client for the online shooter. According to the accompanying FAQ, players with Quake Live already installed need to "download and install a small launcher" which will update their existing files. Profiles, match stats and clan rosters are now part of the client and will not require users to launch a web browser to view. Linux and Mac platforms aren't officially supported, but Id writes that users may be able to run the new client through virtualization software. In addition to the standalone client, Quake Live Pro subscribers can now host matches for non-Pro users in all of the free-to-play shooter's...
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StarCraft 2 patch 2.1's Carbot rewards and quad XP bonus

By Dave Tach on Jan 10, 2014 01.10.14

StarCraft 2 patch 2.1 will bring new rewards and a significant XP boost to the real-time strategy game, according to a Battle.net post today. Blizzard will include the Carbot Animations-themed portraits and decals pictured below for each race, for a total of six. To earn the decals and portraits, players need to reach levels 32 and 35, respectively, with Protoss, Terran or Zerg. Blizzard will also quadruple the XP associated with the "First Win of the Day" bonus, so that each day's first win will reward players 100,000 XP. Last month, Blizzard detailed the clan and group changes coming in patch 2.1.
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Spider-Man 2 dev bringing Energy Hook to Sony platforms with cross-buy

By Dave Tach on Jan 10, 2014 01.10.14

Happion Laboratories' Energy Hook will arrive first this year on Sony's PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita, developer Jamie Fristrom told Polygon. The developer also told Polygon that Energy Hook will support Sony's cross-buy program, so those who purchase the game will receive copies for Sony's next-gen console and handheld. Fristrom, who created the swinging mechanic for Spider-Man 2, launched the game as a $1 Kickstarter campaign last year. The crowdfunding campaign ended with $41,535 and plans for Linux, Mac and Windows versions. The PC release "will be more-or-less simultaneous" with the PlayStation versions, he said. The developer describes Energy Hook as "a 3D swinging game like Spider-Man 2 had a love child with 'points-for-style' game SSX." Fristrom announced the PS4 and...
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Journey composer: Banner Saga score was his most challenging yet

By Samit Sarkar on Jan 10, 2014 01.10.14

Journey and Monaco composer Austin Wintory also wrote the music for The Banner Saga, and it was "the most challenging score I've ever faced," he said in a Reddit AMA today. "The differences from a game like Monaco or Journey are eeeenormous," said Wintory, explaining that "the gameplay mechanics [of The Banner Saga] are so wildly different from those other games." Stoic's The Banner Saga is a role-playing game set among the Vikings, with class-based combat taking place in turn-based fashion from an isometric perspective on a grid. The Viking epic also contains travel and conversation sequences for its player-choice-driven story, and Wintory said determining the pacing of the music — "how to make the music interesting without feeling out of step with the game itself" — was his...

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The bitter end to a desperate eSports gamble

By Colin Campbell on Jan 10, 2014 01.10.14

Simon Boudreault's decision to invest his inheritance in five League of Legends players from Korea was always going to be an immense gamble.His eSports team Quantic Gaming, which he had owned for less than a year, was hemorrhaging cash. Staff were hounding him for back-payments. His key StarCraft 2 player was unhappy. But he believed his new League of Legends team was going to fix everything. He staked everything on that belief. All Boudreault needed to do was guide those players through a six-team LCS qualification, taking place just before the Holidays. He would get them into a play-off match against a struggling relegation-threatened pro-team. Then he'd be in the LCS [League of Legends Championship Series] proper. He'd be golden. Cash from LoL publisher and league organizer Riot...
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Cook, Serve, Delicious! sales skyrocketed with Steam release

By Jenna Pitcher on Jan 10, 2014 01.10.14

Sales of Vertigo Gaming's hardcore restaurant sim Cook, Serve, Delicious! were trickling in until it was greenlit for distribution on Steam, where sales rocketed, making the developer more money in one day than in the previous year. "On October 8th, 2013, just a few days shy of one year since CSD officially launched, the game landed on Steam," developer David Galindo wrote on Gamasutra. "And in just one day, I had made nearly $15,000 in gross sales, which was almost as much as I made in the entire last year on PC/Mac/Linux for CSD. In two days, I surpassed it. In one week, I had made over $50,000 in gross revenue... more than I did in the last three years as a game maker and barista." Within three months of launching on Steam, sales of Cook, Serve, Delicious! on the platform...
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How Thomas Was Alone's creator reimagines Robin Hood

By Dave Tach on Jan 09, 2014 01.09.14

Developer Mike Bithell released several pieces of concept art today for Volume, his modern day retelling of Robin Hood and follow-up to Thomas Was Alone. Check out the gallery below for a glimpse of Volume's protagonist, Locksley, his enemies and some elements from the game's environments. Each was created by Daz Watford, who Bithell describes as his "longtime collaborator, mate and all round cool chap." "Volume is a futuristic retelling of the Robin Hood legend," Bithell wrote in an email to Polygon. "Bringing the motifs, fashion and aesthetics of a medieval world into a futuristic context was Daz's job on the game, and I love the way it's turned out. From the armor styling of the AI, to the gauntlet and quiver like battery pack on Locksley to the awesome Celtic patterns on the...
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Indiecade finalist simian.interface launches for iOS

By Dave Tach on Jan 09, 2014 01.09.14

Abstract puzzle game and IndieCade 2013 finalist simian.interface is available now on iOS, publisher Chillingo announced today. Inspired by tabletop puzzles, modern art and cognitive psychology, Vested Interest's game challenges players to solve its puzzles using "pattern recognition, intuition and experimentation," according to the game's description. Check out the trailer above to see the abstraction in action. Simian.interface is available for $0.99 as a universal app for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad in the iOS App Store. You can also play the game in a browser or pay what you want for a Mac or Windows PC version, including the soundtrack.
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Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls pre-download expected this month

By Samit Sarkar on Jan 09, 2014 01.09.14

Pre-order customers for Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls, the first Diablo 3 expansion, will be able to preload it by the end of January "if all goes well," said Blizzard Entertainment community manager Lylirra on the Battle.net forums this week. The studio doesn't yet have an exact date for when the pre-download will be available. As is typical with Blizzard's expansions, the game patch prior to the release of Reaper of Souls, version 2.0.1, will contain all of the content within the expansion — it just won't be playable until March 25, the release date. Reaper of Souls-exclusive content includes Act 5, the Crusader and Adventure mode. Reaper of Souls will launch first on Mac and Windows PC; it is available for pre-order for $39.99, while the Digital Deluxe Edition costs $59.99 and a...
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The Last of Us, Tearaway, Gone Home lead 2014 GDC Award noms

By Samit Sarkar on Jan 09, 2014 01.09.14

Naughty Dog's The Last of Us, Media Molecule's Tearaway and The Fullbright Company's Gone Home lead the pack of 2014 Game Developers Choice Awards nominees, with each game getting nods in five categories. The full list, which can be found below, runs the gamut from indie titles by tiny teams to the biggest-budget productions in the industry. Other multiple-nominated games include Lucas Pope's Papers, Please; Starbreeze Studios' Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons; and Rockstar North's Grand Theft Auto 5. The 14th annual Game Developers Choice Awards will follow the 2014 Independent Games Festival Awards, beginning at 9:30 p.m. ET on March 19 during the 2014 Game Developers Conference. Game of the YearGone Home (The Fullbright Company)Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar North/Rockstar Games)The...
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Report: Valve to launch standard interface for VR controllers this month

By Jenna Pitcher on Jan 09, 2014 01.09.14

Valve is "days away" from launching a VR software development kit that will offer developers with a standardized way of creating an interface for VR controllers, the BBC reports. "Steam is in a unique position to be this intermediary between hardware and software and users," the Valve designer told the BBC, saying that users do not want to change settings whenever they switch games. "Without that it's going to be hard for any device to get any serious traction." According to the developer, the VR software development kit will be a component of bigger package of software tools aimed to provide developers with a standard to control games on Valve's Steam Box. The kit is expected to launch at Valve's Seattle-located Steam Dev Days conference that will be held on Jan. 14-15. Valve is...
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Riot changes LCS rules to prevent buying spots in tournament

By Tracey Lien on Jan 09, 2014 01.09.14

Riot Games announced rule changes to the League of Legends Championship Series today in an effort to prevent players from competing in the LCS without first qualifying for the tournament. One of the rules added to the LCS rulebook states that "...no team may have on their roster more than two players at a time from any single starting lineup of a different team that played in either region of the LCS and/or aspect of the Challenger series (including play-in) in the last two completed Splits." The addition of this rule ensures that the individuals playing in the LCS are the same individuals who qualified for it, and stops a team owner from overhauling their team roster to include more than two players from different teams who didn't qualify. The rule comes in the wake of all five L...
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The Choices 2013 Bundle includes PiD, Richard and Alice

By Megan Farokhmanesh on Jan 08, 2014 01.08.14

Indie Royale's current collection of games, The Choices 2013 Bundle, is offering PiD, Richard and Alice and six other titles for less than $5 (at the time of this post). As more people purchase the bundle, the minimum price rises; paying more than the minimum, however, will lower the cost for future buyers. Those who pay more than the minimum will receive A Valley Without Wind, A Valley Without Wind 2, Cognition Episode 1: The Hangman, Cognition Episode 2: The Wise Monkey, Dungeon Hearts and Waveform, in addition to the aforementioned titles. Buyers who pay more than $6 will also receive the bundle's bonus album from Cold Storage, Slipstream Volume 1. Games are available across several platforms, including Mac, Linux and Windows via Steam and Desura. The bundle's final game has yet to...
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Valve working to get Dota 2 playable on Steam Controller

By Michael McWhertor on Jan 08, 2014 01.08.14

Valve's unconventional but intriguing new game pad, the Steam Controller, has a difficult challenge ahead of it. Not only does it need to play Valve's library of first-person shooters, like Half-Life, Left 4 Dead and Counter-Strike, it needs to play PC games that weren't designed with controllers in mind, like Dota 2. But Valve thinks it can get complex games like Dota 2 playable on the Steam Controller, alongside the thousands of other games, both new and old, working with a game pad. "[Dota 2] is a really complex game that uses a good half of the keyboard," Valve's Jeff Bellinghausen told Polygon in an interview at CES. "And it's a real challenge, but would also be really exciting. To be able to play Dota from the couch is a really neat opportunity. "It's also something that's...
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The Witcher Adventure Game brings Geralt to a tabletop

By Dave Tach on Jan 08, 2014 01.08.14

Noted witcher Geralt of Rivia is headed to a tabletop near you, according to a video released today from CD Projekt Red. The Witcher series developer is teaming up with Fantasy Flight Games to create The Witcher Adventure Game. In the board game, monster slayer Geralt of Rivia, bard Dandelion, sorceress Triss Merigold and dwarf warrior Yarpen Zigrin will embark upon monster hunting missions, puzzle solving quests and more. Press play above to see the teaser trailer for The Witcher Adventure Game, which is slated for a worldwide release this year.
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Valve gives all Steam users access to family options

By Samit Sarkar on Jan 08, 2014 01.08.14

Steam family options are now out of beta, so all Steam users now have access to settings that can limit their children's use of the service, Valve announced today. The company encourages families to sit down together and establish ground rules for gaming, then enact them through the family options, which were included in the Jan. 7 update to the Steam client. Steam family options allow adults to limit kids' access to games, content and features. For example, parents can mark certain games in their library as off-limits, block children from making purchases in the store, keep them from interacting with the Steam community and prevent them from using user-generated content. Once family options are set, the owner of the account sets a PIN that must be entered in order to exit the...
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GOG celebrates its first five years with a video retrospective

By Dave Tach on Jan 08, 2014 01.08.14

GOG celebrated its five-year anniversary last summer, and three of the people who were there at the birth of the digital distribution platform are looking back on its first half-decade. Check out the video above to see co-founder Marcin Iwinski, creative director Piotr Karwowski and managing director Guillaume Rambourg discuss the genesis of the online store and some of the best and worst ideas they've had in the ensuing five years.
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