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The hunt is on in Crytek's supersoldier threequel
Size matters: SOE's gigantic MMOFPS eclipses all
Another glorious day in the Corps
The blue-sky-thinking-man's shooter?
EA reboots its classic mayor simulator with incredible new tech
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Darksiders developer Vigil Games wasn’t sold at last month’s auction of THQ’s assets. That was the end of Vigil, but not its staff: rather than buying Vigil whole, Crytek left it on the auction block and later hired many of its laid-off employees to form Crytek USA in Austin. Crytek’s new ex-Vigil staffed studio, however, won’t be making Darksiders III. In an interview with VentureBeat, Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli explained that Crytek wanted the people, but not the product.
Crusader Kings II: The Old Gods has just been announced, and will add playable pagans and Zoroastrians to Paradox’s grand medieval strategy sandbox. It’s fair to say I was just a tiny bit out of my mind excited. Some notable new features include an extension of the timeline back to 867 A.D., and (sadly unplayable) landless adventurers who set out with their bands of warriors to found new kingdoms in true Viking fashion. I got to raid the brain-villages of Chris King, one of the expansion’s designers. Read on to share in the knowledge I plundered.
Humans are a distant memory. Rugged robot Horatio Nullbuilt (Bastion’s narrator Logan Cunningham) passes the days studying the Book of Man and trading quips with his sassy droid Crispin, or traversing the desert on the lookout for scraps to maintain his beaten-up spaceship, the Unniic. But then their peacefully nomadic existence is shattered by the rogue robot Scraper – who steals the Unniic’s energy core – and they’re launched on a quest to retrieve it.
In an interview with GameSpy, Paradox’s CEO Frederik Wester has revealed that the publisher cancelled four games in the past year, in an attempt to ensure that consumers weren’t paying for buggy or unfinished titles.
Wester’s comments were in response to questioning about the much maligned alternate history Civil War RTS Gettysburg: Armoured Warfare. Wester said, “That was terrible. We did not do our homework. It was a one-man team with some backup… we learned a lot from that release. We’ve had many bad releases before that, as well, and we learned something every time.”
Last week, we set you the challenge of snapping pictures of your mad, powerful, custom PC rigs with the aim of winning a brand new Alienware TactX keyboard and mouse. It was all to celebrate the release of new God Vulcan (no, nothing to do with Star Trek) in MOBA game Smite.
Tera, the combat-centric fantasy MMO, has relaunched as the free-to-play Tera: Rising – suggesting the game’s various worldwide publishers are hoping for a phoenix-like rebirth of the Korean made RPG. Working in this new version’s favour is the generous amount of content being offered to free players, as well as the new dungeon and arena being released with the 2.0 update.
Sci-fi MMO-shooter Defiance is set to have another beta weekend and we have 700 ways for you to get in on the action. Kicking off this Friday evening, lucky recipients of keys will be unleashed into a shattered future-San Francisco, its remains picked over by feuding factions and infested with ferocious, mega-sized beasties.
A thirdperson shooter, it’s pitched as part PlanetSide and part Monster Hunter, and the trailers make its many-player battles against skyscraping insectoids look suitably epic. But why not see for yourself?
Anodyne is what happens when you instill Zelda – specifically, the series’ 2D highpoint Link’s Awakening – with the sort of creepy, surreal atmosphere more often associated with Silent Hill, or Jasper Byrne’s nightmarish Lone Survivor. Like the Zelda classic, Anodyne takes place in protagonist Young’s subconscious, but his dreams are tad messed up in comparison to Link’s relatively cheery Wind-Fish jaunt. Back in September we pointed you towards a demo, but developers Analgesic Productions (AKA Sean Hogan and Jonathan Kittaka) have recently issued a newer one, to coincide with the game’s release yesterday.
Right now, you’d be forgiving for thinking “what the hell is Bullet Run?” Browsing through the game’s site tag, it seems we’ve only mentioned SOE’s free-to-play FPS once before. That was for my review. I gave it 32%. Perhaps not a huge surprise to hear that it’s being shut down, then.
