That would be too expensive!
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That would be too expensive!
[url]http://www.mapstd.com/[/url]
What do you get when you combine google maps and a tower defense game :)
SimCity offering a free 4 hour trial.
As you might expect, the SimCity free trial offer comes with a few strings attached. It's limited to the single-player mode in the Cape Trinity and Reflection Atoll regions, and only provides two save slots. It's also exclusive to the PC—haha, Mac people—and can only be played once per Origin account and per PC: If there are multiple Origin users sharing a single PC, only one will be able to score the freebie.
The trial period is good for just four hours of play, starting from the first time the game is launched, and once it's over, it's over.
Rise of the Tomb Raider to be an Xbox One exclusive...
[url]http://tombraider.tumblr.com/post/94529480860/rise-of-the-tomb-raider-update[/url]
They confirmed it is a timed exclusive. If it actually was fully exclusive that would be big news, as it is they are just going to have staggered sales as everyone else will just wait for it to release on other platforms.
The real big news of the event was that Sony stealth revealed a new Silent Hill called "Silent Hills", they introduced it as "PT" from a fake studio. Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro are the writers/directors/producers/whatever. Kojima and Sony pulled off one of the best trolls in a games conference ever. [URL="http://au.ign.com/articles/2014/08/13/hideo-kojima-and-guillermo-del-toro-are-teaming-up-for-a-new-silent-hill"]Link for the details.[/URL]
I watched both conferences and both were pretty "meh" compared to the E3 showings. 10 million PS4s sold is unsurprising, Microsoft didn't really announce anything new, Sony announced mostly new indie titles with the exceptions being Silent Hills (PT) and the re-reveal of Until Dawn. Quantum Break gameplay was amazing, Sony spent less time on gameplay footage and more on just trailers and weird stuff (Metal Gear Solid 5 boxes). I'd rate both conferences about the same, hard to complain about so many new games from Sony and all the cool Halo/Quantum Break footage Microsoft showed. As a proud owner of both a PS4 and Xbox One I'm pretty happy with the showings. I think Tokyo Game Show should be interesting as Sony will likely market the crap out of Bloodborne and possibly show off some more Kingdom Hearts 3/Final Fantasy 15 footage if Square Enix decide to pop up. If the Last Guardian exists it is either going to appear there or at the next E3. Hopefully Microsoft shows off Scalebound and maybe a new Japanese exclusive but I wouldn't bet on either unfortunately, they don't really give a hoot about the Japanese home console space.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wsq...ature=youtu.be
Bloodborne gameplay, and some screenshots plus a gif. This is deservedly one of the most hyped next-gen games out there and the pick for Neogaf. For those interested, you can choose to be male or female and facial customization is present.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bu47G2oCQAEX8y_.jpg:large
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http://giant.gfycat.com/DisloyalDimw...onstrictor.gif
http://i1.wp.com/gearnuke.com/wp-con...-screens-5.jpg
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Knew it'd be timed, the publishers can't afford to cut of marketshare like that these days if the reports of development costs are true.
Really pissed off with MS over making Rise of the Tomb Raider exclusive, especially since as far as we know it will probably only go to the PS4 eventually, not PC. Sure as hell wouldn't buy an Xbox now, TR has always been available on PC.
It'll appear on steam eventually.
It better.><
with better gfx...
and more customisation options and mods.... and a FOV slider... and 60fps...
Ha!
Lol,
Omg :D
Wasn't having a go, sorry :p Was just letting everyone know in case anyone missed it, I guessed you would have seen it as well. Microsoft need to fire their marketing/PR teams already, they screwed up so badly with the Tomb Raider announcement. Contrast this with Sony where they went out of their way to say whether a title was "debuting first on Playstation" or "fully exclusive to Playstation".
oh dear Nintendo
new costume option for Samus in Smash Brothers, I think they are taking the 'zero suit' name a bit far...
[url]http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/08/19/super-smash-bros-gives-zero-suit-samus-new-outfit?utm_campaign=fbposts&utm_source=facebook[/url]
note the emphasis on 'thanks to the determination of her female designer'
Well they could be worse...
I had an origin add this morning that may make people smirk.
"Orgin: Play your favourite games better"
Samus' outfits are based off of what are possibly her civilian clothes that showed up a while ago:
http://media.desura.com/cache/images...llpaper-06.jpg
Oh dear, poor Orgin
lmao
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Has anyone heard about this internet drama where a female developer has been sleeping with numerous games journalists and coincidently then received good reviews for what by many accounts is a pretty ****ty game?
And doxxed? her bf when they broke up over it?
It's first time I've ever heard of anything like it. I mean there's always the suggestion publishers give "freebies" to reviewers but I've never heard of anything like this.
I've seen female developers get accused of that a lot by sexist little ****bags online, never had an actual case happen to my knowledge.
I can believe that, not that I pay enough attention to have seen it before. But this seems to be bigger than the sort of throwaway nastiness in the comments section of a website.
[url]http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1s4nmr1/?[/url]
Seems like the usual allegations. Honestly the whole game media industry is a giant old boys network, its really rich to get high and mighty about allegations a woman is sleeping with developers to get good reviews like that is worse than bribery and general corruption. Plus as the article says any media outlet dumb enough to do so deserves whatever happens to it.
I'm sceptical though, 4chan has had it in for this game since it was announced along with miscellaneous other ****stains so the fact it is the developer of that game that is having these accusations leveled at her makes me very suspicious.
Edit: [URL="http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/zoe-quinn-slut-shaming-the-feminist-conspiracy-and-depression-quest"]Lol, it was started by her ex-boyfriend after they broke up[/URL] and he is doing all the usual revenge bull****, one of the reviewers never reviewed the game and 4chans response is to claim a feminist conspiracy got the review deleted, because we all know how easy it is to make things disappear for ever off the interweb:
Quote:
Like most harassment campaigns against women originating from these communities, this one was started by her ex-boyfriend with the intent to shame and punish. More specifically: his multiple blog posts on their failed relationship where he accuses Quinn of sleeping with various prominent figures in the video game industry, including a writer at Kotaku.
It is here that the harassment campaign—which includes sharing her personal information, defamatory YouTube videos, and weird phone calls to her parents—tries to bill itself as justified: exposing corruption in video game journalism. Gamers have been complaining about corruption in video game journalism for years now (googling "video game journalism corruption" yields 870,000 results, to give you an idea) and the Quinn/ Kotaku writer connection was seen as more proof of just how bad video game journalism has gotten.
Except, the Kotaku writer in question never actually wrote said favorable review about Quinn's game.
*shrugs* so its a domestic gone nuclear, overlapping with something that already had a hate campaign. wonderful.
Basically yep.
Has anyone seen "Sid Meir's after earth" that steam are currently plugging?
You think it looks like an "Alpha centuari" remake on the new hex system the new civs use?
certainly looks reasonably interesting but not £30 interesting.
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Remember this rather reasonable comment by a prominent youtube games reviewer on the possibly nuclear domestic?
Well it didn't go down well by those[URL="https://twitter.com/Totalbiscuit/status/502127322942537728"] stirring the pot[/URL]
Borderlands 2 is free to play this weekend with a 75% off the game of the year edition during this period.
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Beyond earth does look intriguing, I read about it here: http://www.pcgamer.com/previews/civilization-beyond-earth-hands-on-defining-the-next-phase-of-human-evolution-one-turn-at-a-time/
Bollocks, it appears i'm going to have to engage in espionage.
Because of how they've set uo the nature of the factions. You won't be able to learn their personalities from just knowing they're india or knowing they're peacekeepers or whatever...
planet busters were awesome, you could actually leave craters in the landscape.
I once built enough on carrier submarines to wipe out every single other colony on the map in a single turn of glorious annihilation.
A slight case of over boming
I played that game that much in those days that I had to find ways to keep it entertaining.
The re-tweets are vile. TotalBiscuit certainly didn't deserve to be called a misogynist for what he wrote (wouldn't be surprised if some of the people who sent him rude messages were just filth from 4chan doing it, they have done that before.) but the people coming to his support are utter scum.
Read a bit more last night, and wish I hadn't. It seems far too complicated. And far too dramatic.