All other factions are totally lame It’s no secret that Vanu Sovereignty is the best faction inPlanetSide 2. I mean c’mon, they’re purple and have energy weapons. You were aware that purple is the color of royalty, right? Meanwhile, red and black are colors associated with evil while blue and yellow is such a passive color for pansies. Yet, for some reason, people still decide to fight for both the Terran Republic and the New Conglomerate....
Ubisoft is also donating €500,000 Ubisoft is doing what it can to preserve the legacy of the Notre Dame. Following the tragic fire earlier this week, Ubisoft is gifting players the opportunity to explore its incredibly well-detailed recreation of the famed cathedral. Assassin’s Creed Unityis free on PC for the next week. It’s a permanent license for anyone who grabs it through Uplay before April 25 at 1am local time.Here’s the link to nab it....
As it stands, iPhone App games have gone unrated, with developers able to submit their games for Apple’s approval and nobody else’s. In Australia, where the ratings board has an iron grip on videogame content and doesn’t want people to have fun, this obviously will not stand. Australia’s rating board hasvoiced a desireto start deciding what people can and cannot download. Fun times are sure to be ahead. “I recently wrote to the [Commonwealth Censorship] minister regarding my concern that some so-called mobile phone applications, which can be purchased online or either downloaded to mobile phones or played online via mobile phone access, are not being submitted to the board for classification,” complains board director Donald McDonald....
Some oaths cost more than most Obsidian Entertainment has announced a brand new fantasy RPG,Avowed, coming to PC and Xbox Series X. A teaser trailer for the game also premiered, which you can check out below. Described as “The game Obsidian wanted to make after it joined Microsoft,”Avowedis an epic first-person RPG set within a world filled with magic and monsters. The trailer shows a war raging across the land of Eora, the same locale that plays host to Obsidian’s ownPillars of Eternity....
The follow-up toBattlefield: Bad Companyhits retail shelves on March 2nd, 2010 in at least two different ways: as a normal dry bones box with disc and as a Limited Edition package. As usual, the LE package will come with some perks — six multiplayer, “day one advantage” perks, to be specific. But don’t expect to pay to more. According to the release, the LE version “will be sold at the same price as the standard version....
Sunless Sea creator writing a ‘segregated’ storyline It’s been an open secret and not really discussed here, especially withMass Effect: Andromedahogging the recent limelight, but theDragon Ageseries, last seen with 2014’sDragon Age: Inquisition, is still alive over at BioWare. EurogamerinterviewedFallen LondonandSunless Seacreator Alexis Kennedy, currently in an “unusual arrangement” as a guest writer (writing from London) working with BioWare (headquartered in Canada) on a new project, “which I can now legitimately say is in theDragon Agefranchise although it has been known for a while....
Plus double XP on all platforms There’s a little special onCall of Duty: Black Ops IIover on Steam where you can play the multiplayer component for free all weekend long. Yup, you have full access and not only that, the game is 33% off on Steam right now.You can pick it upfor $40.19, or nab the Digital Deluxe Edition that contains a bunch of extras for $53.59. Plus,Black Ops IIis havinga Double XP weekendstarting on May 10 at 10:00AM PDT, till May 13 at 10:00AM PDT....
Unfinished sequel now available online A little bit of gaming history has been made available for theCastlevaniacommunity. Konami’s cancelled 2000 sequel,Castlevania Resurrection, is now available online, a build of the unfinished Dreamcast title having been uploaded by archivistComby Laurent. As reported earlier this month, Laurent, owner of theSega Dreamcast Info Games Preservationwebsite, acquired the prototype build via auction, and has generously decided to dump the ROM online, givingCastlevaniafans the opportunity to get a taster of one of the Gothic franchises’ long-lost chapters....
For the first time since 2021,Call of Duty: Black Ops 6brings back round-based zombies. As part ofCall of DutyDirect, Treyarch confirmed thatBlack Ops 6will launch with two round-based zombie maps. Liberty Falls is set in West Virginia during the day, while Terminus is set in a black site area with a dark setting. Zombies inBlack Ops 6continues the narrative that started inBlack Ops 6. Treyarch confirmed a mix of new and returning power-ups and a healthy dose of easter eggs for players to put their detective hats on to solve....
Seven new games! Sony is hosting a conference at this year’s Paris Games Week. While this normally wouldn’t be a big deal, apparently Sony is gearing up to announce seven new games for the PS4! What the hell? Seven more?! 2018 is already going to be jam packed with exclusives and big games; what more could there be? Well, why not come take a watch with us and find out? We’ll have coverage of the event as fast as humanly possible, but you can also just check in to theTwitch streamand get the news as it immediately airs....
Watching the Detectives Nippon Ichi Software has released the opening movie to its upcoming murder mystery RPGTantei Bokumetsu, (literally “Detective Eliminator“), which the publisher recently revealed following a series of strange and unsettlingteasers. The hyperactive cinematic introduces us to the 14 detectives of the Detective Alliance – each and every one of them highly specialized in a trademark field – who find themselves cloistered together on the remote “Morgue Island”. One of these lawmakers, however, is actually a lawbreaker, the notorious serial killer “Yatzuzakikou,” who is currently wanted for over 100 brutal murders....
The lost souls of Lordran To playDark Soulsis to seek victory in a land defined by failure. Lordran, the game’s fictional kingdom, is dying. The once-great gods have abandoned their bastions, fleeing a world in desperate need of a savior. Every crumbling city stands as a sad reminder of what could have been; echoes of progress all but forgotten. A plague of undeath curses those who remain, reducing their existence to a cycle of death, rebirth, and slowly hollowing souls....
I’d play it Even as an MMO fan since the ’90s (RIPthe original incarnation ofUltima Online), the discussion around everything being a “live service game” is exhausting. Some projects thrive in a one-shot environment, and if the quality is there and the budget is constrained and well-tempered, it’s possible to craft successful solo stories. Division 2‘s creative director Julian Gerighty is considering this prospect for Ubisoft’s popular shooter franchise, thanks to a question posed (and subsequently put on his radar) by Tim Spencer of Traveler’s Tale games....
