‘Project Gotham Racing 5’ To Launch With Next Xbox? Rumors Abound!
This, but, like, next gen.
In a meticulously crafted thread over at NeoGAF, poster TheOddOne has compiled a long list of hires to UK-based Lucid Games and Rare. Why? Because all of these artists, designers and engineers have had a hand in the past decade’s best racing games. From Criterion to Codemasters and beyond, the two studios are snapping up talent in what’s quickly rumored to be a new co-developed Project Gotham Racing game. I’ll take it.
‘SimCity’s DRM Defeated By Modder: Play Offline, Play Outside City Lots
Look at all the strange things you can do!
Well, that was fast. For some time now, Maxis has claimed that to turn off two of the biggest dings against SimCity, those being the persistent online connection and the small city lot sizes, would require an extensive engineering effort to replace. As this video shows, however, it’s only a matter of accessing a debug menu before you can play offline indefinitely and modify the region’s highway structure. Maxis, you have some ‘splainin’ to do!
‘PlanetSide 2’ Game Update 4 Is Out, Roadmap Gets Updated
Invisible Flashes! W00tz!
Yessiree! At long last, the latest update for PlanetSide 2 has gone live and it boasts an impressive array of new features, fixes and other flourishes. I’ll get into the specifics below, but to whet your appetite a little bit, I’ll tell you that someone is getting a camera guided missile launcher and a feature that people have been screaming for since beta has finally been implemented.
Check it out!
StarDrive (PC) Beta Preview: Finally, A Space-Based 4X Game With Some Spunk
Once you zoom in close enough, the spectacle of space battle comes into full effect.
StarDrive, a new space-based, 4X-style strategy game, started its public speaking life as a humble $7,000 Kickstarter at the tail end of 2011. Not only did it meet its goal, but it do so nearly three times over and won the publisher guidance of Iceberg Interactive, who gave us last summer’s bland Master of Orion-like Endless Space. Now in a public beta, available if you purchase the game through Steam, I got a good hands-on with this little empire builder.
Developers Of ‘Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition’ Want To Know Which Android Devices To Develop For
The PC classic is now headed to Android
It’s crazy how we’ve entered this renaissance for classic PC games. Studios are either restoring the games outright or their developers are trying to relive the glory days by Kickstarting spiritual successors. Long before Mass Effect or Star Wars The Old Republic, Bioware was a humble studio making complex RPGs for Interplay. Their breakthrough was Baldur’s Gate, a game that was remastered by Overhaul Games for iPad last year. Now they’re turning their eyes to Android and they need your help.
Minecraft To Launch Subscription-Based Private Servers, Calls It ‘Realms’
You’ll still want to hang out on our server, though. That’s where the cool kids are.
At times, Minecraft seems like a profitable venture despite itself. Sure, you can play it offline, but if you’re looking to get some real multiplayer action going on, setting up a server is no easy task. This is particularly true for the younger elements of the audience, which is actually a pretty big portion of who plays the game to begin with. Mojang has a solution though, one that CEO Carl Manneh hopes will “bring in more money than Minecraft itself”.
GOG.com Is Running A Pick 5 Special, Lets You Save 80% On Games
GAME SALE! GET IT!
Look, we all love games and we all love great deals, right? Right! That’s one of the reasons GOG (Good Old Games) kicks previously unknown amounts of ass, right? Right! And when they do specials on games, well, the ass kickery soars to even greater heights. That’s why I get so excited when I get emails like the one I got today: they have a Pick 5 sale going on!
Sword Of The Stars: The Pit (PC) Review: Another Welcome Roguelike
You’ll have plenty of abilities to upgrade as you play.
Sometimes you just need a new Roguelike. From the guys who brought us those Sword of the Stars 4X games I didn’t care much for comes something spunky and new. I’d wanted an easier and more colorful version of Teleglitch and Kerberos Studios didn’t let me down. After a plague has vanquished the citizens of Arbuda IV, as the heart-pounding intro explains, you’re sent to cut through level after level of baddies to find The Pit, a mythical place that may harbor the cure.
Valve: Yeah, We Had Nothing To Do With That $1,000 Steam Box That’s Being Sold Now
Not a Valve-sponsored product, yo.
Last night, Kelly and I were having an argument about why someone would spend a thousand dollars to buy a Steam Box. Valve had been trumpeting a design made by Xi3 during CES at the beginning of the year and talked down virtually every other player in the space. Well, they ended up just bashing Microsoft a lot. The use case for something like this, I argued, is definitely for the hardcore. At any rate, you’ll have to wait a bit longer because despite the clever specs, Xi3’s Piston PC isn’t an official Steam box at all.
Why Does Michael Pachter Irritate Gamers? Because He’s Wrong Too Often
Do you trust this man with your entertainment investments?
Out of left field, it seems that today became ‘Defend Michael Pachter Day’ after my beloved colleagues over at The Escapist posted a write-up about how hard Michael Pachter works every day and his various missteps over the years. Pachter is kind of a gaming industry celebrity and definitely the only analyst (he works for Wedbush Morgan) who’ll step on camera for investment advice and industry speculation, which is why major outlets keep enlisting him for air time and an extra paragraph in their gaming industry news piece. GameTrailers even gave him his own show.
My relationship with Michael Pachter goes back nearly a decade, back to the web forums where posting an article with his name in the header was an invite for a cheap laugh. I’ve never met the guy, I’m sure he’s swell. He obviously works really hard, but Nostradamus, Mister Pachter, is not.
