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About a week ago I covered the news that Payday 2 was getting a new heist mission, as well as a new character named Clover whom at the time we knew very little about other than she was female, spoke with an Irish accent and had a minor obsession over a certain diamond. Now the character and heist DLCs are out and we know more.
Her class is Burglar, and can do things such as pick locks, answer pagers and bag bodies a lot faster than the other classes. A Burglar is also harder to hit and recovers from wounds fast, although they’re not great as frontline gunners due to their being squishy. Clover comes with a UK-based weapon set to add to the game, an L85 assault rifle and a shillelagh, as well as her own mask which fittingly has clovers on it.
Clover’s Character Pack costs £3.99, and her heist mission, the Diamond Heist, costs £4.99 on top of that. They’re both available on Steam and right now, Steam is in the midst of its Holiday Sale so there are some discounts on both right now if you want to pick them up.
Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Unity has been, to put not too fine a point on it, a disaster for them. The biggest problems have come in the form of the launch of the game showing that it was far from finished (oh those faceless bugs) and more recently a large fourth patch that was even larger on the Xbox One version thanks to it re-downloading the entire game.
One part of the entire debacle has been the cancellation of the Season Pass for the game, which resulted in Ubisoft telling purchasers of it and the Gold Edition of the game that as compensation for the problems and the cancellation they could choose a free copy of a number of Ubisoft games. And some of those games were pretty nice ones too.
Only hold on a second.
Some sharp-eyed people who have actually read through the legalese of the free game offer have noticed a little waver inside the agreement. Namely that if you choose to accept the free game you’re not then allowed to join in any lawsuits that might want to sue Ubisoft over the broken game not being as advertised. Basically, Ubisoft are trying to cover their own backsides and lower the chances of a class action lawsuit or making sure there’s so few left to file one that it wouldn’t be considered worth it in the end.
Either way, the entire situation has seriously damaged Ubisoft’s reputation among the Assassin’s Creed fans and the next game will have some serious work to do to make it up.
The titles on sale for the free game offer in case you’re still interested are as follows:
It was recently announced that Computerandvideogames.com, the homesite for the long-running CVG brand is due to close.
The announcement came from publisher Future, and is part of a general concentration of Future’s content into fewer locations. Some of CVG’s content will be added to the new location GamesRadar+ before the entire CVG audience is ‘folded’ into the site, along with the audiences of Edge, Official Playstation and Total Xbox. They will join the other publications that already have their home on GamesRadar+, Total Films and SFX.
Computer and Video Games began life in 1981 as a physical magazine before transferring online as the Internet gained momentum. Future have said that the new GamesRadar+ is hiring, but CVG’s former editor has said that so far none of the existing staff of the CVG site are due to make the leap over to working for GamesRadar+.
Obviously we wish those affected by the closure the best.
Evolve was very much one of the games that I saw in 2014 and thought to myself “Yes, I am interested in this game” and after playing a round at i51 with a friend and 3 other event-goers, I wanted it. The release date was pushed back to next year but there’s already been an alpha for Xbox owners and PC gamers.
Now Turtle Rock have released a new trailer to demonstrate their next ‘boss’ monster – Wraith. It’s an actual match played with the creature and its interactive in that you can switch between the viewpoints of all the players as you watch. Just make sure the annotations are on when you watch the video:
As a creature Wraith is more of a quick and deadly attacker, but suffers somewhat on armour and health. They can enter the shadows to evade the hunters or sneak up on them, deploy a decoy to confuse their foes, or even snatch up and abduct the hunters before killing them. Given that you’re much more likely to win a game of Evolve on the hunter side by sticking together, that’s quite the offensive ability to have.
Evolve will be coming early 2015, and pre-orders are available. You get an additional monster if you do so it might be worth it.
Telltale have announced that they’re going to make a new game, based off another popular game. That game? Minecraft.
It’ll be an adventure game and it’s called Minecraft: Story Mode. Despite the name though, this is a stand-alone title, not a new game mode being added to Minecraft. It’s also going to follow in the tradition of other Telltale games such as The Walking Dead and Wolf Among Us in that it will be episodic. Right now they are collaborating with Mojang and the Minecraft community in an attempt to make it as Minecrafty as possible. Telltale say that it will premier in 2015 for consoles, computers and mobile.
Mojang themselves have spoken about the game, saying it will not be an adventure for long-standing default avatar ‘Steve’ (or we assume ‘Alex’ the other default added in 1.8) nor will it go into details about the world of Minecraft itself.
