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HTC’s Vive VR headset still has some things to prove if it’s ever going to be a contender with the second generation of Oculus’ well-known Rift headset, but they’re beginning now to send out developer kits to certain people to allow for the games to be developed for their headset.
The Vive is of course a joint venture between HTC and Valve’s SteamVR technology and the developer kit comes with a Vive headset, two Lighthouse base stations which pick up the signals from the two wireless Steam VR controllers to allow for the virtualisation of hand movements within the virtual reality setting and further adds to the sense of player immersion. The kit also contains cables and instructions to help developers along with their games before the Vive ships out to consumers later this year.
Limited numbers of the dev kits have been sent out, with recipients including major film studios and game developers both of the AAA standard and smaller indies who are newer to game development.
Yesterday we had a teaser from Blizzard about something new coming to the game of Hearthstone soon. Today, we found out just what was coming and the guesses were right on the money: it’s a new Hero for the Warrior class.
The Hero in question is Magni Bronzebeard, king of Ironforge. He’ll come with his own voiced emotes and Hero Power animation, although the Power itself is still the +2 Armour that Garrosh had previously. Blizzard’s blog post to announce Magni also makes it clear that he’s not alone, there will be more New Heroes coming soon.
Currently the Heroes are set to be a purchasable thing, priced at around £6 for British players and $9.99 for the North American territories with the Hero itself coming with a unique cardback themed after them.
So far Blizzard have set no release date for Magni or the other upcoming New Heroes. Although I’m guessing that we’ll know once the rest of them appear.
Heroes Emerge: New Hearthstone Heroes Are Coming!:[x]
The next Legend for Revenants has been revealed and along with it, a new weapon!
A lot of us have been saying for awhile how cool it would be for a profession to get Staff as a melee weapon, and now we got our wish. The newest weapon for Revenants is the Staff and it is used as a melee weapon.
As Roy Cronacher explains in today’s blog post they wanted to turn the normal use of staff on its head the same way they changed up how Revenants use Hammer skills. Their Staff skills will use a mix of martial and magical abilities.
Additionally some of the specifics of how channeling Ventari will work for Revenants was also revealed. All of Ventari’s skills will be powered through his tablet, in fact when you first switch to Legendary Centaur stance you’ll only have the ability to summon the tablet available. After you do that the skill slots will fill out with the rest of the abilities.
The skill Protective Solace forms a barrier around the tablet which destroys enemy projectiles. In the same way as the Hammer skill which keeps two hammers spinning around the Revenant, Protective Solace is the upkeep skill for Staff. Additionally the tablet (and thus the barrier itself) can be moved while it is active.
Well, seems Blizzard have a mysterious new Hero in store for Hearthstone possibly. At least, that’s what the latest Innkeeper’s Tale seems to be hinting at…
The blog post seems to be a teaser for a new Warrior Hero, but so far there’s few details to go on. The only thing we have is the silhouette above and a clue from a Tweet sent out by Blizzard from the @PlayHearthstone Twitter about the new teaser
It’s pretty obvious that the character will be a Dwarf, but no bets on whom or if they’ll keep the Armour ability that Garrosh has or will come with a new Hero Power. Personally, I’d hope for the latter option.
Blizzard have said before that adding new Hero classes would be difficult because of the need to balance a whole host of new class-exclusive cards as well as the Hero Power every class is equipped with. However, adding new Heroes that are of the exisiting classes seems a good way to add new playable characters without having the trouble of balancing a whole bunch of new cards. Maybe we’ll see alternate Heroes for the other classes too if this is what the teaser is hinting at.
Well, seems all the rumours were on the mark for once.
Fallout 4 has been one of those games that at times almost equalled Half-Life 3 in terms of games that gamers wanted so much that they’d check every press release put out by the developers looking for any clues that it was coming. There’s been a few letdowns but at long last Bethesda have made it plainly obvious that Fallout 4 will be an honest to god release sometime in the near future.
And they did it before E3 even. Guess we know what their E3 panel will be consisting of.
Fallout 4 rumours have been on the upswing since it was announced that Bethesda were holding their own event panel at this year’s E3, and only got worse when an animator listed that they had been working on the Fallout 4 trailer on their Linked In page. A site was launched yesterday by the developers with a screencap of the Please Stand By screen that Fallout fans are familiar with from previous entries in the series. A countdown signalled that news was coming at 3PM BST today and for once the news is the one that many have been hoping for.
