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Crytek, the company behind the Crysis series has just announced Arena of Fate, a MOBA coming to console and PC this summer.
If you’re wondering, a MOBA is a multiplayer online battle arena – think League of Legends or DOTA 2. Arena of Fate is set to feature five-against-five battles and will see players controlling legendary heroes from history and fantasy”, including Frankenstein, Jack the Ripper, Baron Münchhausen, Joan of Arc, Robin Hood and Little Red Riding Hood.”
Naturally, the game is powered by the CryEngine and is being developed by Crytek’s Sofia studio. As yet, it is unknown what consoles the game will be launched for, although is will be playable at E3 and more details are expected then. While you wait, check out the trailer below and leave us your thoughts on Crytek’s entry in to the MOBA battle in the comments below:
One of the co-creators of Mortal Kombat, Ed Boon, has just announced that a new Mortal Kombat game is in development right now, scheduled for a release sometime next year. The development is being handled by NetherRealm Studios and the game will be dubbed Mortal Kombat X, as this is to the the tenth iteration of the Mortal Kombat series. A trailer has also been released which shows a battle between characters Sub-Zero and Scorpion.
A classic RTS game is to return with an upgraded look and enhanced features next month. Set to be sold on Steam by new owners Skybox Labs, the new Rise of Nations hopes to capture the elements that made it originally a well-received game while providing a smooth updated feel.
Originally developed by Big Huge Games, Rise of Nations combined two of the other best-selling strategy games – Civilization and Age of Empires – into a game that made use of some of the best parts of each back in 2003. Big Huge Games was eventually acquired by 38 Studios and along with other properties, Rise of Nations was snapped up at auction by Skybox after 38 Studios went into liquidation. Skybox have also touched up other classic property Age of Mythology, so they’re not new to the game of enhancing older games.
The new Rise of Nations Enhanced Edition will include both the base game and the Thrones & Patriots expansion, and comes with upgraded graphics, fixes to allow the game to run better with newer hardware as well as Steamworks and Twitch integration to allow for easy multiplayer connection and streaming respectively. It’s also available with a 20 percent discount if pre-ordered.
Details have emerged of a new Sony studio set to reveal its first project at E3. The studio is named Pixel Opus and is partially the result of a program where Carnegie Mellon students were allowed to work with Sony Computer Entertainment America executive producer Alex Lee as part of their coursework.
The students produced prototype games for the Vita as part of their studies, which led to a number being taken on as interns with Sony and eventually hired. The studio, mainly made up of students who have now graduated Carnegie Mellon, have been working hard to get their first project finished in time. Lee says that although a number of programs like this one have been available at established universities for a while, they’ve been gaining in relevance and it’s only recently that their effect has begun to be felt by the industry.
We can only wait and see what the project they are presenting will be.
A small mod team have been working on a recreation of the original Metal Gear it seems. Cautiously at first because they didn’t wish to tread on the toes of original developers and owners Konami, lest they get into trouble with the company. However, Konami have heard of the project and have now given the team the go-ahead.
The mod team named Outer Haven are making their recreation in a version of Valve’s Alien Source engine and although they’ve started their work, they haven’t really made a lot of progress thus far as they’d been waiting for Konami’s go-ahead. Konami have now let the team ‘fill their boots’ and make their recreation on the condition that it isn’t used commercially (i.e. “you cannot use our copyrighted material to promote a product you are selling or making any profit from ”). As long as Outer Haven stick to that, they are free to proceed.
As they reach out to the wider Internet community to look for more team members to help bring their project to fruition, it’ll be interesting to see just how faithful a recreation they will make.
