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The latest update to the first-person survival game The Long Dark has come along with a number of large changes, including the addition of a new region – Desolation Point. Desolation Point also happens to be the name of the update.
Described as “a stretch of coastal highway pockmarked with the abandoned remnants of a formerly thriving whaling industry,” Desolation Point can be found somewhere beyond the end of the Coastal Highway, past the Commuter’s Lament. Along with this changes include the ability to properly place items rather than just dropping them all, metal forging to enable creation of a few simple tools and the Survival Panel has been replaced by a new Status screen that has access to the Backpack, First Aid, Bedroll and Fire-Starting functions. The weather system has also been overhauled to make transitions between different weather states smoother and adds visual cues which makes predicting different weathers much easier. There’s also the addition of five different sandbox game slots with a single save slot each along with the usual tweaks and fixes.
Fortunately old saves will still be compatible with the update, so if you’ve a save with a lot of hours ploughed into it you can still play without fear of losing everything you’ve worked for so far.
Rocket League is a good example of a simple game concept done really well. Good controls, physics and general good fun factor means that the game has passed a million sales on Steam and has become a growing eSport. Now the game’s developers have announced the next DLC.
Psyonix announced the DLC, Revenge of the Battle-Cars in a trailer. It’s due for release in October and will add to the game two “fan-favourite” vehicles from Rocket League’s predecessor, Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars: Scarab and Zippy. There’s also aesthetic content in the form of new paint types, decals, rocket boosts, toppers, antennas and wheels – all to be gotten hold of for $3.99 or the “regional equivalent” of that price.
At the same time there will be two new arenas (Urban Station (Night) and Utopia Coliseum (Dusk)) added free to the game regardless of whether or not you own the DLC as well as new Country and Community flags for you to use.
Expansions for games tend to be released at the most a few years after the release of the original game, so it’s a surprise to hear that Forgotten Empires and SkyBox Labs are working on an expansion for Age of Mythology – a game already 13 years old.
Called Tale of the Dragon, the expansion will be Eastern-themed. Not many other details are known yet, but the team will be having a livestream on October 2nd with the exact time to be announced later on. The expansion comes on the heels of the release of the Extended Edition of the game which came with a number of updates including day and night cycles, improved water and global lighting.
The same team is also working on another project: Age of Empires 2 HD: The African Kingdoms.
If you follow let’s players on Youtube or Twitch there’s a fair bet you’re familiar with the name of Elgato. Their capture devices are used by a lot of Youtubers with high subscriber counts because they perform well with a number of consoles. Now Elgato have just released their latest device – the HD60 Pro.
The main features of the HD60 Pro are that it is compatible with all the latest consoles, and is able to stream directly to Twitch or Youtube in 1080p at 60FPS with little latency. This on top of something called Flashback recording which allows you to go back in your latest gameplay and record something after the fact – brilliant for those times when you’re playing and something amazing or hilarious happens out of the blue. There’s also some very nice videos available on Elgato’s Youtube channel telling you how to install the device in case you need instructions; very useful.
Specs:
Interface – PCIe x1
Input – PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox 360 & Wii U (unencrypted HDMI)
Microsfot built up the launch of Windows 10 for a long time and the release has so far been fairly good. There’s a lot of happy customers although quite a few reports of people having problems with the automatic updating, the ‘spyware’ and some programs no longer working have also been reported as well.
Now Microsoft have announced that there’s going to be some “exciting news” about Windows 10 devices to tell, and they’ll be sharing it in New York on October 6th at 10AM EST. What this actually means is unknown, but guesses are already flying around as people try to pinpoint whether this has anything to do with PC, Xbox or mobile – and if it has any meaning for gamers.
All we can do is wait for October 6th and tune in to find out what Microsoft have got to tell us.
