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Recently 3D Realms and Interceptor have been in the gaming press owing to the dispute around the ownership of Duke Nukem rights, more specifically if they had the rights to make a new one without the approval of the people who owned the rights: Gearbox.
Now though they’ve announced a new game, which sounds very similar to their previously announced but so far unreleased Duke Nukem: Mass Destruction. It’s an action, role-playing game, top down and takes place across many planets to save the President from an alien threat. The only difference? The Duke is nowhere to be seen.
The new game, titled Bombshell, stars a new female protagonist called Shelly ‘Bombshell’ Harrison who appears to be a cyborg and is introduced to us through the trailer linked below. It would appear that due to the lawsuit brought against 3DR and Interceptor by Gearbox, they’ve decided to take Mass Destruction and re-work it into the new game, which is still planned to be released on the same platforms of PC and PS4, although not until some time in 2015.
Interceptor and 3DR have promised that the game will contain “out-of-this-world enemies, a never-before-seen arsenal of devastating weaponry and a variety genre-crossing mechanics” and it can be guessed that the extra time will give them some time to tweak the graphics and sound to make them better than the Duke’s postponed game could have. It can also be guessed that the drama that surrounded them owing to the question of who owned the Duke can only work for them as far as promoting the game goes.
It may seem hard to believe, but as of tomorrow (15th May 2014), Diablo 3 will be two years old. Cake and singing songs just isn’t in the style of the popular dungeon-based Hack-and-Slasher, however. Nor is a single day of celebration enough. No, Blizzard has something better in mind.
To celebrate the game’s second anniversary and the community that made it all possible, Starting tomorrow and running until May 22, players who log in to defend Sanctuary will receive double Rift Fragments as well as a +100% boost to their chance to find Legendary items.
While the buffs will apply to all characters; and will stack with other buffs a Player may have to add further bonuses to their drop rate etc, those with a console version of the game are unfortunately excluded – this event is for PC & Mac only. However, as Console releases already have better drop rates than the PC equivalent, this is hardly a big loss. What MIGHT be a big loss is the timing, as many Diablo 3 players are complaining the week-long event falls into a period where many students are completing major exams – thus limiting the time they have to take advantage. However, the most hardcore of Diablo 3 players are already clearing their schedule to make room for a whole week of non-stop action.
Whether you’re a casual or hardcore Diablo 3 player, looks like Diablo’s demons better prepare for a lot more bloodshed than usual.
Sony have kicked off a big sale on the Playstation Store, dubbed ‘May Madness’ in which there are many discounts on titles across their console range from more recent Playstation 4 and Vita releases all the way through to retro PS2 and PSone titles. The Sony Store website notes that there is ‘up to 65% off’ some games, with some having been discounted to less than £5.
Roughly a hundred different games have been included in the sale which is taking part in Europe and Australia and include titles such as XCOM Enemy Within, a Resident Evil 4/Code Veronica bundle and Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. There’s also some brilliant retro classics thrown in there like Theme Hospital and Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee. The discounts will be in place until June 5th with a few exceptions such as Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z.
Sony have reversed a controversial new plan for the DriveClub game that tied access to the game with users’ Playstation Plus accounts. Users would have been able to get the game as a demo for free, and upgrade to the full game for only £42.99… only to lose access if they ever let their membership to PS Plus lapse.
Unsurprisingly this was not popular among Sony’s fans and they took to the forums and the Internet to make their thoughts heard. And it seems that their protests have worked.
UPDATE: Our priority for DRIVECLUB is to enable you to play and enjoy everything it has to offer and PlayStation recognises that the prior plan for DRIVECLUB entitlement for the upgrade to the PS Plus edition was not appropriate. As a result, we have adjusted the PlayStation Plus terms for DRIVECLUB.
Now, If you intend on downloading DRIVECLUB PlayStation Plus Edition, and upgrading to the full game experience, you will have access to the full game even if your PlayStation Plus subscription runs out.
Who says that the consumer can’t make a difference?
People seem divided on the new Wolfenstein game. Some fans are looking forward to the return to the return to the roots of the franchise in a story-driven game, while others are left unimpressed by the way the game looks and has played in demos so far. One thing about the game that is sure to not divide opinion though is the amount of memory needed to install the game on a computer though: 50GB.
The specs that Wolfenstein: The New Order will need from each platform it’s being released for have been made public but while most of the specs seem pretty normal for such a game the huge amount of memory has caught the most attention for good reason. Large installs are becoming more common, with games like Titanfall also taking up many gigs simply through having uncompressed audio files. 50GB does seem like an awful lot though, which leads you to wonder what it could possibly need all that space for…
