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The developers of Castlevania: Lord of Shadow have just changed their website a little. It’s currently been taken over by a semi-interactive teaser for their next as-yet-unknown game, and it includes a countdown to a date in the middle of next month.
MercuryStorm teased the new sci-fi game a while ago, with the site previously saying the the team were off “exploring new worlds, fighting strange creatures, discovering new heroes”. Now it’s updated to show an image of a man with a cigar in a tiny cockpit, surrounded by a retro-futuristic mishmash of things like dials, radars, portholes and computer screens. Clicking upon the computer screen will take you to three options – a link to the studio’s other games, a message about the crew being in “hibernation” (for a long space journey perhaps?) and the aforementioned countdown timer which will end on April 15th.
Just what it’s counting down to isn’t known yet, but it’s a fair bet that it’ll be a proper reveal of the game – title, some images, a concept. So keep your eyes glued to the site on the date in question to find out first.
The first Escalation missions for the new Hitman game have finally landed, extending the life of the game’s first episode with missions that see you asked to take out new targets in specific ways. And each successful attempt sees you unlock a more difficult version of the mission. Sounds good if you’re a challenge-seeker.
The first of the new Contracts is called “The Holmwood Disturbance” and sees players head to an attic, wear they will don a magician’s outfit and then eliminate target Faustin D’Aoust with a bullet. I’m assuming they mean shot from a gun of some sort, although I guess if it’s possible to choke them with it, that’d be accepted too. Each time you pass the mission, you’ll get more restrictions and obstacles added including extra security cameras, an additional target, disallowed pacifications, and forcing you to escape by speedboat.
The second new Escalation is “The Mandelbulb Requiem” and has Agent 47 eliminating target Michel Charest while dressed as a Palace Staffer. More difficult versions of it will ask you to hack a laptop, contend with extra security measures, and even use a different disguise to get to your target.
Of course, Escalation Contracts also don’t allow you to save during the mission, so it forces you to think on your feet a little more. If you get something wrong you need to figure out a way to get past it and continue your mission – or adapt and change your plan. In a way that’s a little bit more realistic and probably a bit more fun too unless you prefer to see your plans go like clockwork.
The second episode of the game should also be hitting sometime in the next month too, so prepare yourself for that.
The DLCs were announced a few weeks ago, and now we finally have the trailer for the first DLC public.
Automatron will release on March 22nd and will pit you against the mysterious Mechanist who has assembled an army of hostile robots and released them into the Commonwealth to cause havoc. You will be able to find these robots, destroy them and take their parts to construct your own robotic companions to fight back against the enemies of the Commonwealth. The trailer showed off the construction screen as well as many different scenes that resemble what I imagine Robot Wars would look like in the Wasteland. This content will be available to purchasers once they get their character to Level 15, which means you’re not going to meet a mechnical death machine just outside of Vault 111 with your fresh character.
Either way, I’m looking forward to making my own robotic companion. If you’re not so much, then maybe the following two months’ DLC packs – Wasteland Workshop in April, and Far Harbor in May – will be more up your street.
Square Enix have put up an offer for an Easter bundle of games at quite a good price. The catch is that it’s a mystery box on offer.
The mystery box in question can be acquired from the Square Enix Store and will include five Steam game keys for just the low price of $9.99/£4.99/€6.49. Thing is, until the buying period ends, you won’t know WHICH games you’re getting keys for. So it’s a game of chance – will you get some good stuff or things that you’re not so interested in?
It’s not the first time SqEnix have done such a box, the Christmas one contained Thief, Final Fantasy 13, Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris, Life is Strange Episode 1, and Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn inside. There were also discount codes for the other four episodes of Life is Strange, as well as Just Cause 3 inside as well.
You’ve til midnight PST on March 20th to decide. Is it enough to tempt you?
The Internet and new media have brought a lot of new things into the world. Now we get to find out if online accounts can be considered transferable property.
A Twitch streamer by the name of Ara_Gaming took a few months hiatus while she sorted out some things in her personal life, mainly divorce proceedings with her current husband. Yesterday that hiatus ended and the stream went live… only it wasn’t “Ara” streaming.
It seems that the Twitch account was wholly owned by an LLC that had been set up in the names of both the husband and the streamer, and as part of the divorce proceedings the husband was awarded the account. Neither is the original streamer allowed to stream on any other account for five years as a part of a non-compete clause.
This information has come from ‘nanospynet’, a user who claims to be the said husband. Because he himself is not a streamer and no longer owns the LLC, he has asked his cousin to take on the account and it was her who streamed last night.
Understandably the nearly 30,000 followers of the account weren’t happy and the chatroom moderators almost all chose to revolt against the new operator of the channel, other followers also took to Twitter to spread news of this ‘injustice’ via the #aragate hashtag.
Whether or not this is even allowed has also come into question, as Twitter’s sign-up says that ‘a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, freely revocable license’ is granted to new broadcasters. The husband is apparently in talks with Twitch now to sort out that particular snarfu.
Either way, this is possibly one of the first of its kind to occur so who knows what’ll happen. The original owner of the account seems to have stayed quiet so far, so maybe they’ve a different story.
