One of the things about big “open-world” space games is that developers can put a lot of effort into the starscapes around the players, sometimes making them works of art in their own right. And even if you’re meant to be flying around scooping salvage, delivering cargo or fighting enemies there are times when you just want to go a little slower and take the time to stare at those wonderful stars right?

For a while players in EVE Online have been asking developers CCP for a first-person perspective so they can do just that. And while it made sense that the game didn’t have one – the players being in a life-supporting pod instead of a cockpit canonly in-game – CCP have added a beta version that’s now in testing.

Currently it’s available in SiSi which is EVE’s test server and there will be an opt-in beta coming to the regular server next month. There’ll also be an orbital camera added which is like the regular one but with a narrower frame of view and a little bit of drift; as well as a tactical camera which leds you detach the cam and pan around.

So far reactions from the community have been mixed. I say as long as it doesn’t interfere with the game’s core, why not?

The weekly UK chart of the most popular games has just been released and to few people’s surprises Bethesda’s new Fallout game is top of the chart.

Fallout 4 released to great fanfare after Bethesda made the gamers wait for years for any sign of its actual existence, and beat out the other new releases of the week to claim top spot. It even surpassed its predecessor New Vegas by having its launch sales at 213% more than the 2010 hit. It also beat out the record for concurrent players on Steam with 470,000 players logged as playing at once and over 1.2 million owners of a copy of the game on day one.

Although full figures of all sales haven’t yet been released, Bethesda did say they’d produced and shipped 12 million copies of the game in preparation for the launch. Let’s hope nowhere ran out of copies.

In an interview Obsidian’s CEO has spoken about a new RPG the company has been working on that is due to be announced soon.

Speaking to GameInformer, Feargus Urquhart said that the game began life as a proposed Xbox One launch title but due to difficulties in realising a vision that both Microsoft and Obsidian could agree on the game was cancelled. That led to the laying off of 40 staff which Urquhart classed as a low point for the studio.

Microsoft had expected the title to “feel like a first-party title”, but Obsidian had trouble nailing down exactly what that actually meant. As well Microsoft apparently put pressure on Obsidian to incorporate launch features of the Xbox One in the game as well as making it a game that people would want to spend the price of the console to get. Eventually the two companies parted ways.

Since then Obsidian have been asking around other publishers and seem to have found a partner to help them release the game, albeit in an altered form. The new project is going to be announced sometime in the new few months.

Any guesses as to what it’ll be like setting-wise? I can only imagine.

Back at the start of the year one of the many games that have gone through development delays in recent times released itself onto Steam finally. Called Raven’s Cry it was pushed back multiple times to give the developers Reality Pump time to finish it. Unfortunately when it did release, it obviously still wasn’t done. The reviews marked this down as a buggy, historically inaccurate and just plain bad game.

Now Reality Pump are renaming, rejigging and re-releasing the game as what they call the “completed” version. Which kind of makes you wonder why they released it before it was that in the first place.

If you bought the original version, all you need to do is sign this form and you will get a copy of the new version for free provided you can show proof of purchase. Retitled Vendetta: Curse of Raven’s Cry, it apparently features “all-new gameplay mechanics, enemies, weapons, quests and upgrades plus brand new English voice-overs”.

Vendetta: Curse of Raven’s Cry releases on November 20th. Let’s hope it does and the game is completed, so we can put this to bed.

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