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Ahead of its free-to-play opening up to all players, CCP have put out a new trailer for EVE Online, to show off its merits to those still on the fence about joining in.
EVE will be going free-to-play on November 15th and it’s clear that CCP wish to bring in new blood to become hopelessly lost in the endless hours you can spend grinding for ships and fighting for corporation in EVE. After all, that game’s player community pretty much writes the game’s entire story, and the battles that happen in it are quite legendary.
If you decide to give it a go, make sure to inform all your friends and family. If you get hooked, you might not be seeing them again for a long time…
No, but seriously, the trailer’s pretty cool. Check it out below:
Fans of free-to-play sci-fi shooter Warframe get ready, your next major expansion to the game is incoming next month.
The War Within is Warframe’s next big update, and it’ll add the next stage of the game’s main story quest to the game, a hunt for information about the mysterious Tenno and will continue from the point that the last expansion The Second Dream left off back in December – so you’ll need to get past that expansion’s content first to get into the next story parts that The War Within will be bringing.
There will also be story cinematics which will show off your character in all their awesome glory, so make sure that you’re looking snazzy. Digital Extremes recommends it.
While there’s not actual date, we do know it’s coming November and it’s likely that there will be some double resource weekends and other events to help you build up in time for the big day so you can enjoy it to your heart’s content.
Frontier’s theme park builder game Planet Coaster will be out in a few weeks, and the devs are releasing videos of information for those who want to know more before they play. The latest one talked about the guest AI or ‘guest brain’ as they referred to it.
As you’d expect, the guests you attract to your park will have needs and wants to fulfill and part of your job is to make sure there are places to satisfy those needs whether it be using the bathroom or getting something to eat. They’ll also be taking in what is around them and reacting to them, as well as making plans. They’ll be doing things like factoring in where they want to go, how they can get there, whether they want to save time by spending to use a transport ride or save money by walking and get there with less time to enjoy it. Visitor groups and what type they are will also make a difference to those wants, as a family might go for the more children-friendly rides while teens and young adults might seek out the most thrill-seeking roller coasters and water rapid rides possible.
Either way, it all sounds really quite cool. If like me you can’t wait to play the game, November 17th is the game’s release date. If you pre-order the special edition though, one of the bonuses is early access from November 9th.
No Man’s Sky didn’t live up to expectations, that much most people agree with. No matter whose fault it was, the game was hyped to hell and back and would have had a difficult time living up to it all in the end. However, earlier today it seemed that Hello Games themselves were regretting No Man’s Sky, tweeting out “No Man’s Sky was a mistake.”
This obviously led to the tweet getting retweeted all over Twitter and a lot of confused, curious and other replies and questions to the account and Hello Games’ Sean Murray. It was Murray who pointed out what some had already guessed – someone had hacked the Twitter account and was posting claiming to be Hello Games.
Server hacked. We’re binging Mr Robot Episodes as quickly as we can looking for answers. Ep05 is a cracker
The interesting bit comes when you realise that the e-mail server had also apparantly been hacked into and e-mail replies being sent out to journalists’ enquiries containing some really odd information. Polygon got one from someone claiming to be Murray saying that not only had he made the tweet, but that Hello Games had “not been coping well” since the game’s release. There is some speculation that the hacker is a disgruntled employee or someone related to Hello Games who was using compromised accounts to access the e-mail server and send the messages, with both Forbes and mashable reporting that Murray has confirmed such to them.
It’s not quite the tweet many were waiting for from the Hello Games Twitter, but at least it livened things up a bit. There could possibly even be more to this than we currently know about. Who knows? Maybe in the next few days someone will step forward to claim responsibility that will surprise us…
… Or maybe it’ll turn out to be the work of a dissatisfied consumer. Who knows?
Welcome back to another update in the world of Kickstarter gaming campaigns and what I think looks cool in them.
To go back over previously covered campaigns, both Creekside Creep Invasion and Queer Quest have little time to make up a lot of their goal, although Creekside more than Queer Quest. Goblins of Elderstone though has a little more time and is not too far off their target, so I’ve high hopes that it at least will see a full funding.
First up we have a card game that plays sort of like poker but with ways to screw with your opponent or cheat.
Drawing Dead sets you as an undead western soul, walking the land of living and dead and gambling with your soul to finally be able to pass on. Each player around the table will draw a role card which will give them a special ability for that round, which you can use to steal cards, draw others, switch and whatever else you need to do to reclaim your soul chip and win.
Drawing Dead has a $40,000 goal, of which is has made $13,760 so far with 28 days to go.
Next up we have an action arcade-style game from a fairly new indie studio, all about using demons to fight off holy armies across generations.
The story of the game has the titular death witches being necromancers who use their abilities to communicate with the dead. However, a holy order formed to eliminate the death witch order past, present and forever – and now the death witches must use their forbidden demon summoning knowledge to fight back. Each era too will have their own summonable demons, and since the witch can only summon and nothing else you need to learn how to make use of what summons you have!
Death Witch: Bloodline has 29 days to go to make it’s $10,000 target. It has so far gotten $10.
A physics-based game next, an endless runner which the creator hopes to get to VR.
Cloud Runner is basically a game where you run through the levels and try to make it as far as possible. The creator has said that they hope to get Vive support for the game if successful, as well as making the game for PC available from their own site if Steam is not welcoming to the game.
If this sounds like your sort of thing, Cloud Runner has 29 days to go to make its $2,000 target.
Lastly we have this game about being a child who wakes up in a dark forest with no idea how she got there and must find her way out.
Around 2,000 minors vanish in the US every day, and one of them just woke up lost in the woods. Playing as 9-year-old Annie you must venture through the dark atmospheric forest to discover just what is happening and how you ended up here in the first place. The developer has said that they will be using the Kickstarter for production costs and hope to not have to put advertising in the game that could ruin the atmosphere they are aiming for.
Alone in the Woods has made $215 of its $8,000 goal with 29 days to go.
