Wondering what exclusive content you’ll be getting with your pre-order of Destiny on PS4? Well here’s a little video from Bungie and Playstation all wrapped up and presented nicely for you. Thanks Playstation and Bungie…see you September 9th!
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Feel Freedom in Dying Lights New Dev Diary #1: Natural Movement
The developers over at Techland want to run you by their new parkour mechanics in this new dev diary. In Techland’s last 2 zombie games — Dead Island and Dead Island: Riptide — the movement was stiff and weighted. It seems they have rectified that problem in Dying Light making the fluid movement a central role in their upcoming zombie co-op slaughter fest.
Look for Dying Light to infect your consoles and PCs February 15
First 30 Minutes – Bound by Flame (PS4)
What’s up guys! Here’s a video I made earlier today showcasing the first 30 minutes of Bound by Flame. Enjoy!
Hellraid Upgraded For Next-Gen Consoles
Hey, remember Hellraid – the fantasy clone of Dead Island that was supposed to be released Fall of 2013 for the 360, PS3, and PC? Well it looks like the guys and gals over at Techland have been working diligently to bring that game up to par from previous generation to next-gen consoles.
Techland released a press statement today stating that their upcoming dark fantasy first-person RPG game – Hellraid – is undergoing a face lift and being retrofitted for the next (or current) generation of consoles – PS4 and Xbox One – as well as PC.
With this overhaul, Techland will be using their new proprietary engine – Chrome Engine 6. This is the same engine that is being used for their upcoming zombie game – Dying Light.
Along with a new engine, Hellraid will be implementing new combat mechanics, a customized class system, character customization, and 3 game modes – Story, Mission (arcade), and Arena mode.
Characters will not be locked into a predetermined class. With a “class-free skill tree” your character will have the freedom to choose how he or she wants to spec their Hellraider throughout the game allowing for deeply customized gameplay. Various active and passive abilities can be customized, as well allowing for combat, magic, and agility path freedom. Players will also be able to create and customize their character with armor, clothing, and accessories.
Combat has been improved as well. You may now equip your character with one or two-handed melee weapons, shields, magic, or ranged weapons. Counter-attacks, parrying, and dashing mechanics will also be implemented in the new iteration of Hellraid.
Lastly, weapon crafting, interactive environments, destructible objects, and adaptive AI will be included in the upgraded version of Hellraid.
PC raiders can look for Hellraid come Autumn through Steam’s Early Access program with PS4 and Xbox One to follow some time in 2015.
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Swamps in Hellraid
Destructible chandelier and armored skeleton
Shielded skeleton and various enemies
Magic combat and open enemy portal
Guess Who’s Back? The Return of the MMO
Sometimes I’m a little slow to realize things. Maybe it’s an inappropriate joke I told, food in my teeth, the pungent smell emanating from my armpits, or realizing that this past 2013 E3 showed us a peek into the direction games are being pushed by developers.
I wasn’t at E3, but I watched the presentations that Monday from the major companies (Sony, EA, Microsoft, and Ubisoft) from the comfort of my domicile. By the end of all four presentations, I was on stimulation overload. I witnessed new games for new consoles, new franchises from new developers, established developers presenting new games, horrible jokes, uncomfortable silences, and the hardware reveal of Sony’s PS4. I was overwhelmed but generally satisfied by what I saw.
Over the next few days the media flood gates opened and the overflow of information poured out. I was uninterested. The luxury of viewing such an event from the confines of my own home is that I can pick and choose what I want to see and read, however, there were quite a few games that had piqued my interest and knew little about. These games offered a fresh prospective on how we would play games in the future and presented possibilities that aren’t readily available to the current generation of consoles.
So, you might be asking yourself by now, “What is he getting at and what does this have to do with his introduction and the title?”
It hadn’t dawned on me until a few weeks after E3 that developers are pushing their own imagination of the MMO. Developers and publishers are now afforded the opportunity to go out on a limb and develop ambitious titles that allow for an experience seldom accomplished on a console, an experience usually reserved for the power of the PC.
The reveal of The Division came at the end of the Ubisoft presser and was well met by the audience. Instantly I noticed the game looked gorgeous. As the demo went on, my level of intrigue rose with each frame. The player met up with two other players, seemingly, and together they trekked through the New York wasteland. The small nuances of the game caught the eyes of many and the internet was a buzz about the animation of the character closing the door of a car that he was hiding behind while being shot at. (You had to see it to realize its awesomeness.) After a run in with some enemies, we got a glimpse of another division of players and the demo ended. This was a game I must have.
But one question went unanswered, “Who were those other players and how will this all fit together in terms of multiplayer?” I searched the internet, turning up nothing. A day or two later after I had obsessively scoured the internet trying to drum up any information on this game, an interview arose from the E3 press tendrils. The Division was in fact an open-world game that would house multiple characters at the same time where players could also meet up and form divisions to complete quests and such.
Another game to position itself on my radar was Destiny. Destiny was announced a few months before E3 and not much was known about this mysterious title other than it was being developed by Bungie and published by Activision, it was going to be a persistent open-world FPS, it was to have a possible life span of up to 10 years, and the game world would contain multiple players at the same time.
Inquisition would be put to rest during the Sony E3 presser when Bungie took the stage to show off their new persistent shooter. Destiny looked gorgeous with its beautifully bleak backdrop and intricate character design. During the E3 demo, the player would meet up with a multitude of other players during the demo to complete a quest and then conclusively winding up at an instanced battle. Once again, my eyes were dilated and my mouth wet with interest. Here was another game I could not wait to get my sweaty mitts all over.
Another game that was previously announced before E3 was, Elder Scrolls Online. People scoffed at the prospect of another MMO. Why in the hell would Bethesda, a well-respected and very intelligent game development company be working on a game in a genre that is super hard to succeed in? Did they not get the memo? MMOs are dead.
Yes, this is a traditional MMO by base standards and by the looks of it, not adding anything new to the genre. But what makes this title so unique is that it will be fully playable on the upcoming next-gen consoles. Yeah, I know. PC is still better. But the diversity of both console and PC allows people access to a game that would otherwise be condemned to one platform. Now a full spectrum of gamers can have access to a style of game that maybe they previously couldn’t afford to play due to the high cost of gaming PCs. Also, consider that this franchise could re-spark a dying MMO genre.
MMOs are making a comeback, whether we like it or not. The examples shown at E3 by publishers prove this theory. It wouldn’t make sense for a major publisher like Ubisoft and Activison to sink a substantial amount of time, money, and resources into a genre that was dead. The traditional MMO model may be dead and we may never see the subscription model again, thankfully so. But what we will see are developers pushing a new style of game, a style of game that blankets the MMO architecture with a veneer of interesting gameplay that will appeal to the masses.
“Cyberpunk 2077” CD Projekt Red’s New Projekt Teased
From Polish developers, CD Projekt Red (also the creators of the Witcher series) comes their new project, Cyberpunk 2077.
I love me some Sci-fi and with CD Projekt’s track record of producing arguably one of the better RPG’s of this console cycle, The Witcher and The Witcher 2, Cyberpunk 2077 hopefully wont disappoint.
CD Projekt released a new teaser today and albeit a cinematic CG trailer, the graphics in the following trailer are gorgeous, sleek, and everything you would want from a futuristic setting. I’m looking forward to seeing how they implement RPG elements into their futuristic setting.
More info to be released Feb. 5, the teaser is below, and to visit Cyberpunk 2077 click HERE.
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