One of my biggest criticisms/compliments about Dishonored is that, despite its ample 21-hour campaign, it left me wanting more missions, more areas of Dunwall to explore, more Dishonored! Turns out I'll get it. Arkane Studios announced this morning that three DLC packs are in the works, and the first, Dunwall City Trials, will put Corvo's gadgets, weapons, and supernatural powers to the test in December.
I suspect that this new Abyssal Forge DLC for Darksiders 2 is a metaphor about nuclear proliferation. A banished builder of weapons slowly making something that could destroy the whole world and everything in it? Not terribly subtle, Vigil. Of course, I'm also full of it, so there's a nearly 100% chance that I'm totally wrong. I guess we'll find out on October 30th.
To play Medal of Honor Warfighter's single-player campaign is to become Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, only instead of knowing exactly where Ned Ryerson will be and what he'll say every single day for eternity ("I did the whistling belly button trick at the high school talent show. Bing!") I knew every exploding twist and slow-motion turn the levels were going to make before they actually made it. Warfighter isn't a bad modern military shooter, it's just that there's very little of its seven hours of terrorist-shooting that doesn't make me feel like I've played it before.
If there's one thing the internet loves, it's a good mystery. And Valve is of the best at getting the world wide web (does anyone call it that anymore?) all riled up, particularly when they talk Team Fortress 2. This time around, they're hinting at the TF2 Halloween event with a portion of newspaper, specifically the classifieds. What could it mean? Help me figure it out, friends.
Maxis originally planned to erect its new SimCity in February, but you know how it is with these big construction projects. This delay won't be a lengthy one, though. EA announced today that the original city building simulator is officially set to return in early March.
There's just something about videogames and Kickstarter. Two weeks ago, Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts asked gamers to help fund his new space odyssey, Star Citizen. The project's early momentum stalled, and it plateaued at $1.34 million on the official Star Citizen site. Over the weekend, Roberts also decided to sample the Kickstarter waters, and kick start it did. Star Citizen hit its $500,000 goal in no time, and with 26 days left, it appears Kickstarter will help ensure Star Citizen becomes a reality.
Assassin's Creed 3 won't hit PC until late November, but you can play a slice of it right now. Well, at least a video choose your own adventure slice of it. It's 1775 and the Battle of Bunker Hill is underway. There's no need to wait to see the whites of the Redcoats' eyes in this interactive trailer, just select how you'd like to unleash Connor on your unfortunate foes and watch him go.
Note to indie developers: if you're depending on building a community around your multiplayer game at launch, it's a really, really bad idea to release it just as the holiday flood of big new games begins. Post-apocalyptic shooter Ravaged did just that, and as a result the promising Road Warrior-style shooter is struggling due to a severe lack of players -- even with free demoers currently mixed in with paid customers.
Imagine for a moment that you're a professional baseball player. With each pitch, you read the man throwing it. You see the way he grips the ball, the spin when it leaves his hand, the speed at which it's coming to the plate, its future trajectory. You know everything there is to know about that ball. Playing Mark of the Ninja makes me feel like that batter, but instead of swatting homers, I'm stabbing suckers in the throat.
For a combat flight simulation that began as a passion project developed by the same Eagle Dynamics team that gave us DCS: Ka-50 Black Shark and A-10C Warthog, DCS: P-51D Mustang is a pretty impressive piece of work. Exhaustively detailed, right down to the exact placement and functionality of every gauge and dial in its fully clickable six-degrees-of-freedom virtual cockpit, this is a serious simmer's aircraft.
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault is a great history lesson. Not just because it gave us a sense of what it was like to storm Omaha Beach or parachute behind enemy lines, but because this was the first MoH to arrive on PC (the previous games were only on console). It also helped to usher in a much more mature tone in shooters which has continued to carry on some 10 years later. Now the entire collection of these classic Medal of Honor games, including the Spearhead and Breakthrough expansions, are available on GOG for only $10 coincidentally the same day as the latest entry in this franchise.
After the surprise hit that was Dead Island, the folks at Deep Silver are dedicated to putting out more content as quickly as possible. But for some fans, what we've seen of the results thus far in Dead Island: Riptide are too similar to the first game. The devs hear that concern and promise they're creating a whole new experience.
