Arrowhead Game Studios, the wacky folks behind the PC exclusive RPG Magicka are at work on a new game. It was announced this week by the Publisher,Paradox Interactive, but the details won’t be fully unveiled until the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco in March. We do, however know the title: “Project JKF“.
If you ever doubted that the PC version of Skyrim was better than the Xbox 360, now’s the time to think again. Bethesda Softworks has finally released the official modding tools on Steam, which when downloaded will allow you to create your own quests, dungeons and more, whether you’re a beginner or an experienced modder. Steam has also released the official Workshop, meaning you can easily discover, rate, and download Skyrim mods created by other people, directly through the PC-only Steam.
With every online shooter that over-shadows its preceding iteration, there’s always the fear that the hard earned 60 bucks you spent on last month’s shooter has finally run out. This is especially true if you’ve paid for any of the recent, much-reviled, online passes. But Treyarch isn’t letting their mysterious, emotional, Vietnam drama drown in obscurity quite yet. That’s why the developers are starting up another Double XP weekend for Call of Duty Black Ops for everyone who hasn’t quite moved on to Modern Warfare 3 yet.
Tim Schafer is a brilliant man, his games of the last few years prove it, Grim Fandango was a romp through an after-death 40’s noir setting, Psychonautswas a journey through a summer camp of psychics and their minds and Brutal Legend was an exploration of a world conjured from heavy metal dreams and ambitions. Notch, or Markus Persson, the man behind Minecraft is also a pretty crazy dude. Creating Minecraft and already being heralded as the greatest independent game developer of the generation, these two men have some pretty heavy pedigrees behind them.
There are already a bunch of mods available for Skyrim, but Bethesda is about to release the official creation kit for their critically-acclaimed epic RPG. A new Developer Diary video hit the internet this morning which explains the basics of the system and how it is integrated with Steam.
We’re always up for more of the PC exclusive action RPG Magicka here at Player Affinity, so we’re happy to learn that the game is getting yet another DLC pack in the near future with The Other Side of the Coin.
It’s been a few years since we had a new installment in the tactical RPG series Jagged Alliance. Jagged Alliance 2 came out in 1999 with a trickle of expansions in the years following. But the franchise returns to PC’s in February with the aptly-named Jagged Alliance: Back in Action. This new game keeps the tactical squad-based gameplay of the older games, but drastically updates the graphics.
Last year’s awesome PC exclusive game The Witcher 2 has been slowly making its way to the Xbox 360. Along the way, the developers CD Projekt RED have been touting all the cool enhancements that are being stuffed into the console version. Well, PC gamers won’t be getting the shaft, rather we’ll be getting all of the new tweaks and content that the console crowd gets.
As we see the turning of a new year, we also see the renewal of our favorite conventions like Blizzcon, PAX, and E3. Among them is Bethesda’s Quake Con which will be held from 2-5 August at the Hilton Anatole, Texas.
A lot of big numbers and stats have been thrown around by Bioware on the Star Wars: The Old Republic website, but one of the most surprising numbers was reported by the LA Times. From the initial concept all the way through development, SWTOR cost almost $200 million US dollars to create. The amount of people involved in the games production, included almost 1,000 voice actors for over 4,000 in game characters as well as thousands of Bioware’s artists, designers, producers, story writers, and motion capture employees.
