I’ll give a choice; you can donate a tiny sum of money to charity and get some indie games on the cheap at the same time, or you can donate a lot of money to charity and your reward shall be the knowledge that you’ve done good in the world… and you’ll still get a bunch of indie games cheap. You can do either with the new installment of the Humble Indie Bundle.
Johanson
said that most MMOs being sold today have broken quest structures, the
main problem being that too many people are completing the exact same
objectives. Guild Wars 2 is less focused on this and the
developers are focusing instead on creating a more social experience. He
said, “It’s about coming together and building communities.”
President of Epic Games Mike Capps has hinted that a new Unreal game may be on the way. “We have a couple other major franchises that we’ve not been paying attention to. It’s been a long time since we shipped an Unreal game,
and it’s an awfully loved franchise that we hold pretty dear here. We
haven’t been giving it the attention it deserves because we’ve been
focusing on Gears of War and we’re still a relatively small company.”
The Assassin’s Creed universe
already spans games, books and live action shorts, but Ubisoft has
announced they will be continuing this trend by further expanding it
with Assassin’s Creed: Embers. Assassin’s Creed: Embers
is an animated short film announced by Ubisoft at Comic-Con and
continues the story of Ezio Auditore. It’s being told as an epilogue to
the upcoming Assassin’s Creed: Revelations and the trailer
shows Ezio significantly older than when we last saw him and it shows
him on the run from an unknown enemy. Check out the trailer below:
Love it or hate it, last year’s Super Meat Boy was extremely popular and the guys behind it all, Edmund McMillan and some of the Super Meat Boy development team have announced their next game The Binding Of Isaac. While Super Meat Boy was similar to an old style technical platformer, The Binding Of Isaac is described by McMillen as “A roguelike shooter based on the dungeon structure of Zelda”.
A large
question in the video game industry right now is whether digital or
retail purchases are better. While purchasing a game from the comfort of
your preferred gaming machine is nice, the download times compared to
retail disc install times are not. Valve is hoping to help that problem
by upgrading Steam’s backend code, and improving the overall download
speeds for the platform. You can read the technical details of it here, but the quick summary is: faster download speeds for videos, faster download speeds for games.
Two of the biggest first person shooters of 2011, Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3, are coming out in the Fall. This creates some natural competition between them, but one supporter of Battlefield 3 has gone farther with his loyalty and created an anti Modern Warfare 3 website under the domain name ModernWarfare3.com. The site has been around for a while, and gone through several iterations, including fake insulting ads for Modern Warfare 3:
The highly anticipated indie action-RPG Bastion arrived for console gamers this week via PSN and XBLA but despite the games developer Supergiant Games confirming that a PC version was in the works, there is still no word on a release date yet.
Jealous of your Xbox friends because they’ve been playing the latest Call of Duty: Black Ops DLC pack for over a week now, while you’re still stuck playing Escalation? Fret not, because PC and PS3 owners will have access to the the Annihilation Pack on July 28th.
You’ll have to look long and hard today to find a good online sale, but that’s okay because we’ve done the work for you. Here’s today crop of sale game, including our recommendation on your best choice for the weekend.
