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:
Atom Zombie Smasher is a funny, clever indie game that combines a pinch of tower defense with a dash real-time strategy, and throws in a little RISK as well, for an addictive experience. Players control an orbiting defense platform that monitors and commands ground forces during a zombie outbreak. While you won’t engage the enemy directly, you’ll deploy troops, set traps, and coordinate rescue vehicles all while plotting out a large-scale strategy from the safety of your satellite base.
Open Mailbox. Get Rope. Examine Sword. If that sound familiar, you must be a fan of text adventure games. These were all the rage in the 80’s, back when computers didn’t have the processing power for “Graphics”, but rather used words to tell their story, with players typing in simple phrases instead of using a controller. Text gaming eventually fell out of fashion once computers that could display moving images became more common, but there’s still a small, loyal group of programmers and players who enjoy this sort of gaming, and it seems that playwrights Richard Lovejoy, Danny Bowes and Stephen Aubrey are among them, because they have created an interactive theatre experience called Brain Explode which mimics the gameplay of text adventures.
Tripwire Entertainment are the people who’ve brought PC Gamers such titles as Red Orchestra, Killing Floor, The Ball, Zeno Clash and Dwarfs. Player Affinity’s Charles Battersby had the chance to speak with Tripwire’s Vice President Alan Wilson about their past projects, and the upcoming Red Orchestra 2.
