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Creative Assembly has revealed the first bits of Total War: Warhammer footage that involve the forces of Chaos doing what they do best, but what should be an exciting occasion is currently being met with a fair share of anger given that the most iconic Warhammer faction is being used to sell pre-orders.
The good news is that everyone will be able to fight against Chaos, DLC or not, with the Vampire Counts having one of their major campaign objectives revolve around pushing the Chaos forces further in to the North. Controversial DLC aside, here's something that everyone can agree looks pretty good, the battle between the Empire and Chaos:
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Its not an easy task to get your crowdfunding campaign to attract the necessary amount of people these days, as the Consortium: The Tower developers know full well given that their Kickstarter in January failed before even reaching the halfway point.
Rather than simply give up after a rather crushing defeat, the developers opted to go with a "drastic" plan B, which turned out to be a recently launched Fig campaign that is currently well on its way towards reaching the $300,000 goal through a combination of investments, and pledges. Here's a brief video explaining what exactly Consortium: The Tower is all about:
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The previous Battlefleet Gothic: Armada trailer featured a whole legion of Orks 'singing' so poorly it could make one wish for the Inquisition to take them away, rather than to endure that torment for much longer.
Thankfully, the Eldar have arrived with their own trailer that puts a swift end to the Ork's verbal rampage, though the end result is that we now have to endure the Eldar's insufferable smugness, but such is the fate of the Warhammer 40k universe. Here's the trailer:
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You have to hand it to Nintendo's lawyers, they react with frankly inhuman speed when it comes to copyright infringements. It took Blizzard years to shut down the biggest private Vanilla WoW server, and here we have Nintendo bringing down the axe within mere days.
As noted on the Zelda Tribute website, the voxel-based 3D remake of 'The Legend of Zelda' has been taken down due to a cease & desist letter from Nintendo, though the developers haven't given up on their labor of love as they now aim to replace all of the sprites with their own originals:
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[Update] The open beta ends on April 17, not 18.
Those that pre-ordered Wolfenstein: The New Order have been blowing each other to bits in the closed Doom beta for about a week now, and soon enough we'll all have a chance to throw our own hats in to the ring as the open beta has been scheduled to start on April 15, and last till April 17.
The beta will not require any type of code to play, you will simply be able to log in with the platform of your choice and start blasting away in either Team Deathmatch, or Warpath modes on the two currently available maps: Heatwave and Infernal. Along with this announcement came news of the upcoming Doom DLCs packs, and unfortunately, this is where the good news stops.
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The Banner Saga is one of those games that I really enjoy, mostly because of the choice-driven narrative, but it sure did have a fair number of flaws, especially in terms of how annoying the combat could sometimes be.
With The Banner Saga 2 just around the corner, and the developers rather receptive of player feedback, its going to be interesting to see how the story progresses, but most importantly, how the updated gameplay will shape up. Here's the launch trailer, and a list of features that you can expect to see in The Banner Saga 2:
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Despite it sometimes causing a 'massive outrage', I'm still grateful Jeff Kaplan, Game Director for Overwatch, takes the time to communicate the team's plans with the Overwatch community.
In a recent Developer Update he detailed how exactly Overwatch will support competitive play, how long the seasons will be, and most importantly, what sort of shiny loot will players get for participating. Here's the video, and a brief summary of what I believe are the key points:
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I was privileged to be a member of the generation that grew up with World of Warcraft, and despite the Vanilla/Burning Crusade days being long since over, they still hold a special place in my heart, as do all the people I've spent countless hours in 40-man Naxxramas with.
So it is with great sorrow that I'm here to tell you that Nostalrius Begins, the biggest and best private Vanilla WoW server, is being shut down on April 10 due to a cease & desist letter from Blizzard.
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Over the course of the month the Paris level has been available, Hitman players have electrocuted, chandeliered, and poisoned their way across an entire mansion's worth of content, but eventually there comes a point where you've done everything you can in a single level, and require something a bit more fresh.
This is where Hitman's Update 1.03 comes in to play as it brings in numerous bug and balance fixes, but also 10 brand new "Vampire Magician' challenges to give you something to do before the next episode, Sapienza, arrives on April 26.
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The Fig campaign for the PC version of Rock Band 4 started out incredibly strong by gathering well over a hundred thousand dollars during the initial reveal, an unsurprising amount given that it was a massive, once-popular franchise that never had a PC installment.
Unfortunately, its crowdfunding campaign has failed miserably by only reaching slightly past the halfway point with $792,817 raised across 1,674 backers, a far cry from its lofty $1,500,000 goal. So what exactly went wrong?