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The Sleepy Sheep Insomnia Sale, besides being the catchiest way of naming the extraction of money from my wallet, is an event where a brand new game constantly goes on sale with limited quantities available, thus forcing you to compete against other players for the glory of the discount god, for his savings be many.
As you can imagine, the games tend to flash by rather quickly, but there are definitely some amazing deals to be snapped up. The Witcher 3, one of the best open world RPGs ever made has briefly made its appearance at $25, as has Divinity: Original Sin and many others.
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Ubisoft Massive, the team behind The Division, has shown great dedication towards their game by releasing high quality patches throughout the beta tests that directly targeted the most common player complaints, and it seems that the trend is continuing in to the release version as well.
The upcoming Update 1.0.2 is aiming to fix numerous bugs and glitches, improve the overall Dark Zone experience and most importantly, correct some of the annoying connection issues that popped up recently. Here are the patch notes:
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Blizzard's team that handles cinematics has produced some of the finest scenes in gaming history, so you bet I was intrigued when I saw that they just released an 8 minute long animated short. While it does have a few issues, they certainly did not disappoint.
The video follows the simian scientist Winston as he wrestles with the decision to recall the agents of Overwatch back in to active duty, a course of action that is highly illegal, yet potentially necessary. Here's the video, enjoy!
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After finishing work on an entire new campaign for Brutal Doom, SGtMarkIV has now turned his attention to one of Doom's most famous ports, the Nintendo 64 one.
The goal is to revitalize the GZDoom port of Doom 64 with new special effects, particles, lightning, and tons of completely unnecessary, yet oddly satisfying gore and gibs. Its still early in development, but a short gameplay video was released a few days ago, have a look:
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With Quantum Break coming on April 5th you would expect that the free release of its soundtrack would be something heavily advertised, but despite me being subscribed to nearly every newsletter known to man, demon and Krogan, today's the first time I've run across it.
Which is a real shame since the soundtrack serves as excellent background noise while you're doing important work, as I've found out... well, besides the important work part. You can check it out on Microsoft Studio's Soundcloud page.
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David Brevik, co-founder of Blizzard North and one of the leading forces behind Diablo 1 and Diablo 2, released a rather unique piece of gaming history, the original pitch for Diablo 1.
While that would be interesting enough on its own, given how influential Diablo has become to the ARPG genre, what caught my eye is the team's plan to sell "small additional purchases to revitalize their existing game", or what we these days call microtransactions. Here's the full quote:
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In a recent SXSW Gaming Expo panel Telltale shared a few more nuggets of information on their upcoming M rated Batman series which is set to arrive in summer.
Perhaps the most exciting note in the entire announcement is that the Batman series is being made by the same team that did The Wolf Among Us and Tales from the Borderlands, Telltale's finest games. Here's the official summary from the panel:
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Firewatch is a narrative driven adventure game, or walking simulator as some would say, and despite the genre receiving undue amounts of criticism from the gaming community I am glad that so many were willing to look past that in order to experience the touching, and very human story Firewatch wanted to tell.
According to Panic, the publisher behind Firewatch, around 500,000 people donned the fire lookout shorts and set out in to the wilderness, an impressive number even for some AAA studios, let alone an indie one. Here's a few more tidbits of info from the announcement, and what exactly the team is working on right now:
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a medieval open-world RPG that aims to be as realistic and faithful to the era as possible, especially when it comes to the combat.
Its currently in an early beta state and some things are obviously unfinished, but as you can see in the hour-long gameplay showcase below, its development is chugging along nicely. Here's the video and a few of the things I noticed while watching it:
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In an update that seems like its straight out of Star Trek, Valve have announced that you can now use Steam to play a 2D game on a giant screen within your VR headset.
The Desktop Game Theater feature is currently in beta, but even so it should work on the majority of games out there, provided they support Steam Broadcast. Here's the short changelog from this update: