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Valve might not be the best at communication but when it comes to fostering a community around their games they are absolutely unmatched.
And with the recent announcement that CS:GO Major Championships, starting with MLG Columbus 2016, will have a prize pool of $1,000,000 Valve has ensured that the CS:GO competitive scene will remain vibrant and exciting to watch for many years to come. Here's the full announcement message:
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Darkspore is, or soon to be was, an ARPG based on the creature creation system from Spore. While that might sound incredible on paper, in reality your options were extremely limited which combined with the generic gameplay led to Darkspore's quick fade in to obscurity.
Unfortunately, due to its always-online requirement, even if you enjoy Darkspore and play it regularly you won't be able to do so once the servers shut down permanently on March 1st, so if you're up for giving it one last shot now would be the time. Here's the brief announcement message from EA:
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Gear of War: Ultimate Edition has been slated to arrive on the PC early in 2016 and as you might have noticed we are well within that period, so its a bit curious that the only information we're getting about it comes from leaks.
Due to a mistake that was swiftly corrected Gears of War: UE appeared on the Microsoft store and while the price and release date were placeholders the system requirements were not. You will find them below.
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Insurgency is a well made indie tactical shooter that is almost capable of standing shoulder to shoulder with the giant that is Counter Strike. An impressive achievement no matter how you look at it.
But it seems that the Insurgency team isn't satisfied with simply being number 2 as they have just announced Insurgency: Sandstorm, a complete rework of the game based on the UE4 engine. Here's some more information and a few screenshots:
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When I talked about Farming Simulator 17 recently I thought that would be the strangest and most niche game I'd cover this week but much to my surprise a strong contender has shown itself today.
The game in question is Bus Simulator 16 which not only allows you to drive your very own bus but also run an entire public transport company in both single player and multiplayer. Here's the trailer, system requirements and a bit more information:
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If the recent announcement of the $799 HTC Vita price tag got you thinking about what sort of monstrosity you would need to even run VR games Valve has you covered with their fancy new VR compatibility test.
The portal themed SteamVR Performance Test will attempt to measure your system's power by rendering a demanding two-minute long sequence from the Aperture Robot Repair VR demo.
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According to a recent announcement that went up on Konami's website the free EURO 2016 DLC for PES will have only have 15 out of the 24 licensed teams. You would think that the whole point of paying for insanely expensive licences would be to avoid situations like this, but unfortunately that does not seem to be the case.
The teams you will be able to play with once Euro 2016 launches in March are: England, Wales, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Croatia, Slovakia, Iceland, Turkey, Albania, Northern Ireland and hosts France.
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If you had told me a couple of years ago that there would be wide-spread excitement about a farming simulator being announced, and I don't mean an MMORPG, I would have considered you insane and yet, here we are.
Farming Simulator 17, the latest iteration of the incredibly popular franchise, will be coming to the PC and consoles later this year. This information comes from a short quote Cédric Lagarrigue, president of Focus Home Interactive, gave when talking about the upcoming Paris press event:
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As someone that got in to programming many years ago, primarily because video game design interests me so much, I'm always glad when a detailed look at the development process of a big game gets released online.
This time around its a video from Valve News Network (unrelated to Valve themselves) that digs deep in to the history of Portal and its development issues, triumphs and design challenges. Here's the video and if you're even remotely interested in how games are made I'd recommend you give it a look:
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The nautical murder simulator The Ship: Remasted was supposed to arrive last week but was instead delayed in order to add online multiplayer capability, a rather important factor to multiplayer games these days, I think you would agree.
After only five and a half days since that delay, The Ship: Remasted developers have announced that online multiplayer capability is now available and that The Ship has sailed in to Early Access. Here's the teaser trailer and a bit more information on the game itself: