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Even though the latest iteration of Warhammer Fantasy Battle (Age of Sigmar) turned out to be a gigantic middle finger to anyone that cared about the lore its still good to see Total War: Warhammer chugging along so nicely.
In a video released today Creative Assembly decided to showcase an early mission from the Ork campaign where the somewhat demented (even by Ork standards) Warboss Azhag seeks to retrieve his propa' 'ard armor from the puny 'umies. Have a look:
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Minecraft might be one of the most popular games in the world yet despite that prestigious title it wasn't updated as often as one would expect.
However, the long streak between meaningful patches has now been broken as Mojang has released the biggest update in Minecraft's history - Update 1.9, titled simply as the "Combat Update". Here are the patch notes:
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It turns out that the recent rumor detailing HTC Vive international prices was a credible one after all as HTC has come out today and released the full set of information as well as an announcement that all Vive preorders will be coming with Google's Tilt Brush.
Here's the list of prices for all HTC Vive launch countries as well as a bit of information on the Tilt Brush itself:
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Warhorse Studios, the developers behind Kingdom Come: Deliverance, promised many things in their successful Kickstarter a while back and even though the idea of an open-world, realistic and choice driven medieval RPG sounds like a pipe dream they are making good progress.
In a video released today the developers showcased how exactly their combat system works, what they are focusing on and how they plan to bring realism to their duels. Here's the video:
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The Windows 10 Store has managed to garner a fair share of criticism the last few days after people found out that games bought from it won't have SLI/Crossfire support, an option to turn off Vsync, dedicated fullscreen, modding or even Steam integration due to lack of .exe file.
However, Microsoft's Mike Ybarra quickly came out and dispelled some of these rumors in a short tweet saying:
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After going through an incredibly successful Kickstarter campaign that raised a total of $6,333,295 the development of the long awaited Shenmue 3 seems to be chugging along nicely.
So nicely in fact that the developers Ys Net have decided to release a couple of beautiful (albeit tiny) screenshots showcasing some of the more scenic areas you'll get to visit in Shenmue 3. Here they are in all their minuscule glory:
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For those of you that missed the initial announcement, the HTC Vive will cost a hefty $799 and ship sometime in early April though no price tag beyond the US one was revealed.
While nothing has been officially confirmed as of yet, a Neogaf member by the name of artsi came upon a hidden image on HTC's blog that detailed many of the missing international prices. Here they are:
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Given how popular cartoons based around card games were back in the day I'm rather surprised that The Conduit developers High Voltage Software are the only ones to try and make a virtual reality version.
The game in question is Dragon Front, a combination of high fantasy and dieselpunk (which is apparently a thing) aesthetics where cards come to life and mercilessly beat each other up. Here's the trailer and a bit more information:
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If your first thought was a versus mode where one team plays as rhinos and the other as poachers then I'm afraid I'll have to disappoint you.
The Rhino Hunt event is instead a new adversary mode where a team of players armed with sticky bombs and driving dune buggies attempts to take down the most dangerous of pray, the heavily armored Rhino tanks.
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Despite being an enormous fan of Lovecraft's work I'm ashamed to admit that I didn't even know there was a pen&paper Call of Cthulhu RPG in existence, let alone that it was this popular or well renowned.
Luckily, it seems that Cyanide Studio and Focus Home Interactive have banded together to make a faithful video game adaptation of the apparently legendary Call of Cthulhu RPG. Here's the brief message Cyanide sent out with the announcement: