Weekend Reading - Blood of Steel PC Demo - briefly
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- Blood of Steel PC Demo - YC Games has released a demo for its upcoming online multiplayer PvP
MOBA game, Blood of Steel. This demo will give you a glimpse at what
the developers aim to create. The game currently targets a January 2020
release on Steam. In Blood of Steel, players can lead various legions
and heroes, and command them to slay their enemies in bloody
battlefields. In order to succeed, players will have to use cunning
strategies and organize their troops. You can check this
gameplay video
- Crusader Kings III November Update Details Dynasty System,
Mechanics, and More - Paradox Interactive released a new update video for Crusader Kings III
starring community developer Rodrigue Delgue. This will be
part of a monthly series of updates that discuss the developer diaries
published throughout that month, as well as provide fans with the
latest community news:
- Red Dead Redemption PC Care Package Released; Another Coming
Next Month - Rockstar Games announces the release of the promised free care package
for Red Dead Redemption 2 players who suffered through the rocky
launch
of the PC edition of the wild west shooter. They are also promising an
additional care package in the next major PC update next month that
will include a variant of the new Marino Bandolier, a new off-hand
holster, and more
- Google Starts New Stadia Studio with Assassin's Creed Veterans
- VGC
reports Google has started their first game developer to support
Stadia, saying they've opened a studio in Montreal. This is staffed by
former Ubisoft executives that were veterans of Assassin's Creed devs
for first Stadia studio, headed up by Jade Raymond.
- Age of Empires IV Art Director joins Pixelmatic -
Pixelmatic is proud to announce the hiring of our new Director of Art,
Wayne Wong-Chong, from Relic Entertainment. Wayne joins
Pixelmatic's
existing ex-Relic design team of Jason Lee and Damon Gauthier, bringing
fresh ideas and decades of AAA experience at some of Canada's top game
studios. Wayne makes the leap to Pixelmatic after having spent nearly
12 years as a Technical Artist and Technical Art Director at Relic
Entertainment. He worked as a Principal Technical Artist on both the
Company of Heroes and Dawn of War franchises, before leading technical
art direction on the highly anticipated upcoming blockbuster, Age of
Empires IV.
- Codemasters Buys Slightly Mad Studios - Project CARS
developer has now been purchased by Codemasters. Word is
the deal includes all of the company's 150 employees. The deal is for
$25 million in cash and $5 million in stock, but there is also an
"earnout clause" that can add to this total based on earnings over the
next three years. They report this could ultimately add $166 million to
the deal, though they quote an analyst saying this will most likely end
up netting them about $68 million.
- Valve's Index Headset is currently sold out - Most
packages of Index, Valve's high-end VR headset released earlier this year, are sold out
following last week's announcement of Half-Life: Alyx. If Valve is
counting on Half-Life: Alyx being a killer app for VR, early signs
suggest they may just get their wish. While Valve's Index headset was
backordered at launch earlier this year, a few months later it became
available for 'immediate shipping' and stock appears to have held
steady ever since… until now. Following last week's announcement of
Half-Life: Alyx, most Index packages - the headset-only,
controllers-only, and headset + controller packages - are currently
listed in the US and Canadian stores as sold out with a 'Back in Stock
Soon' message in place of the order button. Personally I'm not
interested in VR at the moment. Even so, getting some more Half-Life
is always welcome, even if it is in VR.
- EVE Online Game Devs Can Shed Player Character Anonymity - According
to an announcement
during Eve London, starting in December, CCP employees
will have the option to shed their anonymity if they choose to. Under
the new policy CCP employees will be able to freely announce themselves
as developers to their corporations (large player group not unlike
guilds) and in-game acquaintances, talk on voice communication
software, and generally be allowed to forge closer bonds with other
players. According to the old rules if a developer's character name was
ever discovered by a normal player, they were forced to report
themselves to Internal Affairs and go through a “Witness Relocation”
process. This forced them to leave any player corporations they might
have belonged to with no warning, and to change their character's name
and portrait in an attempt to restore their anonymity. The policy from
CCP started back in 2007 when a developer going
by T20 was found to be using his developer account to spawn unique and
valuable blueprints and sharing them with his massive and influential
player organization. In the scandal's aftermath, CCP employees lost the
ability to play with others without complete anonymity.
- Death Stranding Novels Hit Japanese Bookstores, English
Release Still Unknown - Death Stranding has a two-part
novelization out now in Japanese bookstores. There's also a Steelbook edition coming this February 2020.
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