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Blade Runner (1997) is now playable again - briefly
(pedro) 11:46 PM CEST - Jun,18 2019 - Post a comment
Blade Runner (1997) is the classic PC game from the developers Westwood of Command & Conquer fame. The studio was eventually acquired by Electronic Arts and the subsequently shuttered down. It's no surprise that a movie licensed game from a collapsed studio under Electronic Arts has no modern digital distrubtion to speak of, however we hope that it one day appears on GOG.com or Origin. Therefore if we have any hope to have the game running on modern systems, we rely on the hard work of developers like the ScummVM team to make sure these games work and are preserved for future generations. ScummVM has been around for years allowing modern computers and devices to play classic LucasArts adventure games like Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle. In more recent times, ScummVM has expanded compatibility to many non-LucasArts games like Beneath and Steel Sky and 7th Guest.

If you are lucky you may have the original 4 CD release of Blader Runner lying around (mine is in the attic in my parents' house), and if you do you are in luck. You'll need to make copies of files from all 4 CDs and place them into a folder. Then download the latest development build of ScummVM and load up the game. In addition to compatibility fixes, there are options to add subtitles and also 'restored content' mode. Be aware that the game is not fully supported by ScummVM and is really more of a test, and the ScummVM team are looking for help chasing bugs. Here's the news post from the ScummVM website. Our ScummVM team is looking for Blade Runners who will help find, chase, and retire bugs which escaped from the off-world data colonies. These bugs are not dangerous and they won't stop you from discovering more secrets and choosing your fate. Your spinner, gun, ESPER machine and Voight - Kampff machine will be at your disposal.

We are announcing that Blade Runner is ready for testing. The following languages are supported - English (both CD and DVD releases), German, Italian, French, Spanish, and the unofficial Russian version by Fargus Multimedia.

Find your copy of Blade Runner, grab the latest daily build of ScummVM and copy the necessary files.

Now you can play the game with subtitles! Just download subtitles.mix and place it among the rest of the Blade Runner files. So far we have only English subtitles, however, if you want to help us transcribe other languages from audio, please contact peterkohaut & praetorian.

Note that when you add your game directory in ScummVM you'll be presented with two choices for the game. The first option is for the original game and will simply be named "Blade Runner"; we're mainly interested for your feedback for this version of the game, since it is considered feature complete. The other option is for importing the game with restored content and is named "Blade Runner with restored content"; this version is still work-in-progress and not yet complete. If you're testing this version please specify it explicitly in your feedback and bug reports.

If your version of the game is not supported, please create a feedback report with MD5 so that we can add support for it.

ARK: Valguero Announcement Trailer - movie
(hx) 11:06 PM CEST - Jun,18 2019 - Post a comment
ARK: Survival Evolved is introducing Valguero, a free, new map. It adds a huge landmass to explore, a new breed of dinosaur, and tons of other stuff. s with most things in ARK, Valguero is huge. The map is 63 kilometers of fresh new lands for you to explore. It has eight different biomes that each come with their own climates and geographical dangers. You’ll see lush jungles, vast snowfields, blazing lava flows, and humid savannahs, among many other things. The map also features a new boss arena, which pits you against a Megaphiticus, a Manticore, and a Dragon at the same time. The encounter is incredibly dangerous and not something you should approach lightly. That said, if you want to truly test your skills, the team is implementing an end-game boss encounter that will be even more of a challenge. Valguero is also home to a brand new breed of dinosaur, the Deinonychus. These raptor-like creatures use speed and agility to hunt down their prey. The feathered beasts hunt in a pack and will prove a challenge for any animal. Finally, Valguero lets you go under the surface into a gigantic network of caves. These unexplored wonders of nature give you a whole new type of environment to explore. Both above and below the surface, you’ll find Valguero survivor ruins to explore and plunder. It’s quite the package, especially for free. ARK: Survival Evolved is available now on Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4, and Xbox One. The Valguero map is coming to PC, PS4, and Xbox One on June 18.

Bless Unleashed 'Field Bosses' trailer - movie
(hx) 10:55 PM CEST - Jun,18 2019 - Post a comment
Publisher Bandai Namco and developer developer Round 8 Studio of Neowiz have released a new trailer for action MMORPG Bless Unleashed introducing field bosses. Bless Unleashed is due out for Xbox One in 2019.

Esports Life Tycoon Launch Trailer - briefly
(hx) 09:58 PM CEST - Jun,18 2019 - Post a comment
Esports Life Tycoon is set to launch on Steam in two days, and the Esports Life Tycoon Launch Trailer is now online to raise the hype for this simulation of "the exciting day-to-day of professional esports players."

Borderlands 3 behind closed doors E3 2019 demo - movie
(hx) 06:22 PM CEST - Jun,18 2019 - Post a comment
video, showing 20 minutes of gameplay footage from the behind closed doors E3 2019 demo of Borderlands 3. Unfortunately, this is off-camera footage, meaning that the image and colours are not that great (it’s way better than the mediocre off-camera footage of Marvel’s Avengers). This E3 2019 demo showcases split-screen, the in-game character customization system, some mecha gameplay, a new planet called Eden-6, a wide selection of emotes, as well as a new feature that allows you to mail selected items to your friends. Borderlands 3 is currently planned for a September 13th release.

Facebook unveils global digital coin called Libra - briefly
(hx) 06:15 PM CEST - Jun,18 2019 - Post a comment / read (2)
Facebook today announced Libra, a new digital currency that aims to combine the best features of other cryptocurrencies in order to be more consumer-friendly. The currency will be administered by the Libra Association, a new non-for-profit based in Geneva. Founding members include Facebook, Mastercard, Visa, PayPal, Stripe, eBay, Lyft, Spotify, Uber, Vodafone Group, and Coinbase, as well as non-profit and academic members. Facebook's new Calibra subsidiary will create a Libra wallet app. The Calibra wallet will not require a Facebook account and Calibra will not share transaction data with Facebook. Third parties will also be able to create their own Libra wallet apps. Users will be able to exchange local currency for Libra (and vice versa) through these wallet apps, and at physical locations. The local currency will be transferred to the Libra Association to provide 100% backing for Libra currency. Interest on those deposits will pay for operating expenses, investments in the ecosystem, engineering research, and grants to non-profits and other organizations. Excess interest will be distributed to founding members. Libra transactions won't carry the high fees that credit cards do, although a small (less than one cent) transaction fee will deter certain spam and denial attacks. The symbol for the Libra is ? (three wavy lines). The value of a Libra is tied to a basket of deposits in historically stable international currencies, which can be rebalanced to keep the Libra stable. The Libra's starting value will be close to one dollar, euro, or pound. Libra is much faster and more efficient than Bitcoin, able to handle 1,000 transactions per second and designed to scale much higher. When a transaction is submitted, each of the Libra nodes, run independently by Libra Association members, runs a blockchain calculation. Two-thirds of the nodes must come to consensus that the transaction is legitimate for it to be executed and written to the blockchain. Facebook's Calibra will implement Know Your Customer rules in the sign-up process to prevent fraud, requiring a government-issued photo ID, for example. The Libra Association will incentivize other wallet providers to do the same. Libra is launching a limited test network today. When Libra launches to consumers in the first half of 2020, Facebook will launch Calibra as a standalone wallet app, but also as a feature within Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp on both Android and iOS.

Succubus Trailer - movie
(hx) 06:03 PM CEST - Jun,18 2019 - Post a comment
Madmind Studio has released a new trailer for SUCCUBUS – a spin-off to the widely discussed Agony. This time, as the title of the game suggests, Succubus named Vydija – a lusty demon based on religious beliefs – becomes the main protagonist. According to the press release, the main character of the game is Succubus Vydija. Wild and evoking the desire in her victims’ demon, whose story started in the original – Agony and Agony UNRATED, where she received her own single-player campaign.

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Dawns - briefly
(hx) 05:58 PM CEST - Jun,18 2019 - Post a comment
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is now available for Windows on GOG.com and Steam, offering a Windows side-scrolling action/RPG from Koji Igarashi (Iga), director of Castlevania. Versions are also out now for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 with a Switch edition expected next week. This project raised over $5.5 million on Kickstarter.

Star Wars Battlefront 3 Legacy TC mod demo - mod&map
(hx) 12:05 PM CEST - Jun,18 2019 - Post a comment
The Battlefront III Legacy Mod Team has released a pre-demo of Star Wars Battlefront 3 Legacy, an upcoming total conversion mod for Battlefront 2 2005 that aims to bring to it the content from Free Radical’s cancelled Star Wars Battlefront 3 game. Star Wars Battlefront 3 Legacy’s pre-demo comes only with Battlefront 3’s Coruscant, the Clone Wars era, three gamemodes and a lot of updated and new content from the previous beta versions. This pre-demo is said to be the most complete as it was planned for a longer time. As the team claimed, future content such as map reworks, new maps and the GCW era are planned to be released within the coming months. New heroes for both eras will also be added with each bigger update.

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Shadowbringers - Warrior Training - movie
(hx) 12:46 AM CEST - Jun,18 2019 - Post a comment
One of these guys has skill, determination, strength, and a training plan. The other is Hannibal Buress. Watch Tom Holland become the Warrior of Darkness. FINAL FANTASY XIV: Shadowbringers is available July 2.

Mortal Kombat 11 League arrives on June 18 - briefly
(hx) 12:45 AM CEST - Jun,18 2019 - Post a comment
Kombat League is said to be available tomorrow, June 18th, as a free content update for all Mortal Kombat 11 owners. Now while the publisher claims that the update will be available to everyone, it has not included the PC version in the official trailer. Furthermore, the developers have not confirmed – nor denied – whether Kombat League will be available tomorrow on the PC. These facts raise some yellow flags as the PC version was at launch behind the console version.

Gameguru Mania News - Jun,17 2019 - all

Zombie Army 4: Dead War Gameplay Trailer - movie
(hx) 10:53 PM CEST - Jun,17 2019 - Post a comment
This video is the E3 floor demo for Zombie Army 4: Dead War, offering a first look at gameplay from the coming undead-infested WW2 shooter.

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Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey Gameplay - movie
(hx) 06:47 PM CEST - Jun,17 2019 - Post a comment
Here's a gameplay footage from the E3 2019 demo of Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is third-person open world survival game from Patrice Désilets, the original creative director of the Assassin’s Creed franchise. In Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, players are challenged to survive and evolve in the harsh yet beautiful land of Africa spanning from ten million to two million years ago. As humankind’s primate predecessors, players explore Neogene Africa, expand their territory, and evolve to advance their clan from one generation to the next in order to survive in this innovative take on the open world survival genre. The game and its mechanics rely on evolution, discovery, and survival as players traverse a variety of terrain and environments, encounter various predators, and learn new abilities to pass along to the next generation of their clan. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey will be timed-exclusive on the Epic Games Store and will release on August 27th.

Cyberpunk 2077 demo was running on NVIDIA Titan RTX - briefly
(hx) 06:45 PM CEST - Jun,17 2019 - Post a comment
Spieltimes has reported that the E3 2019 demo for Cyberpunk 2077 was running on a PC system that was equipped with an Intel Core i7 8700K CPU and an NVIDIA Titan RTX graphics card. CD Projekt RED has also used 32GB of RAM and an SSD. Here are the full PC specs of the machine running the E3 2019 demo for Cyberpunk 2077: CPU: Intel i7-8700K @ 3.70 GHz
Motherboard: ASUS ROG STRIX Z370-I GAMING
RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws V, 2x16GB, 3000MHz, CL15
GPU: Titan RTX
SSD: Samsung 960 Pro 512 GB M.2 PCIe
PSU: Corsair SF600 600W
Unfortunately, I don’t have a confirmation of the resolution and the details that were used. I also don’t know whether the current E3 2019 build can run smoothly with the Ray Tracing effects that CD Projekt RED and NVIDIA announced a while ago. Looks we have to wait until PAX West 2019.

I am Not a Monster: First Contact Announced - briefly
(hx) 06:41 PM CEST - Jun,17 2019 - Post a comment
Alawar Premium announces a single-player mode called First Contact is coming this year to I am Not a Monster, the retro, multiplayer, sci-fi tactical game.

Gameguru Mania News - Jun,16 2019 - all

New S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 details surfaced - briefly
(hx) 09:21 PM CEST - Jun,16 2019 - Post a comment / read (3)
Antishnaps has shared a video interview with developers of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2. During this interview, GSC GameWorld has revealed some new information about this game that a lot of PC gamers are looking forward to, even though there is no ETA as of yet. As GSC GameWorld confirmed, STALKER 2 will not feature any Battle Royale mode. While a lot of developers have implemented this type of multiplayer mode in their games, GSC GameWorld is not interested in it. The main inspiration for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is the original trilogy (Shadow of Chernobyl, Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat) and its main feature will be its unique atmosphere. The developers aim to make a really atmospheric game, similar to what the original STALKER was when it came out. GSC GameWorld is also working on making modding tools so that modders can start creating new content when the game comes out. Last but not least, GSC GameWorld has no plans for adding VR support in STALKER 2.

Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay demo confirmed for PAX - briefly
(hx) 09:19 PM CEST - Jun,16 2019 - Post a comment
CD Projekt RED’s Marcin Momot has confirmed that the E3 2019 gameplay demo of Cyberpunk 2077 will be made available during PAX West 2019. PAX West 2019 begins on August 30th and will last until September 2nd. CD Projekt RED did not clarify when exactly it will release the gameplay demo, meaning that this may happen during the last day of the event. Cyberpunk 2077 is currently scheduled for an April 16th, 2020 release.

It's going to happen exactly during PAX West. :)
— Marcin Momot (@Marcin360) June 12, 2019

Steam Weekly Top Sellers - briefly
(hx) 09:15 PM CEST - Jun,16 2019 - Post a comment
Here are the ten top selling titles on Steam for the week as reported by Valve: Cyberpunk 2077
Total War: THREE KINGDOMS
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
MORDHAU
Hell Let Loose
OCTOPATH TRAVELER
DARK SOULS III - The Fire Fades Edition
Grand Theft Auto V
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege - Year 4 Pass

Super Mario Bros Battle Royale PC game - freegame
(hx) 09:25 AM CEST - Jun,16 2019 - Post a comment
Battle royale is the next big thing in video-games as more and more developers add this type of multiplayer to their games. Mario Royale is created by "InfernoPlus" and is described as a fully recreation of the classic Super Mario Bros game on the PC that works on every browser, is free to play, and is available right now on its official website.

MANEATER - E3 2019 Gameplay Demo - movie
(hx) 12:31 AM CEST - Jun,16 2019 - Post a comment
Meteorite Games has shared a video, showing 3 minutes of brand new gameplay footage from Tripwire’s upcoming shark single-player action RPG, Maneater. This video will give you a small idea of what you will be able to do in this very cool new game. In Maneater, players will assume control of a shark and they will progress from a baby bull shark to a legendary beast. Players will fight to survive in open ocean, swamps, and rivers with danger lurking at every depth, using their wits, jaws, and the uncanny ability to evolve as they feed. According to Tripwire, the game will come out first on Epic’s store, and it will hit other digital stores 12 months later.

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