Broforce surpasses Half-Life 2 Walking Dead and Garry’s Mod

By Zoe Hawkins

Broforce is so typically South African. No, not because if anything in the game, but because it follows the usual South African model for success: be loved by locals when you’re small, but as soon as you make it big, be forgotten by the local scene. Don’t worry though, we can totally claim these guys as our own, and they are making serious waves on Steam.

Broforce is currently in the top 20 of highest rated games on Steam by user score, as announced by Free Lives developer Ruan Rothmann on twitter:

Since the tweet they’ve been pushed down to #15 by the Portal Bundle, but it’s still rather impressive. It’s about on par with beloved games like Bastion and Mark of the Ninja, beating out other standard winners like Garry’s Mod, Borderlands 2, The Binding of Isaac and even Half-Life 2. With tons of thumbs up reviews and an avid following, Broforce is doing insanely well – something particularly impressive when you consider that the game is still in Early Access. Of course we would love for them to just release the game already, but it seems to be a viable game even in Early Access form.

It’s great to see a local indie doing so well – not just well by South African standards, but well by a global one. It’s had an excellent impact on the local scene; Cape Town is exploding with game studios and even Joburg is growing. Our local game development is maturing and it’s beautiful to see; with a big group attending GDC this year, I’m keen to see if 2015 isn’t the year of South African indies.

article source:http://www.lazygamer.net

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First screenshots of Dragon Age: Inquisition single-player DLC

By Tom Phillips

The first award, Firestarter (15G), is awarded for destroying all Winter Shards and lighting all fires in a new location, the "Old Temple".

The next, Legend-Marked (30G), is awarded when you impress the Avvar tribe of Stone-Bear Hold and gain their friendship. The human Avvar have already made an appearance in Inquisition, although their influence was fairly minor.

Players were previously asked to impress a Dalish clan in what may be a similar fashion - via completing side-quests and missions to rank up influence.

The third award, Historian (30G), hints at you uncovering secrets of a "legendary figure". An elf is shown in the imagery.

And the final award, Winter's End (90G), is awarded when you "dispel a myth of ancient days".

Speaking to Eurogamer earlier this month, Dragon Age: Inquisition creative director Mike Laidlaw hinted that the game's first single-player add-on would be revealed in the not-too-distant future.

Laidlaw said that he was aware that fans wanted new areas to explore, but also a story continuation for the game's post-credits scene.

"The two big pulls are - 'I want more of this game' and 'I've reached the ending and I want to know more about the characters, or one specific character'," Laidlaw teased.

"I don't want to go into too much detail but I'm well aware of both of those camps and I'd like to see both of those groups satisfied before we're done."

article source: http://www.eurogamer.net

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Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition Offers 5 Playable Characters, Including Vergil

by Chris Pereira 

New characters, costumes, and more coming in the Xbox One/PS4/PC re-release.

Capcom has finally revealed the details of its upcoming Special Edition release of Devil May Cry 4, which will feature the most playable characters in a DMC game to date.

In addition to Dante and Nero, both of which were playable in DMC 4, Dante's brother Virgil is being added to the game's roster. Virgil will be an amalgamation of the Devil May Cry 3 and 2013 Devil May Cry versions, according to Capcom's blog. Joining him as new characters are Trish and Lady.

The official details on all three new characters:

• Vergil: Dante's ice-cold twin brother and master of the iaijutsu sword fighting style. As described by the game's director, Hideaki Itsuno, Vergil will have a fully upgradable move set based on his rendition in Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition, with elements of DmC Devil May Cry's Vergil added in, making this the definitive version of the character. He will also feature a new "Concentration" mechanic, which makes his attacks get more powerful the more flawlessly he fights. Vergil will be playable on any mission.
• Trish: Resident badass since her first appearance in the first Devil May Cry's opening cutscene, Trish does away with the need for weapon switching, instead utilizing the versatile Sparda sword, her pistols, and her bare hands in a variety of inventive ways. Trish allows players to fight with relatively few buttons, but is still quite a deep character with an awesome move set. Trish will be playable on Dante's missions.
• Lady: Playable for the first time, Lady specializes in long-range, firearm-based combat, making the game feel completely different. Her signature weapon, the Kalina Ann, features a grappling hook which allows her to traverse environments similarly to Nero, among other applications. Lady will be playable on Nero's missions.

Also being added is the Legendary Dark Knight mode that lets players fight through huge waves of enemies. This was first seen in the PC version of DMC 4.

All of this runs in 1080p at 60 frames per second, with other, unspecified "improvements to the game tempo and balancing" being made. You can also count on seeing new costumes that you'll even be able to see during cutscenes.

article source : http://www.gamespot.com

on 12:32 PM in PC, PS4, XBOX

Rainbow Six: Siege closed alpha gameplay footage leaks

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More than 10 minutes of footage from Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege has found its way online.

The gameplay comes from a closed alpha version of the game and reveals Plane, a map centred around a hostage crisis at a UK airport.

Players begin on a large, multi-floored aircraft, then make their way across the tarmac and into the airport terminal.

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DriveClub developer Evolution set to lose 55 staff, sources say

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Evolutions Studios, the developer of PlayStation 4-exclusive racing game DriveClub, is set to lose 55 staff, sources familiar with the matter have told Eurogamer.

Two independent sources close to the studio mentioned the 55 figure to Eurogamer after the cuts were announced to staff at the Runcorn-based developer last Friday, 20th March.

That's roughly half of the studio, sources say, with the redundancies affecting permanent staff. One source indicated some of the 55 may be retained as contractors, but that's up in the air at this point.

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Nintendo's free-to-play Pokémon Shuffle passes 1m downloads

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UPDATE 23/3/15 8.20am Pokémon Shuffle has now been downloaded more than 2.5m times, Nintendo has announced.

The free-to-play puzzler has reached this milestone just three weeks after it passed hit the 1m mark. Shuffle first launched just over a month ago, on 18th February.

Users will be given another free in-game item to celebrate, this time a Disruption Delay.

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on 1:48 AM in 3DS, GAME

Microsoft details Xbox One April system update

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The Xbox One's April system update includes further improvements for the console's party chat and achievement apps, Microsoft has detailed.

But these make up just the first half of April's update, which Microsoft is releasing to preview programme members in two waves.

Party chat now includes a troubleshooter to make sure users' microphones are enabled, and to show when privacy settings or network issues are blocking chat with others in your party.

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on 1:45 AM in GAME, XBOX

Battlefield Hardline review

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The traditional nostalgic view of boys at play is that old playground classic of 'war', where kids pelt around the tarmac making "akka-akka-akka" noises and pretending to shoot each other with machine gun sticks. The alternate to that scenario is, of course, cops and robbers, so it makes sense that for its first foray outside of the military milieu Battlefield would swap tanks for squad cars.

We've already taken a look at Hardline's campaign, so won't be wasting any more time on it for this review. Suffice to say, for all its TV cop show presentation, it's a disappointingly limited, linear and lifeless effort that favours clunky stealth over full-blooded action. At best, you'll hammer through it in order to earn a stack of bonus Battlepacks for use in the real meat of the game: multiplayer.

While the campaign at least pays lip service to the idea that you're playing as an officer of the law, giving you the option to arrest enemies for more XP but not really caring if you shoot them in the back either, such details are absent from online play. Here, it's kill or be killed, due process be damned. If you shoot a criminal in the head with a sniper shot from 100m, or grind him to paste under the wheels of a truck, it's all good.

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on 1:39 AM in PC, PS, PS4, XBOX, XBOX 360

Overlord's return teased by Codemasters

By Connor Sheridan

You can't keep a good (bad) guy down. After a few years of absence - maybe he was trying to turn over a new leaf or something - the Overlord from the third-person action RPG series of the same name seems ready to return to his wicked ways.

Codemasters conducted a grand Twitter sketch teasing news for the Overlord series earlier today, with an account of a solar eclipse viewing party interrupted by reddening skies, quaking earth, and an object crashing into the parking lot, all culminating in an image of the Overlord's distinct spiky helmet. Not very informative, but I'll still take it over a plain website with a countdown clock.

Codemasters did offer a little bit more color (if not much more detail) via the official Overlord account, which has apparently been taken over by Gnarl, the cantankerous adviser from the first two games. After grumbling about life on Earth and smartphones for a while, the account pledged that it "won't be the last you hear from us", as "evil always finds a way".

Speaking of evil, Overlord is kinda like Pikmin if it starred Sauron instead of a cute little spaceman, all while subverting the standard fantasy setting with some unusual moral quandaries. The series also has a good sense of humor, largely instilled by writer Rhianna Pratchett. She's currently working on Rise of the Tomb Raider, so it's not clear if she would have time for whatever this new stuff turns out to be.

The natural guess is Overlord 3, but you never know - maybe it's a mobile game. Codemasters has done a few mobile racers in recent years, and building an evil lair and ordering minions around on an iPad sounds pretty good... as long as it turns out better than Dungeon Keeper. The basic premise could work just about anywhere, really, since minions are big right now.

I sent an email out to Codemasters to see if I could extract any more firm details about what this social media resurgence means for the Overlord series, but I haven't heard back yet. I'll let you know when I find out more.

From : gamesradar ( http://www.gamesradar.com )

on 5:19 PM in GAME

GTA Online servers for cheaters.

While most developers are blocking access to their multiplayer modes for players who cheat - usually using a program to override the rules of the game - that's the time to disable the program in question or a ban without appeal Rockstar has a different policy. As in Max Payne 3, the detected cheaters will be redirected to special servers .

A recent video confirms . Obviously, we must use a third party programto be classified as cheating, because of the rarity of this conviction. Have accidentally copied a vehicle is therefore unlikely to cause you any problems. But the servers for cheaters they are a Disneyland where players are free from the limitations of the game? Nothing is less certain because of the side effects are worth noting:

• The regular sessions are unreachable , as well as in fashion bad player.It only occurs with cheats.
• A cheater is consistently ranked bad player with the dunce cap to match.
• All the money that was lost . However you keep your level of experience, vehicles and his apartment.
• Finally, there remain four months of time in prison .

From the perspective of Rockstar, such a system is less risky than a simple ban on players involved. Indeed they could attack the developer of a game that they were blocking access. This is not the case with strategy Rockstar.

on 1:09 AM in GAME

GC 2014 - The Middle-earth: The Shadow of Mordor - We played orcs and killed en masse

Supposed to relate to his way between  The Hobbit and  The Lord of the Rings ,  Middle Earth: The Shadow of Mordor was playable at  gamescom 2014 we were able to initially see a presentation of a mission where.  Talion must find  Gollum , as the search for the ultimate ring.The objective is to infiltrate a cave guarded by a troll too powerful for us at this moment of the game. Using a decoy, we can get him to leave his position and get into his lair, where many enemies are locked, especially an artifact belonging to  Celembrimbor , the elf that haunts us and has previously served  Sauron . After discovering the form of  flashback , a sequence showing the relationship between two people, while the lord of evil was still human, the cave collapsed, forcing our hero to escape by speed.

It is then in an open area that we were able to handle and discover the  Nemesis System . In the world of  Shadow of Mordor , each monster can become unique and develop over our meetings. In this region, this huge quest Annex invites us to eliminate five  Warlords , with their strengths and weaknesses, each associated with two captains. We may be embarking on a mission to make the head out of his lair and slay or get rid of his captains present base on the map to get a tactical advantage. Freedom of action which gives a very tactical side to our goal.

The  Warlords  can be weakened, to take over before the fight. For example we can use the powers of Celembrimbor  to rally to our cause captain and send it to the pursuit of his master, to expose weaknesses to lose power, etc. The  gameplay also offers several approaches, both upstream in combat, with the ability to scare our opponents to convert them to our military, to eliminate them, to prepare the ground by infiltrating us and doing maximum damage ... And it is the same for phases of exploration, which allow us to take advantage of all the relief map of climbing obstacles or using large areas to progress as quickly as possible by standing on the  ouargs and other  trolls . Fighting offer them a diversity and dynamism rare, with only a few keys and key combinations, utilizing the talents and the elf ranger that haunts him. Rich, dynamic, demanding, the  gameplay of this title therefore offers everything it takes, and it takes advantage of visually sumptuous decor, blending nature and civilized place, every corner has its own identity in this open world.

on 9:38 AM in PS4

Electronic Arts: FIFA 16 under development, FIFA 17 planned

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While FIFA 15 is not yet commercially available, Eletronic Arts announced today that FIFA 16 is being developed. The Chief Operations Officer , Peter Moore, explains how the development studio is working to set things straight.

There are two phases in a development, part of which is devoted to the base (body) of the game. We have hundreds of people working on it, it's a staged process, so there are people who already linger on FIFA 16 I think some people have a misconception by imagining that the development team to take two weeks off after completing a title before starting a new production, it's not like that that it works.

Moreover, it added that FIFA 17 is already planned:

You have a parallel development that is taking place when some thinkers are already thinking about what should be FIFA 16 and, in some cases, FIFA 17, because decisions about the technology used by the development must be taken.

In the end, no surprise. For the record, FIFA 15 has offered 18 clubs and various crispy information was revealed there is little . The release date is set at September 25, 2014.

on 8:34 AM in VITA

GC 2014 - Disney Infinity 2.0: Marvel Super Heroes - Donald formalized and "exclusive" information on two figures coming

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For  gamescom 2014 ,  Disney Interactive has as expected revealed a new figurine  Disney Infinity 2.0: Marvel Super Heroes . Not surprisingly, it's  Donald Duck , waited for ages, which was confirmed visually in support, joining the range of new interactive statuettes  Disney Originals . He will bring his experience so unique speech, his short temper and his special abilities: the throwing of objects, sweeps or the rage. A  power disc called  One For All it will take her iconic outfit of  Three Musketeers .

Besides that, we were able to approach the project in the area and so this new model, still under plastic on some shelves. Simply flipping, we could see two characters not yet formalized a formal trade him well card, which resulted interfere somewhat presenter of the session, confused by our curiosity. So  Baymax and  Hiro Haramada , future animated movie Big Hero 6 , which will eventually happen in this release 2.0, as foreshadowed some rumors .

      

on 3:58 AM in 3WII U

GC 2014 - Dragon Ball: Xenoverse - The graphics are they definitive? 2 against 2? DLC? Akira Toriyama around?

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Remember, we had the opportunity to ask some questions Masayuki Hirano, senior producer of Dragon Ball Xenoverse at the Japan Expo 2014 . Our friend was at the gamescom 2014 and we had, again, luck to participate in a new format with other colleagues. The program of the day? Some revelations, a point on the graphics and the customizable characters.

As we know , the player will be the hero of this story. He can then design the protagonist he wants by giving it a race, but not that.Attacks and special moves can be selected. The appearance is therefore not the only thing customizable, offensive will be too.

Furthermore, why offer such options? Hirano replied:

This is a new feature in the game Dragon Ball. In the past, the only thing the player could do was to choose a character from the series and fight with. In this new production, of course, you can do all that, but you can create your own fighter, enter the Dragon Ball universe and fight alongside Vegeta and Goku. We want you to experience a whole new experience.

He adds:

We want to give new opportunities for fans and allow them to create their hero.We simply want to realize their dream.

Toki Toki City ... This is a new city that will allow us to meet other users on the Web. Players will then meet, participate in various activities, discuss, engage in cooperative stories and many other things not yet unveiled. In this place, the power of each person present in the area will be visible. Producer warns anyway, the cat will be available between platforms. Toki Toki Citywill not be blocked by region. It will then be possible to cross any type of nationality. To facilitate communication, a dialogue box preset will be available. For information, Trunks is the host. He collected the Dragon Ball invoked Shenron and used the powers of the dragon ...?That is the question! Further information will be delivered shortly.

Little question of the day: Akira Toriyama, creator of the franchise Dragon Ball, he is aware of this production?

Akira Toriyama knows this game, the story, the characters, the new features and is quite happy about it as we communicate to him all that we do.

Secondly, a new film is in preparation for 2015 Will there new characters, linked to this feature in. Dragon Ball: Xenoverse ?

For now, it's top secret, we can not answer.

From what we've seen so far, the graphics are decent, but below expectations. However, be aware that the visual part evolves, it is the producer who says:

The graphics are not final, we are still working on it. We focus on the scenery, the facial expressions, and many other things. This is not the final result, expect to see many more.

Finally, the story mode will unlock accessories, objects that can be used in the customization part, the number of fighters has not been decided yet, and yes, two battles against both will be feasible. And the DLC in that? Additional content, free or not, will they be exposed to the virtual shelves of the different online shops?

We are thinking about it (the DLC, ed.) This is not an ad, we have no real plans for the moment, but yes, it could well be DLC.

You will therefore understand that Dragon Ball: Xenoverse seems more than promising.However, expect the following events before we finally decide on this attractive production.

on 3:41 AM in PS4