Dust 514's great migration begins Thursday
Dust 514 servers will be making the migration to EVE Online servers this Thursday, starting the process of finally integrating the two games into one whole universe.
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Dust 514 servers will be making the migration to EVE Online servers this Thursday, starting the process of finally integrating the two games into one whole universe.
Indie developer Ambient Games has announced Death Inc, a strategy title that has you as a reaper overseeing the overflow death traffic from the bubonic plague. A Kickstarter to fund the project will begin in February.
Indie Developer Cardboard Computer releases Act 1 of its five-chapter "magical realist adventure" game, Kentucky Route Zero, along with a new trailer.
Frontier Developments was awfully ambitious in asking for a whopping £1,250,000 (around $2 million) in crowd-funding to make Elite: Dangerous. Even with a two-month funding period--double the length of your typical video game Kickstarter--it only hit that goal with 52 hours left. Still, a flurry of pledges in the final days not only shoved it across the line, but brought in enough dough to fund a Mac edition and extra ships too.
We may never get a third Dungeon Keeper game, but something awfully similar is coming following a successful crowdfunding campaign. Let's generously say inspired by the Bullfrog classic, War for the Overworld is due to bring the giddying thrill of being an evil dungeon overlord to PC in August.
The Humble Indie Bundle 7 added three more games today: Cave Story +, Offspring Fling, and The Basement Collection.
In a new feature detailing Clementine's inception, Telltale reveals that the game was always designed to center around her. And that you were originally going to play as her brother.
December 21 brought a lot of good news, including the fact that the world somehow didn't end after all, but the real revelation to celebrate was that the classic Grim Fandango is now playable on modern PCs. The first stable release of ResidualVM hit on that fateful day, doing a similar sort of thing for LucasArts' later adventure games what ScummVM does for the earlier classics.
The Steam Holiday Sale has started up, offering discounts on Scribblenauts Unlimited, Mirror's Edge, and various Borderlands, Prince of Persia, and Hitman franchise titles.
Actual Christmas is often a dreary, miserable affair, but in video games it's always beautifully snowy with merry hijinks galore. In short, virtual Christmas in Dota 2 is better than your fleshy Christmas can ever be, after the festive 'Greeviling' event launched last night.