Sundays are for baking scones and playing videogames. Endless Legend? NEO Scavenger? MGSV: Ground Zeroes? Bayonetta? I can’t decide. Perhaps some fine writing about videogames will help point me in the right direction.
Prey 2, the follow-up to 3D Realms' first-person adventure game, is officially cancelled and no longer in development at Human Head Studios, Bethesda vice president Pete Hines confirmed with IGN.
Hines was unable to share with IGN the date or timeframe for the cancellation. He added that Bethesda believes Prey is “still a cool universe worth exploring” but it isn’t currently clear as far as how or when Bethesda would do another Prey game.
"It wasn't up to our quality standard and we decided to cancel it. It's no longer in development," Hines told CNET. "That wasn't an easy decision, but it's one that won't surprise many folks given that we hadn't been talking about it."
This War of Mine, an atypical war game that puts players in the role if innocent civilians caught in the crossfire as opposed to empowering them as capable soldiers, will release on PC, Mac, and Linux November 14, developer 11 Bit Studios has announced.
11 Bit Studios also released a new trailer for the game that gives us a good look at its gameplay. As you can see in the video, you play the game on a 2D plane, a group of civilians trying to survive in a city besieged by war. You'll have to scavenge and manage food and medicine while avoiding soldiers and other hostile scavengers.
11 Bit Studios recently announced that it's partnering with War Child, a charity organization that's trying to help people in in a similar situation in the real world. To find out more about War Child head over to the charity's website.
For more on the game, check out our impressions and interview with 11 Bit Studios' Pawel Miechowski.
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One thing old-school games never made enough use out of is the ability to switch characters. Castlevania III and Ufouria were strong games in part because of this element. This is one of the primary reasons NES-Retku landed on my radar. Action platforming with puzzles, pixel graphics and the ability to switch characters? It's like they set flares off for my attention.
The main character is a sleazy garbage truck driver who is also a classic games enthusiast. He is sucked into a game after putting in a cartridge which mysteriously showed up to his house. The ensuing adventure will consist of 15 levels and three boss fights, ranging from an erupting volcano to the top of a moving garbage truck.
The two characters have different abilities. Retku can jump higher and lift heavy objects, while Flasa can fit in smaller spaces and use a gun. Development is being chronicled at the TIGSource forums. The game is due out in early 2015 on PS4, PS3, Vita, Xbox One, iOS, Android and will be available via Steam.
Atari: Game Over, the Xbox-Produced documentary about the rise and fall of Atari, will release on Xbox and video.xbox.com on November 20, the movie's director Zak Penn has announced.
The Documentary tells the story of Atari, which went from being the fastest growing company in American history, to the producer of E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial for the Atari 2600, a game that failed so miserably Atari ended up burying thousands of unsold copies of it in a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
The movie features interviews with the creator of the game, Howard Warshaw, other Atari employees, and various people involved with the dig that unearthed the buried copies of the game back in April.
Atari: Game Over is part the documentary series Signal to Noise produced by Xbox Entertainment Studios, the division responsible for original Xbox programming, which Microsoft announced it's shutting down earlier this week.
Initially, Microsoft said that president Nancy Tellem and executive vice president Jordan Levin will "stay on and remain committed to original programming already in production," but it later confirmed that both executives have been let go.
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Amazon's current sale on digital games is offering Titanfall on PC for $10.
If you don't already own the game, that's the cheapest price we've seen for it yet, and now's a good time to jump in. All the expansions for the game—Expedition, Frontier's Edge, and IMC Rising—have been released, and Frontier Defense, a cooperative mode where you and three friends battle waves of AI, was recently added to the game in a free update.
Other highlights from Amazon's sale include Bioshock Infinite for $7.50, Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition for $6.79, Battlefield 4 for $19.49, and Mass Effect 3 for $8. You can find the full list of deals on Amazon.
For even more great deals, check out the Halloween-themed sales from GOG and Steam.
For more on Titanfall, check out GameSpot's previous coverage.
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