ArenaNet’s Guild Wars 2 is an interesting beast. Since 2012, the Fantasy MMORPG has offered players the chance to delve into the world of Tyria any time they want without ever being charged a subscription fee. Not something we see very often. The model must be working, however, as publisher NCSoft boasts over five million sales of the game to date. And with Season 3 of their “Living World” story – a constantly evolving, morphing narrative – hitting last week, they’re hoping to bolster that further. To celebrate the occasion, NCSoft have offered us 10 copies of the “Ultimate Edition” of Guild Wars 2’s latest expansion, Path of Fire – which usually commands an RRP of £69.99 – to give away to lucky readers. Win a copy of Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire! syndicated from http://ift.tt/2yVoCD4 via Tumblr Win a copy of Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire!
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This month will bring a slew of updates for Assassin’s Creed: Origins, including a new difficulty mode, Horde mode and a big fan-requested feature: enemy scaling. But perhaps most exciting, a “new surprise quest” will also pop up – which looks like Ubisoft and Square Enix’s Final Fantasy and Assassin’s Creed partnership coming full circle… Yes, it looks like Assassin’s Creed Origins is getting a chocobo horse. For context, Final Fantasy 15 got free Assassin’s Creed-themed DLC back in August. Looks like Assassin’s Creed Origins will get a chocobo horse syndicated from http://ift.tt/2yVoCD4 via Tumblr Looks like Assassin’s Creed Origins will get a chocobo horse There may be spoilers for the Dishonored series of games ahead. “The Void is unspeakable. It is infinite and it is nowhere, ever-changing and perpetual. There are more things in the endless black Void, Kirin Jindosh, than are dreamt of in your natural philosophy” (Letter from Delilah). Despite the best efforts of natural philosophers, the world of Dishonored is defined by occult, unknown influences. Here, we performed dark magicks, battled witches, conversed with spirits, and even traversed the distance in-between worlds during our vendetta-fueled travels through Dunwall and Karnaca. Any inquiry into the metaphysics of Dishonored stands and falls by the Void, that shadowy realm that is the source of all magic, witchcraft and arcane knowledge. Even the Outsider, who appears as an ancient god that grants his arcane mark to the player, ultimately derives his powers from the Void, not the other way around. But the Void is an elusive place that doesn’t give up its secrets readily, and we as players don’t understand it any better than the seekers of Gristol or Serkonos who struggle to catch so much as a glimpse of it. So, what exactly is the Void, or rather, how should we think about it to make sense of it? The metaphysics of Dishonored syndicated from http://ift.tt/2yVoCD4 via Tumblr The metaphysics of Dishonored Streamer goes viral after broadcasting UFC pay-per-view while pretending to play UFC video game12/4/2017 An ingenious streamer broadcast a real-life UFC pay-per-view event while pretending to play the latest UFC video game – and got away with it. AJ Lester, from the US, streamed the entire UFC 218 broadcast on Saturday night across multiple platforms, including Twitch – with controller in hand. A clip of the stream, which has gone viral on social media, shows Lester making noises as if he’s playing the game. At one point he even complains that he should have blocked a hit. On-screen, the main event between UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway and Brazilian great Jose Aldo can be seen with a picture of Lester in the bottom right-hand corner. Streamer goes viral after broadcasting UFC pay-per-view while pretending to play UFC video game syndicated from http://ift.tt/2yVoCD4 via Tumblr Streamer goes viral after broadcasting UFC pay-per-view while pretending to play UFC video game We’ve already looked at the Fallout 4 patch for Xbox One X, and the impression there is that although massively improved over the turn-out on base console, perhaps the visual sliders were pushed up a little too high, resulting in some issues with performance. Now the verdict is in on Bethesda’s companion Skyrim release – and the end result is essentially the opposite: the consistent frame-rate is admirable, and the developer is willing to be flexible on resolution to get there. If there’s a surprise with this patch, it’s that Skyrim Special Edition patch for Xbox One X looks essentially identical to the existing PlayStation 4 Pro game, which already delivers a native 4K presentation. The same TAA solution is in place too, smoothing off edges, and reducing flicker on sub-pixel elements like foliage. The overall impression is detail-rich and very attractive overall, but it is essentially a 4K version of the existing console game, further bolstered – just a touch – by the inclusion of tweaks to draw distance, which can see vegetation elements pushed further out into the background. But if you’re looking for further visual enhancements, Skyrim on Xbox One X offers very little. Side-by-side with PS4 Pro, it’s virtually impossible to tell the difference and while some elements like shadow quality could possibly be improved with higher level presets imported from the PC game, that’s not on the table here. All we could spot in terms of further visual tweaks comes down to a shift in ambient occlusion, which seems to get a subtle upgrade in terms of additional shadowing in the nooks and crannies. Skyrim on Xbox One X gets the job done – but we expected more syndicated from http://ift.tt/2yVoCD4 via Tumblr Skyrim on Xbox One X gets the job done – but we expected more A note from the editor: Jelly Deals is a deals site launched by our parent company, Gamer Network, with a mission to find the best bargains out there. Look out for the Jelly Deals roundup of reduced-price games and kit every Saturday on Eurogamer. We’re back, after all that Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales mania. While the vast majority of what some people like to call ‘doorbuster’ deals are over and done with, there’s still no shortage of retailers offering up various sales and discounts right now. We’ve got a brief period between the end of Black Friday and the beginning of Christmas sales, so let’s make the most of it and take a look at the best deals from around the internet right now. As usual, we’ve got deals that’ll work in the UK, deals that’ll work in the US and some deals that will work in both the UK and US, as well as presumably many other places. Let’s get started. Jelly Deals roundup: Xbox One X bundles, Switch, Destiny 2 and more syndicated from http://ift.tt/2yVoCD4 via Tumblr Jelly Deals roundup: Xbox One X bundles, Switch, Destiny 2 and more Two things happened this week that made me think about beautiful stuff vanishing from the world, and about the strange notion that there might be a kind a melancholic pleasure to be had – if melancholic pleasures can be had – in the spaces created by fresh absence. I’m not ghoulishly thinking of death or anything as serious as that. More the weird kind of beauty you sometimes get when you look at a wall of framed pictures and notice the ghostly parchment patches where something else once hung and now hangs no longer. Ghoulishly, ghostly. We are not off to a great start here. The first thing that happened was that I read a piece on Eurogamer about the fact that Demon’s Souls is going to have its online elements turned off for good next February. I never played Demon’s Souls properly, and I now suspect that I am not going to. In a vague way it is something I had always planned to do, though, and I know how I would have had to approach it. I have seen this game many times, a world of darkness in which the action unfolds in little pools of golden light that hover around the player. There is a hub world of sorts – in my memory a huge part of it is spiral walkways made of old stone – and there is the Souls DNA in rich form: waiting for an opponent to move, waiting for the perfect opening, thrilling to the energising thwack of a sword hitting a shield: still alive! Mostly what I know about this game, though, I don’t know from the screen. I know from long conversations with Simon Parkin over coffee in which he talked me through these dazzling discoveries he kept making in a game that kept its whole cosmology, as it were, a thing that had to be understood by the player tentatively and over a number of hours. He talked about the messages people left for others, and he talked about the way that some of these messages could not be trusted. I think he maybe talked about invasions, other people suddenly turning up in his game? Or was that Dark Souls? I guess I’ll never know now. The slow disappearing act of Demon’s Souls syndicated from http://ift.tt/2yVoCD4 via Tumblr The slow disappearing act of Demon’s Souls Enjoyable indie adventure game The Sexy Brutale will launch next week on 7th December for Nintendo Switch. The game, which has you exploring a house stuck in a time loop as its residents are killed off, received positive reviews when it launched for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One earlier in the year The Sexy Brutale is a joint effort from UK studio Cavalier Game Studios, a studio founded by ex-Lionhead staff, and Tequila Works, the Spanish studio behind Deadlight and Rime. The Sexy Brutale has a Nintendo Switch release date syndicated from http://ift.tt/2yVoCD4 via Tumblr The Sexy Brutale has a Nintendo Switch release date Abandon Ship, a kind of cross between Sid Meier’s Pirates and FTL, will now be released “early 2018” on Steam Early Access rather than this year. “We’re committed to delivering an extremely high-quality experience and to ensuring even our initial release is as feature-complete and polished as possible,” wrote team lead Gary Burchell from Fireblade Software. “So far the response from our play-testers has been exceptionally positive but why stop there? With a little extra time we can make the game even better.” The lovely little Abandon Ship floats to early 2018 syndicated from http://ift.tt/2yVoCD4 via Tumblr The lovely little Abandon Ship floats to early 2018 |
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