Monthly Archives: June 2015

Doom Franchise Gets Modern Facelift

Developed by ID Software and published by Bethesda, the grand daddy of the first-person shooter genre, Doom, has announced a comeback at this year’s E3 2015! Relentless demons, impossibly destructive guns, and fast, fluid movement provide the foundation for intense, first-person combat – whether you’re obliterating demon hordes through the depths of Hell in the single-player campaign, or competing against your friends in numerous multiplayer modes. Expand your gameplay experience using DOOM SnapMap game editor to easily create, play, and share your content with the world.

As you might expect, there’s a story of bad assery to be found in the relentless single player campaign. As the lone survivor on an overrun Martian research facility controlled by Union Aerospace Corporation, you stand as the last line of defense between demons and Earth. Your only mission, kill them all, or die trying.

Key Features:

A Relentless Campaign
There is no taking cover or stopping to regenerate health as you beat back Hell’s raging demon hordes.  Combine your arsenal of futuristic and iconic guns, upgrades, movement and an advanced melee system to knock-down, slash, stomp, crush, and blow apart demons in creative and violent ways.

Return of id Multiplayer
Dominate your opponents in DOOM’s signature, fast-paced arena-style combat. In both classic and all-new game modes, annihilate your enemies utilizing your personal blend of skill, powerful weapons, vertical movement, and unique power-ups that allow you to play as a demon.

Endless Possibilities
DOOM SnapMap – a powerful, but easy-to-use game and level editor – allows for limitless gameplay experiences on every platform.  Without any previous experience or special expertise, any player can quickly and easily snap together and visually customize maps, add pre-defined or completely custom gameplay, and even edit game logic to create new modes.  Instantly play your creation, share it with a friend, or make it available to players around the world – all in-game with the push of a button.

 

More details to come.

Stardock to Showcase Ashes of the Singularity at PC Gaming Show

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Stardock will be at the PC Gaming Show event in Los Angeles on June 16th to show Ashes of the Singularity gameplay during AMD’s The New Era of PC Gaming live stream starting at 9:00 AM PST. Ashes of the Singularity is Stardock’s upcoming massive scale real time strategy game where AI and post-humans battle for the fate of their worlds.

 

Gamers can expect Ashes of the Singularity to push the technological boundaries of what is possible in an RTS while providing gameplay innovations in addition to genre staples like base building, resource management and technology upgrades. “What sets Ashes of the Singularity apart is its ability to simulate massive scale with high visual fidelity,” said Brad Wardell CEO of Stardock and Oxide games. “With our Nitrous engine we’re giving players the ability to command thousand unit armies with very sophisticated AI engaged in world war instead of the small battles RTS players are used to.”
 

The Nitrous engine’s ability to use all of the available CPU cores to get more out of the hardware that gamers already have enables Ashes of the Singularity to have thousands of units on screen, high visual fidelity and more sophisticated AI. Everything in the game is realistically lit by thousands of light sources. Players can zoom out and see multiple, massive battles simultaneously all beautifully rendered without switching to a 2D map or icons.
 

Gameplay is enhanced by intelligent unit AI that free up a player’s attention to develop tactics to win the larger war. In addition players who have access to DirectX 12 and next-generation GPUs will be able to run Ashes of the Singularity at 4K resolution with the image quality settings turned up for an even more impressive visual experience.
 
Gamers can watch the morning live stream at www.twitch.tv/stardock while the press in attendance will get the chance to meet members of the Ashes of the Singularity development team later that evening during exclusive live gameplay demonstrations and interviews.
 

To learn more about Ashes of the Singularity and become a Lifetime Founder with lifetime access to all future DLC content and expansions visit www.ashesgame.com.

DOMO Welcomes New Class in Monarchy of Madness Update

Suba Games is excited to announce the addition of a new and exciting class for the fun free to play MMORPG, DOMO. The class Witch Doctor is a highly requested and sought after job for its interesting combat of slowly poisoning their foes into submission. In addition to this new class the spooky map Dragons Den has become accessible. Lastly Daily Events such as the Hot Springs event have been added to keep every day of DOMO fun filled and action packed.

 

DOMO Witch Doctor Reveal

Overview of Witch Doctor
The Witch Doctor is a mysterious and almost certainly dangerous profession; they deal with the deadliest of poisons to incapacitate their foes. Using voodoo bugs to leech away at their target’s abilities and strength, any foe they battle will come to a slow and strenuous demise. Using dark and mysterious magic a Witch Doctor can also leech health and heal their allies by creating a sanctuary. A twisted group, Witch Doctors hold the power to either create or destroy in their hands.

Overview of the Dragons Den
Dragons Den is a frightful map filled with many dangers such as bandits and snakes and according to some legends it was once the home of powerful dragons. Some say dragons still live in this eerie map though the stories are rare and details are often missing. Now the area is filled with snakes of all sizes and colours, so players must be wary of their venomous bites. If you are able to make it past the snakes there is also a large group of bandits that have taken up residence in the old ruins of the map. The secrets of this map require a powerful mind to unravel.

Overview of Hot Springs
The summoning pool hot springs are now open for business, every day the citizens of DOMO can come and relax in the hot springs for some experience while socializing with others. In addition to the Hot Springs a few other daily events will be available through the Event Calendar in-game.

Dream of Mirror Online has just recently been revived and it is already receiving unique and exciting updates to provide more content to its already vast world. With constant support and love from fans for this MMO’s revival we have started a series of fun and unique updates to keep this game alive and thriving in its second life.

Umbra Sets Record for Highest Funded French Kickstarter

SolarFall Games’ ARPG, Umbra, has finished its Kickstarter campaign at an incredible $406,979 – 181% funded and is now the highest grossing Kickstarter campaign, for a videogame, from France to date!

Highest Funded Kickstarter

“We are absolutely flabbergasted at funding to such an incredible total on Kickstarter.  We’d like to thank every backer for their pledge, support and the sharing of our campaign, every YouTube & Twitch streamer who covered our prototype and all of the journalists for writing such awesome articles about Umbra.” said Daniel Dolui, Lead Programmer and Game Director at SolarFall Games. “We would like to invite those of you who were unable to pledge on our campaign, to check out our webstore and now, we have promises to keep and work to do!”

The campaign may have finished, but you can still support the game via the new Umbra webstore, where, for a limited time, buyers can still support the game, complete with backer rewards from the Kickstarter.

All funds collected via the Umbra webstore will continue to go towards the further stretch goals that were not achieved during the Kickstarter campaign!  Please note that the Paypal payment is processed in France, so we had to include VAT in the price by law.

CryEngine3 powered Umbra is an open world action-RPG taking place in a corrupted world that is falling apart. You are a former soldier, forced to flee the death penalty because of your magic powers. Being tracked down by humans and hunted by the monsters of the Wild, you are recruited by a mysterious group of Templars, and thus your epic adventure begins…