Monthly Archives: June 2019

Star Control Origins: Update 1.4 Is Now Available

Star Control: Origins has a new update dropping today, version 1.4, and with it comes some truly massive visual improvements. Alongside these are also performance enhancements, and starting today, players can see planets in an all-new light, with adjusted creature colors, improved terrains and more. The complete changelog can be seen below.

v1.4 Changelog

Visuals

  • Updated planet surface textures to be more detailed.
  • A small improvement of the terrain rendering system to improve the frame rate.
  • Improved lighting of the planet surface
  • Improved the textures on many props (glowing tentacles, glowing mushrooms, bones )
  • Make the Bull critter appearance a bit brighter
  • Improved the lander texture to make the windows stand out better
  • Updated the magma hazard visual effect to improve performance

Bugs

  • Listener orientation is no longer backward in a true 5.1 setup
  • Fix for some particles not being properly aligned to the surface
  • Fix for particle sorting and disappearing issue
  • Fixed several crashes related to the particle effects trying to escape the bounds of known reality.

Lore

  • The “Observers”  are now known as the “Arilou”

Underworld Ascendant Available on Playstation 4 Now

Underworld Ascendant on PS4

Underworld Ascendant is the fan-funded game from OtherSide Entertainment, and it’s now available on Playstation 4 digitally. The Xbox One edition will be coming soon, and both are 29.99. The Stygian Abyss awaits players, in this fantasy RPG that will challenge them to think critically and creatively, in an interactive sandbox. There are plenty of combat styles to mix and match from, alongside stealth and magical powers, to conquer this terrifying land.

The console version of Underworld Ascendant launches with updates from the PC version, including enhancements to gameplay mechanics based on player feedback from the game’s launch on PC last year. Additional in-game content and features have also been added, offering new quests, enemy encounters, in-game items and more, as further outlined below.

Underworld Ascendant Update Highlights Include:

  • Save Game System: OtherSide completely overhauled the Save Game system based on player feedback, enabling save across much of the game while also retaining the Silver Sapling’s respawn feature.
  • Player Journey: The world is now a series of interconnected levels, accessible through The Grand Staircase. Updated quest flow focuses now on important narrative quests highlighting both new and refined story and content while allowing the player to freely explore the environment and optional side-quests. Players will also be able to reach the lower depths of the Abyss more quickly in the game’s overall progression.
  • New Content: A number of new NPCs offering various benefits to players are available, including the Shambler Meridian, the Deep Elf Severn, the Dwarf Quarter, the Outcast Dahlia and the Outcast Fane. Quests have been added for each of the new NPCs noted above. Freeing the NPCs results in offering various benefits to players, including a new vendor that sells high-level magic artifacts (weapons, armor), additional rune formulas and highlight hidden areas and lairs. Additionally, many new items, weapons, and armor are available.
  • Skills and Abilities: Combat has been improved to be more engaging and strategic, with advanced combat skills now immediately available to the player and adding new elements like the enemy shove attack. Magic has been enhanced with new spells and more available runes, allowing players to explore more of the game’s customizable spells. Updates to stealth and enemy responsiveness in lighting have improved stealth playability.
  • Performance and AI: Player movement is more fluid and enemy AI has been updated to improve enemy behavior, offering a more polished reaction to player actions, pathfinding, and combat effectiveness. Enemy AI now also ramps up in variety and difficulty as players venture deeper into The Stygian Abyss.

Million Arthur: Arcana Blood Now Available on PC

Million Arthur: Arcana Blood is a 1v1 2D fighter with 13 characters, and 31 “Support Knight” summons to assist you in your battle. It features chaotic action, and long-time fans of the series will have a new story, overseen by author Kazuma Kamachi, centering on Britain’s Grand Martial Arts Tournament, with warriors aiming for victory and more important – recognition as the true Arthur.

Million Arthur: Arcana Blood brings together popular fan-favorite characters from the Million Arthur series as well as guest fighters including ‘Otherworldly Riesz’ from Trials of Mana™, ‘Otherworldly Koume Sakiyama’ from LORD of VERMILION and ‘Otherworldly Iori Yagami’ from THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIV.

Million Arthur: Arcana Blood Limited Edition is also available for a limited time (until August 20th, 2019). This will come with the full game, two wallpapers, and a music sampler with five tracks from the game, two composed by Yoko Shimomura.

Additionally, Million Arthur: Arcana Blood will be playable at this year’s EVO Community Championships at the Evolution Championship Series 2019 in Las Vegas. The elimination rounds will be held Friday, August 2 and Saturday, August 3, with no fee to participate. The tournament finals will be livestreamed on August 3 for fans to tune in and see gameplay by top-tier players first-hand as they compete for a Top 3 prize pool of $5,000 USD. More information will be available soon.