Stellar Dawn: the next MMORPG from Jagex
Jagex, the makers of Runescape and Kickabout League, have just announced a new MMO called Stellar Dawn. In all the pieces of concept art below there aren’t any people. There are space fighter things, giant walkers, and orbital drop pods.
Violent games “may help reduce stress”
According to the Texas A&M International University’s news feed, “Young adults who play violent video games long-term handle stress better than non-playing adults and become less depressed and less hostile following a stressful task.”
League of Legends CGI trailer celebrates Season One
These Defense of the Ancients-style arena games are really popular, as it turns out. To rally attention to its now-live Season One release, Riot Games has released an impressive CGI trailer for League of Legends. There’s angel knights. Massive, backpack-kept scrolls. Tower smashing. And one slow-mo cleavage shot so unnecessary that I immediately went to the game’s website to look up the buxom fighter’s champion profile page.
Realtime Worlds giving APB a “major overhaul”
An official Realtime Worlds poster has outlined the company’s plans for APB in a lengthy forum post on the official forums. They’re proposing a pretty startling revamp of many of the game’s key faults. Read on for the details.
PC Gamer Game Club: Week 2 – X-COM
For the second week of the PC Gamer Game Club, the collective of gamers have agreed to purchase, install, and play X-COM: UFO Defense and then have a chat about it. To find out what they thought, read on.
Kane & Lynch 2: Multiplayer trailer
Kane briefs a bunch of crooks on their role in the multiplayer missions in Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days. It nicely underlines the motivations and temptations of players during the round – work together, keep safe, and split the take evenly; or shoot your fellow crooks in the back and swag a larger slice.
One copy of Bejewelled sold every four seconds
I knew sitting in on the Pop Cap talk at the Develop conference was a good idea. Pop Cap’s Dave Bishop just dropped some amazing Pop Cap fact bombs.
UK readers: win a Radeon HD 5770
To celebrate Battlefield Bad Company 2, DICE have given us a Radeon HD 5770. Do you want it? What would you do to get it? To find out what you’ll need to do to win, and for some more info on Onslaught mode, read on.
Developers who ignore FarmVille face “disaster”
Games will need to be “discoverable, direct, shareable, and free”, according to Louis Castle, former founder of Westwood and current CEO of Instant Action.
The Golden Joysticks: your games of the year
The oldest and most prestigious gaming awards ceremony is now in its final voting phase for 2010. The shortlists have been decided, and all it needs now is for you to vote for your favourites in each category. Does Modern Warfare 2 deserve to beat Dragon Age? Is Mass Effect 2 a better RPG than Fallout 3? The public don’t know, they need you to vote and tell them. Happily, you can do so right here.
New X-COM revival is playable and awesome
One of Rock Paper Shotgun’s readers spotted this fan-run freeware project to resurrect the original X-COM: UFO Defense (aka Enemy Unknown) as a multiplayer game. It’s called UFO: The Two Sides, and it lets you take control of either X-COM or the invading aliens (in multiplayer only). I just played the public beta, and it’s awesome.
Borderlands Game of the Year edition?
For precisely four picaseconds, Gamestop listed a “Borderlands GOTY Official Strategy Guide” on its online store. The only person who saw it was CVG‘s Mike Jackson, who was infused with mongoose blood during a lightning storm while watching 24… in space, and is now imbued with superhuman speed. Borderlands GOTY? What could it all mean!?
What’s in the Civilization 5 boxed set?
We love boxed sets at PC Gamer, especially the kind with little metal figures, art books, and soundtrack CDs. Oh, and the game. Guess what the Civilization 5 Special Edition boxed set contains?
Gay marriage in Runes of Magic
In Runes of Magic’s upcoming 3.0.3 patch, people can have their characters marry other toons, have kids, or get adopted, and – gasp! – you can even have your male character marry another male character.
One in ten can’t see 3D
Between 10 and 12 percent of UK residents can’t see 3D due to slightly imperfect eyesight, according to the UK’s Eyecare Trust charity.
