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- The Steam Summer Sale 2017 begins tomorrow
- 24 minutes of Monster Hunter World gameplay show why it could be the best entry yet
- Diablo 3's Necromancer DLC out next week
- Play entire first Hitman location for free on PC, PS4 and Xbox One
- Crytek's Hunt is back from the dead - and it looks pretty cool
- This Witcher fan film looks surprisingly good
- Leaked images reveal Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered standalone
- Half-Life remake Black Mesa delays Xen level release one final time
- Metro Exodus looks like the STALKER 2 fans have waited years for
- Assassin's Creed Origins hunting, underwater, night gameplay demoed in hour of footage
- Anthem coincidentally the start of "a 10-year journey" for EA and BioWare
| The Steam Summer Sale 2017 begins tomorrow Posted: 21 Jun 2017 01:30 AM PDT  The annual Steam Summer Sale begins tomorrow, 22nd June, at 6pm UK time. Digi-bank PayPal broke the news on Twitter with an associated deal of its own: £5 off when you spend £20 on Steam. The end date for PayPal's deal is 5th July, which is probably the end date for the Steam Summer Sale as well - last year's sale ran 23rd June to 4th July. |
| 24 minutes of Monster Hunter World gameplay show why it could be the best entry yet Posted: 20 Jun 2017 01:56 PM PDT  Capcom revealed 24 minutes of Monster Hunter World gameplay during a Japanese livestream earlier today. YouTuber and Monster Hunter aficionado Arekkz Gaming offers an English language synopsis of the developer walkthrough after having seen the same presentation at E3. In this upcoming entry to the fantasy hunting series, maps will be large and you'll be able to seamlessly transition around the field, unlike the series' previous entries where you have loading screen between each section of the map. |
| Diablo 3's Necromancer DLC out next week Posted: 20 Jun 2017 08:21 AM PDT  Blizzard has announced that the Rise of the Necromancer pack for Diablo 3, which adds the much-loved Necromancer character class from Diablo 2 to the younger game, will be released next week on 27th June. The add-on will be available for PC, Mac, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of the game, priced at £12.99 (€14.99). PC and Mac users will need to have the Reaper of Souls expansion installed (Diablo 3 isn't available on current consoles without it). In addition, Blizzard will release a new digital edition of the game for consoles - Diablo 3: Eternal Collection - which includes the base game, Reaper of Souls and Rise of the Necromancer. Pitched as a jumping-on point for new players (or perhaps those who never moved over from the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions), the Eternal Collection has a standard price of £54.99 (€69.99), but will be available to Xbox Live Gold and PlayStation Plus subscribers at an introductory price of £29.99 (€39.99). |
| Play entire first Hitman location for free on PC, PS4 and Xbox One Posted: 20 Jun 2017 07:50 AM PDT  The beginning of the acclaimed recent Hitman game is, as of today, free for anyone on PC, PS4 or Xbox One. The beginning constitutes everything in the first location: two story missions, two Escalation contracts, more than 40 challenges and 17 Achievements/Trophies. The freebie on Steam does not go live until 5pm UK time but is available from the Microsoft Store and PlayStation Store now. |
| Crytek's Hunt is back from the dead - and it looks pretty cool Posted: 20 Jun 2017 07:24 AM PDT  Crytek has released a gameplay video showing off Hunt: Showdown, it's new in the works multiplayer first-person shooter. Hunt: Showdown emerged from the ashes of Hunt: Horrors of the Gilded Age, the co-op action game from defunct studio Crytek USA. Crytek has suffered high-profile financial issues that has seen the German company sell off a number of its studios in a bid to raise cash to pay increasingly exasperated staff, some of whom went months without wages. The company now focuses on its CryEngine business as well as the development of Hunt at its main Frankfurt office and Warface at its Kiev office. |
| This Witcher fan film looks surprisingly good Posted: 20 Jun 2017 06:44 AM PDT  Can't wait for the Witcher Netflix series? This 30-minute Witcher fan film, Alzur's Legacy, looks surprisingly good. Perhaps it's because it's professionally made by a recognised Polish cast and competent crew - or perhaps it's because the main character isn't Geralt. Alzur's Legacy tells an original story about the witcher Lambert - who you may remember from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - in a timeline set "several dozen years" after the conclusion of the Witcher Saga of books. Well known characters Triss Merigold and Dandelion will play key roles. The film is a not-for-profit endeavour (perhaps due to copyrights) and needs your help. Alzur's Legacy seeks $15k on crowdfunding site Indiegogo. |
| Leaked images reveal Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered standalone Posted: 20 Jun 2017 06:37 AM PDT  Images of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered standalone have leaked online. CharlieIntel.com received images of the game case, sourced from US shop Target, with a 27th June release date and a $39.99 price point (we don't know how much it'll cost in the UK). According to the images, this standalone release is the base Modern Warfare Remastered game. It does not include the $14.99 Variety Map Pack that came out in March - but expect it to include the recently added supply drops for microtransactions. |
| Half-Life remake Black Mesa delays Xen level release one final time Posted: 20 Jun 2017 04:45 AM PDT  The already-delayed Xen levels of Half-Life remake Black Mesa have unfortunately been delayed again. Rather than be released this summer they will now arrive in December. "Unfortunately, as some of you may have already predicted, we are going to need to push back our planned release of Xen to later this year, in December," read a Black Mesa update on Steam. "We know that this is not what anyone would want to hear, but after taking a long and hard look at what we want to achieve, we have decided that this is for the best. We do not want to compromise on Xen's quality in any way. That said, we consider December to be a do-or-die deadline." |
| Metro Exodus looks like the STALKER 2 fans have waited years for Posted: 20 Jun 2017 04:07 AM PDT  The people behind gritty survival shooter Metro Exodus are designing the game to be the best of the Metro series and the best of the STALKER series - combined. Metro Exodus was unveiled during Microsoft's E3 2017 media briefing last week with an eye-catching trailer that suggested the series had gone open world. While it's not accurate to say Metro Exodus is an open world game, it does feature multiple large areas for players to explore alongside the more linear environments the Metro series is known for. |
| Assassin's Creed Origins hunting, underwater, night gameplay demoed in hour of footage Posted: 20 Jun 2017 03:33 AM PDT  We've already posted our own hands-on impressions of the impressive-looking Assassin's Creed Origins from E3 last week, but now we're back and seeing others upload videos of their own adventures. The demo we saw had a fairly straightforward mission to complete, along with a separate arena activity to try. Still, other folk at E3 decided to wander away from the mission bounds - and see more of Origins' open world. I snuck a glimpse at the portion of Origins' unlocked for Ubisoft's E3 demo - it was just a tiny fragment of the game's overall, vast world. (Think Zelda: Breath of the Wild's opening Plateau area, versus the rest of the game.) The videos below are just from this. |
| Anthem coincidentally the start of "a 10-year journey" for EA and BioWare Posted: 20 Jun 2017 02:38 AM PDT  EA has said BioWare's ambitious and visually impressive new IP Anthem will be the "the start of maybe a 10-year journey for us" - echoing the decade-long publishing deal Activision signed with Bungie for thematically similar series Destiny. Talking on the Xbox Daily Show during E3, EA vice president Patrick Soderlund said (from 1:41:30 onwards): "[Anthem is] a social game where you and your friends go out on quests and journeys. It's a game that we've been working on for almost four years now. And it's a game that - once we launch it next year - will be the start of maybe a 10-year journey for us." Anthem was announced properly at this year's E3 but was first talked about - as a new IP in development at BioWare's HQ in Edmonton, Canada - back at E3 2014. It being a shared-world shooter - a massively-multiplayer online game of sorts - means EA and BioWare will need to invest heavily in building a live online service as well as in building the game itself. In other words, Anthem is a bigger undertaking than a next Dragon Age or Mass Effect game. |
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