Category: News

Wild Buster Relaunching Under New Publisher As Champions of Titan


Wild Buster hasn’t had such great success on Steam, especially after Valve severed its ties to Insel Games over that whole fraudulent review fiasco and removed their entire library from the platform. In response to the lack of simoleons flowing in and likely several angry phone calls with developer Nuri Works, Insel Games has agreed to transfer publishing rights to a new company, IDC Games who will relaunch Wild Buster under the new moniker Champions of Titan.

Unfortunately this means that all of your progression is going to be wiped.

With these changes also comes the necessity for a server wipe and new game client which means that all character progress will be reset and you need to re-register your account. While this might sadden some of you it simply is the best way to ensure a fair start for everyone and a growing community from the point of the re-launch.

Those who backed Wild Buster have been promised compensation in the form of rewards for the upcoming Champions of Titan relaunch.

(Source: Steam)

505 Games Reveals Memories of Mars: Open World Survival Shooter


Limbic Entertainment has released the latest trailer for Memories of Mars, an open world survival game set on none other than the red planet itself. Memories of Mars will task players with surviving the harsh conditions of the planetary surface, competing with other players and fending off the wildlife as they build their home away from home and make life just a smidgen easier on themselves.

To keep the game fun and fresh, Memories of Mars will implement seasons, periodic solar flares that wipe out all life and construction on the planet and force everyone to start anew. Thanks to the existence of cloning, however, you’ll be able to get a head start with some blueprints carried over from the previous season. The game will also feature a series of events to encourage players to compete with one another to salvage valuable resources.

Memories of Mars hits early access on Steam later this Spring. It is being developed by Limbic Entertainment who you may recognize from their work on Might and Magic: Heroes VII, and is being published by 505 Games who also published games like Payday 2 and Terraria.

(Source: Press Release)

505 Games Details No Man’s Sky Xbox One Launch


505 Games this week revealed the official launch date for No Man’s Sky on the Xbox One. The title will launch in North America on July 24 and in Europe on July 27 and will include a major update that will also hit the Playstation and PC versions of the game. Dubbed No Man’s Sky NEXT and revealed earlier this year, the update promises a full multiplayer experience.

“Multiplayer completely changes the No Man’s Sky experience; it’s emergent, fun and intense in ways we always wanted it to be. I’m so happy this is finally happening,” said Sean Murray, founder, Hello Games. “It is genuinely exciting to be able to fully realize the potential so many people could see in No Man’s Sky. This will be our biggest update yet and we’re pumped to be bringing Xbox players along on the journey with us now too.”

NEXT is a free update expected to launch simultaneously on all systems.

(Source: 505 Games Press Release)

Wild West Online On PvE “They Have Literally Nothing To Do And Never Will”


Wild West Online launched to mostly negative reviews and a peak of 559 players on Steam that has since continually dwindled downward. In a post on the official forums, 612 Games is pitching ideas on overhauling certain aspects of the game including the faction systems and offering players activities that aren’t devoted to just shooting other people. In response to a player concern that the activities would take the game in a more player vs environment sort of direction, 612 responded that the game is not being developed to care about PvE players and never will be.

No, this is not what we want to do. We want game to be PVP game, but we also want to allow PVP players to enjoy other activities as well. Here’s what happening right now in a game – PVP players, who LIKES to shoot other players are sitting in a safety of towns until Town Capture or other event starts. Then they teleport to the event, shoot each other brains out and then retreat back to safety of towns.

Our goals is improve that part, not care about PVE players. Game is not for them. they have literally nothing to do in a game and they will never will. It’ll never be a PVE game.

More on the proposed changes can be found on the official forum.

(Source: Wild West Online)

Lord of the Rings Online Lays Out 2018 And Beyond


Standing Stone Games Executive Producer Severlin posted a short announcement on the Lord of the Rings Online forums this week detailing the company’s plans for the title going forward into the rest of 2018 and beyond. The post talks about changes to classes, festivals, and more, including the coming update that will take adventurers to the Lonely Mountain and also increase the level cap to 120.

Let’s look ahead to Update 23! We will be journeying to the Lonely Mountain, and from there following the eastern paths to the Iron Hills, and north to the Grey Mountains. We’re excited to put these important parts of Dwarf culture and history on the map. Update 23 will also come with an instance cluster and, later in the year, a new raid. Our new instances will be designed for both groups and solo players, allowing everyone to see the storyline that unfolds in those instances. Full groups will also be able to enter into the more dangerous tiers of these adventures. The new landscape has 80 new quests, and the Black Book of Mordor will continue its story into these new regions. Update 23 will also increase the level cap to 120.

More information can be found at the link below.

(Source: LOTRO)

Boss Key Shuts Down After Radical Heights Flounders


Following its launch into “extreme early access” after five months of development, Radical Heights developer Boss Key has announced that it is going into extreme defunct mode. Big boss Cliff Bleszinski released an announcement on Twitter today noting that the servers for Radical Heights will remain online for the near future, however the studio itself is effectively no more. Radical Heights launched into early access and managed to pull peak numbers of less than 13,000, higher than Lawbreakers and around the same numbers as Gearbox’s Battleborn.

Nothing has been confirmed for the future of Lawbreakers, and as of yet Boss Key Productions has not made any official announcement on the Steam pages for either title. The Twitter account for Boss Key Productions has similarly made no acknowledgement of its closure.

(Source: Twitter)

GamersFirst Now Owned By Little Orbit


GamersFirst announced this week that it has been acquired by developer Little Orbit, with new CEO Matt Scott addressing the communities of APB and Fallen Earth to detail their plans for the future.

“There’s been a lot of speculation over the last couple months about who would be crazy enough to take on this game. And I’m not going to try and sugarcoat it, we know that the confidence in this game is at an all time low, and odds are you haven’t heard of us at Little Orbit. But that’s OK. There’s a lot of work to do, and I’m not writing this letter to make unrealistic promises or layout a grand roadmap. Instead, I’m going to ask for your patience as we get organized and that you give us a chance to show you that we are sincere in our efforts to make APB Reloaded the game we all know it can be.”

Scott lays out a roadmap for All Points Bulletin for the months ahead, including a new mode, maps, challenges, clothes, vehicles, and the much awaited move to the Unreal 4 Engine. The Fallen Earth post doesn’t go into detail on any planned updates, but Scott does wax nostalgia of his days playing the title.

“Nothing is going to happen overnight with Fallen Earth. But it’s clear to me that there is something special here worth rebuilding. We need to spend more time mapping out exactly what that looks like.”

(Source: APB: Reloaded, Fallen Earth)

PSA: Get Gloria Victis For Less Than Five Bucks


For nearly two weeks, you can get your hands on Gloria Victis for less than five dollars. The Humble War Gamez Bundle is up and running and you can get your hands on a number of titles for more than the average price, $4.29 as of this writing, and pick up fantasy MMO Gloria Victis as part of the bundle.

You’ll also receive Panzer Corps, Panzer Corps: Allied DLC, Mercenary Kings: Reloaded Edition, Insurgency, as well as Day of Infamy Deluxe Edition and 8-Bit Armies. At $10 you can add on the Rising Storm 2: Vietnam Deluxe Edition. Charitable donations to go to Comic Relief Red Nose Day.

(Source: Humble Bundle)

Alpha Signups Open For Rend, Open World Survival Game


Starting today, players will be able to get their hands on the invite-only alpha test for Rend, an upcoming faction-based fantasy survival game from Frostkeep Studios. Frostkeep is a new independent studio made up of a number of industry veterans from World of Warcraft, Overwatch, League of Legends, and more.

Launching into early access later this year, Rend promises to challenge gaming tropes by introducing factional combat, RPG mechanics, win/loss conditions, and more into a world of survival.

“Our goal at the start of this project was to continuously grow and improve Rend by gathering direct feedback from our players every step of the way,” said Jeremy Wood, co-founder and CEO, Frostkeep Studios. “As we lovingly craft this game with the help of our players, this project remains just as much theirs as it is ours, and this public alpha marks a significant milestone as we offer even more players around the world the opportunity to enter the world of Rend and join our community.”

More details can be found on the official Steam page. Alpha signups can be found on the official website.

(Source: Press Release)

Denial of Service: US Judge Sentences Warcraft DDoS Attacker To Prison


The odds of getting caught while firing off denial of service attacks against corporate servers may be low, but don’t let that fool you into thinking that the act is any less criminal. Romanian citizen Calin Mateias found that lesson out the hard way when a judge issued a one year prison sentence and $30,000 in damages after the man was found guilty of attacking the World of Warcraft servers. The distributed denial of service attacks lasted from February to September 2010 and were primarily motivated out of a “juvenile desire” to beat his rivals.

Yes, a 37 year old man will be spending a year in prison because he so desperately wanted to beat people in World of Warcraft that he committed a criminal act. Mateias was also required to foot Blizzard’s costs in preventing his attacks at the time, which ran close to thirty thousand dollars. In case that doesn’t paint enough of a picture, Mateias used the online handle “Dr. Mengele,” after the infamous Nazi doctor.

(Source: BBC)