The Endless Space 2 developers have released a 4-part comic book series
and the entire collection is free. The comic books give you a deeper
understanding of the four of the eight major factions in the turn-based
strategy IP.
Nothing after the jump.
So several months ago, I saw this video:
thought it too good to be true and didn't pay it any heed. I was thinking it wouldn't disappoint me if the project crashed and burned but I didn't emotionally invest in it.
Is YouTube down? Have they been hacked? It's not every day you get greeted by this:
So someone complained on the Folk Tale Steam forums:
"This was the first Early Access I brought, I actually didn't realise it was early access, I just liked the sound of it and clicked straight to pay (I will never make that mistake again). Anyway almost 2 years on, its still not ready, is this usual?
After realising it was early access I wasnt too concerned because I assumed there would be a few months max before it was finished, surely these things are regulated right, how foolish I was?!" [sic]
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| Photo credit: http://www.gamesfoundry.com/media.aspx |
So I found this comic strip, which details a battle between dwarven and elven armies---and a big @$$ dragon:
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| Art by Tim Denee. Taken from: http://www.dfst.org/en/stories?page=1 |
This went under my facilities' radars: last May 6, the developer of OpenXcom announced that version 1.0 of the open-source reimplementation of Julian Gollop's phenomenal turn- and squad-based PC strategy game is coming soon.
Last May 30, the official site of the free PC mod posted a blinking teaser that reads: "Loading OpenXcom 1.0..."
Why is this news exciting and why should you care?
I posted this on Newsvine:
A group of four people came up with the idea of fusing elements from I Am Legends, the survival horror genre, and Minecraft and the result is
a premise that greatly intrigued me.
I decided to support them by purchasing an Early Access for the video game. Though it is still in its Alpha phase, understandably the game
still has numerous bugs (most notably the save feature being broken as of May 31, 2014) and still is in a bare bones state. However, the
thirty or so minutes I spent with the game is easily worth the $15 I shelled out. See the video to see emergent gameplay at its finest.
Indie Gala is celebrating the 1 million mark (in sold bundles) by giving away the third-person shooter, survival horror, post-apocalyptic PC game Afterfall: InSanity for FREE. However, this is a limited offer; it's not going to be free forever. As of May 28, 2014, there are only 82,000 keys left.
The video below contains the instruction on how to claim your free copy. Please view this on my YouTube channel and read the description box there; it contains the link to the webpage.
Steam is offering the PC military simulation first-person shooter game ARMA: Cold War Assault as freeware until May 19, 2014 10am Pacific Time.
Horror games for the PC are a dime a dozen. However, horror games that are free AND have garnered awards AND a large following are hard to come by. Enter Cry of Fear, a freeware survival horror Half-Life (ONE) mod that has now been converted into a standalone free-to-play PC first-person shooter.
This is very exciting news for me as free game downloads have always been a passion. To discover that a game I initially couldn't play (given that I've never bought the very first Half-Life) has now been released as a standalone is news indeed.
You might wonder what the fuss is all about with this free to play offering. Well:
[Update 3 (March 5, 2013): Added "The Story so Far" Part 12 description]
[Update 2 (February 27, 2013): Added "The Story so Far" Part 11 description]
[Update 1 (February 26, 2013): Added "The Story so Far" Part 9 and Part 10 descriptions]
If you haven't been taking a peek at my YouTube channel (click HERE or see the link at the upper right part of this site), you've clearly missed my "Let's Play Transcendence v1.1" series.
What I've written on the videos' description boxes:
Transcendence is a 2.5D free to play sci-fi PC space trading game that runs along the lines of the Space Rogue, Elite, Eve Online, and the X (Beyond the Frontier, Terran Conflict, etc) series. Though weighing in at only a tiny 17MB, the game provides surprising deep gameplay for its size, letting players have free reign on what they want to do---play as a simple drifter running supplies among the many space stations; as a guardian of the myriad galactic enclaves; and even as a bounty hunter hunting down space outlaws.Here's a sample video:
Join me as I embark on my journey to the Galactic Core. I need all my luck as there are many threats the vastness of space harbors, chief among them a low YouTube viewer count.
Just a heads-up but I'm now currently editing the first part of my "Let's Play Transcendence 1.1." I've long since want to play this game but now that its creator has released version 1.1, now is the perfect time do a Let's Play for this freeware full version PC space game.
The game is a sandbox-type video game where you can do anything that
you please, trade goods, escort lumbering capital ships, and/or hunt
down rogue spacecraft. It weighs in at 17 megabytes but for a 2d game, it's a looker.
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| Image taken from the official Transcendence site |
I've been playing a lot of Torchlight 2 lately and I must say this is an awesome game. (Diablo naysayers please don't launch a tirade here. Please know that the Torchlight 2 devs made up Blizzard North; they were responsible for developing the first two Diablo games. I'm planning to play both games so relax. ;) )
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| That's my Engineer. A slain Undead Champion lies destroyed in the foreground. |
I've just launched a Black Mesa: Source album on my Imbacore Facebook page.
So after three years of check the page every week for updates, it has finally come to this:
Okay let me skip to the verdict: if you're using an Nvidia card, replace your current driver with this one. While the benchmark numbers don't show much improvement (with the X3: Terran Conflict Rolling Demo benchmark test churning out exactly the same figure as the Tweakforce driver I benchmarked a week back), things are a lot smoother with the new Nvidia GeForce 306.02 driver. Recording my "Let's Play Darksiders 2 PC HD" is now a more enjoyable experience. Here's a sample clip:
>>>Get the new Nvidia GeForce drivers HERE
>>>Click here for my "Nvidia Graphic Drivers Benchmark Tests" page (shows the latest benchmark results)
Nothing after the jump.
So I told several people it didn't crawl under a rock, croak, and die but nooooo they wouldn't listen. Ah sweet revenge. Black Mesa Source, a freeware full version Half-Life 2 mod, is a Source engine-powered remake of the very first Half-Life. I've been yammering about this science fiction-themed mod for years now (since 2008 to be exact) but it wasn't until May of this year that I've heard news that it's going to be finally released (after their missed 2009 deadline). Now though, their website is showing a countdown timer and things have just gotten real all of a sudden. The free PC shooter is going to launch this September 14.
Here are some comparison screenshots of what you can expect from this downloadable PC game:
Want to know what the finer details? Click "Read more." The download link can also be found after the jump (bearing in mind that you can't get it before September 14, 2012).
Tweakforce has released Xtreme-G 305.68, a tweaked GeForce driver. What's peculiar about this release is that it has a version for each and every Windows OS starting with XP, something that Semp (the owner of the site) hasn't done in a long time.
This driver gave me a performance boost in a Lightsmark 2008 benchmark run. Also, it's a boon for Darksiders 2 players looking for an antialiasing fix as the Darksiders 2 3D profile in this driver works---enabling FXAA smooths out all the jagged edges in the game (as of August 28 4am GMT+8 THQ has yet to fix this).
You can see the latest benchmark results and the link after the jump.
