Story-focused expansion for Arkane's stealth-action game arrives next month on Xbox 360, PS3, and PC for $10.
A new Dishonored expansion will launch next month. Bethesda today announced Dishonored: The Knife of Dunwall, a new story-focused expansion due April 16 on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC for $10.
In The Knife of Dunwall, players take on the role of Daud, a legendary assassin who killed the Empress. Players will have access to his weapons, gadgets, allies, and supernatural abilities.
"After assassinating the Empress, and forever changing the fate of Dunwall, you embark on a search for redemption. The Outsider reveals the key to your atonement, but who--or what--is Delilah?" reads a line from the content's description.
Players will be accompanied on their trip through never-before-seen parts of Dunwall by the Whalers, a band of mercenary assassins, as they take on "new and terrible" enemies.
The Knife of Dunwall will not be the last Dishonored expansion. Bethesda announced last year that an additional story-focused add-on is also in the works. Bethesda revealed today this content is called The Brigmore Witches, which will conclude Daud's story when it releases sometime in the future.
Dishonored launched in October and was the United States' fourth-best-selling game of the month. It was also the only non-sequel to make the top-10 chart during the month. The game's first expansion--Dunwall City Trials--launched in December.
John Riccitiello beats out Michael Jordan, Barack Obama in Sports Illustrated top 50 power poll.
Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello has been named to Sports Illustrated's "50 Most Powerful People In Sports" list. The executive earned his place on the list by leading development on sports franchises like FIFA Soccer and Madden NFL.
"His products have shaped Generation Y's perception of sports as much as anyone's," Sports Illustrated wrote, before cautioning that difficult times may be ahead. "But is exhaustion setting in after 25 years of incrementally improved Madden games?"
Riccitiello was named the 39th most powerful person in sports, beating out the likes of United States president Barack Obama (44), UFC president Dana White (45), Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban (48), and Bobcats owner and former NBA star Michael Jordan (50).
The most powerful person in sports, according to Sports Illustrated, is NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.
CD Projekt Red managing director confirms upcoming role-playing game will have unspecified "multiplayer features."
Cyberpunk 2077 will have a multiplayer component. Developer CD Projekt Red managing director Adam Badowski confirmed the news to Eurogamer, but did not go into greater detail.
"It will be a story-based RPG experience with amazing single-player playthroughs, but we're going to add multiplayer features," Badowski said.
Badowski also confirmed that Cyberpunk 2077 will not cast players as a pre-defined hero, but rather allow them to forge their own creation. "We'll have different situation in Cyberpunk," Badowski said. "Cyberpunk will have different character classes."
Cyberpunk 2077 puts players into a "dark future" in 2077 where advanced technologies have become "both the salvation and the curse of humanity." The game promises a nonlinear story designed for "mature" players and is set in the metropolis of Night City. It has also been revealed that Cyberpunk 2077 will feature sandbox elements, though this was not specified in any length.
CD Projekt Red's other project, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, may also include multiplayer. The developer recently said it was "thinking about something" relating to a series-first multiplayer option for the 2014-dated role-playing game.
Entertainment Software Ratings Board now allowing pre-cleared trailers online without requiring users to enter birthdate.
New Entertainment Software Ratings Board guidelines will change the way M for Mature games are promoted through online videos. According to a document from the ratings group obtained by GameSpot sister site Giant Bomb, publishers will now be able to distribute videos for M-rated games without an age gate.
Previously, publishers had to keep this content behind an age gate, forcing viewers to enter their birthdate to view the content. The new system does, however, require pre-clearance from the ESRB. The content must be deemed "suitable" by the group.
This change applies to games that are rated M, as well as those expected to be rated M at the time of their releases.
Similar to previews for movie, new game trailers for M-rated titles will have a green "slate" that appears before the trailer begins, which is required to be on-screen for at least four seconds.
A second change to the ESRB guidelines has to do with the cross-selling of games. As part of the new guidelines, publishers can now promote a Mature-rated game (or one expected to receive a Mature rating) through a title that has been assigned a lesser rating, so long as the ESRB has provided explicit approval.
Two additional policy changes were addressed in the document. First, the ESRB no longer requires demos to flash a game's rating for four seconds before the title launches. And second, the ESRB will no longer enforce a rule that stated ESRB and ratings from international groups like Europe's PEGI could not be displayed next to one another on websites and other social media channels.
All new changes are effective immediately.
The ESRB's changes come during a time of increased political discussion of the relationship between virtual violence and real world violence.
Anonymous Maxis insider says that SimCity's servers aren't handling the kind of computations the developer is claiming.
An anonymous source who worked on SimCity has said that the game's controversial always-on requirements aren't required for the game to function, and that implementing an offline mode "wouldn’t take very much engineering."
Speaking to Rock Paper Shotgun, the source said that Maxis' claim of SimCity requiring its servers to compute important information outside of the game's connected social features was untrue.
’The servers are not handling any of the computation done to simulate the city you are playing," reports the source. "They are still acting as servers, doing some amount of computation to route messages of various types between both players and cities. As well, they’re doing cloud storage of save games, interfacing with Origin, and all of that. But for the game itself? No, they’re not doing anything. I have no idea why they’re claiming otherwise."
SimCity requires a constant connection to its servers in order to function.
Previously, Maxis general manager Lucy Bradshaw said in an interview with Polygon that "we offload a significant amount of the calculations to our servers so that the computations are off the local PCs and are moved into the cloud."
Responding to Bradshaw's claim, the anonymous source says "it’s possible that Bradshaw misunderstood or was misinformed, but otherwise I’m clueless.’
The source also details that SimCity's servers actually take several minutes to process information back to the user. "This is why they disabled Cheetah mode, by the way, to reduce by half the number of updates coming into the queue,’ the source adds.
SimCity's online requirement saw the game's launch last week mired by connectivity issues, with many users unable to play at all for the first few days. Maxis has repeatedly maintained that it wouldn't be possible to easily implement an offline mode without hobbling the game.
The anonymous Maxis source, however, reports that a SimCity offline mode wouldn't actually require that much work ’It wouldn’t take very much engineering to give you a limited single-player game without all the nifty region stuff.’
Having stormed past breaking point with Tomb Raider Chronicles, Johnny is dragged kicking and screaming into the world of Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness.
Xi3 boss says Valve asked it to build a product, and says $1000 Piston PC will launch with Windows as opposed to Linux.
Xi3, the hardware manufacturer behind the grapefruit-sized, $1000 Piston PC, has said it was asked to specifically build a product by Valve amid growing confusion about the relationship between the two companies.
It had not been made public why Valve backed away from Xi3, but Sullivan has further explained Xi3's position. "During a meeting with Valve at CES, Gabe Newell personally asked me that we not disclose additional information about our relationship with Valve. We have honored that request and will continue to do so. That said, there are other items we need to cover," he said.
"For example, the assumption of many in the media has been that Piston is the 'official' Steam Box. We've never said that and neither has Valve. That hasn't changed. But just because Valve may not 'currently' have any 'involvement with any product of (ours)' doesn't mean that such involvement won't exist in the future."
Sullivan also confirmed that the Piston will ship with the Windows operating system--Valve's official Steam Box is believed to be launching with Linux. "Contrary to Valve's vision, Xi3 believes that the way to take this to market today is to do so with a Windows OS at the core, coupled with the ability to not just get to one platform/store for games, but to get access to all game stores/platforms. Studios should have the option to go through Steam if they choose or to go direct to the end-user if they so choose. That will be the difference between Piston and other Steam Boxes. You'll be able to access Steam if you choose, but you'll also be able to access other platforms as well-all through the Piston Console."
"In closing, what Valve does or doesn't do with its Steam Box will be up to them. So Gabe, it's up to you. The ball is in your court," concluded Sullivan.
Pokemon Rumble U to come with Skylanders-like toys in Japan, though Nintendo has no news on an American or European release at the moment.
Nintendo's next Wii U Pokemon game will feature Skylanders-like NFC technology.
Japan's CoroCoro magazine reports (spotted via Serebii) that Pokemon Rumble U, a downloadable follow-up to previous Rumble games on the DS and 3DS, will launch in Japan this April alongside six standard figurines and one special character.
Pokemon Rumble 3 is the first Wii U game to make use of the console's in-built NFC technology. Information, such as battle data, can be stored directly onto the figurines themselves.
Pikachu is the only toy shown directly in the magazine scan, but the feature is accompanied by artwork of Oshawott, Snivy, Tepig and Victini.
In Japan, the eShop game will be released on April 24 at a cost of ¥1800 (£12.60/$18.80). The figures will set players back ¥200 (£1.40/$2.10) each.
Nintendo said to GameSpot it has no news regarding a European release of Pokemon Rumble 3 at the moment.
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