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Daily Scoop: October 13, 2015 – New Humble Bundle

Posted on October 13, 2015 by Nicole Kline

There’s a brand new Humble Bundle today – the Humble Capcom Bundle! Pay $1 or more to unlock Strider, Resident Evil Revelations 2 – Episode 1: Penal Colony, Lost Planet 3, and Bionic Commando: Rearmed. Beat the average to unlock Resident Evil Revelations, DmC: Devil May Cry, and Resident Evil 6. Pay $15 or more to unlock Resident Evil 5 Untold Stories Bundle DLC and Ultra Street Fighter IV.

The Midweek Madness at Steam is Forced: Slightly Better Edition, which is just $2.25. There’s also the four pack for $6.75, as well as the Deluxe Edition for $3.75. The Daily Deal is Knights of Pen and Paper +1 Edition. Get the game for $1.99, or the “Deluxier” Edition for $3.99.

There aren’t many shirts available today, but I gathered up the best ones I could find! (more…)

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Allison Road’s Kickstarter campaign canceled after developer signs contract with Team17

Posted on October 13, 2015 by John Scalzo

Allison Road, a terrifying first-person trip through a haunted house, was originally created as a hobby project by developer Chris Kesler. After a strong reply from the gaming community (and many comparisons to Hideo Kojima’s PT/Silent Hills), Kesler announced his intentions to build a team and release Allison Road as a full game.

Kesler’s team, Lilith, launched a Kickstarter campaign on September 21 to help fund the game’s ongoing development. But here we are three weeks later and the team is ready to deliver some good news… they’re canceling the campaign! In a Kickstarter Update posted yesterday, the developer revealed that they’ve signed a publishing agreement with Team17. The UK-based publishing label will provide Lilith with funding and development support, as well as giving Kesler and his team every opportunity to make Allison Road the best game it can be.

With a publisher in place, Lilith plans to “go quiet for a while,” but we’ll surely hear more about Allison Road before its late 2016 release on the PC.

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Treyarch delivers a thick coat of pulpy noir in this prologue to CoD: Black Ops III Zombies

Posted on October 13, 2015 by John Scalzo

The hardboiled detectives and wicked dames of noir fiction have lead to the genre’s continued popularity for more than 90 years. And why not? Noir films and books all feature bad people doing bad deeds before meeting a bad end… which makes it the perfect environment for an undead uprising.

Treyarch came to the same conclusion when developing Call of Duty: Black Ops III as the franchise’s famed Zombies Mode will flashback to the 1940s in “Shadows of Evil,” a morally ambiguous tale of good and evil that stars Jeff Goldblum (as The Magician), Heather Graham (as The Femme Fatale), Ron Perlman (as The Boxer), and Neal McDonough (as The Cop). The developer recently screened the co-op mode’s prologue at the New York Comic-Con, and yesterday, they released it for public consumption. Film noir fans will enjoy the period touches, but like I said, these are bad people people who’ve done bad deeds. Can you keep them from a bad end?

Be sure to watch the prologue again and let’s all find out together when Call of Duty: Black Ops III is released for the PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One on November 6.

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EA is offering a Season Pass (with four expansions) for Star Wars: Battlefront

Posted on October 12, 2015 by John Scalzo

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Star Wars: Battlefront will be released on November 17 for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One. But if you want to take part in even more battles from that far away galaxy, you’ll have to pony up for the game’s Season Pass, which is now available for pre-order.

Electronic Arts has announced (via the game’s official website) that the Star Wars: Battlefront Season Pass will include four expansions and an exclusive “Shoot First” emote. Players who purchase the Season Pass will also receive access to the expansions two weeks before the rest of the world.

Priced at $49.99, the publisher has said that we’ll learn more about the Star Wars: Battlefront Season Pass “in the coming weeks,” so I’d keep your wallet tightly closed until we find out some real details about these four expansions.

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No Time To Explain Review: Laser Rifles, Time Travel, and Dancing

Posted on October 12, 2015 by Sean Weiland

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No Time To Explain is a fast-paced 2D platformer where your main mode of travel is a gun so powerful that it doubles as a jet pack. You start out by using your super-powered rifle to chase yourself through time and the game’s looping plot keeps getting more outlandish from there. So dig in, because I do have time to explain.
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Harmonix adds DLC tracks from Alabama Shakes, Breaking Benjamin, Death From Above 1979, The Pretty Reckless to Rock Band 4

Posted on October 12, 2015 by John Scalzo

With Rock Band 4 now available in stores, Harmonix is pumping up the volume on a new set of downloadable content for the music franchise.

Beginning tomorrow, October 13, new songs from Alabama Shakes (“Don’t Wanna Fight”), Breaking Benjamin (“Failure”), Death From Above 1979 (“Trainwreck 1979”), and The Pretty Reckless (“Follow Me Down”) will be available to download through the PlayStation Store and the Xbox Marketplace for $1.99 apiece. Short snippets from each song can be previewed in the trailer embedded above.

Mad Catz also wants the world to know that pre-orders for the Rock Band 4 Pro-Cymbals Expansion Kit are now open. Expected to be available before the end of the year, the Pro-Cymbals Expansion Kit will add Crash, Ride, and Hi-Hat cymbals to the Wireless Drum Kit. After attaching the Pro-Cymbals Expansion Kit, players will be able to unlock Pro Mode in the game, which will enhance Rock Band 4’s “realism” and allow players to showcase their “unique flair.”

Following Activision’s lead, Harmonix has also added the complete Rock Band 4 tracklist to Spotify for your listening pleasure.

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Daily Scoop: October 12, 2015 – I’m back!

Posted on October 12, 2015 by Nicole Kline

I had an amazing weekend, Internet! I was the officiant at my sister’s wedding on Friday, and it was lovely. Then I took Saturday to do absolutely nothing at all. Anthony and I played some video games, listened to some podcasts, and just chilled out. We even watched a movie! Then we got back to work yesterday. I’m off from my day job today, so I got some more work done today as well. All in all, it’s been an amazing four-day weekend!

Speaking of amazing, you have less than 24 hours to pick up the Humble Indie Bundle 15! If you already love Gang Beasts, just go straight for the higher tiers that give you physical figures. Otherwise, pay the $10 to get the game and be awestruck!

There are 195 new Weeklong Deals at Steam! That’s a lot of games. Get Primal Carnage for $1.99, Creativerse for $9.99, Luftrausers for $2.49, and one of my favorites, Particle Mace, for an absurd $0.19. Today’s Daily Deal is Toy Soldiers: War Chest. Get the game for $10.04, or get the Hall of Fame Edition for $20.09.

There aren’t many shirts today, but they’re all pretty great! (more…)

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Fallout 4’s system requirements ask if your PC/console is prepared for the apocalypse

Posted on October 12, 2015 by John Scalzo

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We’re t-minus 29 days until the launch of Fallout 4, and Bethesda wants to ensure that your PC and/or console is up to spec for the post-apocalypse that’ll follow. So without further adieu, your PC must be exactly this powerful to ride Bethesda’s latest atomic bomb like Slim Pickens in Dr. Strangelove:

Minimum System Requirements

  • OS: Windows 7/8/10 (64-bit OS required)
  • CPU: Intel Core i5-2300 2.8 GHz/AMD Phenom II X4 945 3.0 GHz or equivalent
  • RAM: 8 GB
  • Hard Drive: 30 GB free
  • GPU: Nvidia GTX 550 Ti 2GB/AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB or equivalent
  • Internet: Internet Connection and Steam Account required
  • Controller: Plug & Play compatibility with Xbox One and Xbox 360 controllers

Recommended System Requirements

  • OS: Windows 7/8/10 (64-bit OS required)
  • CPU: Intel Core i7 4790 3.6 GHz/AMD FX-9590 4.7 GHz or equivalent
  • RAM: 8 GB
  • Hard Drive: 30 GB free
  • GPU: Nvidia GTX 780 3GB/AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB or equivalent
  • Internet: Internet Connection and Steam Account required
  • Controller: Plug & Play compatibility with Xbox One and Xbox 360 controllers

If you’d prefer to play Fallout 4 on the PS4 or Xbox One, you might want to know that the game’s installation process will require 28-35 GB of hard drive space. Fallout 4 will offer a number of different language options throughout the world and players in North America will likely fall on the lower end of that spectrum as the game only needs to support English and French. However, most European territories will support English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish, which necessitates a larger install size.

Whichever platform you use to play Fallout 4, it’ll be available on November 10… except if you’re located in Asia (where it’ll be released on November 11) or Japan (which has to wait until December 17).

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