GTA V Coming to Xbox One and PC Too at Year's End

June 10, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

Last night at Sony's E3 press conference the company announced that Grand Theft Auto V would be coming to the PS4 in the fall. What the company did not mention (and why on earth would they?) is that Rockstar's latest title in the hit series would also be coming to the Xbox One and - yes, finally - the PC.

"Grand Theft Auto V for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC will take full advantage of the power of new generation systems to deliver the ultimate open-world experience," said the studio in an announcement last night.

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Humble Bundle Celebrates E3 With Digital Swag

June 9, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

To celebrate the launch of the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles tomorrow Humble Bundle has teamed up with Twitch and others to present an E3 Digital Ticket. While watching the live stream on Twitch, you can pay want you want to get a bunch of digital goodies.

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GOG.com Announces DRM-Free Platform Agnostic Multiplayer Client, The Witcher 3 Pre-Order Details

June 5, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

GOG.com today unveiled what it calls an "optional client" to facilitate cross play multiplayer regardless of where you buy a game from. The client software, which the company says is "DRM-free" in theory will allow those who buy games from services like Steam to play their game in Galaxy without the need for logging into a service with a user account.

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OnLive Titles Playable on Mad Catz's Mojo Micro-Console

June 4, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

We're not sure how cloud-based game streaming service OnLive or Mad Catz Interactive Android-based micro-console Mojo are doing, but apparently those two things have teamed up, according to an announcement by OnLive today.

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Unreal Tournament 3, STALKER Get Updates to Deal With GameSpy Shutdown

June 2, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

Epic Games and former GSC Game World developers have released updates to deal with Glu Mobile shutting down GameSpy Technologies' multiplayer services. Epic Games has released a new executable replacement file that redirects online play requests to a new in-house master server.

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Humble Weekly Bundle Gives You RPGMAKER Tools and Games

May 30, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

This week's Humble Weekly Bundle is all about making games. The Humble Weekly Bundle RPGMAKER gives you the tools you need to make an RPG or adventure game with relative ease. Pay what you want for RPG Maker VX Ace plus the DLC Bundle #1 which includes music and graphic assets to include in your games.

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Steam Greenlights 75 More Titles

May 29, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

Steam announced that 75 more games have been added to Steam via its community-driven Steam Greenlight program. In announcing these latest additions, the company reiterated how games are approved through the program:

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Relic Updating Multiplayer in 'Dawn of War' Games on Steam

May 29, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

Relic Entertainment has indicated plans to move its Warhammer 40K strategy games over to Steam in a bid to keep the multiplayer portions of the games alive, Eurogamer reports. The original Dawn of War and the expansions recently underwent a major update to preserve multiplayer, Dawn of War franchise design lead Philippe Boulle wrote on the Steam forum.

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Retail PC Version of 'Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition' Will Lose DLC

May 28, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

The PC version of Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition will start using Steamworks on May 30, ahead of a rumored shutdown of Games of Windows Live. While that's good news to anyone who has used GFWL inside Steam (it's a horrible experience all around), there's some bad news for those who purchased the physical disc version of the game: they are going to lose access to their DLC.

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Steam Machines Delayed to 2015

May 28, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

A new update on the community page for Valve's in-house Steam Machines reveals that the Linux-based box designed to play PC games via Valve's operating system (Steam OS) has been pushed back to 2015.

Valve designer Eric Hope posted a message informing fans of the news about the delay and offering early details on a new controller.

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Pirated Version of Wolfenstein: The New Order So Big That Some Pirates Opt to Buy it on Steam

May 27, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

According to this TorrentFreak story, the PC version of Wolfenstein: The New Order is so large that some people pirating the game on torrents have opted instead to buy it on Steam. While the information is anecdotal, it could help explain - in part - how the newest action game from Bethesda managed to unseat DayZ from the Steam top-selling games charts for the week of May 18-24.

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Report: PC Version of 'Watch Dogs' Suffers Launch Day Issues

May 27, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

While Ubisoft's open world hacking game is getting fairly solid reviews out of the gate, several owners of the PC version of the game are saying that it has lots of problems with general crashes, sound issues, frame rate degradation, and issues with various graphical drivers from Nvidia.

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Xbox One Controller Support on Windows PC Coming 'Very Soon'

May 23, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

Xbox One controller compatibility for Windows PC is nearing public release, according to a reply from Microsoft's Larry Hryb on a NeoGAF thread about the topic.

"Soon. Very soon," Hryb (AKA Mjr. Nelson) said, replying on a NeoGAF thread about when the necessary drivers would be made available via Windows.

Microsoft said back in August of 2013 that Windows support for Xbox One's peripheral would arrive sometime in 2014.

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Splash Damage Changes Name of 'Extraction' to 'Dirty Bomb'

May 22, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

Game developer Splash Damage has renamed its upcoming free-to-play online shooter Extraction to Dirty Bomb. The game was originally called Dirty Bomb but the company changed the name because of the sensitivities surrounding terrorist attacks in the UK. The game was renamed Extraction in August 2013, but Nexon said in a release today that Dirty Bomb better fits the game's "unique personality."

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Humble Weekly Bundle Offers Games by Triumph & Larian

May 22, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

This week's Humble Weekly Bundle offers games from Triumph Studios and Larian Studios. The Humble Weekly Bundle by Triumph & Larian offers Age of Wonders, Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic, Divine Divinity and Beyond Divinity for whatever price you want.

If you are willing to pay more than $6 you can also get those games and Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne and Divinity II: The Developer's Cut.

Paying more than $15 will get you all of the aforementioned games and Divinity: Dragon Commander.

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'Wasteland 2' Releasing in August

May 21, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

Developer inXile has announced in its latest Kickstarter update for Wasteland 2 that the game will officially be released in August. Wasteland 2 was successfully funded on Apr 17, 2012 via a rather impressive Kickstarter campaign that raised over $2.9 million by its close and was backed by 61,290 people. The post apocalyptic action RPG - which was the inspiration of the Fallout series of games from Interplay (now owned by Bethesda) - was also released on Steam Early Access in December of last year.

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A Portrait of the 'Average Gamer,' According to 'RuneScape' Maker Jagex

May 15, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

What does the average gamer look like and how are people who play games different from the rest of the population? Are they better or worse than the rest of society? While Jagex would never claim to know the full answers to these burning questions, the company behind the long-running MMORPG RuneScape thinks it has a clearer picture.

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The Humble Daily Bundle: Deep Silver ReBundle Launches

May 13, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

For the next 13 days Humble Bundle is hosting a daily bundle sale where a new bundle is offered for whatever you're willing to pay. Today's bundle is the Deep Silver ReBundle, which offers a previous bundle containing a bunch of Deep Silver's top games.

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'Plants vs. Zombies' for Free Through Origin This Month

May 9, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

Origin's 'On the House Program' is offering Plants vs. Zombies for free this month. The game is free to download and keep, no string attached - except that you have to install and use EA's digital distribution platform. Last month EA gave Battlefield 1942 away for free, and the month prior it offered Dead Space for free.

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PSA: Final Fantasy 3 Coming to Steam 'Soon'

May 9, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

Square Enix has confirmed that it plans to bring its classic RPG Final Fantasy 3 to PC platforms via Steam sometime this year.

Square Enix says that the new game will feature new and improved story sequences and 3D graphics, optimized browsing of in-game information such as the monster bestiary and other game records, new visual designs for the Job Mastery Cards, and generally upgraded graphics. Besides the cosmetic changes and the control optimizations for the PC, Final Fantasy 3 will be an identical experience to what has already been released on consoles and hand-helds.

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Latest Humble Weekly Bundle Offers 9 Classic RPG and Adventure Games

May 8, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

This week's Humble Weekly Bundle features classic games tweaked by the fine folks at Night Dive Studios to work on modern-day PCs. The bundle includes a number of great games including Sir-Tech's RPG classics Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge, Wizardry 7: Crusaders of the Dark Savant, and Wizardry 8; Looking Glass Studios' sci-fi action RPG System Shock 2; cult-classic horror game, Shadow Man; and the adventure game classics The 11th Hour; The 7th Guest, Harvester, and I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.

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'Towns' Development Halted

May 7, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

The developer of RPG city building game Towns has apparently abandoned the game, blaming poor sales as the number one reason for moving on to something else. Towns was one of the very first games to be accepted in Valve's Steam Greenlight program. Developer Florian Frankenberger (aka Moebius) revealed the news on the Towns website.

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Space Engineers Sells 500K Units To-Date on Steam Early Access

May 6, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

Prague-based independent developer Keen Software House says that its space-based sandbox game Space Engineers has sold more than 500,000 copies on Steam Early Access. That's not too shabby for an indie game that has been on the market since Oct 23, 2013.

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Over Two Million Copies of DayZ Sold To-Date

May 2, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

While announcing the two year anniversary of the original DayZ mod for Bohemia Interactive's Arma 2, DayZ creator Dean "Rocket" Hall revealed that the stand-alone game based on that mod has hit a brand new sales milestone. According to Hall, DayZ has sold over two million copies since its release on Steam Early Access.

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Humble Co-op Weekly Bundle Launches

May 2, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

This week's Humble Weekly sale is all about being cooperative. The Humble Co-op Weekly Bundle offers the multiplayer action platformer Awesomenauts, the FPS and tower defense hybrid, Sanctum 2, and the fantasy arcade action RPG, Wanderlust: Rebirth - all for whatever you want to pay.

If you pay $6 or more you'll also receive platformer game Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken, tower-defense strategy game sequel Orcs Must Die! 2 Complete Pack, and the free-form aerial beat 'em-up, Aces Wild: Manic Brawling Action!.

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Over 15 Million Copies of Minecraft on PC Sold To-Date

April 30, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

The original PC version of Minecraft has gone past the 15 million sales milestone, according to a new announcement by its creator. The news comes from Minecraft creator and Mojang co-founder Markus Persson, who posted the news on Twitter.

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Pro League of Legends Player Suffers Collapsed Lung, Continues to Play Anyways

April 30, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

Eurogamer has an interesting story on a pro League of Legends player who is so committed to the MOBA hit that he played it in the hospital while recovering from a collapsed lung - and then streamed his session for four hours on Twitch.

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Poll Results: How Do You Divide Your Humble Bundle Purchases Up?

April 29, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

Last week we asked our readers how they divide up their Humble Bundle purchases. The majority of you said that it is divided up equally amongst charities, the Humble Bundle organizers and developers. A majority - 58 percent - said that your purchase are split up amongst all parties.

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Minecraft Realms Service Launches in North America

April 25, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

Mojang has launched the Minecraft Realms subscription service in North America today. In case you didn't know, Minecraft Realms offers hosting and setup for multiplayer Minecraft worlds starting at around $13 a month.

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DFC: PC Games Revenue Surpasses Console Games

April 25, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

The PC games market has surpassed the console gaming market in revenues, according to DFC Intelligence owner David Cole. Speaking to PCR, Cole says that PC game software sales have generated more than consoles on a global basis.

"Among core gamers there is a heavy overlap with most console gamers also playing on a PC. The big difference is that consoles are now the luxury item and PCs are the necessity. Just a few years ago the reverse was true. This means PCs have the broader audience."

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TechnogeekIf the developer were male there wouldn't have been a "conversation" in the first place.10/19/2014 - 2:27am
Montetrolls are just at their absolute worst when it comes to women and feminist. You could bet good money that if the developer were male the trolls would be silent and the conversation would actually focus on the journalism.10/18/2014 - 9:18pm
MontePapa: Not the first time we've had a journalism scandals before, but the harassment never got close to this level; the difference with this scandal is that feminists are involved. Without the feminist angle, their would be A LOT less harrassment10/18/2014 - 9:15pm
Papa MidnightMonte: That's honestly rather short-sighted. As has been proven with other persons who have been targeted, if it wasn't Quinn, it would be someone else.10/18/2014 - 6:26pm
AvalongodI think that's part of what gives an esoteric news story like this real life...it taps into a larger narrative about misogyny in society outside of games.10/18/2014 - 3:29pm
Avalongod@Monte, well the trolls made death threats that came to police (and media attention). I think this is tapping into a larger issue outside of games about how women are treated in society (like all the "real rape" stuff during the last election)10/18/2014 - 3:28pm
WonderkarpZippy : Havent tried the PS4 controller. might later.10/18/2014 - 2:37pm
MonteSeirously, If Quinn was not involved and GG was instead about something like the Mordor Marketing contracts, the trolling would have never grown so vile and disgusting. There have been plenty of movements in the past that never sufferred from behavior..10/18/2014 - 1:57pm
MonteWe have seen scandel's before but the trolling has never been as vile as what we see with GG. Trolls usually have such a tiny voice you can barely notice them, but its like moths to a flame whenever femistist are involved.10/18/2014 - 1:53pm
ZippyDSMleeWonderkarp: You might be able to if you had a PS4 controller.10/18/2014 - 1:00pm
MaskedPixelantehttp://store.steampowered.com/app/327940/ Night Dive starts charging for freeware.10/18/2014 - 12:21pm
Matthew Wilsonthe sad thing is there are trolls on both sides of this. people need to stop acting like their side is so pure.10/18/2014 - 12:19pm
MechaTama31So, only speak out on a scandal that hasn't attracted trolls? I wouldn't hold my breath...10/18/2014 - 10:49am
MonteI feel like GG just needs to die. The movement is FAR to tainted by hatred and BS for it to be useful for any conversation. Let GG die, and then rally behind the NEXT gaming journalism scandal, and start the conversation fresh.10/18/2014 - 10:33am
quiknkoldand we dont have a Dovakin to call a cease fire10/17/2014 - 7:37pm
quiknkoldThe whole thing is Futile. Both sides are so buried deep in their trenchs that there isnt a conversation. Its just Finger Pointing, Name Calling, Doxxing, Threats. there needs to be a serious conversation, and GG isnt it.10/17/2014 - 7:37pm
quiknkoldI thought it was a good article. Jeff is right. I feel like GamerGate did destroy its message. I am for Ethics in game journalism, but man. so much hate. and its on both sides. I've seen some awful stuff spewed on twitter. Its a big reason why I exited..10/17/2014 - 7:34pm
Matthew Wilsonwhile he focused on gg, he did call out both sides crap.10/17/2014 - 7:18pm
Papa MidnightThat was a damn good read offered by Jeff Gertsmann.10/17/2014 - 7:17pm
Matthew Wilsonhttp://www.giantbomb.com/articles/letter-from-the-editor-10-17-2014/1100-5049/ deferentially a nice write up.10/17/2014 - 6:44pm
 

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