The Castle Game Announced for PS4
The Castle Game, a real-time-strategy castle-defense game, has been announced for PS4.
Revealing their game on the PlayStation Blog today, developer Neptune Interactive Inc. wrote about the new features they're bringing to the classic genre.
The game is structured around the basic form of creating a fortress and defending it using forces like archers, sorcerers, and knights against the evil hordes. In The Castle Game, players can customize their fortresses with a variety of walls, mazes, traps, and burning oil.
The PS4's DualShock 4 controls made it necessary for Neptune Interactive to develop a system which allows the player to move around the battlefield in an FPS-like way, managing their forces in real time.
Iron Man Gets Age of Ultron Character Poster
Yesterday’s Avengers: Age of Ultron poster release was a bit messy, an image full of Photoshopped characters that hopefully isn’t indicative of a movie that’s too full of characters as well. But today Robert Downey, Jr. has debuted the first character poster, featuring Iron Man of course, and it’s a much nicer, streamlined piece. Check it out:
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App Store Update: February 25
Every day hundreds of new apps make their debut on the App Store, and hundreds more are updated or reduced in price. We have sifted through the noise and highlighted those select few that might be worth your attention.
Note: The prices and deals compiled below are accurate at the time we published this story, but all are subject to change.
Yet It Moves – (Free, Down from $2.99)
Yet It Moves just made the move to the App Store two weeks ago, and now it's further moved into the territory of iOS freebies. Grab it today!
LA Cops Coming to Xbox One Soon
LA Cops, the top-down shooter with a 70s vibe, is coming to Xbox One soon, developer Modern Dream announced.
LA Cops is already on PC via Steam Early Access, with five levels, six cop characters, five weapons and a little more than one hour of play. Modern Dream, developer of indie games such as Typing of the Dead and The Button Affair, is bringing the shooter to Xbox One and PC, in full, on March 15.
Much like Hotline Miami and its sequel, LA Cops uses a simple targeting system from a bird's eye view, with the ceiling removed from interior settings. Environments are destructible, and cutscenes tell the story of several officers in the city of angels, complete with 70s archetypes and cop-movie clichés, as they go up against the big boss, Hawaiian Mo.
Sony Says PS Plus Version of Driveclub Coming ASAP
Contrary to what you may have heard as recently as yesterday, Sony is still committed to bringing the PlayStation Plus version of its PS4 racing game to your living room.
A Sony spokesperson told Eurogamer that the company is "continually working on improving the server capacity to enable us to launch the PS Plus Edition as quickly as possible." The statement contrasts with one made yesterday by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe president and CEO Jim Ryan.
In an interview with Metro, Ryan answered "That’s still being looked at," when asked about whether the PS+ version fo Driveclub was still planned.
Sex Criminals Snatches a TV Deal
Comic book writers and married couple Matt Fraction and Kelley Sue Deconnick have signed a two-year deal with Universal Television to bring their creator-owned comic books to TV. The first adaption will be Sex Criminals by Fraction and artist Chip Zdarsky.
Deadline reports that the duo will use their Milkfed Criminal Masterminds production company to adapt the work of other comic creators to TV, as well. Former Marvel editor Lauren Sankovitch has been hired as their Managing Editor.
Destiny Update Rebalances Weapons
The new Destiny 1.1.1 Update is out now, introducing some major changes to weapon balance, a heavy ammo fix, and more.
Among the Destiny weapon tweaks is a 2.5% reduction in base damage for Auto Rifles and a 9.7% increase in base damage for Pulse Rifles.
Matchmaking for weekly Heroic Strikes in Destiny is now mandatory as well.
Some UI changes were also made, such as improved notifications for Destiny players.
Find a full list of Destiny Update 1.1.1 changes in our Destiny wiki
For PVP tweaks, all playlists (Control, Clash, Rumble, and Skirmish) are unlocked at the same time after the Crucible is unlocked, and defeated Guardians don’t drop heavy ammo anymore.
Velocity 2X Coming to Multiple New Platforms
FuturLab is partnering with Sierra Games to bring Velocity 2X to PC, Mac, Linux and Xbox One. No release date was given, but a blog post on Activision's Games Blog states that the ports will be released this summer.
"Self publishing is HARD. I spent more time doing PR and marketing on Velocity 2X than I spent designing levels." Said FuturLab's James Marsden. "I became a bottleneck for the whole project. That was far from ideal."
"Thanks to blogging it’s now common knowledge that marketing is just as important as making a great-innovative-artistically-stunning-multiple-award-winning-GOTY (some people might say more important). So, given that marketing is vital to success, who could be better suited to hold aloft our creations than Sierra? The best bit is that we retain control of our IP."
Motorola’s Refreshed Moto E Is Heavy on Features, Light on Price
In advance of next week's Mobile World Congress, Motorola has announced a second-generation version of its Moto E. The revamped budget smartphone now supports LTE, and has a 1.2GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor, a slightly larger display than its predecessor (4.5" vs 4.3"), and more onboard storage (8GB, up from 4GB). Motorola's also offering a 3G-only version of the phone with a 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 200 processor. Both versions feature Android Lollipop (5.0) as their operating system.
Overall, the new Moto E doesn't stray too far from its predecessor in looks and design; the main change is the swap of a removable back for a interchangeable textured band that goes around the phone's edge. (The bands included with the Moto E are black and white; you can also opt to purchase additional ones or a "Grip Shell" case.) It also hews pretty closely to the first-gen Moto E's pricing: you'll fork out just $119 for the unlocked 3G version and $149 for the unlocked LTE version. If that's piqued your interest, you can check out more specs below.
Battlefield Hardline EA Access Trial Allows 10 Hours of Gameplay
Xbox One owners will be able to play Battlefield Hardline for ten hours before it's released, thanks to EA's subscription service, EA Access.
The trial will begin for Access subscribers on March 12, five days before Battlefield Hardline's official release date. The trial includes full access to the game's multiplayer, as well as the prologue and first chapter of the TV crime drama-inspired campaign. As always, progress made in the trial will carry over to the full game, should you choose to purchase it.
We previously learned EA's shooter will be available early via EA Access, however Hardline's trial is unique in that it offers ten hours of game time. Previous trials, such as Dragon Age: Inquisition's, only allowed for six hours.