Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Via Blues I notice that Digital Reality have announced Dead Block, which is an Unreal-powered game about keeping zombies out of your house. They explain that the game contains “innovative defensive gameplay in which the few remaining survivors, Jack Foster (a construction worker), Foxy Jones (a traffic warden), and Mike Bacon (a perpetually hungry boy scout) have formed an unlikely alliance to protect themselves from the invading undead. Hiding in various shelters around town, they avoid Zombies by building blockades, setting fiendish traps or – as a last resort – using their weapons to fight.”

Dead Block features single-player as well as co-op, and the game website has some more images and a trailer.

Last week we brought you word of the impressive-looking PvE content in Star Wars: The Old Republic. Now is the turn of the PvP. How does this fit into a game that’s so story-focused? Read on.

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Assassin’s Creed‘s trilogy comes to an end this November. The fourth (huh?) installment in the series is to be called Revelations, and completes the three games about Ezio (ah), seeing Ezio heading to Constantinople “at the heart of the Ottoman Empire, where a growing army of Templars threatens to destabilise the region.” And that’s about it, for now. There’s promises of improved multiplayer, and “revolutionary gameplay” (a meaningless phrase for which I’d like to see a £10,000 fine issued each time it appears). It’s due in November, and as usual Ubi are implying it’ll be on all formats. So we can look forward to the PC version some time in June 2012 then. More information will apparently be appearing at E3. (You can click on that screenshot for a big version.)

The “Shrinkage” trailer, embedded below, made me laugh. But it made me laugh in that way where the end of the laugh ends up being a sigh. And maybe I wasn’t really smiling at all.
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Reports have been coming in that the next game from Id Software might just be using the little-known “first-person” format to deliver its particular brand of post-apocalyptic action. Well now we actually have proof! This most recent video (carefully embedded below by our technicians) proves, without any doubt, that Rage is a first-person shooter videogame. They said it couldn’t be done, and they’ve only gone and done it. For more evidence please refer to our recent hands-on preview article.
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This is your “last chance” get on the Age Of Empires Online beta. You can do that, should you wish, by going to GFWM and hitting that “Add to Cart” button. Apparently it’s pretty good. That said, I believe it’s going to be free-to-play anyway, it’s not as if there’s any great rush to leap in for a free sample at this stage in proceedings.

Did you know that Rock, Paper, Shotgun has an active Blood Bowl community? It does! Our forumites, they can’t get enough of that turn-based sport, or the match reports, the injuries, everything hanging on a single simulated dice roll, all that good stuff.

If you own Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition and want to get involved with our most friendly of gaming communities, now’s the time. A new knock-out league entitled the RPS Cup (the cup itself is strictly imaginary) is starting up, and you can find all the details and the sign-up Googledocs spreadsheet here. The organiser, Daave, is hoping for a whopping 64 competitors, so you can bet you’ll be welcome, and if you own the original Blood Bowl the Legendary Edition can now be found for a paltry £9. Kieron got involved in one of these tournaments two years ago and his diary still makes for great reading, so what are you waiting for? Go play!

Here’s something. Some of the people behind the almost great The Whispered World are working on an independent episodic point-n-click adventure series to start being released this Autumn. The Second Guest is a joint effort between German indies Twice Effect, and Head Up Games, who have previously published Super Meat Boy and Twin Sector. Described as being inspired by the art of Tim Burton, it’s said to be a comedy adventure series, with each episode standing alone as well as making up a greater five-part tale.

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Do you have a mobile telephone? Nobody here at RPS has one, seeing as our preferred method of communication is bellowing at one another down long drainpipe-like devices of Jim’s own creation (the nagpipes, he calls them), but on the off chance you do have a mobile phone, and you play World of Warcraft, Blues reports that Blizzard has now started offering a week-long free trial of it’s World of Warcraft Remote service for “Android and iPhone”. Remarkable! You can get phones in your eyes now? I must consider getting one.
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A teaser trailer for Digital Extremes’ sequel to Starbreeze’s 2007 comicbook man-murdering game The Darkness has been released. Although the brief trailer shows nothing of the game whatsoever, we do know that this iteration will be a little more comicbook in its presentation, apparently using techniques similar to those of Borderlands to create a lovely “graphic noir” world. That said, you can only just about make out the sort of outline effects they’re talking about in the (crappy) images that have been released so far. The game will also feature “quad-wielding”, which – although appropriate to the character – makes me do a bit of a facepalm with its FPS one-upmanship (“Well our guy has FOUR ARMS!”). Other information: it’s out in October.

Teaser below!
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Do you ever get that feeling where a memory is almost too strong? I’d entirely forgotten about Dragonsphere, and just a glance at the screenshots sent me reeling. How peculiar.

This is all via Good Old Games‘ latest update, that sees improvements to their downloader, as well as a free copy of Dragonsphere for absolutely everybody. Free!

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