You've had a week with Metro: Last Light now and perhaps finished it, so what next? You hardly need me to tell you it's getting DLC, but now it's all properly official and everything. Publisher Deep Silver today announced four add-ons are coming over the summer, including new single-player stories. They'll be covered by a $15 season pass.
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Deep Silver and Rubicon Organization have announced Narco Terror, a downloadable twin-stick shooter coming to PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 this summer. It centers around Rick Quinn, an ex-special ops agent, as he plows through a drug cartel that kidnapped his daughter.
Metro: Last Light developer 4A Games has worked in substandard industry conditions, according to former THQ president Jason Rubin. The executive laid out a fairly harsh picture of working conditions in the Ukraine, only to be met by some good-natured acknowledgement from the studio's creative director.
After a few rough years, first-person games have become a lot better at supporting different field of view settings in their PC editions, though some still use the same settings as their console counterparts. Metro: Last Light was one such offender but fear not, a new patch will expose config settings so you can poke about if you want. It may make things a bit wonky, though.
It's been more than three years since Metro 2033 launched, so developer 4A Games has had quite a bit of time to polish and tweak its follow-up, Metro: Last Light. The result is a shooter full of chilling atmosphere and hair-curling intensity, but plagued with niggling head-scratching moments and glitches that keep it from being brilliant.
The sequel returns you to post-apocalyptic Moscow where nuclear winter and radiation still keep everyone underground in the world's largest fallout shelter, the city's subway system. The player returns as Artyom, the hero of the original game who is still on the trail of the mutant, but sentient Dark Ones. The political drama is ramped up significantly this time, with a story that shows that man has learned little from almost being wiped off the face of the planet once. The player must sort through the intrigue, while asking the cliched question of who is the greater monster in a world of man and mutant.
No one gets surprised when a publisher announces retailer-exclusive pre-order bonuses for their AAA game. However, very rarely do publishers go on record to admit that retailers are strong-arming them into the practice. But that's exactly what Metro: Last Light publisher Deep Silver did while explaining its partitioned ranger DLC.
Available for free with pre-ordered copies of the game, Koch Media global brand manager Huw Beynon explained that "offering game content as a pre-order exclusive is a requirement by retail."
"And I saw a dubstep gun and a Superpresident and mechs and aliens and and an-" people who saw the Saints Row 4 demo at PAX East gibber, before you place a comforting arm around their shoulder and assure them yes, yes of course they did. But they really did, as a new six-minute gameplay trailer from that pre-alpha build shows off all that wackiness and more.
We know the President of the United States has some executive powers, but a new Saints Row 4 trailer takes that phrase to a whole new level of absurd, as this commander in chief kicks butt without taking names of some alien invaders.
It's bad enough the world as you know it has been nuked into near oblivion and you are forced to live in the Moscow subway system. But now, a new Metro: Last Light trailer pins the hope of the world on you to be its savior. Hey, no pressure.
If your PC is worthy enough to play Metro: Last Light, we have good news for you. Not only will you be getting the best-looking version of the game, but you'll also be getting a special digital bonus not found in the console release. New publisher Deep Silver has announced that Last Light will include a free digital copy of the Metro 2033 novel.
Deep Silver seems to think a survival guide will help you get through the post-apocalyptic Moscow subway underground of its upcoming Metro: Last Light. We'll go with that, and introduce you to part three of the series focusing on jury-rigged weapons and gas mask filters.
Nothing says America like big guns, Uncle Sam, and a bald eagle that launches rockets out of its claws. The only thing missing from the new "Commander in Chief edition" just announced for Saints Row 4 is apple pie land mines and baseball grenades.
I was not a fan of the first Dead Island. I thought Deep Silver's zombie-killing adventure was filled with uninspired tasks, ridiculous characters, and more technical glitches than you could shake a barbed wire stick at. That's not to say I found the game to be an irredeemable mess, because it did have some interesting ideas--ideas I had hoped to see shine through in a more-polished sequel. Dead Island Riptide is not that sequel. Rather, it's hopelessly crushed under the weight of the same problems that bogged down its predecessor.
Saints Row 4 was arguably the biggest game in THQ's lineup--before it collapsed. Now in the hands of Deep Silver, Volition senior producer Jim Boon talks about how the transition has (and hasn't) affected development of the super-powered open-world sequel.
"It's fair to say there was a lot of distraction waiting to learn the results of the auction that was ultimately conducted to deal with THQ's bankruptcy," Boon said, saying that development on the game was "full speed ahead" during the transition. However, Boon says that the confusion was "short lived," with Deep Silver working "quickly" on the transition.
If you can't wait to get your hands on Metro: Last Light for the PC when it is finally released on May 14, then you should probably check you rig against the specs that publisher Deep Silver just released for the game.
"By the time I get a computer together to play all these great games(Bioshock Infinite, Metro:LL, ..."
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