Northern Shadow, The Game Where You Can Build You Own Kingdom

As games are getting bigger and bigger, the development teams are getting smaller, with the rising popularity of indie games who knows what is next. This new open-world RPG/RTS hybrid, Northern Shadow, is being developed by two people. That's right, two people. Now it's a good idea to read the details of this game bellow, as you'll want to know about this game.

The assertion of the game is that you can build and manage a village in a RTS style, just as how you would in Age of Empires, but you can also then play the game in first person and set of in your own adventures as you would in an RPG game like Skyrim. The team behind this game gave a brief introduction to the game on Reddit.

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The game will be based of strong RPG elements and will play like one but with RTS elements and city management. You can set food rations, defence status. troop related items, patrolling paths and a lot more, and you can do all this away from your homestead via a steward. So while your out exploring you can still leave orders, on how to manage your town.

The RPG elements come into play via skills which you can upgrade the more you use your weapon, potion etc. The RTS elements focus on keeping a tight defence system for your village, and battles wont be staged on an epic scale like other games like Mount and Blade, but rather opting for more strategic gameplay. You can only control your character like you would in an RPG, switching units isn't available as an option.

The game is going to be released on Steam Early Access, as they believe that this will give them a chance to tinker with mechanics ans see what works best. At the moment there is a lack of voice-acting, multiplayer or co-op, this has allowed the team to build the project quickly with a stable base in hopes to deliver an excellent product.

Here is the official details straight from the Northern Shadow, Steam Greenlight Page

Features

Your kingdom, your people
Build and improve your own city. Communicate with other kingdoms, negotiate trade agreements and build alliances. Defend your city and your lands.

Classic RPG systems
In combat, depend on your own skills, rather than statistics on your character sheet. Use spells or weapons, you can play the game your way. Craft weapons for your use, or for your troops.

Living World
Living economy allows you to see the ripples of your own actions all around the world. Your steward will take care of your city while you are gone.

Explore
Discover worlds both above, and beneath the earth. Find precious mineral veins and other treasures.

I will bring you more coverage for Northern Shadow soon, so please check back soon. You can support the game on Steam Greenlight.

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Sleeping Dogs 2 Could Surpass Infamous: Second Son, Graphically

Sleeping Dogs debuted as a #1 hit on the charts for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. It had some DLC to keep the game afloat, now with the PS4 and XBOne the franchise has some stakes to fulfil and multiplayer seems like a huge factor that it will play.

It was told that the game would be shown to the public in 2014, supposedly at E3, but it seems as some new info has risen up trough the web.

(This is not confirmed info)

Story Mode will feature co-op gameplay Option to choose what martial art you want to use then you level up that paticular art, rumored you can choose up to 3 styles at once. This combat scheme will keep a large variety of ways to play and maintain a fresh feel of fighting through out the game

The graphical detail aimed for this game will surpass Infamous Second Son especially the emphasis on combat and broken bones kinda like the X-Ray kills in Mortal Kombat.

The enviornment once again will play a huge role in gameplay but this time the kills will be more graphic, as well as the gun play mechanics.

Territories is rumored to be some sort of online gameplay mode where you have your team of friends to take over the largest part of the city in a certain amount of time, this sounds extremely fun and addicting

These features and just the fact that Sleeping Dogs 2 will be revealed this year is enough to get everyone excited. Do you all think that this game can truly surpass Infamous Second Son? Do you think this game can sell 3 million copies plus considering it's a new generation? Speak on it please leave comments

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Rumoured 'Project Beast' Clips Are Out of This World!

Earlier this month, rumours of a project by FROM SOFTWARE called "Project Beast" starting popping around the web. A number of screenshots were leaked, allegedly showed off an upcoming PS4 by the team that brought you Dark Souls/

Today, some potential leaked clips have emerged, and they look incredible.

But we do not know if these are legit clips from the game or not. Sony will not respond.

So we know these clips could be from anything, but we will find out at E3 in two weeks:

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The most realistic army simulator just got a... Go Kart Mode!

For April Fools, the people at Bohemia Interactive thought it will be a good idea to show a new go kart mode for ArmA 3, well as a joke,  but who would of thought people would actually want a go kart mode..... everybody right.

The April's Fool day joke was a video parody of Jean-Claude Van Damme's epic split commercial for Volvo trucks,  and people actually loved the fact of go karts in a serious military simulator.  And not only are they doing one awesome thing,  they are also donating to charity.

"A portion of the proceeds from sales of the Arma 3 Karts DLC will be donated to the Czech Red Cross. The total amount raised will be announced on www.bistudio.com in June 2014"

The DLC is available now on steam for $2 USD

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First bit of art work from next gen Hitman game!

So that's that,  sadly that is all we are going to get as the developer IO interactive has said they will not be showing the game at this year's E3,  but for the first time here is some info,

" Since we posted our open letter back in January, we’ve had our heads down working on our next Hitman game. So you’ll have noticed that we have been pretty quiet, but we wanted to give you a short update about a few things.

First up, we’ve seen a lot of people talking about what we might be bringing to E3 this year. We know the worst thing is to hope for something that doesn’t turn up; so we wanted to let you know that our next Hitman is going to be under wraps for a bit longer. We’re focusing all of our time and efforts into creating the best possible Hitman game. That’s our number one priority and we don’t want to divert valuable resources to show something before it’s ready.

The good news is we’re making great progress with building exotic and expansive locations for the new game. To give you an idea of what we’re aiming for, here’s the first piece of concept art from the game. This location is set in Central Europe and you’ll be able to explore the entire building you see in the image, inside and out. For a sense of scale, the building on its own is larger than any location in Hitman Absolution.

As we move through the year, we’ll have some details to share with you and we’ll keep you posted right here on the blog. We will only lift the lid on the game once we feel we’re ready to. In the meantime, we’ll continue to answer as many of your questions as we can both in the forums and on Twitter.

On a separate note, we were happy to see so many of you enjoying Hitman GO from our friends at Square Enix Montréal. They’re pretty close to announcing new details about upcoming updates for GO as well as the first details about their second Hitman game for smartphones and tablets, we’ve been playing it here at the studio and it’s a lot of fun. Anyway, we’ll let them be the ones to tell you about it, so stay tuned for a blog post from them soon.

Thanks for your dedication, let’s stay in touch.

Io-Interactive"  

 

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That leaked Battlefield: Hardline trailer is half a year old?

That Battlefield: Hardline Leaked Trailer is supposedly six months old according to Steve Papoutsis a producer at Viceral Games
, and was for an internal company meeting. They also revealed Hardline will be coming this Fall (USA), and more to come at E3.

What do you think? Will Hardline be different at E3 better, same maybe worse. Write what you think below. 

Video that’s out there was for an internal meeting. It’s 6 months old now and team has been cranking since then. See the real deal at E3.
— Steve Papoutsis (@leveluptime) May 28, 2014

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BATTLEFIELD HARDLINE LEAK

Battlefield Hardline only got announced a few days ago and already the leaks are in, and this time around a big leak a lengthy 7 minute trailer full of gameplay, the link to the trailer is Here.

A more in-depth view on this soon. 

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