This announcement marks, once again, an interesting paradigmatic difference in the way traditionally adventure-oriented companies approach their old intellectual property and heritage.
After the jump you’ll find a brief, Revolutionary recap and an assortment of old Revolution Software logos!
Stardock and Gas Powered Games’ strategy/RPG hybrid Demigod was released for the PC earlier this year, but there was no way for gamers to try the game first. This has been rectified, with a 600MB demo available now to download. The demo contains four of the demigods (Regulus, Rook, Sedna and Lord Erebus), and the Cataract map to play with in all the gameplay modes.
The game had a shakey launch, with a broken street date and chaotic multiplayer scene on launch, but the developers have been dedicated to improve the experience since. A new patch is on the way soon that will introduce new demigods and mod support amongst other additions and fixes 1)http://forums.demigodthegame.com/360013.
A while ago, Valve were (more or less) gently accused of nicking the Left 4 Dead 2 “Spitter” infected directly from their own forums. Various affiliations, for and against, were causing people to shoot straight from the hip, emotions ran high and great drama was stirring in the air.
But could it be that this concept had already made the records before the aforementioned PR debacle, and better still, is visibly foreshadowed in Left 4 Dead 1?
We all saw this during our various No Mercy playthroughs, either in survival mode or during campaigns, not paying much attention to an x-ray image of a gross, hyperextended neck on a Mercy Hospital corridor wall… wait, what, a hyperextended neck?
Web supersleuth Superannuation has uncovered some images by concept artist Fred Gambino that appear to be for a Wii game called ‘Epic Mickey’. As reported last year by Gamasutra, the title is rumoured to be the code name for the project being worked on by Warren Spector at Disney. Further investigation has surfaced additional images and details.
The images contain many elements from Disney’s various intellectual property as well as themes not usually associated with their work, creating unprecedented combinations of iconic characters and real-life theme-park structures all with a dystopian steampunk make-over.
Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw, of Chzo Mythos fame (although admittedly now far better known for his ramblicious Zero Punctuation series that Nabeel somehow never fails to tweet for you guys), has decided to release, for free, each and every special donation version of his games. Quoth Yahtzee, “I have simply attained so much money from donations that I no longer have any earthly wants.”
The entire Chzo Mythos is thus available: 5 Days, 7 Days, the parser-based Trilby’s Notes and 6 Days, in this order; also free for the taking is the special edition of the nihilistic, Flashback-influenced platformer 1213 (the game that laid the groundwork for the addictive Art of Theft). All of the aforementioned games are highly recommended and I would advise everyone to take a look at these pre-fame Yahtzee gems. If you never did play these well-esteemed AGS games before, the definitive versions are now out there for the taking!
Personally, as fun as Zero Punctuation is, I’d still take the games over Zero Punc any day if it came down to deciding between the two: Let us plebeians do the talking and the real designers do the walking, eh? In the same post, Croshaw also briefly mentions that he’s working “…on a couple of ideas [for new games]. It’s just that all of my free time is gradually melting away. They’re interesting ideas, though.”