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EyeMine Software Allows Disabled Gamers to Play Minecraft With Their Eyes

18Apr

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EyeMine Software Allows Disabled Gamers to Play Minecraft With Their Eyes

SpecialEffect, a charity dedicated to enabling disabled gamers play video games have developed, EyeMine. A software designed to allow Minecraft to be playable using just the players eyes. SpecialEffect have created an open-source software, EyeMine that is available as a free, Windows-based download for players with a Minecraft account and an eye-tracker. It's compatible only with Windows computers running at least Windows 7 and above, and is not compatible with the mobile, or console versions of Minecraft. A supported eye-tracker is also required, and they have a list of supported trackers available here. The software comes with a number of different ability levels, allowing a range of players to use EyeMine. “For us, EyeMine represents a watershed development. It’s a flagship example ...

New The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset Video Shows Beautiful Elven City

18Apr

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New The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset Video Shows Beautiful Elven City

Bethesda Softworks unveiled a new video yesterday, teasing the upcoming chapter, The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset arriving for the MMO world. The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset already had a cinematic trailer arrive, but now we're given a more in-depth video discussing the lore of the majestic city, and in-game footage of the area. It has been a long time since players got to experience Summerset, with the last venture to the city taking place in The Elder Scrolls: Arena back in 1994. But now they'll be able to experience it in modern glory. Queen Ayrenn has opened the Elven city to all, allowing players to explore, not only the city, but its surroundings, including forests, caves, and more. There's also a secret society of mages that can be tracked down, called the Psijic Order,...

14Apr

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Shenmue I & II to Re-Release This Year

SEGA today blew out an announcement trailer for Shenmue I & II, announcing the re-release of the classic title due to arrive this year. Shenmue I & II, an adventure series by SEGA back in 1999 for the first, and 2001 for the second. The title saw players taking control of Ryo Hazuki amongst an open-world with quick action events taking place through dramatic cut-scenes as he hunts down his Father's murderer. The title is due to get a third instalment this year as well, being developed by Ys Net, the original series' Director and producer. The third instalment was on Kickstarter looking for $2,000,000 and raised $6,333,295 with 69,320 backers behind it. The re-release of Shenmue I & II is said to be staying true to the originals and will introduce more modern advancements, su...

Multiplayer Horror, Daemonical set to Arrive in May

11Apr

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Multiplayer Horror, Daemonical set to Arrive in May

Finding yourself stranded on a remote island in a video game can never go well, so it's natural that Daemonical is due to strike fear into players this May...set on a remote island with up to five friends...or at least, four friends, and one demonic creature. Developed by Fearem, Deamonical is a game set on a remote island, and tasks four players with the task of attempting to banish a demon back to the depths of hell by locating ritual pieces. One unlucky player amongst the others has become possessed by the demon and is tasked with wiping out the team, however to start with, they'll blend in, leaving them to build up trust, before ripping into their flesh. Players get to explore a large procedurally generated map and locate ritual parts, or they can wait until dawn arrives. Survivors ...

11Apr

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For The King Ventures Out Of Early Access Next Week

Multi-award winning publisher Curve Digital, is pleased to announce that IronOak Games’ For the King will leave Steam Early Access on 19th April 2018. For the King is a rogue-like RPG adventure for which sees players journey into procedurally generated levels to avenge their recently murdered King. Mixing up a challenging blend of strategy, tabletop RPG, and rogue-like elements, For The King features both a single player experience as well as the ability for three heroes to play cooperatively both online and locally. Taking place in the gorgeous, hexagonal kingdom of Fahrul, players must strategically explore and battle their way through the fairytale, stylized landscape in a bid to discover and survive, lest they succumb to death. The game’s short run in Early Access allowed for...

6Mar

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SupaRetroN HD by Hyperkin – Coming Soon

Given the recent surge in Retro gaming we have seen a number of consoles and emulation devices arrive from both Official and 3rd party companies (I think it’s safe to say with mixed results). Even the SNES Mini Classic which is kind of where the bar has been set recently has its drawbacks (Limited number of games). Well, Hyperkin have announced their latest entry into the SNES Retro Market with the SupaRetroN HD: With the SNES being without a doubt the best-selling console of its era (Sorry Sega!). It’s hardly surprising that a large number of people (myself included) have been salivating over the idea of being able to play their back catalogue in HD on our nice new flat screen TV’s. The first thing that I notice when seeing the picture for this console is that it has the stylish...

Abandon Ship Lowers Sails and Launches Tomorrow

20Feb

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Abandon Ship Lowers Sails and Launches Tomorrow

Abandon Ship may not be about pirates, but it is about sailing, and this year we've already got Sea of Thieves, and Skull & Bones arriving to keep our inner pirates happy. However those two are both Online. What about if you want a single-player experience? That's where Abandon Ship seems to be coming in. Developed by Fireblade Software, the game brings a top-down, FTL style management system with the added exploration system inspired by Sunless Seas. It's also unique looking with an art style inspired by naval oil paintings from ye' olde days. The announcement trailer shows dramatic images accompanied by a dramatic, deep booming voice of a Captain. The developer has also launched gameplay trailers on their YouTube channel and allowed players to sign up to a newsletter on the mai...

Multiplayer Being Planted and Sowed for Stardew Valley as Developer Shares Progress

18Feb

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Multiplayer Being Planted and Sowed for Stardew Valley as Developer Shares Progress

Stardew Valley is the popular, top-down farming simulator with exploration elements added in, and the title is now due to get multiplayer. Originally Stardew Valley was exclusively single-player, but an update from developer, ConcernedApe explained his progression with the multi-player implementation. One of the updates was that ConcernedApe was no longer working as a solo developer, and as such has had some help from the games Publisher, Chucklefish's as Tom Coxon jumps on board to help port Stardew Valley to multi-player. It's expecting to get a beta this Spring to test the multi-player systems, and more information will be released at a later date. Additionally the game is getting some bug fixes, translated text, and new features along with the multi-player. ConcernedApe ended the...

Sea of Thieves Scale Test This Weekend, Merch Available from Merchoid

16Feb

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Sea of Thieves Scale Test This Weekend, Merch Available from Merchoid

Rare have pushed another playable beta live for this weekend for Sea of Thieves as they perform a scale test. The Scale Test began on Friday the 16th of February 2018 and will be playable until Sunday the 18th February at 10am GMT. The scale test is essentially a way to see whether or not Sea of Thieves handles a large influx of players sailing along in their big boats and digging holes in the beaches that populate the world. Executive Producer, Joe Neate made a video which can be viewed below in which he explains, "Everyone that was invited to the Closed Beta will also have access to this, but we're not really interested in learning about the features themselves, or the gameplay and stuff from the beta here. So purposefully we're kind of keeping a very similar feature set, so it will ...

Get Closer to Horror as The Evil Within 2 Adds First Person Perspective

15Feb

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Get Closer to Horror as The Evil Within 2 Adds First Person Perspective

The Evil Within 2 has now got a first-person perspective that allows players to complete the game entirely in first person. Tango Gameworks and Bethesda have announced that a first-person perspective is now available for the horror game, The Evil Within 2, and it will allow the player to complete the game entirely in first-person. A trailer was also released which can be found below. The perspective mode can be changed by finding it within the games menu according to Bethesda, and can be changed at any time whenever the player picks and chooses. The Evil Within 2 is the sequel to the horror title, The Evil Within and follows the story of a Detective who has lost everything when his Daughter dies, but he's given a chance to pull her back from the clutches of death by venturing into th...