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Eidos Montreal Presents: Thief 4
GameInformer.com has the story about their big cover feature of their print mag: Eidos Montreal, developers of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, are working on Thief 4. (This NeoGAF thread has details gleaned from the magazine article.)
What you may not know is that Thief 4 was actually announced years ago, but we saw no more than a very lazily-made logo, essentially an affirmation that Eidos knows there are still Thief fans out there and that they weren't forgotten. Thief 4 is set for a 2014 release on PC, PS4, and the next gen Xbox. Here's my question: is this the team that made DX:HR, or is this a separate team, leaving the other one free to have been working on a new Deus Ex over the last 18ish months?
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Is Dead Space Done?
Videogamer.com has a rumor up that while Visceral Games was very early in pre-production on Dead Space 4, EA has put a stop to it due to poor sales of Dead Space 3.
It might not be true, and at the very least EA might just be giving the franchise a break, but I think that if this is true, it just shows that EA has a problem making games that aren't many-millions sellers. They seem to only excel at the highest tier of AAA development and can't help but invest tens of millions of dollars into their games, and if a game can't recoup that massive outlay of cash, that's the end. It's unfortunate, because if EA could rein in some of their costs on some games, they could be making some great stuff at lower costs (and lower required sales) compared to the very top tier of game development right now.
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Metro: Last Light on May 14th
Deep Silver has announced that Metro: Last Light is set for release on May 14th in North America. The game and IP were bought by Deep Silver after the THQ auction last month, and that does mean that the game is technically getting delayed a couple of months, but considering the iffy situations some games and IP from the end of THQ are currently in, a short delay doesn't seem too bad, does it?
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Leak
It's not really news that Ubisoft was pretty much guaranteed to make another Assassin's Creed game, but if the leaked images that Kotaku got their hands on are real, then we know a lot more about it. According to these pictures, the game will be called Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, and it does corroborate other rumors about the name. The setting seems decidedly Caribbean, which makes sense considering how much people seemed to enjoy the ship captain sequences in AC3. If this follows Ubisoft's grueling yearly schedule for Assassin's Creed, I see this game getting both current- and next-gen console releases, although there's certainly no guarantee that they'd be at the same time.
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Gabe Newell to be Awarded BAFTA Fellowship
BAFTA - as in, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts - has announced that they'll be giving a fellowship to Valve Software's Gabe Newell. That means Gabe will be joining the likes of Shigeru Miyamoto, Peter Molyneux, and Will Wright. BAFTA cites his work in creating Steam as a digital download platform, his help in turning mod-makers into real game developers, and the many great games Valve has made as cornerstones of his fellowship. Congrats Gabe! The ceremony will be on at 10PM GMT (5PM Eastern) on March 11th, and it'll be streamed live for free on Twitch.tv.
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Planescape: Torment Successor Gets a Site
After Brian Fargo and his studio inXile Entertainment ran their Kickstarter to make Wasteland 2 - which is looking pretty good already - they've decided to revive another classic RPG franchise. We've been hearing for a while that Fargo wanted to make a Planescape: Torment successor (not sequel, as they don't have the licensing and probably can't afford it), and now that project is officially getting made and has its own website. Torment: Planes of Numenera is a real thing now, and while they're still early in that project, they're apparently planning on running a Kickstarter for that as well.
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PS4 Livestream Roundup
Sony announced the PlayStation 4 tonight with a bang, but as the two hours went on, things started to go a little off the rails.
Read on for our rundown and opinions on what was shown.
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PS4 Stream Today at 6PM Eastern
Today at 6PM Eastern, Sony will be unveiling the PlayStation 4 (or whatever they happen to call it). There have been dozens of rumors over the last two years, but here's a quick collection of what we at AtomicGamer think will be the most likely to be true and unveiled - as well as a few things that Sony will be waiting until later in the year to mention.
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Low-Grav Chivalry
I admit that I haven't really been terribly interested in this game so far, but now I'm slightly more interested. Presenting: Chivalry: Medieval Warfare on a low-gravity server, where apparently the client doesn't know the difference between jumping and falling to your death, so there's a ton of hilarious screaming going around.
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Rock Band Ending DLC After 5 Years
It's been a long, intensely entertaining ride, but Harmonix Music Systems has announced that after five years, they'll be stopping weekly releases of Rock Band DLC this April. The game, website, and all social media related to it will still run and at least on 360, the Rock Band Network releases will continue, but unfortunately, they're going to end on PS3. Finally, while Harmonix will still have the ability to release new songs should they choose to, they're simply ceasing releases for the foreseeable future.
But let's stop and talk about just how amazing Rock Band really was over the years, shall we?
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