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Rage Runner, Poll For Obstacle Creation

Hey everyone, I'm Jake from Hypercane Studios, I'm the 3d artist for our small indie company. I
have finally wrapped up the major stuff I needed to get done before Rage Runner launches on OUYA.
Today I turn my attention to the community looking for any, and all feedback on our level editor. Over
the next week I will be gathering feedback from the community of 10 different forums on what types
of obstacles you would like in our level editor. After that week of gathering feedback ill take the top
obstacle ideas, and run a poll for everyone to vote on. Then I'll take the top polled obstacles and get
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Epic yelling in Chivalry: Medieval Warfare

I have never played Chivalry, but the presence of low-gravity servers coupled with the reaction characters have to being up in the air makes me want to buy it. This is hilarious, and looks like some wacky multiplayer fun you wouldn't expect from a game about knights.

BUNDLES GALORE!

Do you love game bundles? Sure, we all do. Three dropped today!

The Indie Royale Valentines Bundle 2.0
http://www.indieroyale.com/

Serious Sam 3: BFE

Shad'O

Oozi: Earth Adventure

Doc Clock: The Toasted Sandwich of Time

Lunnye Devitsy 2013

Wake 2013

The IndieGala Colossus Bundle
http://www.indiegala.com/

Subversion City Generator

Voxel Destruction

7.62 MM

Talisman Prologue

Darwinia

Multiwinia

Defcon

Uplink

Hearts of Iron III

Demigod

Bonus games will be unlocked as the bundle proceeds.

The Groupees Be Mine Anniversary Bundle.
http://groupees.com/bma

Eschalon Book 2

iBomber Defense Pacific

Livalink

Party of Sin

Major Mayhem

Men of War: Assault Squad

Two Worlds 2

Edna and... Read All

Steam for Linux Celebration Sale

To celebrate Steam coming to Linux, Steam is having a few sales on some sweet games. They are also giving away a special Team Fortress 2 Tux item!

Some of the sales and subsequently now available for linux:

FTL: $4.99

Sword & Sworcery: $3.99

Space Chem: $4.99

Counter-Strike Source: $4.99

Half-Life: $4.99

And a ton more...

http://store.steampowered.com/sale/linux_release/

PS4 controller puts all its eggs in one basket

Sources at IGN report that this is the prototype for the new PS4 controller. It's just a prototype, so the design may change by launch.

What you're seeing is all the standard stuff from the PS3 controller, along with a built-in mic or speaker, a touchscreen like what the Vita has on the back, and what appears to be the glowing part of the PS Move controller.

Sony is having a press event next week, where we will probably hear a ton of details about the next Playstation. Stay tuned!

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/02/14/is-this-playstation-4s-controller

JJ & Gabe's Dice 2013 Keynote

Dice posted the JJ & Gabe keynote in its entirety and I wanted to share it with yall. Apparently it contains some choice words so ensure you watch it!

**Edit** This talk is epic as hell, seriously JJ & Gabe trading off on each others work and doing a bit of a deep dive into the elements of what works and what doesn't.

Anti-ValentiNES

This seemed like a good time to share these. :)

http://www.2pstart.com/2009/02/11/anti-valentines/

While I don't necessarily hate valentines day I think we can all agree it is deserving of a little fun mocking.

"A View on Next Steps" Gabe's DICE 2013 Keynote

Awesome video where he discusses the new Steambox price point, how Steam adds value to gaming and economics. A total must watch and I hope Valve does well going forward with brining Steam to the living room!

Thought it was interesting when Gabe said Linux was the industries "get out of jail free card."

His talk doesn't start right away but you can skip ahead.

scrypt Supporter wrote on 02/08/2013 at 05:47am

Interesting perspectives he puts out there. I like the idea of free-to-use productivity software, although it might cause a bigger problem with ownership of distributed assets if you follow through with the shared revenue idea (i.e. who's licensing to whom). I also love the idea of local streaming of game collections to the living room, and have been begging for this for years. It's the retail cost of console games that has kept this from happening. There's no reason we shouldn't already be playing games off of our own local servers, without having to verify ownership by inserting a disc into the system. I'm really excited that Valve is pushing this.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 02/08/2013 at 05:11pm

I agree. Gabe is spot on when he says that people don't like to scap everything when the move to a new system. The next round of consoles should be really interesting!

Still wondering what Apple will do and like Gabe I think they are the biggest player to look out for.

scrypt Supporter wrote on 02/09/2013 at 06:27am

Apple already has the framework, they just haven't breathed any life into it. Why they haven't turned the Apple TV into exactly what Gabe is talking about, I don't know. I mean, I do know (Steve Jobs didn't care much for games), but still. I don't know when/if that motivation will change for them.

It's like all of this technology is hovering around something great, and nobody has really figured it out. Microsoft is going nowhere with the Xbox. Sony is coming around, and I guess we'll see in a couple of weeks what the "Ps4" will bring to the table. Nintendo is at least trying to be innovative, despite their reluctance to truly enter the online space. I tell you, I'm most excited about Valve and Ouya, at the moment. They just seem to get it.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 02/09/2013 at 09:42pm

Ouya looks really interesting and I dig the price point. Did you get one?

scrypt Supporter wrote on 02/10/2013 at 12:27am

I did, through the Kickstarter, so it should be here in about a month or so. I'll post a review when it arrives.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 02/10/2013 at 12:59am

Awesome! Look forward to it.

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Dat Firehose: Valve @ The Movies & Next-Box Rumors

Gabe Newell and JJ Abrams recently made a few waves at a DICE keynote with dropping a few words about a Portal or Half-Life film. I love JJ and Gabe, how could this be bad?

"Newell: What we are actually doing here, we are recapitulating a series of conversations going on. We reached the point that we decided to do more than talk.

Abrams: There’s an idea we have for a game that we’d like to work with Valve on.

Newell: We’re super excited about that and we’re going to figure out if we can make a Portal movie or Half-Life movie together."

http://www.slashfilm.com/j-j-abrams-and-gabe-newell-to-develop-portal-and-half-life-films-is-something-bigger-than-mere-movies-in-mind/

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Playstation Network Adds Free to Play

These days I typically use my PS3 for Netflix, Bluray and the occasional split-screen game with a friend. That sai sometimes I download a demo, install it and sooner or later get around to playing it. PC gaming has really eaten away my console ambitions. Recently I was checking out the PSN Store for no particular reason when I noticed a new section for Free to Play games. Right now they only have a handful of games, but I imagine over time that number to grow quite a bit. Free to Play is an already pretty big on mobile and PC, makes sense it come to console but I wasn't really expecting to see it happen this generation.

Right now the Free to Play games they have are:

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