Paradox Interactive has unleashed the official trailer for the upcoming iPad version of its tower defense game, Defenders of Ardania.
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Positech has released some new alpha gameplay footage from its upcoming strategy/defense game, Gratuitous Tank Battles. Enjoy!
Trailer
Petroglyph has released a new spotlight video for the character of Aislynn in its online actioner, Rise of Immortals. Check it out!
Trailer
This is a message from Valve co-founder, Gabe Newell, on the recent hacking of Steam databases, which resulted in the comprising of user data.
Message Begins
Dear Steam Users and Steam Forum Users,
Our Steam forums were defaced on the evening of Sunday, November 6. We began investigating and found that the intrusion goes beyond the Steam forums.
We learned that intruders obtained access to a Steam database in addition to the forums. This database contained information including user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, email addresses, billing addresses and encrypted credit card information. We do not have evidence that encrypted credit card numbers or personally identifying information were taken by the intruders, or that the protection on credit card numbers or passwords was cracked. We are still investigating.
We don’t have evidence of credit card misuse at this time. Nonetheless you should watch your credit card activity and statements closely.
While we only know of a few forum accounts that have been compromised, all forum users will be required to change their passwords the next time they login. If you have used your Steam forum password on other accounts you should change those passwords as well.
We do not know of any compromised Steam accounts, so we are not planning to force a change of Steam account passwords (which are separate from forum passwords). However, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to change that as well, especially if it is the same as your Steam forum account password.
We will reopen the forums as soon as we can.
I am truly sorry this happened, and I apologize for the inconvenience.
Gabe.
Message Ends
The good people at Nvidia have released a new set of GeForce beta drivers, complete with profiles for Bethesda Softworks RPG epic, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, as well as the newly-launched Battlefield 3!
You can download the 285.79 beta drivers at GeForce.com
New in Version 285.79
- Includes several bug fixes and performance improvements for Battlefield 3.
o Fixes cases of irregular performance (stuttering) primarily seen on DirectX 10 GPUs. The fix improves the performance of both DX10 and DX11 GPUs.
o Fixes shadow map corruption seen with DirectX 10 GPUs.
o Fixes cases of black corruption lines/triangles with DirectX 10 GPUs.
- Fixes black screen during playback using Windows Media Center.
- Added or updated SLI profiles for the following games:
o Aion v3.0
o Anno 2070
o Assassins Creed: Revelations
o Bastion
o Need for Speed: The Run
o Payday: The Heist
o The Adventures of Tintin
o The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim
- Added or updated the following 3D Vision game profiles:
o Airline Tycoon 2 – rated Fair
o Assassin’s Creed: Revelations – rated Good
o Batman: Arkham City – updated rating to 3D Vision Ready
o Deus Ex: Human Revolution – rated Excellent
o The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – rated Excellent
o FIFA 12 – rated Good
o Hard Reset – updated rating to 3D Vision Ready
o inMomentum – rated Fair
o The Lord of the Rings: War in the North
o Smash Cars – rated Fair
o Two Worlds 2: Castle Defense – rated Good
o Zombie Driver – rated Excellent
The folks at Supercell have launched their Facebook-based, real-time MMORPG, Gunshine.net. You can find out more information on the title at the game’s official website.
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OnLive, in addition to announcing that Harry Potter: Years 5-7 is now available on OnLive, has also announced a special giveaway opportunity associated with the title. The winner will win an iPad 2 along with some other very cool prizes. Checkout full contest information over at the official OnLive website.
Spike TV has released a teaser trailer for the upcoming announcement of a new Alan Wake title at this year’s Spike TV Video Game Awards, which airs on December 10th, 2011.
Teaser
SteelSeries has announced that they have entered into a partnership with the Major League Gaming association to develop a new line of gaming keyboards, mice, and more. The product line will be unveiled during the 2012 MLG Pro Circuit season.
“We strongly believe in and support what MLG has been building in the U.S. for the past nine years,” said Kim Rom, SteelSeries CMO. “The SteelSeries brand has become synonymous with professional gamers; from our peripherals’ quality and design to the technology and specifications that we believe gives players the edge to win. This partnership with MLG is a natural fit, the MLG events are the finest in the industry and we are excited to announce and kick things off.”
Bohemia Interactive has released a new tutorial video and blog post about the new mission creator/editor for their helicopter flight sim, Take On Helicopters.