By Anonymous on Mar 22, 2015 08:47 pm
Amazon has a great deal on one of the year's biggest PlayStation 4-exclusive games. The Order: 1886, which was released only a month ago, is now on sale for $40, down from the standard $60 launch price. You can find the deal here. Ready at Dawn's cinematic third-person shooter earned middling reviews overall, as you can see in the The Order: 1886 review roundup. GameSpot's review gave it a 5/10 for overlooking the best aspects of its premise in favor of boring storytelling. Still, if you're curious, this is the cheapest we've seen the game on sale for yet. Another great offer for PS4 owners this weekend is the current PlayStation Store flash sale, which is offering a large number of games for less than a dollar each. Looking for more great deals? Check out GameSpot's regular Gaming Deals posts.
By Anonymous on Mar 22, 2015 08:30 pm
 This week we get Bloodborne, Forza Horizon 2 presents Fast & Furious, Pillars of Eternity, Infinite Crisis, Slender: The Arrival, and Borderlands: The Handsome Collection.
By Anonymous on Mar 22, 2015 07:17 pm
 New gameplay footage of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege has surfaced from the game's closed alpha. The footage shows the same kind of multiplayer hostage rescue gameplay we've seen when Rainbow Six Siege was first revealed in E3 2014, but on a new level set on a plane. The video also showed how players can set up barriers to block doorways and create cover. At the time of writing, a version of the video was still live on YouTube, but it's likely to be removed soon. It seems the original video was posted to the French website Jeuxvideo.com, which has since been taken down. The video was posted to Daily Motion, but was removed from that site as well due to a copyright claim from developer and publisher Ubisoft. A gallery of images that was posted to an imgur gallery was also taken down. Ubisoft recently announced that players can sign up for a closed alpha of the game, which may explain where the new footage came from. You can still find a couple of the images as well as more details about the closed alpha on Reddit, but they're from an unofficial source, so take them with a grain of salt. Siege was announced during E3 in 2014, though it's not altogether a "new" game. It is the game that rose from the ashes of Rainbow Six Patriots, which Ubisoft effectively canceled. It plays a lot like Counter-Strike, with one team trying to save hostages from the enemy team. It made a great impression at E3 with its destructible environments, allowing players to shoot and blow up walls and floors to make their own path. For more on the game, check out GameSpot's previous coverage of Rainbow Six Siege.
By Anonymous on Mar 22, 2015 02:25 am
Magic Leap, a company that has been working on augmented reality, has released the video above, which it says is a fair representation of the kind of technology it will eventually release. The video is in the first-person perspective, and shows a user doing a variety of mundane things you do on your computer—watching YouTube, checking email—only by interacting with floating 3D objects that appear to be floating in the environment. Eventually, we see what a game might look like, with the user getting up from his seat, picking up a sci-fi gun, and firing at enemies that appear around the room. If that sounds a little familiar, it's because it's essentially a lot like HoloLens, Microsoft's augmented reality headset, which even mentioned Magic Leap when it revealed the device in January. According to GameSpot sister site CNET, Magic Leap claims that employees are already playing this game around the workplace. However, this looks more like a concept video, with 3D effects provided by Weta Workshop (known for its work on the Lord of the Rings movies), and the gun, which seems like a real, physical object in the environment, not part of a simulation. Magic Leap, which has raised $542 million from Google and others, was supposed to show the demo at the TED conference in Vancouver, but pulled out from the event. Do you think augmented reality games will ever look this good? Let us know in the comments below.
By Anonymous on Mar 22, 2015 02:01 am
 Atari, the company that dominated the video game market for much of the the '70s and '80s, is now getting into fitness tech with the Atari Fit app for iOS and Android devices. Atari fit aims to motivate users to get fit and healthy by earning points that will unlock classic Atari games like Pong, Super Breakout, and Centipede. The app is compatible with other fitness devices like Fitbit, Jawbone, and Android Wheat, and can also collect data from other fitness apps such as RunKeeper, Apple Health, and Google Fit. Basically, the app gamifies more than 100 exercises and more than 30 workout plans. The more you get in shape, the more points you'll earn, which can then be used to unlock Atari games as well as points that can be redeemed at the pharmacy chain Walgreens. The app is free to download, and was developed by 8BitFit, which is focused on gamifying fitness, and an award-winning production studio called Gametheory. "With Atari Fit, players from around the globe can exercise, play and get healthy together by providing a gamified fitness experience unlike any other app currently available," said Fred Chesnais, Chief Executive Officer, Atari, Inc. "By uniting the universal need to exercise and live healthfully with the entertaining experience unique to Atari games, we've created an app that proves fitness can be fun." Atari, which has changed ownership multiple times since its glory days, was recently in the news for pressuring developer Jeff Minter to pull his tunnel shooter TxK because it's too similar to Atari's Tempest 2000.
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