Tradegy has struck Aliens vs Predator‘s developer Rebellion – they’ve been forced to close their Derby office. And, despite decently high game sales, they’ve also been forced to get rid of some of the employees at their headquarters in the UK.
There’s no reason why exactly this has happened or how many employees were left off but Rebellion’s comment includes “a few staff in junior positions had been let go.”
Here’s hoping to a happy future for all of those who had to be let go.
Back in early February, Rebellion told us that Aliens vs Predator would be getting a DLC pack at some point in the future but didn’t give us any details about its content. We now know that the new pack will be calld the ‘Swarm Map Pack’ and will dro pon March 18th for 560 Microsoft Points or about $7.
The Swarm Map Pack includes 2 regular multiplayer maps and 2 brand new Survival Mode maps. No details were released on what these maps will be like so we’ll just have to wait and see.
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Modern Warfare 2 has been out for a while now and yet it still doesn’t have dedicated servers even with the constant complaining of the community. Sure, Infinity Ward has a legit excuse for it, sort of, but what is a PC game without dedicated servers? Aliens vs. Predator developer Rebellion has taken the note of this and has announced today that the game now has dedicated servers. Of course, it’s included with a pretty hefty patch that throws in a bunch of other stuff which you can check out below.
General
- Stability improvements to address rare and infrequent hangs
- Implemented a workaround for missing audio issues with certain hardware (SoundBlaster X-Fi, Realtek onboard, etc.)
- Fixed save games being lost or corrupted if connection to Steam is lost or if user switches to offline play
Multiplayer
- Added client-side support for dedicated servers
- Ranked match lobbies will no longer end after every match
- Fixed XP being incorrectly affected by offline play (though only in the local stats; this will be corrected next time you connect to multiplayer)
- Fixed other players sometimes appearing to have the wrong weapon or continuing to fire indefinitely after dying
- Fixed rare issue where players would be temporarily invisible
- Fixed some selection of servers and players in menus sometimes being incorrect
via bigdownload
Yesterday we got word that the Classification Operations Board of Australia refused to let Sega‘s Aliens vs. Predator hit store shelves down under. We then learned that they were looking at way to get around this banning but it seems that the game’s developer, Rebellion, is none too pleased with the banning.
In fact, they have absolutely no intentions to clean the game of its content for an Australian release with their explanation below:
“The content of AVP is based on some of the most innovative and iconic horror movies, and as such we wanted to create a title that was true to the source material. It is for adults, and it is bloody and frightening, that was our intent. We will not be releasing a sanitized or cut down version for territories where adults are not considered by their governments to be able to make their own entertainment choices.”
So Australian gamers, unless Sega successfully appeals the original banning, chances are you won’t get a chance to play the game.
via gi.biz
