Playdate: Breaching and clearing with ‘Rainbow Six: Siege’

Rainbow Six: Siege hit a few bumps on the road to release, but now it’s out in the wild and folks are breaching doors and clearing rooms with a righteous fury. Not us. We’re going into the game pretty blind, and that’s not because someone tossed a flashbang into the room. How will Sean take to the multiplayer-only tactical shooter? Considering his disdain for tutorials, probably not too well! However, you can find out for yourself starting at 6 PM ET / 3 PM Pacific as we broadcast live on Twitch. Check us out here on this very post, the Engadget Gaming homepage, or, if you want to join us in chat, Twitch.tv/Joystiq.
http://player.twitch.tv/?channel=joystiqWatch live video from Joystiq on www.twitch.tv[We’re streaming Rainbow Six: Siege on PC through OBS at 720p, so rest assured your hostage rescues will look dramatically better on your home setup.]

‘Destiny’ won’t get big add-on packs in its second year

Those reports of Bungie scaling back Destiny‘s add-on plans were apparently well-founded. The studio’s Derek Carroll tells Eurogamer that the game’s Taken King era will focus on events like Sparrow racing, rather than the “giant, monolithic” downloadable content packs that defined Destiny in its first year. Bungie isn’t explaining why, but tipsters had previously claimed that this was necessary to give the team more breathing room as it worked on yearly upgrades.

Either way, you shouldn’t anticipate any expensive content. Carroll suggests that the events you’ve seen so far, which are completely free outside of nice-to-have cosmetic add-ons, are a sign of things to come. That might be a bummer if you were hoping for a huge array of new maps and game mechanics in the months ahead, but you at least won’t find yourself dropping tons of cash just to keep up with devoted players.

Via: Kotaku

Source: Eurogamer

Engadget giveaway: Win a PS4 and two lifetime Plex Passes!

We’re careening into the gifting season at full throttle and Plex is making things easier this year. You can now give the gift of Plex to friends and family with just a few clicks. Whether they’ve been clamoring for a Plex Pass or have yet to experience the clean interface for streaming media from their server (or a friend’s), it’s now easier than ever to share. Just head over to the company’s gifting page and you can send wrapping-paper-free digital presents with Plex premium features — just in time for your holiday visit.

Movie and music collections get a boost when they’re matched to related trailers or videos and you can sync your media to mobile devices for offline access. It’s also easy to create guest accounts for sharing your own curated collection. Plex has already done the shopping for one lucky Engadget reader this year by providing a PlayStation 4 for enjoying content, a lifetime Plex Pass for premium access and an additional Lifetime Pass to help the winner pay it forward. All you need to do is head to the Rafflecopter widget below for up to two chances at winning.

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Legendary game series ‘System Shock’ is getting a sequel

It looks like System Shock 3 is going to be a thing. Otherside Entertainment put up a countdown which was quickly decoded by fans to point to a teaser for the new game. System Shock and its sequel were a pair of groundbreaking and highly acclaimed games. Outwardly first-person shooters, a more apt description would be survival horror with elements of RPG. The minds that worked on the games went on to make Bioshock and Deus Ex, both of which built on its structure, albeit in different ways.

Although developer Night Dive has been working on a remake of the original game and expressed an interest in creating an all-new title, it appears the studio is not involved with System Shock 3. Only the Otherside logo is present on the teaser page. The site’s description invites us to “Join the original team behind Ultima Underworld on a quest to rekindle this legendary fantasy RPG series,” but this is probably leftover from an old Ultima page — as legendary as System Shock is, it’s tough to see why anyone would describe the title as a fantasy RPG.

Otherside has strong links to the System Shock series, as many of its staff worked for Looking Glass Studios, the developer of the original. Most notable is OtherSide’s founder Paul Neurath, who oversaw development of System Shock 2 in his role as Creative Director at the company. However, some of the big names who worked on the originals, like Doug Church, Ken Levine and Warren Spector, are not currently affiliated with Otherside. Levine is at Take Two, Spector works in education and Church is at Valve doing who knows what.

The studio is also working on a reboot of another Looking Glass series, Ultima Underworld, which was partially funded through Kickstarter earlier this year. It’s not clear if System Shock 3 will also be headed to crowdfunding, but you can sign up for updates at the teaser site to find out.

Via: PC Gamer

Source: Otherside Teaser Page