Morning DLC: Video Games News And Rumors 2/24/14
By Nick Tylwalk
"“Around two million unique users” participated in the Titanfall beta, according to Respawn Entertainment community manager Abbie Heppe.She told Polygon that the Xbox One and PC beta enabled Respawn to identify a number of bugs ahead of the game’s mid-March release and build ties with what the studio hopes will develop into a long-term fanbase.In related news, NeoGAF user sangreal has posted what is claimed to be a list of Titanfall achievements for Xbox."
"The crowd-funded game that just won’t stop getting more and more cash thrown at it, Star Citizen has now amassed over $39 million of your money. It reached that lofty goal this weekend, unlocking a stretch goal for the “penultimate user-chosen star system.” That’s not nearly as interesting as the $41 million stretch goal,w, which could make the game infinitely playable.Star Citizen “isn’t just about the game we launch with,” Roberts Space Industries’ Chairman said on the site.To that end, the $41 million stretch goal is to start getting procedurally generated planets and star systems up and running."
"Dean Hall intends to leave developer Bohemia and step down as leader of his hit video game DayZ by the end of the year, Eurogamer can exclusively reveal. The game he created will be left in the hands of the team he leads today.He will start his own studio in his home country of New Zealand, where he’ll keep trying to create that elusive, perfect multiplayer game.The news will be a blow to the DayZ community, which this morning Hall said numbers more than 1.5 million people, although not all are necessarily active. It’s a community he goes to great lengths to be a part of. Few other developers are so accessible, so transparent, so involved."