Shadow of the Eternals has had quite a tumultuous development cycle, ending in its indefinite delay last September. Today, we’ve heard that the project isn’t properly “dead”, but we shouldn’t expect anything new to come out about it any time soon. This statement from the dev team was released on their forums earlier today:
We’ll be continuing to upgrade and keep the forums running and we’re taking a look at where the SOTE project is at, potential options and directions for the future as well as going over lessons learned from the campaigns.
We very much intend to keep the project alive and get back to production but please understand that there probably won’t be any major news or update for a while yet. We’ve got a lot of work ahead to understand the options available to us going forward and to do the best thing by the game.
Renegade Kid has confirmed that an announcement for its upcoming 3DS first-person shooter will be made on Friday.
Co-founder Jools Watsham wrote on Twitter a short while ago:
Breaking News: An announcement of an Announcement!! Our FPS for 3DS will be revealed this Friday, January 24. Stay tuned! Excite!! 🙂
— Jools Watsham (@JoolsWatsham) January 20, 2014
GameXplain has put together a fairly comprehensive listing of levels in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. You can find the full lineup below.
Just in case you were wondering, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze doesn’t run naturally at 1080p. Nintendo has clarified that the game is native 720p (at 60 frames per second by the way), though is upscaled to the higher resolution.
GameXplain relayed the news via Twitter:
Also, we clarified with Nintendo that Tropical Freeze is native 720p (@ 60fps), upscaled to 1080p.
— GameXplain (@GameXplain) January 20, 2014
This probably won’t end up being a big deal for most players, but is worth mentioning in any case.
Nintendo has released another batch of screenshots for Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. Today’s images show new levels, shop, leaderboards, and more. View the set above.
New previews are starting to hit for Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. You can find information rounded up from IGN’s report below.
– Game has a lot of secrets
– Puzzle pieces, collectible letters, bonus rooms, concealed coins, alternate exits, and scores of bananas
– One secret: tucked away rendering of Samus Aran’s Gunship
– Familiar Donkey Kong Country melodies
– Tropical Freeze’s level designers creatively integrate the artistic aesthetic into the exploratory mechanics
– Every theme is new and originally composed
– Buy extra lives, items, sidekicks, and the assistance of Squawks the Parrot in Funky Kong’s chain of Fly and Buy stores
– Rambi the Rhino returns in select levels
– Enguarde the Swordfish is nowhere to be found
– New zipline stages
– One boss battle: simple timing-based fight against a giant anthropomorphic viking seal sliding on his belly along a half-pipe
– Another boss: sorcerous owl, has seven unique attacks
– Chase the owl through three arenas
– Post-game Hard Mode confirmed
– Time Attack: speedrun stage replay variant
– Post best time for each Time Attack challenge to online leaderboards
– Compare scores with friends and the community
– Leaderboards will also keep track of which sidekicks are used to help complete these stages
