Tuesday, October 20, 2015

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Battleborn: Oscar Mike Gameplay Video

Posted: 20 Oct 2015 04:37 PM PDT

Battleborn introduces Oscar Mike, a front-line fighter, in this new gameplay video. Learn more about this character here.

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SMITE: King Ar-Tyr Tyr Skin Preview

Posted: 20 Oct 2015 02:40 PM PDT

King Ar-Tyr gallops in as a new skin in today’s Smite patch, Long Live the King.

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Dungeon Defenders II: Grave Danger Costume Pack

Posted: 20 Oct 2015 02:22 PM PDT

Dungeon Defenders II releases new skeletal skins for its heroes in time for Halloween.

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Daybreak Games Announces Halloween Updates

Posted: 20 Oct 2015 02:02 PM PDT

Daybreak Games is kicking off its annual Halloween seasonal events and promotions for players across EverQuest®, EverQuest®II, PlanetSide® 2, DC Universe™ Online, H1Z1®, and Landmark™.

With the events kicking off now and stretching to early November, players will have a chance to participate in various in-game Halloween events, contests, and activities as well as the chance to be treated with promotional items, both new and from Halloweens past, to spook up their gameplay experience.

Daybreak's Halloween activities include:

EverQuest:  Oct. 28 – Nov. 11
Marketplace Items: Oct. 1 – Nov. 11
Players can also enjoy this year's Nights of the Dead celebration with the return of their favorite holiday events! Both tricks and treats are plentiful as festive merchants return to starting cities just in time for the holiday celebrations. Tricks and Treats are plenty for Norrathians with the reappearance of 35 previous Halloween marketplace items and new ones as well!
EverQuest II: Oct. 8 – Nov. 2
Marketplace Items: Oct. 1 – Nov. 2
Nights of the Dead rises again! Frights and freaks are on the prowl in Norrath but the festivities are bountiful! All the previous year's items and events are back with a vengeance including new Halloween-themed Player Studio Items, costumes, and weapons to make every Norrathian a little more frightening!
PlanetSide 2: Sept. 23 – Nov. 12
Do not beware the pumpkins; shoot them all! In this year's Nanite of the Living Dead, players can collect pumpkin seeds from shooting pumpkins to purchase Halloween Helmets. All-new menacing season themed weapons can be added to players' arsenals! So whether they are into slashing or shooting, there is an abundance of tricks and treats for everyone!
DC Universe Online: Oct.1 – Nov. 2
Gotham is a lot darker than it usually is as the Witching Hour returns with some new twists. Players have a chance to earn Spooky Bites everyday during the event. Earn enough and they can pay a visit to Skeet's Boo-tique to purchase creepy tricks, treats, and items for their base or guild hall.
H1Z1: Oct. 27 – Nov. 12
As if things weren't scary enough, Halloween approaches and the zombies seem to be catching the Halloween spirit. Survivors can expect to come across zombies with a pumpkin head, which they can kill and loot for special tricks and treats. Battle Royale also offers players a chance to find a rare scarecrow mask from airdrops.
Landmark: Oct. 8 – Oct. 29
Get ready for a Halloween Livestream Party! On October 29, the Landmark developers will host a special livestream to visit "Halloween Island", the place that was created specifically for Halloween builds to celebrate all things spooky. Players can visit the island, see the builds, and hang out with other players as the event unfolds live. There will be giveaways for players during the event if they find the livestream hosts on Halloween Island.

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Chaos Reborn Launch Trailer

Posted: 20 Oct 2015 01:11 PM PDT

Chaos Reborn, a strategy game from the creator of the original X-Com, launches on October 26.

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Brawlhalla Replay Feature Revealed

Posted: 20 Oct 2015 01:02 PM PDT

Brawhalla’s replay feature is revealed in this stream highlight from a recent update stream.

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Forge of Empires Comes to Kindle Fire Devices

Posted: 20 Oct 2015 12:42 PM PDT

Today, the online games developer InnoGames released the popular mobile and browser strategy game Forge of Empires on Kindle Fire Devices of all sizes – from the 2nd generation Kindle Fire to the upcoming 4th generation. The app can be downloaded on Amazon’s Kindle App store and on the Amazon App Store for Android Devices.

Aspiring city rulers will be able to enjoy the same advantages of playing Forge of Empires on browser, Android or iOS mobile versions; like playing on the same servers and on multiple worlds. Existing players can simply login into their account on their Kindle Fire device from now on. Of course, players can also switch back and forth between different platforms and devices.

Forge of Empires is a strategy game, where players, tasked with leading their own city to prosperity, can research new technologies, build impressive historical buildings and enlarge their sphere of influence through military campaigns and skillful dealing. The game has been awarded the title of “Best Browser Game 2013” at the German Computer Game Award (Deutscher Computerspielpreis). On iPad it was top 5 new strategy games in the US in 2014.

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Red Orchestra 2: Reinforcement Update Pack Released

Posted: 20 Oct 2015 12:14 PM PDT

Tripwire Interactive and Antimatter Games are pleased to announce that the Reinforcement Update Pack for Red Orchestra 2, PC Gamer’s 2011 First-Person Shooter Game of the Year (Multiplayer), is available now on Steam and can be downloaded here!

To celebrate the release of the update, Red Orchestra 2 & Rising Storm are FREE to play on Steam until Monday October 26th (10AM PST/1PM EST) and during this time the game is also on sale for 75% off!

    The Reinforcement Update Pack consists of:
  • Incoming new map: Barrikady Factory. Barrikady is a combined effort between Tripwire and community members, now being released into the Beta Map Pack DLC, so we can get some final feedback on the gameplay, while it gets its final polish, ready for an “official” release soon
  • Fixed kick voting
  • Fixed team selection locking up when a player swaps from spectating one team, to playing for the other
  • Fixed single bullet reload interruption having major sync issues in online play
  • Fixed edge case where pump action shotguns could sometimes reload more shells than they actually had
  • Fixed Battlefield Commission scene being badly broken in Eyefinity
  • Fixed burning players being unable to see themselves on fire
  • Updated C96 pistol sound references to use the correct sounds, not the ppsh sounds.
  • Tweaked recoil values of all machine guns to increase difficulty of shooting accurately
  • Removed force walk when firing an MG

NOTE: Preload the Barrikady Factory map by downloading the Free Beta Community Map pack here!

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Broforce Launch Review

Posted: 20 Oct 2015 11:58 AM PDT

October has been a stellar news month for the world of gaming, but few things stand out more to me than the release of BROFORCE. I was in Early Access from the get go, being incredibly excited about the potential for this 8bit, side scrolling, action explosion-fest. The way I explain it to people who ask, is this: "Broforce is everything that is America. Explosions, action, explosions, FREEDOM." The story is very simple. There are nations of badguys out there, causing trouble. The Broforce is out to bring freedom, justice, and explosions to those evildoers. Up to four players can go online and play this terrific side scroller, and no matter how many times your squad dies, it will not diminish the fun in anyway. When we streamed it the other night, we died more times than I could conveniently count, and that's the same every time I play, no matter the difficulty. It might seem that the game is a simple action game, but it's so much more than that at its core. Broforce has to be seen to be believed and understood; count on a Bottom Tier one-shot that shows off the amazing gameplay coming right alongside this article!

Broforce Launch Review

Even the title screen is manly.

Broforce is undeniably fun. You can tackle it more than one way. You can just run straight through a stage solo or with friends, firing wildly at the terrorists/devils, jumping over exploding barrels, bombs, landmines, or falling terrain. Or you can use your melee or guns to shoot and create tunnels or sneak your way around areas. But where's the fun in that? You're playing a badass here! You have to defend freedom for the whole world! Think "The Expendables" on a more grand scale (though in August, several of the Expandables characters were added, "The Expendabros"). Instead, you have action heroes from the past, with a different take. Many of the Expendables stars are here in perfect iconic variety. Stallone appears as Rambro, Bromando, and the Brofessional. Cherry Broling (Cherry Darling from the Grindhouse film, Planet Terror), Brochete (Machete), Time Bro, Broniversal Soldier, even the Brocketeer. If you can think of a badass from a film, there's a good chance they are here! And each one plays differently, has different guns, special abilities and melee skills, such as Brodell Walker, Texas Ranger's amazing Roundhouse kick. The Brodock Saints play at the same time, and if one dies, you still have the other one to carry on. Kudos to Free Lives to making each character stand on their own and represent their source material!

The game exudes hypermasculinity, but does so in a satirical, comical, self-lampooning fashion. That's what makes this so terrific: It does not take itself, or anything seriously. But it's not all fun and games. The constant, nonstop action can make the game impossible to complete if you go too hog-wild. We had several stages where a bridge got blown up in a moment of freedom-fueled passion, forcing us to expend a life jumping to our deaths, just to respawn on the next platform. Virtually everything is destructible, with only a few bricks that are immune to forms of damage. Hell, some of the ground pieces dissolve as soon as you step on them. So while it might be fun to just run and gun, the developers thought it through and force you to think; maybe after a few deaths, you'll see the need to pace yourself instead of blindly running to the enemy Mooks, guns and bombs ablaze.

Broforce Launch Review

Broman, the Brobarian to the rescue.

You start with a certain amount of Bros unlocked, but littered throughout the stages are bros in cages. Freeing a certain amount will unlock more bros for you to play as. Each stage you start as a random one you have unlocked, and if you free one in a stage, you change again. It's constant chaos. If you are playing multiplayer, and your friend dies, fear not! If you free a bro, you bring a player back to the game. Teamwork! It's a key component in freedom.

I also appreciate that it has drop-in drop-out multiplayer, and you can set maximum players/passwords to keep out randoms if you just want to play with your friends. That should be a given in any multiplayer game, but I'm always glad to see it anyway. But if that's not your bag, there are other challenges and options to go around. You can build your own stages with a considerable amount of tools at your disposal, and submit your friends to the tortures you've devised. One of my personal favorites I experienced this summer makes you play as James Brond, and you have to stealth your way through a night time raid on a building, utilizing all of Brond's four special abilities (Yes, he gets four; a nice variety of skills that befit the Secret Agent). Or if that doesn't strike your fancy, there's a single player only Hardcore mode. Each bro can only die once! If you lose them all, it's Game Over. And this game is pretty hard as it is. You can also play other players' Custom Campaigns. There is more to this than a simple run and gun. If you don't want to endure the story, you can play Arcade Mode, and just run from stage to stage, ignoring the endearing, democracy-filled story.

Broforce Launch Review

I pity the fool playing a lesser game.

America's Always Free: Great 4/5

Broforce is a nostalgia fest in the best way. Fun and simple, but it still has depth and clever gameplay in its own special way. You have multiple ways to finish stages, and to go too fast too furious will potentially ruin a mission for you. This game shows you don't need the most cutting edge graphics and storywriters to make something fun and gripping. Free Lives keeps expanding the game, and I am grateful to them for it. Broforce is an insane tribute to Contra, if Contra were four players and upped the mayhem and intensity by 100%. The multiplayer makes this more than worth the price of admission. The multiplayer fun of this game cannot be understated, and the stage creation's on-point. Broforce is America. Do you love freedom? Justice? EXPLOSIONS? Let's bring these guys some Democracy.

Graphics: 4/5

The 8bit graphics are perfect for this game. It's sharp, vivid, and even in the midst of insanity and explosions, the game stands out amongst the many "retro" style games that are on the market, Steam, Console or Mobile. It's pretty damn gritty for an 8bit game, and does not fall prey to the browns and greys of the majority of shooter games. And when you unlock a new bro, an amazing cutscene shows up with the hypermasculinized version of the Bro visible behind an American Flag. There are lots of cool little touches, such as Broheart (Braveheart) having American colors on his face, and when he utilizes his special, his speech pulls up an American flag and enemies run in terror. It's the little things.

Controls: 4/5

For the most part, the controls are terrific, sharp, right on the money. I'm a little disappointed that my Xbox One controller does not appear to like the game, but my PS4 controller does. That's not a downer, because you can use a keyboard if you want, but I'm surprised a Microsoft controller does not work so well on PC. There are little glitches and problems, but the game plays pretty sharp overall.

Sound/Music: 4/5

The music exudes masculinity and machismo. Booming drums, thunderous explosions, and even the start screen with the metallic Bald Eagle, with humongous arms flexing, its screech of freedom, and the rolling drums that begin the game. Even when you are defeated, the "MISSION FAILED!" sound is ominous and manly. The soundtrack kept me pretty enthused; this is one of the rare moments I did not find myself turning the sound down, except when streaming or recording.

Gameplay/Features: 4/5

The features of the game are all pretty riveting; stage creation, four player co-op with drop in drop out capacity, a solid lengthy campaign, and even enemy behavior is different from Mook to Mook. The game spikes in difficulty on some stages, but it's not all impossibly difficult, and there are smart ways to work around even the strongest enemies. Free Lives has been diligent in their additions to the game as it comes closer and closer to completion, and I'm certain we'll keep seeing more. But what they have at launch is all an amazing amount of fun.

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Gloria Victis Improves Combat System, Expands World

Posted: 20 Oct 2015 11:39 AM PDT

The last update for Gloria Victis follows and greatly expands the latest changes for combat mechanics and PVP experience. First of all, the headshots detection in PVP have been implemented, as well as gaining experience for PVP fights. Moreover, the combat dynamics has been greatly improved with speeding up the character's movement when blocking, putting even more emphasis to the player's skills in battle.

The game's world has been expanded as well with few new locations – old battlefield, raiders' camp full of longboats and Fangsborough, new town to capture and develop. Moreover, new defensive objects has been added to the gate towers upgrading mechanics: stones and wooden logs that can be thrown down on the invaders.

At the moment, while making the last polishes before implementation of the reworked inventory and guilds systems, the team is revamping the buffs and debuffs system. It will allow Gloria Victis to implement weather's impact on the actual gameplay and the alchemic recipes, as well as the heroes system that will reward the most active players among the nation for fighting the enemies and claiming the lands.

The changelog is available here.

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