Category: Gaming News

Deadlands Looking For Artist

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN, March 23, 2020. Fatshark and Blackfox are proud to invite new artists to get their work published in Dreadlands.

Dreadlands is a turn-based skirmish game set in a living post-apocalyptic shared world. Explore Dreadlands by travelling across its many regions with your misfit gang of miscreants and mercenaries. The game is set in a Shared World where players frequently encounter and interact with each other. Sometimes they cooperate, other times they pick fights in bloody PvP battles.

Every player forms a team of three, and each team has a logo. This is where you come in. Enter Game Artist. You can create a logo, and all creations approved by the developer will be permanent fixtures in the game. The creators will also be mentioned in the game credits.

More information about how you can get your art into Dreadlands via

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New Final Fantasy 7 Books Announced for 2020

SQUARE ENIX® announced two new books being published by the company’s Square Enix Manga & Books imprints, FINAL FANTASY® VII REMAKE: World Preview and FINAL FANTASY VII Poster Collection, which will celebrate the iconic characters, massive world and beautiful visuals of one of the most anticipated video games of the year, FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE. The titles will be releasing this Fall through all major book sales channels as well as from the SQUARE ENIX Store for $24.99 each.

FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE: World Preview, releasing on September 8th, is a lavishly illustrated, full-color introduction to the world of the beloved game. The hardcover volume offers both new players and long-time fans essential information on characters, gameplay and more, in addition to exclusive commentary from Director Tetsuya Nomura and Producer Yoshinori Kitase.

 

Black Desert Now Supports Cross-Play for Xbox and PS4

The entire Black Desert Community can now gather together as one! Adventurers from Xbox One and Playstation can battle side by side in Node Wars, take the fight to World Bosses or even sit back and fish together. A new era is upon us!

The mysterious land of Kamasylvia can finally be explored by the Adventurers. Be sure to enhance properly your equipment and prepare your best skills if you want to have a chance to survive. Great Dangers await you in Kamasylvia, but so do rewards!

 

The enraged protector Offin Tett will be added with this update. Prepare yourselves for the fight of a lifetime as this creature is feared from Kamasylvia to Valencia!

Enjoy extra Combat EXP Buffs on the Olvia Server. This server is perfect for new and returning users, as it allows you to quickly gain levels with the huge Combat and Skill EXP buffs it provides!

Surviving The Aftermath, Update 5 Sanctuary Update Trailer

 

  • Anti-catastrophe features added:
    • Lightning Rod defends against the Magnetic Storm by directing lightning bolts within a certain radius to itself. Repair and maintenance is needed to keep the building operational.
    • Sauna improves defence against Fallout and a Pandemic, as well as produces happiness by improving hygiene for colonists.
    • Catastrophe size now scales based on Gatekeeper input.
  • Tech tree improvements:
    • Pregame now has an ideology selection, which customises the tech tree based on the selection.
    • Tech tree has been reduced from five to four branches, but the branches themselves are bigger.
    • Multiple new technologies were added.
  • [Community request] Support for 21:9, 16:10 aspect ratios added. Support for UI scaling will come in the future.
  • [Community request] Added option to navigate back and forth with the pre-game category buttons at the top. With a gamepad, triggers can be used for navigation.
  • [Community request] New building “Lumber Yard” was added to create Planks from trees in the early game.
  • Bartering menu has been reworked, and allows bartering with both resources and currency. Buying seeds, insect eggs, and vehicles is also now possible. Reputation with the society affects pricing of the products.
  • Ladybug Icon has been changed to a blue cockroach icon. Most of the questions were also changed or tweaked, so now would be an ideal time to give feedback!
  • Old trade menu was replaced with a menu that lists all the discovered societies.
  • Top bar will now only show resources inside storages, not the ones on the ground.
  • Silver Coin currency has been introduced for trading.
  • Colony events can now cause damage to buildings.
  • Ingame feedback questions are now presented top center, instead of top right.
  • Paradox Launcher update to 2020.1
  • Read more button added to tutorial dialogs, which shows the longer tutorial content.

Prinny Exploded and Reloaded Announced for Nintendo Switch

 

Prinny 1 and 2 will be coming in 2020 on the Switch, as you saw in the trailer above this comes with two games, Prinny 1 Can I Really Be The Hero? and Prinny 2 Dawn of Operation Panties, Dood!

PRINNY® 1: CAN I REALLY BE THE HERO?
Master Etna demands the ultimate dessert, and it is up to a legion of lowly Prinnies to make it! Jump, slash, and combo your way through the Netherworld, devastate your foes with special attacks, and encounter both new and familiar faces in this explosive action-adventure from the twisted minds behind the DISGAEA series!

PRINNY® 2: DAWN OF OPERATION PANTIES, DOOD!
When the mysterious Phantom Thief steals Master Etna’s panties, the Prinny horde must rise up once again to retrieve them…or suffer the consequences! Rampaging your way through chaotic stages full of devilish foes is easier than ever with powerful moves like Prinny Cyclone and Prinnykaze. Also, dive into the bonus story of the OTHER protagonist(?) of the DISGAEA games with Asagi Wars: Vengeance of Asagi!

This is one of those games you won’t want to miss, so check it out and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Truck Driver Coming To Nintendo Switch

SOEDESCO® announced that Truck Driver is coming both digitally and physically to Nintendo Switch™. The well-received trucking experience released on Playstation®4 and Xbox One last year and has since received several significant updates. The Nintendo Switch version will come with these improvements, as well as Nintendo specific features, including tilt controls and HD Rumble support.

Truck Driver offers a unique trucking experience with a wide range of cargo and interesting characters to work with. For the Nintendo Switch version, Truck Driver supports solo horizontal grip and tilt controls. The game also gets HD Rumble support, which allows for subtle and fast changing vibrations that will increase the gaming experience.

Since the game released on PS4 and Xbox One in September last year, Truck Driver received a new photo mode, rain effects on windshields, wipers, and several updates that improve the overall player experience of the game. Currently, Truck Driver is getting a Unity engine upgrade, which will result in smoother frame rates, less stutters and an overall improvement in graphics with better shades and textures. Further improving the game will continue to be a priority for SOEDESCO and development studio Kokku. All the updates will be implemented into the Nintendo Switch version as well, which makes it a great addition to all trucker fans out there who’d like to be a truck driver on the road.

Blood Of Steel Delayed

Evolution Studio, Chinese-based development studio of YC Games have announced that free-to-play MOBA Blood of Steel will not launch today as previously planned, due to public holidays in China being extended in order to suppress the effect of the Coronavirus. This delay has had a knock on effect on the development cycle, meaning that extra time is needed to add the final polish to the game.

The studio explained that “development has stopped and the team is still holding off at home, so the scheduled release in February would not be possible. The new release date is TBD but the team will try to make it happen in Spring”. Blood of Steel was initially scheduled for release on February 20th.

In Blood of Steel, you command the army of a legendary commander from world history to conquer cities and expand your territory against other players online to ultimately rule the world. Set throughout the Middle Ages, players choose from multiple authentic battlefields as they engage in 5-v-5, 7-v-7 or 10-v-10 legion-based battles, with each individual player allowed to lead up to 40 AI soldiers. Clever use of terrain, management of different troop types and adapting to dynamic weather systems incorporating variables such as rain and snow are the keys to victory. As well as the  legion-based warfare, players can play a one-on-one duel in PvP battles in the Heroes Arena, offering them a chance to truly show their mastery of the complex fighting system.

Blood of Steel has been out in China for 3 years since it’s initial closed beta, and has accumulated more than 20 million downloads. With over 100 thousand DAU players on the Chinese server already, Blood of Steel is ready to officially join the global market with the upcoming English version, coming to Steam. Over the past 3 years the development team have introduced a greater diversity of heroes and improving the balance of the game fully preparing it for the global market.

Faeria Free on Epic Store Starting Today

Independent video games developer Abrakam in partnership with indie publisher Versus Evil are pleased to announce that digital collectible card and turn-based strategy game Faeria is FREE for a week on The Epic Store starting from today through to February 27th. During the free week, The Epic Store will be offering two DLC bundles.

The Epic Launch DLC Bundle for $24.99 (represents a 40% discount) Full Price – $41.65 and includes The Chronicles of Gagana, Fall of Everlife and Resurgence DLC’s.

The All DLC Bundle priced $59.99  (represents a 40% discount) Full Price – $99.99 and includes the entire catalogue of DLC’s available for Faeria including Elements, Avatars, Orbs, Cardbacks and more.

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

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Hell may have frozen over because EA gave us what I’m saying is honestly the best Star Wars gaming experience I’ve ever had. Remember EA? The ones who crushed so many souls with such disasters as Anthem, Star Wars: Battlefront as well as the catastrophic Battlefront II, and Mass Effect: Andromeda. It was looking like EA had gone to the Dark Side without a sign of redemption, but here we have it…

Years after Order 66 decimated the Jedi and the Empire conquered the galaxy, the Inquisitors under Darth Vader hunt the last remnants of the Jedi. Cal Kestis was a child padawan when 66 dropped; he’s grown up in hiding, living job to job in secret and afraid of the day when he’s found. One day, he uses the force to save a friend and the Empire comes, lead by the Second Sister, a powerful Inquisitor. Saved by a runaway Jedi master and a ex scoundrel, it’s up to Cal to recover his power, face not only the demons of his past as well of those of his new friends, and find a artifact that could reinstate the Jedi or damn the universe forever armed only with his lightsaber, the Force, and his helpful droid BD-1.

Despite the hugely positive reviews, I was hugely skeptical but for the most part I was blown away. Gameplay feels like a healthy, fluid mix of Souls and Uncharted while feeling unique on it’s own. Shockingly, especially in this day and age in gaming, the bulk of the game is story with a ton of collectibles ( many a which are parts to build your own lightsaber from scratch). The story is damn good and adds a lot to Star Wars lore without beating you senseless with aimless nostalgia like Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker tried doing. I got invested in the characters more than I have in Star Wars in a while, and I was rooting for them as the plot thickened, even sympathizing with the tragic Inquisitors. I do have some issues sadly. On certain worlds, the graphics do get muddy; whether the graphical dampening is because I’m not playing on a 4K TV matters or not I’m not sure. Also another problem I have are the frequent, long load times as well as the hard crashes that made me go back a ways. Despite some issues, this is a great game I can’t recommend enough and may the gaming gods bring you glory.