Tencent are already shareholders in Riot Games, Epic, Ubisoft, and plenty of other game companies. Though already the largest shareholders in Conan Exiles developers Funcom, Tencent want to buy out all other shareholders to gain full ownership. Funcom welcome the move, looking to expand plans for an upcoming Dune game.
Delay season has hit the big games of this year pretty hard. Several large releases have been pushed back from their early 2020 estimates to several months down the line. Some haven’t given new estimated dates at all. Today, Valve says they’re confident that they won’t miss Half-Life: Alyx‘s planned release.
Mutazione is the name of an island town, or what’s left of one, after a rogue meteor crashed into it decades ago. Now all the folks are mutant-y creatures and the protagonist Kai is the only human-looking human around, come to hang out with her old gramps for a bit. Aside from chatting with the locals, Mutazione lets Kai play around cultivating musical plants, which is what its new Garden Mode update lets you do a lot more of.
I’m usually nice. Six Ages is about leading a village in a roughly bronze age fantasy world, in which culture is of paramount importance. Morality and belief and social expectations are complex and compared to those of our own society, very odd. What we’d call the right thing isn’t always the same thing that Riders, the game’s main culture, would consider right. Even so, I try to be decent. Merciful, and magnanimous, and amenable to reason. But what if there’s another way?
There are plenty of games that let you be evil. Often dramatically so, favouring murder and sadism and cruelty simply because that’s the mathematical opposite of what the heroes are like in cartoons. It’s usually boring, and in any case, Riders don’t really have a concept of good vs evil like we do. So I founded the Red Paper clan with one goal in mind: to be the clan of the rudest, pettiest people in the entire valley. This goal gets off to a good start when the very first event lets us put a baby in the river.
Hades this week launched The Long Winter Update, bringing more blessings and boons to help poor Zagreus escape the underworld. This time around the game is introducing us to Demeter, the goddess of seasons, who’ll be offering us her powers over the cold to fight back against the fires of hell.
That’s not all though, there’s a new weapon modification, new upgrades and story events, and there’s even fishing now too!
Get your gloves and toques because eternal winter hasn’t started yet but you can be assured it’s coming. The post-snowpocalypse strategy game Frostpunk is all about keeping civilization lukewarm in the end times but its new campaign DLC is set before the big freeze actually happens. Total dystopia hasn’t set in just yet, but it will probably arrive right on schedule with your help.
You may have noticed, because of all the Simsposting lately, that I am well into The Sims 4 now. Brace yourself, because it is not going away soon. Anyway, like someone who has only just got into something but is into it hard>, I am talking the talk even if I don’t yet walk the walk. I am throwing around terms like ‘Maxis match’ and looking at other people’s builds with a critical eye.
Me doing that to advanced Sims builders is like how you watch the figure skating at the Winter Olympics once every four years and, after a human at the peak of their physical fitness performs a stunning feat of graceful athleticism, you go “He totally screwed the landing there,” whilst spraying Wotsit dust from your open mouth. Last night I spent four hours building a rudimentary and not that tiny Tiny Home, and with my definitive expertise I have identified the best item in the pack. Possibly the best item in all of The Sims 4.
The travel company behind Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds today added a new stag weekend destination, the roasting North African island of Karakin. The new map is the smallest so far, only 2x2km but still cramming in 64 players. It’s hazardous too, because its new ‘Black Zone’ bombings can outright destroy buildings and the new sticky bomb weapon lets players blast holes in some walls too. With Karakin coming in, PUBG Corp are making space by rotating Vikendi out for a while. And lads? Pack sunscreen.
With the open beta for Legends of Runeterra looming around the corner, it’s best to have an idea of which cards you need to construct the the best decks. Keep in mind that they’re only one piece of the puzzle, after all, card games are also an exercise in good timing and mind games, but there are some frankly ridiculous decks in the game. So while you work on refining how to play the game, here are the best decks in Legends of Runeterra.
EGX Rezzed, the London video games show organised by our corporate siblings, will return in March and so will we. We’ve taken over corners and stages of the show before, and we’ll do it again. I can’t tell you exactly what we’ll be up to March 26-28th, but it will be things about games and with us. Our past efforts have included interviews with developers on stage, a live podcast recording (podcast? what’s that?), and hosting a big get-together in a pub. Those all sound good. We should do those again.
But wait, there’s more! We have a few pairs of tickets to give away this year.