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Monthly Archives: August 2019
ARK: Genesis Announcement Trailer
A new chapter is coming to the saga of ARK: Survival Evolved. The Genesis Season Pass will give players access two two expansion packs and one exclusive in-game cosmetic pet. Part 1 of Genesis will arrive in December 2019, and Genesis Part 2 will be available during Winter 2020.
Trine 4 – Release Date Reveal Trailer
Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince and Trine: Ultimate Collection will both arrive on October 8th, 2019, and the three legendary heroes of the Trine franchise are back! This time they’re trying to retrieve Prince Selius. It’s up to Amadeus, Pontius, and Zoya to team up for a fantastic quest.
Gears 5 Map Builder Explained
Gears 5 offers an overview of the Map Builder, a useful tool for playing the new 3-player co-op mode, Escape Briefing. Narrated by Victor Hoffman.
Techlandia is an Upcoming Tabletop Game of Smartphones and Horror
Techlandia is an upcoming board game by Dan Ackerman and recently begun a quest for Kickstarter funding. The focus of the game is the powerful Techlandia corporation, which is run by CEO Dexter Ward. The controversial Dexter wants to use his companies latest smartphone to take over the world. It’s up to a handful of little-known tech bloggers to stand in his way. They’ll need to find clues, deal with tech company executives, and avoid the Reality Distortion Field.
Techlandia is presently on Kickstarter, which can be found at this link. Designed by a longtime tech journalist, author and TV news talking head, Dan Ackerman wishes to tackle digital and tech themes with a more analog approach. Ackerman, author of the award-winning game history book The Tetris Effect, says, “The game takes a classic Douglas Adams satire vibe, adds a dose of Lovecraftian horror, and combines it with our obsession over smartphones, spyware, digital privacy and hacking.”
In Techlandia will have 1-4 players infiltrating the high-tech HQ of Techlandia, and through investigating key locations, fighting and defeating cultish employees, they can decipher a set of QR code fragments. After scanning the correct code, they can gain access to the phone launch event. Failure means they will likely be arrested for trespassing. Oh, and the world could end too.
- Supports solo or multiplayer
- Fits on a normal human-sized table (apartment-dwellers rejoice!)
- Working QR code cards to scan with your phone
Galactic Civilizations III v 3.8 Ascension Update Goes Live
Stardock released a v3.8 update for its space strategy game Galactic Civilizations III today. This update, 3.8 will focus on the user experience with improved fonts, color use, event notifications, and screen design changes. A new UI also arrives for Ascensions, and each civilization’s progress is now easy to read in the form of a progress bar.
Anytime a player gains control of an Ascension crystal, an icon will alert everyone to it. Screens have been updated so that they use fonts, colors, and font sizes consistently. “Word on the Street” blurbs have been adjusted for a cleaner look, and clipping in drop-down screens has been eliminated. This update will be free for all players.
Rogue Legacy: Wanderer Edition Launches on iOS
The developers of Rogue Legacy: Wanderer Edition wants to thank their fans for the continual support. To do so, this iOS release will be discounted down to 0.99 cents from August 8th through August 11th. The normal price is 3.99. The iOS version will have all of the content in the base game (which includes the Anniversary update), and a completely remastered control scheme, built for touchscreens.
Bookbound Brigade Releases New Features Trailer
Bookbound Brigade is a game about pummeling historical and literary characters, using your own team of real and fictional heroes. This 2D side-scrolling platformer will bring Dracula, King Arthur, Queen Victoria, Nikola Tesla, Cassandra, Dorothy Gale, Sun Wukong and Robin Hood to unite and recover the “Book of Books”. Today’s trailer shows the game off a bit more, and we have a list of revealed features.
Bookbound Brigade Features:
- 8 Larger-Than-Life Heroes
- 1 Bookbound Brigade
- 4 Lethal Formations
- 16 Signature Skills
- 5 Non-Linear Themed Worlds
- 50+ VIP NPCs
- 40+ Deadly Enemy Types
- Plus, countless platforms, puzzles, and fights!
XIII To Be Remade for a 2020 Launch
Teased last April, Microids and PlayMagic have announced a release window for their remake of cult-classic FPS, XIII. This famous cel-shaded FPS will come to Playstation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC and Mac in 2020. Originally released in 2003, players control <Thirteen>, a soldier who lost his memory, and was accused of killing the President of the United States. Injured and amnesiac on Brighton Beach, the only clue is a small key and a tattoo <XIII> next to his clavicle. It’s up to you to search for answers in the 34 levels of the campaign.
Gamedec Scheduled to Launch in 2020
Gamedec is an upcoming adaptive cyberpunk RPG title from Anshar Studios and is scheduled to debut in 2020. Set in the 22nd century, in Warsaw City, reality has become a bit of a relative concept. Life and death have many meanings, and new worlds give rise to new problems. Gamedecs are people in this society, who handle frauds, crimes and conspiracies in virtual worlds. Things like Child slavery in F2P games, the suicide of a professional player, things like this are handled by Gamedecs. A special version will be previewed at Gamescom, and a demo will be playable at PAX West.
In Gamedec, decisions are important, and the game world constantly adapts to them and to the hero, who changes as the story progresses. The consequences of choices made, like in “real” life, can be immediate, long-term, or hidden – the latter most often surfacing at unexpected moments. It’s up to the player to evaluate choices and decisions. Gamedec will utilize paper-based RPG mechanics to give players the freedom to approach problems from multiple perspectives, but the choice is theirs, rather than having a single solution.

