Yearly Archives: 2019

World of Tanks

World of Tanks is an team-based online multiplayer vehicle-shooter featuring meticulously detailed WW2-era tanks. Dive into the driver’s seat of a mid-twentieth century panzer and blast away your foes with devastating firepower.

Business Model: Free to Play

Microtransactions: Free-to-play with the option to purchase various items and services in-game.

Key Features:

Races: Represent your country with vehicles inspired by French, British, German, Chinese, Soviet, Czech, Swedish, Polish, Italian, and American designs.

Classes: Back up your teammates by picking up a vital role on the battlefield, whether that lies in information gathering with the Light/Medium Tanks, or outright enemy destruction with the Heavy/SPG/Destroyer tanks.

►Do You Copy?: Keep communication lines open and strategically execute action plans.

►Grease Monkey: Swap out and upgrade a variety of parts on your armored vehicle unlocking new improvements over time depending upon your faction of choice.

►New Challengers: Team up with a clan and compete for resources and territory.

►Authenticity Guaranteed: Sift through the careful and historically accurate details painstakingly implemented across the board.

►Take Your Pick: Fight for glory in or just have some fun in the various game modes including teams, team-training, stronghold, randoms, or special battles.

Brave Frontier

Brave Frontier is a free-to-play Japanese mobile RPG developed by A-Lim for iOS, Android, and Windows Mobile. In Brave Frontier the land of Grand Gaia is a world ravaged by a war between humans and the Gods that took place many years ago. Four fallen gods had betrayed their fellow gods, engulfing the land in havoc as they sought to conquer every bit of it they could. Through this chaos The Imperial Army of Randall are trying their best to handle the chaos the fallen gods have brought about, but they have not yet been able to push them back.

Business Model: Free to Play

Microtransactions: Yes – Players may purchase packs of additional cards as well as refill energy used for completing quests.

Key Features:

Vast Selection: Players may summon over 400 legendary heroes and ancient beasts, and assemble them into powerful squads, mastering the elemental strengths of Fire, Water, Earth, Thunder, Light, and Dark. Different elemental types and attacks interact with one another in combat for varying effects.

Expansive Missions: Players can team up with friends and develop their tactics to take on more than 100 missions throughout the land of Grand Gaia. Missions can be solo, but the most rewarding content in the game involves group play.

Resource Farming: Players may upgrade resource fields in their own town and harvest materials from them to synthesize potions or craft powerful equipment. This allows players to advance even when offline, or further customize their playstyle through non-combat content.

Beautiful Art: Players can collect loads of beautifully pixel-crafted heroes, each with their own battle style and unique Brave Burst attack. The art for each character becomes more and more intricate as they evolve and upgrade.

Dreadnought

Dreadnought is a class-based 8v8 online multiplayer sci-fi shooter fought with massive customizable spaceships on 3D-maneuverable battlefields across the stars.

Business Model: Free-to-Play

Microtransactions: Yes, there are optional in-game purchases available including single-player DLC.

Key Features:

Galactic Warfare: Master control over your cruiser and lead the team coordination effort to overcome the opposition and secure assigned objectives no matter how difficult it may initially seem. Taking full advantage of every tool at your disposal is the key to achieving victory.

Low Rider: Experiment with a wide array of ship personalization including swapping out cosmetics, modular designs, weapons systems, It won’t take long before you’re commanding a one-of-a-kind vehicle handcrafted to excel and stand out in combat.

Intuitive Design: Think a few steps and plan around the long times necessary to do just about everything.  Alternatively, ditch your current strategy for a new one in a different loadout – adapting to your current match’s pacing is critical to success.

Military Career: Expand your overall repertoire by grinding out matches and earning precious experience.

Classes:
There are currently 70 ships from 5 completely different classes that you can choose from: the colossal Dreadnought with its ballistic cannons and Gatling broadside, the mighty Destroyer with its dual repeaters and plasma ram, the agile Corvette with cloaking ability, the destructive Artillery Cruiser with its long range heavy tesla cannon, and the Tactical Cruiser with its repair abilities.

 

For Honor

“For Honor” is a competitive third-person melee fighting developed by Ubisoft. Mixing speed, strategy, and team play with visceral close range combat in multiplayer action, For Honor brings a new twist for competitive team-based action.

Business Model: Retail Purchase 59.99 (For Honor Marching Fire Edition which includes new expansion, Marching Fire)

Microtransactions: Yes – cosmetic

Key Features:

Factions: Choose Viking, Knight, Samura, or the no Wu Lin faction (requires Marching Fire)

Classes: 4 main classes, with each faction having their own versions, include Vanguards, Assassins, Heavies, and Hybrids.

Chaos: Witness epic battles unfold as armies charge into battle alongside you.

ART OF BATTLE: For Honor’s combat system revolves around their “Art of Battle” mechanic, which offers three fighting stances, skill based parries, and more.

Expansions:

Marching Fire: Introduces a new faction, the Wu Lin, a new PvP game mode, Arcade Mode, and graphics updates.

Team Fortress 2

Team Fortress 2 is a team based PvP shooter. In this rowdy and fast paced shooter you team up to battle it out with opponents using one of the many classes available. The sheer amount of personalization and types of classes in this game blows most comparable FPS games away and stands as the cornerstone of TF2’s replayability factor. And as of June 2011, the game is now free to play! Don’t miss your chance to experience this classic of MMOFPS goodness.

Business Model: Free to Play

Microtransactions: Yes – Cosmetics

Key Features:

Class Customization: Tweak any class to your liking with hundreds of weapons, hats, and more to trade, collect, and craft in-game.

Practice Modes: Play in offline modes so you can get some practice in with new strategies and weapons before taking them to the multiplayer scene.

Free Updates: Free updates means more hats, equipment, game modes, and maps all for you to enjoy with the low, low price we all love!

Expansions:

Team Fortress 2 has seen over 600 updates in the 7+ years it has been in operation. Check them out here.

Kantai Collection

THIS GAME IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH.

Kantai Collection (also known as KanColle) is an online browser game created by Kadokawa Games. As a fleet raising simulator, players assume the role of an admiral, assembles a fleet of kanmusu (‘ship girls’ based on ships and submarines), & battles against fleets of unknown warships.

Business Model: Free to Play

Microtransactions: Yes

Key Features:

Collect and Select: Choose from over hundreds of ship girls, all based on WW2-era ships and submarines.

Sortie Missions: Choose from three different missions types including main sotire, practice mode and expedition.

Strategy and Tactics: Use your skills and battle formations to take down the opponents with class.

Factory: Use the parts earned from battles to construct new kanmusu.

Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4

Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 is a 3D arena-based fighting game developed by CyberConnect2 and published by Bandai Namco Games. Based on the popular Shonen Jump manga series, Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 will cover the final arcs of the Naruto storyline, therefore making it the last installment in the series.

Business Model: Retail – Priced $29.99 on Steam

Microtransactions: Yes – DLC available, with optional Season Pass.

Key Features:

Wall running: A returning feature from previous titles in the series, will be able to dynamically take to battle to the sides of the arenas, and battle on the walls of each stage.

New combat mechanics: Enjoy a new system of strategy developed exclusively for Ultimate Ninja Storm 4, as well as changes to the game’s internal combat and damage system.

Tons of characters: Play as characters from the entire Naruto universe, including characters from “The Last: Naruto the Movie” and “Boruto: Naruto the Movie”

Expansions:

Shikamaru’s Tale Extra Scenario Pack DLC: A new scenario, 4 Combination secret techniques, and a new costume.

Gaara’s Tale: New Scenario, 3 new linked secret techniques, 1 new costume.

The Sound of Four Characters Pack: Includes 4 new playable characters, 3 combination secret techniques, and new costumes.

Road To Boruto: Play as the next generation of ninjas in a completely new Hidden Leaf Village. Adventure as Boruto, Naruto’s son.

Mobile Strike

Mobile Strike is a mobile MMO strategy game by Epic War Online. Featuring a modern war that lets you build a base, control the action, and train elite troops to fight against enemies on the battlefield, players can unlock cutting-edge assault vehicles, command powerful armies, and put your tactical mind to test against opponents across the globe in this worldwide MMO game. Available for Android, Amazon, and iOS mobile devices.

Business Model: Free to Play

Microtransactions: Yes – Players may purchase special buildings, as well as currency to accelerate production of resources and army units.

Key Features:

Base creation: Build & customize an elite military base for defensive strength or offensive might

Tons of weaponry Use tanks, helicopters, and modern military units to blitz your enemies.

Unit types: Command 16 types of troops with 4 lethal tiers

MMO warfare: Join millions of players from around the world and clash with rival alliances

Destiny 2

Destiny 2 is a buy-to-play MMOFPS developed by Bungie for PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 and is the sequel to the hit game Destiny. The Red Legion, under the command of Ghaul, has finally taken over Humanity’s last city. The city’s Guardians have been stripped of all of their power and any remaining survivors have fled in search of safety elsewhere. It is now your job to reunite what is left of humanity’s heroes, confront Ghaul, and fight back to reclaim your home!

Business Model: Retail Purchase – 59.99

Microtransactions: Yes – DLCs and “Enverse Trading Company” cash shop selling cosmetics and loot boxes.

Key Features:

Classes: Each of Destiny 2’s classes has 3 subclasses:

Titan (Sentinel, Striker, Sunbreaker), Warlock (Dawnblade, Voidwalker, Stormcaller), and Hunter (Arcstrider, Gunslinger, Nightstalker)

Wondrous Worlds: Enjoy even more gorgeous worlds filled to the brim with action, adventure, and some of the best loot in the galaxy!

Campaign: Fend off the Red Legion, confront Ghaul, and take back humanity’s true home.

Competitive Gameplay: Guardians seeking to prove themselves can participate in different PvP matches with new maps and game modes.

Expansions:

Curse of Osiris: New story/campaign, new weapons and armor including new exotics. Added Raid Lairs, upped max level to 25, forge weapons, new max power level caps.

Warmind: New Raid Lair and crucible maps. Eververse Trading Company changed (cash shop/microtransactions). New weapons and armor, including exotics.

Forsaken: New story missions. New map, The Tangled Shore. New “Gambit” mode, fusing PvP and PvE. New end-game raid. Added collection tracker for achievements, activities, and lore.