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Keeper 4.00On an island in a long-lost sea, a forgotten lighthouse stands dormant in the shadow of a distant mountain peak. As withering tendrils spread and...- ESRB rating: E10+ - Everyone 10+
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Road to Vostok 0.00Road to Vostok is a hardcore single-player survival game set in a post-apocalyptic border zone between Finland and Russia. Survive, loot, plan and...- ESRB rating: M - Mature
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Crimson Desert 5.00Crimson Desert is an open-world action-adventure game set in the beautiful yet brutal continent of Pywel. Embark on a journey as the Greymane...- ESRB rating: M - Mature
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Pacific Drive 5.00Pacific Drive is a run-based, first-person driving survival game with your car as your only companion. Navigate a surreal reimagining of the...- ESRB rating: RP - Rating Pending
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Experience an isometric, narrative-driven stealth game set in the stunning city of Eriksholm. When Hanna’s brother, Herman, disappears and the...- ESRB rating: T - Teen
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Killer Inn 0.00A corpse has been found... and everyone is a suspect. Welcome to the hallowed halls of KILLER INN. You have been chosen as one of the select few...- ESRB rating: M - Mature
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Serious Sam 4: Planet Badass reignites the classic series and takes you on an adventure full of bullets, guts, and one-liners.- ESRB rating: M - Mature
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One person is all that stands between humanity and the greatest threat it's ever faced. Relive the legend of Commander Shepard in the highly...- ESRB rating: M - Mature
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Destiny 2 3.00From Bungie, the makers of the acclaimed hit game Destiny, comes the much-anticipated sequel, Destiny 2. Humanity's last safe city has fallen to...- ESRB rating: T - Teen
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INDUSTRIA II 0.00INDUSTRIA 2 is a narrative FPS adventure about a woman stranded in a parallel dimension. Explore, scavenge and fight your way through a mysterious...- ESRB rating: AO - Adults Only
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Dark Alliance brings to life the world of Dungeons & Dragons in an explosive action RPG filled with real-time combat and dynamic co-op. Frost...- ESRB rating: M - Mature
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During yesterday’s Stadia Connect, it was confirmed that Google Stadia will be getting 20 new games – including five exclusives.
A few months ago, it was revealed that one of the primary reasons Google Stadia has such a sparse library has to do with the fact that Google isn’t offering devs enough money.
As a result, Stadia hasn’t necessarily had the best run so far. In fact, Google actually reduced the Stadia Premiere Edition to £89.99/$100 last month – although they also took away the Pro Trial.
However, Google announced 20 new games for Stadia during today’s Stadia Connect event. Five of these games will be exclusive, whereas the other 15 are third-party titles.
Here’s a list of the third-party titles that have just launched or are due to launch on Stadia:
One Hand Clapping (available now)
PUBG season 8 (launching July 30, 2020)
Serious Sam 4 (launching August, 2020)
PGA Tour 2K21 (launching August 21, 2020)
Super Bomberman R Online (launching Fall, 2020)
NBA 2k21 (launching Fall, 2020)
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (launching Fall, 2020)
Dead by Daylight (launching September, 2020)
Hitman (launching September 1, 2020)
Hitman 2 (launching September 1, 2020)
WWE 2K Battlegrounds (launching September 18, 2020)
Hello Neighbor (launching September 20, 2020)
Outriders (launching Holiday, 2020)
Hello Neighbor: Hide & Seek (launching Holiday, 2020)
Hitman 3 (launching January, 2021)
The five exclusives coming to Google Stadia include Outcasters, which is being made by Gears Tactics developer Splash Damage. It’s due to launch in Fall 2020. Meanwhile, Stadia exclusive Orcs Must Die! 3 is out now.
The other three exclusives haven’t been officially announced yet – all we know is that they’re being developed by Harmonix, Supermassive Games, and Uppercut Games, known for Rock Band, Until Dawn, and Submerged, respectively.
It’s unclear how big of an impact this will have at present. While announcing exclusives is one way to generate interest, the fact remains that Stadia’s library is seriously wanting.
Monty on the Run on my mate's ZX Spectrum.
A few months later I got a Commodore 64. The first two games I had were Beach Head 2 and A View To A Kill.
I don't mind paying more for a game, a price review is long overdue but they can't be charging more but still selling the game with minimal content on release then releasing DLC left, right and centre which should have been included in the base game int he first place.
Microsoft has announced that their showcase for their actual first-party games will be happening on July 23
The PC version of Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition will launch via Steam and the Epic Games Store on August 7, publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment and developer Guerrilla Games announced.
A new trailer highlights the PC version’s new features, including ultra-wide support, unlocked frame rates, dynamic foliage, graphical customization, improved reflections, controller options, and a benchmarking tool.
Ubisoft will be holding their "Forward" on July 12th.
Looks like Valhalla, Watch Dogs Legion, and Hyper Scape will be front and centre. I'm personally hoping for more Gods and Monsters, and Rainbow 6 Quarantine though.
Looks like Far Cry 6 will be announced on the 12th as well, starring none other than Gus Fring himself as the baddie
Quite right too, it's amazing how this is one of the things that's managed to slip through the cracks.
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Toys for Boy has said Crash Bandicoot 4 will not have microtransactions after a page on the Microsoft Store noted the title would have in-game purchases.
Crash Bandicoot 4 will not feature microtransactions, according to developer Toys for Boy.
Over the weekend, a Microsoft Store listing for the game featured an addendum at the bottom noting it would feature in-game purchases.
The developer took to Twitter to clarify the matter, as you can see in the tweet below.
Terrible month for me, as I already own Rise of the Tomb Raider and Erica.
I'm not hugely interested in NBA 2K20 either.. ?
Had on the heels of the Steam Game Festival we now have the Steam Summer Festival.
The Steam Summer Sale 2020 is live and there are plenty of discounts available.
There are plenty of discounts to be had during the Steam Summer Sale 2020 which kicked off today and runs through July 9.
Along with the sale, Valve is also offering an additional savings of £5 for when you spend £30.
Games on sale right now include Doom Eternal (£24.99), Half-Life: Alyx (£34.86), Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (£27.49) and Halo: The Master Chief Collection ($23.99)
You can also pick up Dragon Quest Builders 2 (£29.99), Borderlands 3 (£24.99) and A Plague Tale: Innocence for 66% off.
Bohemia Interactive is also offering discounts on Arma 3, DayZ, and other titles.
The Total War franchise is also on sale for up to 75% off, you can save up to 70% off on Max Payne games, and up to 80% on the Street Fighter franchise.
Also, when you buy games you will earn points to spend on items such as stickers, backgrounds, avatars, frames, and more.
I can't remember whether I've mentioned this device to you or not, but..
https://ps-io.com/
If you have an old PlayStation console lying around and know of someone who is decent with electronics and a soldering iron, it may be worth considering. It allows you to boot your entire game collection from a single SD card, and generally does a pretty good job of it. There's one or two compatibility issues that keep cropping up, but CybDyn do a decent job of fixing them and are continuing to improve things.
However, an ODE is in development by the same company which appears to allow either direct replacement of the laser unit or to be used in conjunction with it, possibly without the need for modification of the motherboard. It could be a while before we see it though as it's not even been officially announced yet, and they have promised to continue to support and develop the PSIO.
Other games expected in 2020
You’ve now reached the – as it currently stands – longest section of this entire list. Games that do not fit into any of the above categories will end up here, until they hopefully graduate with a proper release date, or get pushed back to the following year.
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 (PC, PS4, Xbox One) – 2020
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands (PC) – 2020
Touch Type Tale (PC) – 2020
KungFu Kickball (PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch) – 2020
Watch Dogs: Legion (PC, PS4, Xbox One, Stadia) – 2020
Gods & Monsters (PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch, Stadia) – 2020
Rainbow Six Quarantine (PC, PS4, Xbox One) – 2020
Babylon’s Fall (PS4) – 2020
Omno (PC, PS4, Switch) – 2020
Cake Bash (PC) – 2020
Phogs (PC, Xbox One, Switch) – 2020
Spellbreak (PC, PS4) – 2020
Colt Canyon (PC) – 2020
Relic Hunters Legend – Steam Early Access (PC) – 2020
Boundary (PC, PS4) – 2020
Dying Light 2 (PC, PS4, Xbox One) – 2020
Bake ‘n Switch – Steam Early Access (PC) – 2020
Yakuza Kiwami 2 (Xbox One) – 2020
Raji: An Ancient Epic (PC, Xbox One) – 2020
Evil Genius 2: World Domination (PC) – 2020
Spiritfarer (PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch) – 2020
Encodya (PC) – 2020
Chicken Police (PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch) – 2020
Bravely Default 2 (Switch) – 2020
Ultra Age (PS4) – 2020
Partisans (PC) – 2020
Uragun – Steam Early Access (PC) – 2020
Sports Story (Switch) – 2020
The End of the Sun (PC) – 2020
Airborne Kingdom (PC) – 2020
Craftlands Workshoppe (PC) – 2020
Doom Eternal (Switch) – 2020
Humanity (PS4, PS VR) – 2020
The Settlers (PC) – 2020
More games in 2020
Gearshifters (PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch) – 2020
Art of Rally (PC) – 2020
League of Legends: Wild Rift (Mobile) – 2020
Knights of Honor 2: Sovereign (PC) – 2020
My Beautiful Paper Smile (PC) – 2020
Per Aspera (PC) – 2020
The Good Life (PC) – 2020
Gamedec (PC) – 2020
Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory (PS4, Xbox One, Switch) – 2020
After the Fall (PS VR, PC VR) – 2020
Yakuza: Like a Dragon (Yakuza 7) (PC, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X) – 2020
Cris Tales (PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch, Stadia) – 2020
Roller Champions (PC) – 2020
Way to the Woods (PC, Xbox One) – 2020
RPG Time: The Legend of Wright (PC, Xbox One) – 2020
Ghostrunner (PC, PS4, Xbox One) – 2020
No More Heroes 3 (Switch) – 2020
Star Renegades (PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch) – 2020
Twin Mirror (PC, PS4, Xbox One) – 2020
Chivalry 2 (PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X) – 2020
The Ascent (PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X) – 2020
Mars Horizon (PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch) – 2020
Tales of Arise (PC, PS4, Xbox One) – 2020
Microsoft Flight Simulator (PC, Xbox One) – 2020
Crossfire X (Xbox One) – 2020
N1RV ANN-A (PC, PS4, Switch) – 2020
Creaks (PC) – 2020
Tails of Iron – 2020
Recompile (PC) – 2020
Little Nightmares 2 (PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch) – 2020
The Eternal Cylinder (PC, PS4, Xbox One) – 2020
Yet more games (seriously)
Transient (PC, PS4, Xbox One) – 2020
Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Earthblood (PC, PS4, Xbox One) – 2020
Sable (PC, Xbox One) – 2020
Digimon Survive (PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch) – 2020
The Riftbreaker (PC) – 2020
Harvest Moon: One World (Switch) – 2020
Surgeon Simulator 2 (PC) – 2020
Minute of Islands (PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch) – 2020
Psychonauts 2 (PC, PS4, Xbox One) – 2020
Tribes of Midgard (PC) – 2020
Distant Kingdoms (PC) – 2020
Windjammers 2 (PC, Switch, Stadia) – 2020
Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout (PC, PS4) – 2020
Shelter 3 (PC) – 2020
Kingpin: Reloaded (PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch) – 2020
Ready or Not (PC) – 2020
Lunacy: Saint Rhodes (PC) – 2020
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch) – 2020
Mineko’s Night Market (PC, Switch) – 2020
Haven (PC, PS4, Switch) – 2020
HyperBrawl Tournament – Steam Early Access (PC) – 2020
Naraka: Bladepoint (PC) – 2020
Summer in Mara (PC, PS4, Switch) – 2020
Blood Bowl 3 – 2020
Crimson Desert (PC) – 2020
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Microsoft has issued its June Xbox One firmware update, adding some notable features for sorting through your game subscriptions and club memberships. It's available to download now.
According to the June update notes on the Xbox blog, the update packs three key features. The first is an overlay to your game tile icons, so you can quickly tell the source of a game download. A small badge in the bottom-left of the tile shows if it's from Game Pass, Xbox Live Gold, or EA Access. Microsoft says that this should help players decide which ones to keep downloaded locally when you start to run out of space, and the blog suggests more of these overlays will be coming in the future.
Similarly, you'll be able to tell at a glance whether a Club is an official one run by the developer itself. Verified clubs will be noted with a small white checkmark next to its name, similar to verified accounts on Twitter.
Finally, just in case you lose track of your own memberships, your Gamertag will get a badge to highlight your Xbox Game Pass or Xbox Live Gold subscriptions. And if a new member joins Game Pass, the content block will be automatically added to the top of their dashboard to help them discover library content.
The next-gen Xbox Series X isn't expected to get a different dashboard from Xbox One at launch. As always these updates are partly due to feedback from Xbox Insiders. If you want to put future features through their paces, you can join the Insider program.
The Steam Game Festival: Summer Edition has kicked off and there are plenty of demos to try.
Demos are now available for various indie games through the Steam Game Festival: Summer Edition which is going now through June 22.
Like the previous Steam Game Festivals, it offers free demos to Steam users. You can also watch games being played, developer talks, and there will also be live Q&As.
During the festival, all games can be found on one Steam hub and each listing will take you to the respective store pages.
Once there, you can learn more about the titles and download demos.
The first Steam Game Festival was held in 2019 and took place alongside The Game Awards. A spring edition took place in March and featured over 40 demos of titles meant for the postponed GDC 2020 event.
This is the third Steam Game Festival, and the largest yet with over 40 demos featured this past spring and now “over 900 titles in the summer edition.”
The Summer Edition of the festival was originally slated to run June 9-14.
I'll wait for some gameplay and a bit more detail (the price point is worrying), but I'm all for a new Star Wars single player game.
This came up at today's Summer of Gaming conference
Silent Hill
Would you believe there hasn't been a mainstream Silent Hill title release for 8 years? There was the infamously cancelled Silent Hills / P.T that was due to release on PS4, but there has been nothing since.. Silent Hill 2 remains to be one of my fondest gaming memories to date, despite only playing through it once!
Electronic Arts has added more games to Steam including Battlefield 5, Mass Effect: Andromeda, and Star Wars Battlefront 2.
EA has added more games to Steam following last week’s release of Burnout Paradise Remastered, Dragon Age 2, Need for Speed Rivals, and others.
The latest games to be added to Steam are as follows:
Battlefield 1
Battlefield 3
Battlefield 4
Battlefield 5
Battlefield Hardline
Mass Effect 3
Mass Effect: Andromeda
Star Wars Battlefront
Star Wars Battlefront 2
DLC for Mass Effect: Andromeda, Battlefield 4, Battlefield 3, Battlefield 5 starter packs, and Mass Effect 3 are also available.
Each title available today can be had at a discount with savings up to 75% off. Hit up the link to Steam.
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Nintendo has confirmed an additional 140,000 Nintendo Network ID accounts, in addition to the 160,000 reported in April, have been accessed without authorization by users.
An additional 140,000 Nintendo Network ID (NNID) accounts have been compromised since the 160,000 Nintendo reported in April.
According to Nintendo Japan, as a result of continuing the investigation, the company found more accounts than previously thought had been accessed maliciously. This brings the total to 300,000 (via IGN).
It has since reset the passwords for the additional 140,000 NNIDs and the accounts linked with the IDs.
“Less than 1% of all NNIDs around the world that may have been illegally logged in may have actually been fraudulently traded through their Nintendo account, ” said Nintendo. “We are still in the process of refunding in each country, but we have already finished refunding for most customers.
“We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused and concern to our customers and related parties. In the future, we will strive to further strengthen security and ensure safety so that similar events do not occur.”
According to Nintendo, the information made available through unauthorized access consisted of a user’s name, nickname, date of birth, gender, country or region, and email address. The company said in April there wasn’t any current evidence regarding a breach of company databases, servers, or services.
Might make things easier, always get the codes wrong
