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Gameguru Mania News - Jun,22 2018 - all

Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire-Scalawags Free DLC - briefly
(hx) 06:05 AM EDT - Jun,22 2018 - Post a comment
Obsidian Entertainment and Versus Evil have announced the launch of the latest free DLC pack for Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire. The free DLC, titled “Scalawags Pack” is the latest addition to the free DLC packs currently available for the game in an ongoing show of the team’s commitment to provide their fans with new playable content and game updates.

This free update adds three new recruitable crew members to the taverns of the Deadfire and adds a wide array of ship upgrades to many of the shipwrights throughout the Deadfire Archipelago. Additionally, it also includes the Savage personality setting for your character.

The Scalawags Pack features:

Three New Crew Members added to the taverns of the Deadfire Archipelago for you to recruit.

Five New Ship Upgrades, including a sail, cannon, anchor, and more added to shipwrights throughout the game.

Savage personality setting

Gameguru Mania News - Jun,21 2018 - all

Star Citizen Video Shows Group System - movie
(hx) 06:45 PM EDT - Jun,21 2018 - Post a comment
Today, Cloud Imperium Games released a brand new video of its upcoming space simulator Star Citizen. The video primarily showcases the new group system that will allow players to party up and perform activities together, from quantum jumps to quests. On top of that, we get to see new facial rigs, new audio tracks designed for derelict ships, new weapons, and more. Interestingly, the video also includes a lore segment on the Caliban system. And no, it isn’t the home planet of the Dark Angels. Incidentally, the game also passed just another crowdfunding milestone, adding another million dollars to its growing budget. At the moment of this writing, it’s sitting on $188,086,118 provided by 2,048,404 registered users.

Valve suspends some trading in CS:GO, Dota 2 - briefly
(hx) 06:41 PM EDT - Jun,21 2018 - Post a comment
Valve has restricted trading in two of its games, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2, in an effort to comply with the Netherlands Gaming Authority’s rules governing loot boxes. The move disables the option for Dutch players to trade items in those games. In a statement to customers, Valve said it stopped trading in CS:GO and Dota 2 for Dutch players in response to two letters from the Netherlands Gaming Authority (aka the Dutch Kansspelautoriteit), which said that “loot boxes” in those games violate the Dutch Betting and Gaming Act. Valve communicated the decision to suspend trade in those games in a pop-up message through Steam: In May, we received two letters from the Dutch Kansspelautoriteit, stating that Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2 contain ‘loot boxes’ that violate the Dutch Betting and Gaming Act. The Kansspelautoriteit accusation is different from how other countries think about loot boxes, so we hired Dutch legal counsel, looked at the recent Study into Loot Boxes published by the Kansspelautoriteit, and learned more about Dutch law. We still don’t understand or agree with the Kansspelautoriteit’s legal conclusion, and we’ve responded to explain more about CS:GO and Dota 2.

In the meantime, we have a threat from the Kansspelautoriteit to prosecute Valve if we don’t implement a remedy by June 20. The letters don’t tell us how to do that, but the Study into Loot Boxes does contain one rather simplistic statement:

“Loot boxes contravene the law if the in-game goods from the loot boxes are transferable. Loot boxes do not contravene the law if the in-game goods from the loot boxes are not transferable.”

So for now our only practical alternative is to disable trading and Steam Marketplace transfers for CS:GO and Dota 2 items for Dutch customers. We apologize to you for this inconvenience. We hope that, after more engagement with the Kansspelautoriteit, they may refine their legal demands and we can find a solution that is less inconvenient.
Steam users attempting to trade with CS:GO players in the Netherlands are greeted with an error message that explains “This trade cannot be completed because transferring Counter-Strike: Global Offensive items is disabled in other user’s country.” Valve communicated the new restriction with little or no warning, to the annoyance of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2 players in the Netherlands, who are now sitting on an inventory of in-game items they can no longer trade with other players. The Netherlands Gaming Authority announced earlier this year that it had evaluated 10 loot boxes featured in unnamed games and found four of them to contravene the country’s Betting and Gaming Act.

Military Operations: Benchmark Released - briefly
(hx) 06:33 PM EDT - Jun,21 2018 - Post a comment
Military Operations has released a benchmark tool for its latest game, Military Operations. According to the press release, Military Operations: Benchmark is a performance and stability Benchmark utility that can be used to test your gaming system for compatibility with the upcoming “Military Operations” (MilOps) real-time strategy game and the “Metis Simulation Technology” (Metis engine) it is developed with. This benchmark tool performs a number of tests to measure your system’s capability for running the “Metis engine”. Besides its profiling purpose, MilOps Benchmark is also a fully functional interactive visualization that allows you to roam the globe without limits. Players can interact with units, follow their movements or watch combat up close.

Shadowrun Returns Deluxe is now free - freegame
(hx) 06:28 PM EDT - Jun,21 2018 - Post a comment
The Humble Bundle is currently offering free copies of Shadowrun Returns Deluxe. Shadowrun Returns is a single player, turn-based tactical RPG that pays homage to the classics but with a modern twist, and its Deluxe version features the base game, as well as the Anthology DLC and the Soundtrack DLC.

GoW 5 is built from the ground up for the PC - briefly
(hx) 06:06 PM EDT - Jun,21 2018 - Post a comment
In an interview with Wired, Rod Fergusson, studio head at The Coalition, confirmed that Gears 5 (Gears of War 5) is built from the ground up for the PC. As such, Fergusson claims that PC gamers will be able to take advantage of all the types of different PC optimisation options they can have. Here's an excerpt: Having a game that we’re building from the ground up for PC [means players] will be able to take advantage of all the types of different PC optimisation options you can have. You’ll be able to max it to quite high. It’s still reasonably early, but we can usually get to 120fps. It’s obviously going to matter what hardware you’re using to get that – but it’ll be able to scale up that high, [if] the hardware can push it

Book of the Dead - Unity Interactive Demo - demo
(hx) 04:57 AM EDT - Jun,21 2018 - Post a comment
Book of the Dead demonstrates what is possible when using Unity 2018’s new Scriptable Render Pipeline, which provides enhanced customizability of Unity’s rendering architecture, putting more control in the hands of the developers. This project is built on the new High-Definition Render Pipeline template shipping with Unity 2018 and various powerful customizations enabled by the SRP. Moreover, all of the natural environment assets in the demo are photogrammetry-scanned real-world objects and textures. The majority of them come from Quixel Megascans, a publicly available library of high-quality scanned assets, which is used widely by high-end game production and film VFX professionals alike. The environments of the game are also built in a way that allows the player to move around and explore. The camera is a continuous first-person camera, and when the player is teleported to a different location, the transition feels like a cinematic cut.

Gameguru Mania News - Jun,20 2018 - all

Resident Evil 2 Remake - E3 2018 gameplay - movie
(hx) 06:27 PM EDT - Jun,20 2018 - Post a comment
Capcom has released an official video for Resident Evil 2 Remake, showing 5 minutes of gameplay footage from its E3 2018 build in glorious 4K. As Capcom has already stated, Resident Evil 2 Remake has been completely re-built from the ground up for a deeper narrative experience. Resident Evil 2 Remake is coming to the PC on January 25th, 2019!

WB will move everything to games as a service - briefly
(hx) 05:53 PM EDT - Jun,20 2018 - Post a comment / read (2)
In an interview with GamesBeat, David Haddad, president of Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment, revealed that the publisher plans to move everything to games as a service. This is the second publisher that invests as much to GaaS as possible, with Ubisoft already doing this with pretty much all of their franchises. But more than ever, the tech stack, whether it’s for publishing or BI or marketing, that you build and serve these games on—as we increasingly move everything to games as a service, the kind of enabling technology you need to keep them hyper-social, to keep them serving well, to keep them engaged, to take the innovations of game makers and deliver them, like the Nemesis system—you’ll see a lot of our investment not just in classic development, designers and engineers and artists, but increasingly in the teams that end up serving live games

Islands of Nyne: Battle Royale Gameplay - movie
(hx) 09:19 AM EDT - Jun,20 2018 - Post a comment / read (3)
Define Human Studios has released an official gameplay trailer for its upcoming battle royale game, Islands of Nyne: Battle Royale. Islands of Nyne: Battle Royale is powered by Unreal Engine 4 and is described as an online, competitive sci-fi first person shooter with a focus on last-man-standing gameplay. And today, Define Human Studios revealed that the game will hit Steam Early Access on July 12th. Islands of Nyne: Battle Royale will support 100 players, will come with three large and unique arenas. Each arena will come with its own specialized terrain and decorated with landmarks ranging from familiar Earth architecture such as Mayan temples, military bases, and modern urbanscapes to surreal alien landscapes completely unfamiliar to earth.

Destiny 2: Forsaken Video - movie
(hx) 05:50 AM EDT - Jun,20 2018 - Post a comment
The Forsaken expansion for Destiny 2 features a much-requested new bow and Bungie recently discussed the process behind creating this weapon. Forsaken is due out later this year on September 4 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Currently, the base version of the game along with its first two expansions are available on the same platforms.

Overkill's The Walking Dead Gameplay - movie
(hx) 05:48 AM EDT - Jun,20 2018 - Post a comment / read (1)
The chaps over at Polygon have shared a new video, showing 22 minutes of gameplay footage from the E3 2018 demo of Overkill’s The Walking Dead. This video will give you an idea of what you can expect from this first-person The Walking Dead game that will release on November 6th.

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Gameguru Mania News - Jun,19 2018 - all

The Spectrum Retreat Launch Trailer - movie
(hx) 07:05 PM EDT - Jun,19 2018 - Post a comment
Eerie first-person narrative puzzler The Spectrum Retreat arrives on PlayStation 4 from July 10th. Coming to Xbox One and Steam on July 13th. Coming to Nintendo Switch later this Summer. For those of you who aren’t aware, The Spectrum Retreat is a project from Dan Smith, who won the BAFTA Young Game Designer award back in 2016. After winning, Ripstone Games ended up approaching and partnering with him order to fully develop The Spectrum Retreat. When it comes to puzzles, the game features no reaction or physics based ones to make things more relaxing. Instead, puzzles in The Spectrum Retreat are based mostly on color-coding, and will progressivly get more difficult as the game goes on. I

PUBG discounted to $19.99 - briefly
(hx) 04:37 PM EDT - Jun,19 2018 - Post a comment / read (4)
Across the many platforms on which it is currently available - including Steam, Xbox One, iOS and Android, PUBG has racked up a total of 400 million players worldwide since it was launched as an Early Access title early last year. The game also boasts 227 million returning players every month, and 87 million daily players. Having sold over 50 million copies of the game between the PC and Xbox One, the studio wants to sell you even more of its flagship product with a massive 33% discount on the title, bringing its price to $19.99 on Steam for the first time ever. Alongside the currently existing Erangel and Miramar maps, the game is also set to receive a brand-new one called Sanhok later this month on June 22. That discount may be one way PUBG Corp. is trying to compete with Fornite's significant advantage as a free-to-play title, but that's not the only avenue it is pursuing in the fight to regain the top spot in the battle royale genre.

Serious Sam 4: Planet Badass - Gameplay Video - movie
(hx) 03:47 PM EDT - Jun,19 2018 - Post a comment / read (4)
Some people love wave shooters, some folks do not. If nothing else, this pre-alpha gameplay footage from Serious Sam4: Planet Badass looks great for the stage it is in. And of course you get to drive a combine harvester over hordes of enemies.

PlayStation Hits Launching 18th July - console
(hx) 03:41 PM EDT - Jun,19 2018 - Post a comment
In Amerca, the initial list of “PlayStation Hits” will consist of Bloodborne, Driveclub, inFAMOUS: Second Son, Killzone: Shadow Fall, LittleBigPlanet 3, Ratchet and Clank, The Last of Us: Remastered, Uncharted 4, Battlefield 4, Doom, Project CARS, Street Fighter V, Yakuza Kiwami, Yakuza Zero, and Metal Gear Solid V. European players will be receiving a similar list (sans Battlefield 4, Doom, Yakuza Kiwami, and Metal Gear Solid V), but will also be receiving Need For Speed, Need For Speed Rivals, EA Sports UFC 2, Earth Defense 4.1: The Shadow of New Despair, Dragon Ball Xenoverse, Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends Complete Edition, Watch_Dogs, Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag Rayman Legends, Mortal Kombat X, Batman Arkham Knight, and Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor. Just like its predecessor, “PlayStation Hits” titles will be available for $19.99 each.

Frostpunk update 1.1.0 is now available - patch
(hx) 12:19 PM EDT - Jun,19 2018 - Post a comment / read (1)
11 bit studios has released a brand new patch for Frostpunk. According to the release notes, this patch adds a Survivor Mode, achievements for the Survivor Mode, quick save/load functionalities, as well as support for NVIDIA’s Ansel. Moreover, this patch adds emergency shift trackers to pickable resources, adds blocking other panels by in-game menu, rebalances amount of starting resources and resources on frostland for Refugees and The Arks scenarios in easy and hard difficulty setting, increases precision of the gathered Steam Cores amount to 2 digits after comma and comes with numerous fixes. Steam will download this patch the next time you launch its clien New features:
Added Survivor Mode!
Survive against all odds. There’s no active pause, the game will be very difficult and your progress will be saved on exit only.
Added achievements for Survivor Mode
Brand new achievements that you can get only by beating the game on the Survivor Mode!
Added Ansel SDK integration
Ansel is a revolutionary new way to capture in-game shots and view in 360. Compose your screenshots from any position, adjust them with post-process filters, capture HDR images in high-fidelity formats, and share them in 360 degrees using your mobile phone, PC, or VR headset. That’s the theory. In practice, this tool allows you – among other things – to take super cool, high resolution screenshots like this one. You can learn more on the Ansel website.
Added quick save/load – default F5 and F9

MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries Gets Delayed to 2019 - briefly
(hx) 06:03 AM EDT - Jun,19 2018 - Post a comment / read (1)
MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries is being delayed until 2019 as detailed by Russ Bullock, President of Piranha Games Inc. The announcement comes in the form of a Tweet which explains that it’s being delayed in order to bring players the best single-player experience. The last time we saw a single-player campaign in the MechWarrior series was back in 2002 under the title MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries. It seems clear that Piranha Games wants to perfect the title that was due to release this December with four player co-op and mod support. Bullock stated that they’re going to leave determining and announcing a specific launch date until MechCon on December 1st. MechCon will see MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries available to play as a demo and will take place in Vancouver from December 1st to December 2nd.

Gameguru Mania News - Jun,18 2018 - all

Groove Coaster for Steam launches July 16 - briefly
(hx) 06:10 PM EDT - Jun,18 2018 - Post a comment / read (1)
Groove Coaster for Steam will launch on July 16 for $19.99, publisher Degica Games announced. The rhythm game will have limited offline play, requiring a Steam login every seven days.

CEMU 1.12.2 is now available for download - briefly
(hx) 05:52 PM EDT - Jun,18 2018 - Post a comment
The team behind the best WiiU emulator, CEMU, has released a brand new version that is currently available to all backers. CEMU 1.12.2 adds support for gl_FrontFacing in GPU7 shaders, adds experimental UI localization, optimizes code translation, brings small improvements to generated code, fixes a bug that could cause permanent 100% CPU usage on one core and optimizes draw calls by avoiding unnecessary render state checks. CEMU 1.12.2 will be available to the public on June 24th and below you can find its complete changelog, as well as some videos showing a number of games running in this new version of the WiiU emulator.

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