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Kingdom Two Crowns is out now on iOS, rolling out on Android

April 28, 2020 Kingdom Two Crowns is out right now on iOS, and we’ve updated this article with new information to reflect that.

The wait is over, folks. Kingdom Two Crowns is out right now on iOS, and is rolling out on Android over the course of the day. For those not in the know, it’s the sequel to Kingdom: New Lands and it expands on the original in a variety of different ways, introducing a story campaign, cooperative multiplayer, and a brand new feudal Japan setting.

If you haven’t experienced this series before, you play as a monarch who lands on the shores of a new kingdom and has to make it habitable. You begin by recruiting the locals (you literally just toss coins at them) to build, guard, hunt, and do whatever other menial task need performing. You start with literally nothing but will eventually have your very own castle, which is fully-functioning.

Your overarching goal is to fix a ship that will allow you to travel to the next island, at which point the experience starts all over again; albeit more challenging this time. But where does the challenge come from? Well, each night a variety of monstrous creatures attack your kingdom, and you have to make sure it’s well-defended. It’s a bit like a survival simulator in that sense.

Managing your budget is no small feat either. You start the game with a few coins, which you’ll quickly spend to pay the locals to build you stuff. Each time you recruit a local, build or upgrade something, or order a crafted item, you’ll spend cash. To replenish it, you need to hire hunters, invest in travelling merchants, or explore the nearby area for treasure. That is its own reward though, as the game is visually stunning in a retro kind of way.

The sequel expands on all of this by introducing a new story campaign, which challenges you to build a kingdom that stands the test of time and perhaps finishes off the monsters that plague it for good. There’s also a new cooperative mode that you can play in split screen (we’d recommend a tablet for that) or online.

There’s also a brand new setting: feudal Japan. It pretty much plays the same, but the visuals have seen a huge overhaul, with trees making way for bamboo and your buildings and characters taking on a Japanese flavour. Apparently this isn’t the only new setting we’ll get either, as Raw Fury has revealed that more are coming in future updates.

The first of these arrives today, too, in the form of Dead Lands. This expansion is a crossover with Metroidvania Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, featuring your favourite characters, which you can swap between on-the-fly, and a bunch of new mounts, which have all-new abilities. You can learn more about this expansion by reading our news article, which we’ve linked to beneath this post.

If you’re interested, you can grab Kingdom Two Crowns right now on iOS via the App Store, or keep an eye out on Google Play for when it launches in your territory. You might want to hit the pre-register button to receive a notification.

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KartRider Rush+ hit three million pre-registrations in just one week

Nexon’s upcoming multiplayer kart racer, KartRider Rush+, has hit three million pre-registrations in a single week, which is quite astounding really. The pre-registration period began on April 16, and on April 23, Nexon reported that over three million hungry mobile gamers had hit that pre-registration button already. It seems that Mario Kart Tour has some stiff competition on its hands.

You may recognise the name. That’s because KartRider is a fairly long-running series, with the first entry launching on PC back in 2004. This isn’t even the first time the series has made it to mobile, as another entry, KartRider Rush, launched on the App Store back in 2011. This is basically a bigger and better version of that.

It features a story mode, which introduces you to the various game modes. You can think of it as kind of a lengthy, and more entertaining, tutorial. In terms of modes, there’s Speed, which challenges you to go fast across a series of winding tracks, Arcade, which features sub-modes Item Race, Infini-Boost, and Lucci Runner. Rounding out the modes is Time Trial, which pits you against the clock, and Ranked, which challenges you to race through the ranks and show off your skills.

When not racing you can customise your racer with a wide variety of outfits, accessories, and karts. There’s a ton of cosmetic options, including decals and pets. You can also form a club with other players and participate in quests together, customise your own home, and participate in minigames.

KartRider Rush+ is expected to land on May 31 so there’s still time to pre-register for it if you’re interested. You’ll earn the following rewards at launch just for doing so:

  • Skelemech kart
  • Sluggar Dao character
  • 5,000 turbo crystals
  • Angel wing headgear
  • Star driftmoji
  • 1,000 Lucci coins
  • 3,000 k-coins
  • 500 Lucci

You’ll also earn bonus rewards for pre-registering via Google Play or the App Store, including:

  • Prism plate
  • Prism helmet
  • CA goggles
  • CA plate

If you’re interested, you can pre-register right now on the official site, or via Google Play or the App Store. We’ll see you at the starting line on May 31.

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Activision has announced a Call of Duty: Mobile world championship 2020 tournament

Activision has announced the Call of Duty: Mobile world championsip 2020 tournament in partnership with Sony. It opens on April 30 to all players ranked veteran or above in multiplayer, with a bunch of exclusive cosmetics and cash prizes available to those lucky few who make it to the top. There’s over $1 million in prizes in total, sponsored by Sony.

The tournament will take place over numerous different stages, the first of which is the qualifiers. These take place between April 30 and May 24, and will see players ranked at least veteran in multiplayer duke it out for in-game rewards. The battles will take place on each weekend during this period, and the absolute best will qualify for stage two.

There are four weekends in total to compete in, and you’ll earn tournament points for your first ten ranked matches each weekend. You’ll receive more points for a win at higher ranks, and your goal is to hit 80 points in one of the four weekends to qualify for stage two. Even if you don’t make it that far, there are rewards up for grabs just for earning tournament points and signing up.

To compete, you’ll need an eligible mobile device, be over 18 years old, and live in a participating region. You’ll also need to be at least veteran rank in multiplayer, as we mentioned earlier.

Looking ahead at stage two, you’ll need to form a team out of qualified players and compete together to progress to further stages. Activision is yet to announce the full details of further stages yet though, including prizes.

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You can grab Call of Duty: Mobile right now from the App Store or Google Play. If you want to compete, there’s still time to boost your rank to veteran, making you eligible.

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We’re giving away 10 codes for RPG The Greater Good

If you grew up playing classics like Chrono Trigger or Final Fantasy VII, you really should check out the brand new premium JRPG The Greater Good. Developed by the lone wolf Sam Enright, The Greater Good wears nostalgia like a woolly jumper, featuring everything that you love about your favourite genre.

The visuals both harken back to that bygone era while remaining distinctly modern. In fact, we can’t really compare it to any other title directly. It combines minimalist characters and environmental backdrops with flashy visual effects, creating quite the eye-catching juxtaposition. Sonically, it’s a similar story, with a pleasingly modern-yet-retro electronic soundtrack produced by EnrightBeats, Sam’s musical alter-ego.

Those modern-yet-retro sensibilities are entirely deliberate, with Sam’s goal to fill the gap between the classics and the JRPGs today. The Greater Good offers us a glimpse of what a classic JRPG might have looked like had the genre continued to thrive during the 3D boom, which is a mission shared by Tokyo RPG Factory, who push out the likes of I am Setsuna and Lost Sphear.

Play The Greater Good and it’ll feel very familiar though. The turn-based combat is reminiscent of Final Fantasy VII, as is the user interface. There’s also heaps of humour, a wide variety of environments to explore, hidden areas and secrets to uncover, and a deep skill system. If you find you love it so much that you can’t get enough of it, there are optional superbosses to try and defeat and a New Game Plus mode.

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The Greater Good launches today, April 22, on the App Store (no Android as of yet) and to celebrate we’re giving away ten codes to our lucky readers. To get in with a chance of winning, you simply need to complete the Gleam form below, which shouldn’t take you longer than a handful of minutes.

We’ll need your full name and email address so we can contact you in a week’s time if you win. We also require that you read our full terms and conditions before you enter, listed here.

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If you’d simply like to grab The Greater Good right now, you can grab it on the App Store right now for $3.99 (£3.99).

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Raw Fury announces Kingdom Two Crowns: Dead Lands for mobile

Raw Fury has announced a big expansion for Kingdom Two Crowns that features characters from the hit Metroidvania Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. It’s called Dead Lands, and it allows you to play as a few of your favourite characters from Bloodstained on a wide variety of new mounts. This also marks a new feature for the series, which allows you to change your mount on the fly.

Each of the mounts have different abilities too, including a beetle that lays traps, an undead mount that summons barriers, and the horse Gamigin, which has a powerful charge attack. Perhaps more exciting than this is the new ability to swap between the four different monarchs available as part of this expansion: Miriam, Zangetsu, Gebel, and Alfred. Each monarch has its own unique trait, allowing you to adapt your approach on the fly like never before.

The best news is that the Dead Lands expansion will launch entirely for free, along with the mobile version of Two Crowns, on April 28. The mobile version costs $8.99 (£8.99) and includes new co-op modes, a brand new touch control scheme, and controller support.

In other Raw Fury-related news, the publisher is holding a big spring sale to celebrate the sunshine. Many of its excellent titles are available at huge reductions across the App Store and Google Play. This includes the likes of strategy great Bad North, cyberpunk point-and-click adventure Whispers of a Machine, and Metroidvania Dandara, which recently saw a big content drop itself.

The prices across the board appear to have dropped by roughly 50%, which is pretty substantial. In a disappointing move, Kingdom: New Lands hasn’t seen any discount in price, which seems a bit surprising given that the sequel, Kingdom Two Crowns, launches in just over a week on April 28. You’d think this would be a good opportunity to pick up a few new users.

You can pre-register for Kingdom Two Crowns right now on Google Play or pre-order it on the App Store. You can also check out Raw Fury’s sale on iOS or Android and grab yourself a bargain.

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Pokémon Masters will soon let you pick your partner Pokémon

You’ll soon be able to select your own partner Pokémon in Pokémon Masters, thanks to the brand new eggs feature coming soon. When it arrives, you’ll be able to select from one of three gen one monsters: Bulbasaur, Charmander, or Squirtle, at which point your chosen monster will hatch from its egg and you can form a sync pair with them.

Developer DeNA has also revealed three more eggs planned for a future date, which appear to feature Meowth, Scyther, and Tauros. Even more eggs will arrive in future updates too, so it seems like you’ll soon have a huge list of Pokémon you can partner up with.

In other news, DeNA has also revealed that the next legendary event will feature Ho-Oh, and will debut a brand new feature: the prize box. This allows you to collect prize coins by participating in the event, which will allow you to progress further in the event. This event will also see the introduction of the reward boost ticket, an item that boosts the rewards of a battle of your choosing.

DeNA has also detailed plans to make sync orbs easier to obtain by introducing the following measures:

  • You’ll no longer have a chance to get sync orbs from single-player and co-op battles
  • Sync orbs can now drop from supercourses
  • The chance of sync-orb drops from events has been increased

In short, you’ll now be able to get a fixed number of sync orbs for specific sync pairs from supercourses, and you’ll get more from events too.

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Looking forward, a legendary arena mode is coming soon, though we likely won’t hear about it until mid-May, when DeNA will provide the next message.

If you’d like to get back into Pokémon Masters, you can grab it right now on iOS or Android via the App Store and Google Play respectively.

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Dead by Daylight Mobile is out now

Behaviour Interactive’s mobile port of the multiplayer survival horror game, Dead by Daylight, is out right now. The mobile version plays almost exactly the same as the original, with four players taking on the roles of survivors and a single player acting as murderous psychopath. Survivors attempt to escape without getting killed, the killer does the killing.

It’s not as simple as running to the exit or chopping heads off though, as both survivor and killer have a bunch of mechanics to keep in mind that help them complete objectives. Survivors, for example, can’t harm the killer at all. Instead, they have to use the power of stealth to avoid the enemy, hiding behind or inside objects, and moving as quietly as possible.

However, you won’t always be able to visually see the killer, which is where your terror radius comes in. When you get close to the killer, you’ll hear a heartbeat sound. This becomes louder as you get closer to the killer, at which point you’ll be able to see where the killer is looking thanks to a red cone of light in front of them.

While survivors can’t actively attack the killer, you can help your fellows to escape capture by temporarily blinding or stunning the killer. You can also heal your teammates when they get injured. In terms of actually escaping though, you have to attempt to repair five generators dotted around the map. Doing so makes a lot of noise, which can attract the killer to your position. Once you’ve repaired all of the generators, you can head straight towards the exit gates.

Meanwhile, killers have their own set of mechanics to help them hunt and butcher survivors. Due to your heightened senses, you can see tracks and bloodstains left behind by survivors, as well as track their location when you hear a loud noise. You can also run faster than a survivor, which helps you catch them when spotted. If you do catch them, you’ll have to attack them to knock them down, and you’ve got both a short-range and lunge attack to help you. Two hits, and the survivor is down.

To actually kill a survivor, you have to carry them to one of the various sacrificial hooks dotted around the map. You’ll have to be quick and careful though, as survivors can wriggle free, stunning you in the process, or be saved by their fellows. If you manage to successfully transport a survivor to the hook, you’ll still have to be on your guard, as survivors can still attempt to escape and their teammates can rescue them.

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Dead by Daylight Mobile is basically the same game, just redesigned for mobile. You’ll find the progression system, which provides a bunch of different characters, perks, and cosmetics to unlock, intact, as well as a redesigned UI and controls for mobile. If you’d like to check it out, go ahead and grab Dead by Daylight right now on iOS or Android via the App Store or Google Play respectively.

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Scrappers is the latest Apple Arcade release

Apple Arcade has a brand new title in the form of Scrappers, a multiplayer beat-’em-up in which you literally clean up the streets as a team of robot garbage collectors. It takes place in the future, after humanity has destroyed itself. We thought it was a great idea to fire all of the world’s rubbish into space in a rocket, which subsequently crashed down and destroyed the planet.

Skip to the not-so-distant future and robots have taken over. Trash has become a valuable commodity; so much so that rival gangs now stalk the streets looking to keep it all for themselves, and you have to fight them off as you complete your daily rounds. You can partner up with three other players in multiplayer, or go it alone across the game’s over 20 different stages.

There are two key components to Scrappers: cleaning up the streets and beating up any fools trying to stop you. You run around picking up trash and passing it to your teammates, who are carrying a huge stack. The larger the stack, and the more you work together as a team, the greater the rewards.

Then there’s the combat, which should appeal to fans of Streets of Rage. You perform a variety of different combos and attacks, whether it’s with a weapon or your fists. You can unlock new weapons and ‘Scrappers’ (playable characters) by getting high scores, which also provides custom parts that you can use to tweak your garbage truck.

Aside from the lengthy campaign, there are a bunch of minigames to participate in, which you unlock by completing levels on a Super Mario World-style map. There are four different areas to travel through, which are wholly different from each other visually.

If you think you have what it takes to clean up the city of Junktown, head on over to the App Store right now and download it. You’ll need an Apple Arcade subscription to play it.

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Pokémon Go gets an online leaderboard later today

Right in time for the bank holiday weekend (depending where you are), Niantic is gearing up to drop an exciting new feature in Pokémon Go: online leaderboards. These tie into the Go Battle League feature, and provide you with a list of the top 500 players statistically. The leaderboard hasn’t gone live yet, but you’ll be able to see it at the official Pokémon Go live website as soon as the Go Battle League changes to Master League from Ultra.

The leaderboard will detail the top 500 players’ nicknames, teams, ranks, ratings, and the total number of battles played. This information is taken from the previous day’s statistics, and will update between 20:00 and 22:00 UTC each day. If you want to make it on the leaderboard, you’ll not only have to be a good enough battler, but you’ll also have to ensure that you don’t have an offensive nickname.

To celebrate the launch of the Go Battle League leaderboards, Niantic is hosting a Go Battle Day event on Sunday, which features the Pokémon Marill. The more battles you perform between 11:00 and 14:00 in your local time zone, the higher the chance you’ll have of encountering the fan-favourite Pokémon.

Marill will also appear as a guaranteed reward after your first and third wins, though those who own a premium battle pass will get Marill after every single win. All players will also receive twice the normal amount of stardust for catching Marill.

Niantic is also extending the number of battles you can perform for the entirety of Sunday (in your local time). Rather than the five sets of battles you can typically perform, Niantic is increasing this to 20. That’s a whopping 100 battles for those who want to participate.

If you’re interested, you can go ahead and grab Pokémon Go from the App Store or Google Play right now and get ready for the online leaderboards going live later today. The Go Battle Day event happens on Sunday.

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