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Service for Dragalia Lost begins starting today!

Service for Dragalia Lost begins starting today!

To commemorate the start of service for Dragalia Lost, there will be a celebratory log-in bonus, as well as Jumpstart Endeavors. Read on for more info!

1. Celebratory log-in bonus: From the start of service until 2018/10/31 at 07:59AM PT.

Each day you log in during the availability period, for up to seven days, you’ll receive 150 wyrmite (that’s enough for one summon!).

2. Jumpstart Endeavors: From when you first log in until 14 days have passed (Example: If you first log in on 10/1 (Monday) 06:00AM PT, you would have until 10/14 (Sunday) 05:59AM PT.

You’ll get in-game rewards for completing Jumpstart Endeavors within the availability period. These rewards include wyrmite and mana, which you can use to power up your adventurers.

If you complete all Jumpstart Endeavors, you can earn a Tenfold Summon Voucher!

Note: The details of the log-in bonus and Jumpstart Endeavor, as well as the availability period, may change without notice.

Event:

The Loyalty’s Requiem raid event will begin on 2018/09/30 (Sunday) at 11:00PM until 2018/10/08 (Monday) at 10:59PM PT. During this event, you can use Co-op Play to fight against the flame raid boss!

Note: Period for Accepting Rewards: 2018/09/30 (Sunday) at 11:00 until 2018/10/15 (Monday) 10:59PM PT. You will be able to perform blazon summons and accept emblem rewards between these times.

In this event, you can take on the event-specific quest to defeat the flame raid boss and earn rewards.

If you increase your Friendship with Celliera, a character who appears in the event, you’ll be able to officially add her to your group of adventurers.

Use blazons and emblems collected during the event to get the dragon Pele and the Paladyn Defender wyrmprint! For more information about raid events, see the How to Play section of the raid event page.

If the event ends while you are in a battle, the battle will continue until the results are determined. You will be able to gain rewards according to the results of the battle.

■Temporary Characters

  • Friendship with temporary characters in your party increases when you complete quests.
  • If you achieve maximum friendship during the event, the character will remain with you after the event ends.
  • If a character joins your group for good, you will be able to include them in your party even after the event has ended.
  • The temporary character’s level, stats, equipment, and position in your party will be maintaine

■Raid Battles

Raid battles are co-op battles where up to four players can use four adventurers each, bringing up to 16 characters to challenge a raid boss.

There are three difficulty levels for raid battles: Beginner, Standard, and Expert.

To participate in a raid battle, you must either create a room as the host, or join a room as a guest.

  • For Hosts: Creating a room requires otherworld fragments and stamina. You can obtain otherworld fragments from boss battles.
  • For Guests: Otherworld fragments are not required to participate in Co-op Play. Getherwings will be used.

To challenge raid battles, you must be capable of challenging the same difficulty as the Host.

■Extra Raid Battles

There is a chance that extra raid battles will open up for hosts who clear raid battles on Expert.

There are no difficulties for these battles.

The extra raid battle will end once cleared.

If you are unable to complete the quest, you will be able to challenge it again.

  • For Hosts: Creating a room requires otherworld fragments.
  • For Guests: Otherworld fragments are not required to participate in Co-op Play. Getherwings will be used. You can participate regardless of whether or not the extra raid battle has opened up for you.

To participate, you must have cleared the raid battle on Expert.

■ Blazon Summons

Clear boss battles and raid battles to obtain peregrine blazons.

You can use the blazons you collected for the event’s blazon summoning to get event-specific dragons, wyrmprints, and other rewards.

If you receive a resettable dragon Pele as a reward, you can reset the summon content.

After your 5th reset, you must accept all rewards.

■Emblems

You can get rewards such as items and event-specific wyrmprints based on the total number of emblems you gathered during the event.

■Event Quests

You can challenge these quests during the event.

There are two types of event quests: Daily and Limited.

■Notes:

1. During raid battles, you will only recover 1/4 of the amount of HP from certain skills and abilities.

2. You must clear Ch. 2 / 1-1 (Normal) to participate in Event Quests.

3. You must clear Ch. 2 / 2-1 (Normal) to participate in Co-op Play.

4. If you do not reach maximum friendship with temporary characters during the event, they will not join you after the event ends, regardless of their level or stats.

5. If a temporary character joins you after the event ends, you will be able to read their Adventurer Story.

6. You will not be able to use blazons, emblems, or otherworld fragments obtained in this event in future events.

7. The event schedule and content may change without warning.


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SKIP Programming Language Released By Facebook

SKIP, previously known as Reflex, is a general purpose programming language developed as a research project at Facebook over the last 3 years.  Facebook have finished development and authorized the language lead developer to release the project as open source.  SKIP is available on Github under the MIT source license.

The leader developer made the following Tweet announcing the release today:

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You can learn more about the language at http://skiplang.com/.  The language can be downloaded as a Docker image, with full installation instructions available here.  There is also a web based playground application for trying out SKIP on the website.  SKIP is described as:

Skip is a general-purpose programming language that tracks side effects to provide caching with reactive invalidation, ergonomic and safe parallelism, and efficient garbage collection. Skip is statically typed and ahead-of-time compiled using LLVM to produce highly optimized executables.

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Get demonic with Meteorfall: Journey’s latest free update

By Joe Robinson 26 Sep 2018

Not only did Meteorfall: Journey win our hearts and minds when it released back in February, it also earned itself a place in our compendium to the best card games around. But you don’t reach such acclaim by being complacent – developer Slothworks have been hard a work making the game is updated with free patches and content update.

The most recent Demon update (Full Patch Notes) adds a new difficulty level which unlocks a set of progressively more difficult challenges. It also adds new demonic enemies, new quests and 18 new cards in total. This update has been in testing all through-out September, so there’s been a (demonic) horde of balance changes and bug fixes as well.

This marks the second major free content expansion for the game, with the first update being the Necrodude update back in May.

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The Best Word Games Apps on iOS and Android

Like puzzle games, word games are synonymous with ‘gaming on the go.’ They are often designed with a life on the move in mind. Any given round of word finding, or letter stacking can last just long enough to span the wait for a morning coffee. This sort of quick convenience has led to a devaluation of word games. We don’t respect them like we should. We are wrong.

Want to check out some non-word puzzle games? We’ve got you covered!

There are some incredible word games available in the palms of our hands, but with the massive crush of content that hits the App Store and Google Play store every day, it’s very difficult to find them. Fret no longer, we’ve curated a list of the must play word games available to mobile platforms, so you don’t have to.

Developer: Fowers Games
Platforms:  iOS Universal, Android
Price: $4.99

Hardback best wrod games

This deck-building word game would feel just at home on our list of best card games as it would here, but since Hardback’s central twist is that cards are only playable in a Scrabble-esque system of dictionary-friendly sets, we feel it’s apt to list is here. The sequel to 2016’s Paperback, the key thing to remember about this game is that you can’t play it as ‘just’ a word game.

The beauty of Hardback is that you’re not just out to score long, multi-lettered words, you’re out to play cards that combo well together to acheive high scores. This can be as simple as collecting a great set of cards that just say ‘OFF’, or indeed bagging a great collection for a longer word. The limitations to playing cards as words adds a challenging yet interesting twist to a classic game-type. Main changes over the first iteration include tweaks to Wild Cards, Special Abilities and additional card draw.

Supertype

Developer: Philipp Stollenmayer
Platforms:  iOS, Android
Price: $1.99

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We get accustomed to the sort of word games that have us finding and planted letters to make words. If we’re feeling particularly creative, we find word games that are just complex versions of word finds or crosswords set in some other sort of puzzle motif. In Supertype, words are tools. After typing a word, the letters fall through the obstacle course below, the goal being to find the right letters to roll or slide through the right nooks and crannies in order to burst the target dots below. On harder puzzles, making sure your word has skinny enough letters in the right places is key to shimmying into victory.

Wordgraphy

Developer: Alper Iskender
Platforms: iOS
Price: Free with IAPs

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Wordgraphy takes the old trope of unscrambling arrays of letters to make new words and crosses it with some Sudoku elements. Words line the outside of the table, and letters can only be switched with letters in the same position as other letter groups on each side. For example, the second letter in a five letter array at the top of the square board can only be swapped with the second letter of another of the other for arrays lining the other side. The result is a clever word construction gimmick that keeps you guessing and tests the depth of your own vocabulary very quickly.

BAIKOH

Developer: Mum Not Proud
Platforms: iOS, Android
Price: Free with IAPs

BAIKOHWG

Take the pressure of a gradually filling space that has to be emptied by you, the intrepid player, a la Tetris. Combine the added bonus stress of each falling piece being a letter that needs to be used to create words as fast as you can. Then sprinkle on top a narrator that has an aggressive ire towards you, and you have all the ingredients for BAIKOH. Falling letters can come with added attributes as well, like frozen ones that will gradually freeze other letters, making them harder to remove. Unlockable badges can help even out the playing field, but this is a hard game meant to push your reflexes and critical thinking skills to the limit and break them on rapid occasion.

Sidewords

Developer: Milkbag Games
Platforms: iOS, Android
Price: $2.99

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Taking words and making other words out of them is nothing new in the genre, but Sidewords commands a new, brain-bending approach to the concept. On the top and to the left of a grid are two words. The size of those words determines the size of the grid, which each letter creating a row or column. Using the letters of the two words, you must make new words of course. But the twist is that the words you make take up the spots on the grid where those letters intersect. You have to fill the whole grid with words to move on, so using a lot of letters to make a word can take up a lot of real estate in the grid, making it hard to create words with the scraps. Strategy and spatial awareness are key.

Spelltower

Developer: Zach Gage
Platforms:  iOS
Price: $2.99

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Before Zach Gage was upending billiards, he was setting the word game world one fire with entries like Spelltower. Take your average Sunday paper word finding puzzle and add that block-crushing Tetris mechanic that we all know and lover. New letters file in from the bottom, and you must find words with adjacent letters to removed them from the ever growing pile. Different game modes alter the many mechanics at play, including a clever multiplayer mode that burdens your opponent with your current tower of words when you score.

Puzzlejuice

Developer: Sirvo LLC
Platforms: iOS
Price: $1.99

PuzzlejuiceWG

A brainchild from Asher Vollmer, of Threes! fame, Puzzlejuice takes the best parts of Boggle and Tetris and slaps them together to make something that is much more challenging than the sum of its parts. Colorful shapes drop into the field like Tetris, and as you form lines or match colors, they turn into letters. To remove the blocks, you must turn those letters into words. There’s a lot going on at once, and as difficulties unlock, and different play modes open up, this becomes one of the most brain-turning games on the App store.

TypeShift

Developer: Zach Gage
Platforms:  iOS, Android
Price: Free with IAP

TypeShiftWG

Another Zach Gage joint, TypeShift focuses on redesigning the good old crossword puzzle. Columns of letters can be slid back and forth to create a series of words among them on a central row. Every time a letter is used in a word, they turn green. You pass the stage when all of the available letters are turned green. Sounds easy enough, but of course it’s not. Other modes, like Clue Mode, bring it further in line with the traditional crossword.  Either way, a few rounds of it, and you’ll be scratching your head in the best possible way.

What would your list of the best word-puzzle games look like? Let us know in the comments!

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Mysterious new Pokémon appears in Pokémon GO

Mysterious new Pokémon appears in Pokémon GO

The Pokémon Company International, Niantic, Inc., and Nintendo announced today that a new Mythical Pokémon has been discovered in the world of Pokémon GO: Meltan!

Meltan is a Steel-type Pokémon with a body made mostly of liquid metal, which makes its shape very fluid. This Pokémon can use its liquid arms and legs to corrode metal and absorb it into its body. Meltan can generate electricity using the metal it absorbs from outside sources. It uses this electricity as an energy source and for an attack it fires from its eye.

Name: Meltan
Category: Hex Nut Pokémon
Height: 0’08”
Weight: 17.6 lbs.
Type: Steel

In Pokémon GO, sightings of Ditto that have transformed into Meltan have been reported. Professor Oak and Professor Willow have started research on Meltan. Professor Oak, one of the leading authorities in the field of Pokémon research, is based in the Kanto region’s Pallet Town. In Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee!, he gives a Pokédex to both you and your rival—entrusting you with his dream of completing it. Meanwhile, with the help of Pokémon GO players around the world, Professor Willow conducts his research in the field to fully understand the habitats and distribution of Pokémon. He was once an assistant to Professor Oak, and he talks to Oak, his mentor, whenever he runs into a hitch in his research.

It has been determined that Pokémon GO is somehow key to meeting Meltan in Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! Updates will be provided as more is discovered about this mysterious Mythical Pokémon.

Pokémon GO, a mobile game that encourages fans to discover and catch Pokémon in the real world, is available for download both for iPhone in the App Store and for Android devices on Google Play.

Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! will be available exclusively for the Nintendo Switch™ system on November 16, 2018. For more information, please visit Pokemon.com/pokemonletsgo.


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Arena of Valor, one of the world’s most popular free-to-play games, is now available for Nintendo Switch!

Arena of Valor, one of the world’s most popular free-to-play games, is now available for Nintendo Switch!

Build the ultimate team with your friends to crush your opponents in the hit MOBA game!

Explore and command a roster of over 39 fearless heroes, with roles including Tank, Assassin, Mage, Support, Warrior and Marksman. First Blood, Double Kill, Triple Kill and all the features MOBA fans know and love will be included. Discover and dominate all the gameplay modes, including 5v5, 3v3, 1v1, and a unique “Hook Wars” mode that will challenge your skills and prove your hero as a true champion!

Features:

Classic 5v5 MOBA, Perfected for Nintendo Switch:
Carve your way through jungles, lanes, and towers, draw first blood and destroy the enemy Core. Intuitive controls specifically designed for Nintendo Switch will have you racking up kills with ease and make you an MVP in no time!

Got What It Takes? Free to Play Forever:
In Arena of Valor, it’s all about skill. We strive to create the most riveting and balanced gameplay, so you can turn the tide of battle and vie for glory no matter the odds. Win or lose, every action counts!

Growing Number of Legendary Heroes:
Explore and command a roster of over 39 fearless heroes and counting, including a variety of Tanks, Assassins, Mages, Support, Warriors, and Marksmen. Build the perfect team to crush your opponents in battle!

Play with Your Friends in Quick Pace Matches:
Team up with your friends, guild buddies or players all around the world in an instant. Carry your team to victory in quick pace and intensive matches.

If you would like to download the game for free, please visit https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/arena-of-valor-switch.


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