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The Unfinished Swan, from the developer of Edith Finch, is out now on iOS

Annapurna Interactive has released the artistic adventure game, The Unfinished Swan on iOS. The game was originally developed by Giant Sparrow, now famous for the popular indie title, What Remains of Edith Finch, and was actually the developer’s first game.

The Unfinished Swan sees you step into the shoes of Monroe, a ten year old orphan who is chasing a swan that escaped from a painting, and ran off into a mysterious storybook kingdom. You traverse the world in chapters, using paint to find a path through different regions, but also encountering all sorts of strange and wonderful characters in search of the eccentric ruler who built the realm.

The Unfinished Swan was originally released on the PS3 back in 2012, and though it’s also available on PS4, never made its way to PC. The game was highly praised, though, and even won two BAFTAs in 2013: one for game innovation, and the other for best debut game. It’s exciting to see The Unfinished Swan make its way to mobile, as we think the walking-simulator-esque format will really suit the platform.

If you want to watch some gameplay for yourself, check out the original launch trailer below:

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You can find The Unfinished Swan on the App Store, where it will set you back $4.99 (£4.99).

If you’re looking for some other similar titles, see our best mobile puzzle games guide, or our best iOS games list!

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Get a free premium pass in grand strategy game Supremacy 1!

Grand strategy is a tough genre to bring to mobile, after all, how do you fit something so big into something so small? But you’d be surprised what’s possible when developers put their minds to it. Long term grand strategy has become especially popular on mobile in recent years, and it’s understandable when you consider that long term strategy is basically idle strategy, as you log on once per day, make a few tactical choices, and then forget about it until the next. It’s a genre which suits mobile surprisingly well.

That’s why we’ve decided to partner with Bytro Labs this week for our giveaway, to hand out some premium passes for WW1 game, Supremacy 1. In each campaign of Supremacy, you play against up to 84 players per match, and face off against each other to take control of the map. These games can last weeks, and sometimes even up to a month, so if you like depth to your strategy, this might be one for you.

Each premium pass gives you one month of High Command, which grants you a building queue, and rally points in the game, which essentially allows you to stack commands for units after they’ve finished recruiting.

If Supremacy 1 sounds like your kind of game, we’ve got Android and iOS entry forms below. Though, if you are going to enter, please do see our terms and conditions first!

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Supremacy 1 – Android Giveaway

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Supremacy 1 – iOS Giveaway

For those of you that are eager to get started, Supremacy 1 is free to download on Google Play and the App Store. If you want some similar recommendations, our lists of the best mobile war games, and the best mobile strategy games have what you seek.

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Get a first look at Summoners War: Chronicles in the Gamescom 2020 trailer

Com2us presented Summoners War: Chronicles, the upcoming MMORPG sequel to the long-running gacha RPG, Summoners War, in a brand new gameplay trailer during Gamescom 2020. We have to say, it’s looking pretty snazzy. It shows off some of the fancy new traversal features, including climbing down cliffsides and whizzing down ziplines, as well as plenty of combat.

That’s where Summoners War: Chronicles seems to really shine. At first glance, it looks like a typical MMORPG, complete with a wide variety of gear to equip, flashy skills to unleash, and giant boss monsters to vanquish. Glance again, though, and you’ll recognise a few of your favourite monsters from the original. You still play as a summoner here, and bringing your favourite monsters into battle with you remains a big part of the experience.

There are plenty of opportunities to kick back though, with lifestyle skills playing a big part this time around. We got a glance at fishing, gathering herbs, and mining, and it all looked like a very relaxing way to spend an evening after a long day at work.

Check out the Gamescom 2020 gameplay trailer below:

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Overall, it looks all set to be a nice expansion to the existing Summoners War universe, with a wide variety of new content to enjoy. Most importantly, you can enjoy it with friends in fully persistent areas. This is an MMORPG, after all.

In other news, Com2us has announced a crossover with Street Fighter, which also received a teaser trailer at Gamescom. Your favourite characters, including Ryu, Ken, M. Bison, Chun-Li, and Dhalsim make an appearance as playable monsters in the original Summoners War. The best part is, you can experience this content right now.

Here’s a taste of what to expect:

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You can grab Summoners War on iOS or Android via the App Store or Google Play respectively. We’re not sure exactly when Summoners War: Chronicles will arrive on mobile, but we’ll keep you posted as soon as we learn more.

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The Garena Free Fire and Money Heist crossover Plan Bermuda is now live

The latest heist in Garena Free Fire is now live in-game. Plan Bermuda is an unlikely crossover between Free Fire and Netflix’s Money Heist, also known as La Casa de Papel. Plan Bermuda introduces a full in-game takeover, a new four-on-four game mode, and a fresh collection of classic outfits inspired by the Money Heist TV show.

As part of the Plan Bermuda update, a new game arrives in Garena Free Fire. Money Heist mode drops on September 19, and sees opposing teams race to collect the most cash before time runs out. The mode is best described as a domination-style game, where you have to gain control of a money printer and defend it to secure the cash. Whichever team reaches the allotted amount of cash inside the time limit wins.

Some other in-game activities arrive on September 6, but the Money Printing event won’t be available until September 12. This event focuses around printing money for prizes, and you can speed up the printing by completing daily events, recruiting friends, and adding Printer Fuel Tokens. The ultimate goal is to earn one million dollars before the event ends on September 22.

If you want to know more, you can watch a trailer for the event below:

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Plan Bermuda will also feature some new cosmetics, such as Money Heist themes, Plan Bermuda parachutes, and Shinobi, Kunoichi, and Street outfits

“Creating memorable experiences for our Free Fire community is key,” says Harold Teo, producer at Garena, regarding the partnership. “There are few better ways to do so than by teaming up with one of the most popular Netflix series, Money Heist.”

If you want to play the event for yourself, you can find Garena Free Fire on Google Play and the App Store. For more similar recommendations, see our list of the best mobile multiplayer games!

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Dawn Awakening is a promising open-world zombie game launching in closed beta this month

Dawn Awakening is a zombie survival game from Tencent, who also brought us PUBG Mobile and Call of Duty: Mobile. While we don’t have an exact release date, we can confirm Dawn Awakening enters a closed beta test in China on September 16.

Tencent’s Lightspeed & Quantum studios revealed that Dawn Awakening aims to bring a console-like survival experience to mobile. The two-minute trailer revealed integral parts of gameplay, including scavenging for supplies, building your own base out in the wilderness, and tonnes of zombies. We were also given a glimpse at the world map, revealing multiple locations to explore, including small towns, a once densely populated metropolis, and plenty of wilderness.

What may well set Dawn Awakening apart from the myriad of zombie survival games on mobile is the dynamic weather, deadly interactive environments, and your survival meters. It appears that even features like cleanliness have been taken into account, as dirty clothes attract zombies, and poor hygiene upsets NPCs. Whether you are a fan of Tencent or not, Dawn Awakening looks like a well-polished, base-building, zombie survival game built for mobile.

Daniel Ahmad, a senior analyst at Niko Partners, broke the news over Twitter and was kind enough to include the new trailer. If you haven’t seen anything about Dawn Awakening, then we thoroughly recommend watching the trailer below.

Precise details about Dawn Awakening are still emerging, but it looks like the game definitely has a base-building component, as well as some character management, all while avoiding the swarms of bloodthirsty ravenous zombies.

If you would like to pre-register for Dawn Awakening, you can do so from the TapTap website for both Android and iOS devices.

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Garena Free Fire adds Jai its first Indian character

Garena, the Singapore based publisher of Free Fire, has unveiled its first Indian playable character based on Bollywood actor Hrithik Roshan. The new character, Jai, also sees the introduction of an exciting new campaign called ‘be the hero’.

This new addition to Free Fire comes after the Indian ministry of information and technology decided to ban over a hundred mobile games and applications, including PUBG Mobile and PUBG Mobile Lite. It is well known that PUBG Mobile has a huge fan base in India, with over 175 million downloads since the game’s launch. Indian PUBG players have been aware of an incoming ban since as early as last year and began looking for battle royale alternatives. Interestingly, Free Fire’s popularity has grown over 880% in India since September 2019, significantly more than PUBG’s growth of 261% over the same period.

Garena is also not under scrutiny from the Indian Government as the ban has only affected Chinese-based mobile applications so far. This new character could be Garena’s opportunity to draw in more players following the widescale ban.

The character collaboration with Hrithik Roshan isn’t Garena’s first either. Alok was another character introduction based upon the popular Brazilian DJ of the same name. Free Fire also recently ran a collaboration the with Netflix series, Money Heist, adding a game mode and a bunch of new outfits.

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If you’re unsure about giving Garena Free Fire a go then check out the new character trailer above. We also have a list of great battle royale games, for anyone affected by the PUBG Mobile India ban.

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The Witcher: Monster Slayer shows off its first gameplay trailer

CD Projekt has revealed some gameplay for its new Witcher mobile game on Android and iOS. The Witcher: Monster Slayer is a location-based monster-hunting RPG, where you take on the role of a Witcher and travel the Continent, dealing death to its most fearsome beasties. The game is developed and published by Spokko, an independent mobile game development studio who became part of the CD Projekt Red group in 2018. Here’s the setup for the game:

“Foul creatures roam the vast lands of the Continent — and it falls to those known as witchers to hunt them down. Set long before the time of Geralt of Rivia, The Witcher: Monster Slayer is an augmented-reality exploration game that challenges you to become an elite monster hunter. See the world around you transformed into the dark fantasy realm of The Witcher, and explore once-familiar locations now infested with dangerous beasts as you start on the path as a professional monster slayer.”

The new gameplay footage shows sword combat that looks somewhat remiscent of The Elder Scrolls: Blades, with blocking and directional sword swipes. But there are also bombs available, and signs, so you can bring the full Witcher arsenal to bear against whichever fearsome beast you face.

You can watch the gameplay for yourself below:

Monster Slayer seems to have some of the same investigative mechanics as The Witcher, as you uncover clues, and follow trails to find your quarry. It also looks like there are merchants and NPCs in the game.

We don’t currently know when The Witcher: Monster Slayer is coming to Android and iOS, but we do know the release date will be revealed later this year. If you live in New Zealand, however, the game is currently undergoing a play test on iOS, so be sure to grab it.

If you’re looking for more AR games in the meantime, be sure to check out our list of the best location-based games on mobile. We also have a pretty great list of the best mobile RPGs – if we do say so ourselves!

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Steam Client Update Released

A new Steam client has been released and will be automatically downloaded. This update has been re-released with a fix for EA Play on August 30th.

General

  • Added support for EA Play
  • Fixed acquiring free DLC from Steam store using in-game overlay web browser
  • Fixed bug that could cause Steam to crash at shutdown time
  • Fixed runaway memory usage in steamwebhelper process when a corrupt proxy auto-config script is encountered
  • Fixed bug that could cause Steam to hang at shutdown time
  • Fixed game installation failing in certain cases when creating symbolic links
  • Fixed Steam client account button formatting incorrectly when Steam Wallet balance changes
  • Fixed a possible crash in Steam Overlay when taking screenshots in DOOM: Eternal
  • Fixed Download Region being forced to “Argentina” in certain circumstances
  • Fixed license issue with EA Play First Trial after full game has been purchased
  • Fixed Steam client window initially showing as translucent rectangle when opened on a secondary display set to a different DPI value than the primary display
  • Improved updating game content when disk space is low and another Steam library folder on a different disk is available
  • Improved handling of game launches from executables or other launchers. This fixes several issues including the game not receiving the Big Picture version of the overlay even if Big Picture is active

Library

  • Improved sorting for games with non-English titles
  • Added the ability to dismiss a Play Next library suggestion
  • Added Steam Points Shop link on supported games
  • Added ability to grant Community Awards to Activity and Community feed content
  • Stop displaying entries in a game’s activity feed for friends that have been unfriended or blocked
  • Games with manuals will now include a link to the manual in the Additional Content section of their game details page

Soundtracks

  • Fixed an error where some tracks with localized Japanese names would show the international name instead of the localized name when running in Japanese
  • Fixed errors with the display format and ordering of tracks with metadata when using the built-in music player
  • Improved support for track, album, and artist metadata extraction from all supported audio formats

Steam Input

  • Fixed an issue where Switch Controllers could lock up in games that send rumble off commands each frame
  • Added an implementation of Jibb Smart’s Flick Stick. To use bind the right joystick to Flick Stick and the Gyro to Mouse.
  • Added Flick Stick template configurations for PS4 and Nintendo Switch controllers
  • Added support for using Flick Stick and Mouse Joystick modes with Steam Input API games

Linux

  • Fixed “Clear Download Cache” action having no effect
  • Fixed a regression with transparent visual selection for SteamOS overlays and on-screen keyboard causing invalid rendering on NVIDIA configurations
  • Fixed “STOP” button in the Library having no effect for non-Steamworks titles
  • Fixed localization placeholder string appearing on the game launch dialog during Vulkan shader processing
  • Fixed a bug where Vulkan shader processing could sometimes get stuck
  • Reduced Vulkan shader processing memory usage with the AMD radv driver
  • Updated fonts to fix vertical alignment
  • Steam runtime 0.20200720.0
  • pressure-vessel: bring host VDPAU and VA-API drivers into the container
  • pressure-vessel: Improve mechanisms for comparing runtime libraries with host
  • pressure-vessel: Choose a correct libgcc_s.so.1 and libxcb.so.1 for newer runtimes

Vulkan Shader Pre-Caching

  • Fixed processing progress indicator display on game launch
  • Now processes local source pipeline database on driver update

SteamVR

  • Added check to automatically set SteamVR as the default OpenXR runtime if it is installed and nothing else is already set as the OpenXR runtime.
  • Added check to automatically enable access to SteamVR from app containers (such as Chrome sandboxed processes and UWP apps.)

Steamworks SDK

  • Removed sending duplicate lobby game data to the Steam backend for newer Steamworks titles
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Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds’ official website is now live

Netmarble has released the official website for Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds ahead of the Japanese launch later this year. The MMORPG is confirmed for both iOS and Android devices but is yet to be confirmed for an international release.

Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds will include five starting classes for you to choose from, including the witch, swordsman, rogue, engineer, and destroyer. The MMORPG also includes PvP and PvE game modes, both of which involve real-time hack and slash combat. The story of Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds involves meeting a mysterious girl called Rania and learning about her secret mission. To complete her mission, you must battle lots of powerful enemies and rebuild a kingdom.

The new Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds website provides us with a detailed glimpse into the mobile MMORPG releasing later this year. The beautiful cel-shaded graphics, detailed information about the starting characters, and the bios of the adorable familiars you meet along the way are more than enough to get your fingers shaking with excitement.

Fancy taking a look at the beautiful cel-shaded world of Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds? Then click on the trailer embedded below.

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If you would like to visit the newly released website and read up about the characters and lore, you can do so from the official Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds website.

Need an MMORPG to play right now? Then check out our guide of the best mobile MMORPGs.

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Dota 2 – Aghanim’s Labyrinth Update – August 27, 2020

General
– Added three new playable heroes: Queen of Pain, Slark, and Templar Assassin
– Added a fifth ascension level: Apex Mage
– Added four new ascension modifiers: Glutton, Clumsy, Glimmer, Meteoric
– Bristleback now sells a variety of minor upgrade shards for the chosen heroes in the game
– The rate of earning Battle Points during the game has been increased

Aghanim’s Trials
– The next Trial will be on the Grand Magus ascension level