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Team Fortress 2 Update Released

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:

  • Fixed bsp-embedded models caching rules to allow for reloading the correct model when transitioning to a different map
  • Fixed a couple instances that were not correctly checking for anti-aliasing being disabled
  • Fixed the name of the Replica Titanium Tank 2020 medal
  • Updated The Flatliner to fix a problem when taunting
  • Updated the Hazard Headgear to fix a problem with the material
  • Updated the Crabe de Chapeau to add the smoke effect
  • Updated The Sophisticated Smoker
    • Fixed some clipping issues
    • Added the smoke effect
    • Updated the backpack image
  • Updated the Hypno-eyes

    • Added a style that was not included in the original release
    • Updated the equip_region
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Marvel Super War is now available in Australia and New Zealand

Marvel Super War has blasted its way onto iOS and Android in Australia and New Zealand. Marvel’s first-ever MOBA originally hit mobile devices in December 2019 and over the past year has become available in Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macao, South Korea, Japan, and India. This most recent release also brings the game to Australia and New Zealand.

Marvel teamed up with NetEase Games to create a five-on-five real-time MOBA featuring all your favourite Marvel characters. Take control of over 50 heroes and villains from the Marvel universe, each with their own unique moves and playstyle. The 55+ characters are split into six types: fighter, energy, marksman, assassin, tank, and support. This means that strategy and a well-balanced team are essential, for those who want to win big.

If you are a fan of Marvel games and live in any of the regions specified above, you can grab a copy of Marvel Super War from the App Store or Google Play for free. If you don’t live in any of the selected regions, then you may want to check out Marvel Duel, a new Marvel-themed auto chess game which came out last month.

Fancy checking out some gameplay for Marvel Super War? Then check out the trailer below:

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It has not been confirmed whether we shall see Marvel Super War make its way to a global release, but if that does change, you will be the first to know.

For more arena-battling goodness, check out our list of the best mobile MOBAs.

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Win a copy of roguelike card-crawler Meteorfall: Krumit’s Tale!

Deck builders are great in our opinion, and roguelike deck builders, doubly so. There’s no better feeling that building synergies as you gather together your deck of hard-fought cards, overcoming enemies and bosses that gave you so much trouble previously. That’s why we decided to partner with Slothwerks, the developer of Meteorfall, for this week’s giveaway. The much acclaimed sequel, Meteorfall: Krumit’s Tale – our review here – releases on August 27, so we’re giving away some Android copies to celebrate!

For those that don’t know, Meteorfall: Krumit’s Tale is a roguelike card-crawler, combining aspects of deck building with good old fashioned dungeon crawling. Each run sees you choose a character and defeat as many dungeons as you can before you die. Along the way, you’ll build a deck of items, abilities, and potions, while also earning perks to increase your survivability.

It’s a super fun take on the roguelike deck building genre, and also features Meteorfall’s signature art style, and quirky approach. If delving dungeons and defeating monsters with card play is your idea of a good time, be sure to enter our giveaway below.

All you have to do in order to enter is fill out the entry box – but please make sure to browse our terms and conditions first.

Android

Meteorfall: Krumit’s Tale – Android giveaway

If you simply can’t wait to play Krumit’s Tale, it’s available on Google Play and the App Store from tomorrow. For more similar games, be sure to see our lists of the best mobile card games, the best mobile roguelikes, and just to top it off, the best games like Slay the Spire on mobile.

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Network N is hiring a Group Editor – join us!

Network N is hiring a Group Editor who will manage the editorial teams within Network N’s publishing department. Ensure successful execution of the brand strategies, and work with the other members of the Publishing Management Team in order to achieve the department’s overall objectives, both editorial and commercial.

We do require that you have at least five years of experience in a senior editorial role, with a demonstrable track-record of improving and growing online brands. You will also have experience of managing editorial teams and budgets, have delivered promoted content work, and have knowledge of best publishing practices and SEO. It’s also important that you have a passion for videogames.

The role is based in Bath, UK, though there is potential for a remote-working candidate based anywhere in the UK. Benefits include 28 days holiday, an auto-enrolment pension, competitive salary (c.£40k, depending on experience), profit share scheme, and a variety of other perks including a Perkbox subscription and regular social events. You can check out the full details of the job on Network N’s official site.

The full list of responsibilities includes:

  • Developing, refining, and ensuring the execution of the brand strategies for our owned sites
  • Assisting with all aspects of the promoted content campaigns across the portfolio, including pitching, execution, and ensuring successful delivery
  • Working with our Audience Development Manager to ensure consistent audience growth across our brands
  • Working with our Head of Publishing Development to refine and optimise our web platforms in order to achieve the department’s strategic objectives
  • Working with our Ecommerce Editor to maximise ecommerce revenues and opportunities
  • Ensuring adherence to brand guidelines and maintaining a high bar for quality across our websites
  • Training and developing our site editors and cell leaders to the highest possible standards
  • Managing our site editors and providing guidance, feedback, and pastoral care
  • Providing support for the Network team regarding business intelligence and site recruitment
  • Working alongside our video and social media teams as required
  • Understanding and managing business unit budgets where required
  • Building and maintaining industry relationships, and representing Network N at relevant events
  • Other as requested by the Publishing Director

To apply, simply send your CV and a covering letter to ‘[email protected]’.

You can also find the full details of the role on the official Network N site.

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Team Fortress 2 Update Released

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:

  • Added the Summer 2020 Cosmetic Case
    • Contains 22 new community-contributed items
    • Adds 4 new community-created Unusual effects
  • Fixed an issue where values computed from server bounded ConVars could be incorrect on the client and therefore possibly exploitable
  • Fixed Australium Medigun/Wrench items not dropping for the Mann vs. Machine rewards
  • Fixed the chat window not always being restored to the appropriate place
  • Fixed Competitive badges not displaying correctly
  • Increased the default caps_per_round for Mannpower mode
  • Updated the Watch Streams dialog to open the Twitch page
  • Updated cp_granary with a permanent Soldier statue
  • Updated/Added some tournament medals
  • Updated the localization files
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Company of Heroes charges on to Android and iPhone on September 10

Feral Interactive has announced that the world war II game, Company of Heroes, is making the jump to Android and iPhone on September 10. The classic RTS game landed on iPad earlier this year, and received pretty favourable reviews – read our very own Company of Heroes review for our thoughts! Here’s some more info about the release from Feral Interactive:

“Company of Heroes offers players an epic WWII campaign, with gameplay comprised of intense squad-based battles that progress from the D-Day landings through to the liberation of Normandy. Designed for phones, this version of the game allows mobile gamers to direct all the action from a user interface highly tailored to touch controls.”

Sounds like lots of fun to us! Company of Heroes is, of course, a premium game, and is going to set you back $13.99 (£13.99) when it launches on September 10. Either way, this port feels long overdue, and is especially exciting for Android users – like me – who are finally going get a chance to experience the classic RTS game on mobile.

Feral has also released a trailer with some gameplay footage, in case you want to watch:

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We also got a list of suitable Android devices for running the game, so if you’ve got one of these, you’re in luck:

  • Google Pixel 2 or better
  • Samsung Galaxy S8 or better
  • Samsung Galaxy Note8 or better
  • OnePlus 5T / 6T / 7 / 8
  • Sony Xperia 1 / XZ2 Compact
  • HTC U12+
  • LG V30+
  • Motorola Moto Z2 Force
  • Nokia 8
  • Xiaomi Mi 6 / Mi 9 / Mi 9T
  • Xiaomi Pocophone F1
  • Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro

Company of Heroes is on Google Play – where you pre-register now – and the App Store. If you want some similar games, be sure to see our lists of the best mobile strategy games, and the best mobile war games!

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Pascals Wager’s Tides of Oblivion washes up on Android and iOS today

Tipsworks has released the newest expansion for Pascal’s Wager. Tides of Oblivion has been anticipated for a fair while, and brings the Action-RPG to a brand new aquatic setting – Ichthyosauria. Though a mouthful of sea water to say, the new setting adds fresh enemies, characters, and new adventures for the player, as they sound the depths of Ichthyosauria and dredge up its secrets for themselves.

The actual setup of Tides of Oblivion is fairly simple – Jerold, a familiar friend, asks Terence to team up with him to travel to the land of Ichthyosauria, and find a way to save it. Jerold is also the new playable character, and if the trailer is anything to go by, he seems to be a duelist who wields a rapier, with a courtly manner of fighting.

For those that don’t know Pascal’s Wager, it’s basically mobile’s answer to Dark Souls, channeling influences from the FromSoftware series to create an outstanding mobile Action-RPG – just read our Pascal’s Wager review if you don’t believe us! The new setting of Ichthyosauria gives off some serious fishing hamlet vibes from Bloodborne’s Old Hunter DLC, which we’re always happy to see.

You can watch the trailer for Tides of Oblivion below, which features a little gameplay, and some suitably ominous narration:

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If you want to pick up Pascal’s Wager, you can find it on Google Play and the App Store, and Tides of Oblivion is purchasable in-game. Either that, or enter our current Pascal’s Wager giveaway, where we’re offering both a code for the base game, and Tides of Oblivion.

For some other games like Pascals Wager – though nothing is quite like Pascals Wager – be sure to check out our list of the best mobile RPGs!

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Tencent make more than Microsoft and Nintendo combined

Tencent’s revenue in the final quarter of 2019 was around $5.22bn, more than Nintendo and Microsoft combined, according to a report published by ForexSchoolOnline. The report outlines the top performers of the gaming industry in the fourth quarter of last year.

Tencent owns stakes in some of the biggest games companies globally, including Riot Games, a 40% stake in Epic Games, an 84% stake in SuperCell, and minority stakes in Call of Duty, and Assassin’s Creed. It’s also the operator of China’s equivalent of Steam, a platform called WeGame. However, Tencent doesn’t just make money from creating video games, it also owns the third biggest Android app store in China, the Tencent Appstore. The conglomerate also operates WeChat – a social networking and mobile payment app with over a billion monthly active users.

The report revealed that Nintendo came fifth with $2.28bn, Microsoft came in at fourth with $2.83bn, followed by Apple at $2.88bn, with Sony in second place at $3.879bn. A remarkable nine companies recorded over one billion from the final quarter of 2019 alone.

For those of you curious about the report and who the top 20 gaming revenue public companies of Q4 2019 are, then check out the list below:

  • Tencent: $5.23
  • Sony: $3.88
  • Apple: $2.89
  • Microsoft: $2.83
  • Nintendo: $2.29
  • Google: $1.88
  • Activision Blizzard: $1.75
  • NetEase: $1.67
  • EA: $1.59
  • TakeTwo Interactive: $0.93
  • Bandai Namco: $0.72
  • Warner Bros: $0.57
  • 37 Interactive: $0.53
  • Ubisoft: $0.51
  • Century Huatong: $0.48
  • Netmarble: $0.48
  • Square Enix: $0.47
  • Nexon: $0.45
  • NCSoft: $0.42
  • Sea Group: $0.40

All data is in billions.

Are you a fan of Tencent games? Then you should check out our Gameloop download guide, or our PUBG Mobile redeem guide. 

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Dota 2 – Aghanim’s Labyrinth Update – August 14, 2020

Aghanim’s Trials
– For this week’s Trial the ascension level will be Sorcerer, and the monsters from beyond dimensions are extra resistant to physical attacks, including bosses.

General
– Fixed a bug that could cause Kinetic Field’s Formation Time to become negative.
– Fixed Static Storm’s cooldown reduction upgrade applying as a flat value instead of a percentage reduction.
– Fixed some cases where ability values would not update after taking a shard.
– Fixed Rend lifestealing from reflected damage.

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Apple and Google kick Fortnite off mobile

Fortnite is no longer available to download from the App Store and Google Play following Epic’s latest update, which featured a workaround where you could pay less for V-bucks by avoiding the 30% cut both mobile game stores take whenever you make a purchase. Epic appears to have expected this reaction, as it has also launched a lawsuit against Apple. 

“Apple has become what it once railed against: the behemoth seeking to control markets, block competition, and stifle innovation,” says the injunction. “Apple is bigger, more powerful, more entrenched, and more pernicious than the monopolists of yesteryear. At a market cap of nearly $2 trillion, Apple’s size and reach far exceeds that of any technology monopolist in history.” 

The injunction refers to the 1984 Apple commercial, where the Macintosh is the revolutionary force breaking IBM’s monopoly over the computing market. Using an in-game Fornite parody of the famous advert, Epic suggests that Apple has become what it once vowed to stop – a monopoly, using anti-competitive restraints to choke the market.

If you’ve never seen the original Macintosh Super Bowl advert, you can find it on YouTube. We recommend watching the original first before you check out Fortnite’s parody below.

Epic’s lawsuit explains that it’s not seeking financial compensation or favourable treatment by suing the multi-trillion-dollar conglomerate. Instead, Epic is seeking to relieve what they refer to as the ‘monopoly’ that Apple has over the iOS app distribution market, and the in-app payment processing market.

It’s not clear what the result of the injunction will be, or how long we will have to wait before we see Fortnite readily available on all smartphones again.