RPG Illusion Of L’Phalcia Brings Turn-Based 3D Battles To Switch Next Week
Launching next week on Nintendo Switch is Illusion of L’Phalcia, an RPG which released on mobile devices back in 2014.
The game comes from Exe Create Inc. and Kemco and features animated skill chains and magic in turn-based 3D battles. We’ve got a description of the game’s story for you below, as well as a trailer (admittedly for the PlayStation versions) above.
The Sword of Amal is said to grant any wish so long as it is provided magic power. Ryser believes in the sword’s existence and is in the middle of searching for all the map pieces that lead to the sword when he runs into Tiana, a mysterious girl being chased by soldiers. Tiana assumes he is a thief that steals from ruins, and their relationship turns sour quick. She turns out to be the princess of Gardenia, the bordering nation, and is also looking for the Sword of Amal. What awaits these young heroes as they set off to look for the sword together? Thus begins the intertwining tale of three nations, an elusive organization, and the lives of everyone in the world!
It launches on 1st August for $12.99 / £11.69, but you can now get 10% off if you choose to pre-purchase the game ahead of release.
One to consider, or not your cup of tea? Share your thoughts with us in the usual place.
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Posted by: xSicKxBot - 07-27-2019, 10:01 AM - Forum: Minecraft
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Important Minecraft Forum Archive Announcement
Today we are announcing that we have made the difficult decision to transition the Minecraft Forum from an active website to a read-only archive. This decision has been made after careful consideration about how we can best serve the Minecraft community with the resources we have available. A read-only archive of the website will ensure that the valuable content contributed over many years is safe-guarded, remaining available for visitors to explore.
From everyone at the Minecraft Forum we are deeply grateful for our communities contributions to the forum over the last decade, big and small. Millions of members have shared tens of millions of posts that have been viewed billions of times, and everyone contributed something to make this forum great. Minecraft Mod creators helped expand the world of Minecraft, support volunteers worked tirelessly to provide access to that world and everyone together turned that world into a community.
Read only mode will be enabled on June 16th, 2019. From this date you will no longer be able to login to the Minecraft Forum and no new content will be created, however all links to the Minecraft Forum will continue to work as-is, all content will remain accessible. This change does not impact the Minecraft Wiki. The Minecraft Wiki will continue as an active website, we have no plans to archive the Minecraft Wiki.
We appreciate that this is a big change and that there will be many questions. I am available in the comments of this news post to answer any questions you may have, and you are welcome to reach out via Private Message if you have any questions you would like to ask privately.
Please use the comments as an opportunity to share your story about what this community has meant to you. We would love to hear about how the forum has impacted you, whether it inspired a passion for creating, helped build friendships or simply provided you somewhere to share your love of the game — any thoughts you may have are welcome.
Posted by: xSicKxBot - 07-27-2019, 10:01 AM - Forum: Lounge
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Wolf Pack
The most recent changes to Lord of Wolves created a monster. There’s been a lot of discussion online about it. Once honorable, the Lord of Wolves has become a hard-to-stop Werewolf in Lord Saladin’s contest. It’s super rigged (a small silver lining: it seems like roaming Supers get melted by it. FYI: We’re looking at reducing the damage resistance of roaming Supers this fall).
Whether you’ve been tamed by it, or are running around as a pack in Iron Banner, we’re going to bring the Wolf to heel later this Summer.
Sometimes, Destiny is going to have goofy outliers, or periods of time where something is OP (like the Wolves howling right now in IB on PC). We don’t want these periods to last too long (post-Forsaken launch Voidlocks), but they can be memorable moments.
Internally, we had a bunch of spirited debate this week around whether or not we should just prevent players from equipping Lord of Wolves throughout the game. This is a blunt tool, and basically banning an item from being equipped isn’t something we take lightly.
In this instance, Lord of Wolves dominance (and its really showing out on PC) didn’t rise up to meet the bar of “this is broken enough to turn it off in all activities.” If the Wolf Pack continues to grow, we can revisit turning it off. From our perspective, this feels like a week where the Wolves run wild and supers trample their way through Iron Banner a little less.
Ultimately, video games are incredible places for memories to form and we do want Destiny to be a game world that remembers. We’re going to create a special Triumph for this moment in time, and anyone who finishes an Iron Banner match will be awarded a Triumph and an associated sweet nameplate. Our gifted artists and designers will come up with something cool to capture the week when the Wolves ran wild.
Awoooooooooooooooo
Thanks and see you soon (but longer than two days this time),
Posted by: xSicKxBot - 07-27-2019, 10:01 AM - Forum: Windows
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Co-hosts revealed for Sept. 28 MINECON Live event
Got any plans on September 28th? Meeting friends? Getting married? Watching paint dry? Well, CANCEL THEM ALL (unless it’s the marriage one) because September 28th is the date of MINECON Live, our epic livestream celebration of all things Minecraft! It’ll be easy to stream LIVE all over the world, including at that aforementioned wedding. Don’t forget to scowl at anyone who objects and to tell the bride and groom to keep the volume down with those vows — you’re trying to enjoy all the new Minecraft announcements.
This handy page has loads of info about MINECON Live, but the page you’re currently on is no MINECON Live dunce either. Because today, we’re revealing the co-hosts, for the very first time! (Unless you follow us on Twitter!). Let’s meet the fabulous foursome who’ll be co-hosting with Lydia Winters:
MASUO
Japanese Influencer and a strong contender for ‘smiliest man ever filmed’, Masuo will be co-hosting MINECON Live! But what’s his favourite skill in Minecraft? What block would he like to see added to the game? What’s the meaning of life? Watch Masuo answer two-thirds of those questions in the video below!
Trump expects Apple to build manufacturing plant in Texas
President Donald Trump, in response to questions regarding a tweet on Friday proclaiming Apple will not receive tariff relief for its new Chinese-built Mac Pro, said he believes the tech giant will erect a manufacturing plant in Texas.
Apple CEO Tim Cook visits Austin, Texas, Mac Pro assembly plant in 2014.
In a brief aside to reporters gathered at the White House, Trump again called on Apple to build its products in the U.S. and said he believes the tech giant will announce construction of a new plant in Texas, reports Reuters.
While the president has in the past lobbed pointed comments urging Apple and other consumer electronics makers to pull manufacturing operations from Chinese contractors and put that work into American hands, today’s comments alluded to a more well-defined plan. Specifically, Trump seems to be eyeing Texas as a domestic equivalent of Shenzhen.
Trump failed to elaborate on his hunch regarding Apple’s supposed Texas plant, but the company does maintain a large presence in the state. Beyond existing office space, Apple last year announced plans to expand with a $1 billion campus in Austin. It should be noted, however, that the scope of existing and future facilities is at this point limited to research and development, operations, cloud computing and other areas not related to manufacturing.
Apple’s current Mac Pro is assembled in Austin by contract manufacturer Flextronics, but its recently announced successor will be built by Quanta Computer in a plant near Shanghai.
The switch to Quanta exposed the upcoming professional-level desktop to tariffs imposed by the Trump administration, duties Apple is attempting to sidestep in a plea to the White House. Apple’s official request is awaiting review, but Trump in a tweet on Friday publicly opposed the request.
“Apple will not be given Tariff wavers [sic], or relief, for Mac Pro parts that are made in China,” Trump stated on Twitter. “Make them in the USA, no Tariffs!”
That said, Apple is unlikely to invest in U.S.-based production facilities anytime soon. Despite harrowing tariffs imposed as part of the U.S.-China trade war, Chinese manufacturing is in many ways superior to stateside counterparts.
Compared to the U.S., China offers relatively cheap, high-quality and, perhaps most importantly, responsive labor. Apple production partners like Foxconn can deploy tens of thousands of workers on short notice, and run production facilities around the clock to meet strict deadlines.
Apple CEO Tim Cook consistently touts China’s workforce and at a recent economic development conference described the country’s capacity to build technologically advanced products as unrivaled. Cook offered a more succinct explanation of Apple’s reliance on Chinese suppliers in a 2017 interview.
“The popular conception is that companies come to China because of low labor costs. I’m not sure what part of China they go to, but the truth is China stopped being the low labor cost country years ago,” Cook said. “That is not the reason to come to China from a supply point of view, the reason is because of the skill.”
Whether Apple wants to — or can afford to — transfer production stateside as a cost-cutting measure remains unknown.
In a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA), Red Hat CTO Wright dishes on open-source and the future of Red Hat products and technologies with IBM. Responding to a question about Red Hat’s products being lost in IBM the way Sun’s programs were after its acquisition by Oracle, Wright said: “Red Hat remains an independent entity, and we continue to do what we do best: engage with customers, partners, and open-source communities to build open-source solutions. Those solutions focus on our hybrid cloud strategy. A key part of the acquisition is for IBM and Red Hat to work closely together to advance our customers’ journeys to an open hybrid cloud. You’ve seen mention of IBM’s plans to use Red Hat platforms as part of their offerings, so this is the other key piece here. We stay independent, we share a vision, and IBM is building from our core platforms.” (Source: ZDNet, Reddit )
Posted by: xSicKxBot - 07-27-2019, 01:26 AM - Forum: Lounge
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These 2 PC Games Are Free To Claim At Epic Starting Today
Over the past eight months or so that the Epic Games Store has been in business, the PC game retailer has slowly ramped up its offering of free games for its users, first giving away a game every two weeks and then transitioning to a weekly giveaway. Now, it appears Epic is testing the waters of giving away two free games on a weekly basis, if the offerings this week and next are any indications of its future plans. From now through August 2, you can claim Moonlighter and This War of Mine for free at the Epic Store; then, on August 2, the pair will be replaced by another duo of freebies: Alan Wake and For Honor.
As a reminder, once you claim any of Epic's free games, they're yours to keep forever. To claim them, you'll have to first create a free Epic account, if you don't already have one.
This War of Mine
If you enjoy dark survival-themed games that require life-and-death decisions influenced by your own morals, definitely check out This War of Mine, which was developed by the same team behind Frostpunk. The game puts you in the shoes of a group of civilians struggling to survive in a war-torn city. Scavenging for resources like food and medicine is crucial, and along the way, player-controlled characters will run into other NPC survivors, whom you can choose to kill or help out. Epic seems to be giving away the Anniversary Edition, which adds new characters, new locations, and an entirely new ending to the game.
Then there's Moonlighter, a very different sort of game that you'll like if you're into action RPGs with rogue-lite elements. Primarily, you'll manage your shop in Rynoka Village, controlling inventory, setting prices, recruiting assistants, and upgrading the shop. You can also upgrade other aspects of the town, adding things like a blacksmith or potion-maker to produce items that are helpful for the dungeon portion of the game. Your character can access various worlds through otherworldly gates, where they will fight hordes of enemies and gather profitable loot, resources, and more. As you progress in the game, you can craft new armor and weapons and even enchant existing equipment.
On the topic of PC game deals: Don't miss out on Green Man Gaming's huge summer sale going on right now with over 2,000 PC games and DLC marked down. If you like This War of Mine and haven't played Frostpunk, the latter is on sale for $13.50. Plus, get Resident Evil 2 for $35.63, Monster Hunter World for $27, Civilization VI for $13.20, and more.
Infliction Brings Nightmarish Psychological Horror To Switch This Year
Infliction, a psychological horror game from Caustic Reality and Blowfish Studios, will be scaring your Switch silly from Q4 this year, it has been confirmed.
The game has you wandering through what the game’s publisher describes as an “interactive nightmare”, all set within the confines of a once-happy household. Players will need to piece together the mystery behind a harrowing series of events while struggling to survive encounters with an entity that relentlessly tries to stop you in your tracks.
We’ve got an official description for you below:
Explore a home crystalized by tragedy and uncover the heartbreaking secrets hidden within messages, artwork, household objects, and other vestiges of domestic life. Uncover clues and use items to unlock new paths and make discoveries while doing everything possible to avoid the malevolent presence inhabiting the residence. Hide under tables or beneath beds and harness light sources like camera flashes to stun the spirit and momentarily elude its pursuit.
It’s said to feature a story-driven approach which combines with a “dynamic atmosphere”, all with the aim of providing an unsettling and unpredictable first-person experience. Clinton McCleary, founder of Caustic Reality, has said, “Infliction explores fears that manifested after my wife and I started a family. I set out to create a horror experience grounded in real-world problems that resonates with players and am looking forward to scaring everyone when we unleash it on consoles later this year.”
What do you think? Feeling up for a new horror game later this year? Leave us a not-too-frightening comment down below.
Survival Horror Remothered: Tormented Fathers Delayed On Switch
If you’ve been keeping an eye on Remothered: Tormented Fathers for Nintendo Switch, you may well have noticed that the game hasn’t appeared on the eShop as planned.
Originally scheduled to be launching on the system today, the game has been pushed back to 30th August. A press release covering the announcement explains the situation:
The shift in release date adds more time to polish and tune the final product to meet the developer’s award-winning pedigree. Stormind Games says that “they are committed to providing an immersive and gripping experience for the player. The extra time for the project will help us reach that goal. We want the Nintendo Switch version of Remothered: Tormented Fathers for North America, Europe, and Australia, to be a release that lives up to both the standards of our players and our studio.”
You lovely readers seemed to be pretty excited about the game when we last shared juicy information about it at the beginning of this month; hopefully the wait for the new release date won’t feel too long.
Still hyped for this one? Will you be checking it out when it eventually arrives next month? Tell us below.
