Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia is Now Available for Pre-Purchase on Steam and is 10% off!*

Thrones of Britannia is a standalone Total War game which will challenge you to re-write a critical moment in history, one that will come to define the future of modern Britain. With ten playable factions, you must build and defend a kingdom to the glory of Anglo-Saxons, Gaelic clans, Welsh tribes or Viking settlers. Forge alliances, manage burgeoning settlements, raise armies and embark on campaigns of conquest across the most detailed Total War map to date.

*Offer ends at 10AM Pacific Time

Play Rock of Ages 2: Bigger and Boulder™ for FREE starting now through Sunday at 1PM Pacific Time. You can also pickup Rock of Ages 2 at 50% off the regular price!*

If you already have Steam installed, click here to install or play Rock of Ages 2. If you don’t have Steam, you can download it here.

*Offer ends Monday at 10AM Pacific Time

Preview Alpha Insiders can expect another new update today, complete with brand new fixes. This update (1802.180125-1923) will begin rolling out at 2 p.m. PST and will become mandatory shortly after that. Read on to learn more about the fixes and known issues related to this build.

Fixes:

My Games and Apps

• Fixed an error that resulted in content that was installing/downloading not resuming after a reboot.
• Certain games when installing had been failing to run on first launch until a reboot – this is now fixed.

Party Chat

• Reliability fixes to improve the time it takes for users to join a Party Chat session who had been experiencing long join times.

Pseudo Localization/Language Translation String Fixes

• Users will no longer see incorrect language translations in the build.   If you do encounter any incorrect strings please report a problem

Profile

• Fixed an issue which caused the incorrect profile color to display after powering on the console.

Known Issues:

Games Installation

• Games that are installed fail to launch. Workaround: If the games are installed to an external drive please copy the game to the internal drive or attempt to delete the title and redownload to fix the launch error.

Display 

• We are investigating the inaccurate RGB colors that have been reported when displaying in 4K HDR mode when playing a UHD disc.

Tournaments

• The left and right navigation for selecting date and time during Tournament creation is currently reversed when the console language is set to Arabic or Hebrew.
• Left and right navigation in Tournament twists is reversed when the console language is set to Arabic or Hebrew.
• Left and right navigation in the bracket view of Tournaments is reversed when the console language is set to Arabic or Hebrew.

Avatars on Home

• Users wishing to represent themselves as an avatar can do so by changing their settings under My profile > Customize profile > Show my avatar.

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Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia is Now Available for Pre-Purchase on Steam and is 10% off!*

Thrones of Britannia is a standalone Total War game which will challenge you to re-write a critical moment in history, one that will come to define the future of modern Britain. With ten playable factions, you must build and defend a kingdom to the glory of Anglo-Saxons, Gaelic clans, Welsh tribes or Viking settlers. Forge alliances, manage burgeoning settlements, raise armies and embark on campaigns of conquest across the most detailed Total War map to date.

*Offer ends at 10AM Pacific Time

This weeks snapshot brings some performance boosts for data pack loading & command execution. We’re moving offices next week, so there may a bit of silence surrounding snapshots as we settle down and figure out where the new best pizza place is. Priorities, you understand.

A full changelog can be found on Minecraft.net:

• Updated the horse model again (check out a photo below)
• Applied new translations from crowdin
• Improved performance of command parsing & data pack loading
• Improved performance of command execution
• Allow /data get ... something to work on non-numeric values
• Added commands to the profiler (/debug)
• Added /particle <name> <pos> shortcut for when you really don’t need much else
• Fixed bug MC-122196 – Language options are blank
• Fixed bug MC-123285 – Crash on startup with a debug log4j config
• Fixed bug [                 ] x 16

To get snapshots, open your launcher and go to the “launch options” tab. Check the box saying “Enable snapshots” and save. To switch between the snapshot and normal version, you can find a new dropdown menu next to the “Play” button. Back up your world first or run the game on in a different folder (In the “launch options” page).

Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com.

Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds. 1.13 will have a lot of experimental snapshots that may break everything and smell funny. This may be one of those snapshots. This is what happens when Mojang are changing all the things! 

Share your thoughts on how 1.13 is shaping up in the comments below!