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| News - Out Today: Sonic Leads New Switch eShop Arrivals to Get the Week Started |
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Posted by: xSicKxBot - 11-08-2017, 02:29 PM - Forum: Nintendo Discussion
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Out Today: Sonic Leads New Switch eShop Arrivals to Get the Week Started
As is now the norm the Switch eShop’s release slate for each week typically comes in a couple of batches. Beyond the usual Thursday update we also get retail and download-only titles earlier in the week, and as we’ve done in recent times we’re giving you a reminder of what’s out today. After all, we all need to budget and plan our purchases on the eShop.
This Tuesday brings four new arrivals, with a couple of download games making their presence felt along with retail titles. They’re all live now or due by the end of the day depending on your region, so let’s get to it.
Sonic Forces (SEGA) – $39.99USD / £34.99
The long-awaited next entry in the 3D Sonic series, drawing ideas from the likes of Generations and Colors. In this one there are wisp powers once again, and in addition you also create and control your own avatar characters in some stages. Reviews have been relatively thin online, which tells you how distribution of press copies went down, but we’re reviewing right now and will bring you our thoughts on it as soon as possible.
While it’s easy to dismiss a humble farming sim, this series is surprisingly popular. Farming Simulator 17 attracted a whopping one million players within the first month of its launch. Even the German Chancellor Angela Merkel can’t get enough of ploughing virtual fields. If that’s your thing, this may be worth a look.
This one picks up the style of old-school first-person dungeon crawlers, with a mix of classes, enemies, puzzles and plenty of combat to tackle. This is no doubt tempting for fans of the seminal Dungeon Master, and despite its modest appearance does a good job with the throwback gameplay; we gave it a recommendation in our Heroes of the Monkey Tavern review.
UNO (Ubisoft) – $9.99USD / £7.99
No, that’s not a typo, it is a Ubisoft game, and considering the fact that the company’s version of Monopoly costs a slightly ludicrous $39.99USD / £29.99 on the Switch, this is at least reasonably priced. This spin on the card game includes online play and various customisation options to switch things up.
Those are the latest Switch eShop arrivals – will you be buying any of these?
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| PS4 - Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds |
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Posted by: xSicKxBot - 11-08-2017, 06:10 AM - Forum: New Game Releases
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Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds
Beyond the northern mountains, the borderlands of the Banuk tribe challenge all who dare enter to survive the extremes. But now this frozen wilderness harbors a new threat, and for Aloy, a new mystery - one she?s determined to solve. The Frozen Wilds contains additional content for Horizon Zero Dawn, including new storylines, characters and experiences in a beautiful but unforgiving new area. Uncover a compelling new story. Explore a brand new area. Face new machines. To use this download, you need Horizon Zero Dawn. [Sony]
Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment Release Date: Nov 07, 2017
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| PS4 - Demon Gaze II |
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Posted by: xSicKxBot - 11-08-2017, 06:10 AM - Forum: New Game Releases
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Demon Gaze II
Demon Synergy: As the Demon Gazer, turn foes to allies and power them up using the Trance Demon Mode, or fuse with them using the Demon's Cross. Publisher: NIS America Release Date: Nov 14, 2017
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| PC - Hand of Fate 2 |
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Posted by: xSicKxBot - 11-08-2017, 06:10 AM - Forum: New Game Releases
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Hand of Fate 2
Hand of Fate 2 is a dungeon crawler set in a world of dark fantasy. Master a living board game where every stage of the adventure is drawn from a deck of legendary encounters chosen by you. Publisher: Defiant Development Release Date: Nov 07, 2017
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| PC - Nioh: Complete Edition |
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Posted by: xSicKxBot - 11-07-2017, 06:06 PM - Forum: New Game Releases
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Nioh: Complete Edition
Ready to die? Experience the newest brutal action game from Team NINJA and Koei Tecmo Games. In the age of samurai, a lone traveler lands on the shores of Japan. He must fight his way through the vicious warriors and supernatural Yokai that infest the land in order to find that which he seeks.
Publisher: Koei Tecmo Games Release Date: Nov 07, 2017
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| XONE - Need for Speed Payback |
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Posted by: xSicKxBot - 11-07-2017, 02:21 PM - Forum: New Game Releases
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Need for Speed Payback
Set in the underworld of Fortune Valley, players drive as three distinct characters reunited by a quest for vengeance against The House, a nefarious cartel that rules the city?s casinos, criminals and cops. They take on a variety of challenges and events as Tyler, the Racer; Mac, the Showman; and Jess, the Wheelman to earn the respect of the underground. Featuring the deepest customization from the series, players can truly craft a personalized and unique ride, or spend hours finding and tuning an abandoned derelict into a supercar. They can then push their cars to the limit and raise the stakes by betting on their own performance, where they can either multiply their winnings or risk losing it all. [Electronic Arts] Publisher: Electronic Arts Release Date: Nov 07, 2017
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| News - Blizzard has its own classic World of Warcraft server in the works |
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Posted by: xSicKxBot - 11-07-2017, 02:21 PM - Forum: Lounge
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Blizzard has its own classic World of Warcraft server in the works
 Alongside the announcement of a new World of Warcraft expansion at Blizzcon today, Blizzard Entertainment revealed that it will be launching its own classic World of Warcraft server at some point in the future.
A ‘vanilla’ version of World of Warcraft is something that longtime players of the game have been requesting for years. A classic server would offer those players a way to experience the game as it was in 2004, before expansions and updates permanently altered both the landscape and content of the game itself.
There have been numerous fan attempts to create such a server in the past, many of which have been met with threats of legal action from Blizzard since such running such a project requires, among other things, unauthorized use of Blizzard’s IP and reverse-engineered source code.
One of the more infamous attempts at doing so was the private vanilla server Nostalrius, which shut down in 2016 after Blizzard threatened to take them to court over copyright infringement. At the time, Nostalrius representatives said that over 150,000 actively played on the unofficial classic server.
The latest effort to do so was the fan-project Elysium (which was born out of that shuttered Nostalrius fan server), but that project itself shut down in mid-October following its own internal management complications.
Other online games like RuneScape have already taken to maintaining an official classic server for nostalgic fans. In that case, RuneScape developer Jagex says that maintaining both classic and modern versions of the game is something that helps it meet the desires of its community.
Blizzard has not announced when the server will go live, saying only that it is currently in development.
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