01-18-2020, 06:41 AM
The Weekender: Pascal’s Rage-r Edition
<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/the-weekender-pascals-rage-r-edition.jpg" width="820" height="461" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>We’ve got a nice meaty update for you today. Couple of interesting new premium titles, as well as a few other other interesting movements in the free-to-play world. The industry is well and truly awake now, so expect more news, updates and releases coming down the pipeline over the coming weeks.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, in mobile gaming… </p>
<h2>Out Now</h2>
<h3>Maze Machina (<a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/maze-machina/id1481339646" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">iOS</a> & <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tinytouchtales.mazemachina" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Android</a>)</h3>
<p>As we noted last week, Arnold Rauers and TinyTouchTales have a new game, which was released earlier this week. <em>Maze Machina</em> follows similar veins to past works like <em>Card Crawl</em> or <em>Card Thief</em>, but there doesn’t appear to be the same kind of progression mechanics. Michael’s review will be with us ASAP, so keep an eye out for that.</p>
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<h3>Pascal’s Wager (<a href="https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/pascals-wager/id1476649036?mt=8" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">iOS</a>)</h3>
<p>This game attempts to answer the question <em>“What if we made Dark Souls for mobile?”</em>. Gritty, difficult, action-RPG are just a few words you could use to describe it. Depending on how much it actually is like <em>Dark Souls</em>, I’m sure you could use more vulgar words as well. It’s a pretty reasonable price for a game of this visual fidelity, and early indications suggest it works quite well on iOS devices right now. We’ll add this to the review list and get back to you ASAP. Android users, don’t despair – a port is due later this year.</p>
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<p>If you liked <em>Call of Duty</em>’s mobile incarnation, it might interest you to know that another popular FPS title has made the jump the mobile as well – <em>Warface</em> has never really been seen a ‘true’ competitor to <em>COD</em> and <em>Battlefield</em>, but it’s been doing the ‘F2P Shooter’ thing for while now (it was first released in 2013!) and still going strong. The mobile version is called <em>Warface: Global Operations</em> and is available on both <a href="https://apps.apple.com/app/id1460568073" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">iOS</a> and <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.my.warface.online.fps.pvp.action.shooter" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Android</a>, still Free-to-Play.</p>
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<p>Last but not least, <a href="https://www.pockettactics.com/reviews/space-grunts-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Space Grunts 2</em></a> is now out on <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.orangepixel.spacegrunts2" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Android</a>, if any of you have been waiting for the Google Play version.</p>
<h2>App Updates & News</h2>
<p>What would you get if you decided to merge 100-Player Battle Royale and Auto Chess? Well, according to Ubisoft, you’d get <a href="https://www.ubisoft.com/en-gb/game/might-and-magic-chess-royale/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Might & Magic: Chess Royale</em></a>, which is a new game coming at the end of the month. I’m personally quite a fan of Auto Chess games, although I’m not a big Battle Royale player (<em>Fortnite</em> is fun enough if you’ve got someone to play it with).</p>
<p>I don’t really understand how this can be a thing, but the press blurb claim matches won’t take longer than 10 minutes, so that addresses my main concern. We’ll find out more on January 30th.</p>
<p><img class="leftAlone" title src="https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/the-weekender-pascals-rage-r-edition.jpg" alt="might and magic chess royale" width="820" height="461"></p>
<p><em>Narcos</em> is a Netflix you may or may not have seen by now (not really my thing, but I know it’s fairly popular) following the family-friendly saga of the rise of the cocaine trade in Colombia in the late 80’s. It had a surprisingly decent (if tragically flawed) <a href="http://bit.ly/NarcosSG" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">turn-based strategy spin-off game</a> on PC and Console and now it’s getting a mobile spin-off in the form of… an Idle Clicker game. Yeah. <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tiltingpoint.bigwolf.narcosfactory" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Check out this bad boy</a>.</p>
<p>You might also be excited to know that Playdek’s latest board game port, <em>Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ?</em> will be entering early access on Steam at the end of February. No word on a mobile version yet but we know Playdek will want to bring it mobile eventually, so it’s good to see progress being made.</p>
<p>In terms of individual app updates, there’s a few:</p>
<ul>
<li><em>Star Traders: Frontiers</em> continues to be Best Traders.</li>
<li><em>Santorini</em> got a minor update</li>
<li><em>Call of Duty: Mobile</em>’s Third Season has started</li>
<li><em>DOTA Underlords</em> got a new balance/tweak patch</li>
<li><em>Black Desert Mobile </em>has got a new World Boss, as well as the Node War PvP mode we’ve spoken about before</li>
</ul>
<h2>App Sales</h2>
<p>It appears to be another week where there’s nothing really to shout about in terms of sales, so I thought I’d take a moment to clarify how I go about populating this section.</p>
<p>Games go on sale all the time, but I tend to stick to the ones we’ve covered, or at least more obviously within our ball-park. Sometimes though you see the same games go on sale repeatedly, and they’re not always the best price. For example Klarus Victoria (<em>Predynastic Egypt</em> etc.) have all their games on sale again, but it’s the same price they always discount to.</p>
<p><em>Icewind Dale</em> is also half price again, but that’s not the best price it’s been and there’s a couple others like this. We’ve covered all these games before and I do try to monitor whether a price is “good” price, as highly subjective as that concept it.</p>
<p>That being said, <em>Beholder</em>’s latest sale is the best price it’s ever been at $1.99, down from it’s previous typical sales price of $2.99. Maybe there are some of you who don’t own it yet who would like to, but again the older a game is the less relevant I feel it is at times in terms of discounts.</p>
<p><em>Seen anything else you like? Played any of the above? Let us know in the comments!</em></p>
</div>
https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/2020/01/...r-edition/
<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/the-weekender-pascals-rage-r-edition.jpg" width="820" height="461" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>We’ve got a nice meaty update for you today. Couple of interesting new premium titles, as well as a few other other interesting movements in the free-to-play world. The industry is well and truly awake now, so expect more news, updates and releases coming down the pipeline over the coming weeks.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, in mobile gaming… </p>
<h2>Out Now</h2>
<h3>Maze Machina (<a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/maze-machina/id1481339646" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">iOS</a> & <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tinytouchtales.mazemachina" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Android</a>)</h3>
<p>As we noted last week, Arnold Rauers and TinyTouchTales have a new game, which was released earlier this week. <em>Maze Machina</em> follows similar veins to past works like <em>Card Crawl</em> or <em>Card Thief</em>, but there doesn’t appear to be the same kind of progression mechanics. Michael’s review will be with us ASAP, so keep an eye out for that.</p>
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<h3>Pascal’s Wager (<a href="https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/pascals-wager/id1476649036?mt=8" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">iOS</a>)</h3>
<p>This game attempts to answer the question <em>“What if we made Dark Souls for mobile?”</em>. Gritty, difficult, action-RPG are just a few words you could use to describe it. Depending on how much it actually is like <em>Dark Souls</em>, I’m sure you could use more vulgar words as well. It’s a pretty reasonable price for a game of this visual fidelity, and early indications suggest it works quite well on iOS devices right now. We’ll add this to the review list and get back to you ASAP. Android users, don’t despair – a port is due later this year.</p>
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<p>If you liked <em>Call of Duty</em>’s mobile incarnation, it might interest you to know that another popular FPS title has made the jump the mobile as well – <em>Warface</em> has never really been seen a ‘true’ competitor to <em>COD</em> and <em>Battlefield</em>, but it’s been doing the ‘F2P Shooter’ thing for while now (it was first released in 2013!) and still going strong. The mobile version is called <em>Warface: Global Operations</em> and is available on both <a href="https://apps.apple.com/app/id1460568073" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">iOS</a> and <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.my.warface.online.fps.pvp.action.shooter" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Android</a>, still Free-to-Play.</p>
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<p>Last but not least, <a href="https://www.pockettactics.com/reviews/space-grunts-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Space Grunts 2</em></a> is now out on <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.orangepixel.spacegrunts2" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Android</a>, if any of you have been waiting for the Google Play version.</p>
<h2>App Updates & News</h2>
<p>What would you get if you decided to merge 100-Player Battle Royale and Auto Chess? Well, according to Ubisoft, you’d get <a href="https://www.ubisoft.com/en-gb/game/might-and-magic-chess-royale/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Might & Magic: Chess Royale</em></a>, which is a new game coming at the end of the month. I’m personally quite a fan of Auto Chess games, although I’m not a big Battle Royale player (<em>Fortnite</em> is fun enough if you’ve got someone to play it with).</p>
<p>I don’t really understand how this can be a thing, but the press blurb claim matches won’t take longer than 10 minutes, so that addresses my main concern. We’ll find out more on January 30th.</p>
<p><img class="leftAlone" title src="https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/the-weekender-pascals-rage-r-edition.jpg" alt="might and magic chess royale" width="820" height="461"></p>
<p><em>Narcos</em> is a Netflix you may or may not have seen by now (not really my thing, but I know it’s fairly popular) following the family-friendly saga of the rise of the cocaine trade in Colombia in the late 80’s. It had a surprisingly decent (if tragically flawed) <a href="http://bit.ly/NarcosSG" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">turn-based strategy spin-off game</a> on PC and Console and now it’s getting a mobile spin-off in the form of… an Idle Clicker game. Yeah. <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tiltingpoint.bigwolf.narcosfactory" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Check out this bad boy</a>.</p>
<p>You might also be excited to know that Playdek’s latest board game port, <em>Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ?</em> will be entering early access on Steam at the end of February. No word on a mobile version yet but we know Playdek will want to bring it mobile eventually, so it’s good to see progress being made.</p>
<p>In terms of individual app updates, there’s a few:</p>
<ul>
<li><em>Star Traders: Frontiers</em> continues to be Best Traders.</li>
<li><em>Santorini</em> got a minor update</li>
<li><em>Call of Duty: Mobile</em>’s Third Season has started</li>
<li><em>DOTA Underlords</em> got a new balance/tweak patch</li>
<li><em>Black Desert Mobile </em>has got a new World Boss, as well as the Node War PvP mode we’ve spoken about before</li>
</ul>
<h2>App Sales</h2>
<p>It appears to be another week where there’s nothing really to shout about in terms of sales, so I thought I’d take a moment to clarify how I go about populating this section.</p>
<p>Games go on sale all the time, but I tend to stick to the ones we’ve covered, or at least more obviously within our ball-park. Sometimes though you see the same games go on sale repeatedly, and they’re not always the best price. For example Klarus Victoria (<em>Predynastic Egypt</em> etc.) have all their games on sale again, but it’s the same price they always discount to.</p>
<p><em>Icewind Dale</em> is also half price again, but that’s not the best price it’s been and there’s a couple others like this. We’ve covered all these games before and I do try to monitor whether a price is “good” price, as highly subjective as that concept it.</p>
<p>That being said, <em>Beholder</em>’s latest sale is the best price it’s ever been at $1.99, down from it’s previous typical sales price of $2.99. Maybe there are some of you who don’t own it yet who would like to, but again the older a game is the less relevant I feel it is at times in terms of discounts.</p>
<p><em>Seen anything else you like? Played any of the above? Let us know in the comments!</em></p>
</div>
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