August 11, 2017 – It’s a glorious Friday and to celebrate we’re sending over a nice little video for the upcoming Absolverfrom Sloclap and Devolver Digital. The video focuses on character creation, taking players through the details of the prospects and character set up – and how and why your clothes and equipment matter in Absolver. What you wear affects how you play.
Clothes can denote where you are from, and each item you equip has a specific weight and purpose. There are thousands of possible combinations: Players will have to choose what’s right for their combat style but be careful: You can lose items and equipment to a victor in battle or drop them in combat as well.
Seattle, WA – August 11, 2017 – Organizers of the Indie MEGABOOTH (IMB) have revealed the curated PAX West lineup, which will bring together 84 independently made games within its MEGABOOTH, MINIBOOTH, and TABLETOP areas. Like previous years, the massive IMB PAX West footprint – more than 5,700 square feet – will house an eclectic collection of indie titles ranging from PC to console to tabletop games from September 1-4, 2017 in the Washington State Convention Center.
Some of the titles and studios selected to participate in the Indie MEGABOOTH are entirely new, with some being playable to the public for the first time. A snapshot of some of the playable titles include: the recently unveiled UFO 50, collection of 50 retro-flavored games (developed by Mossmouth a super group of devs behind several acclaimed indie games such as Spelunky, Downwell, among others); Dunk Lords, a two-on-two basketball beat-’em-up by Andy Hull of Story Fort (lead programmer of Spelunky); Return of the Obra Dinn, the next game by Lucas Pope the creator of the critically acclaimed title Papers, Please; and Klei Entertainment’s action adventure title Hot Lava, which transports players back to their childhood imagination to relive those moments of excited, joy and chaos – but whatever you do… don’t touch the floor!
Additionally, Indie MEGABOOTH has partnered with the creators of Exploding Kittens, the hit card game and one of the biggest Kickstarter campaigns of all-time, to organize a pop-up Kitten Café named “Non-Exploding Kittens Room” that will double as a pet adoption and fundraiser for MEOW Cat Rescue, a local non-profit animal shelter. The “Non-Exploding Kittens Room” will be located in the ACT Theatre and is open to the public, not just PAX West badge holders.
Within the MEGABOOTH area on the show floor, there will be four different games featured in the TABLETOP each day of PAX West. All sixteen games that cycle through, will also be playable in the ACT Theatre throughout the entirely of PAX West.
Indie MEGABOOTH would like to thank this year’s returning sponsors PlayStation and ID@Xbox, as well as Unreal Engine, Oculus, and Intel for their continued support. With special thanks to Cards Against Humanity and Kickstarter for their Indie TABLETOP sponsorship.
For more information on the full lineup and access press assets for each game, please visit indiemegabooth.com. Be sure to follow Indie MEGABOOTH @IndieMEGABOOTH on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook for live updates from the show floor, use the hashtag #IMBPAX to join the conversation.
The official lineup for the MEGABOOTH, MINIBOOTH, and TABLETOP areas are listed alphabetically by group and then title name below:
MEGABOOTH:
Aegis Defenders (GUTS Department)
At Sundown (Mild Beast Games)
AWAY – Journey to the Unexpected (Playdius Entertainment)
Blasters of the Universe (The Secret Location)
Castle Story (Sauropod Studio)
Children of Zodiarcs (Cardboard Utopia)
Crest (Eat Create Sleep)
Date or Die (Dev or Die)
Dead Cells (Motion Twin)
Dunk Lords (Story Fort, LLC)
Eco (Strange Loop Games)
Figment (Bedtime Digital Games)
Fort Triumph (Fort Triumph Ltd.)
Galaxy of Pen & Paper (Behold Studios)
Heaven will be Mine (Pillow Fight / Worst Girls)
Holy Potatoes! We’re in Space?! (Daylight Studios)
A Duel Hand Disaster: Trackher (Ask An Enemy Studios)
Cloudbase Prime (Floating Island Games)
EarthNight (Cleaversoft)
Emily is Away Too (Kyle Seeley)
Exception (Traxmaster Software LLC)
Keen (Cat Nigiri)
Keyboard Sports (Triband)
Lifeless Moon (Stage 2 Studios)
Light Fingers (Numizmatic)
LIGHTFIELD (Lost in the Garden)
Mulaka (Lienzo)
Phantom Brigade (Tetragon Works)
Planetoid Pioneers (Data Realms)
Putty Pals (Harmonious Games)
Return of the Obra Dinn (3909 LLC)
Russian Subway Dogs (Spooky Squid Games Inc.)
Rusty Lake Paradise (Rusty Lake)
Spartan Fist (Glass Bottom Games)
SUPER IMPOSSIBLE ROAD (Wonderful Lasers Inc.)
Tasukete Tako-San: Save me Mr Tako! (Christophe Galati)
The First Tree (David Wehle)
Tiny Bubbles (Pine Street Codeworks)
Vidar (Razbury Games)
TABLETOP:
Abandon Planet (Orange Machine Games)
All or One (Robot High Five)
By Order of the Queen (Junk Spirit Games)
Complicated Boardgame the Card Game (Offcut Games)
Cult Following: The One True Game (Bravely Told Games)
Emergence: A Game of Teamwork and Deception (Emergence Team)
Fantastic Factories (Fantastic Factories)
H.E.A.D. Hunters (Gut Shot Games)
Human Era (Lay Waste Games)
Larklamp: Wisp in the Vale (Lumo Amuzo)
Maximum Apocalypse (Rock Manor Games)
Now Everyone Get the F%$# Out! (Starcap Games)
Phoenix Covenant (Hikari Games)
Race For The Galaxy (Temple Gates Games)
Sarah’s Singularity (Wandering Monster Studios)
Someone Has Died (Gather Round Games)
Spaceteam (Timber & Bolt)
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About Indie MEGABOOTH
Founded in 2011 as a passion project and for the love of indie games, the Indie MEGABOOTH made its debut at PAX East in 2012 and has seen incredible growth since. To date, the Indie MEGABOOTH has worked with more than 700 companies and studios across multiple showcases per year. Indie MEGABOOTH is best known for its curated showcase of independent games at major consumer gaming expos such as PAX West and PAX East, as well as showcases at professional industry events like the Game Developers Conference (GDC) and E3. Indie MEGABOOTH has also built an impressive global support network for the indie development community. In 2015, Indie MEGABOOTH joined forces with BitSummit organizers to assist in expanding the Kyoto based event into the largest and leading indie games festival in Japan. Later in 2015, Indie MEGABOOTH founder – Kelly Wallick – was named the new chairperson to the esteemed Independent Games Festival held annually at the GDC and continues to lead that community. In 2017, Indie MEGABOOTH announced a new stand-alone traveling event series that features local talent in a variety of creative mediums – games, music, art – and hosted the first indie MEGASHOW in Atlanta, GA. Games showcased through the Indie MEGABOOTH’s efforts have become top-selling indie titles. Press, fans, and industry members consistently highlight Indie MEGABOOTH as a must-see during events.
August 10th, 2017 – The EVGA SC17 1080 G-SYNC Gaming Laptop has arrived. Featuring a 4K-ready IPS panel with NVIDIA G-SYNC technology, this high performance laptop was meticulously crafted from the ground up for hardcore gamers, performance enthusiasts, and overclockers alike.
Breaking away from the conventional brick form factor, a unique in-house EVGA designed power supply delivers up to 240 watts of power when needed, without sacrificing function or aesthetics.
The SC17 1080 pairs an unlocked Intel Core i7 7820HK CPU with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 capable of being overclocked to offer the performance you always wanted from a gaming laptop.
With performance and overclocking in mind, the EVGA SC17 1080 G-SYNC Gaming Laptop features a BIOS with mouse function to give you complete control over all aspects of performance, voltage and advanced settings to customize your gaming machine. A Clear CMOS button directly on the chassis helps you recover from an unstable overclock, and custom fan curve control keeps your laptop cool and quiet. This is the world’s first TRUE overclocking laptop.
Featuring a sleek design – measuring under 1.30″ (in) at its thickest point – that includes Thunderbolt connectivity, excellent sound, and a beautiful 4K 17″ display, the SC17 1080 is all the performance you need in a sleek and stylish package.
Key Features:
Aluminum Unibody Chassis (Only 1.3in at thickest part)
4K NVIDIA GSYNC IPS Display
Industry Leading Overclocking Features and GUI BIOS
Intel Core i7 7820HK Unlocked CPU and Full Performance GeForce GTX 1080 Graphics
Larkspur, Calif. – August 10th, 2017 – McLaren Young Driver Lando Norris recently test drove a host of his team’s classic FORMULA ONE™ cars, as well as the striking MCL32 from this year’s championship, in F1 2017, the official videogame of the 2017 FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP™. Codemasters® and Deep Silver have today released a new trailer which showcases Norris taking on the new Japan Short circuit and talking about how each of the cars feel to drive. The new trailer can be viewed on the game’s official YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzO035NTZf8.
The exciting young driver, just 17, recently took part in the official FORMULA ONE testing at the Hungaroring, setting the second fastest time behind World Championship leader Sebastian Vettel’s Ferrari.
“Getting behind the wheel for the first time was a really great feeling – after my test in the 2017 car in Hungary, I’m happy to confirm that these cars are much faster and more intense to drive, and that really comes across in the new game,” commented Norris. “I think people are going to have a lot of fun driving the new breed of Grand Prix car in F1 2017.”
He continued, “It was also a really nice experience to get to re-live several chapters of McLaren’s past by driving classic cars from 1988, 1991, 1998 and 2008, each representing a world championship success for the team. The 2008 title-winning car has tons of downforce, and is a lot of fun to throw about. The heritage cars are really the icing on the cake.”
In addition to all the official teams, cars, drivers and circuits from the current scintillating season, F1 2017 features 12* classic cars from McLaren, Ferrari, Williams, Renault and Red Bull Racing. There are also four brand new shortened circuits in Britain, Bahrain, USA and Japan as well as the chance to race around the famous Monaco street circuit at night. F1 2017 releases onto PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system, Xbox One, the all-in-one entertainment system by Microsoft, and Windows PC via Steam worldwide on August 25th.
*Consumers who pre-order or purchase ‘Day One’ copies of F1 2017 will have access to the iconic 1988 McLaren MP4/4, as part of the ‘F1 2017 Special Edition.’ Alternatively, the McLaren MP4/4 car will be available to be purchased at a later date. The eleven other classic cars are available in all editions of the game.
Oslo, Norway – August 10th, 2017 – Only six days to go! On August 16thConan Exiles launches into Game Preview on Xbox One for the first time along with a major free expansion update for both Xbox One and PC that heralds the start of phase two of Conan Exiles’ Early Access adventure. Today Funcom has released a video that summarizes the journey Conan Exiles has made in the first six months of Early Access, detailing all the new content, features, and the significant improvements the team has done to create a bigger and better game.
Conan Exiles is planned to leave Early Access and see full launch on PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 in Q1 2018. While the team has been able to expand and improve the game significantly the first six months of Early Access, there are several months left and the team will continue to work side-by-side with the community to realize Conan Exiles’ full potential.
To dig deeper into the many additions and improvements made to Conan Exiles, players can visit www.conanexiles.com/updates for a full overview. They can also head over to www.conanexiles.com/thefrozennorth to read up on the upcoming free expansion update.
“I am very proud of the team and the work they have done so far in Early Access,” says Creative Director Joel Bylos. “They have really been working their arses off fixing bugs, squashing exploits, improving core features, and they have also added entire new features and content such as siege warfare, climbing, dungeons, and much more. They have also built this entire expansion update which makes the game bigger and more chock full of features than ever before. We’re certainly not done and we still have a long way to go until full launch, but we are very proud of what Conan Exiles is today and we are very grateful for all the support, feedback, and input we have received from our community thus far.”
Since launching into PC Early Access on January 31st 2017, the development team has been working tirelessly to introduce new content, improve mechanics, and eradicate bugs and exploits. The team has added siege weapons, a new dungeon, a dye system, new armor and weapons, new decorations, avatar defenses, new building pieces, and much more.
You can learn more about Conan Exiles and see the latest updates from the developers on www.conanexiles.com.
August 10, 2017 – Previously referred to under its codename “Orange DLC”, Bohemia Interactive today revealed the next addition to its military sim-game Arma 3. Available worldwide in the beginning of September, the Arma 3 Laws of War DLC explores a different perspective on the battlefield via the addition of a humanitarian faction, van, drone, mini-campaign, and much more. Some of the basic principles of the laws of war, which are also commonly referred to as International Humanitarian Law (IHL), are further introduced in the DLC’s new reveal trailer.
The Laws of War DLC delivers new playable content, together with many new in-game assets, providing even more opportunities for various types of combat operations and roleplay in Arma 3. Its key features include:
International Development & Aid Project (IDAP) – This new faction, IDAP, is a non-governmental organization which is specialized in rapidly responding to humanitarian disasters. The faction is composed of new IDAP-branded clothing and gear, including outfits for specialized roles such as Explosive Ordnance Disposal specialists, as well as many other tools, supplies, and other items.
“Remnants of War” Mini-Campaign – Take on the role of IDAP explosive specialist Nathan MacDade, who is tasked with identifying and deactivating mines after the war in the Republic of Altis & Stratis has ended. While you are being interviewed by an investigative journalist, you will uncover what happened in the town of Oreokastro, experiencing the events from the perspective of various sides, in recollections that span multiple periods of time.
Van – IDAP makes use of a new van, which comes in multiple variants, with over twenty custom liveries in total. Each variant caters to a specific purpose, such as cargo logistics or the transport of people. There is also an ambulance variant available.
Utility & Demining Drone – IDAP has a new drone at its disposal to be able to quickly move cargo or supplies to a specific location. A special variant of the drone is used as part of IDAP’s demining operations.
APERS Mine Dispenser – The APERS Mine Dispenser is an effective but controversial area denial weapon system. It is typically only used in desperate situations, and can have devastating effects even long after a conflict has ended.
Vests, Bags, Headgear & Facewear – Various pieces of new gear are available to help you carry out your duties. This includes safety vests, messenger bags, hard hats and press helmets, ear protectors, safety goggles, and much more.
Additional Content – The Laws of War DLC adds a variety of miscellaneous additional content, such as time trial challenges for the new van and drone, a paramedic outfit, and a training mine.
In addition, the Laws of War DLC will be supported by a major free Arma 3 platform update, adding a lot of new content and feature extensions related to the DLC’s assets and theme. This platform update is free for all owners of Arma 3. Its highlights include: refinedcluster strikes, the simulation of Unexploded Ordnance (UXO), the ability to drop (custom) leaflets from the sky, two new Showcase scenarios (Showcase Laws of War and Faction Showcase IDAP), a wide variety of emergency and medical supplies such as food bags, water bottle packages, blankets, stretchers, and IV bags, plus decorative objects such as shelter tents and new furniture, extra Steam Achievements, and much more. A complete overview of the Laws of War DLC, and its supporting platform update, is available at www.arma3.com/dlc/lawsofwar.
Joris-Jan van ‘t Land, Project Lead on the Arma 3 Laws of War DLC: “With amazing support from our teams in the Czech Republic and Thailand, this marks the first project for our small new studio in Amsterdam, which – together with the perhaps unusual DLC theme – makes it extra special for us. The idea for the Laws of War package was very much inspired by our relationship with the International Committee of the Red Cross. This began with a presentation from the ICRC to the Arma 3 development team on the topic of International Humanitarian Law a few years ago. Since then, we’ve always been interested in thinking of ways to better incorporate this vital yet also very complex aspect of war into the game. With this DLC, we hope to offer a balanced introduction to the laws of war, and their implications on the way that war is conducted.”
The Arma 3 Laws of War DLC is scheduled for release early September, and is available for pre-order on Steam and the Bohemia Storewith a 10% pre-order discount (normal price: € 9.99 / $ 11.99 / £ 8.99). A portion of the proceeds from the direct sales of the Laws of War DLC in 2017 will be donated to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The total amount raised will be announced on www.bistudio.com in 2018.
For more information on Arma 3 and the Laws of War DLC, please visit the official website at www.arma3.com. To keep track of all the latest Arma 3 news and developments, be sure to follow and/or subscribe to Arma 3 on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Steam.
August 10, 2017 – The Norsca race pack for Total War: WARHAMMER is out today! The barbaric, axe-wielding, monster-hunting Norscans are free to players that pre-order Total War: WARHAMMER II through a SEGA approved retailer* before release, or buy it in the first week on sale. Alternatively, they can be purchased direct from Steam as DLC for the first game.
The Norscans are unique in The Old World for their reliance of the horrific beasts and monsters of the icy northern wastes – creatures such as Skin Wolves, War Mammoths, and the elusive Fimir. Players can embark on campaigns as two Legendary Lords – Wulfrick the Wanderer and Throgg the Troll King – as they bring the other Norscan tribes to heal, embark on awesome Monster Hunting quests, and forge south to lay waste.
In this episode of Trust in Brother – one of the TV shows that appear in the world of Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus – there is no such thing as “just a little chocolate.” Or, as big brother Dale puts it: “Good nutrition is a matter of state security.” Watch this episode of Trust in Brother to see a twisted Nazi-fied take on a classic American sitcom.
Trust in Brother
“I’m still going to have to inform on you!” Sometimes life isn’t easy when you’re Ronnie and you’re always getting caught doing FUN (Following Unlawful Nature) things in Trust in Brother – a heartwarming comedy show for the whole family. Giggle your hearts out as the gluttonous Ronnie gorges on milk chocolate bars. Chuckle until your belt buckles burst as Ronnie dances to degenerate music that threatens to send him into a spiral of drugs, crime, and political deviance. But whenever Ronnie stumbles, his big brother Dale will always be there to catch him – and inform on him to the authorities! With a resounding endorsement from our Beloved Führer himself, you’re in for eine großartige Zeit – a hoot of a time! Trust in Brother is filmed before a live studio audience.
Kalypso Media has released a new teaser trailer before Gamescom in which they warn gamers to “Prepare for the Awakening…”. It also includes the following quote in its video description:
“An ancient proverb warns: ‘Never trust a demon, for betrayal is their very blood’.
– Carissa Cantrecht
The person saying these words, Cantrecht, indicates this project as a sequel to hack-and-slash game, Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms.
