Free League Publishing today announced that a new edition of the acclaimed The One Ring™ roleplaying game, set in the world of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien, is coming to Kickstarter on February 11.
The One Ring is a tabletop roleplaying game based on The Hobbit™and The Lord of the Rings™, two extraordinary works of fiction by the beloved author and respected academic, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.
The first edition, released in 2011, was hailed as the best attempt at bringing Middle-earth to the gaming table to date, thanks to its thematic rules and painstaking attention to detail. For 10 years, players of the game have traveled far and wide across Middle-earth, adventuring for multiple decades of game time.
Today, it is time for the game to enter a new era – the new edition of The One Ring brings players further into the Twilight of the Third Age with a new hardbound volume, presenting a set of updated and streamlined rules, developed thanks to years of players’ feedback and raising the game to the standards of quality that have made Free League so popular. The look of the game itself has been completely redesigned, offering a view of Middle-earth that is fresh and familiar at the same time.
The new edition is created by game designer Francesco Nepitello in collaboration with Free League Publishing, creators of award-winning tabletop RPGs such as ALIEN, Forbidden Lands and Tales from the Loop.
The One Ring RPG will soon bring players further into the Twilight of the Third Age. More in-depth information will be revealed at the launch of the Kickstarter.
Are you ready to face the “Wrecknado”? This brand new track is built for pure destruction – four big loops will lead the drivers right into the vortex of wrecking. This is tied into this month’s tournament, where wrecking meets racing: the player’s goal is to wreck as many AI cars on the new track as possible. And the better the position in the race they are, the higher the score that’s awarded.
Try out the Wrecknado today, it’s a free update for all players on PC, Xbox One™ and PlayStation®4.
Today, CCP Games are excited to reveal the first Quadrant of 2021 for the deep and uniquely player-driven sci-fi space MMO game EVE Online. Take flight together at the beginning of a new chapter in New Eden’s history with Reign, launching today.
Reign will see players striving to achieve tactical supremacy and victory over one another, with new updates to fleets and travel, continuous balance and meta changes, and returning events such as the Guardian’s Gala, Abyssal Proving Grounds, and The Hunt. Watch the brand-new trailer to glimpse a taste of updates coming in Reign:
Dive into activities together with the new Fleet Discovery update, allowing pilots to have more fun, be more efficient, or become even more destructive. Find and create fleets that fit your plans, skill levels, and interests via the new Fleet Up tool, located in the center of The Agency. Whether a new or veteran player, the tool will provide a more intuitive and useful experience when searching for active fleets to join.
Reign also sees the addition of many quality-of-life updates and improvements for an elevated player experience. Enhancements include visual updates to jump tunnel animations, now featuring region-specific immersive visuals reflected in tunnels, along with changes to how home stations are managed and represented on the map. A list of further updates can be found in CCP’s developer blog: Reign – New Quadrant begins today.
A multitude of events will also mark their return as part of Reign, including the notorious Guardian’s Gala, where pilots will once again be able to earn amazing faction items, ship SKINs, Skill Point boosters, Overseers’ Effects and more. To disrupt the celebrations of the Angel Cartel and Serpentis pirates, pilots must fly to event sites located in known and wormhole space. All players who log in during the event will receive daily rewards.
“Following a tumultuous and seismic series of events last year, New Eden is about to enter a time of reformation and re-armament,” said Bergur Finnbogason, EVE Online’s Creative Director. “Our first Quadrant of the year, Reign, will allow players to prepare for the events ahead, which we can’t talk about just yet!”
EVE Online can be downloaded for free and further information about the game can be found via EVE Updates.
Slitherine (Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Relics of War, Warhammer 40,000: Sanctus Reach and Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon) and Black Lab Games (Battlestar Galactica Deadlock and Starhammer) announce a new turn-based strategy game set in the world-renowned sci-fi setting imagined by Games Workshop.
Experience every bone-rattling explosion and soul-crushing charge in Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector, the definitive battle scale turn-based strategy game that takes you to the battlefields of the 41st Millenium. Pick your force, develop your army, field mighty heroes and fight for victory using superior strategy, awesome abilities, and devastating weaponry, turn by turn on grid-based maps.
Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector will be released on PC in May 2021; a console version (Xbox One and PS4) will follow in the summer.
Check out the new trailer for Marvel Studios’ “The Falcon and The Winter Soldier,” which complements a new TV spot that aired during tonight’s big game. The all-new, six-episode series debuts exclusively on Disney+ March 19, 2021.
Marvel Studios’ “The Falcon and The Winter Soldier” stars Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson aka The Falcon, and Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes aka The Winter Soldier. The pair, who came together in the final moments of “Avengers: Endgame,” team up on a global adventure that tests their abilities—and their patience. Directed by Kari Skogland with Malcolm Spellman serving as head writer, the series also stars Daniel Brühl as Zemo, Emily VanCamp as Sharon Carter, and Wyatt Russell as John Walker.
PM Studios is geared up to announce that #DRIVE is getting the green flag for launch on the Nintendo Switch, February 16 for $12.99. #DRIVE is an endless driver inspired by road and action movies from the 70s and 80s. Players simply pick their car, the place, and hit the road. Just try not to hit anything else. No matter where we drive, no matter what we drive, no matter how fast we drive, we simply choose to #DRIVE.
Also, at launch, players that choose to pick up the game will receive a 10% discount on the Nintendo eShop.
To keep things even more interesting, each stage offers new challenges. Completing them will unlock new cars out of over 90 models available in the game. Your ride can get easier by collecting power-ups on the way – ram everything in front of you or put the pedal to the metal with no traffic on the road.
Game features:
Gorgeous stylized graphics
Super fun photo mode to share your journeys
8 beautiful locations to see and explore
90+ unique cars to drive
Each car with a special coolness addon
Fun and addictive driving mechanics
There has never been a better time to hop behind the wheel of a car and just drive… even if it’s just virtually.
The folks at Eagle Dynamics have put out an announcement touting some of the new third party campaigns that have just been released for their outstanding combat flight simulation, DCS: World. Here are the six campaigns worth looking into:
#1 F-14 CAMPAIGN – ZONE 5 – by Reflected Simulations
Dave ‘Bio’ Baranek joined the US Navy in 1979 and enjoyed a successful 20-year career amassing almost 3,000 F-14 Tomcat and F-5F Tiger hours. He completed the legendary “TOPGUN” fighter tactics and weapons training program, and later he returned as an instructor. He has teamed up with Reflected Simulations to give DCS players a taste of air combat manoeuvring training in the 1980s with a digital syllabus that enabling players to experience what it was like to be up there and train with the best. Light the cans, shove it into Zone 5, and let Bio himself walk you through the action. Recorders on, fight’s on!
Key Features of the Campaign:
13 missions and 3 instant action practice scenarios
Realistic challenges of increasing difficulty based on real life training
Over a thousand specially recorded voice-overs, featuring the voice of Jester AI
Custom squadron paint schemes
Briefings and debriefings written and read by Bio himself
Unique kneeboard graphics
Detailed briefings and briefing cards, including separate PDFs for each mission
Checklists, and in-flight guides available in game as well as in PDF format
#2 AV-8B NA Harrier CAMPAIGN – Sky Warrior – by Eagle 86
In this Harrier campaign, you are assigned the role of a US marine corps pilot, in which you fly the AV-8B NA Harrier attack aircraft.
Storyline: You will participate in the liberation of Georgia. Not admitting defeat in the Georgia presidential election, a retired general and his army of mercenaries and military rebels have seized part of the country’s territory. The morale of the government troops is broken. Illegal gangs are rampaging in the occupied territories. After receiving a request for help in restoring constitutional order in the country from the elected President of Georgia, NATO has agreed to send the USN frigate “Oliver Perry” and the universal landing ship “Tarawa” to help.
Key features:
11 exciting missions with the use of a wide range of weapons
Briefings, kneeboards, maps, photos of objects from UAVs and from the ground
Musical accompaniment in each mission
Interact with the wingman, UAV and other characters by the F10 radio menu
#3 F/A-18C Hornet CAMPAIGN – Operation Pontus – by 373vFS and Baltic Dragon
Operation Pontus is a story driven campaign for the F/A-18C Hornet. As the Commanding Officer of VFA-131 “Wildcats”, you will plan, design, and execute demanding missions for your squadron. This campaign has day and night missions with different weather conditions against an intelligent and adaptive enemy.
“Operation Pontus” main campaign features:
Up to 30 missions (total number is based on your success rate)
Introducing a new Gameplay style based on the DCS World mission planner
Dynamic Briefings and SITREPs
Decision making and planning
Over 1000 voiceovers creating a dynamic environment
#4 F-5E Tiger II CAMPAIGN – Black Sea Resolve ’79 by SorelRo
Black Sea Resolve ‘79 is a story-driven campaign that will test your F-5E Tiger II A/A and A/G skills in a variety of missions to support the independence movements of several former Soviet Unition states.
It is the 1st of March 1979. Your F-5E squadron is being deployed to Krasnodar to support the UN resolution for the Independence of the former Soviet Union provinces. In a rather moderate response, US president Jimmy Carter and the other NATO countries are deploying a force consisting of elements from 9th Infantry Division, 6th Cavalry Air Brigade and a MAU from 1st Marine Division. USAF is preparing 3 squadrons of F5-E and 2 squadrons of F4-E to provide air support.
Campaign Features:
25 story-driven missions
Over 300 voiceovers
Late 1970’s units set
Full-scale conflict that will progress throughout the campaign
A large variety of missions; CAP, CAS, RES-CAP, Iron Hand
Detailed briefings, kneeboard files, and supporting documentation
Take-off from Nellis AFB, Nevada in F-16C Viper and fly against modern Chinese adversaries such as the J-11A in a realistic Red Flag A/A and A/G campaign.
Key features:
10 missions based on the actual Red Flag exercises
Optional air start
Detailed PDF mission briefings adapted from USAF standards
20-page Campaign Guide and 50-page Standard Operating Procedures document
Hundreds of authentic voice overs
The Red Flag 21-1 Campaign is the result of painstaking research on the conduct of modern Large Force Exercises (LFE). Scenarios, procedures, target sites and threats are based on those used in the real Red Flag. Take flight from Nellis AFB, Nevada in an F-16C Viper to test your mettle against modern Chinese hardware in a realistic combat training setting. Face off against the Chinese J-11A Flanker in a special one versus one Basic Fighter Manoeuvres (BFM) scenario. These 10 missions will put you up against to some of the best military hardware in the world, operated in the most realistic environment possible in a flight simulation.
#6 F/A-18C Hornet CAMPAIGN – Rising Squall by INVERTED
The Rising Squall campaign is driven by an intricate storyline and represents an intense fantasy conflict that takes place in N.E 053 in the INVERTED world.
Rising Squall is a campaign driven by an intricate storyline and intense conflict. While striving for a smooth learning curve for beginners, with missions that progressively become more difficult, the campaign pays heavy attention to the gameplay atmosphere and experience, with pro voice-actors & background music respectively, complementing them.
The discovery of “Chunium-500” seemed to be a solution to the energy crisis. But it has also become an uncertainty that has again intensified the competition between nations.
Key Features:
No SPACEBAR pressing or F10 menu for dialogue
Artistic briefing pictures with comic-style drawings
Complementary visual novels before each mission (English subtitled)
Mission checkpoints and checkpoint autoloading after a crash
Objective display bar, no more getting lost
Pre-recorded intro and controls for a cinematic experience
Publisher The Irregular Corporation (Murder By Numbers, PC Building Simulator) and developer Minakata Dynamics have today announced RAILGRADE, a new railway construction strategy game coming to Steam later this year. Featuring more than 30 distinctive campaign missions, RAILGRADE is a unique new twist on the genre where the player must construct railway routes and efficiently deliver valuable resources in order to help rebuild a failing off-world economy. Players can try RAILGRADE for themselves right now with a playable demo on Steam, and the game will also be featured in the Steam Game Festival later today.
RAILGRADE takes place in a dark, near-future where off-world colonies packed with rich resources are harvested by greedy corporations. However your employer, Nakatani Chemicals, has lost control of one colony following a complete economic collapse – so it’s now up to the player to salvage what’s left using retrofitted train transport. Develop a vast distribution and logistics network on this faraway planet by controlling the construction of new tracks, and employ strategic routes to efficiently deliver valuable cargo.
Using easy construction tools, you’ll need to conquer geography, manage costs, and increase production to create perfect routes with a steady workflow. As your railways begin to bring in capital, you can profit by exporting extra goods via zeppelins, or construct new buildings to help continue the growth of cities. Harness the distribution power of your fleet of customizable trains, while also managing the production process, to maintain a steady flow of resources to your cities which will soon flourish.
Interested applicants to Nakatani Chemicals can download a demo for the game right now on Steam, as part of the Steam Games Festival that starts later today. The demo will give players a glimpse of the future of commerce, with the game’s first two missions featured in the single player campaign mode.
nWay, the developer of Power Rangers: Legacy Wars and WWE Undefeated and a subsidiary of Animoca Brands, today announced that its multiplayer battle royale game Battlepalooza is now available for iOS and Android devices. The over-the-top battle royale pits 24 live contestants against each other for exclusive prizes and valuable gear, all in arenas based on real-world cities utilizing actual geospatial data from the Google Maps Platform.
Designed for players of all skill levels, Battlepalooza’s combat utilizes a unique blend of strategy, skill, and a bit of luck — fast reflexes and quick trigger fingers must be supplemented by tactical thinking. The game’s arena-based battles are large-scale, high-action brawls that rely on the equipment loadout of a Role-Playing Game (RPG) and the character progression of a Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA). The game’s arsenal of outrageous weapons creates a wholly unique gameplay experience on the go: gravity bombs, invisibility gear, sticky honey guns, and other wildly imaginative weapons are all at your disposal as you take on the competition.
Battlepalooza allows up to 24 players to team up with their friends in groups of two or three to play together with a drop-in drop-out feature for easy matchmaking. The game uses the nWayPlay social platform for the friends list and the chat system, and also supports the creation of team codes for streamers to allow their viewers to easily drop in on their game sessions.
Battlepalooza’s premise is a worldwide battle royale game show that utilizes virtual arenas based on real-world cities. The winning players and teams are awarded with NCoins that can be used to purchase unique, limited edition skins for both weapons and characters. These limited edition skins can be traded among players in the game’s marketplace feature.
Battlepalooza was developed in collaboration with Google‘s Real-World Games team and uses the Google Maps Platform to transform real-world cities into the game’s playable battle arenas. The game will initially feature Las Vegas and San Francisco, with more city arenas to be added on a continual basis.
For more information, please visit battlepalooza.com.
KOEI TECMO America and developer Team NINJA are proud to release the PC version of their highly anticipated dark fantasy action-RPG, Nioh 2 – The Complete Edition, available today via Steam®. To celebrate the game’s launch, a cinematic launch trailer was released highlighting the PC version’s gripping visuals.
Nioh 2 – The Complete Edition brings one of the most celebrated action games of this generation to PC, offering players the best way to experience violent Sengoku-era Japan and the deadly Dark Realm. Experience the gripping narrative of the base Nioh 2 game, as well as all of the content featured in the three DLC expansions: “The Tengu’s Disciple”, “Darkness in the Capital”, and “The First Samurai”, through the eyes of a half-human, half-supernatural yokai warrior. In addition, players will have access to all of the game’s weapon types from the beginning of their journey, including those featured in the DLC – the Splitstaff and the Fists – allowing them to master their favourite weapon type and unleash their darkness against intimidating yokai adversaries.
Not only does The Complete Edition feature a wealth of content for players to dive into, it also enables them to enjoy the title with crystal clear 4K Ultra-HD support, alongside ultra wide-screen compatibility, HDR monitor support, and 144Hz monitor support complete with silky-smooth gameplay at a consistent 60/120 FPS on compatible systems*. Also included is full mouse and keyboard customisation support, gamepad compatibility, and the exclusive Valve Helmet armor piece.
Those who purchase their copy of Nioh 2 – The Complete Edition before Feb. 26, 2021 will be able receive the bonus armor sets, “Sohaya Deserter Garb” and “Ornate Gold Armour” for use on their adventure. To access these limited time bonus items, simply visit the ‘Boons’ section of the in-game menu and the items will be downloaded.
This title has been rated “M for Mature” on Windows PC by the ESRB.
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