Get ready to bring the surface of Mars to life in Per Aspera, coming to Steam and GOG.com on December 3rd for $29.99 with a 10% discount at launch. In today’s video, the team at Tlön Industries prepares players to defend their colonies against a mysterious and looming threat. With hard sci-fi, deep and strategic city-building, a compelling narrative, and additional combat mechanics, Per Aspera has redefined the simulation genre!
FEATURES
🌑 Balance a complex well of resources to build interconnected structures that span an entire planet.
🌒 Customize your terraforming plan with branching research trees. Develop new technologies steeped in real-world science to create a thriving interplanetary civilization.
🌓 Cultivate relationships with your human colonists and ensure their continued survival on Mars’ unforgiving surface. How you choose to forge these relationships will impact how your mission concludes.
🌔 Uncover the mystery of a dangerous presence on Mars and defend your colonies from unknown entities.
🌕 Immerse yourself in a rich narrative featuring the voice acting talents of Troy Baker, Phil LaMarr, Laila Berzins, Yong Yea, Linsey Murrell, and Nneka Okoye, or take your time and craft the perfect Martian landscape with Sandbox mode.
Today, developer and publisher Wargaming has announced the details of its next two holiday updates for World of Warships (WoWS), its widely popular, free to play naval combat game. Update 0.9.11 launches today, while update 0.9.12 is scheduled to go live later this month.
Season of giving starts with the Advent calendar. Running from December 1 to December 24 players will receive daily random bundles from the Armory and can open cards each day and claim their present as well as personal quests. Upon completing these special quests players will get additional Santa’s Gift containers, premium time and doubloons as rewards. In addition to the festive calendar, Winter Trophies, a group of combat missions will drop every week throughout December. The final reward for completing these missions will be the “New Year” permanent camouflage for Tier VIII ships.
The long awaited full release of new US Battleships has arrived. With update 0.9.11 going live VIII Kansas, IX Minnesota, and X Vermont will become available for all players to research. Imagery of these three vessels can be found in the assets link below.
Update 0.9.12
To start 2021 with a bang, Update 0.9.12 offers players a new Dockyard, Snowflakes, free daily random bundles, two temporary festive Campaigns, new ships, and new Commanders, as well as many other rewards.
In Update 0.9.12 players will be able to start building a new Japanese battleship, IX Hizen. This new ship is one of the variants of a super battleship project that preceded the development of the Yamato-class ships. To unlock her, players will need to progress through separate phases of the shipbuilding process, completing missions or spending doubloons to earn this iconic vessel. To maintain this theme, the new Kure port will also be added to the game, inspired by Kure harbor in Japan.
The last update of the year will feature Snowflakes with hefty holiday bonuses.
Captains who secure a victory or earn at least 300 base XP on Tier V or above ships will be rewarded with a holiday Snowflake. Depending on the ship’s tier, players will receive Coal, Steel, or Santa’s Gift containers for blowing Snowflakes off your ship. In addition, all WoWS players will be given three free New Year’s Gift containers with the final update of the year.
Lastly, two New Campaigns: In Pursuit of Strasbourg and The Ships and Fates will be introduced with 0.9.12 Update.
The first New Year temporary Campaign comprises 32 tasks in four missions. The rewards for completing the missions are unique New Year Commanders for Pan-Asian, Italian, or French ships. Completing the Campaign will reward you with VII Strasbourg, adorned in the Winter Holiday permanent camouflage.
The second New Year temporary Campaign comprises 36 tasks in six missions. Completing the missions will reward you with researchable ships V Furutaka, V T-22, V Hawkins, V Visby, V Kotovsky, and V New York, all with unique New Year Commanders and Winter permanent camouflages, as well as Santa’s Gift containers. Both campaigns will be available until the release of Update 0.10.0.
Holy mother of pearl at a pep rally with bone spurs and a cardboard cutout of the Pope! Sam & Max Save the World Remastered is out today on Steam, GOG, and the Nintendo eShop!
The award-winning first season of Telltale’s episodic Sam & Max games has been remastered by a small team of the original developers who acquired the rights after Telltale shut down in 2018. The remaster sells for USD $19.99 (or the equivalent in local currency) and includes English voices and subtitles in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, and Russian.
Project Wingman by Humble Games and Sector D2 is now available for $24.99 on Steam and the Humble store. To celebrate, the team has released a new launch trailer that spotlights exhilarating flight combat that players will experience, which can be viewed here:
Additionally, Humble will be hosting its first-ever Giving Tuesday stream today and raising funds for the GameChanger Charity, a global non-profit enterprise providing aid and relief for young people battling life-threatening illnesses, as well as their families and caregivers. The team will be showing off some Project Wingman gameplay as part of the event, so make sure to grab your friends and tune-in here! The stream kicks off this morning at 10:20AM PT with Project Wingman followed by a host of other great games.
Project Wingman is a flight action game that lets you take the seat of advanced fighter jets and become a true ace. Fight in various missions and game modes ranging from intense aerial dogfights to large scale ground assault in an alternate scorched earth setting.
Key Features:
PURE COMBAT FLIGHT ACTION | Fly in varied and exciting scenarios and locations unlike you’ve ever seen before
AIRCRAFT AND WEAPON VARIETY | Utilize over 20 different aircraft and over 40 unique weapons at your disposal
UNIQUE ADVERSARIES | Face off against different kinds of adversaries such as giant mechanized fortresses and railgun cannons
CONQUEST MODE | Fight in an uphill battle against various bosses and ace squadrons in a territory capture game, drawing elements from roguelikes and RPGs
VIRTUAL REALITY SUPPORT | Put yourself in the cockpit of aerial warfare, immersing yourself in head-swiveling combat
Mark your calendars! We’re happy to announce, that following its successful Kickstarter campaign, NeocoreGames’ role-playing tactical game KING ARTHUR: KNIGHT’S TALE will be available on Steam Early Access on January 12, 2021.
Early Access allows us to work hand in hand with our players and implement changes to the game as we go, based on the feedback we receive from the community. The Early Access period will last for a few months, with regular content updates, followed by the full release on PC in early 2021 and later on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S / X.
Based on the Arthurian mythology, KING ARTHUR: KNIGHT’S TALE is a turn-based tactical role playing game – a unique hybrid between turn-based tactical games and traditional, character-centric RPGs. KING ARTHUR: KNIGHT’S TALE is a modern retelling of a classic Arthurian mythology story filtered through the dark fantasy tropes, a twist on the traditional tales of chivalry.
MAIN FEATURES
Your Fights – Control a small team of heroes and fight grueling, but satisfying battles with a deeply engaging, tactical turn-based combat system. Choose from more than 30 heroes of 5 diverse classes and combine hundreds of skills and artifacts to assemble an efficient team.
Your Heroes – Gather your own Knights of the Round Table and send them on knightly quests. These heroes are the most important resources and the most complex gameplay elements at the same time. But beware! Death is always final! You must manage them at the Round Table accordingly, planning ahead before going into battles. The character progression system is designed to be as deep as in the traditional RPGs: heroes level up on unique skill trees and the complex loot system provides unique options to fine-tune their tactical capabilities. Each hero has a distinctive personality and their loyalty is constantly changing through the decisions made by the player – in certain cases they can even leave the Round Table and turn against you.
Your Kingdom – See the entirety of Avalon presented on a the Adventure Map, observe all the territory, select your missions and explore various places. Management in KING ARTHUR: KNIGHT’S TALE focuses on rebuilding Camelot and expanding the mystical Stronghold with new buildings that each unlock various upgrades, and also offers different ways to heal up and manage the heroes of the Round Table.
Your Legend – Play as Sir Mordred, the former nemesis of King Arthur. Explore the mystical island of Avalon, venture on knightly quests and make decisions in various encounters where you’ll need to make moral choices, as in most RPGs, which all have impact on the story and your Morality. The end of the campaign opens up new endgame content for the bravest of all: tough new challenges appear on the map with challenging, mythic boss fights and random quests, loot, and character progression ultimately leading to the banishing of Balor, the monstrous god-king of the Fomorians himself.
Beyond the Legend – Complete more than 50 unique points of interest on the Adventure Map, including 20 story missions and various side quests, taking place on diverse terrains. Journey to dark castle dungeons and the forests of the Sídhe, all built by using photoscanned environments and complemented by high-quality mocap animation, then rendered inside a modern PBR engine utilizing DirectX 12 to support strong, atmospheric effects. Challenge 7 enemy factions, fight more than 50 types of enemy units, overcome 10 incredible boss fights throughout your quests.
Chronos: Before the Ashes is out today on PC, Stadia, Xbox One™, Nintendo Switch™, and PlayStation®4! Start your hero’s journey and experience the events that happened before Remnant: From the Ashes in this prequel to the 2019 smash hit.
In Chronos: Before the Ashes, you will face a vast labyrinth full of challenges and get in touch with a unique mechanic: When your hero dies – and he will, of that we’re sure 😉 – he will come back a year older. Throughout the course of the game, the hero will get older and older. As we all know, at a young age it’s easier to use strength and agility to your advantage. But wisdom comes only with age, kids! In Chronos: Before the Ashes, as your character ages, it becomes easier for him to enhance his magical abilities.
Chronos: Before the Ashes is based on the VR-exclusive Chronos from Gunfire Games, but has been overhauled and optimized to work on all platforms without the need for VR support. Chronos: Before the Ashes is out now on PC, Stadia, Xbox One™, Nintendo Switch™, and PlayStation®4.
Frontier Developments plc (AIM: FDEV) today announced a Planet Zoo expansion that’s certain to make waves. The Aquatic Pack is an all-new, water-based DLC featuring everything players need to turn their zoos into magical marine menageries. Introducing never-before-seen additions to Frontier’s ultimate zoo simulation, Planet Zoo: Aquatic Pack will be available on Steam from December 8 for $9.99.
With Planet Zoo: Aquatic Pack players can plunge to new depths of zoo keeping with five iconic water-dwelling animals, as well as a wealth of aqua-inspired foliage, scenery and zoo construction pieces. Whether odes to the ocean or tributes to the tides, players can adorn their zoos with eye-catching murals depicting wild jungles and icy tundra, pick reflective materials embracing water’s mirror-like qualities, display graceful new animal sculptures, and even create their own cascading waterfalls.
Adding to the abundance of existing animals in Planet Zoo, the Aquatic Pack turns the tide, offering a completely new dimension for budding zookeepers to explore and enjoy. Welcoming the wonderful Diamondback Terrapin, charming Giant Otter, beautiful Cuvier’s Dwarf Caiman, brilliant Grey Seal and adventurous King Penguin, players and guests alike will delight as they watch these new additions interact with their watery environments in a whole new way.
With over 170 new scenery pieces included in the Aquatic Pack, zookeepers have everything they could need to enrich and expand their zoos. This new range of construction items and blueprints contains both valuable building pieces and aquatic-themed content enabling players to add fresh and functional fauna or flora to their existing zoos, or build entirely new water-based areas.
Also included is a brand new timed scenario. Players will head to Oregon, USA and get busy managing a unique zoo set around a drained riverbed. This water-centric location will test players’ skills with its tight space restrictions. Featuring lots of elevation to play with, there’s more than enough room for visionaries, by completing habitats, introducing animals, and training staff, it’ll be profitable in no time.
In addition to the Aquatic Pack, existing players can discover a wealth of new content as part of the latest free content update. This update will include new foliage and enrichment items, the ability to educate guests through the addition of educational animal talks, quality of life updates, as well as a brand new timed scenario, letting players journey to the jaw-dropping environment of the Philippines as they transform disused rice terraces into a fledgling zootopia, while pushing conservational awareness.
Please note the Planet Zoo: Aquatic Pack requires the Planet Zoo base game in order to download and play. Planet Zoo is available now on Steam with an RRP of $44.99, Planet Zoo Deluxe Edition RRP for $54.99 or the Planet Zoo Deluxe Upgrade Pack for $11.99.
During a recent livestream for the popular mobile adventure RPG Romancing SaGa™ Re;universe™ in Japan, SQUARE ENIX® revealed that cult classic SaGa Frontier™, originally released in the West in 1998, is returning as SaGa Frontier Remastered, an HD remaster digitally on the PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system, the Nintendo Switch™ system, PC (Steam®) and iOS and Android mobile devices in Summer 2021.
Part of the ongoing SaGa Project from SQUARE ENIX that has so far included Western releases of Romancing SaGa 3, SaGa SCARLET GRACE: AMBITIONS and hit mobile game Romancing SaGa™ Re;univerSe™, SaGa Frontier Remastered brings back a strategic role-playing game still loved to this day.
SaGa Frontier Remastered, overseen by renowned industry veteran, Akitoshi Kawazu (FINAL FANTASY®, SaGa series) will feature a host of exciting new improvements and additions, including remastered graphics, new story content bringing in Fuse as a main playable character, new character events for fan-favorite Asellus, the popular “Glimmer” ability which gives characters new ways to learn skills and attacks, and more.
Newcomers and long-time fans will also be able to create endless adventures as one of eight protagonists, each with their own goals and endings, dependant on their choices with the unique SaGa Free-form Scenario System.
Players eager to experience the game can obtain select SaGa Frontier characters now in the popular mobile game Romancing SaGa re;UniverSe. Surpassing over 25 million downloads worldwide, players can obtain SS Alkaiser, SS Emelia, SS Blue and SS Rouge from a limited-time Ultra-Deluxe Summon, now until December 9.
The Brotherhood of Steel planted their flag in Appalachia last week with Steel Dawn, the latest free update to Fallout 76. Steel Dawn is the first chapter of the Brotherhood of Steel questline, adding new NPC’s, new locations to visit, C.A.M.P. Shelters for expanded building options, new weapons and armor to earn, and much more.
Steel Dawn is free and available now for all Fallout 76 players on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC as well as on Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S and PlayStation 5 through backward compatibility.
Fallout 76 players should also race to get those last few Armor Ace slots on the S.C.O.R.E. board completed before the new Season kicks off on December 15, bringing 100 new ranks to earn.
The unprecedented eSports gala in World of Tanks Blitz, the regional Blitz Cups, is drawing to a close, with the Blitz North America Cup being the “cherry on top”! Taking place on November 27 and 28 at 19:00 PT / 22:00 ET, the Blitz North America Cup will be the last in a series of four regional championships where the best teams, selected through qualifying tournaments, clash in fierce Tier X vehicles for their share of the $200k.
They are:
[RGN] REIGN
[_V_] SPEED
[GMA] One
[ISHTR] Genesis
The prize pool for each regional championship will be distributed as follows:
1st place: $25,000 as well as a unique emblem
2nd place: $15,000 as well as a unique emblem
3rd place: $7,000 as well as a unique emblem
4th place: $4,000
“This year the Blitz Cup will be held online for the first time in its history, which has been a big challenge for us,” says Daria Klimchuk, eSports Team Lead, World of Tanks Blitz. “It might have a different format this year, but we’re making it one to remember, especially given the large number of participating teams and the $200k prize pool, which is double that of the Twister Cup.”
Among other changes, for the first time ever, Nintendo Switch players will be able to take part alongside the mobiles and tablets.
Viewers will be rewarded, too. During the championships, there will be only one special mission that can be completed simply by watching 1 and a half hours of a specific stream. For enjoying Friday’s stream for that amount of time, tankers will get 5 keys to special tournament containers, while watching the Saturday stream will net them a whole plethora of rewards, including an additional 7 keys to the special tournament containers, rare Boosters, x3 XP and camouflage certificates, and a special avatar.
The three other regional Blitz Cups have already crowned their champions. They are [HLV] HLV (Asia), [MERCY] Crocodiles (CIS) and [EG-] Hey lol (Europe).
Get ready to root for your favorites and don’t miss your chance to get rewarded!
