Nightly Reading - Vermintide 2 is free to play now - briefly
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- Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is free to play on Steam until Sunday -
If you've been eyeing Fatshark's 2018 action game Warhammer: Vermintide
2, but weren't quite sure about actually purchasing it, the title
has
now gotten a free weekend on Steam. For folks not familiar, Vermintide
2 is a first-person action game in the Warhammer universe, with a focus
on co-op, and is the sequel to 2015's Warhammer: End TImes -
Vermintide. You can play as one of five different characters, each with
three different careers - unlocked at different character levels. There
are 13 campaign missions to experience (plus two more if you have the
Shadows over Bögenhafen DLC), with players fighting against the Chaos
army and a rat-men species dubbed the Skaven. In case that sounds like
something you'd enjoy playing, the free weekend lasts until November 24
at 6PM UTC, which is 10AM PT or 1PM ET. On the off chance that you find
the gameplay of the title appealing, there's also a 75% discount in
place until November 26, bringing the price down from $29.99 to $7.49.
- Street Fighter V Free Weekend - Steam
is offering a free weekend for the Windows edition of Street Fighter V,
the latest installment in Capcom's fighting serie
- Prison Architect Free Weekend - A free weekend for Prison
Architect is now underway
on
Steam, offering the chance to manage a maximum security
penitentiary in this incarceration simulation for Windows, macOS, and
Linux.
- WRATH: Aeon of Ruin Early Access - Early Access is now
underway
on
Steam for WRATH: Aeon of Ruin, a first-person shooter from 3D
Realms, 1C Entertainment, and KillPixel Games build on id Software's
venerable QUAKE engine. Here's the Early Access
Release Trailer
- Wunderling Announced - Developer Retroid announces
Wunderling, a 2D platformer coming to
Steam
and Switch next year. The unusual premise here is that the player takes
the role of a low-level goon, rather than the hero, which is shown off
in their
Reveal Trailer.
- Dungeon Defenders: Awakened Beta for Preorders - Back in
March, Chromatic Games successfully crowdfunded Dungeon Defenders:
Awakened, a new entry in its renowned multiplayer tower defense
series, via Kickstarter. Since
then, the campaign has received a steady string of updates along with
the consistent promise of a Closed Beta for backers and those who
pre-ordered the game. Today, the developer revealed that Dungeon
Defenders: Awakened’s Closed Beta is set to begin on November 22.
Here's the Official Beta launch trailer
- LOST EMBER is now available - LOST
EMBER is now available on
GOG.com and Steam, offering
an action/adventure where the player takes on the roles of a variety of
animals. Each site is providing a 10% launch discount, which will end
on December 3rd. The
Announcement Trailer takes a look at this walk (and flight) on the
wild side
- Corporate America Released - Corporate America is now available
on
Steam, offering a first-person shooter for Windows with a satirical
bent. Make sure your Swingline stapler is secured and you've picked up
your bone business cards with the Silian Rail lettering from the
printer. Then check out
this trailer
for a look at gameplay
- State of Decay 2 Comes to Steam in Early 2020 - to Steam early next year.
The game originally released on PC (via the Windows store) and Xbox One
in May 2018. Undead Labs also had a staggered release with the first
game in the series, but the delay was much smaller.to Steam
early next year. The game originally released on PC (via the
Windows store) and Xbox One in May 2018. Undead Labs also had a
staggered release with the first game in the series, but the delay was
much smaller.
- New Saints Row will be announced in 2020 - The most
current game of Saints Row was released in 2013. Since that year, this
series has remained silent. THQ Nordic, the latest distributor of this
video game series, made a statement in August 2019 and stated that a
new series game was developed. Today, Koch Media, which is on top of
THQ Nordic, announced that the new game of the series is under
development and the new game will be announced in 2020.
- Source 2 SDK will be released with Half-Life: Alyx, community
can build custom maps and mods - The
official Steam store page for Half-Life: Alyx confirms that community-built environments and mods
will be possible with the Source 2 tools. Players can use an updated
version of Hammer, the current level editing tool for Source games, in
order to build custom levels and campaigns for HL: Alyx. Who knows,
folks may even end up getting a whole lot more wild; Counter-Strike
began as a community mod for the original Half-Life.
- Capcom Might Be Remaking Resident Evil 3 Claims Fresh Rumor - A new rumor is going around that fans of Capcom's
"Resident Evil 3" will be thrilled to hear. The rumor says that
"Resident Evil 3: Nemesis" is being remade and will land sometime in
2020. The rumor started with the popular YouTube channel Spawn Wave.
- Google Stadia users complain about Chromecast Ultra
overheating issues - The Google Stadia package consists of a
Stadia controller and Chromecast Ultra, which needs to be plugged into
a TV set. While the controller itself is fine, the Chromecast Ultra
ends up getting excessively hot after a Stadia gaming session. In
certain scenarios, the puck straight up shuts down due to overheating.
The issue has been echoed by many early Google Stadia adopters over
at Reddit. Some claim they have only seen the Chromecast puck get
extremely hot, while others say the device will shut itself down due to
overheating in the middle of their gaming session.
- Apple removes customer reviews from its online store -
According to a tip sent into AppleInsider,
the Ratings & Reviews section on Apple Store listings has been
removed in at least the U.S., UK, and Australian regions. The change
happened over the weekend, and no one is really sure why.
- Windows 10X Win32 App Support And More Confirmed For Dual
Screen Devices - Back at the Surface event in early October,
Microsoft unveiled a
dual-screen device called Surface Neo, along with a Windows 10X
operating system that is being designed from the ground up for it and
similar dual-screen and foldable gadgets. Details on the OS are still
fairly light, but in a bit of good news, it looks like Windows 10X
will
support Win32 apps.
- Netflix Releases Episode Titles For The Witcher Series - In
a Twitter thread on the official account for Netflix's The Witcher
series, we now know the episode titles for the eight-episode
series. In addition to the episode titles, the thread features short
descriptions of each episode.
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