Tencent Announces Brand New Sci-Fi Shooter SYNCED: Off-Planet
Global publishing giant Tencent has announced a brand new sci-fi shooter, SYNCED: Off-Planet, in partnership with NVIDIA.
Officially unveiled at NVIDIA's showcase at Gamescom, SYNCED: Off-Planet combines survival, crafting and base-building with a PvPvE experience with up to 50 players, and 1000 corrupted human cyborgs called Nanos. It is being developed by NExT Studios as part of Tencent.
SYNCED: Off-Planet is centered on personal and group survival. It tasks you with preparing your group and crafting gear, as well as escorting survivors to shuttles leaving earth. Players will compete against each other to get "off-planet", but also attempt to survive against swarms of Nanos, which are ex-humans turned marauding cyborgs.
Bones of Long Dead Pokemon Decorated This Year’s World Championships Stage
The Pokemon World Championships has a long-running tradition of theming its merchandise, stage, and key art on its host city. With 2019's event taking place in Washington, D.C. the theme was all about museums and monuments, which saw Pikachu and some of its Pokemon friends dressed up in explorer's gear so they could go find wondrous artifacts to bring back to the Pokemon museum. But while those designs are as cute as expected, what drew eyeballs at the event was the stage decorated with huge skeletons of the dinosaur-like Fossil Pokemon Tyrantrum and Bastiodon.
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Netflix Orders He-Man Masters of the Universe Series From Kevin Smith
Netflix has ordered a He-Man anime series, Masters of the Universe: Revelation, and Kevin Smith will serve as showrunner and executive producer.
Smith revealed the news at the annual Power-Con convention in Anaheim, California and announced that this new series will be a "wholly original story set in the epic world of Mattel's over 35 year-old global He-Man toy franchise."
EUnited Wins the Call of Duty World League Championship
EUnited has won the Call of Duty World League 2019 Championship, dragging the competition out to its last possible round, winning 3-2 and defeating 100 Thieves. They will take home the $800,000 grand prize, leaving 100 Thieves with $260,000 to split between team members.
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Which Game Are IGN Fans Most Looking Forward to at Gamescom?
Gamescom starts this week, and the IGN crew is already off their excruciatingly long flights to Germany. While eating our ninth bag of airplane trailmix, we’ve been eagerly discussing what games we’re most excited to see at Gamescom. We also asked the IGN community what their most anticipated game is for the event, and more than 25,000 of you answered. Here are the results from least anticipated to most.
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Darq Developer Reveals Why He Turned Down an Epic Exclusivity Deal
In a time where it seems more and more game developers are opting to sign lucrative exclusivity deals with the Epic Games Store (and thus angering a certain portion of gamers), the developer behind the indie horror adventure Darq has made the peculiar decision to turn Epic down. In a post to his Medium blog, developer Wlad Marhulets, the one-man team at Unfold Games, revealed what went into making his decision.
Less than a month before releasing the game, Mahulets finally shared a release date trailer, stating the game would come to Steam on August 15. Mahulets says it was three days later that an Epic representative reached out to him to discuss an exclusivity deal.
Rainbow Six Siege Is Getting a Battle Pass
Rainbow Six Siege is falling in line with its shooter peers by introducing a Battle Pass system.
As part of the new Operation Ember Rise content - which introduces two new Operators, Amaru and Goyo, and a reworked version of the Kanal map - the Battle Pass will will begin with a miniature take on the pass, called "Call Me Harry".
According to a press release, the "Call Me Harry" pass will "focus on Dr. Harishva “Harry” Pandey, Director of Rainbow. By earning Battle Points, players will unlock tiers and unique rewards, and will get an exclusive Harry Chibi charm upon completion."
The mini-pass will take place over 7 days and include 7 tiers, and will be completely free. A second pass will launch later this year, and will include the two-tier system familiar from games like Fortnite, comprising free and premium tracks.
Apex Legends Forum Heats Up as Developer Calls Toxic Fans ‘A**-hats’
It’s been a tough week for Apex Legends, and an even tougher week for its development team, following strong player backlash during the game’s Iron Crown special event. After making some significant changes to how players could earn the new (and prohibitively expensive) legendary skins included in the event, Respawn took a moment to apologize for how it structured the event. A part of that process of making good appears to be reaching out to the Apex Legends subreddit, where things quickly heated up into verbal sparring between at least one Respawn developer and players.
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Why Hearthstone Esports is Saying Goodbye to the Specialist Format Already
Hearthstone is a much more agile game now than it has been in the past. This year alone we’ve seen a regular cadence of changes to the core game – nerfs, buffs, cards going to the Hall of Fame, as well as the introduction of a brand new esports program and brand new format for competitive play – Specialist. And right from the get-go, the Hearthstone esports team said that if Specialist didn’t pan out the way they hoped, they’d look at changing it. And that’s exactly what has happened – the team recently announced that Grandmasters season 2 would move away from Specialist and use a tweaked version of Conquest that introduced the ability for players to “shield” one of their four decks to prevent it being banned.