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Pantheons Unleashed – Smite’s Full God Selection Is Free This Weekend
Hi-Rez Studios is holding a special promotion this weekend for their free-to-play MOBA, Smite. This Saturday and Sunday (the 31st and the 1st), any player who logs into Smite will have the full roster of gods and goddesses available to them, regardless of rank or previous purchases. With over fifty gods from Greek, Chinese, Roman, Mayan, Egyptian, Norse, and Hindu pantheons, players who have yet to check out Smite won't want to pass up this opportunity.This weekend promotion follows the recent release of the Roman god, Janus, into the game. As the fifty-fourth god to be introduced into Smite, Janus brings with him the unique ability to create portals through the game's maps, allowing himself and team members to quickly traverse through otherwise solid obstacles. Hi-Rez Studios typically will release a new god every two to three weeks. The god before Janus, the Egyptian god Osiris, released on May 12th.Earlier this year we put together a great beginner's guide/walkthrough to help new players quickly find their bearings within the game. While fifty-four gods may seem like a daunting amount to select from, brand new players to Smite would be wise to first try out some of the more easier to play gods, like Thor, Ymir, Neith, or Anhur. Be sure to check out Smite while the full roster of gods is available to you this weekend.Here’s what Mighty No. 9 Looks Like Today
Eight months after the $3.8 million Kickstarter campaign, Mega Man-inspired platformer, Mighty No. 9, has a fresh gameplay trailer to show off what the developers at Comcept have been working on over the past few months. The gameplay trailer shows off footage from two of the game's levels, as well as a first glimpse of a pair of bosses that players will encounter within Mighty No. 9.Founded by Mega Man designer, Keiji Inafune, Comcept is a Japanese independent game development studio based out of Tokyo and Osaka. On August 31st of last year, Comcept launched Mighty No.9 onto Kickstarter. In just two days the $900,000 was surpassed. The funding campaign on Kickstarter combined with a secondary campaign (for backers wishing to utilize PayPal) raised over $4,000,000 for the development of Mighty No. 9. The influx of financial support guarantees the game's release on the Wii U, Playstation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation Vita, 3DS, PlayStation 4, Mac, Linux, and Xbox One, alongside the originally planned PC release.Mighty No. 9 has an estimated release date of Spring 2015.Bethesda takes a stylized swing at free-to-play with Battlecry
Over the past two years, Battlecry Studios has created quite the buzz around itself. The Bethesda-backed development studio has collected a number of prominent industry figures, notably Star Wars: The Old Republic's executive producer, Rich Vogel as the studio's president. Speculation arose as to the type of game Battlecry Studios would be working on when job offers were listed online, but for two years nothing official was announced —until yesterday.Attempting to precede the E3 hype, Battlecry Studios revealed Battlecry, a free-to-play multiplayer third-person action game where players pick a side in the struggle between the Cossacks and the Royal Marines in a warped historical reality.It’s Time to Stop Thinking of Console, PC and Mobile Gamers as Different Groups
By Nick Tylwalk
So says a report by the Nielsen company (yes, the same one best known for giving the world TV ratings) released yesterday that tracks the habits of gamers in the U.S. ages 13 and up. It found that gaming on smartphones and tablets made serious strides between 2011 and 2013, which shouldn't surprise anyone. What was a little more eye-opening was the percentage of people who self-classify as console gamers who also report playing mobile games: 50 percent, up from 35 percent back in 2011.That doesn't mean that the negative stigma mobile games have in some corners of the overall gaming community has completely gone away. All it takes is a visit to the right comments section when a beloved console or PC franchise announces a mobile spin-off to prove that.Return of the Obra Dinn is the 1800s Mystery from the Maker of Papers, Please
By Steven Strom
Return of the Obra Dinn sounds nothing like Papers, Please. Lucas Pope's empathetic masterpiece about immigration and war-torn countries was told from the perspective of a customs officer. Obra Dinn, by contrast, is a "3D first-person mystery game" with a 1-bit art style set in 1808.You are cast in a similarly menial position as Pope's previous game. You're the insurance adjustor for the East India Company's London Office. The company wants you to unravel the secrets behind the titular Obra ("pronounced like 'Cobra' without the C") Dinn, a merchant ship that disappeared on its way to the Orient and reappeared years later with no visible crew.Perseus 230 could be the hand to scratch our Star Fox itch
Let's face it: Star Fox should have stayed in his cockpit. His initial two titles pushed the technological limits for what home consoles could pump out for players to experience, but after that Nintendo decided to make the Star Fox games a blend of on-rails shooting and a third-person action adventure. Personally it never sat right with me. The Nintendo DS's Star Fox Command did see the return of pure on-rails gameplay, but the game itself felt (and looked) like a game that should have come out between the Super Nintendo and the Nintendo 64 releases rather than in 2006. People enjoyed it, but it wasn't really a step forward for the franchise.With no new Star Fox game in sight, fans of the series are left twiddling their thumbs. Fortunately, a game by the name of Perseus 230 is shaping up to be just the game to tide us all over until the next iteration of Star Fox is released.Ludum Dare 29 Winners Announced
The winners of April's Ludum Dare 29 game jam and competition have been announced. The winners are divided into two categories, with one batch having entered the 48-hour solo competition, and the other batch having participated in the 72-hour game jam event. The 2,497 games produced during the Ludum Dare 29 event were judged over by the game developers themselves.Winners for best overall game for the 48-hour competition and 72-hour jam respectively: The Sun and Moon by Managore and Scuba Bear by _Rilem.Winners for most fun game for the 48-hour competition and 72-hour jam respectively: Hot Diggity by DragonXVI and Yojimbrawl!by Black Ships Fill The Sky.Winners for best graphics for the 48-hour competition and 72-hour jam respectively: Beneath the Cave by Feiss and LAIR M.D. by RetroEpic.$250,000 up for Grabs in Hearthstone World Championship
By Steven Strom
eSports is so very in right now. Clearly all the Dota 2 kids are into it. This year's International (the game's largest annual tournament) has raised nearly $6.5 million for the prize pool from in-game player purchases. That makes it the biggest eSports prize pool of all-time by a wide margin, and with months of fundraising left before the finals.The Hearthstone World Championship's $250,000 seems like small potatoes by comparison, but remember that whoever wins the $100,000 first place prize doesn't have to split it five ways.That winner will be one of 16 finalists selected from four qualifier hubs around the world. 130 players each from the Americas, Europe, China, and Taiwan/Korea will be whittled down to just 16 finalists.