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Titanfall 2 may have been out for a while now, but it takes a while to get an accurate impression of a game that has such a huge multiplayer component. Fortuantely for you, instead of writing a 50,000 word review, I’ve decided to make it a video instead. So you can watch giant robots punch shit AND get educated about the game!
Pokémon GO has proven popular with nostalgic Android and iPhone users worldwide, and Niantic has shown a strong willingness to maintain that popularity with special events, daily rewards and other updates – but for many players, one thing has held back the game’s fun. With the game’s Pokédex currently limited only to Pokémon from the original crop of 151 First-Generation species (and no Legendaries or Ditto), many Players have already exhausted all there is to catch. However, there’s evidence this is finally about to change.
Data miners from The Silph Road, looking at the most recent v0.45.0 release of Pokémon GO on Android, claim to have found references to the names of all 100 Pokémon from the franchise’s Second Generation – from Chikorita to Celebi. However, while the Pokémon may be referenced, the game currently lacks models for the additional 100 Pokémon or any data for their movesets, suggesting that a full Johto-flavoured update is still a while away.
There may be one Pokémon coming in even sooner though: Ditto. The only non-legendary from the first 151 not available in-game, Ditto has so far been held back from Pokémon GO due its single attack, Transform. After all, coding a Pokémon that can transform into other Pokémon is a tough job. However, v0.45.0 introduces new code for the move, complete with its own in-battle animation, suggesting that Niantic may be planning to introduce Ditto’s special move – and possibly Ditto itself – very soon. If so, it would mark the first new move since the game’s release.
Would the introduction of Johto-era Pokémon to Pokémon GO excite you? And what about Ditto? Sound off on the Forum!
COD: Infinite Warfare’s not had a great launch. After the news that the included Modern Warfare Remastered game wouldn’t work without the Infinite Warfare disc for those who had bought the physical copies of the double-game set, it was revealed that for some reason Activision was against cross-platform play. Xbox One and Windows Store players cannot play together and neither can Windows Store and Steam players.
The utter ridiculousness of the situation has just been highlighted in the news that one Windows Store gamer has managed to get a refund on his game. The reason? Because when he went to look for a Deathmatch game he discovered that very few other players were also currently online in the world. How many other players? One.
That’s right. He was one of only two players in the world at that moment looking for an online match.
No matter what you think of Windows Store, you’ve got to admit that Activision’s decision to disallow any sort of cross-platform or even cross-digital distribution interaction is not helping Infinite Warfare any – and this is the game that’s been pretty much an unfavoured child to the series ever since the fans first saw its announcement trailer.
No wonder they wouldn’t allow people to trade in the disc.
Welcome to your update on gaming Kickstarter campaigns, with a selection of some up and coming games you might be interested in checking out.
As usual though, we shall begin with a look back at previously covered campaigns. As thought in previous weeks, it seems that neither Queer Quest or Creekside Creep Invasion were able to reach their goals in the time allowed to them. The people behind Queer Quest are still ploughing on, with an update listing both a Paypal and Patreon option to help them fund the game if people still want (they did make over $10k so it’s feasible); and the people behind Creekside Creep Invasion are still continuing development with an estimated April 2007 release onto Steam. Best of luck to both of them in future.
On the other side of the table, we don’t have any finished campaigns that succeeded – but we do have Goblins of Elderstone which has a few days to go and has exceeded their target by more than $4k NZD at time of writing. Also both Agony and The Bird Told Me To Do It from last week’s article are well on their way to meeting their own goals.
We’re starting off with one of the non-video games in the list this week, and this one is a card game about being a bouncer for a nightclub line.
The point of this game is that a few rounds of the game are played, with each player trying to let in the ‘right’ guests into the club. What this means is that by the end of the game when the amount of rounds have been finished the bouncer with the biggest total from their guest list is the winner – each guest scores from +5 to -2. However, some guests have special abilities that allow them to chain with other guest cards to build more points up.
Berghain has a goal of kr90,000 SEK with 29 days to go, and has already made kr11,358 of it.
Next up is a game about the 1950s when the world was growing and business beginning to boom.
Because of the growth of the world’s economy savvy investors and stocks sales will help totals grow and that is the point of the game. Invest, buy shares, sell and utilise our labor pool to the best you can to outgrow your opponents and win. This game has been well-researched and put together, and it shows because this is one of my inclusions that has already met its target before I covered it – in under 4 hours according to the campaign’s main visual!
Goodwill has 24 more days to go before its campaign ends.
This one is a game starring a character that the campaign describes as “the last guy you’d abduct if you were an alien from outer space.”
Jacob is an organic vegetable farmer. In this point and click adventure, the galaxy is in peril and in need of rescue! Only, the writer of this tale has left out the ‘hero’. So Jacob will have to do instead. The game has been in development for about 3 years at this point and will have 3 chapters of roughly 1.5-2 hours gameplay per chapter. There are also demos of the game for both Windows and Mac if you want to try before you pledge any money.
A Little Less Desperation has 24 days to make its €9,000 goal, it has made €2,571 so far.
Finally we have an oddity here – a campaign not just to fund the game, but to allow people to get a copy for a low price before its full release!
Dragon Skies VR is, as you might be able to guess, a VR game. The full release will be available on Steam for $19.99, but for just $1 anyone pledging to this campaign will get themselves a copy of the game. The setting is a steampunk world, and the game play involves riding on the back of a flying dragon in aerial fighting and shooting battles as you advance through the story. There are even stretch goals if enough people donate to this campaign for copies.
Dragon Skies VR had a $1 goal, but given its uniqueness it can’t really be considered a goal to be met. It has made $223 and has another 23 days to run.
Those waiting for the Warhammer 40k FPS game Space Hulk: Deathwing might already know about the face that the game is about to enter a pre-order beta. This article is for those of you who don’t.
The game will enter into this beta next week before the full release in December, and pre-ordering will let you get the game for a 15% discount. As well you will be able to get a taster of the full campaign from November 20, three weeks before December 9th when the full game will be releasing for everyone. You’ll also receive the Lost Mace of Corswain to use in the game too.
The game will cost £25.49/$33.99 to pre-order and a video has been release to help clue you in on just what it is you’ll be doing and why you’re digging into those giant rocks in the first place. There’s also some looks at the weapon upgrading system and other choice you can make for your squad’s Terminator Armour to make it just that much more effective.
