Free games

• Microsoft

• • NHL 19

  • • 2018
    • Build your player from the ground up and compete against over 200 hockey greats

  • Rivals of Aether

  • • 2017
    • Platform fighter that has you summoning the power of the four elements to battle your opponents and unravel the mysteries of the planet

  • Portal

  • • 2007
    • Using Aperture Science’s portal technology in this first person puzzle platformer, break the laws of physics and solve brain-bending puzzles to escape the sinister laboratory you are trapped in

  • Earth Defence Force 2017

  • • 2006
    • In this third person shooter with an arcade-style campaign, you’ll annihilate swarms of enemies, some 20 stories tall, using your reconnaissance, infantry, and special ops forces with all manner of weapons and vehicles at your disposal

• Sony

• • Sonic Mania

  • • 2017
    • A throwback to the 16-bit era of the Sonic franchise developed by and for fans featuring Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles

  • Borderlands: The Handsome Collection

  • • 2015 bundle release of Borderlands 2 and The Pre-Sequel along with all their DLC
    • First person class-based loot-shooter with a ton of colourful style and a dark sense of humour, plus drop-in multiplayer with your friends. Borderlands 2 is great, and hey The Pre-Sequel is also here

• Epic Games

• • City of Brass

  • • 2018
    • First-person action adventure from senior BioShock developers. Armed with scimitar and a versatile whip, you’ll lash and slash, bait and trap your way to the heart of an opulent, Arabian Nights-themed metropolis – or face certain death as time runs out.

• Twitch

• • Nintendo Switch Online- additional 9 months should be unlocking right away, as long as your Twitch Prime has been active for 60 days

Warning: Pokemon Go has a bug where if you update to iOS 12.3 Adventure Sync will stop working

• The system that Pokemon Go uses to credit your distance walked while the app is closed has stopped working since the latest iOS update
• Apparently Niantic has a fix in the works for the next release, but there’s no ETA yet so in the meantime iPhone users are stuck in the dark ages of keeping the app open all the time to get credit for distance walked
• Hopefully the app will do something to retroactively reward people for the distance that has been missed, especially with their Adventure Week event happening in a few days with sizeable rewards for using Adventure Sync

Flipboard, a curated news app, emailed users this week about a sizeable security breach

• Between June 2018 and April 2019 there was apparently unauthorized access to databases including information like usernames, emails, and encrypted passwords, and Flipboard has said that it’s possible that copies were made
• The passwords were both salted and hashed, which not only sounds delicious but also means they’ll be hard to crack
• • Either way though, if you re-used a password for this site you’ll want to update it elsewhere
• As as security precaution Flipboard is resetting all user passwords and replacing or deleting all tokens used to connect to services like Twitter or Facebook
• They’ve also stated that they’re implementing enhanced security features and that law enforcement officials have been notified
• All in all, a bad situation but handled right

Death Stranding, the upcoming adventure game from Hideo Kojima first announced three years ago, is officially coming to PS4 on November 8th

• They’ve just dropped a great trailer with the first real solid details on the game, and it looks like a good time
• It’ll also have asynchronous online where you can share supplies and safehouses, as well as “walk in the footsteps of fellow couriers to reunite civilization”
• Another interesting feature: Kojima’s latest game won’t have a typical fail state. If you are defeated, you’ll re-appear in an “upside down realm” that you can escape from. “Choose your combat methods carefully, as killing your foe is almost never the solution – and every death carries a consequence”

Microsoft is putting more games on Steam

• To open the market Xbox Games Studios games are being added to Steam
• Releasing previously exclusive titles to the Microsoft Store
• Age of Empires 1 to 3, Gears of War 5, headed to Steam first

• “Our intent is to make our Xbox Game Studios PC games available in multiple stores, including our own Microsoft Store on Windows, at their launch.  We believe you should have choice in where you buy your PC games,” writes Xbox head Phil Spencer.
• “Enabling gamers to play together, through cross-platform play and cross-network play across Windows 10 PCs and console, is vitally important. Building communities across all of those players, regardless of the store or platform they’ve chosen (console or PC), is also vitally important because it helps bring players together, allows games to find their largest audience and allows gaming to deliver its true potential of uniting people around the power of play.”
• “We know millions of PC gamers trust Steam as a great source to buy PC games and we’ve heard the feedback that PC gamers would like choice. We also know that there are other stores on PC, and we are working to enable more choice in which store you can find our Xbox Game Studios titles in the future,”
• “When I think about the role we play as a company to support and evolve gaming on Windows, it’s critical that we make decisions that reinforce the open nature of the PC, focusing on how best to unite players on all devices around the games they love. That philosophy will guide us as we introduce new ways to discover and play games on Windows.”

• They are free from the Universal Windows Platform wrapper
• Now they can support new exciting things
• • The Steam Wrapper
  • Unofficial mods
• The Microsoft Store will also be delivering the games as Win32
• • Developers get to save time by not repackaging them as UWP files
  • This change will support older DirectX tools, OpenGL and Vulkan

 

Tidbits

• A new Beat Saber music pack is coming June 10th, with a simultaneous release across all platforms
• According to Buzzfeed News, we may be in the very early stages of a Knights of the Old Republic film
• • So far only a screenwriter is involved, no actors, directors, or producers, but this is still an exciting time to be alive
• Apparently the Sonic the Hedgehog live action movie is being delayed by three months, till Feb 14 2020, in order to rework the visual design and digital effects
• • This was announced in a tweet that used the classic cartoony Sonic silhouette as well as a hand wearing white gloves, so this could definitely be a step back towards a more classic look
• The next Call of Duty game to be released, and the fourth in the Modern Warfare series, will be called Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
• • Not to be confused with the first Modern Warfare game, which was Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
  • Also not to be confused with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, which was a remaster of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, and not the fourth Modern Warfare title which is coming this year

 

Alan Recommends Little Shop of Horrors*

• 1986 American rock musical comedy horror film directed by Frank Oz
• Fantastic movie that I took way too long to watch
• The asterisk comes from the ending- the stage play the movie is based on had a bigger, darker ending that the movie originally adapted, but then later due to test showings they went back and re-filmed it into something that fits the tone a lot more effectively

 

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