Free games
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Twitch
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The Little Acre
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2016
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A lovingly crafted, hand-drawn and fully voiced point-and-click adventure game that has you exploring 1950’s Ireland and a strange new world in search of your father
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Whispering Willows
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2014
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Indie adventure horror game that has you interacting with the spirits of the dead, solving the puzzles of a mysterious mansion and helping Elena find her missing father
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Stealth Bastard Deluxe
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2012
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Subtitled “Tactical Espionage Arsehole”, this 2D stealth platformer has you sneaking through a deadly facility that seems determined to get you
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Majesty Collection
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2011
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Real time strategy with indirect control, where you need to influence your heroes to carry out your will and defend your domain
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Sony released a State of Play announcement this week talking about some of their upcoming projects, and they look interesting
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We’ll be getting an asymmetrical cooperative/competitive game in 2020 set in the Predator universe called Predator: Hunting Ground
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No gameplay was shown, but it seems to follow the lines of the Friday the 13th game or Evolve where one player is the predator and the others are part of a fire team trying to take it down
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We’ll also see a MediEvil remake on the PS4 this October 25th
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The remake of the PSOne classic looks pretty nice, coming to 4k resolutions from the old jagged polygons, and I’m looking forward to playing the fun and weird story once again
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Sony dropped a trailer for the Final Fantasy VII remake they announced four years ago, including gameplay and cutscenes, and it looks really good
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Still no word on a release date, but it ends with “More to come in June” so I’ll be keeping an eye out
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Firefox users may have noticed some problems with their extensions this week, namely that they’ve been completely broken
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Apparently Mozilla forgot to renew a security certificate that expired on May 3rd, causing many add-ons to the browser to stop working entirely
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Apparently they’ve released a potential temporary fix, but there are many cases in which it may not work for people
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For instance if they’re on Android, the Tor browser, or have certain settings disabled related to Studies
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Despite the problems Mozilla developers are advising against using workaround, and saying not to delete and reinstall add-ons to try and fix the issue
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Some workarounds circulating online, they caution, could even leave your data vulnerable to potential attacks
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In the meantime they’ve made an updated version available for desktop and Android to address the issues, and other platforms should have the new version as soon as possible
Samsung has officially acknowledged they have no idea when the Galaxy Fold will hit users
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Pre-order customers in the US have been told that, if they don’t respond confirming the order and the devices haven’t shipped by May 31st, the orders will be automatically cancelled
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Considering the supply chain and logistics required, if they don’t know whether they’re shipping this month by now they’re not shipping
Adobe is quietly testing new pricing for its Creative Cloud Photography bundle, doubling the price from $10 to $20USD per month
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The new plan also brings cloud storage up from 20GB to 1TB, but for anyone not using Adobe storage there’s no added benefit
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The original price is available on a hidden section of the site, which is just really weird way to run a test. Was the test us noticing?
It looks like Bethesda is under fire this week for their brief pen-and-paper RPG adventure set between Cyrodiil and Elsweyr, that not only uses D&D 5th edition rules (which are open sourced and is completely fine) but also copied entire sections from a published adventure called The Black Road
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Entire characters and lines of text seem to have been copied wholesale from the adventure, causing Bethesda to take the whole thing down while they investigate
Video game can detect early Alzheimer’s symptoms
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The forgetfulness is a late stage symptom and not the best for detection
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PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America) has already studied and sees the game as effective
code v2: EAGMB
version 1 :C7373
Update Version 2 :
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Fixed a bug where the mercs couldn’t see the supplies.
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Match timer now last 10 minutes instead of 8 minutes.
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Spies :
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Energy consumption is reduced by half.
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The spies now possess 2 Flash bangs and 2 Tear mines instead on 1 each.
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New ability : Smoke grenade, 1 use, generate a smoky area and the spy become instantly invisible for 5 seconds.
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Asymmetric game with the stealthy Spies versus the dangerous Mercs. The Spies goal is to capture 2 objectives out of the 3. The Mercs’s mission is to defend the objectives till the end of the timer OR eliminate the spies to exhaust their respawn tickets to 0.
Based on the Splinter Cell franchise.
Each team and character have his own mechanic.
Spies team:
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Knockdown
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You can knockdown mercs if you hit them from behind with a melee attack. https://gfycat.com/fr/backjauntyduck
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You can’t spam the melee attack to knockdown mercs as soon as they get up, they will have a temporary immunity before being vulnerable to knockdown again.
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When you knockdown a merc 3 times he will be eliminated.
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Hacking a merc slow down his movements and it become easier to get behind him.
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FlashBang (Ultimate)
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You throw a flash bang on your feet who stun any nearly merc for a very short time.
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Smoke Grenade (Ability 2)
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You create a smoky area and become invisible for 5 seconds.
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Tear sticky mine (Primary Fire)
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You launch a sticky mine on a close surface, when a merc trigger it he slows down and can’t fire if he stays in the smoke. https://gfycat.com/fr/majoremptybeaver
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You can recover your gadgets in the spawn.
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Press “Ultimate Status” voice-line to switch from first to third person camera and vice versa.
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You don’t trigger mercs’s mines when you crouch and you can defuse these by approaching and using the hack. https://gfycat.com/fr/activerewardingarachnid
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You can wall jump, once in the air and facing a wall press (Jump) to get a second impulsion. https://gfycat.com/fr/quarterlysnappygourami
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The spies can help each other to reach higher positions with a cooperative action. When a spy crouch and stay idle, his ally can get a boost when pressing (Interact) on the crouched spy. https://gfycat.com/fr/deficientediblearacari
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Invisibility ability is now energy limited.
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The energy consumption depends on your speed. https://gfycat.com/fr/ignorantsplendidcrocodileskink
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Your energy slowly recover when you are not using the ability.
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Mercs team:
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4 classes: Ashe, Soldier 76, Widowmaker and Baptiste.
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Abilities now use unique ammo, except for exceptions (like sprint).
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If your ability is a placeable object you can only have one active at a time.
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You can refill your abilities ammo on one of the three supplies designed by a yellow ring. https://gfycat.com/fr/forcefulglisteninggelada
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Once used, the supply is unavailable for 1 minute.
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Ashe:
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Incendiary Mine (Ability 1)
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Explode and burn everyone in his radius when a spy trigger it. https://gfycat.com/fr/threadbareamusedasianwaterbuffalo
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To set the trap, hold (Ability 1) for 1 second on a surface.
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The spy trigger the trap even if he is invisible.
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The spy can defuse it.
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It can cause friendly fire.
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Soldier 76:
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When using tactical visor, your speed is raised to the same as the sprint ability.
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Stun Mine (Ability 2)
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Stun everyone in his radius when a spy trigger it. https://gfycat.com/fr/lazyeagerafricangoldencat
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To set the trap, hold (Ability 2) for 1 second on a surface.
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The spy trigger the trap even if he is invisible.
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The spy can defuse it.
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It can cause friendly fire.
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Widowmaker:
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Sprint (Shift)
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Widowmaker sprints like Soldier: 76 but can also sprint backwards.
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Motion Sensor (Ability 2)
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Detect everything moving in a 20m radius and in 360 degrees. https://gfycat.com/fr/healthyadvancedgrouper
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To set the sensor, hold (Ability 2) for 1 second on a surface.
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It doesn’t make a difference between a spy or a merc.
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It doesn’t detect crouch.
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Can still detect invisible spies.
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The Spy can disable it.
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Baptiste:
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Chaff Grenade (Ability 1)
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Reduce any spy energy who got caught in the radius to 0 https://gfycat.com/fr/scarceselfreliantafghanhound
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Surveillance camera (Ability 2)
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Add second POV for Baptiste.
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When looking through the camera, you can see energy emitted by the spies when they are invisible. https://gfycat.com/fr/violetrespectfuldingo
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To set the camera, hold (Ability 2) for 1 second. It will be placed on where you are standing and his direction will be the same as yours.
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Once you have set the camera, press (Interact) to switch your pov with the camera one.
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The spy can disable it.
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The mode is compatible with all assault maps but due to the objectives and supplies positions requirement, when you want to change map you need to open the workshop and change the first variable of the first rule to the map you want to play.
Any feedback is appreciated and more importantly, have fun!
Plans for the future:
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Balance, balance, unbalance.
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Waiting for a “Map condition” to let the players change the map smoothly.
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More playable Mercs and new gear (smoke, sticky cameras, …)
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More maps.
Tidbits
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The Xbox One S All-Digital Edition is officially available, and despite Microsoft’s worries about pricing that we mentioned in episode 247 here in Canada it’s retailing for about $80 less than the similar disk-reading version
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Apparently in order to fully support Apex Legends, Respawn is pushing out plans for future Titanfall games
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On the plus side, Titanfall 2 is still a ton of fun and not at all dated
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I’d completely forgotten it was happening, but IT Chapter Two released a trailer this week and it looks fantastic
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The movie is set to release on September 6th
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There’s a new insult going around schoolyards nowadays- default
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Apparently it’s from Fortnite, based on insulting kids that can’t buy any of the fancy skins and are stuck using the default military drab character
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It’s something like the new ‘noob’, from the looks of it. In other news, I’ve been 31 for a week and a half and suddenly feel every single one of those years
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Alan recommends Bohemian Rhapsody
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It’s a solid movie with an amazing soundtrack that offers a really interesting perspective on what made Queen, Queen
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The editing can be a little choppy in some scenes, but it’s worth sitting through to see the full arc of these characters and the actors that really seem to have nailed the look and personality of the actual band members
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And the cherry on top is that during the credits it does a quick wrapup of where a lot of the people ended up in real life after the point where the movie ended