The 4X strategy Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion is free to grab on Steam for the next two days
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If you've missed the previous Humble Bundle giveaway, you might be happy to hear that Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion is now once again free to grab. However, instead of Humble Bundle, this time around you'll need to head on over to Steam to secure yourself a copy. Just add it to your account and you'll be able to play it whenever you want.
Much like the previous giveaway, there is a bit of a harsh deadline this time as well. The giveaway will only last for another two days, or until December 19th at most likely 1pm ET, so I would highly recommend you grab yourself a copy before it goes back to the usual €40 price tag.
Stardew Valley's solo developer is currently working on bringing in even more free updates
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Stardew Valley has finally received it's long-awaited multiplayer mode a little while ago, which usually would be the end of the story for an already well-maintained and incredibly polished indie game. According to the latest developer blog post, however, it would appear that not only is Stardew Valley getting more content in the future, but it will be getting more content at a seemingly faster rate as well!
"Now, I believe I’ve said in the past that I wanted to devote all my time to the new game, and I might not work on any new Stardew Valley content. Well, that’s not exactly true," reads the lengthy blog post. "While there have been times in the past where I felt burnt out, and maybe even said that I wanted to move on, I always find myself coming back to Stardew Valley."
Dishonored 2 and Death of the Outsider have been updated with a new batch of free content
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If you're looking to give Dishonored 2 and its spin-off Death of the Outsider another try, you might be interested to hear that Bethesda has now released a new batch of free content for both games. The only catch, as you might imagine, is that you will have to log in with your Bethesda account in order to access all of it.
The first of these additions is the new "Mission+" mode that allows you to go to any previously completed mission in order to experiment with all of the powers and weapons at your disposal. While it's likely to break the balance on some of the earlier missions, it should be a good bit of fun to completely terrorize the poor guards that have been sent to stand in your way.
Ubisoft is giving away Assassin's Creed: Odyssey for free to all Project Stream participants
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In an effort to push the limits of streaming technology, Google has recently started testing their Project Stream service. According to the brief description, Project Stream offers you the ability to play games in 1080p and 60 FPS directly in your Chrome browser, with Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed: Odyssey being the game they're currently testing the system on.
If that sounds like it's right up your alley, you might also be interested to hear that Ubisoft is giving all Project Stream participants a free copy of Assassin's Creed Odyssey, as well as $10 worth of Helix credits to mess around with. The only catch is that you have to spend at least one hour playing Assassin's Creed Odyssey in Project Stream by January 15th, which shouldn't exactly be hard to accomplish.
Book of Demons, a deck-building hack and slash, has now fully released onto Steam
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Book of Demons is a deck-building hack and slash adventure with a rather unique and fetching paper-craft aesthetic. It spent around two years in Steam's Early Access program, and after receiving quite a few updates and positive reviews, I am glad to say that it has now finally released in full!
You can get a pretty good idea of what Book of Demons is about, as well as what the visuals look like, by checking out the recently posted launch trailer. Have a gander, it's fairly short:
Anthem's latest developer preview has gone in-depth on gear and progression
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Anthem is BioWare's upcoming co-op focused action-RPG that's all about mowing down hordes of enemies, flying around with various types of jetpacks, and naturally, collecting piles upon piles of loot. All of that is fairly standard stuff, but what might come as a bit of a surprise is that Anthem will attempt to diversify the usual shoot and loot formula by also focusing on the type of storytelling and decision-making many have come to expect from BioWare games.
How exactly all of that will pan out, I'm afraid I don't know, but what I can tell you is that BioWare has now gone into great detail about how the gear and progression systems will work in Anthem. Here's the full developer preview, as well as my brief summary:
Conan Unconquered is a newly announced strategy game inspired by They Are Billions
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A while ago Funcom announced that they are working on multiple Conan the Barbarian games. The first of these games was the survival-focused Conan Exiles, and as you might imagine from its namesake, it involves a whole bunch of constantly-angry barbarians running around and hitting each other over the head with giant swords. So the question is, how do you make the next Conan game stand out while still keeping to the series' themes?
Well, according to Funcom and Petroglyph, the answer is to bring Conan the Barbarian into the strategy genre as a game remarkably similar to They Are Billions. In other words, the newly announced Conan Unconquered is all about building up your stronghold, mustering a giant army, and then standing proud as waves after waves of bloodthirsty barbarians and monsters crash harmlessly against you.