Castlevania inspired Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night will no longer be coming to Linux and Mac
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[Update #2]: The roguelike game mode has now also been canceled, but in its place Ritual of the Night is getting a highly customizable Randomizer mode.
[Update]: Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night has now been officially released and I'm glad to say it's received good reviews so far! Unfortunately, Mac and Linux versions still remain canceled.
Despite having an incredibly successful Kickstarter campaign back in 2015, the Castlevania inspired Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night has unfortunately ended up running into one problem after another. As such, it might not come as much of a surprise to hear that due to some compatibility issues the Mac and Linux versions have now been canceled.
"We have made this tough decision due to challenges of supporting middleware and online feature support and making sure we deliver on the rest of the scope for the game," reads the developer update. "We will be offering backers who planned to play the game on Mac and Linux the option to change the platform of their order."
Dead Cells update has rebalanced most of the weapons and added a Custom Game mode
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Dead Cells already has pretty high replay value given that it's a rogue-like, but if you're looking to extend those hours even further, you might want to check out the most recent Pimp Your Run update. It has rebalanced the vast majority of items, removed enemy auto-scaling, placed time doors in-between levels, and perhaps most importantly of all, added a new Custom Game mode.
As you might imagine, the Custom Game mode gives you the ability to tweak your experience in a variety of ways. You can unlock all of the loot immediately and just bypass the progression system, mess around with the loot tables in order to create custom challenges, and naturally, pick and choose your starting items. It's a fairly simple concept, but also a pretty darn entertaining one.
Steam has released the list of the most popular and bestselling PC games of 2018
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Back in July Valve shared the list of bestselling games from 2018, and much to my surprise, a good chunk of them were either indie games or games from relatively small studios. Since that list ended up receiving an overwhelmingly positive response, Valve has now gone a step further and released the list of top games across a variety of categories, and once again I am pleased to say that there's quite a few indies up there!
So if you're curious about what the bestselling games of the year are, as well as which new games have been the most successful, you should head on over to Steam. There's also a list of the best received VR games, Early Access releases that have seen the greatest success, and perhaps most importantly of all, a list showing which games have managed to captivate the largest amount of players.
Monster Hunter: World is now having a crossover event with Assassin's Creed
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Monster Hunter: World devs have been going all-out with the crossover events these past few months, and while I'm usually not the biggest fan of the idea, I certainly can't complain about all of the new and vastly different armor sets that have been coming as a part of the deal. After all, it's not every day you get to dress up your Palico as Mega Man and yourself as Dante from Devil May Cry!
With that in mind, I'm sure it won't come as too much of a surprise to hear that Monster Hunter: World is now having a crossover event with Assassin's Creed. So if you're up for getting the new and fancy Assassin's Creed themed layered armor, as well as the new Assassin's Hood specialized tool, make sure to head on over to the Events section in order to get started.
Remastered version of the oldschool platformer TY the Tasmanian Tiger 3 has now arrived onto Steam
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After spending nearly a year in Early Access, the oldschool action-platformer TY the Tasmanian Tiger 3 has now finally released in full. Much like its predecessors, I am glad to say that its time in Early Access has not been wasted given that it has arrived alongside 100% positive reviews on Steam! The sample size is a bit small right now, but given that both of the previous remasters hold a similar rating, it's almost certainly not just a fluke.
As far as improvements over the original game are concerned, the remaster has brought with it better visuals and audio quality, enhanced controls and camera movement, stable performance across the board, as well as support for HD resolutions and 60 FPS. The one complaint I have seen repeated frequently is that some of the driving sections are a bit troublesome to control with a keyboard, so if you have a gameplay laying around, it might be a good idea to play TY the Tasmanian Tiger 3 with it primarily.
Super Meat Boy is entirely free on the Epic Games Store for the next two weeks
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Fortnite's developer Epic Games recently decided to leverage their absolutely gigantic playerbase to create a seemingly serious competitor to Steam - the Epic Games Store. In order to get people to try it out, however, they have also announced that they will be giving away a new game every two weeks, all the way through 2019!
The first (and now long gone) game on the list was the always-excellent Subnautica, while the giveaway for the next two weeks will be the equally awesome Super Meat Boy. Simply head on over to the Epic Games Store, click on that giant "Free" button, and you'll be ready to start tearing your hair out due to the immensely high difficulty as soon as the brief download is complete.
Street Fighter V's ill-fitting in-game advertisements have been removed for the time being
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With video games already being swamped with microtransactions, season passes, battle passes and various other forms of monetization, there are very few things that can surprise me anymore. However, Capcom has recently managed to do just that given that they not only introduced advertising into Street Fighter V, but also plastered it all over the characters themselves, often ruining their entire style in the process.
While these advertisements were indeed optional, there were significant enough in-game rewards for using them that players ended up feeling stuck with them, regardless of their preference. Thankfully, the community outcry against these advertisements and their ill-fitting nature was so massive that Capcom has now pulled them out, though not without alluding that they will be returning in a different form at some point in the future.