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.
The rather controversial Street Fighter V is free to try out on Steam until December 19th
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If you're a fan of fighting games and you've somehow managed to avoid playing Street Fighter V entirely, you might be interested to hear that Capcom is currently running a free weekend. Simply head on over to Steam, go through the somewhat lengthy download, and you'll be able to beat up the AI or your fellow players until December 19th at 10am PT.
In terms of content, you will have access to all 16 original characters, including fan-favorites like Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li and M. Bison. Three DLC characters will also be available for free throughout this trial: Guile, Akuma and Sagat. As for the game modes, you'll be able to mess around with the Arcade, Versus, Challenges and Training modes, which should give you a pretty good idea of what Street Fighter V is all about.
The often-praised card game/roguelike hybrid Slay the Spire will be launching on January 23rd
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While it may seem like a simple card game at first, Slay the Spire is a brilliant combination of turn-based strategy and roguelike progression systems. I've probably 'beaten' it about fifty times at this point, but I still find myself coming back to it because of how many different playstyles you can utilize, and perhaps most importantly, because of how often the developers have patched it with new features and balance changes.
With all of that in mind, I am extremely happy to say that Slay the Spire will finally be coming out of Early Access on January 23rd, 2019! There will be a price increase shortly after the upcoming Winter Sale, however, so you might want to grab it before that happens.
CS:GO has gone free-to-play and added a Battle Royale mode called Danger Zone
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Given the massive success of Epic's Fortnite, it really shouldn't come as much of a surprise to hear that any game able to fit a Battle Royale mode, is trying to do exactly that. The latest contender in this already crowded genre, and one I genuinely expected would be able to weather the Battle Royale storm and just do its own thing, is Valve's tactical shooter Counter-Strike: Global Offensive!
If you've played any Battle Royale game so far, CS:GO's newly added Danger Zone mode should feel instantly familiar. After all, it's all about choosing a place to drop into, stocking up on resources and weapons, and naturally, using all of the tools and tricks at your disposal to hunt down all of your enemies.
The excellent undersea exploration/adventure game Subnautica is currently free on the Epic Games Store
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The Epic Games Store, Epic' competitor to Steam and other similar storefronts, has just recently gone live with a small but quality selection of games. So in order to get as many people as possible to at least check it out, Epic have announced that they will be giving away a new game every two weeks throughout 2019!
The first on the list, as you would imagine from the title alone, is the excellent undersea exploration/adventure game Subnautica. In order to secure yourself a copy you should head on over to the Epic Games Store, create or log in with your account, and then click on that giant "Free" button. It's a fairly straightforward process, but just make sure not to take too long as Subnautica will only be available until December 27th.