It’s the crossover you never knew you wanted. Frontier Developments has announced their biggest DLC pack yet for theme park sim Planet Coaster. Planet Coaster: Ghostbusters adds “an all new…
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Discover New Slime Skins in Slime Rancher DLC Secret Style Pack
Posted by Eric Watson | News, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One | No CommentsMonomi Park has announced a new paid DLC pack for Slime Rancher. The Secret Style Pack (June 18) adds new alternate cosmetic skins for all 20 slimes.
Once installed, new treasure pods can be found scattered throughout the alien slime-filled world of the Far, Far Range. Each treasure pod will contain a new secret style for a slime. Each style can be turned off and on at the ranch house to make every slime appear with its new skin.
Note that it’s purely a cosmetic change. Slimes will still act, and eat, according to their normal slime type.
Below is a list of the new slime styles:
- Sparkly (Pink Slime)
- Monochrome (Quantum Slime)
- Heavy Metal (Rock Slime)
- Shattered (Mosaic Slime)
- Tiger (Tabby Slime)
- Nebula (Dervish Slime)
- Angelic (Phosphor Slime)
- Nightshade (Tangle Slime)
- Radiant (Rad Slime)
- Devilish (Fire Slime)
- Arcane (Boom Slime)
- Pre-Jellasic (Saber Slime)
- Royal Jelly (Honey Slime)
- Boomerang (Quicksilver Slime)
- Lilypad (Puddle Slime)
- Retro (Glitch Slime)
- Ruby Red (Crystal Slime)
- Gilded (Gold Slime)
- Cheshire (Hunter Slime)
- Guardian (Lucky Slime)
The Secret Style Pack will arrive first on PC (Steam, Epic Games Store) and later on Xbox One and PlayStation 4.
Slime Rancher is one of our favorite family-friendly games of the last several years (read our review). It’s currently available on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One and rated E10+.
Portal-Meets-Halo Shooter Splitgate: Arena Warfare Launching as Free-to-Play
Posted by Eric Watson | News, PC | No CommentsIndie developer 1047 Games announced that competitive shooter Splitgate: Arena Warfare will be launching as a free-to-play game on PC (Steam) on May 22.
“As Splitgate evolved, we realized that players would be best served with a free-to-play model. We want to ensure that everyone who wants to play has the opportunity to do so,” said Ian Proulx, CEO, 1047 Games. “Rest assured this will not detract from its hyper-competitive design – all items for sale in the game are purely cosmetic.”
Spiltgate is succinctly described as competitive Halo meets Portal. It features a (now) old school multiplayer shooter design combined with portal guns to zip around the arenas. Combatants keep their momentum as they create their own linked portals and hurtle through the arena to grab weapons and flank opponents.
The free to play model will be supported by a real money loot store where players can purchase cosmetic skins for weapons, gear, and armor.
Splitgate: Arena Warfare will launch on PC on May 22, and include a competitive W-L ranking system. Other consoles are being considered. The game has not been rated by the ESRB. Read about our hands-on preview for Splitgate back in January.
Epic Games, the makers of Fortnite, have been making waves in the gaming industry by snatching up deals to release new and upcoming PC games exclusively on their Epic Games Store. With the latest news that Epic has acquired Psyonix, those deals are now extending into acquiring entire game developers.
If you’re worried that the same exclusivity fate will befall Rocket League, Epic and Psyonix are quick to address those concerns. “In the long term we expect to bring Rocket League to the Epic Games store and to leverage our new relationship to grow the game in ways we couldn’t do on our own before. We believe that bringing Rocket League to new audiences with more support is a win for everybody.” Epic plans on bringing Rocket League to the Epic Games Store later this year.
In a later update the official statement added: “We wanted to clarify something for you after today’s news: Rocket League is and remains available on Steam. Anyone who owns Rocket League through Steam can still play it and can look forward to continued support.”
“Psyonix has always been a part of the Epic family, and we’re happy to make it official,” said Tim Sweeney, CEO, Epic Games. “We have great respect for how Psyonix has built an excellent team and an incredible community around Rocket League.”
Though Rocket League has never come close to Fortnite’s meteoric rise in popularity, it remains a cherished online competitive sports-car hybrid game, and has been one of the biggest champions of cross-platform play.
Risk of Rain 2 Details Year Long Roadmap to Spring 2020 Release
Posted by Eric Watson | News, PC | No CommentsIt’s only been a month since indie sequel Risk of Rain 2 was released via Steam Early Access. Hopoo Games have already revealed their road map for future updates and development. The road map details five major updates leading up to Risk of Rain 2’s full release one year from now, Spring 2020.
“It is really important for us to have transparency with our amazing early access community,” said Paul Morse, co-founder, Hopoo Games. “We are sharing this forecast so players know what to look forward to and what the team is working towards in making Risk of Rain 2 the best game of its kind. That’s only possible with the input and feedback we get from our players.”
The updates will arrive seasonally every few months, and add new character classes, stages, bosses, and items. Two new overhauls are also teased in this road map, Skills 2.0 this Summer and Artifacts 2.0 in the Winter. It’s unclear what these big changes will bring.
The 1.0 release that arrives next Spring will add the final boss and stage. The next update won’t happen until June, where we’ll see one new survivor, stage, and boss and some new items.
Risk of Rain 2 is the Gearbox published sequel to roguelike action game Risk of Rain. We were impressed by how well the series makes the transition from 2D to 3D, and looking forward to new content coming throughout the next 12 months.
Risk of Rain 2 is available now on PC (Steam Early Access).
Frontier Developments, makers of 2016’s Planet Coaster and 2018’s Jurassic World Evolution, announced their newest theme park game: Planet Zoo. Planet Zoo will launch this fall exclusively on PC (Steam)….
