Is it the End Times? I’m only asking because after KFC decided to make a visual novel on Steam, Wendy’s has made an honest-to-gosh tabletop role-playing game. Feast of Legends may not be Dungeons & Dragons, but it does have rules for “Feast Mode” and a starter campaign set in Freshtovia.
The “Clapback Queen” has been the ruler of Freshtovia since 1969, and defends the realm from the treacherous evils of those who practice the dark art of frozen beef.
The first Borderlands game launched on October 20th, 2009 and Gearbox wants to celebrate with a month of Borderlands 3 in-game events. The Anniversary Celebration kicks off with Boss Week which has already started! From now until October 8th, the game’s boss monsters have modified loot tables that have increased chances of dropping rare goodies. Now is your chance to farm to your heart’s delight.
Later weeks’ events include Rare Spawn Hunt, Show Me the Eridium, and Mayhem on Twitch. While there are no details of those updates, the final week, Spooky Surprise, will likely coincide with the release of the Bloody Harvest, a Halloween-themed extravaganza.
Apex Legends’ Season 3 Meltdown starts today. The free game update comes with a new map, “World’s Edge,” that features molten lava and icy drifts. There’s also a Snowpiercer-ish train running through the map. Season 3 also brings a new player character to buy, if that’s your thing. Crypto is a surveillance guy, so he comes with drones as well as a backstory nominally tied to the new map.
Most importantly, Season 3 arrives with an all new Battle Pass with 100 levels of skins, in-game funny money packs, emotes, and other unlockables. Get your icy-hot cosmetics right here!
Ubisoft has teamed up with Concordia University and KnowledgeOne to create the Game Creator’s Odyssey. It’s a full online game design course built within the framework of a game. The course teaches basics, design principles, techniques, and best practices, while rewarding students with XP and level progression. If there’s one thing Ubisoft can teach game designers, it’s how to get players to fill bars.
As they progress through the course, students will discover the epic story of Nagato, a shinobi warrior. Just like him, they will practice their skills and challenge their knowledge to progress through the first part of the Odyssey. The story of our hero will evolve along with their own learning journey.
Unfortunately, people excited at the idea of finally playing a big sprawling Ubisoft RPG set in Japan will have to commit to signing up for a game design class with one of the academic partners using the course. For that kind of money you could buy all the microtransactions available in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey.
There’s a new Medal of Honor game coming, but its a VR exclusive. Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond is developed by Respawn Entertainment and Oculus Studios. Gamers with Oculus Rift VR kits that are eager to jump back into WWII will shoot, stab, and soldier their way through three “authentic” acts. First, as a member of the French Resistance, then a regular infantryman in Normandy, and finally a member of a special force taking out a secret German facility. Boots on the ground!
Beyond the shooty bits dressed up with VR frippery like reloading via full hand motions, the game comes with a story gallery featuring interviews with veterans and historical images. Imagine the ending of Band of Brothers, but now two inches from your eyes!
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is getting a large update that basically turns the game into a comic book superhero movie. Operation Dark Divide, the final operation update for Black Ops, adds a time-limited Heavy Metal Heroes mode on the Battle Royale Blackout map that features a tank, thrust-jumping, air-ramps, and full starting loadouts. It’s like The Avengers, but with less quips.
The in-game loot crates get more weapons, skins, and trinkets. Regular multiplayer will see one all-new map, along with a reimagined version of the original Black Ops map, Launch. Finally, Tag Der Toten, the last content drop for Zombies mode, will wrap up the Aether storyline.
It’s the last hurrah for Black Ops 4 before the players shift over to this year’s Modern Warfare. Despite that annual schedule, Black Ops 3 received support and new additions for years after launch, so one can hope that Black Ops 4 gets similar consideration.
You can get Code Vein from Bandai Namco in exchange for some of your tasty blood. Get to TwitchCon in San Diego on September 27th, during the launch of Code Vein, and take part in the Red Cross blood drive that will take place in Gaslamp Square to get a copy of the upcoming JRPG. The publisher recommends that participants register here for the event. The tie between Code Vein’s sexy waifu vampire hunter and donating blood in real life is a stretch at best, but giving blood is always a nice thing to do.
Rockstar now has its own game client. The Rockstar Games Launcher is the new home for everything Grand Theft Auto, Bully, and Red Dead that the studio has made. It’s not yet known if Rockstar and Take-Two will stop offering future games on Steam, but it would be the smart move to push fans towards their exclusive store.
Download the launcher now and get GTA: San Andreas for free.
Ring Fit Adventure is a roleplaying game for the Nintendo Switch that uses a flexible “Ring-Con” accessory to translate the player’s exercises into in-game actions. See that mountain over there? You can run to it. No, really. Run! Drago, the bodybuilder dragon, is the main baddie, so the player will need to level up and rack big gains by yoga posing, jogging, flexing, and squeezing their way to victory.
Ring Fit Adventure will he available on October 18th. For $80, you’ll get the Ring-Con accessory, a strap to tie a Switch controller to your leg, and the game.
Nintendo of America has filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against RomUniverse, a site that offers members downloads of pirated media, including Nintendo games. According to the California court filing, members of RomUniverse paid $30 a year to download Nintendo Switch and 3DS ROMs. Nintendo claims the files were downloaded hundreds of thousands of times. The publisher seeks $150,000 for each copyright infringement, and $2 million for each trademark violation. It’s at least a jillion Pokemon Go coins.
“The best romsite in the universe.”
Last year, Nintendo won its case against the owners of similar pirate sites LoveROMs.com and LoveRETRO.co with a $12 million judgment.
Yes, that’s a sexy anime Colonel Sanders. You’re looking at an image from I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin’ Good Dating Simulator. It’s coming to Steam and it’s being developed by Psyop. The game will feature all the visual novel trappings the genre thrives on, with the addition of a steamy hot Harland Sanders.
Your eyes do not deceive you. That is a rough, but highly impressive, version of Sid Meier’s Civilization made in Microsoft Excel. Programmer s0lly made the diversion as his entry in the OLC CodeJam 2019. You can’t move through the eras. There isn’t any diplomacy. It has no AI opponents. The “countries” are limited to red and blue. For all that it’s missing, it’s still better than fighting with VLOOKUP.
In Larian Studio’s sprawling RPG, Divinity: Original Sin 2, you can put an object into a bag, stick the bag in a barrel, then carry the barrel in a character’s inventory. Now, you can go one level deeper and put the game in your pocket as well. Divinity: Original Sin 2 is now available on the Nintendo Switch.
In most cases, a port announcement would be fairly ho-hum, but there’s a bit more incentive to pay attention here. Divinity: Original Sin 2 on Switch features cross-saving with the Steam version. If you never got out of Act 2 because you were overwhelmed by quests, you can now take the game into the bathroom with you and really get some work done.
Up next in live-action video game theater is Jon Bernthal doing his best Tom Clancy bad guy drawl. He was a loyal U.S. marine that’s now the most Call of Duty villain to grace a Ghost Recon game since the last meanie growled out a bunch of platitudes and self-righteous mental gymnastics. Hoo-rah!
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint launches on October 4th.
Monster Hunter World’s Iceborne expansion doesn’t even come out for consoles until September 6th, but Capcom is already talking about the free bits of post-launch content. In October, Rajang, the raging demon ape will burst onto the scene. hes’ big, mean, and uses his arms to pound opponents into submission.
If your concerned that your low-level scrub hunter may not have much opportunity to experience Iceborne’s content because it’s all high-level stuff, Capcom has heard the pleading. Newly revealed Hunter Helper incentives in Iceborne will give veteran players special rewards for helping newbies and lowbies.
