Planetside 2 Releases Most Ambitious Update Yet With Escalation

Over the course of the past eight years, the MMOFPS PlanetSide 2 has been through a range of updates, including a battle royale mode at one point. Now, Rogue Planet Games is undertaking the most ambitious update the series has ever seen with the release of Escalation.

Escalation marks the beginning of an all new age for PlanetSide 2. The update adds a plethora of new features, the biggest of which is Outfit Wars, an all new competitive end-game tournament for guilds to compete in. Outfits from every Empire and server region can opt-in to a monthly Qualification cycle, battling it out on Desolation, an off-planet Asteroid map made specifically for competitive play.

A new War Asset system has also been added, with a new system for Outfit Wars and the Social Sanctuary Hub, simplifying these new modes and some older ones for player’s convenience. Sanctuary is a new social hub for players of all Empires to enjoy. Here players can meet up, recruit new guild members, trade with NPCs and relax together. Future zones and expansions for the social hub will be added down the line.

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Cyberpunk 2077 Crosses New Milestone — “Looking Better And Better”

Polish developer CD Projekt Red’s new game, Cyberpunk 2077, has reached another major milestone. Studio boss Adam Badowski announced on Twitter that the game has now been submitted to local ratings groups, including the ESRB in America and PEGI in Europe.

As the team waits to see what rating Cyberpunk 2077 receives, it is working on polishing the “technical aspects” of the game. CD Projekt Red is also using the remaining development time on playtesting. “Game is looking better and better with each passing day!” Badowski said.

Given what CD Projekt Red has said about Cyberpunk 2077 and shown off thus far, it would seem likely that the game will receive an M rating from the ESRB and PEGI 18 in Europe, and an R18 in Australia. This would be in line with the rating for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which was CD Projekt Red’s previous big release.

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Mortal Kombat 4, The 1997 Klassic, Is Now Available On GOG

Mortal Kombat 4, the largely-forgotten follow-up to the frequently re-released Mortal Kombat Trilogy, has returned to sale on GOG. The game, which originally released in 1998 for PC, Nintendo 64, and PlayStation, after an arcade debut in 1997, costs $6 and is DRM-free.

The game has been updated to work with modern Windows operating systems, and ports across everything fans will remember from this slightly offbeat entry in the Mortal Kombat series. There are weapons that can be picked up and used, interactive backgrounds, secrets and codes (sorry, “kodes”) to enter, and 3D gameplay that lets you move around the arena and dodge attacks like you would in Tekken.

How has the game aged, visually? You can judge for yourself from the screenshots below.

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Mortal Kombat 4 is a divisive game–our original review of the N64 version of the game scored an 8.9/10, and critic Jeff Gerstmann wrote that the game was “an excellent translation of a good arcade title, and fans of the arcade version won’t be disappointed at all.”

Players nostalgic for this fighting game can now revisit it at a low price–although many series fans will likely want to stick with Mortal Kombat 11.

New Game Of Thrones Game Beyond The Wall Launching On iOS And Android Later This Month

While the show may be finished, Game Of Thrones lives on in many forms. From the main books, prequels in development, and various games, Behaviour Interactive and GAEA are the latest to contribute to the franchise, with Game Of Thrones Beyond The Wall, a mobile game centered around an original story set beyond the wall.

Beyond The Wall puts players in control of the Night’s Watch on the Wall, where they must defend Westeros from mysterious enemies that lay beyond. Recruit major story characters from all over the Seven Kingdoms to aid you in your quest and set out on a journey fifty years before the events of the main series.

Send your troops and characters on missions.
Send your troops and characters on missions.

Players can pre-register and earn special rewards on iOS now. Pre-ordering will earn players 10,000 copper pennies, 10 Shards of Jon Snow, and the Knight of the Vale character. If the pre-registers hit certain milestones, then players will earn even more rewards, with character shards unlocked at 1.5 million, 2 million, and 3 million. These character shards can be used to rank up the player’s character

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Call Of Duty: Warzone — Here’s How To Reveal The Location Of Every Enemy On The Map

Call of Duty: Warzone players have discovered a secret helpful tip about the battle royale game. Twitter user Jack “CouRage” Dunlop posted a gameplay clip on Twitter that shows when each member of a Warzone squad uses the UAV killstreak at the same time, the location of every enemy on the map and the direction they are looking is revealed.

A major component of Warzone–and all battle royale games–is moving around the map undetected, so this is a really big help if your team is able to pull it off. Of course it’s not easy to do, as each member of the squad needs to either unlock or obtain the UAV killstreak.

Even if you’re able to coordinate the triple UAV, there is no guarantee it will help your team win, though it should definitely give you at least a temporary advantage over your enemies.

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