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Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition out now on Linux
Launch into space-tactics overdrive with the release of Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition. Since the games FREE for all existing owners of Starbase Commander on Linux, Mac and Windows. Which is out now on Steam and GOG.
So Massive Damage has pushed the original Halcyon 6 to its limit. While reworking the campaign, streamlining systems, adding new progression. Even tweaking difficulty levels and much more.
So Lightspeed Edition is the result off community feedback. Hence the drive by Massive Damage to innovate their original release. The fantastic fanbase of Halcyon 6 created inspiration. Allowing the developers at Massive Damage to offer the new Lightspeed Edition FREE. Since this goes out to all current Starbase Commander owners.
“But how much was actually changed?” you might ask. Well, everything. Nearly every line of code was analyzed in the process of making Lightspeed Edition. Ensuring players get the best space-combat experience!
“While making Lightspeed Edition we looked at community feedback. And our own internal discussions for what changes we wanted to make. In doing so, we meticulously retraced our steps over every aspect of Starbase Commander. Our team really wanted to offer an improved and expanded Halcyon 6 with the Lightspeed Edition. We’re super proud of what came out of this labour and are extremely excited to see the Halcyon 6 community jump in!” said Ken Seto, CEO of Massive Damage
Lightspeed Edition optimizations and features:
- Streamlined Campaign greatly speeds up progression. Tightens the games campaign to an action and adventure packed 12 hrs depending on your play style and pace
- Streamlined All Systems for faster progression, including economy, starbase, resources, and officer levelling.
- A New Officer Progression System with 6 subclasses, 3 Prestige classes, new skill tree, and over 20+ new Prestige/Epic powers.
- New Ship Loadout and Config screen will let you customize loadouts (and save them) for your ships just before entering combat
- Brand New Difficulty Mode called Vice Admiral and slightly increased difficulty across the board
- Enhanced Combat includes 25+ new alien faction space combat abilities, more combos for both players and enemies, increased faction weaknesses and resistances, and other balancing tweaks
- New UI Overhaul designed for greater readability and usability. Many quality of life enhancements to all areas of the game, too many to list here.
Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition is available now on both Steam and GOG. Including support for Linux, Mac and Windows.
88 Heroes: RSG Champions gets Free DLC pack
So right now, rising Star Games are announcing the first free pack of downloadable content for 88 Heroes. Since this is available now on Steam for Linux, Mac, Windows, PlayStation®4 and Xbox One. The free DLC pack, titled 88 Heroes: RSG Champions, is adds eight new heroes. All plucked from dimensions across the Rising Star Games universe. So eight heroes from games published by Rising Star Games enter the fray. While joining forces with the 88 heroes to foil Dr. H8’s nefarious plans.
88 Heroes Launch Trailer:
Meet the Champions! The DLC heroes and their unique skills:
- The [email protected] (from [email protected])- can fire magical blasts out of his cane; tap Action button for small blast, press harder for bigger (big blasts can destroy scenery)
- Dex (from A Pixel Story) – pressing the Action button drops his teleporting hat; pressing the Action button again teleports Dex to the location where the hat was dropped
- Rusty (from SteamWorld Dig) – can use his pickaxe to kill enemies and, more importantly, dig through the scenery in all four directions
- Gunborg (from Zombie Vikings) – very large character, can use massive sword to kill enemies and smash walls; when she gets hit, her body collapses but her head starts bouncing and can still be controlled
- The Conga Masters (from Conga Master) – immune to enemy attacks; touching enemies adds them to your conga line
- Vamp Girl (from I Want To Be Human) – can double jump and use her shotgun to kill enemies
- Eyas (from The Land of Eyas) – press the Action button to reverse gravity and walk on the ceiling
- The Ninja (from Ninja Shodown) – moves quickly, can cling to and climb up/down walls; uses katana blade to attack enemies
“We work with a fantastically talented and hugely disparate collective of developer partners, on wildly different types of projects”, said Lee Skittrell, Marketing Manager, Rising Star Games. “Bringing this selection of our own and our fans’ favourites all together alongside the 88 Heroes cast is a sort of celebration of our developers’ talents and our diverse portfolio, and is the kind of rare opportunity that only an open-minded and left field-thinking business vision, such as ours at Rising Star Games, can bring about”.
About 88 Heroes
Due to the creative minds at acclaimed development studio Bitmap Bureau. 88 Heroes is a 2D platformer that is as fun to watch as it is to play. While we have support for Linux, Mac and Windows via Steam, Humble Store and GOG.
And since each level completed or untimely death brings a new uniquely skilled hero. Therefore the action and just 88 minutes to complete all 88 levels. Players will need every one of the 88 heroes to stop the dastardly Dr. H8 from destroying the Earth.
So the first DLC pack, 88 Heroes: RSG Champions, is available now on Steam for Linux, Mac, Windows, for free. For more information on 88 Heroes, check out the official site.
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GOG.com get Event[0] for Free – Buy Tacoma
We all know about pre-order incentives. Yet GOG.com is again taking the other way around. Since they are now offering post-release bonuses! After adding free games to some of the hottest pre-orders. Such as like Absolver + Furi and Hello Neighbor + Jazzpunk. So the time has come to upgrade the offer on just released Tacoma on Linux, Mac and Windows. Buy the next game from the developers who gave us the lovely Gone Home, and get Event[0] for free!
Tacoma is a narrative adventure set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088. In space, no one can hear you bond. No one except the high-tech surveillance system. Since it records and recreates the echoes left behind by the six people. Those who used to live aboard the enigmatic Tacoma station. Now their lives, relationships, and peculiarities are yours to piece together. While you retrace their steps and interact with the objects they left behind.
Tacoma release trailer:
Event[0] is an award-winning narrative exploration game where you must build a relationship with a lonely spaceship computer to get home. Set in a retro-future inspired by sci-fi classics such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, the game is about forging a personal relationship with your only companion, an insecure AI entity capable of procedurally generating over two million lines of dialog. The reality of your situation will emerge organically as you communicate with Kaizen and explore the mysterious ship in first-person perspective.
Both games will provide players with deep, story-driven, narrative experience within a sci-fi environment. So anyone who is looking for some captivating adventure games with a rich story, they can’t go wrong with this offer.
Event[0] is free with all purchases of Tacoma (Linux, Mac, Windows) made before August 16, 5 PM UTC. All purchases made prior to the announcement, will be granted with a free copy of Event[0] automatically – users should check their GOG.com games library.
Day of Infamy gets Free Dunkirk Update (Linux)
Since New World Interactive has a big update for their WWII shooter, #DayofInfamy. So right now, just in time for the movie “Dunkirk”. Having sold more than 200,000 copies to date. This is the #games second free update for Linux, Mac and #Windows. Since this includes two brand new maps – one directly inspired by the movie. While featuring the evacuation of Dunkirk and battle of Breville.
Day of Infamy: Dunkirk Update Trailer:
“Our Dunkirk map offers a unique gameplay perspective by inverting the flow of battle. So it ends on the beach instead of starting there,” explains creative director Andrew Spearin.
“The Miracle of Dunkirk” was one of the biggest turning points of WWII. With the fate of the Allied forces hanging in the balance. A flotilla of civilian crafts helped evacuate 338,226 troops. They were cut off and surrounded on the beach of Dunkirk, France.
The update also includes another new map that focuses around the Battle of Breville. Since paratroopers from the British 6th Airborne Division successfully liberated the small village of Bréville-les-Monts in France. Just days after D-Day. So the battle was dubbed “one of the most important battles of the invasion”.
“The Breville map highlights our new foliage system while the gameplay is highly intense from extensive testing in collaboration with our community,” says Spearin.
The free Day of Infamy Dunkirk Update includes:
- New Map: Dunkirk – The Wehrmacht push back the Commonwealth forces to the beaches as they capture the town.
- Next New Map: Breville – Allied soldiers attempt to capture this sunny French town during the invasion of Normandy.
- A new foliage system – Grassy fields add an immersive layer of concealment to many of Day of Infamy’s maps, improving the graphic fidelity of the Source engine.
The launch will coincide with a Twitch livestream on New World’s Twitch channel. New World has been refining both maps with the games community on the stream over the last month. So footage of those tests is available on New World Interactive’s YouTube account.
So right now Day of Infamy is updated via Steam at full price. Yet Humble Store has an epic 45% discount, priced at $10.99 USD. Available with a Steam code for Linux, Mac and Windows.
Slime-san: Blackbird’s Kraken releases (Linux)
Slime-san‘s first major update releases for Linux, Mac and #Windows. Since #Slimesan: Blackbird’s Kraken is available on Steam right now. So the #games first major update is FREE to everyone who owns it. Yet players can also individually purchase Blackbird’s Kraken as a stand-alone title for only $4 USD.
The notorious Blackbird’s kracked, I mean, cracked! He believes Slime-san stole his treasure and unleashed his giant Kraken upon him! Sound familiar? So it’s now up to our hero to escape the giant squid’s jaws back out to freedom!
A totally independent campaign from Slime-san! Are you ready for this aquatic adventure? 25 new levels, 10 new target challenges, a submarine mode, more collectibles to hunt down, more boss fights to conquer… So much more cool stuff!
Blackbird’s Kraken Trailer:
Slime-san: Blackbird’s Kraken Features:
- 25 normal and NG+ levels within a giant kraken!
- 10 target mode challenges that will test your skills!
- 200 Bananas to collect and spend in a furniture shop!
- A customizable house that you can style and furnish to your heart’s content!
- A submarine mode with a unique boss fight, can you beat the Kraken?
- A speedrunning mode to compete with in leaderboards!
- An entire tropical Island you can explore and discover with tons of characters!
- A bizarre FPS mini-game: Gloomy! Can you beat the alien invasion?!
- Loads of cutscenes and story elements to experience and enjoy!
- Secret characters and set-pieces to discover across your journey!
- A tutorial to learn the ropes as well as extensive settings to tinker with!
- Music by Adhesive Wombat, FantomenK, Richard Gould & Mischa Perella!
New Content
- A totally independent campaign from Slime-san! Are you ready for an aquatic adventure?
- 100 Bananas to collect and spend on furniture and house themes!
- Exciting new mechanics like the submarine mode, acid bubbles and suction cups!
- More neat secrets!
Slime-san‘s first major update Blackbird’s Kraken is available now for Linux, Mac and Windows. Yet released on Steam and Humble Store. Since it’s more apt to pick up the base game and get the games update for Free.
