Daily Scoop: June 28, 2016 – Get Enter the Gungeon on sale at Steam now

Anthony and I are getting ready to head out to another event – this time it’s DexCon, up in North Jersey. If you want to check any of our games out, we’ll have a table where we’ll be running them all weekend! I might even take a break and play other games, and/or work on the new game that I thought up while we were at Origins. Either way, games are happening!

Humble just launched the PC & Android Bundle 14, and it’s got some great games. Pay what you want for 100000000, Badland (the GOTY Edition for PC and the Premium Edition for Android), and Spacecom. Pay $3 or more to unlock Please Don’t Touch Anything, Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon, and You Must Build a Robot. Finally, beat the average +$3 to unlock Desktop Dungeons and Knights of Pen & Paper 2.

The Steam Sale marches on! Portal Knights is $10.04, Tales of Zestiria is $19.99, and Euro Truck Simulator 2 is $9.79, among others. And, of course, Enter the Gungeon is on sale for $11.99, which we caved and bought and have been playing together. It’s super fun!

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CoD: Black Ops III Descent DLC Pack includes four multiplayer maps, zombies, dragons

Treyarch is back with another expansion pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops III. The Descent DLC Pack will be available to download for the PS4 on July 12 and, as always, it’ll contain four multiplayer maps and a new Zombies episode.

Descent’s multiplayer maps will feature a favorite from Black Ops II, an isolated lab, a Viking village, and a modern-day coliseum:

  • Empire: Treyarch adapts its Black Ops III movement system to the Call of Duty: Black Ops II fan favorite map Raid. The re-imagining of this classic, medium-sized map features an authentic Roman villa that has been “recreated by a modern-day eccentric billionaire,” where a classic map structure mixes with the new gameplay mechanics of Black Ops III.
  • Cryogen: Located far off the coast in the Dead Sea, an isolated compound holds some of the world’s most dangerous criminals in frozen isolation. Sentry towers keep watch over the small map’s circular design as frenetic combat is funneled around the prison’s cryogenic tubes, where opportunities for wall running attacks abound.
  • Berserk: Ancient sentinels from a lost civilization guard the entrance to Berserk, a Viking village frozen in time. Players will fight through blizzards, and control the center bridge as they navigate this medium-sized map’s wooden buildings, deadly rocky outcroppings, and tight chokepoints.
  • Rumble: Gamers battle amongst larger-than-life mechanized warriors in Rumble, a stadium where giant robots battle to the roar of the crowd. This medium-sized map funnels high-speed combat to the central arena, where players battle their way through fallen mechs and pyrotechnics.

But things really get crazy when you dig into the new Zombies Mode map, “Gorod Krovi.” Not only will players be forced to push back an assault from a “mechanized zombie infantry,” but they’ll also have to watch out for flying fireballs from a squadron of dragons:

Descent also thrusts players to an alternate universe of Nikolai’s motherland, the 1940s Soviet Union, in the next highly-anticipated chapter of the Origins Zombies saga, Gorod Krovi. Players face-off against a swarm of mechanized zombie infantry and dodge hell-fire from aerial dragon assaults, all in the middle of a raging battle within the remnants of Stalingrad. Gorod Krovi delivers the most exciting Zombies experience yet, filled with horrifying new enemies, exciting new gameplay mechanics and an epic set of Zombie annihilating weapons.

Call of Duty: Black Ops III’s Descent DLC Pack will also be available to download for the PC and Xbox One sometime in August.

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Han and Chewie finally star in a Lego Star Wars: Force Awakens Character Trailer

As expected, WB Games saved the best for last and released one more Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens Character Trailer today, this time focusing on Han Solo and Chewbacca. There’s probably no deeper meaning behind a scene showing everyone’s favorite smuggler picking off a pair of Stormtroopers with a blaster, but it sure does look cool, doesn’t it?

Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens is available today for the 3DS, PC, PS3, PS4, Vita, Wii U, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.

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Tumblestone and its multiplayer action-puzzle magic will launch on July 12

If you’re old enough to remember the 90s heyday of multiplayer “action-puzzle” games, then Tumblestone should be on your radar. A match-3 puzzle game similar to Bust-A-Move, Tumblestone was by The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild, and it’ll be released for the PC, PS3, PS4, Vita, Wii U, and Xbox One on July 12. Best of all, if you’re an Xbox Live Gold subscriber, you’ll be to download it for free as part of the Games With Gold program.

Tumblestone will include a massive Story Mode, online and local multiplayer modes, a trio of arcade-style modes, and a Quest Mode with hundreds of unique Quests to complete.

And be sure to watch Tumblestone’s “Cinematic” Trailer, it’s embedded above and absurdly fun. Though it doesn’t look so crazy when you compare it to the PAX East “Reactions” trailer, which is available after the break.

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Batman: Return to Arkham has been indefinitely delayed by WB Games

batmanriddler1I guess Batman wasn’t prepared for this one…

WB Games has announced that Batman: Return to Arkham, a remastered compilation of Arkham Asylum and Arkham City for the PS4 and Xbox One, will miss it’s originally scheduled July 26 release date. Steve Grayson, one of WB’s community moderators, delivered the bad news on the game’s official forum by citing concerns about the quality of the game as it exists right now:

After reviewing the progress of the project, the team at WB Games has decided to delay the release of Batman: Return to Arkham to give the team at [Virtuos] Games additional time to deliver a polished Batman Arkham game experience.

Even though Return to Arkham was announced just five weeks ago, Grayson also revealed that WB Games isn’t ready to commit to a new release date just yet:

We do not have a release date yet and will be sure to communicate that once we are sure the game will be ready. We know this is disappointing news, but we feel the extra time will allow the team to create the best gaming experience for our fans.

On a slightly different Bat-Channel, Telltale recently announced they expect to launch all five episodes in their Batman series by the end of the year.

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Warner Bros. will release the Minecraft movie on May 24, 2019

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Are you excited for the Minecraft movie? I hope you can keep your excitement going for the next three years, as Warner Bros. announced today that Minecraft: The Movie will open in theaters on May 24, 2019. And if you need to really immerse yourself in Minecraft’s blocky world, the movie will also be released in 3D and IMAX.

We still don’t know much else about Minecraft: The Movie (and even that’s just a working title), but Mojang COO Vu Bui had this to say on the developer’s official website:

Yes, that might seem like a long time away, but it just so happens to be the right amount of time to make it completely awesome. And we all want an awesome Minecraft movie, right?

Rob McElhenney, Mac from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, has been tapped to direct the adaptation, so hopefully he brings the same sense of zaniness to Minecraft: The Movie.

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Daily Scoop: June 27, 2016 – Tons of great shirts today!

I played so many games this weekend, both board and video! I also got a lot of work done, managed to sleep, and also ate real meals. Oh, and once or twice, I left the house. All in all, this weekend was a success!

Speaking of successes, let’s talk about all the sales happening at the Humble Store right now! The Daily Deal is the Tropico 5: Complete Collection which is just $9.99. You can also get Flat Kingdom Deluxe Edition for $4.79, CHKN for $11.99, and Disgaea PC: Digital Dood Edition for $16.86.

That absurd Steam Summer Sale is still going strong! Rocket League is $11.99, Life Is Strange is $1.99, and The Witness is $31.99, among many, many others.

There are so many shirts today. Hit the jump to see them all!

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Telltale is “aiming” to release all five episodes in their Batman series by December

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We got some good news today from Telltale’s PR Director, Job Stauffer. He confirmed (via Twitter) that the team is “aiming” to complete development on all five episodes in Batman: The Telltale Series by the end of the year.

However, Stauffer did caution that Episode 5 might be released in Early 2017:

The first episode from Batman: The Telltale Series will make its debut on consoles, mobile devices, and the PC later this Summer… though there’s a possibly it could be released as early as next month.

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