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]]>The full list of game sales can be found here (opens in new tab), but here are some of the highlights from Epic Games’ big Summer Sale.
Maneater (opens in new tab) just came out a couple of months ago, and it’s already on sale for 25% off its usual list price. For a limited time, you can start your adventure as a vicious, nondiscriminating, and eventually bio-electric bull shark for just $30. Our own Rachel Weber lovingly deemed Maneater a “single-minded machine of delightful destruction.”
Better yet, our 2019 Game of the Year (opens in new tab) is currently half off its normal price. Control (opens in new tab) is a profoundly innovative, mind-bending adventure from Remedy, the minds behind Max Payne, Alan Wake, and Quantum Break. And with this year’s Foundation DLC (opens in new tab) adding a substantial amount of new story to the base game, now’s as good a time as ever to check out one of last year’s best titles.
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (opens in new tab) is sitting at one of its lowest prices ever at $19.79, a 75% discount from list price. The sprawling, open-ended RPG set in ancient Greece is a culmination of everything that makes the Assassin’s Creed series great, and it’s the perfect time sink to get lost in while you wait for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (opens in new tab). Likewise, Assassin’s Creed Origins is on sale for just $12, an 80% discount.
Other goodies include Borderlands 3 (opens in new tab) for $30 (50% off), Red Dead Redemption 2 (opens in new tab) for $48 (20% off), and Far Cry 5 (opens in new tab) for $9 (85% off).
Looking for something 100% off to play? Here are the best free games (opens in new tab) we could find.
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]]>Sea of Thieves wants to impress you with a huge cannon
Tomorrow Xbox will fire an actual human man out of its Xbox Pirate Blaster, a 34-foot-long cannon, to try and remind you that pirate-packed Sea of Thieves (opens in new tab) will be released on March 20. You can watch David “The Bullet” Smith try and break a Guinness World Records title for the Greatest Distance Travelled as a Human Cannonball on Mixer starting at 1pm ET.
Assassin’s Creed Origins is back with new cursed DLC
Check out the launch trailer for the The Curse of the Pharaohs DLC, which looks very much like The Walking Dead circa 49 BC.
Mad scientist YouTuber gets a Switch working on a decades-old pocket TV
Playing your Switch on your new 4K TV is so 2017. All the cool kids are hacking their consoles to get them running on a black-and-white, CRT Sony Watchman Pocket Television from 1986. And when I say all the cool kids, I mean this one internet maverick.
The creators of Goat Simulator are back with Satisfactory
Coffee Stain Studios just teased a new game in the trailer below: Satisfactory. Though it doesn’t give much hint of how the game actually plays, it’s worth a watch for its adorable lizard, who deserves to be the new Lucas the Spider.
Westworld is getting a cartoony, facility-management mobile game
If you can’t bear the wait for Westworld season 2, this mobile game ought to tide you over. Gameplay-wise, it looks very similar to Fallout Shelter, just with more cowboys and cyborgs.
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]]>In its ‘this month in Assassin’s Creed Origins (opens in new tab)’ post, Ubi has revealed that not only is a new enormous deity, Sekhmet, arriving as part of the Trials of the Gods event, the previous two furious gods, Anubis and Sobek, will also be available. This is great news given the fact that not everyone was the recommended level 40 a couple of weeks after release.
But that’s not what you came here for, is it? You want the Chocobo mount and, to be clear, that might not be what the below gif is but it definitely looks like the yellow feathered creatures.
All the blog post says is that there will be ‘a new surprise quest’ but cast your mind back to August and you might remember that Assassin’s Creed and Final Fantasy 15 paired up (opens in new tab) to create the Assassin’s Festival in the town of Lestallum. This looks like Origins might be returning the favour with a Chocobo-themed mount. While it’s no Final Fantasy festival – I just don’t think it would work in Ancient Egypt thanks to the lack of hair products – this looks like the best way to mix the two without breaking the Animus. The gif is only named as ‘feather-teaser’ on the blogpost so we’ll have to wait for confirmation.
On top of the three gods and, err, Chocobo, other key updates include a new Nightmare difficulty level if Egypt is getting a bit easy for you, and a rather nice enemy scaling option. This means that all lower level enemies will be brought up to your level so if you don’t want to feel like you’re just unfairly wiping everyone out in certain regions, they’ll at least now have a fighting chance at survival. You can turn it on and off though so don’t worry if you still want to feel like some sort of warrior god of Siwa. There’s also going to be a new horde mode added to the Cyrene arena in the shape of quest ‘Here Comes a New Challenger.’ This level 32 quest will deliver unlimited waves to foes for you to take out some good old Ancient Egyptian rage on.
In other good news, both the Nightmare and First Civ packs that were previously only available to buy with Helix credits can now be found in the Heka chests you’ll get from the far-too-young-to-be-selling-anything Reda. This means the incredible abyssal steed who is actually on fire and makes a handy lantern when crossing the desert can be found in the random chests for 3000 Drachmas. These chests are pretty generous as far as I’ve seen so far. I got one of the legendary bows and the Pharoah outfit in my only two purchases this week.
And, finally, there are new additions to the store to tempt you. December 12 will offer up the Gladiator items pack with the Spaniards Armour (hello Maxiumus reference), the Palladium shield, Hercules’ Gladius, Labrys and Neptune’s Grasp. That’s a sword, heavy blade and spear, respectively. The post also teases the ‘wacky’ items pack which will arrive on December 26. Ubi isn’t saying much about it but it apparently will go well with the bath towel outfit you earn from a certain assassination. Expect plenty of excuses to drop into Photo Mode which, I have to say, is even better now after a few tweaks. Good luck actually doing anything.
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]]>“All the stats really matter,” explains game director Ashraf Ismail to Assassin’s Central. (opens in new tab)“Speed, distance, the damage you do, rate of fire, these kind of things all really impact combat.” Check out the full video above to see the different kinds and grades of weaponry on offer, the types of attributes to make you even more deadly, and Ismail’s advice for starting out in Ancient Egypt. You don’t want to miss this. And don’t worry, with only a matter of weeks until launch on October 27, you’ll be walking in Memphis in no time.
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]]>“Wanting a place where we can create chemistry, where we can create drama, having that in a husband and wife relationship made sense to all of us,” explains Ashraf Ismail, game director on Assassin’s Creed Origins. “It was that combined with the idea that we were giving a birth to something. We romanticised the idea that the birth of something starts from a marriage.”
Sat next to some giant Egyptian props in a darkened warehouse in San Francisco, Ismail says it was about making sure these protagonists were more than just “super-powered athletes that are doing crazy stuff,” making sure that they were recognizable as human. Even having seen just a few hours of gaming’s hottest new couple in action, it seems like the development team achieved its goals. The characters have that same mix of light and dark that makes the latest batch of Whedon-esque superhero movies such a success.
“We had the idea of Bayek and Aya being husband and wife very early, and of course it’s been a lot of fun,” continues Ismail. “These are two people who look at the world from slightly different perspectives, but they started from similar places and their goals are the same. What kind of friction and chemistry and drama can we create with people who have the same goals, but who look at the world differently? That was the goal, they they go on a journey together, and it’s a bit of an exploration of their relationship as well. How does this relationship and all its details and chemistry, how does that lead to something bigger than them?”
We’ll have to wait until October 27 to find out.
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]]>For some perspective, you could either buy a Porsche Boxster with options:
Or 59,000 Taco Bell cheesy bean and rice burritos:
Or one of these headsets:
Only 10 of the Utopia headphones were made and they’re all for sale by French jeweler Tournaire at its boutique in Paris. Oh, and they’re all displayed on special bronze busts of Origins protagonist Bayek, as seen above, one of which you can purchase for an additional €12,000 / £11,000 / $14,000. I mean, you’re not really going to set an 18-carat pair of headphones down on your coffee table, are you? At least prop them up with a few of those gold bullions and massive hunks of uncut, precious gems you have lying around.
The good news is that the Utopia phones do make the standard Origins Listen Wireless headphones seem more affordable by comparison. They’re a relatively humble £249 / $333 and a relatively generous 2,222 of them are being manufactured. The Bluetooth headphones include a built-in microphone and offer up to 20 hours of listening time, and you can pick them up exclusively on the Ubisoft store (opens in new tab).
Thankfully, you don’t need expensive headphones to read through our Assassin’s Creed Origins info (opens in new tab) article and catch up on all the details.
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“There are quite a few different factions in the world, and keep in mind that these factions are really living in the world,” creative director Ashraf Ismail says. “We don’t have anything that is a spawned event, you know, ‘because you’re 50 metres away we’re going to spawn this fight here for you.’ These are NPCs that have a schedule, that have an agenda, that criss-cross paths, and if they happen to be enemies they’ll fight, if they happen to be allies they’ll hug each other. So this is really the world living.”
So who will you meet on the road? At this point we know about three factions: the Rebels, who Bayek frequently works alongside; the Ptolemies, who are basically Egyptian enforcers, collecting taxes and taking prisoners; and the Bandits, who steal and pillage and generally do Bandit-y things. They don’t really get along with each other.
You’re free to join in when you see a skirmish unfolding on the horizon – it’s a good way to try out the flexible new combat system – or you could just send out your eagle buddy Senu to get a bird’s eye view of the fight. Wait until the fight is over and booby trap the bodies with lethal poison to give looters a nasty surprise.
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