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H1Z1 IS BEING SPLIT INTO TWO GAMES, NEITHER WILL BE FREE-TO-PLAY

http://www.pcgamer.com/h1z1-is-being-split-into-two-games-neither-will-be-free-to-play/

Big changes are on the way to Early Access zombie sandbox H1Z1. Later this month H1Z1 will be split into two separate games—the open-world survival mode being one, and the competitive Battle Royale mode being the other—and each will be sold separately. Daybreak Game Company also told us that it no longer plans to make H1Z1 free-to-play in the future, as was the originally stated intent.

 

HORROR HITCHHIKING GAME RIDES WITH STRANGERS IS HAPPENING

http://www.pcgamer.com/horror-hitchhiking-game-rides-with-strangers-is-happening/

Rides With Strangers is a horror game that gets its bang from bone-chilling realism: Instead of confronting demons, the undead, or chainsaw-wielding psychos, your adversaries are the people offering to give you a lift after your car breaks down in the middle of the night along a long, lonely stretch of middle-American highway. Not many of us will ever come to face-to-face with the shrieking terror of Zhothaqquah, after all, but thumbing a ride to the Esso up the road because your stupid gas gauge is broken? That can happen to any of us.

 

THE POLITICAL MACHINE 2016 IS THE ELECTION SIM AMERICA DESERVES

http://www.pcgamer.com/the-political-machine-2016-is-the-election-sim-america-deserves/

2016 is an election year in the US, a time when Americans of all political persuasions come together to partake in a rational discourse, exchanging ideas as they work to decide who among them is most qualified to lead their great nation into the future. Just kidding! Not about it being an election year—it is—but about all the other stuff. In reality, it's a time of super-heated rhetoric, unrestrained nastiness, and grotesque behavior—and also time for a new version of Stardock's election simulator The Political Machine.

 

BATTALION 1944 KICKSTARTER FUNDED IN JUST THREE DAYS

http://www.pcgamer.com/battalion-1944-kickstarter-funded-in-just-three-days/

Battalion 1944 sounds like a very ambitious project. It's a Second World War multiplayer FPS, built in Unreal Engine 4, with motion-captured animation, assets precisely based on photos of real items and locations, and a general promise of high-budget sheen—all for a very low (relatively speaking) Kickstarter goal of £100,000/$145,000. A goal which has now been met, just three days after the campaign began.

 

HOW TO SHARE AND IMPORT CUSTOM XCOM 2 SOLDIERS

http://www.pcgamer.com/how-to-share-and-import-custom-xcom-2-soldiers/

XCOM 2, the character creation game with a small strategy component, is finally out (and it's amazing). This time around, XCOM 2 has a significantly more robust character creation kit that allows you to export your soldiers to a file, which you can then share and throw at unwary internet passersby. The problem is, the game doesn’t exactly tell you how to go about it.

 

SHADOWRUN: HONG KONG - EXTENDED EDITION OUT NOW

http://www.pcgamer.com/shadowrun-hong-kong-extended-edition-out-now/

That free Shadowrun: Hong Kong expansion we mentioned the other day? It's out now, free if you already own the game. The slightly confusingly named Shadows of Hong Kong campaign takes place after the main game, offering "6+ hours" of cyberpunk roleplaying.

 

DEAD BY DAYLIGHT IS AN ASYMMETRICAL SLASHER HORROR

http://www.pcgamer.com/dead-by-daylight-is-an-asymmetrical-slasher-horror/

Dead by Daylight is a horror game, if you hadn't guessed. It's a horror game that pits a bunch of paranormal and, well, not normal exactly movie monsters against a gaggle of regular humans. It's an asymmetrical multiplayer game, basically, where one player takes the role of the murderer, and four others play as the (possible) survivors. If it sounds a lot like that Kickstarted Friday the 13th game, that's because it seems a lot like that Kickstarted Friday the 13th game, but there are a few wrinkles that should set it apart.

 

FINAL FANTASY TACTICS DIRECTOR'S UNSUNG STORY PUT ON HOLD

http://www.pcgamer.com/final-fantasy-tactics-directors-unsung-story-put-on-hold/

On paper, Unsung Story sounds like one of my dream Kickstarters. It is, or perhaps was, a new tactical RPG "envisioned by" Yasumi Matsuno, director of Final Fantasy Tactics. His name, and a few others including talented translator/localiser Alexander O. Smith, is likely the reason backers forked out over $660,000 for the Kickstarter back in 2014. Playdek is the company developing it, however, and their Kickstarter updates have become increasingly infrequent over the last couple of years.

 

TITANFALL 2: "SCIENCE MEETS MAGIC" IN A "GROUNDED, HUMAN" WORLD

http://www.pcgamer.com/titanfall-2-details-science-meets-magic-in-a-grounded-dirty-human-world/

Titanfall, the wall-running, jetpacking, mech-having shooter that captured imaginations for around seventeen minutes back in 2014, is getting a sequel. A sequel that will release sometime between April 2016 and March 2017, and that will hit PS4 as well as PC and Xbox One. All this we already knew—but now we know a bit more, courtesy of a Forbes interview with the game's lead writer, Jesse Stern.

 

N++ IS COMING TO STEAM

http://www.pcgamer.com/n-is-coming-to-steam/

One of the best platformers of 2015 (and if you ask me, ever) is coming to Steam. Previously a PS4 exclusive, N++ is currently being ported for PC, though it might be a while before it releases. The news comes via Metanet Software co-founder Raigan Burns, who made the announcement on NeoGAF.