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Friday news, part two:

 

Overwatch Lunar New Year skins revealed
https://www.pcgamer.com/overwatch-lunar-new-year-skins/
Overwatch's 2018 Lunar New Year event kicks off today. The Year of the Dog celebration brings some updates to the Capture the Flag mode introduced last year, a new CTF map, and, of course, a pile of new cosmetics.

 

Scrolls servers go offline next week, Mojang hopes to make the software public
https://www.pcgamer.com/scrolls-servers-go-offline-next-week-mojang-hopes-to-make-the-software-public/
I'd completely forgotten about this, but Mojang halted development of Scrolls, the CCG/strategy game that landed it in a beef with Bethesda, in mid-2015. At the time it promised to keep the game servers online until at least July 2016, a commitment that it ended up seriously over-delivering on. But the studio announced earlier this week that on February 13—next Tuesday—the plug will finally be pulled.

 

Swery's The Good Life is going to Kickstarter in March
https://www.pcgamer.com/swerys-the-good-life-is-going-to-kickstarter-in-march/
The Good Life, an RPG about a strange town in England whose residents turn into cats at night, went to Fig last year in search of $1.5 million in funding. Despite being one of the more interesting ideas for a game I've heard in recent years, it fell well short of that goal, wrapping up with less than $700,000. Creator Swery of Deadly Premonitions and D4 fame said when it was all over that he would try again on Kickstarter, and in a message posted on Twitter today he announced that the new campaign will begin on March 26.

 

Cardboard gets scary in horror roguelike Paper Cut Mansion
https://www.pcgamer.com/cardboard-gets-scary-in-horror-roguelike-paper-cut-mansion/
Gabriele Caruso, a designer at Liverpool-based indie dev Space Lizard Studio, was in the process of moving into a new house when he hit upon the idea for a horror game. "The emptiness of the new house, and being surrounded by cardboard boxes, made me think that being alone with them was one of the most terrifying things. It was like a maze," he said. And so, Paper Cut Mansion, a "procedurally generated roguelike horror game," was born.

 

Destiny 2 was 'the largest PC launch in Activision history'
https://www.pcgamer.com/destiny-2-was-the-largest-pc-launch-in-activision-history/
Destiny 2 is not without its troubles, but it has nonetheless been a big success for Activision. The company said in its fourth-quarter and 2017 year-end financial results that the space-wizard shooter was "the largest PC launch in Activision history based on units," and that its first expansion, Curse of Osiris, had a higher attach rate—that is, the percentage of Destiny 2 owners who bought it—than the first expansion for the original Destiny.

 

Far Cry 5's 'Guns For Hire' trailer introduces all your potential allies
https://www.pcgamer.com/far-cry-5s-guns-for-hire-trailer-introduces-all-your-potential-allies/
One of the hooks in Far Cry 5 is that while you, the player, are obviously responsible for the success of the fight against the religious cult behind all the trouble in your little slice of Montana, you don't have to carry the fight alone. The "Resistance" trailer unveiled in December 2017 gave us a quick look at some of the people who can lend a hand, but now we've got proper introductions to each, including—as expected—Hurk "Dangerously Stupid" Drubman Jr., a man who loves to point and shoot.

 

The Overwatch hacker Sombra is next in line for a rework
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-overwatch-hacker-sombra-is-next-in-line-for-a-rework/
According to principal designer Geoff Goodman, Sombra is set to receive some changes on the next Overwatch PTR, which should be up fairly soon. Here's a sneak peek of the changes, which he detailed in a forum post.

 

Abandon Ship casts its Early Access anchor this month
https://www.pcgamer.com/abandon-ship-casts-its-early-access-anchor-this-month/
First demoed at the PC Gamer Weekender last year (the PCGW 2018 is next weekend—have we mentioned that already?), Abandon Ship is a procedurally-generated, tactical combat game that riffs on everything from FTL to Assassin's Creed Black Flag and Sunless Sea. It's now got an Early Access release date, too: February 21.

 

 

Time now to check the GOG and Steam deals of this weekend:

+GOG

There are four different sales:

• Let's start with the weekly sale, featuring a large variety of games up to 90% off: https://www.gog.com/promo/20180205_weekly_sale
• Next comes the Telltale Games sale, great for fans of adventure games: https://www.gog.com/promo/20180205_telltale
• Time for the launch promo of the Close Combat series: https://www.gog.com/promo/20180206_launch_promo_close_combat
• And last, but not least, a new sale about horror games: https://www.gog.com/promo/20180208_horror_show

+Steam

At Steam we'll find several deals too:

• First of all a reminder, as posted yesterday The Red Solstice is free for the next 48h 24h, so hurry up if you want it: http://store.steampowered.com/app/265590/The_Red_Solstice/
• Time now to pay attention to Disc Jam, that will be free to try this weekend and also has a 40% discount for those than want to keep playing: http://store.steampowered.com/app/415880/Disc_Jam/
• Also free to try and with a 50% discount, there's Civilization VI: http://store.steampowered.com/app/289070/Sid_Meiers_Civilization_VI/
• And yet another free to try title, Cities: Skylines and with a 75% discount: http://store.steampowered.com/app/255710/Cities_Skylines/
• Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization Deluxe Edition is 30% off: http://store.steampowered.com/app/607890/Sword_Art_Online_Hollow_Realization_Deluxe_Edition/
• Okami HD is also 30% off: http://store.steampowered.com/app/587620/OKAMI_HD/
• Agents of Mayhem is also on sale, with a 75% discount: http://store.steampowered.com/app/304530/Agents_of_Mayhem/
• And last comes the special Play Anime sale, with lots of Bandai Namco games based on... Anime IPs, of course. Check them out here: http://store.steampowered.com/sale/bandainamcoplayanime/
• Also, don't forget the 1249 weeklong deals.

 

 

And with that, the news come to an end. I hope you all enjoy a happy and gaming weekend.

 

**Edited to add the Civ VI deal at Steam**

Last edited by JEMC - on 09 February 2018