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Friday news, part two:

 

Take a closer look at Cities: Skylines' Parklife expansion
https://www.pcgamer.com/take-a-closer-look-at-cities-skylines-parklife-expansion/
After announcing its latest slice of DLC, Parklife, earlier in the month, Colossal Order have given us a slightly closer look at Cities: Skylines’ upcoming expansion in a new trailer.
The last expansion, Green Cities, stole countless hours from me as I tried to fashion the perfect, pollution-free utopia, but I always felt it could be a little greener. And soon it will be. The biggest hook in Parklife is that parks are no longer single structures that you plonk down. They’re districts rather than buildings, so they’re modular and customisable.

 

Chucklefish is publishing Eastward—a sci-fi RPG with hints of Zelda, Mother and animated whale carcasses
https://www.pcgamer.com/chucklefish-unveils-eastwarda-sci-fi-rpg-with-hints-of-zelda-mother-and-animated-whale-carcasses/
What do you get when you cross Zelda with Mother/Earthbound Beginnings, whimsical animations, and a soft sci-fi-inspired post-apocalypse? In practice, I can't say for sure—but it certainly looks like a Chucklefish game. Eastward is the work of Shanghai-based studio Pixpil, who's spent the last three years growing its debut project.

 

Watch Fortnite get clobbered by meteors as the comet apocalypse approaches
https://www.pcgamer.com/fortnite-meteors-landing/
The Fortnite apocalypse foretold earlier this week now appears to be unfolding in earnest—meteors are falling from the sky and striking the surface, wreaking death and destruction and heralding the imminent arrival of the great comet that may, or may not, destroy Tilted Towers.

 

Hearthstone's new Monster Hunt mode is now live
https://www.pcgamer.com/hearthstones-new-monster-hunt-mode-is-now-live/
Hearthstone: The Witchwood's single-player Monster Hunt mode is now live, meaning that it's time for intrepid adventurers to venture off into the dark forest to seek fame and fortune in battle against a horde of monstrous beasts.

 

PUBG's latest update adds a new car, a new gun, and a 'heap' of weapon balance changes
https://www.pcgamer.com/pubgs-latest-update-adds-a-new-car-a-new-gun-and-a-heap-of-weapon-balance-changes/
Playerunknown's Battlegrounds update 12 is a "big one," with a new map selection menu, improvements to the Miramar map, a muscular new vehicle called the Mirado, and the usual array of tweaks and bug fixes. There's also a major focus on weapon balance changes, which PUBG Corp said will necessitate a longer wait for this update to go from the test server to live.

 

H1Z1 publisher Daybreak Game Company cuts staff
https://www.pcgamer.com/h1z1-publisher-daybreak-break-company-cuts-staff/
H1Z1 publisher Daybreak Game Company, formerly known as Sony Online Entertainment, has confirmed that an unknown number of employees have been laid off. The cuts come less than two months after H1Z1, an early battle royale game, went free to play, a shift which itself happened just over a week after it launched as a premium game.

>>That's never good.

 

Bungie details Destiny 2 Exotic Masterworks and more changes
https://www.pcgamer.com/bungie-details-destiny-2-exotic-masterworks-and-more-changes/
Following the big Destiny 2: Warmind reveal from earlier this week, today's This Week At Bungie blog post delves into one of the big changes coming to the game with the start of season 3 in May: The quest to make Exotics "feel more exotic." A big part of making that happen will come in the form of Exotic Masterworks, which senior investment designer Mark Uyeda said will "create new in-game goals for hobbyist players and reinforce specific activities with these long tail pursuits."

 

Get Alien: Isolation for $10 this weekend
https://www.pcgamer.com/get-alien-isolation-for-dollar10-this-weekend/
As you might've spied on the interwebs, Alien Day was yesterday—a day 20th Century Fox first earmarked in 2016 (in-line with the second film's 30th anniversary) to celebrate all things Alien. The day itself has been and gone, but both Steam and Humble have extended Alien-related sales into the weekend.

>>Check it out on the Humble Store or on Steam (it's the daily deal), or over at Fanatical too.

 

 

Let's finish all this by taking a look at the GOG and Steam deals for this weekend:

+GOG

• The daily deal is Always Sometimes Monsters, 90% off: https://www.gog.com/game/always_sometimes_monsters
• Next comes the weekly sale "I got a plan", full of strategy games up to 90% off: https://www.gog.com/promo/20180523_weekly_sale
• And lastly, we have the weekend promo, "March of the Penguins", with games that support Linux and/or low spec machines, up to 85% off: https://www.gog.com/promo/20180427_weekend_sale

+Steam

• Let's start with the free to try game, because Day of Infamy is also free to try and 70% off this weekend: https://store.steampowered.com/app/447820/Day_of_Infamy/
• Spintires: MudRunner is 33% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/675010/Spintires_MudRunner/
• Rocket League is 40% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/252950/Rocket_League/
• And of course, there's also the weeklong deals.

 

 

That's it, the end of the news, but only for the week. Until the next round, have a happy and gaming weekend.