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Burden of Command is a tactical RPG that aims to capture the personal experiences of war
https://www.pcgamer.com/burden-of-command-is-a-tactical-rpg-that-aims-to-capture-the-personal-experiences-of-war/
Burden of Command looks like a strategy wargame: Maybe Panzer General, maybe Hearts of Iron 3, or maybe something in between. Developer Green Tree Games insists that it is not, however. They describe it as "Band of Brothers meets XCOM," a blend of RPG and tactics that's "infused with battlefield psychology, where every decision counts."

 

Far Cry 5: Dead Living Zombies will shuffle out at the end of August
https://www.pcgamer.com/far-cry-5-dead-living-zombies-will-shuffle-out-at-the-end-of-august/
Ubisoft announced today that Dead Living Zombies, the third and final part of the Far Cry 5 season pass, will be out on August 28. The expansion will support solo or co-op play through missions set in military bases, farmlands, and "urban rooftops," complete with narration provided by D-list film director Guy Marvel, who describes his latest cinematic venture in a new teaser as "Return of the Living Dead meets Bridges of Madison County."

 

Space 4X Exodus: Proxima Centauri releases on Steam today
https://www.pcgamer.com/space-4x-exodus-proxima-centauri-releases-on-steam-today/
The digital port of space 4X Exodus: Proxima Centauri releases today on Steam. Developer Offworld Games created this port of the board game, which came out back in 2012. In Exodus: Proxima Centauri players are leaders of a faction of remnant humans brought to a distant star system by powerful aliens after a devastating nuclear war drove them from Earth. With the Centaurians withdrawing, humans are now left to struggle for control of the Proxima Centauri star system. It’s a game that embraces the multi-role workings of the 4X genre, pushing players up against political and economic struggles, but it also has some standout highlights like technology customization and vicious interplanetary weapons of mass destruction.

 

Bus Simulator 18 gets a free mission pack
https://www.pcgamer.com/bus-simulator-18-gets-a-free-mission-pack/
Bus Simulator 18 is a very niche sort of game, but it does what it does quite well—not perfectly, but good enough to make Andy Kelly sweat about blowing past a turnoff with a full load of tightly-wound commuters. And now it's a little bigger and a little better thanks to the release of the first free mission pack on Steam.

 

Here's when we'll get to the end of Clementine's journey in The Walking Dead: The Final Season
https://www.pcgamer.com/heres-when-well-get-to-the-end-of-clementines-journey-in-the-walking-dead-the-final-season/
Telltale has detailed how long we'll have to wait in-between instalments of its latest episodic adventure, The Walking Dead: The Final Season.
In a tweet from the company's official Twitter account, the developer confirmed there'll be roughly six weeks between each chapter, culminating in the final episode—called Take Us Back—which is expected to release just in time for the holidays on December 18, 2018.

 

Fishing Sim World reckons it's 'the most authentic fishing simulator ever made'
https://www.pcgamer.com/fishing-sim-world-reckons-its-the-most-authentic-fishing-simulator-ever-made/
Dovetail Games wants to reel you in with an all-new Fishing Sim World teaser.
The latest in gaming's niche selection of sim titles, Fishing Sim World makes lofty promises that it's "the most authentic fishing simulator ever made".

 

Chucklefish announces atmospheric story-driven puzzle platformer, Inmost
https://www.pcgamer.com/chucklefish-announces-atmospheric-story-driven-puzzle-platformer-inmost/
Chucklefish has unveiled story-driven puzzle platformer, Inmost.
Developed by Lithuanian studio Hidden Layer Games, Inmost follows three playable characters that share one "dark, interconnecting story".

 

Here's what Treyarch learned about the Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 beta test
https://www.pcgamer.com/heres-what-treyarch-learned-about-the-call-of-duty-black-ops-4-beta-test/
Treyarch has outlined some of the lessons it learned from the Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 beta, and detailed the changes it'll make ahead of the next beta trial scheduled for September 10 on PlayStation 4.
Summarising the recap in a Reddit thread, Treyarch said that while it wouldn't "go into detail on every fix or tuning change [they]'re making", it would comment upon "the most-discussed topics that also intersect with the game’s design intent".

 

Turn-based tactics RPG Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is out now
https://www.pcgamer.com/turn-based-tactics-rpg-fell-seal-arbiters-mark-is-out-now/
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark, a turn-based RPG being developed by 6 Eyes, is in Early Access now. After its successful Kickstarter, our writer Lauren Morton checked out how it was coming along back in March. She said, "Fell Seal's current demo includes 11 story missions and the option to replay most of the maps as random encounters. In true JRPG style, it also features fantasy monsters, bumbling henchmen, and a haughty antagonist with a terrible haircut. The protagonists, by way of contrast, stray a good deal from the plucky heroes of the coming-of-age tale I expected to find."

 

They Are Billions adds giants, new difficulty mode
https://www.pcgamer.com/they-are-billions-adds-giants-new-difficulty-mode/
While Numantian Games continue work on the singleplayer campaign for Early Access RTS hit They Are Billions, they've also been sliding bonus stuff into the survival mode that's currently available. The latest patch adds a new zombie type called the Infected Giant, a behemoth so big they're marked on the minimap so you know not to expand in their direction until you're ready to take them on.

 

Rainbow Six Siege Operation Grim Sky gets full reveal at Paris Major
https://www.pcgamer.com/rainbow-six-siege-operation-grim-sky-gets-full-reveal-at-the-paris-major/
Earlier this month, Ubisoft shared the first details of Operation Grim Sky, Rainbow Six Siege’s next season. Today, full details of its third campaign have been revealed from this weekend's Paris Major—including more on its new operators Maverick and Clash, and its reworked Hereford Base training camp map.

 

The Long Dark's final two episodes will hopefully arrive before the end of 2019
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-long-darks-final-two-episodes-will-hopefully-arrive-before-the-end-of-2019/
Hinterland Games is hoping to wrap up development on The Long Dark's story mode by the end of 2019, the studio's creative director Raphael van Lierop explained on the studio's forums on Friday.

 

The Pizza Delivery Boy Who Saved the World is a visual novel about pizza
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-pizza-delivery-boy-who-saved-the-world-is-a-visual-novel-about-pizza/
Oh, a Rock Studios! are an indie developer responsible for several games you probably haven't heard of, like Cat President and The Awkward Steve Duology. Their current project is The Pizza Delivery Boy Who Saved the World, a live-action visual novel about, well, the title probably sums it up. You play Doug, who takes a break from pizza delivery when someone claiming to be a future version of himself enlists him to help prevent the internet from being destroyed. There's also weird customers to deal with, awkward flirting, and what looks like a pizza-slicing minigame. It's got everything.

 

Prey's director says the final act was "too intense"
https://www.pcgamer.com/preys-director-says-the-final-act-was-too-intense/
Raphael Colantonio, director and co-writer of Arkane's 2017 game Prey, has been interviewed by Kotaku about his game's famously divisive final act. As well as the ending itself, the build-up to it has come under criticism for being drawn-out, and introducing too many security bots. Colantonio told Kotaku that, "In this case, yeah there was definitely too much at the end, it was too intense, not only the security bots but there was some other stuff. In general, I think it was too intense, we were trying to ask the players to backtrack, and do some stuff. It was just too much. We should have cut it short."

 

Space Hulk: Tactics release date set, gameplay trailer teases explosive combat
https://www.pcgamer.com/space-hulk-tactics-release-date-set-gameplay-trailer-teases-explosive-combat/
Space Hulk: Tactics echoes tabletop Warhammer and XCOM-style warfare. It pits mankind against aliens in "desperate" turn-based battles. It's now got a PC release date, October 9, and some new in-game footage.
Titled 'choose your side', things get hot and heavy pretty quickly.

 

Cliff Bleszinski will address Boss Key failures in new book
https://www.pcgamer.com/cliff-bleszinski-will-address-boss-key-failures-in-new-book/
Despite glowing reviews, LawBreakers failed to sustain a playerbase. Its free-to-play Early Access follow-up Radical Heights was an unsuccessful roll of the dice—one which led Cliff Bleszinski to shutter Boss Key Productions entirely. Now, Bleszinski is writing a book which will address the studio's failures.

>>Being too ambitious?

 

Hitman 2 will include updated versions of Hitman Season 1's missions as DLC
https://www.pcgamer.com/hitman-2-will-include-updated-versions-of-hitman-season-1s-missions-as-dlc/
IO Interactive and Warner Bros announced today that every location from Hitman Season 1 (Paris, Sapienza, Marrakesh, Bangkok, Colorado, Hokkaido) will be available as DLC in Hitman 2, and will be updated into parity with Hitman 2's new missions—that's with updated combat AI, new items, new difficulty levels, and so on.