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Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier Game Announced
After the success of the new Planet of the Apes trilogy, FoxNext Games has officially unveiled their plans for a game based off the series. Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier has just been announced by developer The Imaginarium as a game that takes place in the same universe as the films.
Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier is a choice-based, cinematic game similar, from what it appears, to games like Until Dawn and Heavy Rain. From what’s been shown so far for the game, we don’t currently know if we can fully control a character or not. However, the player has the ability to make various decisions throughout the game as both apes and humans. So far, the only confirmed playable characters are an ape named Bryn and a human named Jess. Players are also promised multiple endings and decisions that make a lasting impact, thus there is (hopefully) no illusion of choice.
The game is set between Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and War for the Planet of the Apes, the last two films in the trilogy. Various events from the two films are promised to be applicable to the story and at least one from the beginning of War is in the trailer for the game. For the sake of avoiding spoilers, I won’t elaborate on this scene.
That being said, it seems to tie very heavily into the new Planet of the Apes movies. This has been the explicit goal of FoxNext Games ever since its creation earlier this year. 20th Century Fox created FoxNext as an answer to popular games based on Fox movies, especially Alien: Isolation. FoxNext’s goal in the game industry is to work with other developers in creating games based off pre-existing Fox movie franchises. Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier seems to largely fall in line with this philosophy.
The developer that FoxNext chose to work with on this game is The Imaginarium, who just recently created a games division. The Imaginarium is renowned for their motion capture work on the new Planet of the Apes films. They’ve also done the motion capture for Ultron in Avengers: Age of Ultron and for Maz Kanata and Snoke in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The company was founded by Andy Serkis, Caesar in Planet of the Apes, who is reportedly executive producing Last Frontier.
Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier is set to release later this fall for PC, Xbox One, and PS4.
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Since the excellent Baldur’s Gate 3 has been out in the wild for a while, interesting data can be gleaned, such as how players choose to play an innovative new RPG from home. Stats from developer Larian Studios and posted on the PlayStation Blog show that most people want to play as a stealthy archer like in Skyrim when given nearly limitless options.
According to a fascinating graph, Rogue/Ranger is the most popular multiclass build, with over 175,000 players using it to snipe unsuspecting enemies from range. The next two builds reveal similarly. 150,000 played Barbarian/Fighter because they loved pummeling things, and 109,00 played Barbarian/Paladin, which lets players talk to their victims before beatings.
More sense emerges as you descend. If the Paladin/Warlock/Sorcerer/Bard has high Charisma, any combination can be interesting. Charisma helps these classes cast spells and abilities and interact with NPCs outside of combat.
Playing a single class through Baldur’s Gate 3 feels great, which is what most players do. A pure Fighter or Wizard becomes so powerful by game’s end that we don’t blame you for not mixing things up!
Play as a Tiefling Oathbreaker Paladin, Dark Urge Origin (which you must resist), or Bard for real moral dilemmas. You could also play pseudo-Aragorn again.
Techland is continuing to release Dying Light 2 content as part of its long-term support. This is surprising since the meaty Good Night, Good Luck update was released a few months ago. It’s nice to know what’s coming, but no timeline was given.
IGN-exclusive roadmap trailers reveal more co-op missions, board quests, a tower raid, and replayable GRE anomalies. Executions and finishers may be added to the April Gut Feeling update, which overhauled melee mechanics. Graphical options, weapon repair, gear, and mod dismantling are always welcome.
Knives, polearms, and more enemy variants are coming, including a Nightmare difficulty. Changes to NG+ include firearms. Players can finally dress to their hearts’ content with new cosmetic options.
Has Techland’s Dying Light 2 support lured you back? Would you rather focus on something new?
Epic Games expanded the Fortnite V-Buck “pricing alignment” after laying off almost 900 employees, citing “inflation and currency fluctuations”. Fortnite’s premium currency will rise in international markets, including the largest.
Epic Games will raise the price of V-Bucks and real money content packs in the Czech Republic, Denmark, Eurozone countries, Hungary, Japan, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Turkey, and the US (including all US Dollar storefronts) on October 27.
Raising the price of this fictitious currency was successful when the company trialed it in the UK, Canada, and Mexico, so it was decided to announce it worldwide now. These USD increases range from $1 (1000 V-Bucks, previous $7.99) to $10 (13,500 V-Bucks, previous $79.99).
How do you view Epic’s timing and pricing increase?
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