Not content to simply continue building on the free-to-play multiplayer shooter Warface, Crytek has a new “games-as-a-service” offering to share for PC and unspecified console, and it’s one that has a decidedly unique setting. Hunt: Horrors of the Gilded Age is a third-person action in game in which up to four players work together to take on a range of creatures. The game features a late-1800s setting in which beasts of myth and folkore actually exist.
The announcement notes that the game randomly generates content to ensure that the location of each hunt and the creatures being hunted are always changing. In addition to standard-fare beasts of various shapes and sizes, the hunters will also face off against an assortment of bosses that require proper teamwork.
“In Hunt: Horrors of the Gilded Age, players will be counting their bullets and crying out for help as they delve deeper into the shadowy world we’ve created,” Crytek USA CEO David Adams said in a statement. “From the outset of the development process, we’ve poured our imaginations into the game so that everyone who plays Hunt will discover a challenging experience that feels fresh, captivating and rich in possibilities.”
The game will be on display at E3 next week, and Crytek is expecting to launch a closed beta for the game “later this year.” The press release makes no mention of costs attached to the final release, but the “games-as-a-service” tag suggests that the company will be taking some flavor of free-to-play approach.
Check out the reveal trailer below.
Acer’s Predator Atlas 8 finally has a US release date and price, several months after the company first showed off the handheld in May. The highlight is the Intel Arc G3 Extreme chip inside, which has been adopted by only a couple of other consoles besides the Atlas 8. This version will go on sale exclusively at Best Buy on November 1 for $1,299.99.
Acer originally said the Atlas 8 would arrive in North America in October, but left pricing open at the time. The launch came amid the ongoing DRAM crunch, which has made memory more expensive across the PC industry and complicated pricing for hardware makers.
Gaming laptops and I have a complicated relationship. One of my first gaming rigs was an Acer Predator that was already outdated when I bought it. I was a broke college kid, and that was the best I could afford. So trying out high-end gaming laptops is always fun. But ASUS' ROG Zephyrus G14 is a lot more than a laptop that can run AAA games. It is portable, so you're not lugging around a 2.5kg machine everywhere you go. It is built well, none of that plastic chassis, and can even function as a normal laptop outside of just gaming.
Google Play is borrowing one of the Nintendo Switch’s most useful little tricks. A new Sidekick tool called Playbacks captures a short clip after something interesting has already happened, sparing players from running a screen recorder throughout an entire game.
Playbacks is part of Google Play Store v53.8 and keeps saved clips on the phone. Google first announced it earlier this month, but the new Play Store update marks its arrival for players. Anyone who has watched a perfect win vanish because the record button came too late already understands the appeal.