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We get a first look at upcoming card battler Total War: Elysium

Creative Assembly has revealed gameplay footage for its card-battler, Total War: Elysium. The famed developer of the Total War series announced the game last year, at the same time as a partnership with NetEase, a prominent network and game services provider in China. The partnership is part of Creative Assembly’s plan to expand into the Chinese market.

Total War: Elysium is a historical deck builder, drawing famous generals and iconic figures into card-based battle. The game takes place in Elysium, a Civ-esque city drawing together the greatest military leaders from throughout history. We’ve seen some of these generals already, including Sun Ren and Cao Cao from the Three Kingdoms period, but others we haven’t seen before. One general wears what appears to be French regency dress, and another clad in furs and armour, could potentially be Boudica. All the heroes  have individual abilities to give them a unique battle advantage.

Creative Assembly also announced a closed beta test for Elysium to go alongside the new reveal, which you can sign up for on the Total War: Elysium website. We don’t currently know when the beta will take place.

However, the trailer gives us an initial look at how the card-battler might play.

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Elysium is the first Total War game made for mobile since Total War Battles: Kingdom, a free-to-play town builder and RTS strategy game. What we’ve seen so far fits with the expectations of a deck builder, but what they do with the number and variety of generals is another matter. Could this be a Total War gacha? Who knows.

But sign up for the beta, and you’ll see for yourself. If you’re looking also for other deck builders on mobile, be sure to check out our list of the best mobile card games.

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Get a free copy of the brilliant Door Kickers: Action Squad!

Door Kickers: Action Squad is an excellent new tactical shooter that rolls back the clock to the ’80s, when Bruce Willis was the very height of cool. You play as one of six different law enforcement officers and send them out on a wide variety of challenging missions. You can take the law into your own hands, blasting away fools with a wide variety of weapons and equipment.

You can kick doors in, throw grenades and flashbangs, and fire your weapons with great abandon. You’ll have to manage recoil, cooldowns, and ensure you have enough supplies for the challenge ahead though. Action Squad is a sequel to the original Door Kickers, which took great pride in its bevvy of tactical options. While the sequel might look sillier, it shares a lot more in common with its predecessor than you’d think.

We really liked the 2D shooter, which is evident from our Door Kickers: Action Squad review. So it’s with great delight that we can announce that we’re giving away ten codes for the shooter across iOS and Android to you, our valued readers.

To get in with a chance of winning, you simply need to complete one of the two Gleam forms below, depending on the platform that you’d like your code for.

We’ll need your full name and email address so we can contact you in a week’s time if you win. We also require that you read our full terms and conditions before you enter, listed here.

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You could always just go ahead and grab Door Kickers: Action Squad right now from the App Store or Google Play.

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Mad Miramar heads up content for PUBG Mobile season 13

Tencent Games has announced a major update for PUBG Mobile. The content drop is set for May 7 and will kick off the thirteenth season of the game, introducing a variety of new features and updates. The main highlight of this will be Mad Miramar, which will add two sections to the pre-existing map, including an oasis in the north, and ruins in the north-west. There will also be more resources spawning throughout the map.

The crowning glory of the update, however, is the new rust-punk style race track which runs through the entire area, as well as a new vehicle to race on it. The golden mirado, a one-of-a-kind golden convertible, will spawn on the map, and only be available to whoever grabs it first.

Some other quality of life changes include the addition of vending machines, which will dispense painkillers and energy drinks, with the possibility of you collecting eight at a time. The other main map update is the cheer park, an area where you and your friends can kick back and relax after a match, with shooting ranges, and an outdoor BBQ.

Full update notes haven’t been released yet, but should appear in the next few days before it rolls out on May 7. You can find more details in the trailer:

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There are changes to the results screen too, which now lets you see stats such as revives, assists, distance traveled, and time survived. This, as well as a variety of weapon-based information, will be a great tool for perfecting your game.

Guns are also getting some love, with the P90 submachine gun’s  inclusion in arena mode, a new 2.7x scope for the Win97 carbine, and a new canted site for classic mode, giving you three modes of weapon fire to switch between.

All in all the changes should be a great increase to the game’s quality of life. If you want to find out more about upcoming PUBG content, check out the PUBG mobile website.

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Catalyst Black is an upcoming hero shooter by the makers of Vainglory

Super Evil Megacorp has just announced Catalyst Black, an upcoming hero shooter that features a wide variety of inspirations, including its own Vainglory. It takes the top-down gameplay of Vainglory, mixes it with the hero shooting mechanics of Overwatch, and sprinkles the loot and loadouts from Destiny 2 to create possibly the ultimate mobile game.

The closest comparison to Catalyst Black right now is Supercell’s Brawl Stars, which is a more traditional hero shooter that plays like a MOBA. Catalyst Black will massively expand on this format thanks to the sheer amount of control you can have over your playable character. You can equip primary and secondary weapons, and active and passive abilities.

You can also equip your character with a mask, which basically functions as its ultimate ability. Masks let you basically become the avatar of a god, changing your appearance and providing you with powerful new abilities whenever you activate it. There are a bunch of different masks to choose from, and you can tweak the active and passive abilities for each of them too.

It’s entirely possible to create your own playstyle using the loadout system, which is a welcome change to similar shooter Brawl Stars, where your hero choice determines how you play. You can fight from the safety of distance or get stuck right in with a shotgun. It’s entirely up to you.

In terms of modes, we don’t know anything concrete yet, but we do know that there will be a bunch of them, and they’re designed for 10-20 players to compete against each other in teams. What’s perhaps most interesting, is that you can drop in, and out, of matches at any time, allowing you to play no matter how much time you have on your hands.

We’re not sure exactly when we’ll get our hands on Catalyst Black, as it’s only in pre-alpha right now. We do know that it’s designed to be cross-platform though, and if it follows the same path as Vainglory, it will launch across iOS, Android, PC, and Mac. In its introductory trailer, Super Evil Megacorp mentioned that it will support touch, controllers, and keyboard and mouse.

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We’ll keep you posted as we learn more about Catalyst Black. If you’re intrigued, you can visit the official site, or follow the game on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

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Aquiris Game Studio lays out its 2020 roadmap for Horizon Chase – World Tour

Aquiris Game Studio has laid out its 2020 roadmap for Horizon Chase – World Tour, which includes a totally new user interface, more free-to-play content, weekly challenges, and more. If you’ve fallen out of playing the retro-inspired racer for whatever reason, now’s as good a time as ever to get back into it.

Some of the roadmap has already been fulfilled, too. If you download the game right now, you’ll find a completely redesigned UI that Aquiris describes as “for modern gadgets”. That also includes improved support for different screen ratios and a higher native resolution, so it should look a lot better overall.

There’s also a lot more free-to-play content, including three whole cups to play before you have to fork out for more. That consists of 30 tracks and seven cars to check out without spending a penny. There’s more to come as well, with May introducing a new weekly challenges feature, which is available to all. Weekly challenges bring you a new selection of tracks each week, each of which have new rules and conditions, spicing up the experience.

If you do own the premium version of Horizon Chase, you’ll receive additional challenges and rewards though, so don’t make the mistake of thinking this is all for free-to-play gamers. You’ll also find a new store, which Aquiris hasn’t announced the details of just yet. All we know is that it will provide “additional content”.

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Aquiris plans to release even more new features during 2020, and will announce these at a later date. If you’d like to give Horizon Chase – World Tour a try, you can grab it right now for free from the App Store or Google Play.

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Kingdom Two Crowns is out now on iOS, rolling out on Android

April 28, 2020 Kingdom Two Crowns is out right now on iOS, and we’ve updated this article with new information to reflect that.

The wait is over, folks. Kingdom Two Crowns is out right now on iOS, and is rolling out on Android over the course of the day. For those not in the know, it’s the sequel to Kingdom: New Lands and it expands on the original in a variety of different ways, introducing a story campaign, cooperative multiplayer, and a brand new feudal Japan setting.

If you haven’t experienced this series before, you play as a monarch who lands on the shores of a new kingdom and has to make it habitable. You begin by recruiting the locals (you literally just toss coins at them) to build, guard, hunt, and do whatever other menial task need performing. You start with literally nothing but will eventually have your very own castle, which is fully-functioning.

Your overarching goal is to fix a ship that will allow you to travel to the next island, at which point the experience starts all over again; albeit more challenging this time. But where does the challenge come from? Well, each night a variety of monstrous creatures attack your kingdom, and you have to make sure it’s well-defended. It’s a bit like a survival simulator in that sense.

Managing your budget is no small feat either. You start the game with a few coins, which you’ll quickly spend to pay the locals to build you stuff. Each time you recruit a local, build or upgrade something, or order a crafted item, you’ll spend cash. To replenish it, you need to hire hunters, invest in travelling merchants, or explore the nearby area for treasure. That is its own reward though, as the game is visually stunning in a retro kind of way.

The sequel expands on all of this by introducing a new story campaign, which challenges you to build a kingdom that stands the test of time and perhaps finishes off the monsters that plague it for good. There’s also a new cooperative mode that you can play in split screen (we’d recommend a tablet for that) or online.

There’s also a brand new setting: feudal Japan. It pretty much plays the same, but the visuals have seen a huge overhaul, with trees making way for bamboo and your buildings and characters taking on a Japanese flavour. Apparently this isn’t the only new setting we’ll get either, as Raw Fury has revealed that more are coming in future updates.

The first of these arrives today, too, in the form of Dead Lands. This expansion is a crossover with Metroidvania Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, featuring your favourite characters, which you can swap between on-the-fly, and a bunch of new mounts, which have all-new abilities. You can learn more about this expansion by reading our news article, which we’ve linked to beneath this post.

If you’re interested, you can grab Kingdom Two Crowns right now on iOS via the App Store, or keep an eye out on Google Play for when it launches in your territory. You might want to hit the pre-register button to receive a notification.

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KartRider Rush+ hit three million pre-registrations in just one week

Nexon’s upcoming multiplayer kart racer, KartRider Rush+, has hit three million pre-registrations in a single week, which is quite astounding really. The pre-registration period began on April 16, and on April 23, Nexon reported that over three million hungry mobile gamers had hit that pre-registration button already. It seems that Mario Kart Tour has some stiff competition on its hands.

You may recognise the name. That’s because KartRider is a fairly long-running series, with the first entry launching on PC back in 2004. This isn’t even the first time the series has made it to mobile, as another entry, KartRider Rush, launched on the App Store back in 2011. This is basically a bigger and better version of that.

It features a story mode, which introduces you to the various game modes. You can think of it as kind of a lengthy, and more entertaining, tutorial. In terms of modes, there’s Speed, which challenges you to go fast across a series of winding tracks, Arcade, which features sub-modes Item Race, Infini-Boost, and Lucci Runner. Rounding out the modes is Time Trial, which pits you against the clock, and Ranked, which challenges you to race through the ranks and show off your skills.

When not racing you can customise your racer with a wide variety of outfits, accessories, and karts. There’s a ton of cosmetic options, including decals and pets. You can also form a club with other players and participate in quests together, customise your own home, and participate in minigames.

KartRider Rush+ is expected to land on May 31 so there’s still time to pre-register for it if you’re interested. You’ll earn the following rewards at launch just for doing so:

  • Skelemech kart
  • Sluggar Dao character
  • 5,000 turbo crystals
  • Angel wing headgear
  • Star driftmoji
  • 1,000 Lucci coins
  • 3,000 k-coins
  • 500 Lucci

You’ll also earn bonus rewards for pre-registering via Google Play or the App Store, including:

  • Prism plate
  • Prism helmet
  • CA goggles
  • CA plate

If you’re interested, you can pre-register right now on the official site, or via Google Play or the App Store. We’ll see you at the starting line on May 31.

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Activision has announced a Call of Duty: Mobile world championship 2020 tournament

Activision has announced the Call of Duty: Mobile world championsip 2020 tournament in partnership with Sony. It opens on April 30 to all players ranked veteran or above in multiplayer, with a bunch of exclusive cosmetics and cash prizes available to those lucky few who make it to the top. There’s over $1 million in prizes in total, sponsored by Sony.

The tournament will take place over numerous different stages, the first of which is the qualifiers. These take place between April 30 and May 24, and will see players ranked at least veteran in multiplayer duke it out for in-game rewards. The battles will take place on each weekend during this period, and the absolute best will qualify for stage two.

There are four weekends in total to compete in, and you’ll earn tournament points for your first ten ranked matches each weekend. You’ll receive more points for a win at higher ranks, and your goal is to hit 80 points in one of the four weekends to qualify for stage two. Even if you don’t make it that far, there are rewards up for grabs just for earning tournament points and signing up.

To compete, you’ll need an eligible mobile device, be over 18 years old, and live in a participating region. You’ll also need to be at least veteran rank in multiplayer, as we mentioned earlier.

Looking ahead at stage two, you’ll need to form a team out of qualified players and compete together to progress to further stages. Activision is yet to announce the full details of further stages yet though, including prizes.

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You can grab Call of Duty: Mobile right now from the App Store or Google Play. If you want to compete, there’s still time to boost your rank to veteran, making you eligible.

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Raw Fury announces Kingdom Two Crowns: Dead Lands for mobile

Raw Fury has announced a big expansion for Kingdom Two Crowns that features characters from the hit Metroidvania Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. It’s called Dead Lands, and it allows you to play as a few of your favourite characters from Bloodstained on a wide variety of new mounts. This also marks a new feature for the series, which allows you to change your mount on the fly.

Each of the mounts have different abilities too, including a beetle that lays traps, an undead mount that summons barriers, and the horse Gamigin, which has a powerful charge attack. Perhaps more exciting than this is the new ability to swap between the four different monarchs available as part of this expansion: Miriam, Zangetsu, Gebel, and Alfred. Each monarch has its own unique trait, allowing you to adapt your approach on the fly like never before.

The best news is that the Dead Lands expansion will launch entirely for free, along with the mobile version of Two Crowns, on April 28. The mobile version costs $8.99 (£8.99) and includes new co-op modes, a brand new touch control scheme, and controller support.

In other Raw Fury-related news, the publisher is holding a big spring sale to celebrate the sunshine. Many of its excellent titles are available at huge reductions across the App Store and Google Play. This includes the likes of strategy great Bad North, cyberpunk point-and-click adventure Whispers of a Machine, and Metroidvania Dandara, which recently saw a big content drop itself.

The prices across the board appear to have dropped by roughly 50%, which is pretty substantial. In a disappointing move, Kingdom: New Lands hasn’t seen any discount in price, which seems a bit surprising given that the sequel, Kingdom Two Crowns, launches in just over a week on April 28. You’d think this would be a good opportunity to pick up a few new users.

You can pre-register for Kingdom Two Crowns right now on Google Play or pre-order it on the App Store. You can also check out Raw Fury’s sale on iOS or Android and grab yourself a bargain.

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Pokémon Masters will soon let you pick your partner Pokémon

You’ll soon be able to select your own partner Pokémon in Pokémon Masters, thanks to the brand new eggs feature coming soon. When it arrives, you’ll be able to select from one of three gen one monsters: Bulbasaur, Charmander, or Squirtle, at which point your chosen monster will hatch from its egg and you can form a sync pair with them.

Developer DeNA has also revealed three more eggs planned for a future date, which appear to feature Meowth, Scyther, and Tauros. Even more eggs will arrive in future updates too, so it seems like you’ll soon have a huge list of Pokémon you can partner up with.

In other news, DeNA has also revealed that the next legendary event will feature Ho-Oh, and will debut a brand new feature: the prize box. This allows you to collect prize coins by participating in the event, which will allow you to progress further in the event. This event will also see the introduction of the reward boost ticket, an item that boosts the rewards of a battle of your choosing.

DeNA has also detailed plans to make sync orbs easier to obtain by introducing the following measures:

  • You’ll no longer have a chance to get sync orbs from single-player and co-op battles
  • Sync orbs can now drop from supercourses
  • The chance of sync-orb drops from events has been increased

In short, you’ll now be able to get a fixed number of sync orbs for specific sync pairs from supercourses, and you’ll get more from events too.

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Looking forward, a legendary arena mode is coming soon, though we likely won’t hear about it until mid-May, when DeNA will provide the next message.

If you’d like to get back into Pokémon Masters, you can grab it right now on iOS or Android via the App Store and Google Play respectively.