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StoneAge World launches globally on Android and iOS

The wait to play Netmarble’s anticipated MMORPG is finally over. StoneAge World, the caveman pet simulator, is out now on Android and iOS, with over 250 different animals and prehistoric beasties to befriend and tame. The launch also covers 172 countries, so no matter where you are, it’s pretty likely you can play.

For those that don’t know, StoneAge World casts you in the role of a trainer, a warrior who must protect the wild, prehistoric land of Tectonika using trained animals. You’ll have to collect and tame these beasts, from woolly mammoths to dinosaurs, which you can ride around, and use in turn-based combat against the invading threat of the machine civilisation. The combination of pet simulator and RPG is part of what makes the game unique:

“StoneAge World is a new blend of mobile game that combines pet-centric collection, which appeals to players of diverse generations, with a visually pleasing aesthetic that differentiates itself from other mobile MMORPGs,” explains Netmarble executive producer Joon Sung Chang. “We are thrilled to finally bring this game to the West and mobile players around the world.”

There is a trailer for the game on YouTube, as well as these fun little videos crafting creatures from the game in clay-art while talking about them:

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Netmarble is also celebrating the game’s launch with a variety of events and in-game rewards that we’ve listed below:

  • Catch Operation Event: (June 18 – July 2) Players can collect stamps from daily missions, with rewards obtained according to the accumulated number of stamps
  • Power Reward Event: Rewards will be earned when the player’s ‘Lineup Power’ level is reached as they strengthen Trainers and Pets
  • Level Reward Event: As players reach up from level 10 to 90, the greater rewards such as Stone, Shell, and Trainer’s Rope will be given to players
  • Moga Growth Event: (June 18 – July 1) Grow the Moga and earn diverse growth-related rewards
  • 15-day Check-in Reward Event: When players log into StoneAge World, they will receive gifts each time they check-in

Mo’ reading: the best mobile MMORPGs you can download

So if you fancy wrangling some pre-historic beasties, and getting in on the action you download StoneAge World on Google Play and the App Store.

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Get free goodies in Ailment prequel Endurance, out this week

The talented developer behind 2019’s pixel art shooter Ailment, Ivan Panasenko, is back with an explosive new prequel, Endurance, which just launched this week on iOS and Android. This action-packed adventure takes place before the events of the first game, and challenges you to explore the eponymous laboratory spaceship Endurance to figure out where a deadly virus originated.

You see, this virus had the unfortunate side effect of making the ship’s crew go insane. So it’s up to you to fight your way through the insane hordes to figure out what happened and rescue any surviving crew members along the way.

There are multiple different characters to choose from, and you can upgrade all of them with new weapons and abilities as you progress. That will come in handy; particularly against one of the game’s many bosses. The action takes place from a top-down perspective over the course of a ton of different levels, with humour and combat in abundance. If you liked Ailment, suffice to say that you’ll basically love Endurance.

To celebrate this week’s launch, we’ve teamed up with Panasenko himself to bring 30 lucky Pocket Tactics readers a bunch of free in-game goodies for Endurance, and you simply fill in one of the Gleam forms below, though please pay careful attention to the platform details above each form.

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We’ve got 15 iOS and 15 Android codes up for grabs. We 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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In the meantime, why not check out Endurance, which is out right now on iOS and Android via the App Store or Google Play respectively.

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People are being arrested over selling hacks for China’s version of PUBG Mobile

Twelve people have gotten themselves into hot water with police in China over allegedly selling hacks for the Chinese version of PUBG Mobile. As translated and reported by Abacus, the group used Bitcoin to purchase the cheats from “overseas personnel” before going on to sell them to Peacekeeper Elite players. Kunshan police say the business is worth up to $15 million, which makes me question what I’m doing with my life.

The hacks themselves are relatively standard. The cheats give players the ability to see people through walls and hit as many headshots as they please through the use of an aimbot, which is particularly brutal given it’s a mobile FPS game. The punishment is currently unclear if the group is found guilty, but people have been fined for similar offences. As Abacus further points out, two men were given a one-year prison sentence and a $2,833 fine for creating Honor of Kings hacks.

If you’re unaware, Peacekeeper Elite is Tencent’s Chinese version of PUBG Mobile. Despite initially being available in China, the battle royale game was modified and re-released under a different name to satisfy China’s censorship restrictions. Peacekeeper still looks just like PUBG Mobile, from character models to general graphic texts. In this version, though, there is no blood or gore, and words like ‘kill’ are swapped to non-violent alternatives like ‘defeat’.

It appears that PUBG Mobile hacks aren’t just limited to China, however. A glance at the game’s unofficial Subreddit page reveals several complaints from players in the last few hours alone. There’s even a specific post flare designed to report accounts of cheating.

5th time today getting killed by a cheater 🤦🏽‍♂️ so annoying from PUBGMobile

We’ve reached out for more information and will update this story if we hear back. In the meantime, though, you can check out our PUBG Mobile update guide for more up-to-date information on what’s going on. We even have a guide on the best multiplayer mobile games if you fancy something different.

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NetEase has an Eve Online-like strategy game in closed beta

It’s certainly a good time to be into mobile strategy games set in space. NetEase has joined in the fun with Infinite Lagrange, an Eve Online-like strategy game that has landed in closed beta. If you want to get involved, you’ll need to have an Android phone handy and be in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the Philippines. The test will last between two to three weeks, and once the server closes all the game data will be deleted.

Infinite Lagrange puts you at the head of a galactic fleet and lets you travel through uncharted space. You’ll use stargates to hop from area-to-area, coming across lost cities and alien fleets from friends and foes alike. You’ll start off with three to five ships, but once you construct a space port and upgrade your tech’ you’ll be able to get more. You’ll be able to design a plethora of different ships for your varying needs, from constructing frigates for cargo to forging battlecruisers to defend yourself.

It looks like there will be plenty of different fights you’ll find yourself in, too. When not picking scraps with other players, you’ll be able to join forces with many more to take on massive space cities. NetEase even goes as far as to say fights like these will involve hundreds of players.

If you’d like to get involved, follow this link to the Google Play store. Keep in mind, though, you’ll need to be in the United States, Canada, Australia, or the Philippines for it to work. I tried it and ended up on the game’s Facebook page – woe is me.

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If you’re feeling stranded as an iPhone user, you can always head over to our best iOS games list for a couple of strategy recommendations like Iron Marines or The Battle of Polytopia.

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Tales of Crestoria’s release date has been delayed

June 5, 2020 Tales of Crestoria has been delayed to allow the team to make final adjustments.

You’ll have to wait a little bit longer to get your hands on Tales of Crestoria. Developer Bandai Namco took to Twitter to update fans that it would need a bit more time to get the RPG ready for launch. A new Tales of Crestoria release date hasn’t been given just yet.

“We are currently making the final adjustments, and fixing any issues found during the beta test,” Tagawa explains. “This is taking longer than we initially predicted. Development has continued with the release date of early June in mind, but we still need more time. We are deeply sorry to have to share this news, especially after the last update on the release date.”

If you haven’t heard of Tales of Crestoria, it’s a mobile-exclusive entry in the long-running JRPG series. It tells the story of Kanata, a criminal striving to atone for his wrongdoings. Cue an adventure across a brand new world full of original characters to meet, alongside your favourite heroes from previous entries. That includes Cress, Luke, Velvet, and more. It wouldn’t be a Tales gacha RPG without the ability to create your dream team.

What doesn’t make the transition is the traditional Tales battle system, which has been swapped out in favour of turn-based combat. There are plenty of flashy special effects though, as well as trademark Tales skills and mystic arts, which allow you to dish out insane damage numbers.

There are also plenty of skits, which are a recurring feature in the series. This time around they take the form of face chat conversations though. There are also additional character episodes to play through, which allow you to learn more about their individual backstories.

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If you haven’t already, you can still pre-register for it right now on the App Store or Google Play. You can also venture over to the official site to learn more.

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Gwent’s next expansion is coming out this month

There’s some good news if you’re looking to freshen up your Gwent deck with some new cards. CD Projekt Red has revealed that the game is getting another free expansion for iOS and Android. The Gwent Master Mirror release date is set for June 30, 2020, so there’s not long to wait at all.

The new Gwent expansion adds more than 70 new cards that are themed around Witcher 3 baddie Gaunter O’Dimm and his role in the events of the Continent’s history. In amongst these new cards, you can find faction-specific ones and a new Legendary card type that evolves in both appearance and power as your fight rumbles on. You’ll also find 11 neutral cards that can be used in any of Gwent’s factions. If that’s not enough, the Master Mirror update also introduces new statuses and abilities. So there’s plenty of new tools for strategising.

While the Gwent Master Mirror release date is a wee bit away, pre-order offers have already been added to the Gwent store in-game. If you check out these offers, you’ll find packs that will grant you new cards from the expansion when it comes out, alongside a unique Gaunter O’Dimm leader skin. There’s also a Master Mirror-inspired cardback and title in certain packs that are ready to equip in-game after you get ’em.

In case you’ve been out of the loop, Gwent is a turn-based card game that was initially playable in The Witcher 3 before it got a standalone release on iOS and then Android. Each game is played between two people and lasts three rounds. Each deck has at least 25 cards and comes from a different faction that affects your playstyle. You can check out Sean’s Gwent review for more of our thoughts.

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If you’re looking for a deck builder to keep you busy while you wait, then you may find something in our best mobile card games list. Alternatively, you can read our Gwent guide if you really want to study up and be ready for your opponent.

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A new Legends of Runeterra character concept is being created in a ‘Draw with Riot’ art stream

Riot Games has announced the first ‘Draw with Riot’ art stream is running tonight, creating a new character concept for Legends of Runeterra. The stream follows Runeterra’s principal concept artist, Chris Campbell, as he draws the character live. We’re extremely excited to see the new concept, since Legends of Runeterra’s art is out of this world gorgeous. But we’re also excited because in the notes for Patch 1.2, which dropped a little while back, it was hinted that this livestream might also give us info about future content coming to Legends of Runeterra.

Could this livestream also reveal the concept for the next expansion pack? Or will it reveal a solo character coming to the game? We have absolutely no idea, but the best way of finding out is by settling down to watch the livestream.

For those that don’t know, Riot Games’ card battler, Legends of Runeterra recently came to mobile, launching at the same time as the expansion pack, Rising Tides. It’s wowed a lot of people, especially us – read our Legends of Runeterra review if you want to know why!

Riot also revealed a new roadmap for Legends of Runeterra today, introducing three new game modes: Labs, Gauntlets, and Events. The video also reveals that Runeterra will get a new region expansion every six months, and new cards every two. Full details can be seen below:

It sounds as if ‘Draw with Riot’ is going to be a regular feature from now on, and these streams are a really great way of learning more about how the game’s concept art is created. But since Runeterra’s art is so beautiful, you really won’t hear us complaining.

If you want to catch the stream, it’s just started, and is happening over on Riot Games’ Twitch channel as we speak. For those reading this later, as with most streams, the video will be available for you to watch after the fact.

You can download Legends of Runeterra on Google Play and the App Store, and if you want some help getting started, be sure to check out our Legends of Runeterra tier list and our Legends of Runterra decks guide.

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You could be a beta tester for Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower

Perchang has announced that it is on the lookout for beta testers for the upcoming strategy game, Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower. Based on the popular Games Workshop board game of the same name, Silver Tower doesn’t take place in the classic Warhammer Fantasy setting, but instead uses the Mortal Realms of Age of Sigmar. In a similar vein to other Warhammer games like Vermintide or Chaosbane, Silver Tower revolves around a band of heroes from a variety of different races who make their home in the world.

Each of these heroes has a particular combat focus, so it’s safe to say that the Fyreslayer – the axe wielding Dwarf we see in the trailer – is a melee blender, whereas the armoured and shielded Stormcast will more likely trend towards tankiness.

The campaign sees you and your heroes face off against monsters from throughout the realms, as the Gaunt Summoner – who we guess is that guy with all the eyes – challenges you to a number of trials. Silver Tower will launch with over 100 stages to play, so you’ll have no problem finding foes to crush.

Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower has ten upgradable heroes, but we’re really excited to see how a Warhammer game using Age of Sigmar as a setting might change up the usual Warhammer hero roster of elf, human, wizard, and dwarf.

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Alongside the trials set by that Tzeentch-y looking dude with the eyes, there are challenges and trials to complete, and even full-on solo trials for those of you who actually want to punish yourselves – hey, who are we to judge?

If that all sounds good, you can register interest for the beta by popping an email over to [email protected] A member of the team will then get back to you providing beta details, then fingers crossed, you’ll be a Sigmarine stomping on daemon spawn in no time. Praise the emper- I mean Sigmar.

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NetEase announces RPG Harry Potter: Magic Awakened during its 520 conference

Netease has just announced Harry Potter: Magic Awakened during its 520 conference, happening today. It’s an upcoming RPG currently in development at Portkey Games, that sees you play as a brand new student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. You get sorted into a house by that dusty old hat, study in various different classes, and head off on adventures with your classmates.

Thought we can’t confirm right now, it appears that multiplayer plays a big part. We witnessed what appears to be other players wandering around your house dorm, and the few battle sequences, which take place during adventures, involve working with your friends (and, presumably, strangers) to battle off a wide variety of fantastic creatures.

You do so by playing cards, which represent various different spells, onto the battlefield. It’s kind of like Clash Royale in that respect. It also appears that there are a wide variety of spells to unlock, and you can check the details of any spells in your arsenal at any point by rifling through your spellbook.

When not studying or making a general nuisance of yourself, you can wander around popular wizarding world locations. We got a good look at Hogwarts, naturally, as well as the Forbidden Forest and Diagon Alley.

Harry Potter: Magic Awakened enters open beta on May 29 across iOS and Android, though only for users in China. There is no word about a western release yet, but given the sheer amount of spoken and written English on display in the trailer, we’d be very surprised if this didn’t launch across the world.

We’ll keep you posted as we learn more. In the meantime, go ahead and check out the official site to grab as much information as you can.

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League of Legends: Wild Rift launches an Alpha test in Brazil and the Philippines next month

Riot Games has announced that the mobile version of the crazy-popular MOBA, League of Legends, will enter alpha testing in Brazil and the Philippines next month. Though we don’t know exactly when, this is the first of many League of Legends: Wild Rift tests in select regions, with the aim of launching by the end of the year. We don’t know a whole lot about Wild Rift yet, but we do know from developer diaries that the game will focus on streamlining the classic League experience for mobile, while also tweaking the control systems, and how champions operate.

This news comes after last month’s error on the Google Play store, where the option became available to click the install button for League of Legends: Wild Rift. There was, of course, no game to install, but it came to light that the confusion was caused by the developer accidentally allowing players to join an early access test which didn’t exist yet.

Alongside the Alpha news, we also got a few more details about game’s requirements: it supports devices with 1.5GB RAM and 32 bit Android processors, and for iOS, it’s iPhone 6 and up.

It also looks like all of your favourite champions will feature in the mobile version:

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Wild Rift aims to revitalise the classic League experience, while bringing the game to an even wider audience on mobile. As the League devs commented:

“We’re aiming to make the game available to as many devices as we can while not compromising on Wild Rift’s core gameplay.”

League on mobile sounds pretty great to us, and if you agree, you can pre-register for Android on Google Play. You can also keep appraised of any updates on the Wild Rift website, or here on Pocket Tactics. We’re your friendly neighborhood mobile journalists.