This week in games: KFC’s creepy VR training, Anno 1800 revealed, Brink goes free-to-play - hopkinsdics1976

KFC

Between the start of the fall release crunch and the increasing importance of Gamescom, we've had rather a news week. We already wrote about Age of Empires IV and Jurassic World Evolution, but it turns out that was just the tiniest tip of the Titanic-sinking iceberg lettuce.

Despotism shows off its upcoming expansion, Destiny 2 unveils a premature launch trailer, Battlefront II debuts its 24-player space battles, Brink goes free-to-play, Ubisoft announces Anno 1800, KFC plans to power train employees with virtual reality, and more.

This is gaming news for Honorable 21 to 25.

Sextuplet years also late

Bethesda's sci-fi taw Brink is commonly heralded as "ahead of its prison term," insofar as the parkour systems it was built along pretty much foreshadowed Titanfall a few years later. Also, "ahead of its time" is the nicest thing you can say around a game that flopped as hard as Verge did.

For some reason Bethesda dredged it up this week though, making it free-to-play through Steam. If you're looking for a 2011-era shooter to kill a weekend, Brink might be worth a look either now or in the future.

Probably the future, as Rainbow Six Military blockade is also free to run this weekend. That one's a temporary try out-earlier-you-buy typewrite of office, so definitely put approximately time into it if you haven't tried IT yet—it's one of the best competing shooters of the late few years.

Fantasize cosh

The standalone version of Gwent has been pseudo-accessible for a patc now, volute through few alpha and beta periods. I've played it. Maybe you've played it.

But the game's singleplayer hunting expedition has been kept tightly under wraps almost since its announcement, and that's the role of the game I'm most interested in. Competitive card game? Nah. Cards with Witcher 3 level writing? Definitely more of a hook.

The good intelligence? IT's apparently emotional before the end of the year, and there's a new teaser.

That bastard

Monocracy, Obsidian's "You play as the scoundrel" CRPG from closing year, was a trifle of a disappointment happening the gross revenue front. Victim of bad timing? Bad selling? Who knows, merely Obsidian and Paradox aren't rental it give out just yet. This workweek Obsidian showed off the first expansion, subtitled Bastard's Wound, which releases September 7. Hopefully it adds a straightlaced close aft the unusual cliffhanger of the important bet on.

Back to the old

Ubisoft's last Anno game took us to the far-flung future of 2205—global warming, arctic husbandry, and moon colonies. Directly IT's back to account, with this week's announcement of Anno 1800. It centers around the Victorian Era, as you might've surmised from the date, so expect lots of coal, smoke, and press. It's a ways out though, not scheduled to release until the end of 2018.

El presidente

Gamescom is the place to show sour everyone's favorite Microcomputer scheme games apparently. In gain to Anno, there's a new Tropico 6 trailer showing off a very come out-of-place Statue of Liberty, customizable palaces, and Thomas More.

Et tu?

I want to be sceptical of Assassin's Creed Origins ($60 on Amazon) but Julius Caesar? Cleopatra? Prizefighter fights? Roman type legions? Triremes? Damn.

Premature launch

Destiny 2 ($60 happening Amazon) doesn't arrive on Personal computer for another deuce months and the console versions are still weeks away, but I guess this is the Destiny 2 set in motion trailer? …Okay. Anyway, the PC of import runs next week, and we've already gone hands-connected with Fortune 2.

WWII

Also arriving along PC someday soon? A Call of Tariff: WWII ($60 on Amazon) beta. Nobody knows when, though. A PS4 beta runs next week, and then another Xbox One and PS4 beta period the workweek after, but the only word on a PC genus Beta is that it's "coming." Okay. (Via VG 24/7)

Spaaaace

Back at E3 I said Virtuoso Wars Battlefront II ($60 on Amazon) looked like the Battlefront we should've gotten in 2015, and for one reason in particular: Space battles. Now we've got our initial glimpse of what those battles wish look like, with a trailer for the game's 24-individual Starfighter Assault mode. And uh…Darth Maul chilling in a cockpit somehow.

Mass-ive letdown

No surprise here, but looks like Aggregated Effect Andromeda ($40 on Amazon) is officially dead. EA announced this workweek that it's ending all singleplayer financial support. No longer patches, atomic number 102 DLC, goose egg. The Mass Effect series? Still could come back someday. Simply don't hold your breathing spell.

A-Mei-zing

If you ever welcome to meet Overwatch's Mei thrown into a The Martian dash skin for survival, then information technology's time for you to look out Snowstorm's latest short film. These things are all but better than the game itself at this target.

And sticking with Overwatch for a sec, Rash also unveiled a sunrise map this week. Called "Junkertown," it's (patently) focused on Junkrat's home of Australia. There's also another fun animated short that serves as background.

Full throttle

I'm ambivalent about Need for Speed Payback ($60 on Amazon) at the moment, but there aren't any past arcade racers releasing this year and…well, at to the lowest degree it's pretty. This new 4K 60 frames per second picture from Nvidia shows off that fact with panache.

Greener subsequent

Cities: Skylines wants your green for greener options—which is to say, they want your hard-earned dollars and in return you'll receive more make clean vigour options, electric vehicles, eco-friendly buildings, and more for the best city-detergent builder going. Unveiled at Gamescom this calendar week, the "Green Cities" expanding upon is expected to release ahead the end of the year.

The virtually banal holodeck

Virtual world has so much potential. We could train better surgeons! We could recreate historical events for modern generations! We could allow multitude to experience the impossible! We could teach people to make fried chicken!

So yea, I guess KFC is maybe (unless it's just an elaborate merchandising campaign) going to caravan employees to make fried volaille by having them bound into VR. First reported by Eater, PC Gamer then did some digging and even ended up with the television embedded below. I'm half impressed, fractional horror-stricken, and dead wondering when Taco Bell will teach me how to make a proper Crunchwrap™ at home.

And the formal house trailer is scarcelysupernatural.

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Hayden writes about games for PCWorld and doubles as the occupier Zork enthusiast.

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