Thursday 8-31-17
That’s not a typo in the title. Today Jackbox Party Pack 4 was announced, Bungie is offering Destiny 2 bonus content to hurricane Harvey relief supporters, Digital Extremes announces a new game, and Chucklefish reveal a new game. Find out more about all of these fascinating things below!
Jackbox Party Pack 4
Jackbox party pack 4 was announced with all 5 of its new game modes within. Fibbage 3, the next iteration of the hit lying game, includes a mode where you try to guess weird facts about your friends. Survive The Internet, a web based game where you manipulate your friends’ comments in funny ways. Monster Seeking Monster, a monster dating game. Civic Doodle, a drawing games based on town murals. and Bracketeering, a game where you gamble on stupid arguments.
You can read more about these, as well as see videos for them, at the Jackbox Games blog page found here.
Bungie gives Destiny 2 emblem with Harvey Relief effort
If you visit the Bungie store, you will find a special Bungie Foundation pin. This is a small pin of 3 hearts selling for 15 dollars. All proceeds go towards aiding in the relief effort from hurricane Harvey. Most notably is that the pin purchase will also yield a download code for a special emblem in Destiny 2 to show your contribution.
The Pin sale page can be found here.
Survived By: The Rougelike MMO by Digital Extremes
Digital Extremes is mostly known for their free to play shooter Warframe. Today they announced a new game called Survived By. A Rougelike MMO game with pixelated retro style graphics, you join hundreds of others to make your way through a bullet hell landscape full of classic dungeon monsters. There will be a closed Alpha for it later this year.
you can visit the page for it at SurvivedBy.com
Chucklefish CEO posts about upcoming game.
Tiy, the CEO and designer for chucklefish tweeted about an upcoming project dubbed “SDV” alongside a screenshot. It is later discovered to be an RPG based on the school life of witches and wizards. Given their large success with Stardew Valley, it will be interesting to see how this goes.
https://twitter.com/Tiyuri/status/903228417801256965
Lots of new things being announced, lets hope these projects pan out. Even if they don’t, I’ll be sure to write about it. Until then, I will see you tomorrow for the next news.