Wednesday! And a busy one at that. Here’s the news.
- Harry Potter has you Pay Money to Stop Strangling Children
- The Battle Royale Board Game
- Dark Souls Remaster Beta Test
Strangling Children
Sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it? Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery is a recently released mobile game based on the magical worlds by J.K. Rowling. The problem is that the game utilizes some (pretty awful) mobile game monetization tropes. Nearly everything requires energy, to regain energy, you have to either wait a period of time or pay real life money. When your character faces real danger for the first time, you’re also scripted to run out of energy. This is only made worse by the fact that this danger is you being strangled by living vines. So now you’re forced to either wait 30 minutes while your child avatar chokes out, or pay money to proceed. Considering this is a kids game, that’s kind of messed up.
Battle Royale Board Game
An interesting board game has appeared on Kickstarter recently, and it looks oddly familiar. Last One Standing: The Battle Royale Board Game has two to eight players dropping down onto a map, collecting gear and weapons, and fighting each other until only one remains. The Kickstarter is asking for about $18,700, which I expect they’ll hit soon enough.
Dark Souls Beta
Bandai Namco has announced a network test for Dark Souls: Remastered, due to take place on PS4 and Xbox One later this month. From now until May 8, users can download the test client, and on May 11 and 12, from 6 pm to midnight each day, players can play the undead parish sections of the game. Have fun, chosen undead.
That’s all for today. Check back tomorrow for more news and such. Get ready for Mass Effect on this Friday’s episode of The Cozy Co-op Podcast! Otherwise, have a great night!