Month: November 2020

Gears of War mobile spin-off Gears Pop!, the multiplayer PvP battle arena-style game, will be shutting down on April 26, 2021.

Gears Pop!, which was developed by Fall Guys developer Mediatonic, will be closing down because of “a number of things that go into maintaining a game beyond keeping servers active. Addressing issues, developing content, and providing support are critical in keeping a game running. Unfortunately, this is no longer feasible.”

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While the game is still running, Gears Pop! will see some of its most popular events return, Bounty rewards will be increased, and the drop rates for Legendary Pins will be increased. It was also mentioned that all in-app purchasing has been disabled, effective immediately.

Refunds will be issued automatically for all those purchases made 90 days prior to October 28, 2020. These may take a few weeks to be processed.

Gears Pop! Was revealed during Microsoft’s E3 2018 press conference and surprised the gaming world with a game that mashed together Gears of War with Funko Pops. It released on mobile devices on August 22, 2019.

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For those looking for happier Gears of War news following this unfortunate announcement, The Coalition revealed that Gears 5’s Xbox Series X/S update will bring with it a New Game+, the option to put a Dave Bautista skin on Marcus Fenix during the campaign with a new voice over, multilayer updates, visual upgrades, and even brand new story DLC later this year.

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Everspace 2’s Early Access release has been delayed due to Cyberpunk 2077 moving its date to December 10, 2020.

Everspace 2 follows Path of Exile’s 3.13 end-game expansion’s delay to January 2021 and, as Rockfish Games said in a Kickstarter update to Everspace 2 backers, this was a “major blow” to the studio.

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“Let’s get the cyber elephant out of the room right away: The Cyberpunk 2077 release has just been pushed back to December 10, which is a major blow to our planned EVERSPACE 2 Early Access release in mid-December,” Rockfish Games said. “Not only will every media outlet and content creator cover the arguably most-anticipated AAA game in history throughout the entire holiday season (and not much else), we also know that there’s quite a bit of audience overlap within our community (and our team), so… After a quick consultation with our marketing friends at Evolve PR, Plan Of Attack, and Swordfish PR, we’ve decided to push back the EVERSPACE 2 Early Access release to January. We know that sucks, but hear us out! There’s actually some good in this.”

The good news is that any Kickstarter backer that doesn’t have access to the Closed Beta will receive a pre-release key on November 2, 2020. This will allow any who pledged for a digital copy to be able to experience the first “10ish hours of what we have planned for Early Access.” There is no time constraint, and the Closed Beta can be played as many times as desired.

Everspace 2 was announced at Gamescom 2019’s Opening Night Live for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC and is a fast-paced single-player space shooter with deep explorations, tons of loot, and classic RPG elements.

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