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Hi, very excited today because we had the privilege of getting a special ARMS training session with the Mr. Yabuki! Mr. Yabuki is the producer of ARMS but you may remember him from the incredible exhibition match during the ARMS tournament at E3 last week. We got the chance to learn some tips and tricks and then we put them to the test with an ARMS rematch. Have you been playing the game? What’s your favorite character and ARM combination? Let us know in the comment section below. As always, thanks so much for watching and we’ll see you next week!
You can buy ARMS for Nintendo Switch now! Best price is Amazon, click the link below (opens in a new window)
To celebrate the launch, players can take advantage of a special promotion for the next month with a 20% discount for PlayStation®Plus subscribers and a 5% discount** for all players.
Created for VR by developer TiGames using Unreal Engine 4, Ancient Amuletor is a pick-up-and-play action tower defense game that throws players into the ancient world to battle challenging waves of magical creatures, monsters and more. From Egypt to Rome and beyond, Ancient Amuletor’s larger-than-life characters and environments are brought to life with beautiful color and comic-inspired art design.
Fight against the forces of legend alone in single-player, or team up with up to two friends in online cooperative play. There are four powerful heroes to choose from, including the gunner, puppeteer, archer and mage, each offering its own unique play style.
A free single-player demo featuring the rapid-fire archer and spell-wielding mage is available now: store.playstation.com
Game Summary:
The apocalypse is over and only Heavy Metal Machines remains. Welcome to a world of vehicular madness, mayhem and relentless destruction where you will put survival of the fittest to the test. You must decimate your enemies just to get by.
Grab the bomb, plant it at the enemy base, and try not to get pulverized in the process. This shall be your mission should you choose to accept it. Deliver the bomb and don’t let anyone or anything get in your way.
Don't take on the madness alone! Experience the insantity of Heavy Metal Machines with all of your friends!
Review: By Jon Donnis
As someone who is more of a console gamer, I was happy to see a great looking arcade style game come to the PC. So first thing I did was find out my wired Xbox controller, and plugged it into my laptop. None of this keyboard control nonsense for me!
Also worth noting that both Xbox 360 and Xbox One wired controllers will work with this game. And the experience is much better, even if it will take you a few moments to get used to the controls, for example on pretty much all driving games you have the classic RT = Accelerate and LT = Brake system, here you push in the direction you want to move, and the LT and RT buttons have other jobs. You can probably remap the controls if you go into settings though.
Controls aside, the game is pretty simple, you drive a little vehicle about equipped with rockets and weapons, you try to gain control of a bomb, and you plant it in your enemies area. This is very much an online game, and you play with and against other players around the world. I did not notice any lag, and the game played along perfectly, although you have to put up with those annoying waits in the lobby as other players click the "ready" button, but that is very much the norm these days.
This game is an easy to pick up, arcade game that you will find will waste many an hour, and as the game gets updates etc it can only improve, I have already published news of tournaments and competitions the makers have introduced, so there really are some great incentives to play.
A good fun game, easy to pick up. Decent graphics and sound, and fun easy game play.
Florianópolis BRAZIL, June, 2017 – Hoplon, the developers behind the upcoming car-combat MOBA Heavy Metal Machines, today unleashed a slew of new upgrades derived from a combination of developer tweaks and community feedback, which vastly improve the frenetic, yet nuanced nature of the gameplay.
Foremost amongst these improvements is how players interact with the Bomb, all of which you can check out in the following video links:
Gameplay video:
Dev Diary video:
Other enhancements being rolled out, which look set to propel Heavy Metal Machines into the realms of competitive esports, are as follows:
European Competition
Hoplon will be offering in excess of €10,000 for the first ever European Heavy Metal Machines Esports competition, which will take place later this summer (full details to come in the near future). Registration opens on 1st July.
New Community Feature - Teams
Now it's possible to run with your crew with the Teams feature
Team: Group created with a defined name, tag and icon picture. You can create and check your team's info by clicking on a flag in the game main screen.
Team Leader: Invite Steam's friends to join it, remove players and pass the leadership.
Joining the Team: You could only join the team if you received the leader's invitation.
Teams can have up to 5 members.
New Game mode - Custom Match
It's now possible to create an all-customised match! Just click on Custom Match in the game main screen and become the room's creator to play with your friends
Creator's skills: move a player to the other team, ban, close lobby, start a match and send Access Codes.
Access Code: the creator can copy and send the Access Code to any player he wants to invite to play along. Players can use the Access Code to play a Custom Match.
To find out more about the exciting world of Hoplon’s Heavy Metal Machines, please follow them on Twitter and Facebook or visit http://www.heavymetalmachines.com/site/
Founded in 2000, Hoplon is one of the leading game developers, with a team of over 70 highly skilled professionals. Located in Florianopolis and a part of the technological centre in Southern Brazil, Hoplon is responsible for pioneering projects in Brazil and strengthening the Brazilian gaming industry through such titles as Heavy Metal Machines, Apocalypse: The Party’s Over or Taikodom. Steam is a registered trademark of Valve Corporation.
