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Netflix Tests Its Gaming Service With Soft-Launch of Two ‘Stranger Things’ Mobile Titles

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It was only a matter of time before Netflix took the next step into gaming (after hiring Oculus’ Content VP last month), and to no one’s surprise, Stranger Things is part of that next step. According to Variety, Netflix has done a soft launch in Poland of two Stranger Things games for Android.

The first game is actually a port of BonusXP’s Stranger Things 3: The Game, which is a companion game to the third season, and can be found on Steam. The second game is Stranger Things: 1984, which is a stylized, retro action adventure game that harkens back to 80s arcade games. Players must solve puzzles while collecting Eggo Waffles and gnomes along the way.

In regards to the Netflix’s video games plan, the service states that none of its games will have ads or in-app purchases, and the titles will be included with a Netflix streaming plan. For the Netflix Android app, available game titles will show up under a new menu that says “Play Mobile Games”, which will connect users to the Google Play store to download them.

Currently, Behaviour Interactive is having a blow-out sale for the Dead by Daylight Stranger Things DLC, which will be leaving Steam in November. The fourth season of Stranger Things is expected in 2022.

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“Blood in the Water” Update Brings New Content and Difficulty Settings to ‘Barotrauma’

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FakeFish and Undertow Games have given veteran Barotrauma players a run for their money with the new “Blood in the Water” update. Available now, the update brings with it a new difficulty settings, alongside new content and customization options for the underwater co-op title.

For starters, Blood in the Water adds two new monsters to Barotrauma—the Viperling and a new Spineling variant—which employ poison attacks. Not only that, but the devs have brought back the cave-dwelling Mantis, a monster that used to exist in early Barotrauma builds. Existing monsters have also been tweaked, with Abyss monsters now better at targeting characters inside the submarine for added danger.

New campaign difficulty settings have also been added, with the ability to adjust the campaign difficulty to your liking using one of four presets, or by fine-tuning various parameters yourself. There have also been improvements to the respawning system in multiplayer, which involves the removal of the Reaper’s Tax and replacing it with customizable respawning skill loss penalty. New wrecks and beacon stations have also been added, as well as a new kind of wreck mission.

Other changes with the update include a rebalancing of the diving suits for clearer use cases, as well as reducing the flooding speed to give players more time to react during a hull breach. This is in addition to the various other tweaks to animations and station events.

Barotrauma is available now in full after exiting from Early Access last year.

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