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‘Hunt: Showdown’ Celebrates Sixth Anniversary With Twitch Drops; Gen 9 Upgrade Coming Soon

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It’s hard to believe that it’s been six years since Crytek unleashed their PvPvE FPS Hunt: Showdown onto the masses. Well, just in case you need reminding, Crytek is in celebration mode for the game’s sixth anniversary, celebrating with Twitch Drops that offer an array of rewards, including some much-requested Legendary Hunters from previous Drops.

In a new press release, Crytek also recaps the recent big events for Hunt: Showdown. Going into its sixth year, the game broke its concurrent user (or CCU) record with the addition of the monstrous alligator Rotjaw during the Tide of Shadows Event. To date, millions of players have hunted in the bayou. The year’s trilogy of Events came with three new Wildcard Conditions: Thundershower, Ash Bloom, and Dark Inferno, each pushing Hunters to change up their tactics as they fought through heavy rain, blankets of ashen fog, and walls of raging flames.

“After continuing to break its own CCU records, Hunt has had an incredible year,” says David Fifield, General Manager of Hunt: Showdown. “We introduced our first Wild Target and multiple new Wildcard Conditions, and we continued to push the boundaries with exciting gameplay elements via new Pact Traits and weapons. We look very forward to the future and what it has in store for our community—we’ve got a new Map biome on the way, as well as the much-anticipated Gen 9 upgrade.”

As mentioned, to celebrate the anniversary, players will be able to get their hands on an array of rewards between February 23rd and March 1st, including one Legendary Hunter from previous Twitch Drops
campaigns like Lulu, Kill Buyer, Umpire’s Bane, and more. It’ll even be possible to get the ultra-rare Legendary Hunter Bad Hand, who was previously only available through the luck-of-the-draw Dark Tribute feature in-game.

Here’s how you go about doing that:

Schedule and Rewards:

February 23rd – February 25th:

Players can watch any participating Hunt: Showdown “Night of the Hunter” Partner to receive the following:

  • Watch for 60 minutes to get 1 x Supply Crate. Up to three Crates can be unlocked on these dates, with the others available for unlock between February 26th and March 1st.
  • Watch for 210 minutes to unlock the Winfield M1876 Centennial Skin “Swallow’s Tail.”

February 26th – March 1st:

Players can watch any participating Hunt: Showdown streamer to receive the following:

  • Watch for 60 minutes to get 1 x Supply Crate. Up to two Crates can be unlocked by watching during these dates.
  • Watch for 120 minutes to unlock the Charm “Molted Curio.”
  • Watch for 240 minutes to permanently unlock 1 x random Legendary Hunter.

You can find out more about how to participate in the Twitch Drops event and connect your accounts by visiting the dedicated Hunt: Showdown Twitch Drops site. A list of partners is available on the dedicated page.

Hunt: Showdown is currently available on PC via Steam, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and the Xbox Series.

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Endless Mode Available Now in New Update for ‘Life Eater’

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Fans of Strange Scaffold and publisher Frosty Pop’s apocalyptic Life Eater have another reason to keep coming back to the game, as the much-anticipated Endless Mode is available now. Best of all, it’s a free update!

The new endless mode gives Life Eater players an arena to determine how long they can evade capture while delaying the end of the world. Collect score points called ZEAL by building an airtight procedure around your sacrifices, investigate the lives of countless procedurally generated kidnapping targets, and survive as long as possible in your personal gauntlet of nightmares.

“We’re so excited to expand the playtime of Life Eater with a uniquely dark and intriguing systemic experience,” says Strange Scaffold founder Xalavier Nelson Jr. “You really just terrorize an entire city of people over the span of decades, now, and I can only hope that I don’t come to regret writing that sentence in a press release.”

For those not in the know, Life Eater (check out Aaron’s review here) is a horror fantasy kidnapping simulator where you play as a druid living in suburbia. You serve a dark entity by abducting and sacrificing specific but vaguely described humans every year to stop the apocalypse. Use a unique video editing-inspired interface to discover the intimate lives of your victims, one schedule block at a time. When the time is right, abduct them before authorities find out.

You can snag a copy of Life Eater on Steam.

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