Month: September 2017

Bluehole has announced a new business, dubbed PUGB Corp., that will specifically handle the business of its massively popular survival shooter PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, which has now surpassed 13 million copies sold. PUGB Corp., will specifically be a subsidiary company “focused entirely on the development and global business opportunities” for the aforementioned game, according to Bluehole. Gang-Seok Kim,
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Ubisoft Milan appears to have a bright future ahead of it, one with immediate growth and increased creative opportunity, thanks to the “game changing” success of the recently released, Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle. The release of Nintendo Switch exclusive Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle was likely the first time many people encountered the name of Ubisoft Milan.
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Compile Heart launched a new trailer for their upcoming fan service RPG, Genkai Tokki: Castle Panzers, coming to PlayStation 4 on September 28 in Japan. The trailer shows new gameplay that is reminiscent of system found in another of Compile Hearts IP’s such as the Neptunia series. However, the battles seem a bit more fluid and
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Australian developer Sidebar Games’ new and debut game, Golf Story, is now available, exclusively for Nintendo Switch. First announced back in May, Golf Story appeared relatively out of nowhere, but quickly won the anticipation of many Switch owners for its Earthbound vibes, uniquely mixed with a golf game. In the game, you play as a golfer (obviously) who has been forced
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Today Sony Interactive Entertainment released a brand new trailer of the upcoming PS4 exclusive God of War game. The trailer showcases one of the most well known monsters of the game, the fire troll, which was popularized by the very first gameplay reveal back at E3 2016. While the trailer shows no gameplay, it’s still
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Today, developer The Vanir Project and publisher BadLand Games announced that their game Nightmare Boy will be available starting October 25, 2017. In addition to the announcement of the release date, a brand new thirty-second trailer, showing off some never-before-seen gameplay, was also released. Nightmare Boy is a “Metroidvania” action/platformer in an art style which can only be
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Developers LGM Games and publisher Iceberg Interactive have revealed a massive expansion coming to their game Starpoint Gemini Warlords. The expansion, which is titled Cycles of Warfare, will add over 100 hours of new content in the form of new conquests, scenarios, and more. In addition to that, players will also be able to unlock a new ship line,
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Ever since the Switch version of Oxenfree was announced back in August, fans have been eagerly anticipating the arrival of the hit indie title title: well, they won’t have to wait much longer. Independent developer Night School Studio announced that the Nintendo Switch version of its popular game Oxenfree will be available starting on October 6, 2017. In addition
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Today, Ubisoft has revealed that Dan Romer will serve as the primary composer on the highly anticipated open world first-person shooter Far Cry 5. Romer is an award winning composer who has previously worked on films such as Beasts of the Southern Wild, Beasts of No Nation, and Gleason. Additionally, Romer has served as a producer or songwriter on
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Three years ago on March 25, 2014, UK developer White Paper Games made its debut with Ether One, a first-person adventure game for the PC. According to co-founder Pete Bottomley, the game garnered good exposure on the platform, but the team knew it wanted to bring the title to PlayStation 4 for an increase presence. More specifically,
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Eko Software, Bigben Interactive, and Maximum Games released a developer diary for their upcoming sports game Rugby 18 today that delves into various aspects of the game’s development, including initial goals, collecting players, creating the audience within each stadium, and animation. They also confirmed that the game will be releasing on October 27. From the start, the
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This week’s shows is a bit shorter, but Logan, Taylor, and Scott still cover a fair amount of ground. Per usual, the cast talks about what they’ve been playing recently at the top of the show with the discussion centering on Destiny 2, FIFA 18, Forza Motorsport 7, and Metroid: Samus Returns. Afterwards, the crew
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Soedesco confirmed today that both Flying Carpets Games’ The Girl and the Robot Deluxe Edition and Milkstone Studios’ Pharaonic Deluxe Edition will be launching this Friday, September 29. The Girl and Robot Deluxe Edition is just coming to PS4, while Pharaonic Deluxe Edition is coming to both PS4 and Xbox One. These physical Deluxe Editions
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Techland Games surprised everyone when it recently announced that its next game would be a fast-paced top-down shooter with heavy inspiration from Hotline Miami. The game, titled God’s Trigger, follows two main characters: Harry, an angelic soldier from Heaven, and Judy, an escaped demon from Hell. Together, they must fight to kill the four Horsemen before the
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Today Sony Interactive Entertainment published the recording of Detroit: Become Human stage event held at Tokyo Game Show last week. The show was presented by Quantic Dream Co-CEO and Executive Producer Guillaume de Fondaumière, accompanied by Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan Studio Localization Producer Daisuke Ishida, who is leading the charge translating the game in Japanese.
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Developer Frictional Games has revealed that its science-fiction survival-horror game, SOMA, has been downloaded over 650,000 times in the little over two years it has been on the market. Released back on September 22, 2015 for PC, Mac, Linux, and PlayStation 4, SOMA had notably been downloaded 400,000 times the same time last year, meaning it has racked
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Ubisoft Paris announced today that Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands’ brand new PvP mode Ghost War will be added to the game on PC, PS4, Xbox One on October 10 for free following its Open Beta last weekend. This announcement was accompanied by a new trailer for the mode, which highlights the Assassin, Sentinel, and Diversionist classes.
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Volition, the studio popularized by the Saints Row franchise, has laid off over 30 people this week, including general manager Dan Cermak, according to a new report from Kotaku. Volition previously had roughly 200 employees before the round of layoffs. The layoffs reportedly come in the face of poor sales of the developer’s most recent game, Agents of
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Today’s issue of Weekly Famitsu included a spread on Compile Heart’s upcoming JRPG Death end re;Quest. In the article there were a few screenshots and the introductions of two characters. We get to see the skill menu for the playable characters, that vary widely from damage-dealing to those who deliver additional effects and status anomalies.
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