Ubisoft announced Operation Para Bellum for Rainbow Six Siege will be available next month giving players another reason to keep playing the popular multiplayer-centric first-person shooter. A new video flaunting the new map and Operators was also revealed. Operation Para Bellum will see the release of a brand new map, Villa, set in the Italian
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Today Bandai Namco announced the Japanese release date of its upcoming action game Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker. The game will hit the Japanese shelves on August 30th, 2018 exclusively for PS4. The price will be 7.200 yen plus tax for both the packaged and digital download versions, while the digital deluxe edition will cost 8,200
Players who have been anxiously awaiting the release of the narrative-driven roleplay game Vampyr will be excited to learn that the game has gone gold just a few weeks before its June 5th release. The announcement was made on the game’s Twitter page: Vampyr has gone Gold! Next stop, June 5th. pic.twitter.com/udD7biNctn — Vampyr Game (@VampyrGame) May 18,
Today, China’s Royal Never Give Up defeated South Korea’s King-Zone DragonX in a 3-1 series at the 2018 League of Legends Mid-Season Invitational Finals held in Paris, France. The two teams squared off in a best-of-five series giving viewers some great action. In the end, RNG was able to outperform KZ finishing the series in
Vehicle-adventure game FAR: Lone Sails was released this past week and, in addition to a launch trailer, the game’s Twitter has been sharing some of the concept art and 3D modeling used for the game. FAR: Lone Sails finds players striving to survive on their own in a post-apocalyptic world as they guide their unique vessel through a dangerous wasteland.
Between yesterday and today, many websites reported about allegedly leaked Forza Horizon 4 concept art that (according to the reports) seemed to indicate Hong Kong as the location for the game. To my knowledge, the rumor originated from Vandal, and then bounced on Reddit. This of course caused all sorts of websites that didn’t pay too much
There’s been a huge amount of Paradox Interactive news in the past few days, ranging from new DLCs for Stellaris, Crusader Kings II, and Europa Universalis IV to a new game called Imperator: Rome. You may be thinking that’s a lot of news and a lot of upcoming features to stretch your wallet thin… but worry
A recent trademark filing in Europe has come to light from our friends at Square Enix. It seems they’ve filed for a trademark on the name Outriders with the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). From the documentation filed on the EUIPO website, we know that Outriders falls under Nice Classifications 9 and 41. Nice
In case you missed it, 2011’s hit indie game To the Moon received a lot of fanfare for its soundtrack, story-telling, and bittersweet character development. The game was successful enough to go from PC to mobile devices, spawn a sequel title, and now, to have its own animated feature film. That’s right: Canadian developer Kan Gao has
What’s going on in the world of Fortnite? Some of the Battle Royale developers from Epic Games have taken to YouTube to give a quick update on some of the latest things the development team is working on — including E3, the upcoming Fortnite Battle Royale development scene, and the current limited time event Solo Showdown. Seen in the video below, Fortnite‘s
With every game on God’s green Earth getting a battle royale mode in some way, shape, or form, I think it’s really time for us to get back to our roots—to some of the earlier incarnations of the battle royale hype…aside from the Japanese movie and manga and Hunger Games, I guess. To wit, we
In the past, I defined the Muv-Luv-inspired mobile and browser game Muv-Luv Alternative: Strike Frontier one of the most generous on the market. While I’m well aware that generosity is a pretty foreign concept to mobile gacha games, it’s beyond doubt that Strike Frontier (Strangely in open contrast with the draconian percentages in Dead or Alive
Blizzard Entertainment’s Overwatch is quickly approaching its second anniversary, which will happen on May 24th, and today the developer released a celebratory video. The video is made with some very advanced and fluid stop-motion techniques, featuring Tracer and Reaper as they engage in some rather adorable interaction. Could Tracer manage to break the masked assassin’s
Yesterday reports surfaced about several warnings sent by Valve to multiple developers of games (mostly visual novels featuring anime-like art styles) including mild adult content on the Steam digital download platform. The developers involved faced demands to further censor the mild adult content featured in their games, or see them removed from the storefront altogether. Just a
inscOne of the best thing about developer Blizzard Entertainment’s Overwatch is the ability of develops to incorporate foreign locales in the mix of locations for maps. And fans of Jordian history will be thrilled with the inclusion of “Petra,” the upcoming Deathmatch map for Overwatch that got its first real reveal with a dedicated trailer. While we don’t know when the map
While today largely revolved around news of a certain Duchess of Sussex, there is some good news to be had about princesses as well. Specifically, beat ’em up Nintendo Switch title Code of Princess EX. Publisher Nicalis revealed earlier today that the game would be coming to Nintendo Switch on July 31, 2018 — packed in with
On Thursday, a launch trailer was shared to celebrate the release of Fox n Forests, a 16-bit style platformer game. For players who need to “kick some serious pixel”, this one is for you. Fox n Forests finds Rick the Fox working to uncover the mystery of the fifth season and bring justice back to the forest
On Thursday, publisher 1C Company shared a launch trailer celebrating the release of its new puzzle-adventure game The Watchmaker. This steampunk adventure finds players in the role of Alexander who lives in a world of giant clock mechanisms. Every day he repairs his beloved clock tower until one day it is sabotaged and causes Alexander to
On Thursday, Russian developer Studio MONO shared a trailer exploring the dystopian world of their upcoming roleplaying game INSOMNIA: The Ark. This most recent trailer reveals much more of INSOMNIA: The Ark’s setting than the teaser trailer that was released back in March. The game takes place on a retro-futuristic space station called Object 6 journeying to
Today, Welcome to Hanwell comes to PS4 alongside it’s new launch trailer. Originally greenlit and released on Steam back on October 20, 2017, Welcome to Hanwell promised a unique, open-world horror experience for players. Now that the game has come to PS4, you can get a taste of what Welcome to Hanwell on the PS4 might offer in the launch
Developer Cybernetic Walrus’ Antigraviator is another take on the futuristic racing genre similar to the F-Zero and WipEout series. I got to go hands-on with the game recently and was very pleased with the gameplay; but, I’m unsure if Antigraviator does enough visually to set itself apart from a genre with many titles already like it. “…it’s easy to get into the flow
Not too long ago, the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) confirmed that the free age rating option available for video games would cease next month in June. Concerned developers quickly took to Twitter, worried that current policies would bar them from releasing their games physically. The concern arose from the fact that the ESRB currently
With a heavy sigh, it seems like we are exiting the Golden Age of premium gaming discount memberships. Only a few years ago we saw Amazon Prime gimped their 20% off pre-order rewards program for newly-released games. Now it appears that Best Buy is following in those footsteps, and discontinuing their immensely popular Gamers Club Unlocked membership
Today, at PDXCON 2018 in Stockholm, Paradox Interactive announced Imperator: Rome. The game will include a map from Britain to India and a large variety of units from chariots to elephants. Characters will also have different degrees of loyalty, with the possibility of starting civil wars. That being said, Imperator: Rome won’t be limited to the pinnacle of
Today, at PDXCON 2018 in Stockholm, Paradox Interactive announced Age of Wonders: Planetfall. The game is a new 4X empire-building game by Age of Wonders and Overlord developers Triumph Studios. We don’t have a release date for the game just yet, but we know that it’ll come in 2019. Interestingly, it’s going to come for both
Today NIS America released another new trailer of the upcoming dungeon-crawling JRPG Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk. In today’s video recorded from the PS4 version, we get to see the charming witch Dronya as she has to deal with some rather… interesting approaches by another lady named Marietta. The scene is definitely funny. Thanks to this
Battle royale-style games are experiencing a surge thanks to the likes of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, Fortnite, and with the impending arrival of battle royale modes in AAA games like Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, the phenomenon is only going to continue to grow into the phenomenon that it is at the moment. However, before that moment there was
A couple of weeks ago, Italian developer Gogen-Soft took to Kickstarter to fund its retro-style mystery visual novel Bios Ex. Just yesterday, the modest goal of €1,200 has been passed, meaning that the game is officially funded. Now the campaign has seventeen days to go in order to achieve some of its stretch goals, which go
Releasing on PC via Steam before consoles, Antigraviator has a set date for June 6 and comes with a new trailer to boot! The PS4 and Xbox One versions of the game will release sometime later in the year. Coming in both singleplayer and multiplayer modes, this inspiration to F-Zero and WipeOut will have you