Today, Bethesda Softworks announced that its upcoming fast-paced multiplayer shooter Quake Champions will soon be leaving its closed beta phase and enter into early access beginning next week on August 22. Alongside this, the game will be receiving a variety of new content including some new maps and a recognizable new character. Those who want to play Quake
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The Switch seems to be getting a number of solid indie ports over the last few months. The latest one is the Metroidvania title, forma.8. The Italian studio MixedBag released the game on Steam, PS4, PS Vita, Xbox One and Wii U this February. It will be joining the most recent Nintendo console on August 24th.
Today Capcom announced via press release that its upcoming mainline title of the Monster Hunter franchise, Monster Hunter World, will be playable at Tokyo Game Show 2017. The game will be available on PS4 at Capcom’s own booth, even if we don’t know if it’ll be the same demo that we have seen so far,
Following the announcement of the publishing partnership between Shenmue III developer Ys Net and Deep Silver, the publisher sent in a press release including new images for the game. The first gives a look on protagonists Ryo Hazuki and Shenhua Ling, alongside a nicely detailed look on a village, the second is a rather breathtaking
Today Hironobu Sakaguchi’s Mistwalker Corporation released a new batch of artwork and screenshots of the upcoming JRPG Terra Battle 2, mostly focusing on the Guardians. While all main characters are designed by Kimihiko Fujisaka, the guardians are created by a variety of artists, both from Mistwalker and popular creators from outside the company. For instance
The Crackdown series is one that Xbox fans have have had for quite some time with two installments on the Xbox 360, and while the eagerly-awaited Crackdown 3 was on the horizon to release later this year, a bit more time will be needed for the title to reach its full potential. In a report from Polygon, Microsoft
On the back of announcing a new partnership with publisher Good Shepherd Entertainment, San Francisco-based developer Dim Bulb Games has released a new story trailer for Where the Water Tastes Like Wine. For those that don’t know: Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a game where you travel around the United States, sharing stories, and surviving manifest
Ubisoft released a new trailer for Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege: Operation Blood Orchid, the second update in the Siege’s Year 2 of content, that showcases the “Theme Park” map that comes with the update on August 29. This new map is set in a deteriorating theme park in Hong Kong. It is quite a
Developer Game Atelier and publisher FDG Entertainment released a new short gameplay video and a ton of new screenshots for the Nintendo Switch version of Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom. The trailer displays the game’s starting beach area, while also showing off a few of the different playable characters. The developers also revealed that Monster
NBA 2K18 is less than a month away from its Early Tip-Off Edition release date, with the standard version set a few days after. As the release date slowly creeps onto our calendars, 2K Sports has announced that the 1996 Miami Heat and 1998 New York Knicks will be featured in the upcoming title. #NBA2K18
Developer ACE Team is back with the sequel to its part tower defense, part racing game, Rock of Ages 2: Bigger & Boulder. Below you can read the premise of the sequel to 2011’s Rock of Ages: This time around Atlas (no relation to Atlus), the Greek Titan tasked with the eternally dreary job of
Today 2K Sports released a brand new trailer of its upcoming basketball simulation NBA 2K18. The trailer shows the high detail poured into the game by the developer’s artists, with expressive players, beautiful courts and even dancing cheerleaders looking natural and realistic. On top of the impressive visuals, we also get the fetching notes of “Shook Ones”
Today, developer Imaginati Studios — a UK studio newly formed in 2015 — announced Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier, a cinematic adventure game set between the events of the 2014’s Dawn of Planet of Apes and this year’s War for the Planet of Apes. According to IGN, the game is being published by the new games division of The
QUByte Interactive sent out a press release today announcing the Switch port of 99Vidas. The 16-bit inspired brawler originally released on Steam in 2016 and then got a console showing on the PS4, PS3 and PS Vita on July 18 of this year. The Brazilian studio is now bringing the game to Nintendo’s hybrid console ‘soon’ and marked the
Square Enix release the transcript of its quarterly earnings conference call, and it included some interesting info about the performance of its games, including Final Fantasy XIV and Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age. President Yosuke Matsuda mentioned that sales of Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age for PS4 have been “brisk” since the game’s
Team 17 and Mouldy Toof Studios have released yet another new trailer for the eagerly anticipated sequel to 2015’s critically-acclaimed prison escape title The Escapists. This time around, the team decided to focus on The Escapists 2’s prison transports. In the new trailer, we see three of the game’s ten prisons, which are unique from
Call of Duty: WWII will bring the popular franchise back to the European battlefields of World War II, and today Sledgehammer Games Studio Head Glen Schofield took to twitter to answer several questions from the fans, providing a lot of information Schofield explained the reasons why the European front was chosen instead of the Pacific, mentioned
Earlier today, the official Twitter account of the Xbox One and PC title ReCore teased that an announcement regarding the future of the game will take place in a few short days on August 20. Of course, this leads us to ask, “Just what could this reveal be?” Well, one of the more obvious guesses would be
Today, Poland-based developer Bloober Team — who you may recognize from 2016’s psychedelic horror game Layers of Fear — are back with another horror title. This time it’s with Observer, a cyberpunk-themed game that is now available on PS4, Xbox One, PC, Mac, and Linux. For those that don’t know: Observer is set in a 2084 dystopia future ruled by oppressive
Rockstar Games has launched a new update for Grand Theft Auto Online, introducing new discounts on numerous items and more. According to the developer, the new update has added the Ocelot XA-21 Supercar, which is now available for purchase at the Legendary Motorsport. Alongside a new vehicle, the patch offers a discount on the Vom Feuer Anti-Aircraft
Undertale was sort of an anomaly to me. I had never been a fan, notably because I missed out on the game back when it released in 2015. The game has been sitting in my Steam library for months, with only one hour clocked. Do I sure as hell regret that now. Since Undertale is
Frozenbyte, known for developing the Trine series and the recently released Has Been Heroes, put out a new trailer for its upcoming title Nine Parchments today that showcases all of the game’s different playable characters. The first seven characters that are shown off in the video were all previously confirmed. Those characters are Carabel the Glacial, Cornelius
NIS America launched a new character trailer for the Falcom developed action RPG Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana, coming to PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, and PC on September 12 in North America and September 15 in Europe. The trailer introduces the main protagonist of the series, Adol Christin, who is known across the lands a
Today Bethesda Softworks released a new trailer of its upcoming FPS Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. The trailer, featuring both gameplay and explanations from Machine Games Executive Producer Jerk Gustafsson, and Creative Director Jens Matthies, showcases a few relevant elements of the upcoming game. First of all, we get to see how the nazi enemies
Today, publisher Sega and developer Sports Interactive announced that their highly-popular and annual series Football Manager is poised to return on Friday, November 10, 2017 with Football Manager 2018. As of right now, beyond a release date and its mere existence, not much else has been divulged on the series’ latest entry. However, Sports Interactive has said it’ll
Today, German publisher and developer a Daedalic Entertainment’s medieval 2D interactive thriller, Ken Follet’s: The Pillars of Earth (Part 1) launches on PS4, Xbox One, PC, Mac, and Linux, accompanied by an official launch trailer. For those that don’t know: Ken Follet’s: The Pillars of Earth is the official game-adaption of the world-bestselling book, The Pillars of Earth. The game is set
Magnus Games’ upcoming farming and monster-raising JRPG Re:Legend, is coming to PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch, in addition to the previously confirmed PC. The news follows the game’s ongoing Kickstarter campaign, which quickly smashed its funding goal, and has no surpassed it’s respective stretch goals for each console. At the moment of writing this, the funding campaign
Volition’s upcoming open world action-adventure game Agents of Mayhem has received its official launch trailer titled Who You Gonna Call. The cinematic trailer introduces the playable characters featured in the title. Pretty much a spiritual successor of the Saints Row series, Agents of Mayhem is an open world game played in a third-person perspective. Set after the events of Devil’s Night in a futuristic
Today, Soedesco, known for publishing titles such as Among the Sleep and the upcoming retail versions of The Girl and the Robot and Tricky Towers, announced today that they are partnering with another publisher, 1C Company, to release physical editions of Blackhole and Shiny for PS4 and Xbox One. The retail versions of these titles
Growing up in the 90’s gave me the privilege of witnessing the legendary “Console Wars.” It was a time when the video game market was changing monthly and every publisher was trying to find the “next big thing.” It was during this time that video game fans everywhere would be introduced to Sonic the Hedgehog,