- By Ash
- in News
While it's a little bit late to the party, Outriders is a co-op focused looter shooter from the team behind Bulletstorm and Painkiller. In Outriders you will have a choice between four distinct character classes that you can then further customize by gathering a massive array of items and upgrades found throughout the world, all in an effort to to fight ever-increasing hordes of baddies for even more delicious loot. In other words, Outriders is indeed a looter shooter!
Since all of that heavily hinges on the actual moment-to-moment gameplay, and that happens to be something that's hard to describe through words alone, allow to me share with you the recently posted gameplay overview trailer. It should clue you in quite quickly on just what Outriders has to offer:
- By Ash
- in News
[Update #2]: Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga has now arrived, and so far things are looking quite good.
[Update]: After many delays, Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga has now been pinned for a April 5th, 2022 release date.
The upcoming Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is looking to become the biggest Lego game ever by combining the storylines from all nine mainline Star Wars films into a single gigantic adventure. However, while its sheer scope is downright impressive, it has also brought with it some problems.
As has been the case with many other major games throughout the past year, the Traveller's Tales team has found themselves unable to fully finish The Skywalker Saga before its previously set spring 2021 release date. Faced with either releasing an unfinished game or pushing the launch day back, the team has decided to go with the obvious option and has now delayed The Skywalker Saga indefinitely.
- By Ash
- in News
[Update #2]: Hearthstone's Voyage to the Sunken City expansion is bringing in some truly gigantic creatures.
[Update]: Hearthstone is launching a balance update next week (April 12 in the earliest) to nerf Paladins, Mages and Rogues.
As a part of the recent Forged in the Barrens expansion Hearthstone has added 135 new cards to mess around with, many of which come with interesting new effects and fun twists on old ones. However, if you're in the mood for a bit of a nostalgia trip, Forged in the Barrens has also brought in something far more exciting - the Classic Mode!
Much like the name would imply, the Classic Mode allows you to craft and play exclusively with Hearthstone's 240 original cards. All of the changes that happened since then, including things like reworks and bans, have been reverted and as such the Classic Mode will represent Hearthstone exactly as it was in June 2014!
- By Ash
- in News
[Update]: Bloodlines 2 will be re-revealed in September 2023, though you can now refund your pre-order if you wish
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has been delayed so many times at this point that it's becoming quite tricky to keep track of it all. So if you're as confused as I am at this point, you might be not be aware that Boodlines 2 has recently been pushed back yet again, this time to 2022 at least!
"We have made the hard decision that Hardsuit Labs will no longer be leading the development of Bloodlines 2 - which also means that we will not be releasing in 2021 as previously planned," explains the brief update. "Since we cannot at this time communicate a new release date, we've also decided to stop accepting pre-orders for the time being."
- By Ash
- in News
While the Earth Defense Force series has traditionally used semi-realistic visuals, the actual gameplay is about as cartoonish and ridiculously over-the-top as it gets. With that in mind, it should come as little shock to hear that the developers have decided to wholeheartedly embrace the silliness and make the Earth Defense Force: World Brothers spin-off entirely out of colorful voxels!
When it comes to the actual gameplay, however, it's still good ol' fashioned EDF. You'll need to save (and likely accidentally destroy) the world one city at a time, blast apart untold numbers of space-ants and mega-spiders with absurdly powerful weaponry, and as is tradition, relentlessly chant "EDF, EDF, EDF!" while doing so. And thanks to voxel technology you'll be able to wreck pretty much everything you can see, which is definitely a plus for an EDF game.
- By Ash
- in News
[Update]: Disciples: Liberation has now landed onto Steam, and if you're curious to see what it looks like, I'm happy to say there's a free demo available!
While the Disciples series started off heavily inspired by the immensely popular Heroes of Might and Magic, slowly but surely it developed in its own unique direction as a sort of hybrid between a strategy game and a turn-based RPG. Unfortunately, all of the good will Disciples managed to garner with the great first and second game quickly got erased once the unfinished and unpolished Disciples 3 landed. This blunder basically sunk the entire series, and Disciples as a whole faded away from memory afterwards.
However, in a twist that I don't think anyone could've predicted, Kalypso Media has recently announced that they are brining Disciples back. Better yet, they're not doing some sort of remaster of Disciples 2, but instead a proper mainline game by the name of Disciples: Liberation!
- By Ash
- in News
[Update #2]: Cyberpunk 2077's biggest bug-fixing Patch 1.5 has now finally arrived alongside an assortment of improvements and quality-of-life tweaks.
[Update]: All of Cyberpunk 2077's updates and free DLCs have been pushed back to 2022.
As you're likely well aware by this point, Cyberpunk 2077 released alongside a whole host of problems. While the older consoles were hit the hardest, even the mightiest of PCs ended up with plenty of crashes, bugs, broken quests and performance issues.
While many problems still remain, I'm happy to say that Update 1.2 has just arrived with an absolute ton of positive changes. These fixes include things like making the NCPD spawn further away from players rather than directly next to them regardless of context, improvements to quest progression in order to prevent lockouts, as well as silly things like stopping NPCs from running around after being killed.
- By Ash
- in News
[Update]: Total War: Rome Remastered has now launched alongside a somewhat mixed reception.
In an announcement that came straight out of nowhere, Creative Assembly recently revealed that they are working together with Feral Interactive to remaster one of the original classics - Rome: Total War. The new and improved Total War: Rome Remastered is set to bring with all of the DLC already bundled in, support for modern resolutions and a whole bunch of visual improvements, as well as some much-needed quality of life fixes and enhancements for the UI and controls.
If you're curious what some of these changes look like in actual gameplay, you'll be happy to hear Creative Assembly has just posted a brief preview covering exactly that. Have a gander, it's a rather interesting one:
- By Ash
- in News
Much like the name would suggest, Evil Genius 2 is a highly satirical simulator about attempting to take over the world through a variety of nefarious means. What this means in gameplay terms is that you'll need to construct the perfect evil lair, hire and train an army of henchmen to do your bidding, dispose of any pesky agents of justice that stumble upon your hideout, and naturally, top things off by constructing the most needlessly elaborate doomsday weapon ever conceived.
As for what exactly all of this silliness looks like in actual gameplay, that you can find out through the latest trailer. Have a look, it's a fairly short one:
- By Ash
- in News
As a part of last year's April Fools' Day prank PlatinumGames announced a retro shoot 'em up by the name of Sol Cresta. And now, a full year later, they are doing exactly the same thing again... except this time around it seems that they are completely serious!
In other words, PlatinumGames has indeed just announced that their fourth major reveal is Sol Cresta, an oldschool shoot 'em up heavily inspired by classic games like Moon Cresta and Terra Cresta. More interestingly, Sol Cresta will not be arriving alone, but will instead be the very first entry of the new "Neo-Classic Arcade" series.