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[Update]: Overprime is a third-person MOBA heavily based on Epic's long-canceled Paragon.
A little while ago Epic Games announced that their MOBA Paragon will be closing down its doors on April 26th. While they graciously offered a full refund to all players, I still found myself lamenting the fact that all of those high quality character models, environments and special effects will essentially be going to waste.
Thankfully, Epic has now decided to correct that huge problem in the best way possible - by releasing all of assets onto the Unreal Marketplace for absolutely no cost! So if you ever wanted to experiment with Paragon's characters, you now have a chance to do just that as each bundle contains a character's model, their animations, as well as their unique skins.
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Surviving Mars is a sci-fi city builder that will have you attempt to not only colonize Mars, but also create a fully self-sufficient settlement. In order to do so you'll need to build drones and infrastructure, research new technologies and ways to upgrade your settlement, cultivate your own food, establish a mining outpost, and perhaps most importantly, try to do all of that while keeping your colonists alive throughout the whole process.
This might sound similar to other city-building games such as Cities: Skylines, but there is one very big difference and that is the fact that Surviving Mars takes place on, you guessed it, Mars! So while you won't be trying to solve traffic jams, you will need to ensure that your colony does not encounter critical failures, especially multiple times in a row. After all, even something as simple as a blackout could result in massive casualties since your life-support system is incapable of running on hopes and dreams.
Heroes of the Storm's next character is going to be an incredibly persistent Protoss Dragoon - Fenix
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While he ended up being slightly overshadowed by Tassadar's heroic sacrifice, Fenix is one of the coolest characters that came out of StarCraft's Protoss campaigns. I mean, there's not that many 'people' that can boast about needing to be killed twice before they would actually stay down for good!
With that in mind, I am delighted to say that Fenix will soon be joining Heroes of the Storm as an incredibly durable and persistent Protoss Dragoon. You can check out his abilities, as well as what he looks like in-game, through the recently posted preview down below. Have a look, it's quite an interesting video:
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Ni No Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom is a bright and cheerful third-person RPG that will put you into the shoes of Evan Pettiwhisker Tildrum, a young king that got thrown out from his own castle and is now on a quest to reclaim his kingdom. Along the way you'll be able to freely explore a massive open-world, visit various towns filled with colorful characters, delve through dungeons in search of loot, and even build and manage your own kingdom.
This is a lot of features to take in all at once, so allow me to share with you two trailers in order to help clarify things. The first one is the most recent trailer that pretty much showcases everything I've mentioned above, albeit very briefly, while the second one is the original announcement trailer that will give you an idea of the tone Ni No Kuni 2 is going for. Have a gander:
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After many years of slowly pushing more and more obnoxious 'microtransactions', EA finally ran into trouble with Star Wars Battlefront 2. On release, not only were some fan-favorite characters locked behind an absolutely insane grind, but you could also gain objective upgrades through random drops from loot boxes, loot boxes you could buy with actual money! And so, in a rare moment of solidarity, the gaming community came together and firmly rejected the whole idea, with the resulting backlash being so large and so loud that EA quickly pulled the whole microtransaction system.
However, while this stopped players from being able to buy their way to power, there was still a noticeable element of randomness that dictated how strong your favorite classes could possibly be. As such, I am very glad to say that the long-awaited Progression Update will be coming out this March 21st in order to minimize randomness and give players an option to specialize in whichever way they want.
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If you told me a few years ago that Sega is working on another Sonic themed racing game I would probably laugh until I could laugh no longer. After all, why in the world would you create a racing game based around a character that is not only the fastest being in existence, but also someone that doesn't even use a vehicle!?
However, now that I've finally played and thoroughly enjoyed Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, a cart game I am willing to recommend to just about anyone, I am genuinely excited to announce that Sega is working on a brand new Sonic racing game! There aren't that many details available just yet, but it would appear that this new game will have a much more sensible albeit boring title: Sonic Racing.
You can get a little bit of a sneak peek through the recently posted teaser right below, but don't get your hopes up too high as it's literally just the logo and some car noises:
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A few months have passed since The Elder Scrolls: Legend's Return to Clockwork City expansion, which as you might expect means that a brand new one is just around the corner! Following in The Elder Scrolls Online's footsteps, the newly announced Houses of Morrowind expansion will bring with it 149 new cards featuring many characters and familiar sights from, you guessed it, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.
In terms of gameplay the biggest innovation are the new three-attribute (or color if you prefer) cards that let you break the standard deckbuilding rules. Houses of Morrowind will include cards for five of the ten possible three-attribute sets, each representing one of the major Houses from Morrowind, which should in theory offer a breath of fresh air to the overall gameplay.
As far as limitations are concerned, if you decide to use three-attribute cards you will need to include at least 75 cards in your deck and not play cards with any other attributes. In order to accommodate this, as well as make deckbuilding a bit more interesting, the maximum deck size is being raised to 100 for all decks!
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Much like it's predecessor, The Crew 2 is an open-world racing game that will allow you to explore a scaled-down recreation of the United States with a variety of vehicles such as cars, boats, airplanes, and so forth. If this sounds like the type of game you would love to mess around with, you'll be glad to hear that The Crew 2 has now been pinned for a June 29th release date on both PC and consoles.
There will be multiple beta tests ahead of it's full release, so if you would like to give The Crew 2 a spin make sure to sign up on the official website. Ubisoft hasn't announced when exactly the beta will launch or how they will handle the beta invites, so I would highly recommend you sign up as soon as possible. Chances are that pretty much everyone will be able to enter given that these 'betas' are more like demos nowadays, but I suppose it's still better to err on the side of caution.
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Sonic Mania released back in September of 2017 to widespread praise from both fans and new players alike. Given it's reception, it really shouldn't come as much of a surprise to hear that Sega has now announced Sonic Mania Plus - a minor expansion set to arrive this Summer alongside the physical editions of Sonic Mania.
There aren't that many details available just yet, but you can expect to see two new characters and a brand new Encore game mode that will apparently offer a darn good reason to do another playthrough. What might come as a surprise, however, is that the new characters won't be the series mainstays like Knuckles or Amy, but rather two incredibly obscure ones: Mighty the Armadillo and Ray the Flying Squirrel. You can learn a little bit more about them and where they come from over at the Sonic wiki.
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Life is Strange: Before the Storm is a prequel to the original game set three years before Max returned to Arcadia Bay. By all accounts it is a pretty darn good game, which I am very glad to say that it will be coming to Mac and Linux in the relatively near future as well, this Spring to be more specific.
However, the port isn't going to be handled by the developers themselves, but rather by Feral Interactive. If the name doesn't ring any bells, you might recognize them from their work on the Mac and Linux versions of Total War: Warhammer 1 and 2, XCOM 2, Tomb Raider, Dawn of War 3, and the list goes on. So far I've found their work to be extremely solid, so chances are the Before the Storm port will be a quality one as well.