FRANKFURT, Germany – Aug. 9, 2018 – Hunt: Showdown will be free to play on Steam from Thursday, Aug. 9, at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET/ 7 p.m. CEST to Monday, Aug. 13, at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET/ 7 p.m. CEST. During that time, the game will also be on sale for 20% off. The free weekend event also coincides with the addition of South American servers to the game, bringing a new continent of players to the action, and a brand-new set of six Steam trading cards to collect and trade. The game can be downloaded now here.
Currently, Hunt: Showdown is in early access, and constant updates bring new content and further optimizations to the game on a monthly basis. Shortly after the free weekend, the game will see the addition of the Water Devil, a new AI that will make wading through the Louisiana swamps where the game is set even more dangerous.
Hunt: Showdown is a multiplayer, first-person bounty hunting game that combines the action, thrill and tension of multiple genres into a unique new gaming experience. During each match, up to ten players track and kill monsters solo or in teams of two, then have to fight to get off of the map with the prize before another Hunter takes them out. Watch the full trailer right here, or read about the game and keep track of the latest updates and news over on the Hunt: Showdown website.
August 10, 2018 – On August 21st, one of the sagas that defined modern gaming is coming to PC, PS4 and Xbox One, and new players will be able to experience one of the most defining series in gaming history. In the meantime you can brush up on your Shenmue knowledge as we teamed up with Corey Marshall, the English-version voice actor of Ryo Hazuki, for a series of videos exploring the world of the Shenmue. Last week, our first episode detailed the storyline of Shenmue I & II and Ryo’s quest to avenge his father. Today, we’re delving deeper into the characters themselves:
From Ryo himself to Lan Di, Corey introduces us to Shenmue’s key characters: the mysterious Shenhua appearing in Ryo’s dreams, Ren the Heavens gang leader, and many more friends, foes, and those whom Ryo would be wise to keep an eye on. Beyond the key characters that Ryo encounters, there are hundreds of NPCs awaiting you in the world of Shenmue: love interests, enemies, neighbours and merchants… and of course, a cat.
New players will be able to meet all the fascinating characters in Shenmue I & II when it re-releases this August 21st on PC, PS4 and Xbox One.
Shenmue I & II is now available for pre-order digitally on Steam, Xbox Marketplace and PSN with a 10% discount, and from SEGA approved digital retailers*. The physical edition is available to pre-order from US and EMEA retailers. For all the latest information on Shenmue I & II, go to: https://shenmue.sega.com/
*Please check here for an exhaustive list of digital retailers and more details as to what constitutes a SEGA approved retailer.
August 9, 2018 – Everyone’s favorite Beagle, Snoopy, is celebrating his birthday on Friday, August 10th! In honor of his special day, Knott’s Berry Farm will be celebrating all day long with special activities and social media giveaways. Charlie Brown’s best friend and pet beagle, Snoopy, was first introduced to the world by Mr. Charles M. Schulz as part of his PEANUTS comic strip back in the 1950’s. Snoopy’s legacy has left his paw print in history and everyone’s hearts throughout the years. He continues to bring smiles to all who meet him by helping families create sweet and fond memories when they stop by for a big Snoopy hug at Knott’s. To show the world’s most famous beagle some birthday love, here are a few ways guests can join in on the fun for his birthday celebration:
· Take a photo with Snoopy – Snoopy loves snapping photos with his friends especially on his Birthday. A special Snapchat Filter will be available exclusively for Snoopy’s birthday for guests when visiting the park on August 10th.
· Sport your favorite Snoopy Gear – One of the best ways for guests to show their excitement for Snoopy’s birthday is by sporting their favorite Snoopy gear. The Camp Snoopy store at Knott’s is filled with the best PEANUTS gear around including birthday Snoopy ears designed especially for the occasion.
· Watch Snoopy in the new summer show, Beach Blanket Beagle – Guests are invited to stop by and cheer on Snoopy, the world’s greatest surfing beagle, as he takes part in the best beach day ever. Beach Blanket Beagle performs on select dates at the Charles M. Schulz Theatre now through August 19th.
· Grab a Snoopy Treat – Birthday treats are Snoopy’s favorite, so it’s only right to indulge in at least one or more to celebrate the occasion. The park offers several PEANUTS-themed treats throughout the park, including at the Mrs. Knott’s Bakery Express located in the Knott’s Market Place.
· Take part in special park giveaways – Guests will have the opportunity to win some neat birthday giveaways in the park by following along on the Knott’s Berry Farm social media accounts. Throughout the day Knott’s will be posting clues about secret locations in the park. The first few guests to solve the clue and arrive at the location to meet the Snoopy Team will win a special prize.
Larkspur, Calif. – Aug. 9, 2018 – Codemasters® has today released the third part in a series of developer diaries for F1 2018, the official videogame of the 2018 FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP™, detailing how the new game boasts the most authentic F1 car handling simulation ever seen in the franchise.
The third of the four part series, which is available to watch now at www.youtube.com/formula1game, reveals that F1 2018’s car simulation and handling has significantly advanced this year, with revamped suspension and chassis physics, the addition of real world F1 data for unprecedented accuracy, new “tire carcass” temperature for the first time, as well as manual deployment of the ERS system. The ultimate result of these enhancements is that the gamer can experience the pure sensation of the tire tearing into the track surface, and therefore giving a realistic and relatable feeling of grip, under all wear, compounds and weather conditions.
“I believe F1 2018 is a massive step up, because we’ve introduced so many more simulation aspects that I believe will be very well received by all the players,” commented David Greco, senior car handling designer on F1 2018. “To choose which one is the most important and advanced is quite hard, but I would probably say it is the expanded system which enables us to simulate the tire temperature more realistically than we have ever done before.”
He continued: “This year, the way the car feels, with the ‘Force Feedback,’ and how it all works together, we are very close to what I want from a simulator. In over 20 years of my career between sim racing and real motorsport, I have always come across questions like: ‘one title is more simulator than another title, because it’s very difficult to drive?’ With my real motorsport experience, I can say that real racing cars are made to have a lot of grip. To me, a simulator is not how easy it is to drive or how easy to make it spin. To me, a simulation is how many real-life, physical components we simulate, and especially this year, there are not many features that I can think of that we don’t simulate. To just call it a game to me is not enough anymore.”
F1 2018 features all the official teams, the drivers and all 21 circuits of the thrilling 2018 season, including Circuit Paul Ricard and the Hockenheimring. As well as the current season’s offerings the game includes 20 iconic cars from the history of the sport. F1 2018 will release onto PlayStation® 4 computer entertainment system, the Xbox One family of devices including the Xbox One X and Windows PC on Aug. 24, 2018.
Follow Codemasters F1 games blog (http://blog.codemasters.com/f1/) and social channels on Twitter (https://twitter.com/Formula1game) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/formula1game) for future updates.
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., August 9th, 2018 — Leading publisher and developer Telltale Games and Robert Kirkman’s Skybound Entertainment today launched the official trailer for The Walking Dead: The Final Season, providing the deepest dive yet into the upcoming season premiere. Episode one, ‘Done Running,’ will introduce new visuals, mechanics, and characters to the series, and commence the final chapter in Clementine’s journey. You can download the trailer now by following the links above.
Episode one of The Final Season will be available for download starting August 14, 2018 on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One across all regions. The Final Season will also launch digitally on Nintendo Switch on August 14 in North America and later this month in Europe and other regions. More information regarding The Final Season on Switch will be available soon. The game is currently still available for pre-order on PC, PS4, and Xbox One for $19.99, and a free playable demo is now available across all three platforms.
All players who pre-order The Final Season will receive download access to each of the season’s four episodes as they become available. Players who pre-order on PS4 and Xbox One will also immediately receive The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series Collection — which gathers all 19 existing episodes of the award-winning series into a single package — as a free pre-order bonus. PC players who pre-order on Steam, GOG, GamersGate, or the Humble Store will receive 10% off the full retail price. All pre-order offers expire August 14.
Season Description: Clementine, now a fierce and capable survivor, has reached the final chapter in her journey. After years on the road facing threats both living and dead, a secluded school might finally be her chance for a home. But protecting it will mean sacrifice. Clem must build a life and become a leader while still watching over AJ, an orphaned boy and the closest thing to family she has left. In this gripping, emotional final season, you will define your relationships, fight the undead, and determine how Clementine’s story ends.
Emotional, Gut-Wrenching Story – See Clementine’s journey through to the end. As she builds a new life, you will have to grapple with new types of choices and live with the consequences as AJ looks on, learning from your every move.
More Control, More Tension – A new over-the-shoulder camera system, greater freedom to explore detailed environments, and scenes with unscripted combat capture the fear of living in a world overrun by the undead and create the most engaging The Walking Dead game yet.
Striking New Visual Style – The all-new Graphic Black art style rips the ink from the pages of the Eisner Award-winning comic book series and brings the world of The Walking Dead to life like never before. Supports 4K resolution and high dynamic range on compatible devices.
In addition, The Walking Dead: The Final Season will be fully dubbed in French, German, Latin-American Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese. It will also be subtitled in French, German, Latin-American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Russian, and both traditional and simplified Chinese. Episode one voice packs and translations will be available for download on launch day.
To date, The Walking Dead: A Telltale Games Series has sold more than 50 million episodes worldwide, earning more than 100 Game of the Year awards from outlets including Metacritic, USA Today, Wired, The VGAs, Yahoo!, The Telegraph, Mashable, Polygon, Destructoid, and GamesRadar. It has also received two BAFTA Video Games Awards for Best Story.
The Walking Dead is set in the world of Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series and offers an emotionally-charged experience in which players’ actions and choices determine the course of the story across the entire series. In order to see their choices reflected in the upcoming season, players will be able to import their existing series save files into The Final Season. For more information, please refer to this blog. Players can also complete the interactive Story Builder either
online or in-game to create a new custom save file.
For more information on the game, visit the official website and Facebook page, and follow Telltale Games on Twitter. For more information on The Walking Dead, Robert Kirkman, and all of his titles, visit Skybound.com.
STOCKHOLM – August, 9, 2018 – Paradox Interactive today announced that the road-raging Cities: Skylines expansion, Mass Transit is now available on Playstation®4, Xbox One and Windows 10. One of the best-selling expansions for PC, Mass Transit puts all sorts of new transit options, systems and scenarios in play. Now console-based citizens, too, can commute through land, sea and sky, with ferries, monorails, cable cars, blimps and more. This expansion also features new transit service buildings and hubs, new road types and landmarks, and endless urban-planning challenges.
The destination may be lovely, but Mass Transit makes the journey more fun than ever.
Key Features:
Sick Transit, Glorious Money: Add a wealth of new transit options to your city, and add wealth to your city’s income! Let your citizens get across town in ferries, blimps, cable cars, and monorails!
Orderly Hub: New mass transit hubs can bring all of your services together, letting citizens change rail lines in one building, or hop from the bus onto the ferry, or even find their way through a sprawling monorail-train metro station.
Become a Roads Scholar: Explore a set of new scenarios focused on solving traffic problems and adding new transit systems. New road types, bridges and canals add variety to your city, and new ways to solve its challenges. Become an expert in traffic flow, and then use that knowledge to improve your city!
New Hats for Chirper: NEW. HATS. FOR CHIRPER. (And also new unique buildings, policies and achievements. But HATS!)
Today’s coinciding free patch is also chock full of new transit-centric content, including updates for naming roads, road adjustments and route info view with transit types, visual aids for road building, new intersection settings (yield rules, traffic lights and priority roads), toggling between local and intercity train stations, public transport info view additions, improved emergency vehicle logic, citizen modding and more!
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif., ORLANDO, Fla. (Aug 9, 2018) – They’re Here. Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Orlando Resort will bring guests “into the light” as part of this year’s Halloween Horror Nightsevents featuring terrifying new mazes inspired by Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures’ (MGM) iconic supernatural horror film, Poltergeist, beginning September 14.
Directed by Tobe Hooper and produced by Steven Spielberg, Poltergeist garnered critical and consumer success when it first premiered in 1982. Characterized as one of the scariest films of all time, this groundbreaking movie paved the way for a new era of supernatural ghost stories that will come to life for the first time ever at Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights. This living representation of the film will take guests into some of its most iconic scenes and encounter memorable characters that spawned their first true nightmares.
The mazes will lure guests to the Freeling family house built atop a cemetery where malicious ghosts threaten the lives within. From the underground graveyard to ghostly apparitions, guests will come face to face with infamous scenes from the film, including the iconic flickering TV screen, menacing Beast from beyond and pool filled with floating corpses. As guests cross into the ‘light,’ they will find themselves surrounded by a surreal landscape of vanishing walls, floating furniture and a creepy clown with a menacing smile. In a rush against time, guests will be forced to make it back to the world of the living or forever be trapped…
Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights is the ultimate Halloween event. For more than 25 years, guests from around the world have visited Halloween Horror Nights in Hollywood and Orlando to become victims inside their own horror film. Multiple movie-quality mazes based on iconic horror television shows, films and original stories come to life season after season. And, the streets of each coast’s event are transformed into highly-themed scare zones where menacing scare-actors lunge from every darkened corner.
Additional details about Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights will be revealed soon. All tickets and vacation packages are on sale now. For more information about Halloween Horror Nights at either Universal Studios Hollywood or Universal Orlando Resort, visit www.HalloweenHorrorNights.com.
Tangerang, Indonesia – August 8th, 2018 – Toge Productions is proud to announce that it’s bringing its barista simulator and visual novel Coffee Talk to PC and Mac in 2019.
Set in a near future fantasy rendition of Seattle full of elves, mermaids, aliens, succubi, orcs, and more, Coffee Talk tasks players with brewing beverages for its clientele whose lives will be shaped by how you treat them. Serving drinks is important, but so is offering a sympathetic ear, a warm smile, and some down to earth barista wisdom. Coffee Talk’s branching storylines will be shaped by the quality of your drinks and fixing the right beverage to your clientele.
Immerse yourself in Seattle’s counterculture; from the dramatic love story between an elf and a succubus, to an alien visitor trying to understand human behavior, to a fledgling writer struggling to meet their deadline, you’ll hear many stories of people trying to sort out life’s countless problems at a cafe. All this is adorned by Coffee Talk’s jazzy, lo-fi soundtrack and neon color palette inspired by 90s anime and classic pixel art adventure games.
An early demo of Coffee Talk can be downloaded for free right now on Steam, itch.io and Gamejolt. Coffee Talk was originally conceived as part of company’s internal game jam and after receiving a very positive public perception, Toge Productions rallied behind the project to flesh it out as a full commercial release. Toge Productions intends to share the whole development process with its community on Twitter.
“Coffee Talk was inspired by the calm feelings of drinking warm drinks in the middle of a cold rainy night, alone or accompanied by friends,” said Mohammad Fahmi, script writer and director of Coffee Talk. “It’s an experience that makes you think, feel, and helps rest your body and soul.”
August 9, 2018 – Captured entirely from in-game footage, watch this introduction to Red Dead Redemption 2’s gameplay in 4K. Red Dead Redemption 2 is coming October 26, 2018 to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One systems.
Rennes, France, August 9, 2018 — Continuing their #SummerOfFlight celebrations, Thrustmaster are thrilled to announce their newest piece of flight sim hardware, the T.Flight U.S. Air Force Edition gaming headset. Pre-orders will be available from September 6th ahead of its official release on October 31st providing a great finish to the summer which has been dedicated to celebrating flight simmers!
As well as a gorgeous design, the headset itself introduces several outstanding features improving the high-quality fidelity and components that have been created from over 25 years of audio expertise. These features make the T.Flight U.S. Air Force Edition gaming headset an ideal device for flight sims, aerial combat games, esports and multiplayer gaming.
The gold standard
Working with the United States Air Force, Thrustmaster has created an advanced headset designed to meet the rigorous requirements needed to secure their official license. For this elite organization, performance is key — and Thrustmaster achieves crystal-clear audio fidelity through the use of 50 mm analytic drivers with a stable frequency response curve. The result is perfectly balanced bass, mid-range and treble frequencies, with distortion reduced to less than 1% (e.g. sound pressure level is settled at 116±3 dB SPL at 1 mW).
Classic design and superior comfort
The T.Flight U.S. Air Force Edition gaming headset is a massive departure from every current gaming headset on the market, as it is inspired by real-world pilot headsets. Its frame is crafted of visible metal, while the 1-inch ear cushions are ultra-soft with an integrated gel layer, making them perfect for long gaming sessions. It all adds up to create the classic look and feel of the actual headsets used by today’s pilots.
Fingertip control
The T.Flight U.S. Air Force Edition gaming headset also introduces another unique feature that replicates modern pilot headsets: an external master volume control knob on the outside of the left ear cup, allowing users to fine-tune the volume exactly as a pilot would. An in-line mic controller with microphone volume and mute controls seamlessly handles the unidirectional microphone. The signal-to-noise ratio is down to 56 dB, for clear sound that excludes ambient noise pollution.
Customized performance
Emblazoned with the logo of the U.S. Air Force on interchangeable faceplates, the T.Flight U.S. Air Force Edition gaming headset allows gamers to customize their look.
The T.Flight U.S. Air Force Edition gaming headset has a suggested retail price of £89.99 (taxes included): this is an unbeatable price for a one-of-a-kind gaming headset, given the immersive design, ergonomics and technology in this unique piece of hardware.
