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.
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!
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.
VANCOUVER, BC – August 8, 2018 – Phoenix Labs has launched The Coming Storm, the first content update for the the studio’s co-op action-RPG, Dauntless. Available now to download and play for free, The Coming Storm introduces a range of new content to the game, vastly expanding the world of Dauntless for the more than 2 million Slayers that have battled across the Shattered Isles together. The Coming Storm kicks off with the fierce Behemoth, Koshai, wreaking havoc across the Shattered Isles. A brand new faction, the Ostians, have arrived in Ramsgate complete with a new story and quests to explore as well as new items and weapons to help combat the new threat. Starting today and rolling out over the coming weeks, Slayers can expect new content on a weekly basis, culminating in a new ranged weapons, the Ostian Repeaters.
“The Coming Storm delivers on our vision for the living, breathing and constantly evolving experience of Dauntless.” said Jesse Houston, CEO and co-founder of Phoenix Labs. “It’s our ultimate goal to give the millions of Slayers playing Dauntless massive and impactful world-changing events, quests and challenges to sink their battle-hardened weapons into on a regular basis, with new and exciting updates always on the horizon.”
The Coming Storm begins when an Ostian Dreadnought is assaulted forcing them to take refuge in Ramsgate. An ominous aetherstorm looms on the horizon and a challenging new Behemoth, Koshai, emerges from the shadows to herald the storm’s arrival. Bearing the title The Sovereign of Thorns, Koshai is a vicious beast that can tear apart the strongest armor with its powerful thorns and vines and is sure to be one of the most fearsome opponents Slayers have faced yet.
Koshai brings a distinct and deadly change to the Shattered Isles, causing the other Behemoths to evolve and change beyond their usual behavior and form. Slayers can expect a new spin on classic encounters, challenging even their most skilled tactics. To help combat Koshai, Slayers now have access to an assortment of craftable grenades that offer ranged attacks with dramatic effects.
Over the coming weeks, additional content will be added to Dauntless, including new exotic gear, culminating in Slayers gaining access to the first fully ranged weapon, the Ostian Repeaters. This new modular weapon will allow Slayers to customize and tailor their loadout, further complimenting their playstyle. More details on the Ostian Repeaters will be debuted on www.PlayDauntless.com soon.
To download Dauntless for free today and experience The Coming Storm, visit www.playdauntless.com.
To stay up to date on in-game events, updates and more, follow Dauntless on Facebook, Twitter and join the official Forum.
Moscow – August 8, 2018 – Deep Silver and 4A Games today announce that Metro Exodus, the anticipated continuation of the critically acclaimed Metro series, will host hands-on demo opportunities at major gaming events throughout the world ahead of its arrival next year.
Eager fans will experience a new season of Artyom’s journey aboard the Aurora, joining him and his band of Spartans to explore a newly discovered autumnal forest region where no snow is in sight. But unlike the absent biting frost, danger remains real and omnipresent.
“Until now, fans have only experienced Metro Exodus through our trailers and gameplay videos,” said Huw Beynon, head of global brand management at Deep Silver. “We want to give players the opportunity to get their hands on Metro Exodus before it releases on Feb. 22, 2019.”
The first destination on Metro Exodus’ hands-on tour will be GamesCom, appearing not only at the Deep Silver booth in Hall 9 but also at Microsoft’s Xbox booth in Hall 8 from Aug. 22 – 25.
Following GamesCom, North American fans attending PAX West in Seattle from Aug. 31 – Sept. 3 will find Metro Exodus available to play in the Corsair and Microsoft booths, while UK-based gamers can play at EGX in Birmingham from Sept 20 – 23. Igromir, Paris Games Week and many more events will follow, and a full list of events can be found on the official Metro Exodus site: http://www.metrothegame.com/en-us/news/hands-on-tour/.
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August 8, 2018, Myrtle Beach, S.C. – It’s showtime! A new dimension of family fun hits Myrtle Beach with a first-of-its-kind attraction—The Simpsons in 4D. This all-new experience will feature Springfield’s Kwik-E-Mart and Aztec Theater! Guests will rub elbows with the town’s popular residents, including America’s favorite family, The Simpsons.
The Kwik-E-Mart opens on August 17 at 10 a.m. Guests may visit the immersive, fully themed iconic convenience store, which sells a wide array of products including Buzz Cola, Heat-Lamp Hot Dogs, and Lard Lad Donuts. Guests can quench their thirst by choosing from a tasty selection of show-inspired Squishee flavors. In addition to these Springfield staples, the Kwik-E-Mart offers a variety of food and beverage options, as well as unique The Simpsons merchandise.The Aztec Theater is set to premiere later this year. This ticketed attraction includes a fully themed lobby and theater experience rich with detail. Guests join Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and the youngest Simpson, Maggie in a new 4D Experience® adventure.
Included in all tickets will be a Hollywood premiere-style souvenir photo for fans to share their own red carpet moment. After the 4D Experience®, guests are free to explore the famous Kwik-E-Mart.
The Simpsons in 4D was created in partnership with SimEx-Iwerks Entertainment, FoxNext Destinations and Gracie Films. “We are thrilled to bring The Simpsons to Myrtle Beach in a way that this incredible brand deserves,” says Michael Needham, Founder and CEO, SimEx-Iwerks Entertainment. “Launching this experience will be the culmination of years of passionate effort to bring The Simpsons to life beyond the screen. We are creating a series of memorable moments enriched with tremendous detail throughout the attraction so that guests feel they are part of The Simpsons universe.”
The Simpsons is the longest running primetime scripted television series and one of the most recognized brands in the world. Now producing its 30th season with more than 600 episodes, the characters have become household names and Springfield, a way of life.
Visit www.Simpsons4D.com for updates on Grand Opening festivities, tickets, special offers and promotions.
August 8, 2018 – Remedy Entertainment, the studio behind breakout hits Max Payne and Alan Wake released its latest dev diary for Control, the highly-anticipated supernatural action adventure game.
The dev diary looks to reveal just a bit more about the cagey title, which has had only limited details revealed so far.
Remedy’s studio members, including well-renown Creative Director Sam Lake, discuss the game’s setting called The Oldest House which is the headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Control, an ever-changing world within a location where nothing is what it seems to be.
The dev diary can be found here:
Control is scheduled to release in 2019 for PS4/PS4 Pro, Xbox One/Xbox One X, Steam for PC (digital only).
