April 11, 2018 – 505 Games and OtherSide Entertainment are thrilled to share with you the first trailer for Underworld Ascendant, the next project from the studio founded by iconic game developers Warren Spector (Ultima Underworld, System Shock, Deus Ex) and Paul Neurath (Ultima Underworld, Thief).
Coming to PC in 2018, Underworld Ascendant taps a best-in-class development team that includes writer and game director Joe Fielder (BioShock Infinite, Boom Blox) and lead designer Tim Stellmach (System Shock, System Shock 3, Thief), who have innovated upon the signature player-authored, immersive sim experience in bold new ways. Players will return to the breathtaking fantasy realm of The Stygian Abyss, rife with danger and full of intrigue, as they journey through the unfamiliar and unlock their creative potential in this action RPG designed to maximize player gameplay choice.
Also released today are new high-res game screens and a brand-new development diary that offers players and fans insight into the Improvisation Engine behind the game, a series of interwoven systems carefully crafted to give players freedom of choice in a truly immersive environment – and features interviews with Joe Fielder, Tim Stellmach and lead engineer Will Teixeira.
Seoul, 13.04.2018: Dead Ground: Arena from Korean developer VRillAR launches on Steam today, offering a first glimpse at the upcoming VR-shooter, Dead GroundZ with a showcase of its Arena mode. Owners of the HTC Vive can experience exciting, action-packed fights against up to thirty different types of enemy in an atmospheric environment that brings the threat to life. Players are armed with a broad choice of weapons ranging from a Freeze Ray to grenades so that they may defend themselves against relentless hordes of the undead.
With years of VR-experience, developer VRillAR is branching out to conquer the gaming sector with its first entry onto the scene, Dead Ground: Arena. The ambitious Korean studio has designed an exciting, first-person shooter in a gorgeous Unreal 4 Engine environment that throws the player into an immersive, zombie-infested VR world. As an agent of the secret organisation, Blackrain, players take on a range of missions in which they must fend of unrelenting hordes of enemies. To tackle the challenges of the standalone Arena mode, they are equipped with a broad armoury, ranging from realistic military weapons and grenades to more exotic ones such as a Freeze Ray or the all-time favorite Gravity Gun. VRillAR sets new standards for VR gun handling and provides in Dead Ground: Arena a realistic, threatening world full of zombies.
Dead Ground: Arena is available in English with 34% launch discount for €9,89/$9.99 on Steam as well as via Viveport. An HTC Vive is required to play.
April 13, 2018 – Vampyr, DONTNOD Entertainment’s upcoming action-RPG, releases June 5 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. Pre-order now at selected retailers, and receive a limited edition vinyl featuring a selection of Vampyr’s soundtrack*, composed by multi-award winner and BAFTA nominee Olivier Derivière.
Derivière is best known for composing the soundtracks to a wealth of games including Get Even, Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag Freedom Cry, The Technomancer, Remember Me,and more. Here, his marriage of fierce cello performed by Eric-Maria Couturier from Ensemble Intercontemporain de Paris and industrial textures provide the perfect companion to Vampyr’s ferocious combat and the inner struggle of protagonist Dr. Jonathan Reid.
In this limited sound selection, enjoy hand-picked tracks from Vampyr’s soundtrack, mastered with Derivière’s supervision in high fidelity and pressed on transparent blood-red vinyl. With 40 minutes of music in total, immerse yourself in DONTNOD’s dark vision of 1918 London.
*Available for preorders while supplies last on the following territories: France (Micromania), Nordics (GameStop), Spain (GAME), Benelux (Game Mania), Poland (Empik), Australia (JB HI-FI), Portugal (FNAC). Final artwork subject to change.
For early buyers in Germany (GameStop) and Australia (EB Games), while stocks last, players can also get the Limited Edition of DONTNOD Entertainment’s Vampyr for PlayStation 4 for the price of the standard edition! This special bundle features the game on PS4, in addition to a selection of physical and digital bonuses. In total, the Vampyr Limited Edition contains:
Boxed copy of the game for PS4, with exclusive Limited Edition sleeve
Code for the Hunters Heirlooms DLC
Set of 3 exclusive lithographs
Double-side poster of the in-game map and stunning art
Vampyr will release on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC on June 5. Preorders are open.
Oslo, Norway – April 13th, 2018 – “Live. Love. Burn with life. Slay and survive,” says the world’s greatest barbarian as he thrusts another exile into the deadly beautiful open-world of the Exiled Lands. Soon, gamers on PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 will get to do just that.
After 14 months of Early Access, Conan Exiles finally receives its full launch on May 8th, becoming available all over the world digitally and in physical retail. Today, Funcom kicks off the countdown to launch on www.conanexiles.com and fires off a brand new trailer that captures how the new Conan Exiles will look and play on May 8th. Funcom has also released a blog post today detailing exactly what’s coming to the game at launch. And there’s a lot.
“We wanted to make sure leaving Early Access is something more than just removing the Early Access label and saying we’re done,” says Funcom CEO Rui Casais. “Besides being the first time it’s available on PlayStation 4, the launch of Conan Exiles brings with it a massive expansion of the game world, game-changing new features such as monster invasions known as the purge and an entirely new action-oriented combat system, as well as many other major additions that truly makes this the ultimate vision of Conan Exiles. If you were ever on the fence, or you are just discovering it for the first time, May 8th is the time to join the adventure.”
Conan Exiles entered Early Access on PC on January 31st 2017. The game is an open-world survival game set in the brutal lands of Conan the Barbarian. Here players must survive in a savage world, build their kingdom, and dominate their enemies in brutal combat and epic warfare. You start with nothing but your bare hands and forge the legacy of your clan, building anything from a small home to gigantic fortresses and entire cities. Wage war using swords, bows, siege weapons, and even take control of giant avatars of the gods and lay waste to enemy cities. Conan Exiles can be experienced in both local single-player and in persistent online multiplayer.
14 April 2018 – Reykjavik, Iceland – Today at EVE Fanfest, CCP announced ‘Into the Abyss,’ the newest expansion for EVE Online, their deep and uniquely player-driven spaceship MMO game. Launching in May 2018, EVE Online: Into the Abyss will be delivered as a free update to all players, both for those with subscriptions and those playing for free.
EVE Online: Into the Abyss injects ground-breaking, transformative gameplay into EVE Online and presents a new adventure for players, inviting them to explore dangerous uncharted territory with strange new inhabitants and potentially vast rewards. This content will be just as unfamiliar to veteran EVEplayers as it is to novice players entering the game today.
‘Into the Abyss’ adds exciting exploration and survival gameplay in the form of Abyssal Deadspace, a brand new hostile environment filled with hazardous environmental effects and mysterious adversaries, the Triglavian Collective. Players can enter pockets of Abyssal Deadspace from almost anywhere in New Eden. On entry, players fight and explore their way through a series of unpredictable encounters, using their skills to take on growing risks in the hope of coming out the other side with high value cargo.
Players will be searching for the new mutaplasmids, only found in Abyssal Deadspace. Mutaplasmids can be combined with existing modules to transform them into Abyssal modules, potentially increasing their power vastly or breaking them beyond repair. However, the challenges that players confront become more difficult the deeper they venture into Abyssal Deadspace… and failure means death. Faced with increasing danger from perilous encounters; do you continue and risk your spaceship in the hope of finding greater riches, or return home to exploit your rewards?
Celebrating its 15th anniversary in May, EVE Online is the world’s most renowned videogame sandbox, with a rich history of compelling stories, battles, triumph and defeat. Players have near limitless ability to create their own destiny in the context of hundreds of thousands of capsuleers worldwide, choosing their own unique way to live amongst the stars, wage war, broker deals, harvest resources, gain and lose territory and all the adventures in-between.
“At CCP, our mission is to build together with our players a true virtual world, with real relationships and real emotions and consequently, real stories,” said Hilmar Veigar Pétursson, CCP’s Chief Executive Officer. “With EVE Onlineremaining strong and vibrant after 15 years, we have made great strides towards realizing that ambition. Nevertheless, I truly feel that our best work is ahead of us and that EVE‘s amazing single-shard sandbox design will continue to dazzle, amaze and eventually outlive us all.”
To celebrate 15 glorious years of player and community achievements in EVE Online, CCP Games has released this video: https://youtu.be/xAVIhKdspl8
This is the most exciting time to join EVE Online. New, unexplored space has just been discovered that all players can reach. What is beyond? And who are the Triglavians?
More details about EVE Online‘s previous, current and future updates can be found via updates.eveonline.com. EVE Online can be downloaded for free by visiting www.eveonline.com.
IRVINE, California—April 12, 2018—The hunt is on as Hearthstone® players set out to lift the malevolent curse twisting The Witchwood™, the newest expansion for Blizzard Entertainment’s smash-hit digital card game. The Witchwood unleashes 135 hair-raising new cards and marks the beginning of a new Hearthstone Year: The Year of the Raven.
A vile magic has taken root in the woods surrounding the city of Gilneas, and the lycanthropic townspeople ready themselves for a showdown with whatever lurks in the dark heart of the forest. As players venture deep into The Witchwood, they’ll encounter uncanny new cards and gameplay mechanics, such as the eerie new Echo keyword. Echo cards can be cast multiple times in a turn, as long as players have enough mana to pay the price. In addition, rumors tell of two powerful Legendary minions—Baku the Mooneater and Genn Greymane—that present grizzled deck-builders with a unique challenge: use only odd- or even-cost cards in exchange for a game-changing Hero Power boost.
“The Witchwood brings a spooky Azeroth fairytale to life in a uniquely Hearthstone way,” said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. “We can’t wait to see players sink their teeth into all the new cards and start shifting their deck-building strategies around Echo and the other new mechanics.”
In two weeks, the adventure will continue with the addition of Monster Hunts, a free new single-player mode that will take players into the forest to strike at the source of The Witchwood’s wicked curse. Stay tuned for further details about Monster Hunts very soon.
Today also marks the beginning of the new Hearthstone Year—The Year of the Raven. Each Hearthstone Year ushers in a fresh set of cards for the Standard competitive format, drastically changing the established meta and leading to more exploration and variety in deck types. With this change, the Whispers of the Old Gods™, One Night in Karazhan™, and Mean Streets of Gadgetzan™ card sets will become playable exclusively in the Wild format, where players are able to draw from every set released to date for Hearthstone.
The Witchwoodis available now for Windows® and Mac® PCs; Windows, iOS, and Android™ tablets; and iOS and Android phones. Card packs can be purchased individually or in discounted bundles from the in-game Shop for gold or real-world currency at the same price as all other Hearthstone card packs. Players now have the chance to win The Witchwood card packs as quest rewards or prizes in the Arena, and can also craft cards from the expansion by using Arcane Dust collected from disenchanting unwanted cards.
For a limited time, players who log in to Hearthstone will receive three The Witchwood card packsand afree random Legendary card for one of the game’s nine Hero classes in celebration of the expansion’s launch.
Visit TheWitchwood.com to learn more about the expansion and prepare for the hunt.
April 12, 2018 – An uneasy peace lay across the British Isles following Alfred the Great’s victory over the Viking invaders. The kings of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, and the freshly settled Danes, sensed a time of opportunity. Ambition smouldered within the courts, and securing loyalty from within was paramount to both the success – and survival – of a ruler.
Assuming the role of the English, the Gaels, the Welsh, the Great Viking Army or the Viking Sea-Kings, players of Thrones of Britannia must master the dark arts of politics, employing every method from the arrangement of marriages and the gifting of estates to bribery and – in extreme cases – assassination.
The new Politics & Intrigue Feature Spotlight video, released today, delves into some of the machinations which may occur as you maintain rule in the fractured and fragile British Isles.
How will you negotiate the nest of intrigue?
A Total War Saga: THRONES OF BRITANNIA will be available from 3rd of May and is available to pre-order digitally from SEGA approved digital retailers* with a 10% discount. Additionally, Creative Assembly will donate 25% of their profit from every pre-sale of Thrones of Britannia from now until launch, to War Child UK.
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN – April 12, 2018 – Independent developer Fatshark today announced that Warhammer: Vermintide 2 has surpassed one million units soldwithin five weeks after being released on PC.
“We are genuinely humbled by the reception of Warhammer: Vermintide 2 from gamers all over the world” says Martin Wahlund, CEO Fatshark. “We reached half a million units within the first week, and one million within five weeks, which is far quicker than we ever expected.”
Vermintide 2 is a visually stunning and ground breaking melee action game pushing the boundaries of the first person co-op genre. Set during the apocalyptic End Times of the Warhammer world – the game introduces the dark, bloody and twisted forces of Chaos as an enemy faction. Other new features include 15 hero careers, new environments, talent trees and the proprietary Heroic Deeds System.
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is also coming to Sony Playstation 4™ and Xbox One, the all-in-one games and entertainment system from Microsoft. Console BETAs will be available during the spring.
Moscow, Russian Federation, April 12, 2018 – 1C Company is excited to announce the release of the legendary role-playing space game SPACE RANGERS LEGACY for mobile and tablet – iOS (iPhone) and Android.
Destroy the cybernetic fleet and save the Universe! Set on an adventure in the world of the breath-taking cosmic saga. Help the Coalition to oppose the intransigent enemy — cybernetic Dominators, who aim to conquer all galaxy — one-star system after another. You’ll need to stop Dominators by destroying their key nerve centres. Make alliances with the sapient races, accomplish versatile missions, defeat space pirates and be victorious!
Features
Explore all ways of completing the game
While you are playing, the universe lives and develops on its own: the star systems undergo change of powers, even the quest objectives might change or perish. The sandbox-style gameplay guarantees that each walkthrough would be unique.
Uncover all galaxy secrets
On your way to the Victory you will meet new races, work on sophisticated planetary research, brawl with space pirates and resolve unusual quests.
Plunge into the game world
Do what you want to do — trade or steal, rob or protect. Your game reputation impacts the walkthrough.
Command ship in tactical battles with active pause
Take your best space ship and weaponry, gather a team of trustworthy allies and show the Dominators who is the best ranger in the galaxy!
Compared to the earlier iPad-only version this release features multiple changes following the voice of community:
Fully re-done “Tutorial”
Enhanced graphics, additional SFX added;
Developed new expanded and user-friendly interface, adapted for modern mobile platforms;
Improved auto-attack
The game has been optimized and cleaned off multiple minor bugs
SPACE RANGERS LEGACY is a unique combination of genres: real-time RPG with strategy elements, space simulator with trading features, arcade and a text quest. It never gets boring. The stellar romanticism awaits!
Irvine, California – April 11th, 2018 – Video games publisher Versus Evil in partnership with Obsidian Entertainment today unveiled a digital scavenger hunt for all Pillars of Eternity fans that lets them unlock special in-game items for Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire when it releases on May 8th, 2018.
The Explorer’s Society Scavenger Hunt encourages gamers to search for secret codes ‘hidden’ in a variety of online and printed promotional assets for Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire. To take part, they simply have to sign up at the official website www.deadfirescavenger.com by using their existing Obsidian.net account, or by creating a new one. After connecting their Steam profiles, they can start hunting down codes wherever they can find them and then enter them on Obsidian.net. Doing so unlocks up to 10 digital in-game items. Each item requires a different number of codes to unlock and progress is tracked via the official site.
Codes have been hidden in all manner of game-related assets, from concept art, to screenshots, to GIFs and trailers.
Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire will release on May 8th for PC, MAC and Linux.
