Townsmen is HandyGames’ longest-running IP spanning well over a decade and dozens of versions across countless devices. Needless to say, we love our Townies, so it was an easy decision to give them a home within the virtual reality realm. And what better way to bring them to life than with the upcoming PlayStation®VR2 headset? Leveraging the power of the PlayStation®5 (PS5™) console and the unique haptic capabilities of the PlayStation VR2 Sense controller, our builders, farmers, hunters, and soldiers feel more lifelike than ever before.
Townsmen VR will be available on February 22nd, 2023, for PS VR2 on your PS5 system and will be sold as both a digital and, thanks to THQ Nordic, a physical version.
Pre-order today via the PlayStation™Store
Or via Amazon: USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy
Your Excellency, we have great news to share: The people have shown their appreciation for your leadership, as evidenced by the accolades and praise they have bestowed upon you!
The release of Knights of Honor II: Sovereign in December 2022 has been met with widespread acclaim from both critics and players. We invite you to view the new accolades trailer to see the positive feedback for yourself. Moreover, as a special treat, we have arranged for you to have an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the game’s soundtrack.
We are also excited to announce that Knights of Honor II: Sovereign is ready to be played on GeForce Now — giving gamers instant access to GeForce PC performance, on nearly any device.
SQUARE ENIX® is pleased to announce that the award-winning Life is Strange™ 2 will arrive on Nintendo Switch™ on February 2, 2023. The game is also now available for pre-order on the Nintendo eShop.
Experience the critically acclaimed Life is Strange 2 on-the-go for the very first time on Nintendo Switch.
Life is Strange 2 is a narrative-adventure in which your decisions influence both the game’s story and characters. You play as sixteen-year-old Sean Diaz, a normal kid growing up in the suburbs of Seattle. After your younger brother Daniel’s telekinetic powers are unleashed by a traumatic incident, you are forced to abandon your home and flee from the police. As a big brother, you are solely responsible for not only Daniel’s safety, shelter, and wellbeing – but also how he grows to harness his power as you travel across the USA in an attempt to cross the border into Mexico.
Experience life on the road and the new, interesting, and sometimes dangerous people and situations you encounter when you step off the beaten path.
Join the Diaz brothers for the journey of a lifetime on Nintendo Switch– the choices you make along this trip will define them forever.
Life is Strange 2 is available to pre-order now from the Nintendo eShop and will release on February 2, 2023.
Completing a word search, having a nice snack or watching the security cameras — it’s all in a day’s work as The Barclay Institute’s night shift security guard. What starts as a normal day on the same old job, takes a turn for the worse in Developer Fear of Corn’s thriller Interference: Dead Air set to release on Steam on February 2nd, 2023. Unfortunately, security guards don’t make a lot of cash so no one will really blame players that want to goof off a little.
Interference: Dead Air is a narrative-driven science fiction thriller set completely inside a small security booth at a mysterious institute in the middle of the desert. As security guard it’s up to you to keep an eye on things inside and outside of The Barclay Institute. When the building is suddenly overrun by enemies, players will have to make some difficult decisions (or no decisions at all) to save the scientists trapped inside (or not).
Players will have a few things motivating them throughout the game including radio conversations with their best friend, a scientist currently inside The Barclay Institute. Juggle these radio conversations, track dangers on your map board and reroute power throughout the facility. If the stress becomes too much, players can always go back to goofing off and listening to the 80s synth jams on the FM radio.
While each playthrough is only about 20 minutes long, the game’s branching narrative will make it so that no two playthroughs will be exactly alike. Jump in again and try something different. Maybe save a few folks the second time around instead of watching TV. Or do absolutely nothing. We get it.
Features:
Actions Matter: Every decision the player makes (or doesn’t make) is valid. Wanna be an asshole? Sure. A pushover? Go for it! Or you can just leave. We won’t stop you.
Multitask: Monitor your radio, computer, and map to lead your friend to safety. You’d just better hope the power doesn’t go out.
Tune Out: Your booth is outfitted with all sorts of distractions. Shoot a few hoops or unwind with a relaxing word search puzzle. We know you have a lot on your plate managing a massive security breach and keeping your best friend alive, but you do you.
Atmospheric Setting: The desert is spooky, mysterious, and kinda lonely… the perfect place to contemplate your worldly insignificance!
Original Soundtrack: The 80s called, they want their synthesizers back.
Replayability: A 20-minute(ish), branching narrative adventure that plays out in real-time, with no two playthroughs exactly alike.
Dune: Spice Wars, the 4X real-time strategy game from Northgard developer Shiro Games and co-publisher Funcom, continues to expand with today’s major Line in the Sand Update. Shiro Games have added a huge amount of content since the beginning of its prolific Early Access phase, including multiplayer, a new faction, flying units, new buildings, and much more.
Today’s update adds and improves content across the board, including many requests by the community. Players can now review and flaunt their performance through an entirely new and highly requested feature – an end of game stats board. Military units have also been rebalanced and received major AI improvements.
Additionally, map generation and starting spawns have been improved to create fairer game starts, and a Landsraad bar has been added that shows the various phases of the intricate system, making them easier to track. Moreover, there are new regions, military gear, village traits, spying operations, and councilor reworks, just to name a few.
Made with the fan of the Dune universe’s intrigue in mind, Dune: Spice Wars provides the perfect theater for the dramatic tension of Great Houses vying for control of the spice. Lead your favorite faction and unfold your plan, striking when they least expect it.
Dune: Spice Wars will release out of Early Access this year. Experience the unique combination of 4X and real-time strategy gameplay with friends or solo. Discover more on https://spicewars.dunegames.com.
Developer Astrolabe Interactive has announced that a new demo update for co-op floating island survival sandbox game Aloft is now available on PC via Steam in celebration of the platform’s Base Builder and Games From Quebec Festivals. The award-winning title is slated for launch on the platform early next year.
The demo update arrives after a year of remarkable achievements and community milestones for the title. In addition to earning distinction as a finalist in Ubisoft’s Indie Series 2022, a finalist in Gamescom 2022’s Big Indie Pitch, and an honorable mention in the Indie Cup Canada 2022 awards, Aloft has captivated Steam players with over 32,000 demo users (with an average playtime of 2 hours each), more than 300 video and streams with over 3 million views across YouTube and Twitch, more than 1,300 Discord community members, and nearly 50,000 organic Steam wishlists since June 2022 – no small feat for an independently developed title!
As seen in today’s trailer, Aloft’s new demo content includes new characters and monsters, new environments, an overhaul of the game’s survival system, a new simplified building mode, a new photo mode, UI and icon improvements, new sounds, new animations, gliding controls, and new features like cooking, campfires, fireplaces, doors, windows and more.
In Aloft, players must survive on islands floating around an eternal hurricane sitting at the center of their world. After building a base and calling any of these islands home, would-be adventurers can outfit their enclave with sails to travel the winds so that they may discover new territories and collect resources, technologies, and equipment upgrades. On their journey, travelers must cleanse nature of dangerous fungi that contaminate flora and corrupt wildlife in order to free and heal the ecosystem from harm. As they make progress on their expedition through the sky, players will uncover the secrets of a lost civilization and find their origins by soaring to the highest altitudes of this mysterious new realm.
“Our team is honored for the accolades Aloft has received from esteemed members of the industry so far. It is a testament to the game’s sense of wonder, ingenuity, and unbridled fun,” says Manuel, CEO of Astrolabe Interactive. “We are excited to participate in more Steam festivals this year to show off all the improvements we have made to Aloft’s popular demo since its debut last summer. Get ready to set sail on an overhauled floating island adventure.”
The final version of Aloft will include the following key features:
Key Features:
Creative Sail Crafting – Build the perfect sails for your floating island. Adjust the height and width of masts, rotate and expand your canvas, move around anchor points, and inflate/deflate the cloth to craft any decoration you can imagine. Use your sails to move your island and navigate the sky. Fly on wind currents and jet streams to move faster.
Head In The Clouds – Craft buildings to protect you from the harsh wind or simply let the wind pass through. Use your glider to move quickly across your archipelago of floating islands. Farm crops and raise livestock by gathering water from passing clouds, erect windmills that automate your machines, and admire the amazing view. Jump off and fly freely using your glider. Dance among the clouds with a friendly bird or two.
Cleanse Corruption – Some islands are corrupted by a dangerous form of fungal infection. Toxic and colorful mushrooms grow on top of contaminated flora and poison the local wildlife. Develop treatments for various forms of fungi and cleanse the islands of infection. Gain access to new animal companions, livestock, crops, and resources by healing and freeing the ecosystem.
Brave The Hurricane – A giant hurricane in the middle of the map hides the answers to your past and future in its eye. Endure rock fragments, lightning strikes, toxic spores and freezing temperatures to complete your journey through the tempest. If you listen closely, the bellows of ancient leviathans can be heard through the storm…
Wind Automation – Build windmills to harness the power of the hurricane and automate machines across your island. Optimize your windmill placement and chase the best winds to power your production. Create automated oars for navigation, machines for crafting advanced resources, or traps to protect your islands against enemies.
Island Editor – Create your own floating island in Aloft’s Island Editor. Save it and show it off in your world, or export and transfer it to a friend’s game.
8-Player Co-op – Jump into an adventure with up to 7 other friends and conquer the skies together. Chain attacks while fighting as a group, take on a meaningful role in your day-to-day activities, and sail as a team to explore and discover more of Aloft’s world.
A free demo for Aloft is now available for PC via Steam. The game will launch on the platform in early 2024. To keep up to date with the latest information on the title, please join our Discord community, like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, follow us on Instagram, visit our website, and visit the game’s Steam page.
Indie game developer and simulation specialist FeelThere is proud to introduce the worldwide release of Tower! Simulator 3 – the latest generation of air traffic control (ATC) simulation games featuring unparalleled immersion. Available on PC STEAM™ and directly from the developer website, Tower! Simulator 3 offers advanced voice recognition, custom-modeled and highly detailed airports, state-of-the-art lighting, geometry, and textures. A successor to the critically acclaimed Tower! series of simulation games, Tower! Simulator 3 enables you to control planes to and from the active runway or watch them take off and land from the tower. Raising the bar and setting the gold standard for air traffic control simulation, the game was designed to allow aviation fans, enthusiasts, ATC students, and anyone interested in air traffic control to play and practice controlling from their living room.
Game Trailer:
Tower! Simulator 3 offers an impressive showcase of cutting-edge technology, such as ultra-high-resolution imagery and an entirely rewritten weather system. Catering to simulation specialists and advanced players, the game is suitable as a training tool for universities, students, and ATC centers. With the support and feedback from a network of aviation professionals, such as the Department of Aviation of Hampton University, the game continues to impress with its realism.
Tower! Simulator 3 features many impressive features, such as detailed real-world locations, using Open Street Map that makes it possible to model most of the surrounding area with incredible detail with amazing realistic lighting, simulated in real-time, much like the technology used by movie studios. While some airports are available in the base download, others will be available separately. Included is the Raleigh-Durham (KRDU) airport in North Carolina. It has a main runway (5L-23R), a parallel runway (5R-23L), and a short runway (14-32) to serve its fluid regional traffic. Another all-time favorite included is the St. Thomas Cyril E. King International Airport (TIST), with a single runway (10-28) but with the spectacular natural surroundings of a Caribbean Island; many more are included as well. The ground radar has been improved with a modern look and feel, rendered in glorious 3D, allowing the player to enjoy the entire airport and the ability to zoom into specific areas on selected screens. The strips are now paperless. It’s your choice to move and edit them to your liking. Each airport can have a customizable digital strip display designed to look and operate like an analog stripboard. This will be a significant change with substantial benefits, making it easier for controllers to handle the traffic.
KEY FEATURES
Extensively customizable (radars, schedules, data strips, airplane characteristics)
Advanced voice recognition.
Realistic pilot voices provided by Acapela Group.
3D Tower view.
Multi-monitor support.
The commercial version of the software is used for air traffic controller training.
FeelThere is committed to improving the game by adding new features and more content over time; the plan is to add 2-3 new airports to the base game at no charge and make available additional airports as optional purchases. The growing community of players have some great ideas and excellent feedback always taken into consideration when new updates and patches are released to the public.
Tower! Simulator 3 is available via STEAM™ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2176130/Tower_Simulator_3/ A series of optional addons have already been released, adding even more content and cool features to the game, and a dedicated playlist of tutorial videos is available via YouTube.
Comedy Central today announced that the 26th season of the renowned series, “South Park,” will premiere Wednesday, February 8th. The Emmy® and Peabody® Award-winning, animated series returns to Comedy Central where it has aired on Wednesday nights since 1997. The new season will also roll out on Comedy Central internationally throughout 2023.
All-new episodes will be available to stream in HD on SouthPark.cc.com, CC.com and the Comedy Central App post-premiere.
Last summer, Comedy Central celebrated the historic 25th anniversary of cable’s longest running scripted series with “South Park: The 25th Anniversary Concert”. Filmed at Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre, the concert, starring Trey Park and Matt Stone, Primus and Ween with a special appearance by members of the band, RUSH, premiered on August 13, 2022, twenty five years to the day the series premiered on Comedy Central. It is currently available on Paramount+.
MTV Entertainment Studios’ expansive deal with Parker and Stone includes extending “South Park” on Comedy Central through 2027 and taking the series through an unprecedented 30th season. In addition to the series extension, the deal includes 14 “South Park” original made-for-streaming events exclusively for Paramount+, including “SOUTH PARK: THE STREAMING WARS” PARTS 1 & 2, “SOUTH PARK: POST COVID” and “SOUTH PARK: POST COVID: THE RETURN OF COVID”. The series has earned five Emmy Awards, to date, and a George Foster Peabody Award.
Today, Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) announced that EA SPORTS™ PGA TOUR™ will be launching on March 24, 2023 for PlayStation®5, Xbox Series X|S and PC via the EA App, Steam and the Epic Games Store. Pre-orders begin today for EA SPORTS PGA TOUR, the exclusive home of all four majors in men’s golf – the Masters Tournament, PGA Championship™, U.S. Open Championship™ and The Open.
In addition, EA SPORTS PGA TOUR will launch with Road to the Masters which brings tradition and unmatched stakes featuring Augusta National, challenges, tournaments and gear tied to the Masters. The Masters made its first-ever virtual appearance with EA SPORTS in 2011, and its return to video games has been highly requested by golf fans. EA SPORTS will also provide more details on additional live service content throughout the 2023 PGA TOUR and LPGA Tour seasons.
“We’re bringing the premier PGA TOUR experience to players around the world with real-world golf data powering incredibly realistic gameplay with every shot, and some of the most iconic courses in the world rendered in painstaking detail,” said Cam Weber, EVP and GM, EA SPORTS. “From The Old Course at St Andrews Links to Pebble Beach Golf Links and more, we’re giving players the chance to tee off in bucket list golf experiences like never before in EA SPORTS PGA TOUR.”
EA SPORTS PGA TOUR released the official gameplay trailer today, featuring the all-new Pure Strike shot system. The full trailer can be seen on EA SPORTS PGA TOUR’s YouTube channel, and can be watched here.
Pure Strike gives golf fans all the tools they need to realistically attack every hole on every course the same way the pros do. Featuring ShotLink® powered by CDW and TrackMan, Pure Strike also helps ensure that each professional golfer’s unique swing and attributes will be accurately reflected in the game. Pure Strike incorporates the three parts of every golf shot – fluid swing mechanics that are highly accurate to a player’s backswing length and speed of follow through, innovative ball behavior allowing every bounce and roll to behave more accurately across a variety of terrain and course conditions, and lifelike course dynamics that play true to their real life course counterparts.
In addition to being the exclusive home of all four men’s majors, EA SPORTS PGA TOUR is filled with experiences and content players have been asking for in a golf game, including:
World Famous Courses – The tee is yours at 30 courses, including some of the world’s most prominent venues such as Augusta National Golf Club, Pebble Beach Golf Links, Southern Hills Country Club, The Old Course at St Andrews Links, The Country Club, Kiawah Island Golf Resort’s Ocean Course, Torrey Pines, Evian Resort Golf Club in Évian-les-Bains, France, East Lake Golf Club, TPC Southwind, The Los Angeles Country Club, Wilmington Country Club and more. EA SPORTS PGA TOUR will also feature the past major host courses in 2021 and 2022 as well as the new 2023 majors courses releasing post-launch.
Your Career, Your Way – EA SPORTS PGA TOUR provides players with an RPG-like progression system on the Road to the Masters. As their golf game improves, the closer they’ll be to becoming a major champion. Players will be able to create and customize a golfer, develop their skills and master each course to attack every hole like a pro. With 20 shot types available as players progress in the game, they can enhance their skill set for driving, approach, short game, or putting, depending on their style. Players will be able to compete to become a major champion, and take on the PGA TOUR’s best events in the season-long chase for the FedExCup, as well as conquer the top Amateur Championships including the Augusta National Women’s Amateur, the U.S. Amateur, and other elite international amateur events.
THE PLAYERS Championship and FedExCup Playoffs – The PLAYERS Championship and all three events of the FedExCup Playoffs will be in the game, and players can earn in-game FedExCup points in Career Mode for the opportunity to compete in the FedExCup Playoffs. As part of the Career mode, top golfers at the end of the year will be given the opportunity to win the FedExCup.
Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) and The Amundi Evian Championship – In partnership with the LPGA, EA SPORTS PGA TOUR allows fans to compete at The Amundi Evian Championship, one of the LPGA Tour’s five major championships, and have the opportunity to play as several female athletes as well as create a female golfer in the overhauled Create-A-Player feature. Players will also be able to participate in a series of LPGA-themed challenges and other events. Iona Stephen will be joining the EA commentary team as the first female on-course commentator in-game, bringing her experienced insights from both playing professionally and working in golf broadcasting.
True-to-Life Course Visuals – EA SPORTS PGA TOUR will also present the most realistic visuals in any golf game utilizing EA’s Frostbite™ engine. Using state-of-the-art equipment such as drone technology, custom LiDAR flight helicopters and more to develop terrain maps, EA SPORTS PGA TOUR depicts courses exactly as they appear in real life. The photogrammetry and scanners were also applied to create precise renderings of clubhouses, iconic vegetation, bridges, tee markers, rock formations, and other on-course elements offering players life-like visual experiences of their favorite courses.
ShotLink® – Utilizing ShotLink® powered by CDW, the PGA TOUR’s proprietary real-time scoring system since 2001, golfers will authentically be replicated with accurate player ratings, skills and magnified true-to-life in-game events.
TrackMan Data – Insights implemented from TrackMan, a world leader in 3D ball flight measurement and swing analysis, is a critical component to authentic gameplay utilizing a myriad of stats including club tuning, flight trajectory, landing position and much more.
Pre-orders for EA SPORTS PGA TOUR are now available, including the Deluxe Edition where players will receive three-day early access to the game and Augusta National, THE PLAYERS Championship Gear, The Grand Slam Gear Bundle, Scotty Cameron Putter in-game, 1,500 Premium PGA TOUR points, a PGA TOUR XP Bundle and The Masters gear*. EA Play** members will also receive early access to the game, starting with a 10-hour early access trial on March 21. EA Play Pro members will enjoy unlimited access to the Deluxe Edition of the game – as well as the exclusive EA Play Staff Bag – starting March 21. Lastly, all EA Play members will unlock additional bonuses for EA SPORTS PGA TOUR, with monthly drops of Pro Shop perks such as exclusive headcovers, shirts, hats and more.
For more details on EA SPORTS PGA TOUR, and to register for email updates, visit www.ea.com/games/pga-tour. Follow @EASPORTSPGATOUR on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram for the latest updates.
Developer Fallen Leaf has just partnered with Dear Villagers on the upcoming cinematic sci-fi adventure Fort Solis. Explore an abandoned mining facility on Mars, solve the mystery of the missing crew, and make crucial decisions when Fort Solis comes to PC this Summer.
Fort Solis has you assume the role of engineer Jack Leary, as he spends the longest night of his life on an isolated mining base on Mars. Explore Fort Solis station at your own pace, gathering clues from its bunkers, labs, crew quarters, and harsh, stormy surface to understand what enigmatic horrors befell its inhabitants. As the night grows longer events escalate, spiral out of control, and the mystery as to what’s really going on deepens. You must race against time to locate the Fort Solis crew members and escape to tell the tale!
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Utilizing the power of Unreal Engine 5, Fort Solis offers an intricately immersive setting in the deepest reaches of space. Featuring a first class crew that includes Red Dead Redemption 2 lead Roger Clark, Troy Baker (The Last of Us, Death Stranding), and Julia Brown (The Last Kingdom, World on Fire), Fort Solis grounds you in its hard sci-fi drama with no camera cuts, load times, or HUD. Fort Solis’ cinematic ambitions can be seen in the movie poster-inspired key art for its main cast below.
Make tough decisions in real time as you piece together the sinister forces that have befallen Fort Solis. Your actions will have key consequences, leading to multiple endings. Do you have what it takes to solve the mystery of Fort Solis and report back alive?
“We’re all fans of hard sci-fi and horror, so with Fort Solis we wanted to create a tense, classic sci-fi tale that players are free to piece together at their own pace,” said James Tinsdale, Game Director at Fallen Leaf. “To us immersion was the key factor here, and we’re very proud of all the work our team and our collaborators have done in bringing Fort Solis to life. It’s such a fully realized, lived in place, and we’re thrilled for everyone to discover it when it launches later this year.”
“Dear Villagers seeks to bring people new and engaging experiences, and Fort Solis is exactly that,” said Guillaume Jamet, Head of Publishing for Dear Villagers. “We’re so happy to have partnered with Fallen Leaf, as Fort Solis offers such a unique mix of narrative-driven adventure, open-ended exploration, immersive sim interaction, and chilling, ominous atmosphere. We love its vision, and are confident you will too!”
