Fast Travel Games and co-developer Windswept Interactive today launched Ghost Signal: A Stellaris Game for Meta Quest 2. Set in Paradox Interactive’s hit universe, Ghost Signal: A Stellaris Game is a VR action roguelite that tasks players with captaining the Aurora and setting out into uncharted space in search of the enigmatic Ghost Signal. Aspiring space captains can purchase the game now on the Meta Quest Store for $19.99.
In Ghost Signal: A Stellaris Game, outer space comes vividly to VR with breathtaking visuals and dynamic audio for an immersive intergalactic experience. With a thorough tutorial, suspenseful narrative, and unpredictable encounters, explorers will uncover something different in every playthrough. While Ghost Signal: A Stellaris Game is set in the Stellaris universe, familiarity with the hit grand strategy game is not required to enjoy its engaging story or fast-paced combat.
Ghost Signal: A Stellaris Game features:
INTERSTELLAR SPACE BATTLES: Use the whole artillery of the Aurora against enemy armadas. Loot or purchase power-ups like freeze rays, atomic missiles, or dragon companions.
A UNIVERSE FULL OF WONDERS: As captain of the Aurora, encounter strange aliens in their home worlds and enter lost temples in the pursuit of the mysterious signal that seems to defy even death.
UPGRADE & CUSTOMIZE: Scan exotic creatures for the logbook and conduct research in multiple tech trees. Asynchronous multiplayer allows captains to scavenge other players’ deserted ships for valuables.
A NEVER-ENDING JOURNEY: Alongside story mode where randomized maps make every session unique, Ghost Signal: A Stellaris Game includes daily challenges with global and local leaderboards to climb.
Ghost Signal: A Stellaris Game can also be played with Hand Tracking 2.0.
Leading video game publisher and developer Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc. today launched NI NO KUNI™ II: REVENANT KINGDOM – PRINCE’S EDITION, bringing an enhanced version of the popular RPG first released in 2018 to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and Windows PC. The title is also now available for all subscribers on Xbox Game Pass. For more information, please visit: www.bandainamcoent.com/games/ni-no-kuni-ii
NI NO KUNI II: REVENANT KINGDOM – PRINCE’S EDITION takes players on an epic journey as Evan, a boy prince who learns how to become a leader and build a new kingdom. The game features a charming story with many explorable locations, and numerous quests for players to uncover, where they will face off in exciting real-time battles against fearsome creatures. The experience is set in a beautifully crafted world, with music created by renowned composer Joe Hisaishi and character designs created by Yoshiyuki Momose.
Razer, the leading global lifestyle brand for gamers, has launched two VR accessories for Meta Quest 2 – the Razer Adjustable Head Strap System and the Razer Facial Interface. Announced at CES 2023, these VR accessories were designed in collaboration with ResMed, a leading expert in human factors, to enhance VR gameplay and increase comfort.
Here are more details about the products:
Razer Adjustable Head Strap
Razer Adjustable Head Strap: Designed for long-lasting comfort and weight-balanced support, this head strap is made with high-performance nylon material to provide reliability, comfort and durability. Meanwhile, the optimized weight distribution allows for more balance during active gameplay. The soft adjustable straps will help gamers find their perfect fit and quick slip-on design ensures little interruption in resuming gameplay.
Razer Facial Interface
Razer Facial Interface: Built to extend comfort and optimize support. Created with ultra-thin textured and profiled membranes, the Razer Facial Interface eliminates facial pressure and the use of medical grade, hypoallergenic materials helps to reduce skin irritation. The interface also blocks light while still providing ventilation, so gamers experience uncompromised immersion.
Deep Silver and Dambuster Studios today reveal the stylish opening cinematic of Dead Island 2 created by ELASTIC, the award-winning creative studio behind some of the most iconic title sequences in recent years.
Discover a Los Angeles now stained with blood and flooded with the undead as you immerse yourself in Dead Island 2’s unique pulp tone in preparation for a one-way ticket to HELL-A. View a deserted, viscera-drenched Hollywood Boulevard and the empty mansions of the rich and famous in Bel Air. Visit what was once known as the City of Angels and see what gory details await you in sunny, zombie-infested HELL-A.
Watch the Dead Island 2 title sequence here:
Dead Island 2 will release on April 21 for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, and PC via the Epic Games Store.
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The Dungeons & Dragons team at Wizards of the Coast is excited to announce that D&D Direct is scheduled for Tuesday, March 28 at 9:00 AM Pacific Time.
Tune in to watch a jam-packed 30-minute video presentation to see exclusive reveals from Wizards of the Coast and its partners, including the latest about the World’s Greatest Roleplaying Game along with entertainment tie-ins with the upcoming release of Paramount’s Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, video game reveals, and more, guided by hosts Gina Darling (@MissGinaDarling) and Ify Nwadiwe (@IfyNwadiwe).
Today Tindalos Interactive and Focus Entertainment, in collaboration with 20th Century Studios, announced that Aliens: Dark Descent, the strategic, real-time, squad-based tactical action game, will launch worldwide on June 20, 2023, for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and PC. Alongside the release date, the first gameplay video for this terrifying original tale set in the iconic Alien universe was also revealed, breaking down what players can expect when your ship crash lands on the planet Lethe.
Aliens: Dark Descent slings fans into the cold embrace of space, where they’ll have to employ a range of tactical abilities to unravel an authentic Alien narrative full of sinister secrets, iconic Xenomorphs and brand-new threats. Dive in and explore the horrors and wonders found within Aliens: Dark Descent’s cinematic narrative campaign.
Outsmart the Xenomorph threat and unearth Lethe’s secrets
Recruit, level up and command your squad of Colonial Marines in real time as one unit with intuitive controls on both keyboard and mouse or controller. Watch how commands issued over comms are swiftly obeyed by the marine best-equipped for the situation according to their abilities and equipment. Players will need to use their wits to navigate expansive, persistent and reactive levels and complete objectives. But be cautious and monitor each marine’s vitals – death is permanent for any who fall in combat.
Aliens: Dark Descent slithers onto PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and PC on June 20, 2023. For more information, visit the Focus Entertainment website.
Raw Fury has announced that Kingdom Eighties, the next standalone game in the award-winning micro-strategy series previously revealed for PC, will also launch later this year on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch. The news was unveiled at The MIX Direct Spring 2023 Online Showcase with a new gameplay teaser exploring the levels of Kingdom Eighties, which will take the franchise to urban settings for the first time. Raw Fury is currently booking press appointments for Kingdom Eighties at this week’s Game Developers Conference. Kingdom franchise creative director Gordon Van Dyke will be on hand to showcase an exclusive overview of the game’s second level.
Kingdom Eighties is a love letter to the nostalgic days of summer camps, riding bikes, and sitting around in your pajamas on a Saturday morning in front of the TV. You play as the Leader, a young camp counselor who must protect the town from the relentless attacks of the mysterious Greed. The neighborhood kids will be at your side, and you’ll also find some new friends along the way: The Champ, the Tinkerer, and the Wiz will lend you their skills and support in battle.
Key Features:
A Kingdom Game for All: Kingdom Eighties adds a new storytelling approach that builds on the series’ well-known mechanics. Recruit neighborhood kids, assign them roles as builders or soldiers, and expand your territory while uncovering the secrets of your family lineage, the Greed, and the Crown of Creation.
Stronger Together: You don’t have to ride alone in this story of four unlikely heroes and their friendship. The Champ, the Tinkerer and the Wiz will join your band and offer a variety of strategies to discover with their unique abilities.
Hit the Streets in Style: Travel to new locations never before seen in a Kingdom game, crafted with the series’ distinctive pixel-art magic. Find fresh wheels at the skateboard park, visit the shops on Main Street, and free the New Lands Mall from the Greed.
Kingdom Eighties is available to wishlist now on Steam. For more information, visit the game’s official website.
Today, EA SPORTS is diving deep into what players can expect from its most in-depth Career Mode for EA SPORTS PGA TOUR launching Friday, April 7. Detailed in the blog here, EA SPORTS PGA TOUR’s Career Mode allows fans to experience golf’s biggest events with their personally created golfer and a dynamic and adaptive progression system. Players can evolve their customized character’s skills with in-depth detail through skill progression, attributes, fine tuning shot types and much, much more.
Career Mode Customization
Players will begin their journey by customizing their golfer’s appearance with a variety of visual customizations, equipment options, and swing styles. Golfer swing styles can be adjusted by shifting the swing form, swing tempo, preferred shot types and ball trajectory through Career Mode. Players can also choose iconic and new-age golf brand equipment, selecting the specific club head, shaft, grips and more. Players can also outfit their golfer with top of the line clothing and accessories authentic to the sport.
The Road to Greatness
Players will then get to pick and choose where they want to begin their journey: as an amateur in one of the top amateur events, on the Korn Ferry Tour, or the PGA TOUR. As an amateur, players will be able to play the U.S. Amateur Championship, Augusta National Women’s Amateur, Amateur Championship, Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship, and Latin American Amateur Championship, culminating in Q-school where they’ll compete for a spot on the Korn Ferry Tour. An invitation to the Masters and U.S. Open will be sent once the amateur championships are conquered.
After players complete the Korn Ferry Tour, or if they choose to skip it, they’ll launch into the PGA TOUR, competing each week on golf’s biggest stages including the major championships to chase the legendary green jacket, a Grand Slam Title, race for the FedExCup, and more.
During Career Mode, players can use the “AI Pairings” setting to play shot-for-shot against an AI PGA TOUR pro, or turn it off to speed up the round and concentrate solely on the game. AI performance is based on official ShotLink data, so pros play each course and particular hole just like they would in real life.
Skill Progression and Shot Types
Career Mode utilizes an RPG-like style of progression where players can build their golfer’s skill set over time. Earning XP and Skill Points, and applying them to categories such as Power, Driving, Approach, Short Game and Putting will unlock new shot types and upgrades to assist them in succeeding as courses become more difficult.
The Season Hub is where players can regularly check their upgrades, view the entire calendar of events, track career progression and other milestones through the “Career Mastery” tab. Completed and ongoing Quests – sets of challenges categorized under either a course or a tournament – can also be viewed to develop skills and unlock new shot types. By completing different challenges, players can control the specs of their ball and club which offer customizable performance characteristics across the areas of power, accuracy, control, and recovery.
Attributes
Players will have a variety of attributes that can be influenced by completing quests throughout Career Mode:
Power – Upgrading this attribute adds more power and influences swing speed at tee off.
Accuracy – The higher the accuracy, the smaller the mishit and window sizes become.
Control – The higher the player’s control, the more accurately they’ll be able to influence grip, shot shaping accuracy and ball spin.
Recovery – Recovery decreases the impact of penalties applied when in bad lies such as rough and sand. Penalties include:
Carry distance penalty
The size of the range shown in the carry distance penalty window
Tear up the streets in Need for Speed™Unbound’s new update! Today, EA and Criterion Games released Need for Speed Unbound Volume 2, the first in a series of post-launch updates offering players new ways to compare and compete in Lakeshore Online, and even more opportunities to risk it all for rewards.
In Need for Speed Unbound Volume 2, players now have access to new features and rewards – including new rides, stickers, driving effects, cosmetics and more. Volume 2 also delivers fresh ways to compete with daily challenges, a variety of new playlists, events and the new Keys to the Map DLC. Whether it’s an exhilarating cop chase through the streets, racing against the clock in Hot Laps events or teaming up with friends to help knock the Heat off their tail, players must make the most of every twist and turn to prove they have what it takes to run Lakeshore’s streets.
A list of all the exciting content in Need for Speed Unbound Volume 2 can be found below:
New Ways to Hit the Streets: Enjoy a plethora of additional content, including Endurance Events and brand-new Rumble Races. Players can now provoke cops into thrilling high-speed multiplayer chases with the help of friends, or turn the tables to play against them to earn the biggest rewards.
More Ways to Play: Compete in 40 new challenges, including 3 new daily challenges to earn rewards including XP and Bank; players can also take on new Hot Laps circuits for an intense 30-second rush as they race against the clock to earn new reward content. New Playlist Events inject even more variety into the mix; complete Playlists to earn big rewards, including a Rare Custom Lotus Emira Balmain Edition.
Rewards: Players can show off their style on the streets of Lakeshore with new driving effects, poses, stickers and more.
Keys to the Map DLC: Now available for $4.99, this update reveals the map location of all 260 collectibles (100 Bears, 80 Street Art, and 80 Billboards) and 160 activities. It also comes with an exclusive “Fury and Zen” clothing pack, including a jacket, T-shirt, sweatpants and cap.
Need for Speed Unbound is built for the new generation of technology and features 4K resolution at 60 FPS for the first time in the series. Volume 2 is now live on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC.
CCP Games, creators of sci-fi spacefaring MMO EVE Online, announced today that $40M in financing has been secured from external partners. This financing will allow CCP Games to build upon the discoveries of its research & development team to enable the full-scale development of a new AAA title utilizing blockchain technology, set within the EVE Universe.
“Since its inception, CCP Games’ vision has been to create virtual worlds more meaningful than real life. Now, with advancements made within blockchain, we can forge a new universe deeply imbued with our expertise in player agency and autonomy, empowering players to engage in new ways. This financing has marked an exciting frontier in our studio history as we begin our third decade of virtual world operations. We are humbled by the confidence from our partners in the development of this new title,” said CCP Games CEO, Hilmar Veigar Pétursson.
With key game systems developed on-chain, this new project will also leverage smart-contract blockchain technology, focusing on persistence, composability and truly open third-party development to create a new relationship between virtual worlds and players.
This financing was led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with participation from Makers Fund, BITKRAFT, Kingsway Capital, Nexon, Hashed, and additional participants.
“CCP Games is a pioneer in virtual worlds and digital economies with 25 years of experience creating living sandboxes with unparalleled depth. They’re a veteran team and we believe in their ambitious vision to deliver incredible player experiences at the intersection of best-in-class game design and blockchain technology,” said a16z General Partner, Jonathan Lai.
“The depth and nuances of EVE have become a frequent point of reference in blockchain gaming and we are therefore thrilled to support the team’s impressive vision of expanding the EVE Universe utilizing this technology. As a former employee, it’s a great personal joy to be reunited with CCP and to witness their continued passion for creating truly meaningful virtual worlds.” said Makers Fund Principal, Alli Óttarsson.
“We’ve long marveled at stories of interstellar war, spaceships forever lost, and the constant challenges of staying ahead of emergent, sovereign play patterns. Hilmar and the team’s experience is unmatched, and we’re excited to see how they use blockchain to let players dream further,” said BITKRAFT Ventures Partner, Carlos Pereira.
Alongside independent financing, this new title’s production is separate from current and previously disclosed projects, including EVE Online, which is now in its landmark 20th year.
CCP Games looks forward to sharing updates as development progresses. Register here for future news and announcements. To learn more about open positions at CCP Games, visit the careers page.
