Following the launch of its new Corpse Bride Movie Moment Funko, Spirit Halloween is bringing fans another iconic Funko to take their collection to the next level.
Did someone order a pizza? Dig into this early Halloween treat – if you dare.
Spirit Halloween and Funko have teamed up to unveil an exclusive, limited-edition Funko POP! Movie Moment from the cult classic Killer Klowns from Outer Space in celebration of the film’s 35th anniversary. The must-have figure brings to life the iconic scene where Bibbo and Shorty pop out of a pizza box and zap an unsuspecting victim with their cotton candy gun. See the image here.
Standing at 6.4″ inches tall, the Killer Klowns Movie Moment Funko is available for $39.99 exclusively on SpiritHalloween.com and in select Spirit Halloween stores.
Today Tindalos Interactive and Focus Entertainment, in collaboration with 20th Century Games, are proud to announce the launch of Aliens: Dark Descent, a strategic, real-time, squad-based tactical action game set in the iconic Alien universe. A new spine-tingling launch trailer has also dropped, leading the way for fans to learn more about the Xenomorph threat that lurks on Planet Lethe. Aliens: Dark Descent is available now on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and PC globally.
In Aliens: Dark Descent, players command a squad of hardened Colonial Marines as they attempt to stop a terrifying new threat on Planet Lethe. Led as one unit with intuitive controls on keyboard and mouse as well as on controller, the squad takes on real-time combat against iconic Xenomorphs, rogue operatives from the insatiable Weyland-Yutani, and a host of horrifying creatures new to the Alien universe. Using a range of tactical abilities, players will unravel an authentic Alien tale full of sinister secrets, diving in and exploring the horrors and wonders of a cinematic narrative campaign.
As they infiltrate large open levels and annihilate enemies with their squad, players can use comms to dispatch orders that will be swiftly obeyed by the Marine best equipped for the situation. They will need to use their wits to navigate the game’s expansive, persistent, reactive levels and complete objectives. Being cautious and monitoring each Marine’s vitals is essential, for death is permanent for any who fall in combat.
Players can find refuge in their base — the stranded Otago spacecraft. There they can customize their squad with a selection of different Marine classes. Level up and specialize each soldier with unique abilities and an arsenal of weapons, armor, and perks. Players can also treat wounds and trauma, as well as research new tech to improve their squad even further.
Aliens: Dark Descent is available now on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and PC. For more information, visit the Focus Entertainment website.
You’re a mercenary. You’ve been hired to board a derelict space station and destroy proprietary tech owned by an evil a totally normal corporation. You know, to keep it out of the wrong hands. Probably.
But a competitor has sent a Traitor to steal that tech instead. Repair the station’s system. Destroy the tech. Survive the Traitor.
Independent Canadian game developer Behaviour Interactive is excited to reveal its first major content update for Meet Your Maker which will be available June 27 on all platforms. Sector 1: Dreadshore will introduce a new environment and expand the game’s toolbox of traps, guards, weapons, suits, and blocks to give players more ways than ever to engineer or evade death. To celebrate the launch of this game-changing content, the Meet Your Maker team will offer players the chance to claim the DLC’s Arsenal Pack for free during the first two weeks following release, until July 10 11:59PM EDT.
“Our team is incredibly excited by the positive reception of our most recent game. More than 1 million players have already experienced Meet Your Maker and built millions of amazingly creative Outposts across the wasteland,” said Senior Creative Director Ash Pannell. “Since launch, player creativity has been off the charts and we’re thrilled to now be giving our community even more twisted tools to push the limits of their imagination.”
Build and raid in a completely new environment
The new DLC will enhance the game’s co-op and single-player experience with a foggy, menacing new environment for players to immerse themselves in. Far from the Red Sands, on the murky remains of the New England coastline lies Dreadshore, home to a sinister Sanctuary situated in a repurposed lighthouse. Beneath its surface, a vast network of prisons and laboratories were built where unspeakable scientific experiments were conducted on hundreds of captive clones.
This new environment, with its gloomy, oppressive coastal flourishes, will be visually unlike anything seen before in Meet Your Maker. It arrives with a new themed Deco Pack, and an Arsenal Pack which includes a new Custodian, trap, guard, and weapon:
1. NEW DECO PACK: Tempest Cove
Players will be able to build Outposts using a brand-new free deco pack that matches the visual themes of the Dreadshore. Rusted metal railings, water-damaged wood, bellows that fill and deflate, and a set of decals featuring the salt-worn designs of a coastal shelter will give Builders the freedom to create a completely new atmosphere for their Outposts.
2. NEW CUSTODIAN: Nautilus
A Custodian suit with disturbing origins tied to the Dreadshore will also be available to players. According to local urban legend, Nautilus was said to have emerged from the lighthouse Sanctuary, dripping blood, wearing what resembled an ancient diving suit. With its hulking profile, this new Custodian suit enhances the effects of defensive weaponry, giving players a whole new way to approach challenging Outposts.
3. NEW TRAP: Sentry Beam
Builders will also gain a brand-new trap, complete with mods, that opens the door to incredible new kills and darkly-creative trap combos.
The Sentry Beam, developed to contain the lighthouse Sanctuary’s prisoners, uses motion tracking to lock onto a target and emit a narrow beam of super-heated amplified light. The trap’s rapid delivery makes it an excellent choice for engaging fast moving targets. Should the beam miss its mark, it will ricochet multiple times, providing even more opportunity for a kill.
4. NEW GUARD: Ravager
A vicious new guard, the Ravager, will be introduced for both Builders to command, and Raiders to contend with.
A disturbing byproduct of the lighthouse Sanctuary’s genetic experiments, The Ravager simultaneously fires several projectiles in a scattershot attack that’s more difficult to evade than a single bolt.
5. NEW WEAPON: Demolition Cannon
Raiders will gain another powerful weapon to add to their loadout when braving Meet Your Maker’s toughest Outposts. Powerful and portable, the Demolition Cannon delivers an explosive payload in a reusable shell for a localized blast that causes tremendous damage.
“We’re thrilled to bring all the exciting new Sector 1: Dreadshore content to Meet Your Maker,” added Pannell. “This new environment and all the tools that come with it are something we’ve meticulously crafted, and we can’t wait to see how players react and adapt to the new gameplay elements we’re adding. We believe the new content will provide players with additional avenues to outsmart one another and maintain an invigorating and dynamic experience!”
This new update doesn’t just introduce fresh new ways to build and raid deadly fortresses, it also comes with several quality-of-life improvements and bug fixes to make Meet Your Maker even better:
For starters, the game will now recognize kills against Raiders who force quit or otherwise disconnect from the game, giving Builders a more accurate representation of how deadly their base is.
Another highly requested improvement gives Builders the ability to refill Prestige 10 bases forever and keep them online.
Other notable updates include a rebalancing of ranking tiers, updated tutorials, and Phoenix Pods being added to player’s inventory by default.
Launch details & community update
Sector 1: Dreadshore’s content will be available June 27 1PM EDT on Steam, PlayStation, and Xbox. For players who own the base game, they will get a chance to claim the DLC’s Arsenal Pack for free for the first two weeks following its release, until July 10 11:59 PM EDT. After this date, Sector 1 Arsenal Pack will be purchasable for $7.99 USD. Meet Your Maker is out now on Steam, PlayStation, and Xbox with an MSRP of $29.99 USD and an ESRB rating of M for Mature.
Fulqrum Publishing and Kalla Gameworks are today launching the story-driven, sci-fi grand strategy game The Pegasus Expedition on PC via Steam, GOG.com and Epic Games Store. After months of development and successful Early Access campaign, The Pegasus Expedition is now ready to voyage into deep space and features a brand new campaign, new story events and gameplay improvements, based on community feedback. Players can purchase The Pegasus Expedition for a suggested digital price of $19.99/€19,99 with a 15% launch discount.
The 1.0 release of The Pegasus Expedition introduces a brand new campaign, The Purge, where players are given the opportunity to take control of a new playable faction. An independent regenerative system and deadly bio-weapon, the Biomass, introduces players to a unique and calamitous playstyle, new to the 4X title with a different gameplay feature set and its own storyline. The Purge is the fifth alternate scenario added to the game, further complementing the extensive main campaign.
New ‘All Fleets Mode’ enables players to experience and take control of larger conflicts in the cosmos, with all fleets participating simultaneously in epic 3 vs 3 battles. Alongside this new mode, twenty new story events have been added for the full launch, spanning a huge variety of subjects ranging from supporting the Chinese fleets in defending the Earth from the invading Colossals, to uncovering spies in your high command, and coming across ancient archeological finds.
Further improvements to the diplomacy AI systems have been implemented, in addition to a variety of rebalancing changes to create the best possible experience for the player. Building upon the regular updates that were seen throughout the Early Access period, the full launch of The Pegasus Expedition will see a whole host of new features, polish and quality of life changes, as seen below.
Changes:
Reworked the Diplomacy AI behaviour to act more sensibly
Improved the reliability of the combat power estimates, rebalanced units by buffing Frigates
Rebalanced the difficulty settings, making the Easy difficulty more accurate
Rebalanced player and AI science production
Rebalanced energy production
Rebalanced the Nemesis fleets
Rebalanced Biomass on main campaign to pose a more intense threat
Made the combat strength estimates more accurate, which also improved AI’s strategic decision making. AI also now handles Hazardous Systems better
Made Tier 1 buildings built instantly
Made ‘All Means-strategy’ a requirement for using Nuclear weapons
Updated Credits
Made the Saves more clear and informative, and fixed sometimes inaccurate timestamps of the saves
Made it easier to skip dialogue by adding skip functionality to Spacebar and making the skip icon larger
Made the ‘All Fleets’ mode the default way to play the game.
Added story textboxes explaining the Anabah quest and the possibility to delay the war with the Tamanin Empire
Fixes:
Fixed bugs with diplomacy behaviour
Fixed shader problems with Pulsar star systems
Adjusted tutorial positioning
Visual improvements to strategic weapon missile launches for Biomass factions
Clarified operation requirement tooltips for Operatives
Fixed a bug with the Anabah battle freezing
Fixed instances of UI elements obstructing each other, especially on more uncommon resolutions
Fixed a bug in which the Diplomacy could not be opened from the overview
Fixed bug that could cause crash when alt+tabbing during saving or loading
Fixed a bug with auto combat if clicked multiple times in a row
Fixed a bug that could cause infinite AI turn due autosaving issue
Fixed issue where combat could start without ships
Fixed issue with combat paths being sometimes invisible
Fixed issues with duplicate dialog
Fixed a bug where the game would load into the debug menu
Today, Bloober Team and Anshar Studios are proud to announce the global release of Layers of Fear (2023), the crowning achievement of the celebrated Layers of Fear series, out now on Windows PC, Apple Silicon Mac, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. As one of the first horror games built from the ground up using Unreal Engine 5, Layers of Fear (2023) is the definitive way to experience the critically-acclaimed franchise, featuring the original Layers of Fear, Layers of Fear 2, and all DLC’s, including a brand-new chapter exploring the story of The Writer, whose tale ties together the overarching narrative of the series. To help celebrate the launch, Bloober Team and Anshar Studios have shared a new launch trailer, giving fans one final glimpse into this world of art and darkness.
Developed on Unreal Engine 5, Layers of Fear (2023) supports Ray Tracing, HDR and 4K resolution to create stunning visuals and ensure your nightmarish experience is as immersive and realistic as possible. The Standard Edition containing the base game is now available for $29.99 USD, while the Deluxe Edition—including a digital artbook and soundtrack by Arek Reikowski, a Hollywood Music in Media Awards nominee who previously scored other acclaimed Bloober Team titles including Blair Witch, Observer: System Redux and The Medium—is available for $34.99 USD. As well, to show their appreciation for fans returning to the series, the developers have set up a special, limited-time discount of 30% for both the Standard and Deluxe Editions of Layers of Fear (2023), eligible to anyone who has previously owned the original Layers of Fear, first released in 2016, and/or Layers of Fear 2, which launched in 2019. This returning-player discount will be active from launch day, June 15th, through to June 29th, 2023 16:00 UTC. Additionally, Bloober Team & Anshar Studios are offering a 15% launch discount, which will run for one week and is available for all incoming players.
Team17 Digital, SMG Studio, and DevM Games have today announced that Moving Out 2 will launch on 15th August. Coming to Nintendo Switch™, PlayStation®4 and PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S, and Steam for PC – and featuring online crossplay multiplayer for the first time in the series – Moving Out 2 is set after the intergalactic conclusion of the 2020 original. The game sees the Furniture Arrangement and Relocation Technicians (F.A.R.Ts) head beyond the realms of their dimension and go multiversal across a series of other universes, each with wildly different and puzzling environments than their own.
Moving Out 2 Key Features
Location, location, location: Travel the multiverse and overcome new levels and puzzles that pit F.A.R.Ts with their biggest removals challenge yet.
Co-op Continued: Players can either take on Moving Out 2 solo or with friends (or enemies) in both couch and cross-play enabled online co-op.
Assist mode: Movers of all abilities are welcome in Packmore; with Assist Mode, the possibilities (and fun) are endless, and inclusive!
Zany characters: Featuring a whole new host of smooth movers, Moving Out 2 showcases entirely new characters that will both enchant and horrify.
A PC demo for Moving Out 2 will be available from Monday (19th June) as part of the Steam Next Fest and will feature a sample of six levels from across the multiverse of the final game. In addition to the game’s digital release across all formats, Fireshine Games will be distributing physical releases of Moving Out 2 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and Xbox Series X|S & Xbox One consoles.
Today Focus Entertainment and Tindalos Interactive, in collaboration with 20th Century Games, have revealed a gripping new story trailer for Aliens: Dark Descent. The strategic, real-time, squad-based tactical action game set in the iconic Alien universe lands June 20 on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and PC. Pre-orders are available on all platforms and grant the “Lethe Recon Pack” DLC as a reward. Watch the trailer and discover the unbearable tension and horrific action of the game’s cinematic narrative campaign firsthand.
In Aliens: Dark Descent, players take on real-time combat against iconic Xenomorphs and brand-new threats. Using a range of tactical abilities, you’ll recruit, level up and command a squad of Colonial Marines as one unit with intuitive controls on keyboard and mouse, as well as on controller. Players will need to use their wits to navigate expansive, persistent and reactive levels where death is permanent.
Ignite Films, the Dutch company formed in 2005 by Jan Willem Bosman Jansen, lives up to its motto, “Classics for the Future,” with the award-winning sensational 4K restoration of William Cameron Menzies’ Invaders From Mars, the first title released under the Ignite Films label. The groundbreaking sci-fi classic will be released in partnership with MVD for retail sales in stores including Barnes & Noble, Best Buy, Target, Walmart, and through online retailers including Amazon.com, on 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD on July 11, 2023, with
pre-orders open now, announced Jan Willem Bosman Jansen, founder of Ignite Films.
“Following the successful launch on our website of our first release on the Ignite Films label in January 2023, we are excited to announce our partnership with MVD to invade US retail and Amazon, and more widely share our new 4K restoration of ‘Invaders from Mars’ with earthlings, both new fans and old,” said Jan Willem Bosman Jansen.
The must-have restoration for all Invaders From Mars fans, both Earthlings and Martians alike, features spectacular special bonus features on the 4K UHD and Blu-ray versions, including a restored 4K version of the original 1953 trailer and a newly commissioned 2022 remix of the trailer, an interview with the film’s star, Jimmy Hunt, an in-depth look at the restoration process led by Scott MacQueen, Restoration Supervisor, plus a new featurette about the film featuring interviews with directors Joe Dante (Gremlins), John Landis (An American Werewolf in London), multiple Visual Effects Academy-Award winner Robert Skotak (Aliens, Terminator 2: Judgement Day), and other luminaries. The DVD version does not include bonus materials.
The response to the love and attention to detail given to the restoration has been overwhelmingly positive. The restoration process was spearheaded by renowned film preservationist Scott MacQueen, former Head of Preservation at the UCLA Film & Television Archive. MacQueen and Jansen, of Ignite Films, literally scoured the planet to locate any and all materials to help ensure the restoration was as complete and true to the original as humanly possible. The 4K restoration of INVADERS FROM MARS recently won the inaugural Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) Jury Award for Restoration and Preservation, and the prestigious Rondo Awards for Best Blu-ray and Best Restoration.
Fearful memories of this timeless 1953 bone-chiller still haunt the dreams of fans who have never forgotten the story of David MacLean, a young boy (Jimmy Hunt) who witnesses an alien invasion. Invaders from Mars was filmed from a child’s point of view, using
exaggerated sets and upward angles. It became a modern classic and was also one of two early 50s classic alien-invasion science fiction films (the other is Robert Wise’s The Day the Earth Stood Still) reflecting Cold War tensions, the Red Scare and paranoid anxiety typical of many films in the 50s.
Invaders From Mars stars Jimmy Hunt, Helena Carter, Arthur Franz, Morris Ankrum, Leif Erickson, and Hillary Brooke.
The 4K restoration was initially released exclusively by Ignite Films via direct sales on their website in January 2023, with a special slip-cover collectors edition of the 4K UHD still available there for collectors, along with other exclusive merchandise, including a limited-run autographed poster by the film’s star, Jimmy Hunt. The Big Pieces Company is supporting the release in the US and overseeing international sales.
Leading video game publisher and developer Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc. and developer Limbic Entertainment GmbH today announced the grand opening of PARK BEYOND™, their theme park management simulation, available now for PlayStation®5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via STEAM®. A free two-hour trial version is also available on Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 for PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers.
PARK BEYOND has something in store for all types of players. Are they visionneers looking to find the future of amusement parks? Impossification will allow them to transform rides, shops, and event staff, making the mundane incredible. Is management in their blood? A vast array of control panels will help them follow every parameter and penny spent to make sure their park runs perfectly, and visitors are thriving. Are they creative at heart with big ideas? Modular building with its extensive library of asset will give free reign to create amazing scenery for visitors to wander, while the roller-coaster creator will allow them to build the ride of their dreams.
Creativity will take a step further in August with the implementation of mod.io, the user generated content sharing platform, that will allow players to share their creations with everyone, no matter what platform they play on.
