Ridgewood, NJ – (June 10, 2020) – Publisher Kalypso Media and in-house developer Gaming Minds Studios today released the Port Royale 4 ‘Explorer video’, showcasing the vast and beautiful world of the upcoming 17th century trading sim and its accompanying orchestral soundtrack.
Measuring 12 million squared kilometres, the game’s playable area spans from the Florida Keys in the USA to the northern tip of South America, giving players the opportunity to explore the world and commandeer those settlements they encounter along the way.
With real life travel off the cards for the foreseeable future, Port Royale 4’s ‘Explorer video’ is the perfect substitute. Clocking in at over 30 minutes, the video follows the journey of a vessel as it travels from one side of the map to the other. The tone of the video is meditative, encouraging viewers to sit back, relax and lose themselves to the game’s pristine Caribbean scenery and original orchestral score.
Arriving with the ‘Explorer video’ is a beta development roadmap and a new batch of screenshots, further detailing the game’s stunning environment and the features and improvements still to come in the lead up to launch on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One September 25th, 2020.
The Port Royale 4 beta is available now to those pre-purchasing via the Kalypso Store.
June 9, 2020 — Today, Bungie announced the next chapter in the Destiny 2 universe with the worldwide reveal of the next expansion – Destiny 2: Beyond Light – which arrives on September 22, 2020. In addition to the first details on the next expansion, Bungie unveiled its next Destiny 2 season – Season of Arrivals – which launches today.
As part of its single evolving world, Bungie has crafted both Season of Arrivals and the Beyond Light expansion to continue the thrilling narrative featuring Guardians in their ongoing battle to save humanity. Mysteries will be revealed, new powers will be discovered, and the true menace of the Pyramid ships will be explored. And it all starts today with Season of Arrivals.
For months, the mysterious Pyramid ships have been making their way to our solar system, their purpose unknown but their menace clear. In Season of Arrivals, the moon of Io will see the arrival of the first Pyramid ship, setting off a chain of events that will unfold throughout the Season, into the Beyond Light expansion, and beyond.
Bungie also announced today that Destiny 2 will be coming to both PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X next-generation consoles. In addition, purchases of Destiny 2: Beyond Light on Xbox One will transfer to Xbox Series X for free via Smart Delivery. Purchases on PlayStation 4 will upgrade to PlayStation 5 for free. More details on this Destiny 2 for next generation will be announced in the coming months.
Destiny 2: Beyond Light
A new power is born out of the ancient Pyramid ship above Europa, and a dark empire has risen beneath. In the Destiny 2: Beyond Light expansion, Guardians will explore a changed universe, with a new destination, new adventures, and even new powers to explore.
Explore Europa: In Beyond Light, Guardians will be called to a new destination: Jupiter’s frozen moon of Europa. Brave the unrelenting glacial frontier, infiltrate the Golden Age Braytech facility, and uncover the secrets that lie deep under the ancient ice.
Wield the Darkness: As a new threat emerges, so too does a mysterious new power – Stasis. Rooted in Darkness, Guardians will wield this new elemental power alongside Arc, Solar, and Void to summon epic supers and control the battlefield. Titans, Warlocks and Hunters will each use Stasis in a different way. More details on Stasis to come later this summer.
A New Raid: Below the frozen tundra of Europa lies the Deep Stone Crypt. For decades it has remained dormant. Guardians will test their skill and teamwork in this brand new six-person raid, where glorious rewards await.
The Rise of Eramis: The splintered houses of the Fallen have rallied and built their new empire on Europa, united under the banner of the Fallen Kell of Darkness, Eramis. Abandoned by the Traveler and left by the Light, Eramis is on her own journey into the Darkness, and towards a collision course with Guardians.
Players can pre-order Destiny 2: Beyond Light now to get instant access to a special Exotic Ghost Shell and Legendary Emblem! Digital Deluxe owners also receive instant access to the new Exotic Freeze Tag emote. Pre-orders for Destiny 2: Beyond Light are available now on Steam, Stadia, Xbox One, and will be available soon on the PlayStation Store.
MUNICH, GERMANY (June 9, 2020) — Wild River Games, the German publisher of console hit Windstorm, in close collaboration with developer Random Potion and rights owner Ulisses Spiele, today released The Dark Eye: Book of Heroes, their action-RPG based on the popular The Dark Eye tabletop RPG. Available now for PC, The Dark Eye: Book of Heroes sets players on an epic adventure through the mystical lands of Aventuria, where they’ll battle monsters and men on their heroic path to glory. The game features a multiplayer cooperative mode, to give players an “adventuring party” experience that can be enjoyed online, or via “couch co-op”. The Dark Eye: Book of Heroes is available now for $29.99 via Steam.
“We are incredibly pleased to launch Book of Heroes and bring the excellent The Dark Eye license to life digitally,” said Marc Wardenga, CEO of Wild River Games. “The Dark Eye is the perfect setting for fans of old-school RPGs, and the team at Random Potion has worked hard to recreate the joy of playing it on the tabletop, on PC.”
The Dark Eye: Book of Heroes hearkens back to the glory days of computer role-playing games like Baldur’s Gate and Neverwinter Nights with its party-based, cooperative gameplay and a beautiful and extensive world showcased in a classic isometric view. Continuing in this tradition, Book of Heroes features a deep and robust character creation system all wrapped up in a setting based on Germany’s best-selling tabletop RPG world that goes back to 1984.
Based in the popular The Dark Eye universe, Book of Heroes sends players on an exciting journey through the lands of Aventuria to hack, slash, sneak, steal, and connive their way through an expansive role-playing experience. The game features an immersive and robust character creation system that will allow players to combine an enormous variety of traits and skills to ensure a true tabletop-inspired experience. Multiple fantasy racial backgrounds, professions, and skills help layers create incredibly well-rounded adventurers!
The Dark Eye: Book of Heroes Key Features:
Extensive Character Creation: Choose from 12 different professions and four classic species with customizable appearances and unique quests, tasks, and agendas
Party up, adventurers!: Play with up to four friends online or on the couch, or hack (and slash) it solo-style with virtual friends by hiring NPC companions at The Black Boar Inn
It’s a Beautiful World: Delve dank dungeons or take the (not so easy) route above ground as you explore gorgeous, hand-painted visuals from some of The Dark Eye’s most highly regarded artists
All Around Me Are Familiar Faces: With a history dating back to 1984, Book of Heroes features a host of iconic characters, locations, and lore from the sweeping history of The Dark Eye
View The Dark Eye: Book of Heroes launch trailer here:
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND – June 9th, 2020 – Scottish-based audio hardware company Drown Ltd. is excited to announce the official launch of their revolutionary gaming earphones, which have begun shipping to Indiegogo backers and those who pre-ordered units via the Drown website.
A new way to experience gaming audio, Drown tactile earphones use tactile transmission of audio waves to deliver a fully immersive gaming experience. Drown gives players the power to perceive their in-game surrounding as if it were a real-life physical space, delivering precise spatial awareness that gives gamers the edge they need to dominate during play.
Drown’s technology was created and patented by Canadian sound engineer Mark O’Callaghan, who set out to change the audio landscape. Recognizing the importance of audio, music and spatial awareness in gaming, Mark partnered with Silicon Valley design veteran David Law to take Drown from prototype to mass production. They have assembled a crack team of gamers, designers, and engineers, all focused on enhancing gaming audio for a unique and totally new experience. Drown is now shipping their first units to Indiegogo backers, expected to arrive in June 2020.
So how does it work? Drown is proud to be the world’s first tactile audio platform to use all three audio pathways to players’ brain for deeply enhanced audio realism. Using patented waveguide technology, sound is guided to the ear canal without reflection in the outer ear, providing a fully immersive sound unlike any other. While over-the-ear headphones lose fidelity because of the distance between the speaker and the ear, Drown transmits the acoustic vibrations directly to the nerves and cartilage in your pinnae, enriching the bass and the overall sound quality.
Sony and Microsoft are developing spatial audio technology for their upcoming consoles while Drown can produce the same next-generation audio for players today. Drown is uniquely positioned to be the only headphones on the market able to take full advantage of the added spatial audio quality delivered by the two new audio engines
Ideal for competitive gamers or simply by those who enjoy getting lost in the soundscapes of their favourite open-world titles, Drown promises to bring players closer to their favourite games in a previously unimaginable way.
Key Features
Acoustic seals: The Drown patented silicone seals fit comfortably to deliver a perfectly shaped audio wave. The seals come in four different sizes, meticulously designed to fit ears of nearly all different shapes and sizes.
Graphene Drivers: Drown uses high-quality graphene dynamic drivers to transmit greater audio information, and enriched bass. The driver is precisely positioned to transfer subtle vibration cues to the outer ear.
Wired for lag-free gaming: High-quality cable give the best possible acoustic signal and eliminate lag for the highest quality gaming experience.
Passive Noise Isolation.
The Drown bass is deep without overwhelming the higher frequencies. The best of both worlds for the most authentic sound.
Drown will begin shipping to Indiegogo backers in June 2020 and is available for retail sale through the Drown website.
LOS ANGELES, CA / June 8, 2020 / It’s almost here! The PC Gaming Show will broadcast from Los Angeles on Saturday June 13 with the biggest lineup of exclusive trailers, interviews, and reveals in the event’s six-year history. Revealed now is a lineup of the show’s more than two dozen participants, excluding some special surprises.
As in years past, the PC Gaming Show will consist of world-exclusive trailers, gameplay reveals, announcements and interviews. Highlights include an exclusive interview with Rocketwerkz founder Dean Hall about his next project; a first look at Surgeon Simulator 2; the debut of a new trailer from New Blood Interactive; a special surprise for Torchlight 3 fans; and several new trailers from Humble Games.
This year’s supersized lineup includes more than 50 games, featuring:
2K Games (Mafia: Definitive Edition)
Amazon Games (New World)
Atlus
Battlestate Games (Escape From Tarkov)
Bossa Studios (Surgeon Simulator 2)
Brace Yourself Games
Coffee Stain Studios
DONTNOD
Funcom
FJRD
Frontier Developments
Glumberland (Ooblets)
Humble Games
New Blood Interactive
Merge Games
Modus Games
Mythical
Perfect World (Torchlight 3, Remnant: From the Ashes)
The Wandering Band
Rebellion
Red Sails Team
Rocketwerkz
ROCKFISH Games (Everspace 2)
SEGA
Tripwire Interactive
WolfEye Studios (Weird West)
XSEED Games
Yaza Games
**And more surprise announcements
“With this year’s PC Gaming Show, we still wanted to deliver on the spectacle and level of production that gamers expect from gaming press conferences,” says Evan Lahti, Global Editor-in-Chief at PC Gamer, a subsidiary of Future PLC. “We’re not going to just show people a two-hour Zoom call with some video games in it. We want this to be a unique and fun moment for PC gaming.”
In previous years, the PC Gaming Show has been broadcast live from 700-seat theaters in Los Angeles. With new health and physical distancing considerations in mind, this year’s event will mix live and pre-recorded elements from a new studio setting.
Our production team has found new ways to tell stories about the most exciting games being made on PC, and we believe the results will exceed PC gamers’ expectations.
Starting from scratch inside a LA sound stage, enabled the PC Gaming Show team to create playful sets for the show’s two hosts, Sean “Day9” Plott and Frankie Ward, to inhabit. The production features two virtual sets, including a custom-built physical set to create a thematic throughline between the show’s dozens of segments. Also included for the first time will be gaming celebrity cameos, influencer commentary, and the introduction of a mystery co-host.
Viewers across all platforms will be able to see selected comments inserted directly into the broadcast live via Hovercast, a powerful cross-platform interactivity platform.
Intel returns to the PC Gaming Show to debut a custom PC build themed on one of this year’s featured games. One lucky fan will have a chance to win this incredible rig at a later date.
Auckland, New Zealand – June 5, 2020 – Grinding Gear Games announced today that Path of Exile’s next big expansion, Harvest, will launch for the PC at 1pm PDT, June 19, 2020 with the PlayStation®4 and Xbox One versions available the following week.
Harvest brings an entirely new gameplay element to the world of Wraeclast. Players will assist Oshabi in exploring the mysterious power of her Sacred Grove. Cultivating a wild garden can unlock powerful crafting options that are unmatched by any past expansion.
Players will open seed caches throughout the land. These seeds can be taken to the grove, planted, encouraged to grow and when ready to Harvest, will unearth powerful beasts. When these beasts are slain their Lifeforce can be extracted to enable powerful crafting or used to grow exotic crops.
Path of Exile: Harvest Key Features Include:
Download and play all content for free, but never pay-to-win.
The Harvest Challenge League and its powerful crafting system.
Four new Warcry skills, and a rework of three existing ones.
Three new Brands, one Brand support gem and revamped existing brands.
New ‘Slam’ skill category including a news Slam skill and support gem. Revamps to existing slams.
Dynamic rebalance to existing gameplay.
Improvements to over 50 unique items as well as 12 new ones.
A Passive Skill Tree revamp
Delirium core game intergration
More information about specific features of Path of Exile: Harvest can be found at: www.pathofexile.com/harvest
June 4, 2020 – Perfect World Entertainment and Gunfire Games today announced Swamps of Corsus, the latest premium DLC for Remnant: From the Ashes, is now available on Xbox One and PlayStation®4 for $9.99. In addition, a bundle including the Remnant: From the Ashes base game and Swamps of Corsus DLC is out now for $44.99 on consoles. Swamps of Corsus delivers the brand-new, rogue-like “Survival Mode” that has players start with nothing and fight for survival, along with an upgraded version of the world of Corsus that has a swarm of new content, including new bosses, new events and new quests.
June 4, 2020 – The Razer Ornata V2 is the latest iteration of the innovative Ornata keyboard, which debuted with Razer’s revolutionary Hybrid Mecha-Membrane switches. Combining the best of both worlds, the Razer Hybrid Mecha-Membrane switches provide a soft, comfortable typing feel with the positive clicky feedback of a mechanical switch.
Now featuring dedicated media controls, with an infinite scroll wheel and three media keys, the full featured Ornata V2 brings the best in gaming and media to one hybrid keyboard, with track skip, play and pause and volume control in one area, all programmable through Razer Synapse 3.
For long play sessions, the Ornata V2 comes with a plush, leatherette wrist wrest, connected magnetically to the front of the keyboard. With fully programmable keys, customisable through Razer Synapse 3, users can program macros, keybindings and custom profiles. Featuring Razer Chroma RGB, users can access unique lighting effects and in-game integrations from with over 100 game titles, including “Apex Legends”, “Fortnite”, “Warframe”, and more.
For more information about the Razer Ornata V2, please check here.
WHY: The Razer Ornata V2 is the perfect keyboard for work, home and play, with a soft but positive typing action, dedicated media controls and a wealth of programmable customisation options for gaming.
Warsaw, Poland – June 3rd, 2020 — Calling all survivors of the frozen apocalypse! The day you were striving for has finally come. The last piece of New London’s story falls into place as Project TVADGYCGJR — the mysterious third expansion to 11 bit studios’ grim society survival sim — has been revealed as On The Edge.
On The Edge — the third and final expansion from Frostpunk’s Season Pass — is set after the vicious Great Storm as the expedition is sent from New London with a special assignment. On The Edge not only opens a brand new chapter set in the Frostpunk universe but also further enriches the core experience by pitting players against new challenges, and offering new unique mechanics both in the city and on the Frostland map.
A brand new, frozen board is set and the pieces are moving. What destiny lies ahead for your people? What will this mean for you as their leader? Shape the future of humanity in a defining moment in Frostpunk’s universe.
The Edge symbolizes a cross between what has been the past and what’s new to come. Although the society of New London — the city believed to be the last one on Earth — has survived, it doesn’t mean the struggle is over. The people face new challenges that are catalysts to spark up divisions, new problems, and conflicts based on the fact that people might have different points of view, different perspectives. This is the Edge that you will face as the leader of the society that survived the great snowstorm of Frostpunk – said Maciej Sułecki, lead designer of Frostpunk: On The Edge.
Frostpunk: On The Edge is coming to Steam this summer and will feature:
A brand new story scenario, set after the Great Storm
An array of challenges to overcome on a new, desolate map
London, England – June 2, 2020: Sega Europe Ltd. and The Creative Assembly Ltd today announced that A Total War Saga: TROY™ will launch exclusively via the Epic Games Store on August 13, 2020, free to keep for players who download within the first 24 hours.
Using Total War’s BAFTA award-winning marriage of grand turn-based strategy and spectacular real-time battles, A Total War Saga: TROY™ plunges players into the legendary Bronze-Age conflict of the Trojan War, where they assume the roles of Achilles, Hector, and many other legendary heroes as they fight to defend the great city of Troy… or raze it to the ground.
“Thanks to Epic, we’re able to offer a Total War title for free on its launch day. It’s a hugely exciting thing for us to be able to do for our players,” says Tim Heaton, Chief Studios Officer at Sega Europe Ltd. “Not only does this mean that we can bring the tales and legends of TROY to a wide audience through Epic’s massive platform, but it also means new players will get to try Total War for the first time, experiencing the unique gameplay that the series is famous for.”
A Total War Saga: TROY will launch on PC exclusively on the Epic Games Store on Tuesday August 13, 2020. A Total War Saga: TROY will become available on other digital PC storefronts such as Steam from August 2021. Further details on A Total War Saga: TROY can be found on the Total War FAQ here.
