“Si vis pacem, para bellum!” If you want peace, prepare for war! The Roman Empire was built on military power. Their disciplined, well-organized, and well-equipped legions conquered almost all of Europe, North Africa, and parts of western Asia. In the upcoming cRPG Expeditions: Rome you are taking command of Legio Victrix, in order to fight against the enemies of the Republic of Rome. In the latest trailer, Centurio Caeso Aquilinius gives the new recruits a proper drill and explains, how exactly the turn-based combat In Expeditions: Rome works. So prepare to learn about the use of the Gladius, a Scutum, and the famous Roman Pilum.
Want to try the combat for yourself? Download the Expeditions: Rome demo on Steam: https://thqn.net/rome-steam
Expeditions: Rome will launch on January 20th, 2022 on PC at an SRP of $ 44.99 | € 44.99 | £ 36.99.
You can pre-order now on Steam to get a 20% discount: https://thqn.net/rome-steam
NACON and KT Racing Studio are pleased to showcase some of the community’s finest livery designs for WRC 10, the official video game of the FIA World Rally Championship, available on PlayStation®4, PlayStation®5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Steam PC and Epic Games Store.
The livery editor: a fan-favorite customization tool
A major new feature of WRC 10 is a comprehensive car customization tool that invites the gaming community to push the limits of their imagination. With WRC 10, it is now possible to create completely unique liveries, based on about thirty vehicles present in the WRC, WRC 2, WRC 3, Junior WRC categories, but also the historical vehicles of the game. Colors, shapes, stickers, logos, lettering… infinite possibilities are offered to players to impose their style and wear their own colors, including in Career Mode!
More than 30,000 liveries have been created since the release of the game, for more than 19 million stages played since the release, for an average of about 200,000 stages played per day!
Franjo wins the contest of the most beautiful livery on WRC 10!
Franjo’s concept of using all of the editing tools found in WRC 10 won out over many of the other top contenders with an extremely detailed livery: it’s both a tribute to rallying with the integration of notes and also a simplified special stage layout, while nodding to the 50th anniversary of the World Rally Championship in 2022.
“Congratulations to all the participants and in particular Franjo for their work & creativity!” said KT Racing Game Director Alain Jarnou. “Franjo designed not only a complex livery but a balanced one too. The new Livery Editor for WRC 10 is a bet we made for the official game of the World Rally Championship and our players show us every day that it is a winning bet.”
Finishing second was reigning eSports WRC champion Nexl, while Noel, DioxZy and Kai Schröder filled out the top-five spots.
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WRC 10 is now on PlayStation®4, PlayStation®5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Steam PC and Epic Games Store, and will be launched on Nintendo Switch™ at a later date.
During the latest episode of The Pinball Show, Zen Studios, in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games, revealed a new remastered edition of the classic “Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure” pinball table. This first-ever digital release of the 1993 Williams™ “SuperPin” legend captures the authentic look, design and feel of the original machine with additional features and enhancements. It will launch in 2022 as premium DLC for multiple Zen titles, including the next-generation Pinball FX, Pinball FX3, and Williams™ Pinball.
Made for Indiana Jones and pinball fans worldwide, Zen’s digital release of “Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure” faithfully recreates one of the best Williams machines for the modern age in precise detail.
Features:
“Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure” combines a fan-favorite Williams machine with everyone’s favorite adventurer – enjoy the original music, sounds, rules and look of the machine brought to the digital space for the first time.
Experience the table just as you remember it, with true-to-life Pro Physics simulation, carefully developed by the pinball experts at Zen, using super slow-motion footage to capture flipper, rubber and ball movements to better understand and recreate pinball mechanics.
Discover the table in a new way with 3D effects in the ‘Enhanced’ version, including side wall art, ball trailer effects, particle effects and a whip-wielding Indiana Jones.
Play at home, with friends, or compete online with single-player, local multiplayer, challenge, and tournament modes.
“Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure” is coming to multiple Zen titles, allowing for many players to experience this all-time pinball legend. It will arrive in March 2022 for Pinball FX3 on PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and PlayStation®4, as well as Williams™ Pinball on iOS and Google Play.
It will also be available alongside the early access launch of Pinball FX on PC via the Epic Games Store in March 2022, and later alongside the official launch of Pinball FX on PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation®5, Xbox One and PlayStation®4 in summer 2022.
Carbon Studio unlocks hardcore mode today for its recently released VR Adventure in a new update for Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Tempestfall. Thanks to feedback by Tempestfall fans, the Carbon Studio team has addressed critical performance bugs with an update released today, improving motion-based tracking, combat polishing, audio refinement, and other elements.
Today’s update releases alongside a mesmerizing new mixed-reality trailer showing the exciting adventure waiting for VR players in Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Tempestfall.
With the new patch, Tempestfall players will find spells are much easier to cast, chests are easier to open, and the inventory system has been improved. The team has also added a selection of lighting and visual detail fixes as well as improvements to multiple environments throughout the game. In addition, a wide variety of bug fixes and combat improvements have been added. Find the full list of changes on the Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Tempestfall Steam Community Hub.
Deliver justice in the name of Sigmar!
VR-exclusive action-adventure game set in the Warhammer Age of Sigmar universe
Explore the incredibly detailed environments in the over 8-hour long story campaign and side quests
Wield & upgrade your iconic weapons to combat forces of Nighthaunt
Immersive motion-based melee and magic combat system
Search for pieces of Sigmarite and ancient scrolls to enhance your weapons’ abilities
Full story campaign set in the realm of Shyish following the Necroquake
Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Tempestfall is available now on Steam VR, Oculus Store, and Viveport in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Simplified Chinese. To learn more about Tempestfall visit the website, join the studio Discord, and follow development on Twitter and Facebook. Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Tempestfall was developed alongside the loremasters of Games Workshop.
Warframe developer Digital Extremes will release its anticipated cinematic story-driven expansion The New War for all platforms simultaneously today. The expansion is the first major cinematic release for Warframe to take full advantage of next-gen platform tools since the award-winning action game released for next-gen consoles. Full of non-stop space action, combat, and a spoiler-heavy personal story of self-discovery, Warframe’s The New War is the culmination of its free Cinematic Quest line – a AAA developed single-player story-driven experience within Warframe that takes players on a journey across its 16 planets and 3 Open Worlds as they work to restore balance to a fractured interstellar ecosystem, the Origin System. Dramatic twists and unexpected surprises litter The New War with unforgettable moments that will leave players on the edge of their seats waiting to discover what unfolds.
The New War launch trailer demonstrates how the cinematic expansion takes advantage of some of Warframe’s most thrilling features and systems, including ship-to-ship space combat with Railjack, Necramechs, and of course, more Warframe action:
“We are incredibly lucky to have had the opportunity to develop The New War for a community of players that continues to be overwhelmingly supportive and patient,” said Steve Sinclair, Creative Director for Warframe at Digital Extremes. “We’ve always considered our storytelling our greatest strength – and to finally continue this story alongside our community is just one of the wildest and most rewarding experiences. We truly put everything into this – we hope we have given our Tenno their best chapter yet in “The New War’.”
The biggest chapter in Warframe’s free Cinematic Quest line, The New War takes players on a journey across 3 massive acts as they experience war from different perspectives and complete Missions in new environments, including Open Worlds besieged by Sentients, and sets the stage for the next chapter and the future of the game. As the war rages on, players will discover more about the truth behind the conflict, understanding the Lotus’ past and the nature of their mother-and-child relationship to unlock a new future.
“It’s an incredibly emotional experience for all of us on the team to finally deliver The New War to players. Our community of Tenno that have waited so long for this moment – we share every emotion on this journey with them!,” said Rebecca Ford, Director of Community and Live Operations for Warframe at Digital Extremes. “This next chapter is full of surprising twists and turns and will take players to new areas in Warframe in unexpected ways. We can’t wait for players to discover this experience today.”
The launch of The New War brings additional features to Warframe which lets players wield limitless power to look and play the way they want, including the addition of a new Warframe, and an Arsenal reinforced with new Customizations, Weapons, and Accessories for the ultimate fight on the frontlines against the invading Sentients. A variety of Supporter Packs for The New War are available for a limited-time and offer bundled access to some of Warframe’s most anticipated new features and offerings, including its newest Warframe, Caliban, and a slew of Sentient-inspired upgrades that will inspire beauty, grace, and brutality in the fashion framing community. The Ravurex Gunblade Skin, Sentient Color Palette, Archon Nira Glyph, and Archon Nira Sigil are time-limited exclusives to The New War Supporter Packs. All other Items and Customizations are available for purchase with Platinum starting today from the Warframe Market.
Today, the largest Czech game studio, Bohemia Interactive, officially presented for the first time their new game engine, Enfusion. It will form the studio’s core technology for future games. In addition to enhancing their games with a modern audiovisual look, the Enfusion engine will enable multiplatform use, improved user-friendliness for players, and superior support for mod creators.
The new Enfusion engine has been under development at Bohemia Interactive’s offices in Prague, Brno, and Mníšek pod Brdy for 4 years, despite it being conceived back in 2014. Currently, there is a team of 30 developers involved in its development, for what is the company’s flagship project in terms of investment and human resources.
Marek Španěl, founder and CEO of Bohemia Interactive, comments “we founded Bohemia Interactive 22 years ago, we’ve always chosen to use our own in-house engine. No other engine available on the market allowed us to create the kind of games we wanted. For example, simulations with detailed physics operating in massive-scale open worlds that players and communities can easily customize. Nothing has changed about that. However, our aging Real Virtuality engine, used in Arma 3, for example, has increasingly run up against its technological limits. Enfusion, on the other hand, is ready to face the technological challenges of the future and will without exaggeration form the shape of our games into the next decade.”
The Enfusion engine is cross-platform, enabling simultaneous development of games for PC, Xbox, and PlayStation. PC and Xbox gamers will enjoy full DirectX 12 support. The core of the engine is the C++ programming language with a scripting language called Enforce (an OOP scripting language that gamers may have already encountered, for example in DayZ). Shaders written in HLSL are used for rendering.
The audio-visual design of games developed on the new engine will therefore be future-proof. Optimizing the resource utilization of modern processors and graphics cards enables smooth operation and stable rendering frequencies even in demanding simulations. The developers have also devoted their efforts to a substantial improvement of the network code, introducing lower latency, smoother player movement, better hit registration, promising an overall better multiplayer experience.
Enfusion Workbench – Complete developer stack
One of the main advantages of the Enfusion engine is its simple and user-friendly design. Thanks to the Enfusion Workbench toolkit, they will be able to easily modify the attributes of the game or mod under development. Enthusiastic community content creators will get their hands on the same professional tools used by developers at Bohemia Interactive.
Enfusion Workbench modules:
World Editor: this is where our virtual worlds are created
Particle Editor: for visual effects
Animation Editor: for configuring character and object animation
Script Editor: for writing and debugging scripts in the Enforce language
Audio Editor: for audio effects and music
Behavior Editor: for defining the behavior of game-controlled characters (AI)
Procedural Animation Editor: for simpler, game-driven animations
String Editor: for language localization
Layout Editor: for creating game user interface
and more
Theworkbench is also closely connected to the backend systems of Bohemia Interactive, including its own workshop. Thanks to this, it serves as a robust tool not only for development but also for the composition and distribution of mods for all games that run on the Enfusion engine.
So, SuperPac and THQ Nordic had a bet going on. At this point it doesn’t really matter what it was about, but THQ Nordic lost. As a result, some of the Austrian-based publisher’s employees had to compose and perform a musical, which was first shown to a chosen group of critics earlier in 2021. What shall we say, it was so disastrous, there was no way we could release it, or show it to any living being in this galaxy.
That’s why we partnered up with actual professionals and created the musical “Danced Without Pants”, performed by Caleb Hyles and Major Attaway straight from Broadway! In the game This Is the President, you’ll visit the musical on a special night with your First Lady. Since we all know going to the theater never did a US President any harm, what can possibly go wrong?
You can find it out for yourself in This Is the President. This dark and gritty political thriller is out on PC at an SRP at $ 14.99 | € 14.99 | £ 11.99.
This Is the President on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/730430
34BigThings has announced Redout 2, the fastest anti-gravity (AG) racing game in the universe. Published by Saber Interactive, this sequel to the award-winning Redout is coming to PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, PlayStation®5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation®4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch in 2022.
Redout 2 is the next generation of the hit series where racing through the dystopian wastelands of Earth is one of the galaxy’s most popular sports. A tribute to classic AG racing legends like Wipeout and F-Zero, Redout 2 carries on this legacy with lightning-fast speed, adrenaline and action combined with stunning visuals and audio. Reach impossible speeds in exhilarating futuristic races across an expansive single-player campaign and competitive online multiplayer featuring in-depth controls, robust hovershipship customization, and a killer original soundtrack.
Key Features:
Speed & Control: With blazing-fast speeds of over 1,000 km/h and an intuitive driving system, Redout 2 is a blast to pick up and play, but truly rewarding for any who can master its super-high skill ceiling.
Extensive Career Mode: Fly through hundreds of events across 36 unique racetracks – all of which are reversible! From Arena Races and Time Attacks to Last Man Standing and intense Boss Races, dart past the competition and dominate the finish line.
Competitive Multiplayer: Take on rivals in intense online multiplayer. Dive into fresh challenges with regularly added custom content and seasons featuring bonus aesthetic rewards.
Comprehensive Customization: Choose from 12 distinct chassis and fully customize your own hovership with an incredible selection of propulsors, stabilizers, rudders, intercoolers, flaps, magnets, wings, spoilers, rocket engines, paints and more!
Experience an original futuristic soundtrack from leading electronic artists like the legendary Giorgio Moroder and acclaimed talents such as Zardonic and Dance with the Dead, with tracks seamlessly and dynamically mixed based on real-time race data.
Create and share your best high-speed moments with Redout 2’s Photo Mode.
Redout 2 is available to wishlist now on Steam. For the latest updates on the game, visit the official website, and follow along on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Discord.
Stunlock Studios today have released a new gameplay trailer filled with enemies and danger, for their upcoming open-world vampire game V Rising.
This video highlights the wide variety of combat options that vampires are capable of. Vampires wield melee and ranged weapons alongside fangs and sorcery as they dash around the open world in the Farbane Woods region.
The trailer also offers a first look at a PVP encounter with two other players in a fight over resources.
Much like the studio’s previous title Battlerite, V Rising uses super-responsive WASD movement combined with a layer of tracking and aiming attacks, for players to feel truly in control of their combat experience.
Dovetail Games today announced that they have collaborated with famed railroad company, Amtrak, to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the American passenger rail carrier. To celebrate the milestone, Amtrak has wrapped one of their modern ACS-64 electric locomotives in a custom version of the historic Phase III livery as applied to AEM-7 locomotives throughout the 1980s. The wrap is sponsored by Train Sim World 2 and is on locomotive #662, running on services in the Northeast Corridor, which includes stops in Boston, MA and Providence, RI throughout the rest of its Anniversary year.
”This year we painted six diesel locomotives to commemorate our fifty years of service as America’s Railroad,” said Doug Duvall, Amtrak’s Assistant Vice President of Corporate Communications, “We are honored to collaborate with Train Sim World 2 to bring a special livery to an electric locomotive that fans, employees and passengers in the Northeast can enjoy.”
Additionally, Dovetail Games will be releasing an update for Train Sim World 2 on PC via Steam and the Epic Game Store, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S. The Boston Sprinter route, part of the Rush Hour series, will receive a free update allowing players to operate the ACS-64 with this custom 50th Anniversary livery in-game as they traverse the Northeast Corridor.
“Amtrak is one of the most iconic American passenger services and it’s exciting to be able to realize a long-term dream of ours to collaborate with them on a real world livery,” said Dovetail Games VP of Marketing Keith Anderson, “Railfans can enjoy seeing this both as they travel in the real world on the locomotive and virtual with Train Sim World 2.”
For more information on Train Sim World 2, visit www.trainsimworld.com and follow the game on Twitter @trainsimworld, Instagram @trainsim, and Facebook @trainsimworld. Keep up with all the latest simulation news from Dovetail Games at https://live.dovetailgames.com/. This title is rated “E for Everyone” by the ESRB.
