SQUARE ENIX® Ltd., and Original Fire Games today announced that the top-down racing game CIRCUIT SUPERSTARS, is now available on PlayStation®4 consoles. The charming game built by racing fans, for racing fans – CIRCUIT SUPERSTARS is available for purchase on PC (via Steam®), Xbox One and now PS4®. To mark today’s release Square Enix Collective also shared a new trailer on their YouTube channel.
PS4® racers will have the opportunity to cross-play with their friends playing on PC (via Steam®) or Xbox and will have access to the garage of their dreams, packed with 12 vehicles ready to compete on any of the 19 different tracks available, set in 13 vibrant locations. Players can also enjoy a range of customisable liveries for both driver and cars, in addition to helmets and victory celebrations which can be unlocked by levelling up. There’s a racing style for everyone, with multiple motorsport disciplines represented in the game including Rallycross, Open Wheel Single-Seaters, Trucks, GT racing and plenty more free content to come in the future. Join the race on your preferred platform today!
CIRCUIT SUPERSTARS is available now on PS4®, PC (via Steam®) and Xbox One, also planned for release on the Nintendo Switch™ system in the second quarter of 2022.
Recruit a friend to explore the secrets within The Dark Pictures Anthology today, all existing owners of any of the three entries in the series, Man of Medan, Little Hope or House of Ashes, will gain access to a free Friend’s Pass – enabling players to experience one full playthrough of that game via Multiplayer Shared Story mode with a friend who does not own the game.
Unveil the horrific discoveries of House of Ashes, Little Hope or Man of Medan together! The offer is open until February 28 on PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, Xbox One, and PCs via STEAM® – and the friend must be playing on the same platform. To access the game, your friend must download the Trial version of Man of Medan, Little Hope or House of Ashes first.
The House of Ashes Curator’s Cut is now free for everyone! Originally released as a pre-order DLC bonus, the Curator’s Cut can now be unlocked for all players once they have completed a playthrough of the game in theatrical (normal) mode. The mode allows players to replay the game from a different perspective, with different playable characters in certain scenes, new choices, new outcomes and frightening new deaths.
The following YouTube link (ready for embedding) will showcase the terrifying threat with The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes – Friend’s Pass & Curator’s Cut Trailer:
Grinding Gears Games today revealed a new trailer for the latest Path of Exile expansion, titled Siege of the Atlas, which will launch February 4 for PC and Mac, and February 9 for PlayStation®4 and Xbox One.
Siege of the Atlas will be the largest expansion for Path of Exile in the past year, featuring the Archnemesis challenge league, a revamp to the entire endgame including new story quests, new unique and currency items, four more pinnacle bosses, and game balance improvements.
Siege of the Atlas Content and Features:
Updated Atlas: The end-game Atlas of Worlds has been simultaneously simplified and also made deeper. The region system has been removed, and individual Atlas Passive Trees have been replaced by one gigantic Atlas-wide passive tree which creates a more flexible way for players to engage in the content they like best while also increasing its challenge and reward.
Four Pinnacle Bosses: The new storyline is capped with four new Pinnacle Bosses, ultimate boss fights for players seeking additional challenges. These bosses can potentially drop a selection of extremely valuable new unique items.
Endgame Item Crafting: Players can master the Eldritch Implicit Modifier system to improve their best items. New currency items allow them to craft powerful new implicit modifiers onto items that enable new build opportunities.
Archnemesis League: Players can collect modifiers to use on Petrified Monsters that are encountered throughout Wraeclast in order to create their own mini-boss fights. Each modifier provides a reward and a monster behavior and will stack in subsequent fights to create progressively more dangerous and rewarding encounters. These modifiers can be combined to create recipes for even more challenge and reward.
Game Balance Improvements: Spellcasters and Archers have been targeted with a massive selection of balance buffs, so that they are even more competitive with Path of Exile’s best builds.
It’s time to try a new way to play in World of Tanks Blitz! Famous for special modes and legendary events enjoyed by tankers all around the world, the game invites players to join the ranks for the latest action-packed mode with a twist: Big Boss. With two chances to play, tankers can get involved from February 3rd through February 6th, and February 10th through February 13th. Engage in all-out 7v7 PvP battles where team members are randomly assigned special roles with unique abilities—and one tank in each team becomes the Boss!
See for yourself: compared to its base stats, the Boss tank receives a 30% increase to damage and speed, 50% faster reloads, and quadruple HP. To top that off, Bosses can push and damage the enemies with their Blast Wave active ability and deal damage to a line of tanks with their Megashot passive ability. To give their opponents a fighting chance, Bosses only respawn twice per battle.
However, the rest of the team receives unlimited respawns during which they switch between the RPG-like roles of Regenerator, Catalyst, Bomber, and Graviton at random.
Graviton immobilizes and traps enemies with the Gravitrap, while staying at a distance.
Bomber enjoys close combat and explodes in a Big Bang to deal mass damage to the enemy vehicles nearby.
Catalyst is a strong damage dealer with Poison Shots;
Regenerator protects and heals the Boss and other allies using multiple abilities: Healing Shots, Energy Shield, and Restoration Zone.
Featuring unique active and passive abilities, these roles each have up to 5 upgradeable levels to unlock Unlike their teammates, Bosses stick to their role until the end of the game.
Every Boss frag is worth 5 points, and any other tank wasted is 1 point; pitted against each other in a test of aggression, strategy, and speed, each team races to score 30 points to win.
The Big Boss mode can be played in any Tier V to X vehicle. If you don’t have one of these yet, Big Boss has a quest for you. Complete it between January 27 and February 13, and you will be ready to feel the power and to become a heroic giant slayer in the T67 (a Tier V U.S. TD) that will be added to your account permanently.
Follow wotblitz.com for more news, and learn more about the Big Boss Mode (including a detailed availability time schedule) here: http://blitzboss.com/.
Today, BioWare and Lucasfilm Games have unveiled a new trailer for Star Wars: The Old Republic, shedding new light on the epic Star Wars story that will unfold in the upcoming expansion, “Legacy of the Sith.” Players will be able to continue to immerse themselves in their very own Star Wars journey unlocking the mysteries behind the ultimate plan of the renegade Sith, Darth Malgus, who has been a danger to the galaxy since he was first introduced in the iconic MMORPG 10 years ago.
The launch of Star Wars: The Old Republic – Legacy of the Sith on February 15 will continue the year-long 10th Anniversary Celebration for the beloved MMORPG which will provide players with an array of new content, updates and in-game activities throughout 2022. In addition to the expansive next chapter in the thrilling storyline of Star Wars: The Old Republic, the highly anticipated Combat Styles feature will add an all-new level of customization for a character’s weapons and abilities giving players even more options to create the Star Wars character of their dreams.
SEGA Europe Limited. and Two Point Studios Limited are delighted to confirm that the highly anticipated game Two Point Campus™, is coming to PC and consoles May 17, 2022! Players can head over to TwoPointCampus.com to pre-order a physical copy of the game, or pre-purchase Two Point Campus for Steam, Sony PlayStation® 4|5, Microsoft® Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S, digitally via the first party store fronts – with the Nintendo Switch pre-purchase via the eShop soon to follow. Two Point Campus will also be available on Xbox Game Pass for console and PC Game Pass on day one. Get ready for some Campus fun right now.
Watch the new trailer.
In Two Point Campus you will be able to build the campus of your dreams, while shaping the lives of your students to give them the adventure of a lifetime, full of meaningful relationships, fun extracurricular activities and of course…top quality education. After all, happy students and good grades will lead to an increase in Campus prestige, which means you can enrol more students, and coincidentally, make more money…
Rather than the typical academic fare, students in Two Point County enjoy plenty of weird and wonderful courses, such as Gastronomy, where they will learn how to make oversized culinary delights. The more technologically minded students can take up Robotics classes, where science, teachers and students come together to build giant robots. Each student has their own unique character traits, so you’ll need to make sure to cater to all their unique needs to develop them into well-rounded individuals who will do the legacy of your university proud.
Like Two Point Hospital, Two Point Campus is a charming, accessible, and deep management sim, but for the first time, you will be able to build your Campus from the ground up. Design stylish dormitories for your students, lay down ornamental pathways and forests, and pimp up your Campus with new easy-to-use creative tools to build your own educational masterpiece.
Bonus Items for Campus & Hospital
Get ready for your university adventure today, by pre-ordering Two Point Campus now to get your hands on some exclusive in-game bonus items that will spice up your Campus at launch. Decorate your gardens with a U-shaped ‘Topiary’, satisfy your thirst for learning with the ‘Fountain of Knowledge’ and get your very own ‘Pearl of Wisdom’. If you own Two Point Hospital and you pre-order Two Point Campus, it’s your lucky day, as Hospital owners will receive* some awesome free in-game items for Two Point Hospital, like a Varsity jacket and a suit of armour. If you purchase a physical copy of Two Point Campus, you’ll receive the “Enrolment Edition”, which comes with an awesome fold out Campus Map, a stylish University Prospectus and exclusive packaging.
For more information about Two Point Campus head to www.twopointcampus.com, where you can sign up for County Pass today, which unlocks the most sought after free in-game item at launch: The Golden Toilet! You can follow the game on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. For more information about SEGA Europe, log on to www.sega.co.uk and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube , Twitch or on Twitter.
*Two Point Hospital owners that pre-order a physical copy of Two Point Campus will receive the free in-game items when Two Point Campus launches on May 17, 2022. Hospital owners that pre-purchase Campus digitally for Steam, Xbox or PlayStation will be able to claim their free items straight away. Players that own Hospital on Nintendo Switch will be able to pre-purchase Campus via the Nintendo eShop very soon, which will then unlock the free items at launch.
Gamedust, the publisher of the game Best Forklift Operator, presents a trailer that allows you to look at how the game works in Virtual Reality. Best Forklift Operator can be completed entirely in standard mode (mouse + keyboard, or gamepad), or in VR. This allows you to experience exciting work in warehouses with unprecedented immersion.
Best Forklift Operator allows the player to become the operator of the forklift – an everyday unnoticed cog that turns out to be crucial in a world’s long supply chain. Every day, forklifts and their operators move hundreds of thousands of tons of goods around the world, ensuring smooth operations in factories, ports, and warehouses.
To better show what forklift driving in VR looks like, the latest trailer has been prepared. It gives a substitute for what awaits players after purchasing the full game.
Game Features:
Exactly the same content is available in flat-screen and VR mode;
Detailed training mode thanks to which player can master the art of forklift operation;
Engaging career mode;
Jolly arcade mode that lets you relax after a hard day’s work;
Leaderboards that allow you to face players from all over the world.
Best Forklift Operator will debut in Early Access on Steam in 2022 (it will be possible to start the game in VR mode in Early Access). More information can be found on the game’s Steam page.
Team17 has today announced that it will be working with Polish game dev creative house, Covenant.dev, to bring Gord, a single-player dark fantasy strategy game, to PC. In the world of Gord, players will lead the Tribe of the Dawn as they strive to establish new settlements and explore eerie forbidden lands while interacting with horrific creatures and deities inspired by Slavic folklore. Players will have to complete quests to grow the tribe’s settlements (known as ‘gords’) and fortify these from invaders while managing a populace whose personal stories, familial ties, and well-being, can have devastating impact on the survival of their communities. A mysterious new trailer lurks below:
Covenant.dev is a 24-person creative development house including alumni from prominent Polish developers CD Projekt RED (The Witcher 3), 11 bit studios (Frostpunk), and Flying Wild Hog (Shadow Warrior 2). Headed by Chief Executive Officer, Stan Just, former producer on The Witcher 3, Gord is the studio’s debut title and aims to deliver players a mature and unforgiving strategy experience.
GORD KEY FEATURES
Dark Fantasy Strategy: Lead the people of the Tribe of the Dawn and venture deep into forbidden lands in a lore-rich, dark fantasy, real-time strategy campaign
Build and Survive: Grow your gord from humble settlement to formidable fortress while protecting your citizens from invading tribes, gruesome monsters, and mysterious powers that lurk within the surrounding woods
Unique Sanity System: Keep a close eye on your townsfolk as everything from illness to hunger and the death of kin can have devastating impact on their lives and well-being
Hand-Crafted Quests: Take on a wide variety of quests and random encounters that will lead you deep into the wilderness to hunt legendary creatures, uncover ancient secrets, and vanquish deadly scourges
Unleash Powerful Incantations: Unlock a variety of offensive and defensive spells to tip combat in your favour
Custom Scenarios with Procedurally Generated Levels: Take on an endless variety of challenges by creating your own scenarios. Customize your playthrough by picking a main objective, choosing your starting party, level size, number of resources, enemy types, raid intensities, and even the severity of the weather!
Stan Just, chief executive officer, Covenant.dev, said:
“Gord is our debut game as a studio, and we’re thrilled to have Team17 as our publishing partner. They have an excellent global track record and have repeatedly proven that they care about smaller teams and helping them realise their vision. Gord is an unapologetically dark and sometimes quite confronting game; Team17 has been hugely supportive in helping us bring it to life and home in on what we really feel makes our world special. We look forward to sharing more soon.”
Harley Homewood, head of publishing, Team17 Digital, said:
“The team at Covenant.dev already has an impressive development pedigree and Gord’s relentlessly bleak world and unique combination of city building, survival, strategy, and adventure promises something brand-new for PC players looking for a deeper and more mature experience. Bringing Gord onto our label solidifies our commitment to super high-quality and diverse games and we look forward to working with Stan and his team to welcome players to its brutal dark fantasy world.”
To keep up to date, wishlist Gord on Steam now, like the game on Facebook, follow on Twitter and Instagram, and join the community over on Discord.
SQUARE ENIX® presents a 5-minute sneak peak of the upcoming Life is Strange™ Remastered Collection, which contains enhanced versions of the first two games in the award-winning series. Featuring updated character models, improved motion capture and more, players will be able to experience legendary leads, Max and Chloe, like never before on Google Stadia, Xbox One, PlayStation®4, GeForce Now, and PC Steam.
Improvements visible in this clip are:
Now rendering in native 4K in Unreal 4, with a rebuilt lighting pipeline.
New and updated 4K-ready character models with increased polycounts and additional bones are visible throughout
All character models feature more emotive and expressive animation, more natural hair physics, and updated tears, injuries, and more.
Max’s tears and expressions are more detailed with updated facial SFX
Nathan and Chloe’s facial expressions and eyelines have been revamped
New lip-sync animation throughout.
New and updated scenic materials for reflectivity and texture.
Updated models and materials for key props, ex. the bucket in the bathroom
The Life is Strange Remastered Collection is available on Google Stadia, PlayStation 4®, Xbox One, GeForce Now, PC Steam on February 1, 2022. PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions will also be compatible with the next-gen PlayStation 5, and XBOX SERIES X|S. The Nintendo Switch version will be available at a later date.
Purchasers of the Life is Strange: True Colors Ultimate Edition will also receive the Life is Strange Remastered Collection.
Rebellion, one of the world’s most successful independent studios, has today released a new CGI trailer for Sniper Elite 5, the latest installment of the award-winning franchise, hinting at the new Invasion Mode which allows players to drop into each other’s campaigns and take on the role of an Axis Sniper with high rewards on the line. Created by Rebellion’s dedicated production company Rebellion VFX, the new trailer utilizes both in-game and bespoke VFX assets with a tailored audio mix to create a stunning cinematic which can be watched here:
Rebellion has also today revealed the pack and key art for Sniper Elite 5.
Invasion Mode will bring a whole new dimension to the game’s intense drama and add increased diversity to the tactics that players will have to employ in order to complete their mission. The invading Axis Sniper will have the sole aim to eliminate the player while the Allied Sniper will gain an extra objective: take out the invader. Invasion Mode will also be available in cooperative play – increasing the challenge for the Axis invader as they now have two Allies to track down but offering greater rewards.
Chris Kingsley, CTO at Rebellion, commented: “Invasion Mode is a fantastic addition to the gameplay experience of Sniper Elite 5. A human-controlled invader can act in ways that are so diverse and unpredictable, which adds to the challenge and ramps up the tension even further. The player will be informed that an invading Axis Sniper has joined their game and from that point on it becomes an extremely intense, high stakes game of cat and mouse.”
Chris continued: “For those players who just want a solo gameplay experience there will be the option to switch Invasion Mode off, but we recommend that everyone gives it a try at some point. We have been having a lot of fun with it in the studio, jumping into each other’s games and finding innovative, stealthy ways to take each other out.”
Invasion Mode will enable some unique skills for both players. The Axis invader can make use of the AI Axis forces to help locate the Allied player. Tagging an Axis soldier will enable ‘Eagle Eyes,’ which means that if that soldier spots the Allied Sniper then their last known location will be displayed on the map. The Axis Sniper can also instruct nearby soldiers to ‘Stay Sharp,’ increasing their awareness. For the Allied Sniper, each level has invasion phones scattered around the map which the player can use to discover the last known location of their opponent. But beware, as not only can these phones be booby-trapped, but overuse will raise suspicions and reveal the player’s location.
Successful Axis Snipers will be rewarded with weapons, items and skin unlocks while Allied Snipers can earn weapon and character skins by killing their opponent. You will also be awarded with additional XP for having Invasion Mode enabled.
Recognized for its unparalleled tactical sniping experience, Sniper Elite 5 will release simultaneously on Xbox Game Pass, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4 & 5, Epic, Steam and the Windows Store in 2022. Players will reprise the role of elite marksman Karl Fairburne as they travel to France in 1944 tasked with the mission to uncover and destroy the Nazi’s latest plan: Operation Kraken.
To keep up to date with all the latest Sniper Elite 5 news please visit sniper.com and follow the game on social media: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
The new CGI trailer was created by Rebellion VFX. Based at Rebellion Film Studios in Didcot, Rebellion VFX has been formed from industry-leading visual effects supervisors, artists and developers. The team specializes in full CG environment builds, FX, Compositing, Environment Set Extension and Virtual Production set builds with projects utilizing both offline rendered and real-time rendered game engine methodology. The on-site capability is further enhanced by Rebellion’s award-winning motion capture and full performance capture facilities, Audiomotion.
He Sun, Head of Rebellion VFX, said: “It has been a real pleasure for Rebellion VFX to be collaborating with the Sniper Elite brand, to be involved in working on such a title was a real privilege. We wanted to create a trailer that evoked a gritty and down-to-earth feeling in its cinematography, as if it was shot with a film crew on a real location. Technically, we relished the challenge of implementing USD (Universal Scene Description) pipeline in our offline rendering workflow. It was an enjoyable creative process which will hopefully be enjoyed by our passionate community of Sniper Elite fans too.”
