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Team17 Presents Gord ‘The Prayer’ Teaser Trailer

2022/01/26

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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.

Life is Strange Remastered Collection Gameplay Trailer

2022/01/26

Jerry Paxton

Geek News, News, PlayStation 4 News, Trailers / Videos, Windows PC News, Xbox One News

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.

Read more on the Life is Strange blog: http://lifeisstrange-blog.tumblr.com/

Sniper Elite 5 Cinematic Trailer Released

2022/01/25

Jerry Paxton

Geek News, News, PlayStation 4 News, PlayStation 5 News, Trailers / Videos, Windows PC News, Xbox One News, Xbox Series X News

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.”

For the latest news and information about Rebellion VFX please visit rebellionfilmstudios.com/vfx/.

Hidden Deep Early Access Trailer

2022/01/25

Jerry Paxton

Geek News, News, Trailers / Videos, Windows PC News

Fans of 80s-horror, rejoice! Today, the sci-fi thriller Hidden Deep, developed by Polish one-man studio Cogwheel Software, enters Early Access on Steam and sends a reconnaissance mission into a claustrophobic research facility where nameless horrors lurk. Armed with various gadgets, players have to explore the dark, abandoned depths alone or in special co-op missions. Hidden Deep will continuously receive new content and improvements during the Early Access phase.

The Early Access launch follows after a popular beta in December 2021, played by over 50.000 Steam users. The highly anticipated game already boasts a wishlist that is nearing the 200.000 mark, an active Discord community with over 10k members, and a popular TikTok channel.

In Hidden Deep, players explore a vast suboceanic research and mining facility, inhabited by alien creatures brought to life in a 2D game world full of action, mystery, and danger. They must command their team members and find out what happened in the abandoned caves and corridors, unraveling a dark sci-fi horror mystery inspired by classic movies from the ‘80s and ’90s.

To explore the depths and find the missing researchers, the rescue team has a variety of tools at their disposal. Learn to master the grappling hook to avoid plummeting to your death or bashing your head in, use drones to scan the colossal cave systems, operate heavy machinery to explore new areas of the research station and blast your way through to new caves with demolition charges. Shoot or sneak your way through dangerous traps and alien lairs – and try not to get eaten by the facility’s inhabitants

With today’s co-op update, beta players are now able to work together with a friend on specific coop missions in challenge mode. They have to solve problems as a team via local multiplayer or use the Steam remote play feature.

Achilles: Legends Untold Story Trailer

2022/01/24

Jerry Paxton

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After its explosive reveal this summer, Dark Point Games is thrilled to announce that Achilles: Legends Untold will have a closed Beta starting January 27th.

During the beta, players can relive the battle at the gates of Troy, facing legendary warriors like Hektor, Paris and a slew of mythological menaces. While, according to the Iliad, Achilles was at the peak of his unquenchable desire for fame, this battle is only the opening chapter of his untold stories.

Players can Wishlist on Steam and sign up for the closed Beta by joining the Discord

The combat in Achilles: Legends Untold brings a unique isometric approach to traditional Souls-like gameplay. Learning enemy movements and timing your attacks will be key, while Dark Point Games also added devastating special abilities like the shield toss to overwhelm enemies with Achilles’ raw power. This way, Achilles: Legends Untold may be enjoyed by souls veterans and new players alike.

The gameplay features satisfying and skill-based combat, RPG elements, and resource management. Collect raw materials to bring to the forge to create new deadly weapons and sturdy shields to take Achilles to the peak of his power. As you watch Achilles become stronger and more ferocious with each ability you pick up, you as the player will also have to adapt to the world, as Achilles is not the only one picking up new tricks along the way.

Achilles: Legends Untold features the innovative GAIA system, which means the AI characters’ actions feel lifelike and work together in unpredictable ways. Experience immersive battles in which monsters adapt to your playstyle, try different strategies or create ambush scenarios, all driven by this contemporary, in-house-designed system.

Achilles: Legends Untold is aiming for an EA Release in Q2 of 2022 on PC.

Arrow Video Unveils February 2022 Release Lineup

2022/01/24

Jerry Paxton

Movie News, News, Trailers / Videos

This February Arrow Video opts for quality over quantity. Featuring two new releases for the month, the boutique home video label continues to keep fans of physical media extremely satisfied and busy.

Director Scott Mansfield’s oft-overlooked slasher, Deadly Games, makes its disc-debut on February 22. In a small American town, women fall victim to an unhinged masked maniac with a fondness for board games. Each time the dice is rolled, another victim meets a grisly end. Jo Ann Harris stars as a woman that gets caught up in the killer’s sadistic games after she returns home to mourn the murder of her sister. Sam Groom and Steve Railsback co-star. Made in 1980 but not released until 1982, Deadly Games has languished in relative obscurity for the last forty years. Arrow hopes to introduce Deadly Games to a new fan base by shining a new light on this unique oddity of early ’80s horror. This release includes a brand-new 2K restoration from the original camera negative, new interviews with actor Jere Rae-Mansfield and special effects and stunt co-ordinator John Eggett. The first pressing includes a fully-illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing by film historian/author Amanda Reyes.

A staple of the French New Wave scene, Claude Chabrol established himself as one of French cinema’s most influential directors despite often being overlooked throughout a career spanning more than fifty years. Arrow Video is proud to give the award-winning director his just praise with the Lies & Deceit: Five Films by Claude Chabrol, a stunning 5-disc set highlighting five of the director’s best films.

Entered into the 1985 Cannes Film Festival, Cop Au Vin is a crime film set in a small provincial French town. A butcher, a doctor, and a lawyer agree to go into business with one another. But after obnoxious behavior leads to one of them ending up dead, the town’s police detective, Inspector Lavardin (Jean Poiret) shows up to investigate. Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader described Cop Au Vin as a “good whodunit” that is “well-crafted and satisfying.”

In 1986, Jean Poiret reprised his police detective role from Cop Au Vin in the sequel Inspector Lavardin. After a wealthy Roman Catholic writer is found dead on the beach of a small coastal town, Lavardin heads to the scene to solve the mystery. When Lavardin discovers that the victim’s widow is an old flame that he hasn’t seen in more than two decades, the investigation takes a turn. Caryn James of The New York Times praised Inspector Lavardin for the fun and charming way it plays with some of the most famous French stereotypes.

Based on Gustave Flaubert’s novel of the same name, Madame Bovary is the story of an attractive young woman (Isabelle Huppert) stuck in a lackluster marriage with a country doctor. To spice things up and escape the boredom of married life, she enters into multiple affairs, runs up countless debts, and meets a tragic end. Madame Bovary earned a 1992 Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Film and an Oscar nod for Best Costume Design.

Betty (Marie Trintignant) is a young, attractive alcoholic that spends her evenings hopping from bar to bar. One night she meets Laure (Stéphane Audran), an older alcoholic that decides to take Betty in and help her get her life back on track. Betty eventually becomes jealous of her new friend’s relationship and attempts to steal her lover. Famed critic Roger Ebert gave Betty three and a half out of four stars, praising the film for the way it abandons a more traditional plot in exchange for interesting characters.

Torment is the story of a man who appears to have it all before obsession drives him mad. Paul (François Cluzet) owns and runs the successful Hotel Del Lac and is married to the beautiful Nelly (Emmanuelle Béart), a woman he believes to be way out of his league. After witnessing Nelly being friendly to a handsome hotel guest, Paul becomes convinced that she’s unfaithful and begins to follow his wife. His delusion and paranoia lead to tragedy.

The impressive set comes loaded with archived and new bonus features, including interviews and audio commentaries, trailers, image galleries, and video essays. Also included is an 80-page collector’s booklet of new writing by film critics Martyn Conterio, Kat Ellinger, Philip Kemp, and Sam Wigley, and archive material. This must-own set releases on February 22.

Eugen Systems WARNO Official Reveal Trailer

2022/01/24

Jerry Paxton

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Eugen Systems is excited to announce that WARNO – the spiritual successor to Wargame – launches into Early Access on Steam today.

Pushing real-time strategy to the next level, WARNO (Warning Order) is the new World War III battle simulator from the masters of strategy. In WARNO’s alternative history, the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 never happened. Instead, a tense NATO and Soviet-led Warsaw Pact have deployed in a divided Germany for immediate conflict. The only thing left is to wait for the Warning Order that will signal the start of an all-out war.

Players will need to call on their quick wits and tactical prowess to take charge of the hundreds of units on exquisitely detailed battlefields. World War III conflict becomes a chilling reality, with NATO and Warsaw Pact using their full arsenal of war, from conscripts to Spetsnaz, main battle tanks, attack helicopters, and stealth strike aircraft.

Meticulously researched and painstakingly recreated, every nation and their units in WARNO has unique strengths and weaknesses. As a commander, it’s the player’s duty to use the entire range of tactical tools available to them, from smoke screens to off-map fire missions. Each battle will be heavily contested, be it against the expert computer, fighting in cooperative teams, or ranked against other hot-blooded human opponents.

“It’s fair to say both military enthusiasts and historians alike have both speculated just how an actual full-scale conflict in the Cold War would have played out,” said Alexis Le Dressay, Creative Director and co-founder of Eugen Systems. “WARNO is an opportunity to take a look at what a world at war at the end of the 1980s would have looked like. Play is grounded in reality and based on fact, from technology to tactics, and thanks to Early Access, we can give our community, veterans and new players alike, a chance to play early.“

In WARNO, players can:

Experience in-depth and realistic real-time strategy Cold War-era warfare. From tactics to technology and hundreds of painstakingly researched and recreated military units from NATO’s and Warsaw Pact’s arsenals.
Get to know each unit in detail in Armory, and use this knowledge to your advantage as you build, customize and fine-tune each unique battlegroup.
Witness a battlefield that never looked more beautiful, in the environments and brutal destruction. The latest incarnation of Eugen’s proprietary engine simulates modern combat to the fullest extent.
Take on maps online, cooperative, or solo. Each map has a unique set of objectives with a dynamic frontline that directly results in one side’s victory or defeat.
Battle against a smart and truly challenging AI or pit your tactics and strategy against other players, from ranked 1v1 to all-encompassing 10v10 battles.
Dive into do-or-die Operations or the massive turn-based Army General strategic campaigns depicting some of the hardest-fought “what if” scenarios of a Cold War turned hot. Massive Warsaw Pact armies square off against the NATO formations for a vicious fight across Western Europe.
Taking advantage of Eugen Systems’ game experience and previous titles, a host of quality-of-life enhancements will appeal to new and veteran players alike, from issuing commands during pre-combat deployment to AI-assisted Smart Orders.

In Steam Early Access, WARNO will be updated continuously with new content, units, game mechanics, scenarios, and campaigns. At release, players will be able to play Skirmish battles, either solo or online, including the massive 10v10 battles. They will also be able to explore the Cold War-era arsenal of two nations: the U.S. and the Soviet Union.

WARNO launches in Early Access on Steam today.

Railway Empire – Japan Nintendo Switch Launch Trailer

2022/01/24

Jerry Paxton

Geek News, News, Nintendo Switch, Trailers / Videos

Publisher Kalypso Media and developer Gaming Minds Studios have added a whole new stop to the Nintendo Switch™ – unleashing the engines of Railway Empire – Japan on the mobile console and opening new paths to the Land of the Rising Sun.

Railway Empire – Japan transports players back to the 19th century and gives them the levers to lead the country through the industrial revolution. However, fulfilling the desire to build a modern, nationwide railway network requires intelligent and strategic planning. Players will lay tracks through seas of cherry blossoms, mountains, and hot springs to create a booming metropolis.

With the release of the Japan DLC for the Nintendo Switch, Railway Empire now brings all the title’s expansions to the mobile console, offering a load of captivating railway content.

Railway Empire – Japan is available now via the Nintendo eShop and can be purchased with a 10% discount until January 31st. Both the main game and all DLCs are also available for PC, PlayStation®4, and Xbox One.

Crossout Mobile Official Launch Trailer

2022/01/24

Jerry Paxton

Geek News, Mobile News, News, Trailers / Videos

Targem Games and Gaijin Entertainment announce that the mobile vehicular action online game Crossout Mobile will soon launch on Android (February 3rd) and iOS (February 10th) in North America, Europe, Middle East, Australia and New Zealand. Previously, the game was only available in the UK, Poland, Russia and a few other countries. Crossout Mobile will also get a huge update in February with new maps, vehicle parts and other content.

Сrossout Mobile is a new action game developed from scratch that brings the gameplay and the world of the popular Crossout online game to mobile platforms. Wasteland warriors ride post-apocalyptic armored vehicles and fight over the scraps of resources in the ruins of the Earth civilization that we know. One of the maps brings players to the abandoned oil derrick in the midst of the dried out Adriatic Sea, another one to the former space shuttle launching facility with one machine still waiting for an ignition command. Crossout Mobile players craft their own unique vehicles from myriads of available parts and enter battle under the flag of one of the five factions.

An armored vehicle could sport machine guns or shotguns, or something a bit more exotic. For example, one type of weapon launches an explosives-stuffed wheel at the enemy! There are also futuristic devices like the railgun or even a tesla-gun that scorches enemies with human created lightning. It’s also important to equip armor and defensive modules (for example, one granting invisibility), while not making the vehicle too heavy to move around. Crossout Mobile players can use up to 40 parts in the single vehicle in total, and that’s more than enough to create some crazy designs. The fun thing is that any part on the vehicle can be destroyed in battle, so good sharpshooting skills will allow players to disarm or immobilize the enemy.

The full list of countries where Crossout Mobile will become available for free this February is: Australia, Algeria, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Northern Macedonia, Norway, Oman, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Turkmenistan, UAE, USA, Vatican, Yemen. Pre-registrations are already open on Android and first Crossout Mobile players will get an early adopter bonus. The team is also working on versions for other countries, and any release date for them will be announced later.

The Wonderful Winter of Mickey Mouse Official Trailer

2022/01/21

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Today, Disney+ announced the premiere date and released the trailer and key art for “The Wonderful Winter of Mickey Mouse,” launching the second season of “The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse.” The second installment consists of four extended-length specials that are themed to each season – winter, spring, summer, and autumn. “The Wonderful Winter of Mickey Mouse,” premieres February 18, exclusively on Disney+.

“The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse” spotlights the endearing, adventurous and comedic antics of Mickey Mouse, Disney’s #1 star, and is geared towards kids, families, and fans of all ages. The series is produced by Disney Television Animation with Emmy Award-winning artist and director Paul Rudish serving as executive producer and supervising director. Christopher Willis, the Emmy Award-nominated composer of the “Mickey Mouse” shorts, also provides the music for this series. Philip Cohen is the series producer.