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The Dark Eye: Book of Heroes Launch Trailer

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:

 

Bill & Ted Face the Music Official Trailer

June 9, 2020 – In honor of Bill & Ted Day, Orion Pictures has released the official teaser trailer and teaser poster for BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC. The stakes are higher than ever for the time-traveling exploits of William “Bill” S. Preston Esq. (Alex Winter) and Theodore “Ted” Logan (Keanu Reeves). The now middle aged best friends set out on a new adventure to seek the song that will set their world right and bring harmony in the universe, with the helped by their daughters (played by Samara Weaving and Brigette Lundy-Paine), a new batch of historical figures and a few music legends. The film also stars Kid Cudi, Kristen Schaal, Anthony Carrigan, Erinn Hayes, Jayma Mays, Jillian Bell, Holland Taylor, Beck Bennett, William Sadler, Hal Landon Jr. and Amy Stoch.

BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC will be released in theaters on August 21, 2020.

Path of Exile Harvest Gameplay Trailer

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

Tour de France 2020 and Pro Cycling Manager 2020 Launch Trailers

Lesquin, France, June 4, 2020 – This summer, the most prestigious cycling competition will take place thanks to you! NACON and Cyanide are pleased to announced the release today of Pro Cycling Manager 2020 on PC and Tour de France 2020 on Xbox One et PlayStation®4. And for the first time, Tour de France 2020 will be available on PC, in August.

The official game of the Tour de France lets you play with the teams participating in the Grande Boucle with their official jerseys. Other invited teams will also be playable, including Circus-Wanty Gobert and Bingoal-Wallonie Bruxelles.

As well as the 21 stages of the Grande Boucle, many other official races are available in Tour de France 2020: the Critérium du Dauphiné, Paris-Nice, Paris-Roubaix – and for the first time – Liège-Bastogne-Liège, also known as “The Old Lady”. Players can also create their own competitions in My Tour mode by selecting stages from those available.

In Pro Leader mode in Tour de France 2020, players can create their own cyclist, select their speciality and develop their skills over multiple seasons. In Pro Team mode, players take control of a whole team of cyclists: switch between teammates during races, devise strategies and recruit new cyclists. And for the first time, players can enable a first-person camera for unprecedented immersion and also experience a completely redesigned Time-Trial mode.

In Pro Cycling Manager 2020, players step into the shoes of a manager in its extensive Career mode. After choosing a team, players must manage their cyclists’ training, schedule races, invest in better equipment, find new talent to recruit, keep morale high, and sign contracts with new sponsors to increase their budget and improve race results against a combative AI.

The dashboard has been improved to provide better visibility, and an assistant manager is now available for the first time to help with planning the race schedule. Players can take part in over 230 races and 650 stages in Pro Cycling Manager 2020.

Pro Cycling Manager 2020 is now available on PC.

Tour de France 2020 is available on PlayStation®4 and Xbox One. PC version will out in August.

Fell Seal: Arbiter’s Mark Missions and Monsters Trailer

Prague, Czech Republic, June 05, 2020 – It has been over a year since players made their mark on an epic fantasy adventure through the lands of Teora, but their journey is not quite over yet. Turn-based tactical RPG, Fell Seal: Arbiter’s Mark will receive a hefty expansion – Missions and Monsters on 23rd of June for PC, PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. The price will be 12.99 USD/EUR. This expansion will bring enriched gameplay by adding plethora of new content and deepening base game mechanics. Prepare for recruitable monsters that you can customize, new classes, equipment, locations, missions and much more! Both 1C Entertainment and developer 6 Eyes Studio are excited to unleash the new content that players have been craving. Fell Seal: Arbiter’s Mark currently boasts 92% user review score on Steam.

Missions and Monsters is the first expansion to Fell Seal: Arbiter’s Mark and brings several new additions to enrich the gameplay. You’ll now be able to recruit powerful monsters from across the land of Teora, customize them with their own classes, and send them into battle alongside the rest of your forces. As your army grows, you’ll get to dispatch your troops on missions of their own to gather precious resources, earn special rewards, unlock new locations and classes, and, ultimately, keep the land a safer place! Face new challenges that will test your tactical mettle as you embark on larger-scale battles against the deadliest monsters the land has ever seen!

Key Features:

  • Recruit and tame monsters to join your roster!
  • Customize your monster allies with the new monster subclass system, selecting up to 2 optional subclasses from a selection of more than 20.
  • Unlock 3 new human classes, the Beastmaster, Samurai, and Wrangler, adding a variety of new powerful abilities to your arsenal.
  • Uncover new equipment and crafting recipes.
  • Discover 5 new locations, featuring a combination of larger encounter battles and powerful named monster enemies.
  • Face deadly new encounters, including the largest-scale battles seen in-game and challenging end-game content additions.
  • Upgrade Arbiter’s Guilds across the land to reap benefits and rewards for the party.
  • New in-game system to send recruits out on missions lets you collect new rewards and open up new content.
  • New songs will accompany you as you explore the land of Teora.
  • Challenge yourself with new achievements!

Fell Seal: Arbiter’s Mark takes you to the world of Teora, a land once ravaged by a brutal beast bent on destruction. Teora narrowly escaped its dire fate thanks to the Council of Immortals, who now rule the land through their mortal agents, the Arbiters. The Council and their Arbiters keep the peace by enforcing stability and order… but at what cost? Step into the boots of Kyrie, an Arbiter that sets out on an adventure to protect the land and uncover centuries-old secrets that could shake the very foundation of everything her order stands for.

Desperadoes III Miniatures Trailer

Vienna, Austria/ Munich, Germany, June 5th, 2020: Actions speak more than words, so here is our trailer of real-life miniature action, staged in miniature landscapes, all 3d-printed and handcrafted, and shot on a single desk, which will morph into in-game gameplay.

In other words: Watch real-life and gameplay do the Tango!

The Behind the Miniature-Feature: https://youtu.be/E9tQy7vxSiE

We have more interesting content available for Desperados III:

Watch the Collector’s Edition trailer: https://youtu.be/x4fBnVaPvSc

Free Demo available!
You can’t wait to try Desperados III for yourself? Well, here is your chance: A free (PC) demo with one level from our story-driven, hardcore tactical stealth game is now available on GOG.com. Check it out and see, if Desperados III will be your favourite game of this summer, when it releases on June 16th 2020.

Get the demo here: https://www.gog.com/game/desperados_iii_demo

Developer Diaries
The series of developer diaries continues, and this time Mimimi Games is discussing innovation in episode number five. Every Wednesday, a new developer diary will be available on THQ Nordic’s YouTube Channel. Here are all episodes so far:

  • Episode one: https://youtu.be/iWPETCElNQU
  • Episode two:https://youtu.be/iCFX1XbqRQM
  • Episode three: https://youtu.be/yyCvxz_lcRY
  • Episode four: https://youtu.be/aXyi0Zjm56M
  • Episode five: https://youtu.be/U3ezFpTaP4Y
  • Episode six: https://youtu.be/XKZU3H22ul4

Desperados III is available for pre-order now at an SRP of € 49.99 / $ 49.99 / £ 44.99 (PC) and € 59.99 / $ 59.99 / £ 54.99 (Consoles) For the early adopters: The Digital Deluxe Edition is available for pre-order for the price of the Standard Edition for a limited time! Make sure to shoot first, and ask questions later.

The physical side of things always gets some love from everyone here at THQ Nordic and has been up and running for quite some time. The Collector’s Edition is available for pre-order now and comes in hot at an SRP of € 109.99 / $ 109.99 / £ 99.99 (PC) and € 119.99 / $ 119.99 / £ 109.99 (PlayStation®4 and Xbox One™).

Check out our entire vendor’s tray over at the pre-order website: https://desperadosgame.com/#order-here

Remnant: From the Ashes – Swamps of Corsus Launch Trailer

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.

 

Necromunda: Underhive Wars New Cinematic Trailer

PARIS — June 4, 2020 — Focus Home Interactive and Games Workshop® have released a new cinematic trailer for the third-person, turn-based strategy RPG Necromunda: Underhive Wars, giving you a unique look at the Warhammer 40,000 universe’s infamous Hive World.

The first video game adaptation of Necromunda, the mythical tabletop game, Necromunda: Underhive Wars brings you right up to the action, with an over-the-shoulder view of every epic takedown and battle. The nightmarishly polluted and dangerous Hive City is home to Houses Orlock, Escher and Goliath, each seeking to come out on top.

Dive deep into the twisted tunnels of the Underhive in the game’s compelling story campaign and Salvage Operations, where rival gangs will fight to the bitter end for personal power, wealth, survival and honor. Command, evolve and customize your gangs against the AI or with up to three friends online. The choices — and consequences — are yours, but only the strongest will survive.

Necromunda: Underhive Wars is expected to launch this summer on PlayStation®4, Xbox One and PC. Players can pre-order the game now on Steam.

TT Isle of Man – Ride on the Edge 2 Virtual TT Announced

Lesquin, France, June 2 2020 – Because of the current situation, the Tourist Trophy is reinventing itself! NACON and KT Racing, in collaboration with the Isle of Man TT Races, are pleased to announce TT Ride on the Edge 2020, an online event taking place within the video game TT Isle of Man – Ride on The Edge 2 from June 13 to June 25, 2020.

There will be an initial event between eight teams composed of invited competitors from the TT Races and experienced players from June 2 to June 6 as part of the Isle of Man Government’s ‘TT Lock-in’ program of entertainment. Riders who would have been taking part in the TT Races will get the chance to race against each other and win the first virtual version of the famous race. Highlights of each team’s performance can be seen on the official iomttraces.com website and social media channels. Davey Todd, Conor Cummins and Peter Hickman are some of the big TT names who will meet in a unique competition that promotes sportsmanship and fun.

After that, gamers from all over the world who play TT Isle of Man – Ride on the Edge 2 on PlayStation®4 and PC can enter an open competition and go head to head in an event that runs from June 13 to June 25. They will be competing to win a trip for two to the Tourist Trophy on the Isle of Man in 2021 to meet their heroes. The runner-up will win an official and limited-edition TT 2020 Arai helmet!

The event will consist of three rounds:

  • From June 13 to 17, open qualification on the Circuit of Ireland to select the top 50 players
  • From June 20 to 22, a lap of the Isle of Man to select the top 10 players
  • On June 25, the final battle to win the Senior TT over six laps of the Isle of Man

David Talmat, Marketing Director at NACON, said: “The Tourist Trophy is the culmination of the year for many riders after preparing for it all season. And for many fans it’s a dream to watch it in person one day! It’s a great disappointment that the race can’t go ahead this year, but we’re delighted to set up this competition based on TT Isle of Man – Ride on the Edge 2, which will allow two people to experience the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy first hand next year!”

TT Isle of Man – Ride on the Edge 2 is a racing simulation that recreates the official and iconic Tourist Trophy competition. The route and Isle of Man environment has been accurately modeled to make the game experience as authentic as possible. In this new edition, KT Racing has also rebuilt the physics from the ground up to create an ultra-realistic riding experience.

All the details on how to take part in the competition can be found on the game’s official Facebook page.

TT Isle of Man – Ride on the Edge 2 is now available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation®4, Xbox One and PC.

Desperados III Interactive Trailer Released

Vienna, Austria/ Munich, Germany, June 3rd, 2020: Desperados III is all about choices – not about how the story will unfold, but how you can master a certain scenario. Three guards are securing a location you need to enter: You can try to distract them and silently eliminate them one by one – or just march in, guns blazing. The aggressive option might be quicker but can cause more problems like reinforcements storming in or alarming all enemies nearby.

Have a look at the interactive trailer and try what way works best for you!

Watch the interactive Trailer:

And besides the new interactive video, we have more interesting content available for Desperados III:

Watch the Collector’s Edition trailer: https://youtu.be/x4fBnVaPvSc

Free Demo available!
You can’t wait to try Desperados III for yourself? Well, here is your chance: A free (PC) demo with one level from our story-driven, hardcore tactical stealth game is now available on GOG.com. Check it out and see, if Desperados III will be your favourite game of this summer, when it releases on June 16th 2020.

Get the demo here: https://www.gog.com/game/desperados_iii_demo