NACON and KT Racing studio today celebrate the release of WRC 9, the official video game of the FIA World Rally Championship, on PlayStation®4, Xbox One (September 8 for North America) and PC from the Epic Games Store. WRC 9 is also expected to be released on PlayStation®5, Xbox Series X and Nintendo Switch™ at a later date.
Watch WRC 9’s launch trailer:
The industry reference in the sim-racing world returns! WRC 9 includes many improvements in vehicle behaviour, driving realism and new game modes – including Clubs, a free roaming zone to test cars’ settings, and an enriched Career Mode – allowing players to truly put themselves in the shoes of a rally driver.
Fully answering the fans’ demands, the Clubs Mode offers the players the possibility to create their very own championships from A to Z, to compete with their friends or the community.
To further extend the experience, the game will also benefit from free updates in the months to come, including notably a Photo Mode, new special stages for the Portugal and Finland rallies, additional cars and teams, as well as a Co-driver Mode. More information to come soon!
Command the might of the Southern tribes, all while exploring new areas of the Total War: THREE KINGDOMS map. Can you unify the tribes and take on the mighty Han, or will the unrelenting jungles reclaim your crumbling ambitions?
Watch the press exclusive overview trailer here:
A New Culture Rises; The Nanman
THE FURIOUS WILD introduces four new warlords from the Nanman tribes as playable factions within the THREE KINGDOMS campaign. Featuring Meng Huo, Lady Zhurong, King Mulu and King Shamoke, each of these peerless warriors have unique story arcs, mechanics, victory conditions, and units to experience. Separated they are vulnerable, but together, they might just be unstoppable.
More Than 25 New Units
With the might of the tribes and nature at their fingertips, the Nanman force back the unrelating expansion of the Han Empire with a host of unique units available for recruitment. From Elephant Riders and Tiger Warriors to the Followers of Flame & the Shields of the South, THE FURIOUS WILD represents a truly unique addition to warfare in ancient China.
Expanded Campaign Map
The verdant jungles of southern China are a beautiful but deadly extension of the THREE KINGDOMS campaign map. This expansion includes new territories to explore and conquer, as well as a rework of the entire THREE KINGDOMS campaign map to better represent China and add greater tactical depth to gameplay.
Free Content
All players of THREE KINGDOMS will be able to gain access to a brand-new character in the form of Shi Xie. This influential member of the imperial government sits far from the imperial capital and has learnt how to make the most of the power he exerts in his remote province, manipulating Han and Nanman alike to increase his reach.
Game Update
The Furious Wild also welcomes in the next update for all THREE KINGDOMS players. Patch 1.6 grants access to several new features including gate battles, flame-firing Juggernaut artillery, a front-end rework and much more. Additional details on the accompanying patch can be found here.
Grinding Gear Games announced today that Path of Exile’s third major expansion in 2020, Heist, will launch September 18 (PDT) on PC and Mac, and September 23 (PDT) on the PlayStation®4 and Xbox One Consoles. In Heist, players will hire a crew of specialized thieves to assist them with infiltrating secure facilities to retrieve valuable Artifacts. While bypassing security, they must be careful not to trigger the alarm or they’ll be overrun with guards. Retrieving the artifact will automatically trigger the alarm and players will have to make a mad dash to the extraction point. If they can’t escape, they’ll lose everything they stole.
“The experience of knowing exactly what rewards you’ll lose if you can’t successfully complete the Heist is a new type of game tension we’re excited to explore. It’s all about the rush of the escape.” – Mark, Path of Exile Game Director
Successfully completing Heists lays the groundwork for a thief’s ultimate goal – pulling off a Grand Heist. You’ll need to gather wealth and intel to reveal the Blueprints of sprawling facilities where the Grand Heist will take place. To make sure it proceeds without a hitch, you’ll masterfully plan which crew members to take with you and ensure they’re both well-trained and equipped for the job. Grand Heists provide access to many tempting new rewards like Alternate Quality Gems which enable more build variety, Weapon and Body Armor Enchantments which provide more power, Replica Uniques which are mutated remakes of classic items, and Thieves’ Trinkets which give you more control over your rewards.
“Heist explores some concepts that we have always wanted to try in Path of Exile,” said Chris Wilson, Grinding Gear Games Co-Founder and Managing Director. “With new guard formation and patrol AI, low-level equivalents to end-game maps, equippable hireling NPCs, and the chance of losing your rewards if you can’t escape with them, this league explores some corners of Path of Exile’s design philosophy that we had not yet entered.”
Path of Exile: Heist Key Features Include
● Download and play for free but never pay-to-win.
● The Heist Challenge League
● 13 new active NPCs which have rich backstories, advanceable skills, and can be equipped with new craftable items.
● A new town-like area, The Rogue Harbour.
● Itemized world-areas that contain Heists and can be accessed from the outset of your character progress.
● New Item Types: Alternate Quality Gems, Replica Unique Items, Thief’s Trinkets, Experimented Base Types, Body Armour and Weapon Enchants.
● Seven new skills alongside reworks to existing Curses, Spells and Steel Skills.
● Over 25 New Unique Items.
● A new equipment slot for Trinkets.
● Now available on macOS.
Heist is one of Grinding Gear Game’s most ambitious expansions yet. Development initially began in March before New Zealand experienced a mandatory government-issued lockdown because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Due to the enormous scope of the expansion and the challenges of working from home, Heist’s release date was moved to September, with the smaller Harvest league released in June. Ironically, several key weeks of Heist’s development continued in lockdown after restrictions returned to New Zealand in August. Continuing to pull off a 13-week development cycle with a project as significant as Heist under working from home conditions was a challenge but well worth it.
World of Warships celebrates its fifth anniversary this September with a massive new update that’s going live today, bringing a new permanent campaign commemorating naval history through the ages, a new Dockyard featuring the Tier VIII cruiser U.S. Anchorage, a new battle type and loads of festive bonuses for the players.
Update 0.9.8 introduces a new permanent campaign titled “Five Epochs of the Navy” that honors the history of shipbuilding. Naval aficionados can travel through different eras in the history of shipbuilding by completing 50 tasks across five missions. Successfully finishing the task will unlock an Epoch permanent camouflage, which can be applied to Tier IX ships. The new campaign also comes with the Five Epochs of the Navy collection, which will take the players on a journey through five different historical eras of naval engineering. Elements of the collection can be obtained by containers of the same name.
Update 0.9.8 will also see the launch of a new temporary battle type – Asymmetric Battle – which will be available during the first two weeks of the anniversary celebrations. Historically, real naval battles frequently had an uneven number of combatants on each side, proving that tactics and strategy is the key to win over powerful enemies. In Asymmetric Battle, a team of five to seven Tier VII–VIII ships will fight against teams of nine to twelve ships of Tiers V–VI. By winning battles, players will earn a new temporary resource – Battle Tokens.
Players can build a new U.S. Tier VIII cruiser, the Anchorage, in a new Dockyard construction event. Anchorage’s in-game build comprises 20 phases, with 18 of them available to be finished by completing Directives. By completing all phases – also possible by spending doubloons – players will be awarded with the Anchorage and her National camouflage, a 10-skill Commander, a port slot, and a commemorative flag.
Furthermore, Update 0.9.8 allows players to receive a festive bonus for their first victory in this update on every ship starting from Tier V. Rewards include 2x World of Warships Anniversary camouflages for Tiers V–VII, 1x Gift container for Tier VIII that contains 5 special signals, 2x Gift containers for Tier IX, and 1x supercontainer for Tier X. On top of that, this new update also starts a new season of Ranked Battles for Tier X ships with 8vs8 format and deploys new visual improvements such as enhanced fog.
Further details on Update 0.9.8 can be found here.
We are excited to share a teaser trailer for Amazon Studios and Blumhouse Television’s “Welcome to the Blumhouse” film series featuring the song “What’s Up” by FJØRA, a re-imagining of Linda Perry’s hit song.
BLACK BOX, EVIL EYE, THE LIE, and NOCTURNE are the first four of eight films in the “Welcome to the Blumhouse” series, set to premiere worldwide on Amazon Prime in October.
FJØRA is a musical artist who reaches far beyond the “pop” genre for inspiration, surrounded by the sounds of jazz, world music, classical compositions, and Hollywood film scores.
Grammy, Golden Globe, Critic’s Choice award nominated producer and Songwriter Hall of Fame inductee Linda Perry is one of the most accomplished people working in music today. Beginning her musical journey as the lead singer of 4 Non Blondes, she has profoundly impacted pop culture through her work as a producer and songwriter.
Please tune to @blumhouse on Instagram for a special live conversation with Linda Perry and FJØRA today at 5pm PST/8pm ET.
Raw Fury and Playmestudio have revealed that The Signifier, a surreal first-person tech-noir mystery adventure that blends investigation, experimental psychology, and artificial intelligence, will launch on October 15 for Windows PC via Steam and other digital stores. When the vice president of the world’s largest tech company turns up dead in her home, it’s up to you to examine her death using advanced technology to interpret the mind.
Step foot into the Dreamwalker, a deep brain scanner which recreates recorded senses in the virtual world, and venture into the memories of the deceased. Within the strange and unpredictable depths of the human consciousness, you’ll unravel a multi-layer narrative of power and intrigue that will leave you questioning everything. Move freely between three dimensions — reality, the objective and the subjective — exploring different events and environments for clues, solving puzzles, and putting the pieces together to discover the truth.
Game Features:
A compelling narrative that spirals into a complex web of real-world intrigue and surreal suspense.
Three coexisting dimensions to explore: reality, objective memories and subjective dreams.
Move between realms to solve puzzles, unlock new dialogue branches, and unravel the mystery.
Learn psychological concepts and use your powers and tools to navigate the strange and unpredictable unconsciousness.
Become immersed in thought-provoking tension, free from jump scares.
Question the implications of AI, intrusion to the consciousness, privacy, and the subjective creation of our minds.
The Signifier is available to wishlist now on Steam and expected to release on PlayStation®4 and Xbox One in early 2021. For more information, check out https://www.thesignifier.com.
Gaijin Entertainment announces the release of the “Raining Fire” Content Update for the military online action game: War Thunder. It brings the famous European SEPECAT Jaguar supersonic attack aircraft, the latest versions of the Russian T-72 MBT, the Italian heavy cruiser Zara, and dozens of other carefully recreated military vehicles.
Military history fans are getting the P-51C fighter plane that was used by the Tuskegee Airmen – the first African American military aviators to serve in the U.S. Army Air Corps (a precursor to the U.S. Air Force), as well as the legendary “Razorback” versions of the P-47 Thunderbolt fighter plane.
The SEPECAT Jaguar was a supersonic attack aircraft jointly developed by the UK and France in the 1960’s. While raining fire on ground forces is its primary function, this machine is capable of defending itself against enemy fighters. The SEPECAT Jaguar is equipped with 30mm. cannons and can be outfitted with guided air-to-air missiles and unguided air-to-ground rockets and bombs. It primarily served with France and Great Britain, most notably distinguishing itself in action during the Gulf War of the 1990’s. Ecuador, Nigeria, and Oman also operated modified versions of the Jaguar, and India still operates the Jaguar to this day.
The Soviet Т-72 was the most-produced tank in the second half of the 20th century. War Thunder players already use the earlier T-72A and T-72B version of this beast. The “Raining Fire” Content Update brings later models: the T-72B (1989) and the T-72B3 that can be further upgraded to the T-72B3 UBH. New sights, armour, engine, and other modernized components make this tank a dangerous opponent to rival nations and their latest tanks.
While War Thunder is constantly adding new Cold War era and modern military vehicles, there is always something interesting for World War II history fans.
The “Raining Fire” Content Update brings the P-51C variant of the P-51 Mustang that was used by the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American military aviators in the United States Armed Forces. They trained at Tuskegee, Alabama and bravely fought to free Italy and the whole of Europe from nazism during World War II. The Tuskegee Airmen’s aircraft had the distinctive “Red Tails” camouflage that is carefully recreated in War Thunder to acknowledge the plane, its history and the 79th anniversary of the first solo flight of an African-American officer that was performed on September 2, 1941 by CPT Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. There are also a couple more interesting WW2-era planes that American aviation fans have been asking about for a long time. The US P-47D-22 RE and the British Thunderbolt Mk.I. are the earlier models of the Thunderbolt. They distinguish themselves from the familiar later models with their signature ‘Razorback’ design – the original design of the P-47 prior to the introduction of the bubble canopy with the D-25 variant.
Naval battles fans should also check out the Italian heavy cruiser Zara. Protected by 150 mm of armor plating along the belt and vital components, Zara is at the moment the most heavily armored warship in War Thunder naval battles.
Wired Productions and visionary independent developer Tomas Sala are proud to announce that open-world air combat game, The Falconeer, has opened sign-ups for the PC beta process, launching in October, ahead of the game’s launch on PC and the Xbox family of devices in November.
In October, the unknown will be revealed as The Falconeer beta sets the path of discovery for the growing Falconeer community, in an astounding open-world environment serving as the backdrop for classic dog-fighting mechanics and immersion. Set within the mysterious and oceanic waters of The Great Ursee, The Falconeer features a beautiful yet dangerous world populated by fighting factions vying for dominance over sea, land and sky.
Check out the latest gameplay in The Falconeer beta announcement video:
Deep Silver and KING ART games have announced that highly anticipated RTS Iron Harvest is now out today for PC on Steam, GOG, and the Epic Games Store (MSRP $49.99).
Giant diesel-punk mechs take strategic battles to a whole new level in this classic real-time-strategy game set in the alternative history world of “1920+.” In the heart of Europe, rural life clashes with technological warfare and Polania is striving for its very existence as the people find themselves on the frontline between Saxonian and Rusviet troops. Players will take control of each faction and their unique heroes as they follow the rich and engaging single-player story campaigns.
Jan Theysen, Creative Director at KING Art Games is thankful for all the support the team received from the community and said, “Seeing your game launching is always a special moment. After the long development and the great exchange with our community we are delighted to finally being able to unleash our diesel-punk mechs now. From the very beginning of this crowd-funded project, our players, supporters and fans have been a crucial part in supporting us to make this vision of a true story driven RTS come true.”
Ripstone Games today announced its brand new IP Poker Club, which will be launching this year for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC and Nintendo Switch. Leveraging the power of Unreal Engine 4 and ray tracing technology, Poker Club will offer players the most immersive and social poker simulation ever on next-generation and current platforms when it launches later this year.
Poker Club is designed as a social experience. In line with the increasing online community-led nature of the gaming landscape; Poker Club will connect players with friends and poker fans around the world, featuring tournaments for over 200 players. Players can create or join a club, complete with leaderboards, exclusive tournaments, daily chip bonuses whilst working towards shared goals that unlock rewards. Some customisable gear and events are club-specific, meaning the best way to play is together, connected with others from around the world. Poker Club will also offer cross-platform and cross-generation play, meaning players will be able to play together on PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation and Xbox platforms.
Poker Club offers players more ways to play than ever before with a full house of Texas Hold’em online tournament modes and ring-games. Players are invited to take on the challenge of the PCC Poker Tour, an immersive online career mode that takes players on a journey from back-room games to big-money main events. From Single-Table and Multi-Table tournaments to Freezeouts, Shootouts, Turbos, Super Turbos, Bounties and more, Poker Club offers a variety of online multiplayer modes featuring customisable private games, open tables and full-scale tournaments. With an advanced Poker 101 tutorial system featuring advice for beginners and advanced players alike, Poker Club offers a jackpot of poker fun for all.
On PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X Poker Club has been engineered to make the most of next-generation hardware and features. Poker Club boasts 4K visuals at 60fps, with advanced rendering techniques including hardware-accelerated ray tracing across PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. On PlayStation 5, Poker Club will utilise the advanced haptics in the DualSense controller to immerse players on the poker table like never before. The game also offers Cross-Buy between PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, and Smart Delivery on Xbox One and Xbox Series X, so players only have to buy Poker Club once to get the game on both generations of consoles.
“Poker Club is going to be the ultimate poker experience when it launches this year. Not only will it fully leverage the power of next-gen PC and console technology, but more importantly it will offer players a highly immersive social experience,” said Phil Gaskell of Ripstone Games. “We’ve included everything we’ve ever wanted to see in a poker game, so that players can enjoy the fantasy of living the life of a poker pro, touring the incredible locations you might see in TV and films. The in-game Clubs and huge range of events combine to create a refreshing new poker experience, bringing players from around the world together and offering more ways to play than ever before on PC and console.”
Poker Club has been built from the ground up to offer an immersive play experience on all platforms. With a first-person viewpoint in gameplay, along with top-down cameras and cinematic angles, Poker Club delivers the true feeling of sitting at the card table like never before. There are 7 meticulously detailed arenas to play in, ranging from the grungy basement of Ralph’s Pizzeria to the glitz and glamour of Casino d’Oro, whilst advancing through the ranks to become a high roller opens up access to high-stakes tournaments at the Intensity Arena, where the big money can be won. With deep player customisation options ranging from unlockable apparel to exclusive table items, the journey from back-room card shark to poker pro has never looked this good. Poker Club will launch on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch and current-gen consoles in 2020.
