Barcelona, Spain – December 3rd, 2019 – Numantian Games and BlitWorks are proud to announce that They Are Billions campaign mode is available now on PS4 and Xbox One! Console gamers can learn the secrets of the zombie apocalypse as they make their way through 48 missions in this 60 hour campaign.
This update also includes tweaked and refined gamepad controls, something that players have clamoring for, and that reworks covers both survival and campaign modes. Alongside those improved controls is a redone contextual quick-help system, which makes for a more approachable experience.
Campaign mode arrives for console players starting today, and is free for those who already purchased the game. With the launch of the campaign, the price of They Are Billions on XBO and PS4 has increased to $29.99 USD to match the price of the PC version on Steam.
December 3, 2019 — Techland Publishing today announced that Arise: A Simple Story is now available as a digital download on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and the Epic Games Store. A beautiful and deeply moving platform adventure game, Arise is Barcelona-based developer Piccolo Studio’s first game to ever be released.
Arise invites players to take the first step on a journey into the afterlife. The game is a heartfelt tale of an old man’s life, interwoven with love and loss, through the symbolic landscapes of his memories and a unique traversal mechanic that allows players to manipulate time in single player or light cooperative play. As each chapter represents a pivotal moment from the protagonist’s past, Arise’s touching love story will take the old man—and the players themselves—on an impassioned emotional rollercoaster of empowering highs and visceral lows.
Arise is artistically enchanting with beautiful landscapes and an emotional soundtrack composed by BAFTA Award winning composer David García.
“Arise is a deep narrative, carefully crafted to transcend both the literal and metaphorical. We travel together with an old man across artistically stunning landscapes, each of which represents a crucially poignant moment of his life, lush with love and loss,” said Alexis Corominas, one of the founders of Piccolo. “We hope players will find themselves walking alongside him on a path of self-reflection, and, with each step, relate to the heartfelt magic in his story. We can’t wait for the players to discover what—or whom—they and the old man will find throughout the journey.”
Piccolo was established by three friends who quit their corporate jobs to pursue their long-time dream of creating handcrafted video games. Piccolo, Italian for “small,” is a tight-knit, 15-person strong team.
Arise is now available as a digital download on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and the Epic Games Store for $19.99 USD. This title has an ESRB rating of “E” for everyone.
12/3/2019 – Check out the new teaser trailer for “Black Widow,” which just debuted. Plus, a new poster is also available. Scarlett Johansson reprises her role as Natasha/Black Widow in Marvel Studios’ action-packed spy thriller “Black Widow”—the first film in Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Florence Pugh stars as Yelena, David Harbour as Alexei aka The Red Guardian and Rachel Weisz as Melina. Directed by Cate Shortland and produced by Kevin Feige, “Black Widow” hits U.S. theaters on May 1, 2020.
Epsom, UK, December 2nd, 2019. Slitherine LTD, the world’s leading publisher of digital wargames and strategy games, in collaboration with Sony Pictures Consumer Products, announced today “Starship Troopers – Terran Command,” a real time strategy game based on TriStar Pictures’s iconic 1997 movie to be released for PC in 2020.
“If you take one of the most iconic movies from the 90s and shape it into a strategy game of survival, that mixes classic real-time mechanics, tower defense and tactical deployment of units then you have ‘Starship Troopers – Terran Command’ in a nutshell”, says Iain McNeil, Development Director at Slitherine. “Modern strategy games are fast-paced and they successfully blend unit management, survival and captivating storytelling. Nothing is more suited to this type of gameplay than the Starship Troopers universe, where there is a continuous sense of danger and uncertainty”.
Set in the same universe of the original movie, “Starship Troopers – Terran Command” drops players right at the heart of a human colony overrun by the Arachnids. They must take the fight into bug territory, where they will lead an army of elite soldiers to defeat the alien menace. They will deploy their units in strategic locations to cover vital choke-points, build defence emplacements, and achieve superior firepower through the tactical use of elevation levels.
“When creating this game, we aimed to capture the essence of the original movie and its universe. This is not only achieved by creating a coherent set of units and scenarios, but also by mimicking the language, visual elements, dialogues and the little details that made the film such an iconic, cult feature.”, Iain McNeil continues.
Slitherine is also a core strategy games publisher though and that doesn’t go away. This is why the British publisher is working with strategy games developer The Artistocrats to create a product that features complex mechanics, deep gameplay systems and a wide variety of options to turn a fast-paced strategy game into a mind-bending experience that involves multiple solutions to a very basic problem: to kill a lot of bugs.
The Artistocrats are the Belgian development studio behind the Order of Battle series and Commander: the Great War. Studio owner and lead designer Lukas Nijsten has been working on “Starship Troopers – Terran Command” for over two years now. The game is set to release in 2020.
11/27/2019 – Tz’arkan, the Drinker of Worlds has escaped from his eternal prison within the Realm of Chaos and latched himself onto the mind of Malus Darkblade, forging a deadly partnership that reverberates throughout the New World. Sensing the potential of this daemonic entity, the Nightlord of Clan Eshin has dispatched his most trusted assassin, Deathmaster Snikch, to track down the daemon and investigate its true power.
Who will prevail in this daemonic power struggle? Find out in the new trailer.
Out December 12th and playable in both the Eye of The Vortex and Mortal Empire campaigns, the Shadow & The Blade introduces two legendary lords to Total War: WARHAMMER II, both with an insatiable desire to spread destruction across the battlefields of the world. With swarms of sneaky rats, nightmarish Medusa-bound blood shrines, stealth magic lore, and a unique and intertwined campaign, players have an arsenal of new ways to inflict death upon their enemies.
Shadow and Blade:
2 playable factions – Clan Eshin (Skaven) and Hag Graef (Dark Elves)
2 legendary lords – Death Master Snikch, Malus Darkblade
12 units; High Beast Master, Bloodwrack Medusa, Master Assassins, Eshin Triads and more.
Lore of Stealth (Skaven)
Free Content Update:
Legendary lord – Rapanse de Lyonesse (Bretonnia)
Legendary hero – Henri Le Massif (Bretonnia)
In addition to this, some significant quality of life improvements has been made to enemy turn time duration. Players can now expect to see up to a 60% decrease in wait times between turns, however this will be dependent on their current game state.
Details on the Shadow & The Blade can be found on the total war FAQ here.
Click here to pre-order Shadow & the Blade and receive 10% off.
November 27, 2019 – War and sacrifice go hand-in-hand. In ACE COMBAT 7’s DLC Mission #6, known as the Ten Million Relief Plan, will you allow 1 million lives to be sacrificed to save 10 million lives? Will you rise to the occasion to make the difference in this theater of war?
No ACE COMBAT mission is complete without big moments and even bigger bosses and DLC mission #6 will present both as you fly through the skies on your next sortie.
Head over to the following YouTube link (ready for embedding) to see the aerial combat action to come:
ACE COMBAT 7: Skies Unknown DLC mission #6 aka Ten Million Relief Plan is available for download now in the Americas for the PlayStation®4, Xbox One, and PCs via STEAM®.
November 27, 2019 – There’s one last reveal from our side for the week before the holiday festivities (read: incalculable amounts of food) begin. Today the developers behind the upcoming MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries have released the opening cinematic from the game, setting the stage for conflict and who and what you will aim to become in the Inner Sphere.
The game’s opening cinematic brings us to 3015, a time of tension between the great houses of humanity after an era of peace quickly give way to ruthless violence known as the Succession Wars.
These great houses are increasingly turning to mercenary units for supporting firepower – enter you, the player, a scrappy pilot thrust into a leadership position, with the goal to guide your unit through these conflicts, carefully choosing which houses to accept contracts from while managing resources, selecting which ‘Mechs to arm your company with, and leading allies into tremendously difficult battles.
26 November, 2019 – Reykjavík, Iceland – CCP games today released EVE Online: Invasion Chapter 2, the next step in the Triglavian story for the biggest single shard free-to-play spaceship MMO game of all time. Free to download for all players, this newest chapter in the EVE Online: Invasion expansion escalates the mysterious Triglavian menace in New Eden.
In EVE Online: Invasion Chapter 2, Capsuleers will be made to choose sides during engagements between the Empires and the Triglavian Collective, with two paths through an all new combat experience.
The awesome new Triglavian Dreadnought class vessel – the Zirnitra – also makes its bow in Invasion Chapter 2. This new ship will prove a challenging adversary for Capsuleers, but also a desirable prize for those that can pilot it. There will also be new skills required for piloting the Dreadnought, as well as new weaponry for it. In addition, the Mimesis Implant set and 16 new Firestorm SKINs provide a significant addition to the Loyalty Points store in EVE Online.
“EVE Online: Invasion Chapter 2 follows on naturally from the universe-changing events of the initial Triglavian Invasion” said Bergur Finnbogason, EVE Online’s Creative Director. “Our goal was always to raise the intensity of Triglavian activity in familiar space and have the impact of their presence be felt even further afield. We’re very eager to see how players will influence the conflict that is building up and how they’ll interact with all the new things that Chapter 2 introduces!”
This chapter of the Invasion expansion also brings with it other new features too, including Shareable Bookmarks. This new addition allows Capsuleers to share specific locations in New Eden with alliance members and anyone else they choose, with control over access and duration.
Eager EVE Online players can get a sneak peek of upcoming action with a new trailer showcasing what is coming this winter in New Eden.
Vienna/Austria, Palmetto/Florida, November 26th, 2019 – The digital version of Monster Jam for Nintendo Switch™ is out today, and the physical version of the game will release on February 4th, 2020. Switch players can look forward to all the trucks, athletes, stadiums, stunts and massive air that make Monster Jam® the BIGGEST name in off-road racing!
Monster Jam Steel Titans takes fans beyond the stadium, allowing fans to experience what it takes to train and eventually compete like their favorite, real-life, professional Monster Jam athletes. All the trucks, athletes, stunts, stadiums and massive air are in one game! Developed by THQ Nordic’s Rainbow Studios, Monster Jam Steel Titans competitions include Stadium Racing, 2 Wheel Skill ChallengesTM, Freestyle, Waypoint Racing, Circuit Racing and Timed Destruction. For more information, visit www.monsterjamgame.com.
Ridgewood, NJ – (November 25, 2019) – Strategy specialists Kalypso Media and developer Independent Arts Software announced today the acclaimed railroad sim, Railway Empire, is coming to Nintendo Switch™ on February 14, 2020.
Railway Empire – Nintendo Switch™ Edition makes the railway sim playable any time, anywhere and will launch with a physical edition and digitally, on Nintendo eShop. This new edition of the game includes the main game (with all added content and improvements since its initial launch), alongside the Mexico DLC, Crossing the Andes DLC, and The Great Lakes DLC. The Germany DLC, France DLC, and Great Britain & Ireland DLC will also be available as additional purchases via Nintendo eShop.
For more information, please visit the Kalypso Store.
