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DAKAR 18 Release Date Revealed

Larkspur, Calif. – July 3, 2018 – Portuguese development studio and rally enthusiasts BIGMOON Entertainment today announced the official release date for the upcoming rally raid simulation DAKAR 18. The anticipated cross-country rally racing game is coming to PlayStation®4, Xbox One, and PC platforms on Sept. 11, 2018.

Based on the world famous annual rally raid organized by Amaury Sport Organization (A.S.O.) in South America, DAKAR 18 delivers all of the thrills, danger and realism of the biggest cross-country rally in the world. Race a variety of official vehicles across one of the biggest open worlds ever created. Players will have to use the real road books – provided by the pilots to the development team – to find the way across each of the 14 stages throughout Peru, Bolivia and Argentina.

Players will compete in fierce online multiplayer races as well as playing offline to harness and grow navigation and racing skills. DAKAR 18 is focused on realism and promises stunning visuals, which faithfully represent many of the official vehicles and pilots for each of the five racing categories (Cars, Bikes, Trucks, Quads and SxS) of the Dakar Rally 2018. In addition, the game will feature a single player, online and split screen multiplayer experience.

More information about DAKAR 18 can be found here on https://www.facebook.com/dakarthegame and http://www.dakarthegame.com, and information about the Dakar Rally is available here: http://www.dakar.com.

About BIGMOON Entertainment

Since its foundation, BIGMOON has set a simple goal: develop and publish the best games possible. The team loves great stories, fun characters, and innovative challenges. That’s why they put all their dedication and passion into creating and developing hardcore role-playing, action-adventure, horror and simulation games. Immersive worlds to discover and great characters are in their DNA. BIGMOON is an independent publisher and developer for all major platforms, including Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo. BIGMOON already developed other games such as Police Simulator 18, Demons Age, Syndrome, Trapped Dead: Lockdown, Jagged Alliance: Back in Action and produced art on some well-known racing games such WRC 5, WRC 3, MotoGP 13 and Flatout4.

For more information on BIGMOON, please visit: www.bigmoonstudios.com.

Shenmue I & II Release Date and Pre-Order Trailer

London, England – July 3, 2018 – SEGA® Europe Ltd. are pleased to reveal that the pioneering epic saga Shenmue™ I & II will launch both physically and digitally on PlayStation® 4 and Xbox® One with a digital-only PC release via Steam on August 21, 2018. To celebrate the announcement, SEGA has unveiled a brand-new trailer:

From today, Shenmue I & II is available to pre-order digitally on PSN, Xbox Marketplace and Steam with a 10% discount ahead of its launch on August 21, 2018Shenmue I & II is also available to pre-order now from SEGA approved digital retailers*. The physical edition is available to pre-order from US and EMEA retailers** and comes complete with a double-sided poster starring fan-favourite characters from the hit saga as well as reversible cover art featuring original artwork.

Since their original releases, Shenmue I & II have established a passionate following and are revered as one of gaming’s greatest series of all time. These revolutionary masterpieces deliver a gripping story of retribution as Ryo Hazuki sets out to avenge his father’s death and attempts to unravel the secrets behind a mysterious artefact known as the Dragon Mirror.

This is the definitive version of these all-time classics and will be the best Shenmue experience to date. The re-release will contain all-new modernised features including fully scalable screen resolution, choice of modern or classic control schemes, PC graphics options, an updated user interface and the option to enjoy either the original Japanese or English voiceovers.

For all the latest information on Shenmue I & II, head over to: https://shenmue.sega.com/

For more information about SEGA and any of its products, please visit www.sega.co.uk. You can also follow us on Twitter and the Steam publisher page as well as like us on Facebook.

Red Faction: Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered Edition Launch Trailer

Vienna/Austria, July 3rd, 2018In 2125 there is no mining your own business on Mars: The Earth Defense Force (EDF) is strong-arming everyone into work and sending the resulting hard-earned resources back to Earth. Suppression, executions, violence everywhere… it’s no wonder a famous resistance group rises once more. And you? You will be their best guerrilla fighter. Welcome to the Red Faction.

Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered Edition is out now on PC, PlayStation®4 and Xbox One. You can get it for an SRP of 19,99 $ / 19,99 € on PC and 29,99 $ / 29,99 € on consoles.

Players who already own the 2009 version of Red Faction: Guerrilla on Steam will automatically receive the Re-Mars-tered edition for free in their accounts. From now on, these players can simply download Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered from their Steam library and start swinging their sledgehammers.

One more random fun fact about Mars (in real-life): If you weighed 200 lbs on Earth, your Mars-weight would only be 76 lbs. But don’t try the “Mars-Diet” at home – we recommend neither eating only Mars bars, nor trying to lower the gravity in your neighbourhood.

Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered features:

  • Fully reworked graphics – heavily reworked textures and graphic features adding, for example, specular maps
  • Improved shadow rendering
  • Improved lighting
  • Reworked shaders and postprocessing

PC performance

  • Native 4k support on PC

Xbox One Performance

  • Xbox One: 900p @ 60 FPS
  • Xbox One X: 1800p @ 60 FPS or 4K @ 30 FPS

PlayStation 4 Performance

  • PlayStation 4: 1080p @ 60 FPS
  • PlayStation 4 Pro: 1500p @ 60 FPS or 4K @ 30 FPS

Hotel Transylvania 3 Alexa Story Time Skill Released

CULVER CITY, Calif., July 2, 2018 – Beginning today, Alexa customers and their families can enjoy summer bedtime stories voiced by their favorite Hotel Transylvania actors including Andy Samberg (Johnny), Steve Buscemi (Wayne the werewolf), Keegan-Michael Key (Murray the mummy), Fran Drescher (Eunice), and Asher Blinkoff (Dennis).

A new story, nursery rhyme, or joke read by the popular cast will be available every day through Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation’s nationwide release on July 13. Customers can access this new skill by simply saying, “Alexa, open Hotel Transylvania.”

In addition to bedtime stories, customers can also set up a custom Hotel Transylvania alarm for Alexa through the Amazon Alexa app.

Commenting on the announcement, Elias Plishner, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Digital Marketing, Sony Pictures Entertainment, said, “The Hotel Transylvania characters have won over young audiences and their families for years. We love to utilize new technologies like voice recognition to engage our young fans with the characters they love and spark their imaginations in unique ways. This Alexa skill will surprise, entertain, and enhance family time throughout the summer season.”

Audiences can catch the beloved monster family’s young vampire, Dennis, putting the Alexa skill into action with a custom video, at

Pool Panic Gameplay Trailer

ATLANTA – June 29, 2018 – Adult Swim Games and independent developer Rekim have released a new gameplay trailer for Pool Panic, this time showing off a bit more about what it’s like to play the World’s Least Realistic Pool Simulator. Pool Panic is a simple game – just aim and shoot. The real challenge is aiming and shooting through more than 100 levels of madcap shenanigans like soccer, mini-golf, winter sports, summer sports, dive bars, night clubs, birthday cakes, ghosts, zombies, lollipop forests and almost anything else you can imagine (and even some you never would’ve imagined!).

Pool Panic is a sprawling adventure game full of weird things to do with pool balls. Become a mischievous cue ball in a giant game of pool, exploring a colorful cartoon overworld full of cities, carnivals, jungles, deserts and more. Knock around a peculiar cast of billiard balls, solve puzzles, and take down bosses with a unique variety of fun mechanics and strategies.

Play through the entire journey on your own, or challenge friends to a ridiculous pool party in local multiplayer for two to four players.

Pool Panic is expected to launch on Nintendo Switch™ through the Nintendo eShop and Windows PC via Steam on July 19, 2018. This game is rated E10+ (Everyone 10+) by the ESRB. For more information, visit http://www.poolpanic.com.

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus Nintendo Switch Launch Trailer

June 29, 2018 – We are pleased to announce that Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is now available worldwide on Nintendo Switch. Spearheaded by veteran studio Panic Button with guidance from MachineGames, players can now experience the complete, uncensored, award-winning story and signature gameplay whenever and wherever they want.

Watch the official launch trailer here:

In Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, players take on the role of BJ Blazkowicz to experience an action-packed story, brought to life by extraordinary characters. Reunite with friends and fellow freedom fighters as they take on the evil Frau Engel and her Nazi army. With the Nintendo Switch, players can wage the second American Revolution at home or on the go. Swiftly and efficiently eliminate the Nazi threat with full motion aiming support for Joy-Con and Pro Controllers in the perfect blend of immersion and accuracy.

Winner of multiple awards, including Video Game Awards’ ‘Best Action Game of 2017’, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is rated M for mature by the ESRB and is priced at $59.99 for Nintendo Switch. For more information, visit https://wolfenstein.bethesda.net/.

 

The Crew 2 Out Now

SAN FRANCISCO — June 29, 2018 — Today, Ubisoft® announced that The Crew® 2, an action-packed motorsports game that unites the thrilling racing elements on land, air and sea, is now available worldwide on the PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system, the Xbox One family of devices including the Xbox One X and Windows PC. The Crew 2 will support 4K display and provide enhanced graphics on both PS4 Pro and Xbox One X platforms. The game is rated T for Teen and is available for a suggested retail price of $59.99.

Developed by Ubisoft Ivory Tower,* a studio based in Lyon, France, The Crew 2 will let players experience the thrill of the American motorsports spirit inside a fully redesigned USA. The game’s playground pushes physical boundaries to let driving and open world fans test their skills in nonstop competition and exploration. From coast to coast, drivers will explore America and compete to become the greatest motorsports champion by dominating the motorsports scene on land, on the water and in the air, and by collecting a wide variety of exotic and offroad cars, bikes, boats and planes. They will find challenges and inspiration among four different motorsports families: street racing, off-road, pro-racing and freestyle, and will be given a broad set of options among a wide selection of vehicle types.

“The Crew 2 returns this year letting players revel in the American driving experience,” said Ahmed Boukhelifa, managing director of Ubisoft Ivory Tower. “In this iteration, we’ve enhanced the experience in all ways possible, allowing players to realize their potential in an exhilarating open world, through an unprecedented variety of challenges, wide exploration, intense competition, races and crazy stunts.”

Adding to the excitement, players have the ability to switch between controlling air, land and sea vehicles instantly depending on the terrain with the game’s Fast-Fav feature. The Crew 2 is playable with up to three friends on the same platform in four-player co-op, or in single-player. The launch of The Crew 2 comes after an open beta period where players were introduced to the first two levels of progression of the game.

The launch is only the beginning of the journey for all motorsports addicts, as the development team is committed to introduce ample new content through regular updates in the months ahead, including new disciplines, events, vehicles and more. For more information on The Crew 2 post-launch plans, please visit: https://news.ubisoft.com/article/the-crew-2-season-pass-and-free-post-launch-content-revealed

Bobcat Goldthwait’s Misfits & Monsters Coming to San Diego Comic-Con

June 29, 2018 – truTV is headed to San Diego! The network today announced that it will be bringing comedic anthology series Bobcat Goldthwait’s Misfits & Monsters to San Diego Comic-Con for its first-ever official panel on Thursday, July 19 at 2:15pm in Ballroom 20.

Crawl inside the twisted mind of writer-director Bobcat Goldthwait in this panel discussion and exclusive sneak peek of the genre-hopping truTV anthology series. Joined by guest stars Jake HurwitzAmir Blumenfeld and Tara Lynne Barr, the acclaimed comedian breaks down the inspirations behind his series’ imaginative, satirical tales and the familiar film tropes which inspired them.

Bobcat Goldthwait’s Misfits & Monsters premieres Wednesday, July 11 at 10pm ET/PT on truTV. Check out the series trailer here:

Steel Rats Creates Life Size Deadly Screamer Monster

LONDON – June 28, 2018  It’s too late to run, it’s too late to hide! The alien invasion we’ve all been dreading has finally landed. and it comes in the shape of a 10-foot-tall, 1,900-pound junk robot that can be found at a gaming convention near you. “The Screamer” is one of the deadliest enemies in the upcoming motorbike combat racer Steel Rats, and this new trailer reveals how the ingenious Ride Again Workshop in Poland brought this metal monstrosity to life as a playable demo station and junk-infused work of art.

Wreck and ride in Steel Rats, an upcoming 2.5D arcade action title that fuses motorbike combat with death-defying stunt racing gameplay. This heroic biker gang is tasked with stopping an invading horde of alien Junkbots, and now one of the deadliest enemies from the game has been made into a towering robot in real life, which also happens to be one of the most immersive ways to play the actual game.

Built over 90 days from 500 pieces of steel, the giant structure houses five LCD monitors that can be used to play the actual game and has already been on display at EGX Rezzed in London, Pixel Heaven in Poland, and soon at gamescom this August in Cologne, Germany.

Steel Rats is coming to PlayStation® 4, Xbox One and PC later this year and is already lighting up the 2018 awards scene with eight nominations and one win for “Best Gameplay” at the Game Connection Awards, a nomination for “Best Indie Game” at the Digital Dragons Indie Showcase, and winner of “Best Gameplay” at Pixel Heaven in Poland earlier this month.

You can check out the new behind-the-scenes, making-of trailer here: https://youtu.be/WZtAVSPnE3g

And head to the game’s Steam page to add to your wishlist here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/619700/Steel_Rats/

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