August 10, 2017 – The Norsca race pack for Total War: WARHAMMER is out today! The barbaric, axe-wielding, monster-hunting Norscans are free to players that pre-order Total War: WARHAMMER II through a SEGA approved retailer* before release, or buy it in the first week on sale. Alternatively, they can be purchased direct from Steam as DLC for the first game.
The Norscans are unique in The Old World for their reliance of the horrific beasts and monsters of the icy northern wastes – creatures such as Skin Wolves, War Mammoths, and the elusive Fimir. Players can embark on campaigns as two Legendary Lords – Wulfrick the Wanderer and Throgg the Troll King – as they bring the other Norscan tribes to heal, embark on awesome Monster Hunting quests, and forge south to lay waste.
The Blood Bowl 2: Legendary Edition’s release is just around the corner! The highly anticipated Legendary Edition will bring in September a wealth of new content, notably all the official races and Star Players from the original board game! To celebrate this momentous occasion, the Content Reveal Trailer is now out, showcasing the latest teams and the newest features brought by the Legendary Edition.
The Legendary Edition doesn’t only bring 8 new races, many new Star-Players and cheerleaders gone wild: also brand new is the single-player mode Eternal League, an unending career as a coach for any of your available teams. Compete in matches across multiple seasons, participating in tournaments with different sizes and rules, as you keep evolving and levelling up your team.
The second new single-player mode is the Challenge Mode. This mode presents the player with crazy and wild match situations, which have to be solved within a single turn with a set of pre-rolled dice. These challenges could be anything from sending a Thrall six-feet-under, pushing an ogre off the pitch, or scoring the most improbable touchdown of your Blood Bowl career.
Beyond these exciting new features are the new Khemri stadium, even more insane matches with the All-Star teams and the Mixed Teams, and many new tools and options enriching an already deep multiplayer experience. These will be revealed as we get closer and closer to the release of Blood Bowl 2: Legendary Edition!
Blood Bowl 2 Legendary Edition will be available as a stand-alone game for newcomers, and as an affordable expansion for all Blood Bowl 2 players this September on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. Pre-ordering the Legendary Edition or the Official Expansion on Steam will grant you a 10% discount and beta phase access. Pre-ordering the Legendary Edition will also instantly unlock Blood Bowl 2 base game + Team Pack races. Visit the official website for more info.
In this episode of Trust in Brother – one of the TV shows that appear in the world of Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus – there is no such thing as “just a little chocolate.” Or, as big brother Dale puts it: “Good nutrition is a matter of state security.” Watch this episode of Trust in Brother to see a twisted Nazi-fied take on a classic American sitcom.
Trust in Brother
“I’m still going to have to inform on you!” Sometimes life isn’t easy when you’re Ronnie and you’re always getting caught doing FUN (Following Unlawful Nature) things in Trust in Brother – a heartwarming comedy show for the whole family. Giggle your hearts out as the gluttonous Ronnie gorges on milk chocolate bars. Chuckle until your belt buckles burst as Ronnie dances to degenerate music that threatens to send him into a spiral of drugs, crime, and political deviance. But whenever Ronnie stumbles, his big brother Dale will always be there to catch him – and inform on him to the authorities! With a resounding endorsement from our Beloved Führer himself, you’re in for eine großartige Zeit – a hoot of a time! Trust in Brother is filmed before a live studio audience.
Kalypso Media has released a new teaser trailer before Gamescom in which they warn gamers to “Prepare for the Awakening…”. It also includes the following quote in its video description:
“An ancient proverb warns: ‘Never trust a demon, for betrayal is their very blood’.
– Carissa Cantrecht
The person saying these words, Cantrecht, indicates this project as a sequel to hack-and-slash game, Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms.
Hamburg, August 8th, 2017 – ROCCAT Studios, German peripheral manufacturer and recent member of the game development community, are reaching for the skies with its second title and first virtual reality endeavor, ELEVATOR…TO THE MOON! ELEVATOR…TO THE MOON! is an insanely immersive VR puzzle-based adventure game, where the heretofore unnamed protagonist finds themselves in a secret underground facility, forced to build a moon elevator by the off-kilter, loudmouth President of the World, Doug Slater-Roccmeier. Repair Roccmeier’s broken elevator by the numbers as he screams weirdness in the players ear via intercom…or utterly ignore President Roccmeier and spend time breaking stuff, hacking the digital brains of a mysterious A.I., or maybe even eating some space cookies. There are many options, all ready to be discovered by the gamers, using their pink, squishy brain
parts.
The choices are theirs to make, the characters unique, and no matter what, in the end the player is going to end up on the moon. Probably. Possibly? We’ll see how it all shakes out.
Experience the world’s first and greatest VR space elevator/jerk president simulator! With the support of Menlo Park, California based tech giant Oculus VR, what began as the seed of
an idea for an immersive, chaotic, build-it-or-break-it space elevator experience turned into ELEVATOR…TO THE MOON! – a full-fledged episodic VR excursion.
“We put together a demo and pitched Oculus. They thought the idea was rad, and offered to provide the support we needed to create a full game,“ Said Marc Barnes, the creative head behind ELEVATOR… TO THE MOON! on the game’s origins. “Together with all our team members, we’ve put together a weird, unique VR game. The freedom and support Oculus gave us to do our thing has been really great.”
With the internal backing of ROCCAT founder and CEO René Korte to spread their creative wings, and the positive reinforcement of Oculus VR, Marc and the entire team at the ROCCAT Games Studio are off to an exciting start in world of in-house game development.
ELEVATOR…TO THE MOON! is projected for an October 2017 release via Samsung Gear VR as well as Oculus VR.
LOS ANGELES – Aug. 8, 2017 – Testing the skills of the best first-person shooter (FPS) players, the highly anticipated, ultra-competitive new game from design legend Cliff Bleszinski and Boss Key Productions, LawBreakers launches today on PlayStation®4 and PC. The frenetic shooter brings unprecedented vertical combat, allowing players to deliver fatal blows from every direction utilizing innovative movement systems and combat abilities. Choose between nine dynamic roles, eight gravity-defying maps, and five buzzer-beating game modes in high-intensity multiplayer team-based battles that will challenge even the most skilled FPS player.
“From the beginning, we committed ourselves at Boss Key to find the fun first when making LawBreakers, and place gameplay ahead of everything else. Since then, we’ve worked to push the genre into a new direction, taking everything we’ve learned in the past to deliver a super fast FPS that challenges gamers to be their best and truly compete in gravity-defying combat,” said Cliff Bleszinski, co-founder and CEO, Boss Key Productions. “We’re thankful to all the fans that participated in the various alphas and betas we rolled out. We always strived to do “open development,” and found that being upfront and honest with our testing, along with no NDAs, provided invaluable, transparent feedback. Without this rapport, the game wouldn’t be what it is today – and we think we have something really special because of it.”
LawBreakers (ESRB-rated M) is launching simultaneously on PlayStation®4 and Steam today at a starting price point of just $29.99. All future, non-cosmetic content updates are included at this price.
“We’re very proud to be publishing the debut title for Boss Key Productions, one of the hottest new American game development studios,” said Jungsoo Lee, General Manager of Nexon America, the California-based publisher of LawBreakers. “We truly believe Cliff and team have developed something great, breathing fresh air into the multiplayer FPS genre and pushing it to a new level. The game is generating so much player excitement.”
August 9, 2017 – Today 2K released the first trailer for NBA 2K18, revealing major updates to the appearance of uniforms and the players themselves for the most true-to-life visuals yet. The developers utilized brand new processes – including new photo techniques and laser scanning – to ensure even the smallest of details were captured to create a hyper-realistic experience. These upgrades include:
Photo Techniques: The developers used new photo techniques with the ability to separate colors for more accurate player skin tones that react to light in true-to-life form.
Uniforms: The team visited the NBA New York offices to laser scan each and every new Nike uniform and over 200 pairs of shoes to capture each detail, down to the stitches.
MyPLAYER: The customization is like never before, with almost an unlimited amount of body types available and options to adjust and scale nearly every aspect of the athletes in game.
To learn more about how the art came to life and for a first glimpse at gameplay, check out the trailer here:
2K also announced today that on September 8, 2017 fans can get a taste of NBA 2K18 early with this year’s version of “The Prelude,” a free downloadable experience that begins your MyCAREER on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Players can kick-off their NBA 2K18 experience prior to the game’s launch and continue where they left off when the game officially releases one week later.
NBA 2K18 will be available on September 19, 2017. Fans can pre-order NBA 2K18 at participating North American retail and online vendors, ensuring they receive their copy and in-game bonuses four days early beginning on September 15, 2017.
August 7, 2017 – Are you up to the challenge? The season has taken a horrific turn for the worse. During the tenth race your star driver was involved in a severe crash and is confined to the infirmary for the next few races: can you put everything in place for an epic comeback? Find out with the latest DLC for Motorsport Manager. SEGA® Europe Ltd. and Playsport Games™ confirm the new DLC and free update for Motorsport Manager PC will be available to pre-purchase starting today with a 10% discount, before releasing on Monday, August 21st.
The Challenge Pack DLC, which will release alongside a free update, includes 12 new challenges, some taking inspiration from motor racing history. The challenges range from having to deal with the controversially proposed rule of race sprinklers, your factory burning down hindering you from making new parts, or having to manage the Chairman’s frat-boy son who is now your lead driver! Each challenge lasts for a different amount of time, from a single race to an entire season, and will put the most experienced motorsport manager to the test.
The free update, TheDevil is in the Detail, is sure to bring drama and increase the tension with more in-depth features than ever before, including lap charts, weight stripping and dynamic driver mistakes on the track. Weight stripping is a new mechanic within the game that allows the player to shave weight off parts to increase performance, adding loads of last-minute reliability drama! Much-requested by the community, managers can now save and load car setups too.
To hear more about both the new DLC and the free update check out the latest video from the development team, Team Radio, with Luke Finlay-Maxwell, Designer, Playsport Games.
Portsmouth, UK, 7th August 2017 – UK-based independent developer Climax Studios today announced that their upcoming surf game Surf World Series will be releasing on PlayStation 4 on August 29th, and Xbox One and PC (Steam) on 30th August, priced at £11.99 / 14.99€ / $14.99. A free demo version of Surf World Series is also launching today, and will be available to download on all platforms. is launching today on PS4 and Xbox One, and will be available to download on Steam later this week.
Surf World Series celebrates the thrill of pure arcade-style surfing, where players will be able to:
Ride monster waves at 5 of the world’s most iconic shorelines, from the infamous Bell’s Beach, Australia, to the extreme waves at Waimea Bay, Hawaii.
Become masters of the waves, learning increasingly difficult tricks along the way, from nailing kickflips and cutbacks, to landing massive aerials and navigating treacherous tubes.
Trick their way through 44 single player challenges, or carve up the competition online against 15 other players across 3 different online game modes.
Rank up and unlock thousands of customization options to stamp their own style on their journey to become a surf legend.
Climax Studios is an independent games developer based in Portsmouth, UK, with a mission to create games with guts that blow away gamers and reviewers alike. Throughout their 25 year history they have consistently delivered great games, from original IP to conversions and ports, across all genres and platforms, working on franchises such as Assassin’s Creed, Silent Hill, Resogun, Serious Sam, Dirt Rally, Castlevania and Diablo.
Surf World Series will be published by Vision Games Publishing Ltd.
