Ubisoft’s upcoming Watch Dogs 2 releases next week – unless you’re a PC player – but has gotten its launch trailer a little early. It shows off more of protagonist Marcus Holloway’s backstory, the city of San Francisco and a lot of car chases. Jumping into Marcus’ story we see that due to “this broken-ass…
Update: Or not… It seems there may have been some miscommunication or a mistake from the Metro website as Deep Silver, the game series’ publisher, have stated no new game is coming next year. In the most fitting of days, a new title in the post-apocalyptic series Metro has been teased for 2017. The game,…
D-Pad Studio first began development on Owlboy back in 2007. Since then, the team created Savant – Ascent, which released in 2013 and saved them from financial difficulty, allowing them to finish their original passion project. With its release in 2016, it marks an almost ten-year development cycle – something that can often mean a…
Damien Monnier, the lead designer behind Gwent: The Witcher Card Game, which is currently in closed beta, has left CD Projekt Red. Monnier, as well as co-creating the original minigame in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, was the one to reveal Gwent’s standalone version at E3 this year. The announcement came in the form of…
Bioware and EA revealed the next chapter in the Mass Effect saga yesterday – otherwise known as N7 Day. While practically no gameplay was shown, and we still have no concrete release date, there is a lot of information available. As Andromeda is the beginning of a new series, no prior knowledge of Mass Effect is…
As you may have been aware, Ubisoft are currently under threat from a hostile takeover from French media conglomerate Vivendi. Vivendi, whose latest figures had them set at 22.8%, now own over 24% of the gaming company’s shares along with 21% of voting rights. Back in June, Vivendi successfully took over developer and publisher Gameloft…
As any Mass Effect fan would know, today is N7 day – see if you can guess why. Bioware and EA said last week that Mass Effect: Andromeda would be getting its official cinematic reveal today and it’s here. The reveal comes in the form of a minute-and-a-half trailer revealing the beginning of the world…
French developers Monkey Moon and BlackMuffin Studio are collaborating to create Night Call. Not many games feature a taxi-driver as its lead protagonist and fewer still would have a title take place entirely within a taxi. As a nightly taxi-driver in the streets of Paris, you get as many strange passengers as you do normal…
Over the years since FTL: Faster Than Light released in 2012 many, many indie games have tried to capitalise on it’s style. Along comes another challenger, Abandon Ship, where you control a pirate captain, his ship and his crew in a procedurally-generated world. Of course, Fireblade Software haven’t just been inspired by FTL, they also…
If you haven’t heard by now, Ubisoft is currently celebrating their 30th anniversary. As part of the so-called Ubi30 celebrations, the company are giving away one game for free every month on Uplay. This month, 2013’s Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. The rather great 80’s inspired shooter will become available on November 9. Until then…
When asked at an investor call earlier today when the upcoming Star Wars Battlefront 2 would be releasing, EA CFO Blake Jorgenson confirmed it was coming “a year from now.” The title had previously been said to be releasing sometime between “April and December 2017.” The reboot of the Battlefront series by EA, Star Wars:…
Titanfall 2 released last week to more platforms and even more glowing reviews than the original yet sales figures have been anything but impressive. The sequel, which released on PS4 as well as Xbox One and PC, didn’t match the UK retail sales of the original. While retail sales are definitely decreasing in an ever-digital…
The developers of Journey, Flower and Flow have tweeted out a light tease to their new title. The tweet shows an image of a lit candle about to light another candle with the heading: “a game about giving.” Update: Over the course of the night, thatgamecompany released two new images and confirmed “thatnextgame” will release…
As any good Mass Effect fan will know; November 7 is an important date, otherwise known as N7 Day (see if you can guess why). And as many fans had anticipated, we are going to be receiving a large batch of information on the upcoming Mass Effect: Andromeda. A short one-minute trailer below asks fans…
Pirates – we all love them. Well, maybe not them directly but we certainly love getting to be a pirate. Sailing the seven seas, drinking rum and fighting off the evil monarchy of Britain – it’s a glamorous life. So why are there so few pirate games? Tempest is here to take the helm and…
Lunar Software’s long-awaited survival horror game, Routine, will release March 2017. The game has been in development for over three years and during its time, been compared to other titles such as SOMA and Alien: Isolation. We will however finally get to see what makes Routine its own thing and just how much it can…
Hidetaka Suehiro, more commonly known as Swery65, is stepping down as director of Access Games. Suehiro is well-known for being the director and writer of cult hits Deadly Premonition and D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die. He announced his departure over on Twitter along with news that his health is improving. Swery65 suffered from reactive hypoglycemia,…
Ubisoft’s extreme-sports snowy wonderland Steep is getting two beta’s during November. During the 18th-21st, all players on PC, PS4 and Xbox One can try out the game in an open beta. If you head over to the Steep website however you may be granted access to an earlier closed beta during the 10th-14th. Head over…
What’s better than a totally absurd game about jumping from truck to truck in the best version of “the floor is lava” ever? That same game getting more levels of course! Landfall Games’ utterly ridiculous Clustertruck will be receiving ten more levels to celebrate Halloween! The original game contained 90 levels in total so this…
Earlier today some people noticed that you could grab Borderlands: The Handsome Collection for free on Xbox One. This was no mistake; Xbox are offering both the game and a weekend of free multiplayer gaming. The offer only lasts until October 30 – so get over to Microsoft.com and claim it now! Borderlands: The Handsome…
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