Monthly Archives: December 2018
BioWare Teases New Dragon Age Game
During The Game Awards, BioWare teased the next installment of the Dragon Age franchise.
Though details are scarce, Casey Hudson, general manager at BioWare, revealed a brief video for the upcoming RPG that ended with the hashtag #TheDreadWolfRises.
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Late last month, Hudson teased a Dragon Age announcement via the BioWare blog. Shortly thereafter it was reported this next Dragon Age won't be released for several years, though it is currently in development alongside Bio
Crash Team Racing Remaster Announced
Activision has announced that a Crash Team Racing remaster is real, and already has a release date.
Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled will be released on June 21, 2019 for PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch, Activision confirmed at The Game Awards following an orange dice-fueled tease earlier this week.
Nitro-Fueled is developed by Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions devs Beenox Interactive and brings back all the original content from the original PlayStation's CTR, built from the ground up with new visuals and audio. All characters, tracks, and arenas will return, with Adventure, Arcade Single and Cup Race, Time Trials, and Battle modes all returning. Nitro-Fueled will also feature online multiplayer for these modes.
Anthem’s Story Trailer Reveals a New Villain
At the 2018 Game Awards show in Los Angeles, EA and BioWare unveiled the first story trailer for its upcoming online multiplayer action RPG, Anthem. While the trailer is short, there are important narrative details that shed light on the NPCs you'll interact with, and the motivations behind our heroes' adventures as they venture out into a hostile world that forces them to wear armored Javelin suits and fight big scary things.
At a press briefing just before the Game Awards, IGN spoke to Anthem's game director, Jonathan Warner, along with lead producer Michael Gamble about what you can expect to find from a story perspective when the game launches on Feb. 22.
The Anthem of Creation
Bastion, Transition Game Studio Announces New Game
Hades is the next game by Supergiant Games, and it's now available in Early Access on the Epic Games Store.
The rouge-like dungeon crawler was announced at The Game Awards and, as of right now, is only available on PC for $20 USD. The official Hades website says to "expect regular updates with new features, events, characters, places, powers, and more."
Hades is Supergiant Games' first Early Access project and its FAQ promises support for the game for at least "a year and a half from
initial launch." The FAQ also says that the Early Access launch build doesn't have an endpoint and can be played "indefinitely due to its structure and design." The end of the story will be saved for when development is finished.
Ubisoft Reveals Far Cry New Dawn
At The Game Awards tonight, Ubisoft announced a standalone sequel to Far Cry 5 titled Far Cry New Dawn.
Set 17 years after a global nuclear disaster, Far Cry New Dawn drops players into a beautiful yet transformed Hope County, Montana – the primary setting of Far Cry 5.
The player will be cast in the role of a survivor facing an entirely new threat in the form of the Highwaymen, a band of scavengers, led by The Twins, Mickey and Lou – the main antagonists of New Dawn.
Players will be tasked with mounting a resistance and strengthening the Survivors camp, who live in a base known as Prosperity. This is where players will be able craft ramshackle weapons and vehicles and recruit new Guns for Hire, which are said to include "new and familiar faces". But more intriguingly, this will also be where players access 'Expeditions', which for the first time in the series take players beyond the core map. These Expeditions are said to take place in "memorable locations across the US, from wetlands to canyons and more".
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order Announced For Switch
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order was just announced for a 2019 release, exclusively for the Nintendo Switch, at the Game Awards.
The third entry in the action RPG series was announced with a trailer, which showed off featured characters like the Hulk, Spider-Man, the Guardians of the Galaxy and Wolverine fighting against enemies like Green Goblin, the Sentinels and many more. It features a new top-down view and will be developed by Koei Tecmo Games and Team Ninja and published by Nintendo.
Per a press release, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order will bring together familiar heroes and villains across the Marvel Universe to battle for the Infinity Gauntlet. "This unprecedented team of characters must use their unique superpowers to defeat the mad cosmic tyrant Thanos and his ruthless warmasters, The Black Order."
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe Coming to Consoles, PC in 2019
The Stanley Parable is coming to consoles in 2019 as The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe.
This new version of The Stanley Parable will feature new content, new choices, and new endings. It'll also come bundled with the original game.
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe will be released for both PC and consoles, though specific platforms were not announced.
The Stanley Parable was originally released on PC in 2013. IGN's review called it "witty, unusual and quietly discomfiting."
Jordan is a freelance writer for IGN.
Does the Game of Thrones Teaser Offer a Hint About Cersei’s Fate?
HBO has debuted the first teaser trailer for the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones. Unfortunately for spoiler-hungry fans, this teaser doesn't feature any actual footage from the season, instead providing a bleak look at the fate of Westeros as the forces of ice and fire sweep across the land.
Even without a good look at the surviving heroes and villains of the franchise, this trailer could wind up revealing quite a bit about upcoming events on the series, given that the creative team is pretty meticulous about including clues and foreshadowing in the series. And, since we still have a long wait until Game of Thrones returns in April, we figured we'd kill some time by completely overthinking and overanalyzing the 30-second video. With that in mind, here are all the interesting clues and theories we came up with after seeing this brief teaser - are we way off base, or could we be onto something?
Device 6 Dev Announces Nintendo Switch Game Sayonara Wild Hearts
At the Game Awards 2018, Device 6 developer Simogo and Annapurna Interactive announced Sayonara Wild Hearts for the Nintendo Switch.
Described as a "Pop Album Video Game," Sayonara Wild Hearts is a stylistic music-based game featuring characters based on tarot cards, with names such as Dancing Devils, Howling Moons, Stereo Lovers, Hermit64, Little Death, and The Fool.
Sayonara Wild Hearts features everything from riding motorcycles and skateboards, wielding swords, fighting three-headed wolves and more.
Featuring a custom-written vocal pop soundtrack that was designed to complement the gameplay, Sayonara Wild Hearts focuses on "synthesizing electric pop, dance, fashion, anime, arcade games and subcultures, and much more."
Journey to the Savage Planet Announced at The Game Awards
Journey to the Savage Planet, the debut title from Typhoon Studios, has been announced at The Game Awards 2018 and will be coming to the Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC in 2019.
An “upbeat first-person adventure game” set in a vibrant alien world, the player assumes the role of a Kindred Aerospace employee, which is the “4th Best Interstellar Exploration Company.” Players will explore an uncharted planet on the far corners of the universe: with no real plan and little equipment, players will have to explore, catalogue alien lifeforms and determine if the planet is fit for human habitation.
Typhoon Studios is a Montreal-based team comprised of various industry veterans, including Alex Hutchinson (Far Cry 4, Assassin’s Creed 3), Yassine Riahi and Reid Schneider (Batman: Arkham Origins).