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Fear not headline reactors! Though the news of Evil Dead: The Game’s release is being pushed back to February 2022, there’s some positive news for players, especially for us lone wolf players. Saber Interactive is going to add a single-player mode to the game, they most likely foresaw friendships being torn apart by arguments of who will be playing their favorite characters. The question now is will the single-player option include a standalone game/story mode? We will have to see. Evil Dead: The Game is a 4v1 game pitting four friends playing as characters from the “Evil Dead” film and TV series while one plays as one of the films/show’s villains who is able to summon minions and possess the environment as well as other players. The game will be available for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S.
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A big thank you to Neon Giant and Curve Digital for the opportunity to review this cyberpunk RPG! If you’re still being burned by a certain cyberpunk game earlier this year or can’t get enough of the cyberpunk aesthetics, then The Ascent is for you! The Ascent takes players to another planet where a corporate-operated city stretches high in the air and is home to millions of workers (more like slaves) to The Ascent Group arcology from all over the galaxy. One day, the company’s systems shut down putting the livelihood of all who live in the city in jeopardy as rival corporate groups and black marketers try to take advantage. I’m letting slide some tech issues as it’s been announced that patches are on the way in August and September but let’s get on to the game itself! This is a third-person shooter where the camera is set at a higher angle so aiming during combat can be slightly
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Saber Interactive today has released the new gameplay overview trailer for the upcoming third-person shooter, World War Z: Aftermath, the sequel to their previously successful title. Inspired by the film World War Z by Paramount, this game will pit players against the rampaging hoard of zombies alongside their teammates. Go it alone with AI buddies OR squad up with three friends on cross-platform gameplay. Key Features: New Battles from a World at War: Fend for your life and make a stand against the swarm in two thrilling new story episodes — take back Vatican City in an epic confrontation in Rome, and join forces with survivors in Russia’s snowbound Kamchatka region. New Ways to Fight: Decimate the undead with a brutal new melee system featuring two-handed and dual-wield weapons like the sickle, cleaver, fire axe, and sledgehammer, and experience the heart-pounding immersion of Aftermath’s optional first-person mode. Deep Hero Progression: Level up eight unique classes, each with its own perks,
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Choose your own adventure books, remember those? Those fun times where you either choose paths to make the story last a while and remain interesting, or end suddenly with embarrassing choices that say a lot about you. Well, RobotPumpkin Games and Assemble Entertainment have brought back the joys and pains of this reading style digitally in The Innsmouth Case, an interactive story set in the world of H.P. Lovecraft. The Innsmouth Case puts players in the show of a private detective from Boston being hired by a mother in search of her daughter, where the client is from…Innsmouth, the infamous seaside town from Lovecraft’s short story The Shadow Over Innsmouth. While there, players will meet and interview interesting locals, check out the sights Innsmouth has to offer, all the while trying to conduct their investigation. Now onto the game itself. This is new for me as there’s not a lot to really talk about, as mentioned before, it’s a text-based
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After the announcement trailer for the upcoming first-person adventure game BLACKTAIL fans have commented on the music heard in it and made it clear they wanted to hear more. Today developer THE PARASITE has released more information about the game’s soundtrack. The game’s soundtrack will be composed by the award-winning composer Arkadiusz Reikowski who also composed the soundtrack for Layers of Fear 2, Blair Witch, and The Medium where he worked alongside legendary composer Akira Yamaoka. Reilowski had this to say about what fans will be expecting to hear: In BLACKTAIL, a combination of dreamlike, Slavic themes, and modern motifs is unheard of, and allows us to create something truly unique, something that has not been previously seen in the videogame industry. I create music in collaboration with distinguished guests: Zazula Vocal Group, Bartosz Pałyga, and CZELUSC Collective. The effect will be more than worth the wait!” BLACKTAIL is a first-person game that shows the origins of the Baba Yaga,
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Warner Bro. Games and Turtle Rock Studio released a new trailer for Back 4 Blood showcasing the game running on PC. Along with the new trailer comes further information for PC users. PC Players will experience 4K resolution, uncapped framerate, NVIDIA DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling), ultrawide and multi-monitor support, cross-play, and various other graphics and visual quality options. Back 4 Blood will be available for PC via the Microsoft Store, Steam, and Epic Games Store on Oct. 12. Back 4 Blood is an upcoming first-person shooter where players can play with friends or AI teammates to fend off hoards of zombie-like creatures known as the Ridden. Back 4 Blood will be available for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One Consoles, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and PC on Oct. 12, 2021. Pre-orders will receive entry into the Early Access portion of the Open Beta from Aug. 5-9, along with a bonus Fort Hope Elite Weapon Skin Pack.
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Today at the gaming event NACON Connect, upcoming titles have been announced but the one that leaped out to most is Daedalic Entertainment’s Lord of the Rings: Gollum. Working alongside Middle-Earth Enterprise, Daedalic will takes players back to Middle Earth as the books/films most infamous character, Gollum. As Gollum, players will have to make their way through different environments with Gollum’s skills to find his “Precious”. Players will escape slavery from the Orcs, encounter the Mouth of Sauron in Mordor, Elvenking Thranduil from Mirkwood, and others all the while being caught in the middle of the internal conflict of scheming and dangerous Gollum and the reasonable Sméagol. Lord of the Rings: Gollum will be coming out in 2022 for consoles and PC.
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Feardemic and Twisted II Studios today have announced that they have reached an agreement where Feardemic will be publishing the highly anticipated first-person psychological horror game Dark Fracture to PC and consoles in 2022. Dark Fracture follows Edward, an employee of a body farm in the late ’90s who is suffering from a traumatic past that begins to interfere with his daily activities as the simmering troubles inside him begin to manifest. Players will have to navigate the body farm and dark parallel world inspired by the works of Zdzisław Beksiński and H.R. Giger while trying to determine who or what is real and who of Edward’s coworkers can be trusted all the while trying to solve the mystery of Edward’s psyche. Dark Fracture combines survival horror elements with physics-based puzzles as well as a decision-making mechanic that will determine Edward’s fate in the story. Procedurally Generated Paranormal Events will affect Edward’s sanity (meter) and can occur at any time
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Piranha Bytes and THQ Nordic have announced that the sequel to ELEX is in the works. ELEX II takes place after the events of the first game where the game’s hero Jax returns with dark news of a new threat coming to the lands of Magalan and has to unite the factions to face the new threat. ELEX II is an open-world RPG where players can explore the massive environment with unrivaled freedom of a jetpack that will allow players to go through the game’s story however they want. ELEX II has no set release day at this time but it will be coming out for Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and PC.
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CD Projekt Red had announced that Cyberpunk 2077 is back on the PlayStation Store after being removed shortly after the game’s launch back in December that crashed like a Space X rocket during a test flight. The game was pulled from PlayStation stores after the game was revealed to be, as described by many at the time, “unfinished”, as the game was full of bugs and glitches that made the game unplayable forcing many players to demand refunds. Cyberpunk 2077 is back on the PlayStation Store for PlayStation 4 with free upgrades to PlayStation 5 sometime this year for owners of the game both digital and disk. No word on other consoles as of yet.
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Fear not headline reactors! Though the news of Evil Dead: The Game’s release is being pushed back to February 2022, there’s some positive news for players, especially for us lone wolf players. Saber Interactive is going to add a single-player mode to the game, they most likely foresaw friendships being torn apart by arguments of who will be playing their favorite characters. The question now is will the single-player option include a standalone game/story mode? We will have to see. Evil Dead: The Game is a 4v1 game pitting four friends playing as characters from the “Evil Dead” film and TV series while one plays as one of the films/show’s villains who is able to summon minions and possess the environment as well as other players. The game will be available for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S.
Continue reading →
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A big thank you to Neon Giant and Curve Digital for the opportunity to review this cyberpunk RPG! If you’re still being burned by a certain cyberpunk game earlier this year or can’t get enough of the cyberpunk aesthetics, then The Ascent is for you! The Ascent takes players to another planet where a corporate-operated city stretches high in the air and is home to millions of workers (more like slaves) to The Ascent Group arcology from all over the galaxy. One day, the company’s systems shut down putting the livelihood of all who live in the city in jeopardy as rival corporate groups and black marketers try to take advantage. I’m letting slide some tech issues as it’s been announced that patches are on the way in August and September but let’s get on to the game itself! This is a third-person shooter where the camera is set at a higher angle so aiming during combat can be slightly
Continue reading →
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Saber Interactive today has released the new gameplay overview trailer for the upcoming third-person shooter, World War Z: Aftermath, the sequel to their previously successful title. Inspired by the film World War Z by Paramount, this game will pit players against the rampaging hoard of zombies alongside their teammates. Go it alone with AI buddies OR squad up with three friends on cross-platform gameplay. Key Features: New Battles from a World at War: Fend for your life and make a stand against the swarm in two thrilling new story episodes — take back Vatican City in an epic confrontation in Rome, and join forces with survivors in Russia’s snowbound Kamchatka region. New Ways to Fight: Decimate the undead with a brutal new melee system featuring two-handed and dual-wield weapons like the sickle, cleaver, fire axe, and sledgehammer, and experience the heart-pounding immersion of Aftermath’s optional first-person mode. Deep Hero Progression: Level up eight unique classes, each with its own perks,
Continue reading →
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Choose your own adventure books, remember those? Those fun times where you either choose paths to make the story last a while and remain interesting, or end suddenly with embarrassing choices that say a lot about you. Well, RobotPumpkin Games and Assemble Entertainment have brought back the joys and pains of this reading style digitally in The Innsmouth Case, an interactive story set in the world of H.P. Lovecraft. The Innsmouth Case puts players in the show of a private detective from Boston being hired by a mother in search of her daughter, where the client is from…Innsmouth, the infamous seaside town from Lovecraft’s short story The Shadow Over Innsmouth. While there, players will meet and interview interesting locals, check out the sights Innsmouth has to offer, all the while trying to conduct their investigation. Now onto the game itself. This is new for me as there’s not a lot to really talk about, as mentioned before, it’s a text-based
Continue reading →
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After the announcement trailer for the upcoming first-person adventure game BLACKTAIL fans have commented on the music heard in it and made it clear they wanted to hear more. Today developer THE PARASITE has released more information about the game’s soundtrack. The game’s soundtrack will be composed by the award-winning composer Arkadiusz Reikowski who also composed the soundtrack for Layers of Fear 2, Blair Witch, and The Medium where he worked alongside legendary composer Akira Yamaoka. Reilowski had this to say about what fans will be expecting to hear: In BLACKTAIL, a combination of dreamlike, Slavic themes, and modern motifs is unheard of, and allows us to create something truly unique, something that has not been previously seen in the videogame industry. I create music in collaboration with distinguished guests: Zazula Vocal Group, Bartosz Pałyga, and CZELUSC Collective. The effect will be more than worth the wait!” BLACKTAIL is a first-person game that shows the origins of the Baba Yaga,
Continue reading →
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Warner Bro. Games and Turtle Rock Studio released a new trailer for Back 4 Blood showcasing the game running on PC. Along with the new trailer comes further information for PC users. PC Players will experience 4K resolution, uncapped framerate, NVIDIA DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling), ultrawide and multi-monitor support, cross-play, and various other graphics and visual quality options. Back 4 Blood will be available for PC via the Microsoft Store, Steam, and Epic Games Store on Oct. 12. Back 4 Blood is an upcoming first-person shooter where players can play with friends or AI teammates to fend off hoards of zombie-like creatures known as the Ridden. Back 4 Blood will be available for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One Consoles, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and PC on Oct. 12, 2021. Pre-orders will receive entry into the Early Access portion of the Open Beta from Aug. 5-9, along with a bonus Fort Hope Elite Weapon Skin Pack.
Continue reading →
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Today at the gaming event NACON Connect, upcoming titles have been announced but the one that leaped out to most is Daedalic Entertainment’s Lord of the Rings: Gollum. Working alongside Middle-Earth Enterprise, Daedalic will takes players back to Middle Earth as the books/films most infamous character, Gollum. As Gollum, players will have to make their way through different environments with Gollum’s skills to find his “Precious”. Players will escape slavery from the Orcs, encounter the Mouth of Sauron in Mordor, Elvenking Thranduil from Mirkwood, and others all the while being caught in the middle of the internal conflict of scheming and dangerous Gollum and the reasonable Sméagol. Lord of the Rings: Gollum will be coming out in 2022 for consoles and PC.
Continue reading →
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Feardemic and Twisted II Studios today have announced that they have reached an agreement where Feardemic will be publishing the highly anticipated first-person psychological horror game Dark Fracture to PC and consoles in 2022. Dark Fracture follows Edward, an employee of a body farm in the late ’90s who is suffering from a traumatic past that begins to interfere with his daily activities as the simmering troubles inside him begin to manifest. Players will have to navigate the body farm and dark parallel world inspired by the works of Zdzisław Beksiński and H.R. Giger while trying to determine who or what is real and who of Edward’s coworkers can be trusted all the while trying to solve the mystery of Edward’s psyche. Dark Fracture combines survival horror elements with physics-based puzzles as well as a decision-making mechanic that will determine Edward’s fate in the story. Procedurally Generated Paranormal Events will affect Edward’s sanity (meter) and can occur at any time
Continue reading →
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Piranha Bytes and THQ Nordic have announced that the sequel to ELEX is in the works. ELEX II takes place after the events of the first game where the game’s hero Jax returns with dark news of a new threat coming to the lands of Magalan and has to unite the factions to face the new threat. ELEX II is an open-world RPG where players can explore the massive environment with unrivaled freedom of a jetpack that will allow players to go through the game’s story however they want. ELEX II has no set release day at this time but it will be coming out for Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and PC.
Continue reading →
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CD Projekt Red had announced that Cyberpunk 2077 is back on the PlayStation Store after being removed shortly after the game’s launch back in December that crashed like a Space X rocket during a test flight. The game was pulled from PlayStation stores after the game was revealed to be, as described by many at the time, “unfinished”, as the game was full of bugs and glitches that made the game unplayable forcing many players to demand refunds. Cyberpunk 2077 is back on the PlayStation Store for PlayStation 4 with free upgrades to PlayStation 5 sometime this year for owners of the game both digital and disk. No word on other consoles as of yet.
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