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Nosebleed Games is making it so that horror fans will never what to pick up a disposable camera ever again thanks to their game, MADiSON. As you can see in the trailer that debuted at Gamescom’s Future Games event earlier today, the upcoming horror game places players in the shoes, Luca, a man who can take photos with an instant camera that uncover the horrors of their surroundings.

An official steam description for the game can be found below.

MADiSON is a first person psychological horror game, featuring disturbing gameplay and an unsettling and compelling narrative.

STORYLINE
What would you do if you woke up locked in a dark room, with your hands covered in blood? Play as Luca, and endure the brute torture of MADiSON, a demon that has forced him to continue a gory ritual started decades ago, making him commit abominable acts. Will you be able to finish this sinister ceremony?

The Future Games Show displayed a lot of promising upcoming titles during its event, including a brand new trailer for the brutal soulslike known as Project Relic. As you can see in the trailer below, the game is considerably fast-paced, pitting players against massive beasts with hectic combat.

An overview of Project Relic was provided by Project Cloud Games, which you can check out for yourself below:

Although it is a small Indie game company consisting of nine developers, with our passion and insight, we are making a sensuous game. The aim of our company is “making better enjoyment, beyond the normal.” We would like to give our game users an opportunity to experience the new world and the enjoyment that has never been exposed. This in-game play footage is the final prototype of our game Project Relic. We think that It is just starting point of producing but we are sure the final version of it would give all of you a exceptional experience.

While an exact release date, it was revealed that Project Relic will be available at some point in 2023 for PlayStation, PC, and Xbox platforms.

Today, during the Gamescom edition of the Future Games Show, Frontier Foundry and Complex Games revealed the full cinematic trailer of Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters.

While we don’t yet get any gameplay, we take a good look at the Grey Knights order of demon hunters, following the announcement back in June.

You can check the trailer out below, courtesy of GamesRadar.

Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters will release in 2022 for PC (Steam and Epic Games Store), and you can already wishlist it on Steam.

If you’re unfamiliar with the game, you can read an official description below.

Today Sega released an extensive trailer showcasing the upcoming action game Lost Judgment.

The trailer focuses on the story of the game and it gets quite dramatic as you would expect by this kind of game, which pairs the inevitable wacky side content with tense and emotional storytelling. It certainly shows the Yakuza heritage.

We also get a good look at many members of the cast, catching a glimpse of their role.

You can watch it below.

Lost Judgment is coming for PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox One on Sept. 24, 2021.

Today during the Future Games Show at Gamescom 2021, we saw exclusive new footage from the upcoming title Life is Strange: True Colors. This trailer focuses on the protagonist Alex Chen’s special powers that allow her to see and experience other people’s emotions.

This new gameplay footage takes place during chapter 2 of True Colors after Alex has begun to settle into her new home of Haven Springs. This is all in the aftermath of the sudden and mysterious death of her brother Gabe, which Alex is determined to get to the bottom of and learn what happened to him.

We see Alex in a local shop ready to leave when her powers kick in, and she notices that the shopkeeper looks terrified. She hears her thoughts, reading her emotions with fears such as “my memories are fading,” “I feel broken,” and “If they know about my condition, they’ll make me close this place.”

Alex can sense how distressed the shopkeeper is and offers to help her. The shopkeeper seems hesitant at first, but Alex insists. It looks like it’ll be our job to help coax the shopkeeper and help her through these upsetting emotions.

Life is Strange: True Colors will release on September 10 for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and Stadia. The Switch version of the game will release later this year.

You can watch this new gameplay footage below courtesy of GamesRadar. For even more gameplay footage of True Colors, check out this 13-minute long trailer from earlier this month.

Today, during the Gamescom Awesome Indies Show 2021, Gato Studio announced the release date of The Waylanders.

The game, which was recently delayed to the fall, is coming on November 16 for PC.

You can check the trailer out below, courtesy of IGN.

If you’d like to learn more about The Waylanders, you can read the official description below.

“The first meeting between the Celts and their gods, the Tuatha de Danaan, should have been a time of celebration and enlightenment, but when negotiations go catastrophically wrong, a battle against a god leaves you near death and untethered from time!

During today’s Gamescom Awesome Indies show, a new trailer for Tentworks Interactive‘s city management sim City Block Builder was presented, showcasing an updated look at the game.

Check out the new trailer from the Gamescom Awesome Indies show below.

In City Block Builder, players can expect to have the ability to customize virtually everything imaginable within their 1950s era Los Angeles block, both on the outside and on the inside of constructed buildings (furniture, decorations, etc.). This includes managing businesses to build them from modest startups to big-time enterprises.

Also promised by Tentwork Interactive in this City Block Builder trailer are fully moddable assets, monthly challenges, and multiple game modes, including a scenario mode, a sandbox mode, and what the developers are calling an “immersive story mode”.

To those new to City Block Builder, Tentwork Interactive has a quick description of what to expect:

Earlier today during the Awesome Indies Show a new trailer detailing the sheer depth of gameplay in Falling Frontier was shown off. This PC-only game is a sci-fi RTS title that also mixes in some elements of the 4X genre.

Like your standard RTS games, a big part of Falling Frontier’s gameplay is all about resource management. Each ship in your flotilla consumes ammunition every time you jump into battle. But on top of that, the crews operating the ships will consume food.

And you’ll want to make sure that you keep your crew safe because even inside of the ships they are not sure to be safe. The people commandeering the ship can sustain damage and injuries during battles just like the outside of the ships do.

Besides the resource management, there’s also a bit of customization to the ships which is more common in the 4X genre. Just like how your crew and ship internals can be damaged in battle, they are also upgradeable to becoming stronger and more effective.

And if you really want to get sneaky, it’ll even be possible to upgrade your ship to give it the ability to latch onto a nearby asteroid in order to hide from enemies. From there, you’ll be able to launch a surprise attack on any enemies that are unfortunate to pass by your hiding spot.

And if you’re very lucky the enemy ships that pass by will have crew members with key information on ship movements. If that’s the case, then you’ll be able to capture enemy combatants and interrogate them. You won’t know beforehand what information they have if any, but it’s worth trying. Conversely, you can also save friendly crewmembers from their ships if they end up in a tight spot.

In a post to their official Twitter account today, Overwatch revealed that they will be renaming the damage hero known as McCree. In the tweet, it was stated that the decision to rename the character came after backlash regarding what the character represented.

We’ve included the entire statement for you below.

We built the Overwatch universe around the idea that inclusivity, equity, and hope are the building blocks of a better future.

As we continue to discuss how we best live up to our values and to demonstrate our commitment to creating a game world that reflects them, we believe it’s necessary to change the name of the hero currently known as McCree to something that better represents what Overwatch stands for.

We realize that any changes to such a well-loved and central hero in the game’s fiction will take time to roll out correctly, and we’ll share updates as his work progresses. In the near term, we had planned to kick off a narrative arc in September supported with new story and game content, of which McCree was a key part. Since we want to integrate this change into the story arc, we will be delaying the new arc until later this year and instead launch a new FFA map this September. Going forward, in-game characters will no longer be named after real employees and we will be more thoughtful and discerning about adding real world references in future Overwatch content.

The Awesome Indies Gamescom stream is coming to a close, and tactical shooter Nine to Five has just shown a new trailer to give us a good look at several of its gameplay features. And surprisingly, the game is available now to download in Early Access on Steam.

Nine to Five received a Gamescom Opening Night Live trailer just yesterday that teased the fact that players would be able to get their hands on the game “soon,” and it turns out that soon is now.

The trailer from the Awesome Indies stream is a lot more mellow than you’d expect from an FPS game, but it was presented a lot like an onboarding video for a company.

You can have a look at the trailer below that comes from IGN’s YouTube channel to see everything above for yourself. It’ll also show you the calm onboarding-type video that was used to make the Steam Early Access announcement for Nine to Five.

Today, during Gamescom’s Awesome Indies Show livestream, developer DESTINYbit unveiled a new trailer for their upcoming roguelike survival-builder, Dice Legacy. On top of that, we also received a concrete release date of September 9, 2021 for PC and Nintendo Switch.

Feel free to check out the brand new gameplay trailer down below (H/T, IGN):

For those unaware, Dice Legacy is an upcoming roguelike that blends boardgame, RTS and city-building mechanics while mixing in some pretty unique dice-centric gameplay, too. Every action is seemingly performed by rolling dice and letting fate take control.

From the looks of things, building up the population of your town, establishing a society and surviving the harsh elements that nature throws at you is key to your ongoing success. Plus, it sounds like you’ll also have to tussle with the local tribes as well.

For more information, here’s the rundown courtesy of the game’s Steam page:

Arcadian Atlas the kickstarted tactical-RPG game inspired by 90s classics such as Tactics Orge, Fire Emblem, and Final Fantasy Tactics received a new trailer today at Gamescom 2021 showing off more of what to expect. It also confirmed a release window of 2022; still vague but better than nothing.

What should stand out from the trailer to 90s TRPG fans is the aesthetics, the story centered around political drama, and of course the varied character classes. A blonde woman murders a soldier of some kind, leaving him in a bloody pool of water as she demands another character to “shuffle the atlas,” likely an important item key to the story.

There are a total of twelve+ classes planned and eight were shown off during the trailer: Apothecary, Warmancer, Cavalier, Ranger, Druid, Sorcerer, Reaver, and Ronin. In addition, the trailer touts over 150 skills that will be obtainable between all of the classes, hopefully allowing for some deep strategy and troop customization.

The Kickstarter has a wealth of interesting information about the game in case it’s your first time hearing of Arcadian Atlas.

Earlier today during the Awesome Indies Show a new trailer for Roots of Pacha detailed the thoughts and ideas that are going into the creation of this title. The game is being developed by Soda Jam, a pair of brothers who were just wanting to play more co-op games together while being physically apart.

One of the important themes in Roots of Pacha is all about looking at how certain things that we take for granted came to be such as harnessing fire to humanity’s benefit, domesticating wild animals, storage of surplus food, irrigation, and much more.

The game also looks at how early humans lived and how they started from seemingly nothing to building societies where people can not only survive, but thrive.

This game releases for Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam next year. As of right now, there is no more specific launch window for Roots of Pacha within 2022. The game is currently available to wishlist on Steam.

If you want to check out all of the other amazing indie games shown off at the Awesome Indies Show, then just take a look at the full stream down below.

Today at Gamescom 2021, Batterystaple Games has revealed an exciting new update for their game 30XX, titled Fires of Industry. As you can see in the trailer below, the new update will add a boatload of new content to the game, including a brand new level type and a new friend to help you conquer it.

The exact additions to the content update can be seen below:

Today, during the Gamescom Awesome Indies Show 2021, Oskar Stålberg and Raw Fury announced the release of Townscaper.

The adorable little city builder is actually available right now on PC and Nintendo Switch.

You can check the trailer out below, courtesy of IGN.

If you’d like to learn more about Townscaper, you can read the official description below.

“Build quaint island towns with curvy streets. Build small hamlets, soaring cathedrals, canal networks, or sky cities on stilts. Block by block.

No goal. No real gameplay. Just plenty of building and plenty of beauty. That’s it.

Townscaper is an experimental passion project. More of a toy than a game. Pick colors from the palette, plop down colored blocks of house on the irregular grid, and watch Townscaper’s underlying algorithm automatically turn those blocks into cute little houses, arches, stairways, bridges and lush backyards, depending on their configuration.”

The follow-up to FAR: Lone Sails, FAR: Changing Tides, received a new trailer today during Gamescom 2021 complete with some developer commentary to help players get a feel for the goals of this sequel.

Both FAR titles are puzzle games that focus on operating vehicles, usually a ship, but in this walkthrough, we see the character actually merge their ship into a train and getting it moving by collecting resources and physically getting the coal burning.

I think it’s designed to be almost therapeutic in a way, and even if that’s not the intent, that’s the vibe I get at least by watching its gameplay in action, which you can do for yourself down below via IGN.

The first FAR game was well-received when it was released back in 2018, and developer Okomotive will hopefully see another positive response with Changing Tides when it releases on consoles and PC in 2022.

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Showcased at Gamescom 2021 this week, Loopmancer is a new action-platformer from developer Ebrain Studio. The game features swords, gunplay, and a cyberpunk aesthetic that’s help bolstered by Unreal Engine. Plus, you’re a private detective reborn with bionic prosthetics, so what’s there not to like? If you somehow aren’t sold yet, check out the trailer below:

And here’s a quick description of the game’s premise from Steam:

Loopmancer is a 3D platformer rogue-lite action game with realistic graphics that takes place in a cyberpunk universe. Players play as a detective who comes back to life after an unexpected death, and battle in this lifelike and futuristic city of the east.

The game features a heavy focus on speed and precision, so it’s likely that it won’t be a walk in the park in terms of difficulty. Imagine Ghost of Tsushima crossed with Strider and a hint of Street Fighter. While there isn’t yet an official release date, the game will be released on PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch. We’ll keep you updated when new information rolls out.

The Awesome Indies Gamescom stream is currently live, and tERRORbane has just received a new trailer to announce its launch window. The JRPG-inspired adventure will be coming to PC and Nintendo Switch during Q1 2022.

In this tongue-in-cheek game, players will take on the role of Terrorbane as they go on the Developer’s journey to destroy all bugs and glitches. You’ll become the Bane of Errors as you witness callbacks and references to other popular games and gaming moments take down enemies in tERRORbane.

You can have a look at the trailer below from IGN’s YouTube channel to see everything mentioned above for yourself, along with all of the wild glitches and unpredictable gameplay moments found in tERRORbane.

You can check out the full recording of the presentation on the Gamescom official Twitch channel or YouTube channel to see more of what was announced during the Gamescom 2021 Awesome Indie Showcase stream. You’ll be able to see all of the other trailers or announcements that you may have missed during the event.

Today, during the Gamescom Awesome Indies Show 2021, Catchweight Studio revealed a brand new trailer of Conscript.

We get to see quite a bit of retro-styled survival horror action set in World War I, which is a quite unique combination.

You can check the trailer out below, courtesy of IGN.

If you’d like to learn more about Conscript, you can read the official description below.

CONSCRIPT is an upcoming survival horror game inspired by classics of the genre – set in 1916 during the Great War. CONSCRIPT will blend all the punishing mechanics of older horror games into a cohesive, tense, and unique experience.

Horror fans rejoice, as there is a brand new game you’re surly going to love that was just announced at Gamescom 2021 day 2 titled There Is No Light. In this game, a religious cult known as The Church of the Great Hand has led you astray. Reject your faith and fight back in using brutal combat in this brutal action adventure game.

Many have been awaiting There Is No Light ever since its Kickstarter campaign was successful earlier this year. You can check out the official fundraiser page for the game right here, which features plenty of helpful and interesting information about the game.

Some of the features players can expect to see in There Is No Light includes

Earlier today during the Awesome Indies Show another look at gameplay for the black and white 2D sci-fi shooter known as Squadron 51 was shown off. This game is the first project to come from developers Loomiarts.

The entire style of the trailer was like something out of an American 1950s informational video. The gameplay will likely get compared to that of Cuphead, because of the old-timey feeling.

But the black and white aesthetic combined with FMV art style in Squadron 51 is something completely different.

It was revealed by the narrator of the trailer that a playable prologue for the game will be available “soon” but no specific date was mentioned. It was also mentioned that this prologue will contain three levels to try out for free.

No release dates were mentioned during the trailer, but the Squadron 51 Steam page indicates the release window is still set for 2022. There is also a demo for the game available on Steam, but it appears that this has nothing to do with the prologue that was announced in today’s trailer.

The game is currently set for a 2022 launch on the Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PS5, PS4, PC, and Nintendo Switch.

If you want to check out all of the other amazing indie games shown off at the Awesome Indies Show, then just take a look at the full stream down below.

Cantata, a very unique-looking tactical-RPG from developer Afterschool Studios, just released its first gameplay trailer at Gamescom 2021, giving players a peek at this fresh take on the genre.

The game uses a grid-like style where players can move a certain amount of spaces to engage enemies and objectives. Fog of war is present, and players will need to be careful about where they tread it seems. It’s difficult to get a feel of what exactly is going on without developers explaining, but there’s definitely some trademark TRPG gameplay at work here.

The narration over the trailer is quite spooky and sounds like some kind of cultist speech. In addition, the visuals of the cutscenes are also very eerie and “raw” looking almost looking like incomplete drawings that were colored in and brought to life. It’s hard to explain, and I don’t mean that as a knock, it’s actually quite striking!

Take a look for yourself below via the trailer provided by IGN. At the moment all we know is that Cantata is “coming soon” for Steam.

Today, during Gamescom’s Awesome Indies Show livestream, Polish indie developer Draw Distance dropped a new gameplay trailer for their upcoming stealth-focused murder-’em-up, Serial Cleaners – a sequel to 2017’s Serial Cleaner.

Specifically, the new video gave viewers an exclusive sneak peek at a bunch of the the characters that’ll feature in the game. Go ahead and check out the new trailer down below (H/T, IGN):

As you can see, there appears to be a myriad of different characters that will star in Serial Cleaners. Viper, Bob and Psycho feature prominently in this new trailer, which helps portray the moment-to-moment clean-’em-up gameplay in action.

For those unaware, the elevator pitch for Serial Cleaners is that you’re a professional cleaner who works for the mob who has to, well, clean up all the incriminating evidence from murder scenes. Essentially, it’s a lot like playing a game as Harvey Keitel’s infamous Winston “The Wolf” character from Pulp Fiction. Pretty cool, right?

The Awesome Indies Gamescom stream is now underway, and Blasphemous just got a full cinematic trailer for its upcoming Wounds of Eventide DLC, along with a teaser for Blasphemous 2.

Just in case you missed it, the last free DLC for Blasphemous was The Stir of Dawn update. And Wounds of Eventide is a free DLC that’s coming to the game later this year, on Dec. 9. This will be the game’s final DLC chapter, so you’ll be able to play the game in full with all of its DLCs once this one drops.

The sequel doesn’t have a release date just yet, but it’ll be coming sometime in 2023.

You can check out the cinematic trailer and the Blasphemous 2 teaser in this video below, found on the IGN YouTube channel:

Square Enix revealed that like Octopath Traveler before it, the Nintendo Switch RPG Bravely Default II will come to Steam. The wait won’t be long either. Bravely Default II arrives on Steam on Sept. 2, 2021, just one week away.

Pre-orders on Steam are available now, and those who purchase the game ahead of its Sept. 2, 2021 release date will get 10% off of the game for a price point of $53.99. Full controller support will be available for the Steam release, as will the ability to customize the resolution of the game.

Bravely Default II was originally released exclusively on the Nintendo Switch on Feb. 26, 2021. The game focused on the four heroes of light, Seth, Gloria, Elvis, and Adelle on their quest through the land of Excillant to acquire four crystals of varying elemental properties.

Square Enix also provided a brand-new trailer to celebrate the upcoming arrival of Bravely Default II on PC as well. You can check it out below.

Here’s a description of Bravely Default II from Square Enix:

Once a mainstay of consoles back in the 1990s, helicopter shooters are few and far between these days, but Comanche is aiming to bring them back with the launch of its full version today after a period in Early Access. A new trailer celebrates its launch, which is nearly two years on from its initial reveal, and showcases some of the action players can look forward to.

If you’re not up to speed with Comanche then here’s an overview of the game via its Steam page:

Comanche is a modern helicopter shooter set in an alternative future. Fight in the evolving singleplayer campaign, master your skills in Conflicts missions, or compete with other players in the explosive team-based multiplayer modes.

Evolving singleplayer campaign – Fight in the evolving singleplayer campaign and make a difference in a conflict of global proportions. After the Iran-US RQ170 incident, in which a UAV was hacked and captured through cyber warfare, the US army secretly revived the development of the RAH-66 helicopter program for special operations. The goal was to develop a highly maneuverable and advanced stealth war machine capable of deploy low-range drones operating in high-risk environments.

The program was a total success, and the Comanche special units seemed unstoppable in their missions. But then, when the blueprints leaked through a whistleblower website, every group, and power, who could afford it, built and modified the Comanche for their purposes. With that, a new era of helicopter warfare had begun.

Today third-party developers had quite a few Microsoft Flight Simulator add-ons reveals and releases to share.

Starting with the releases, Orbx launched Ketchikan International Airport in Alaska, USA. It’s currently available on Orbx Direct for $6.59.

Below you can find a features list and a series of images.

New Weapon: Glaives

Destiny 2: The Witch Queen will add a brand new, never before seen weapon type — the first since bows were added in Forsaken. Glaives in Destiny 2 will be spear-like melee weapons with a couple of twists.

For starters, they are used in first-person, unlike the third-person view that is seen when using Swords. They also occupy the energy slot instead of the power slot, meaning it should be easier to use them more frequently in combat.

Glaives have their own set of combos that will allow you to strike an enemy up close multiple times, but what makes them stand out is that they can also fire an energy blast that can hit enemies at mid-range. It’s not confirmed exactly how it works, but if we had to take a guess, it’ll like have a system similar to how sword special moves work. Or maybe not! Maybe you can fire off your Glaive as a mid-range weapon all you want, we’ll have to wait and see.

What we do know, is how you’ll get your first Glaive.

Ubisoft has just released a brand new trailer for Rainbow Six Extraction focusing on everyone’s favorite precision explosives expert, Hibana. In the trailer below, you’ll see just how the operators commotion of power and accuracy with her X-Kairos Launcher will play a huge role in defeating the Chimera parasite threat.

You can check out Hibana’s official operator showcase trailer for Rainbow Six Extraction right down below.

Just like in Rainbow Six Siege, Hibana’s abilities will help players breach walls to help you get a drop on the enemy. The pellets her special gun fires also does serious damage to enemies with armor when detonated as well.

For more information on Rainbow Six Extraction, check out the description that Ubisoft provided:

LEAD ELITE RAINBOW SIX OPERATORS IN CO-OP OR SOLO PLAY

Squad up and create a team of up to three Operators or go solo. Pick from 18 of the Rainbow Six Operators that are best adapted to survive incursions. Each Operator has a specific set of weapons, gadgets, and abilities to master. Striking the right balance on your team will be the key to success.

Earlier today, the EA Sports NHL YouTube channel released a brand-new gameplay trailer for NHL 22 going over the implementation of the Frostbite Engine, Superstar X-Factors, enhanced stick physics, and augmented reality.

The host of the video, EA Sports NHL VP and GM, Sean Ramjagsingh, first mentions that this is the first NHL game for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PS4, or PS5 to feature EA’s Frostbite Engine. The previous game, NHL 21, instead used the older Ignite Engine.

SR Presentation Designer, David Pritchett, first goes into detail on how Frostbite will change the overall look of NHL 22. This new engine will improve the overall visual quality of the NHL franchise when it comes to the nitty-gritty details like lens flares, snow kicked up by skates, player eye movement, and more. On top of that the plexiglass, ice, and other clothing materials more realistically absorb and reflect light thanks to Frostbite.

Then, Gameplay Producer, Tyson Sawatzki, detailed how Superstar X-Factors will impact gameplay. The X-Factors are essentially skills specific players have that give them a boost to their abilities above what a regular player has. The six X-Factor categories are Shooting, Skating, Passing, Hockey IQ, Defense, and Goaltending.

Across all six categories, there are 29 different abilities that fit into a player’s premiere zone abilities and their secondary superstar abilities. These abilities are present in all game modes, giving players the option to strategically plan for matchups based upon X-Factors.

2K’s NBA sim is an inevitability year after year, so the rollout of trailers and new details has begun for NBA 2K22. Today, 2K has provided more details about the WNBA mode in NBA 2K22 — titled The W — in another Courtside Report.

The Courtside Report outlines three key areas of improvement and changes coming to The W in NBA 2K22: new player progression, off-day experiences, and The W Online.

Players will now be able to unlock Badges as they progress in the journey to get to the WNBA. Much like their NBA counterparts, players in The W can earn and upgrade Badges to fit certain play styles that fit them best.

Today Microsoft announced the new batch of Games With Gold that Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers will receive during the month of September at no additional cost.

We’re getting Warhammer: Chaosbane, Mulaka, Zone of the Enders HD Collection, and Samurai Shodown II.

If you’re unfamiliar with any of them, you can find a trailer and official descriptions below.

Warhammer: Chaosbane
In a world ravaged by war and dominated by magic, you are the last hope for the Empire of Man. Choose your hero among four different character classes and prepare for legendary battles with up to four friends against the all-powerful Chaos hordes in this action role-playing game.

Mulaka
In this action-adventure title based on the rich indigenous culture of the Tarahumara people, fight back against a strange foulness that is corrupting their land. As the local shaman, Sukurúame, draw upon the power of the demigods, solve puzzles, and fight hand-to-hand in environments inspired by real Sierra locations.

Like so many tactical and mil-sim shooters, Insurgency: Sandstorm is likely to have piqued the interest of console fans right up until the moment they discovered it was only available on PC. It had, in fact, been slated for a console release years ago before word on the port fell silent. After a three year wait, though, Insurgency: Sandstorm is finally set to appear on consoles.

Truth be told, it won’t come as a huge surprise to anybody with their finger on the pulse; Maximum Games UK earlier this month Tweeted that it was on its way. It even offered a pre-order registration for interested parties. The actual date, though, was never confirmed. Until now.

Insurgency: Sandstorm is coming to PlayStation 4 & Xbox One on Sept. 29, 2021. It will also be available on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S at 4K resolution and 60 FPS via backward compatibility. In 2022, the game will receive further next-gen enhancements, with support for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S console features.

The news comes by way of a trailer showcasing the game running on consoles for the very first time. Check it out below.

For those not up to speed with Insurgency: Sandstorm, here’s the official description:

There are few franchises that are more wholesome and adorable than Animal Crossing and Studio Ghibli. Both these the video game series and the movies series tell wonderful stories that make their fans feel all warm and fuzzy.

One fan loved both so much, that they even went out of their way to create iconic Studio Ghibli film moments in Animal Crossing New Horizons. You can check out all of the recreations below, which were taken from multiple posts to the Animal Crossing subreddit by user MistyCove-Isle.

Hitman 3’s Seven Deadly Sins Collection has reached Act 5, and IO Interactive has just released a trailer showing off the cosmetics, items, and gameplay that players can expect to see in the Season of Gluttony.

This fifth act will be available to play later this month, on Aug. 31. It’ll bring the Profligacy Suit, Maximalist Shotgun, Bubble Queen Gum Pack, and Gluttony Gobble to the game as part of the Gluttony pack.

Players will be working their way through the Chongqing area to earn these Gluttony-themed items while interacting with plenty of NPCs in pig masks to fit the theme.

Genshin Impact is full to the brim with plenty of amazing characters, each with their own unique looks, abilities, and personalities. Thanks to this, there are a lot of different awesome bits of imagery and screenshots that players can take in game.

One artist decided to take that idea one step further, taking inspiration from the characters in the game and making some pretty amazing wallpapers. Originally posted to the Genshin Impact subreddit by Agrovator, each with their own devoted posts, these silhouetted character images are all worthy of being added to your desktop.

Yesterday Bandai Namco and Limbic Entertainment announced the park simulator Park Beyond for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.

With many developers still sticking to old-generation consoles and releasing their games as cross-generation, Twinfinite asked the developers why they decided to skip PS4 and Xbox One.

Producer Marco Huppertz explained that the game is going to be quite complex and the developers did not want to make compromises.

This was a decision that we made at some point throughout the production because we knew that in Park Beyond there are going to be a lot of systems and a lot going on. With thousands of visitors visiting your park and eventually the simulation becoming bigger and bigger, we just did not want to make any sacrifice in terms of development, because the new-gen consoles definitely do allow more technical capabilities for us.

Therefore, staying on older-gen consoles would have been a limiting factor for a lot of topics. Since we had the premise of delivering the same experience for both PC players and console players, the decision was made on our side that we’re only going to support new-gen consoles.

Asked whether that means that we should give up on the idea of a Switch port, Huppertz mentioned that it isn’t planned for the release, but “let’s see what happens at later stages.”

You can expect to read the full interview here on Twinfinite soon.

Park Beyond is coming in 2022 for #PS5, #Xbox Series X|S, and PC.

Following the successful establishment of Gearbox Quebec in 2015, the company is now set to once again expand with a new Canadian studio — this time, in Montreal. It will see the company’s workforce inflate by 250 extra personnel to a total of 850. Industry veterans Sébastien Caisse, PhD and Pierre-André Déry will be tapped to co-lead the newly formed studio, and the team is apparently set to work on both Borderlands a new IP.

Randy Pitchford, founder of the Gearbox Entertainment Company said of the announcement in a press release today:

“The Gearbox Entertainment Company is ambitiously looking both internationally and domestically to grow our creative engine and meet the incredible demand our customers have for talent-crafted experiences with our intellectual property.

Following our successful experience establishing Gearbox Studio Quebec, our investment in a new studio in Montreal creates an exciting new prospect for Montreal-based talent – whether they wish to work on existing Gearbox franchises, or help with the creation of new, original ideas. With Sébastien and Pierre-André’s leadership, I know the incredible local game development community will welcome Gearbox Studio Montreal and its balance between major studio muscle and local team culture as a needed addition to the city.”

Montréal International and Investissement Québec are supporting Gearbox Entertainment in its local expansion to the area. Stéphane Paquet, president and CEO, Montréal Internationa, explains:

“Montréal has become a must-stop destination in the video game industry. With world-renowned productions created in local studios, highly skilled talent is drawn to the city where careers advance rapidly. Gearbox will contribute to the growth of this dynamic ecosystem and help Montréal shine even more brightly on the international scene.”

Today NIS America released a new trailer of the western localization of The Cruel King and the Great Hero.

The trailer focuses on the story and charming art style of the game that is known in Japan as “Warui Oosama to Rippana Yuusha.” The western title is pretty much a literal translation.

It was released in Japan a few months ago, while it’ll come west in early 2022 for PS4 and Nintendo Switch.

You can check out the trailer below.

If you’d like to see more of The Cruel King and The Great Hero , you can check out the original announcement for Japan the one for the west, a gallery of screenshots revealing the characters, another trailer showcasing gameplay, and one focusing on its adorable music.

Today Koei Tecmo reached out with a press release announcing the upcoming release of Monster Rancher 1 & 2 DX.

The return of the two games originally released in 1997 and 1999 will happen for Nintendo Switch, PC, and iOS in North America and Europe on December 9, 2021.

The release intends to celebrate the upcoming 25th anniversary of the series.

Here’s the announcement trailer.

Below you can read an official description spelling out the features we can expect.

In celebration of the magical series’ 25th anniversary, Monster Rancher 1 & 2 DX brings the wildly popular simulation games to modern hardware where players raise their own monsters and train them to compete against other eccentric creatures in combat and tournaments. With hundreds of different monster types, each with their own skills and abilities, every Rancher will be able to raise and train monsters that are a perfect fit for their personality and play style.