Ubisoft today announced new dates for its Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege Canada Tournament, a national competition that will visit four Canadian cities and see teams battle for the highest score in Rainbow Six: Siege matches. Kicking off in Montreal on August 26th before visiting Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver, each city’s top scorers will move on to compete in the Rainbow Six Siege Canada Tournament Finals in Toronto in November. The last standing team will be crowned Canadian grand champion, and will win a Ubisoft prize pack as well as a $5,000 grand prize.
Rainbow Six Siege Canada Tournament events will be held in the below Canadian cities on the specified dates:
Montreal: August 26, 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
• Location: Peel Pub, 1196 Peel Street, Montreal
Toronto: September 24, 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
• Location: Shark Club Sports Bar & Grill, 10 Dundas Street East, 3rd floor, Toronto
Calgary: October 22, 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
• Location: Shark Club Sports Bar & Grill, 7995 11 Street SE, Calgary
Vancouver: October 29, 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
• Location: Shark Club Sports Bar & Grill, 10331 St Edwards Drive, Richmond
Toronto: November – Rainbow Six Siege Canada Tournament Finals
• Location, Day and Time, To Be Announced
Gamers from across the country are invited to team up and compete in the Rainbow Six: Siege Canada Tournament. For additional information, including how to register, visit rainbowsixsiege.ca and follow the #R6SiegeCA hashtag on Twitter.
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege will be available on December 1st for Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC.
Techland announced today that a free demo of its zombie game Dying Light is now available to download on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. The demo lets players explore most of the Slums area and offers 3 hours of content, including one story quest chain and a number of side quests, challenges, and random encounters. It also features all the core gameplay mechanics of Dying Light, such as the day&night cycle, parkour-based Natural Movement system, creative brutality and crafting. Additionally, the demo supports online co-op mode for up to 4 players.
Larian Studios today announced that the Divinity: Original Sin 2 Kickstarter campaign is live.
Backers will have the opportunity to claim Kickstarter-only rewards including multiplayer packs, a unique Kickstarter Collector’s Edition, custom artwork, and even a surprise pack that includes handpicked trinkets, mementos and other little things that inspired the team as they were developing the game. To ensure all backers can give feedback to the team, every backer at the $25 tier and higher will receive Alpha and Beta access.
Activision today shared a new behind-the-scenes trailer for Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5 that chronicles each of the skateboarding professionals in the game. There are riders from different eras of skateboarding sharing their perspectives on gaming history and how the classic THPS games intersected with the ever-progressing skateboarding scene, as well as what it’s been like to participate in THPS5.
Tony Hawk himself oversaw the inclusion of the following pros in THPS5: Nyjah Huston, Riley Hawk, Aaron “Jaws” Homoki, Ishod Wair, Leticia Bufoni, Chris Cole, David Gonzalez, Andrew Reynolds, and Lizzie Armanto.
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5 is scheduled to launch on September 29th for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The game is also planned for release without online play on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on November 10th.
Night Dive Studios today announce that it will restore and publish modernized versions of two classic game titles: Turok: Dinosaur Hunter and Turok 2: Seeds of Evil.
Originally developed for PC in 1997 and Nintendo 64 in 1999, both titles will be re-mastered for today’s modern computers with enhanced graphics and other improvements. The games will be made available for sale exclusively through Steam, the Humble Bundle store, GOG, GamersGate, Greenman Gaming, and via the Night Dive Studios website.
GOG.com and Bethesda Softworks have teamed up to release some of their greatest hits – now DRM-free for the first time. The new arrivals include two digital-distribution premieres, the return of the Fallout series, and for the next seven days some special discounted offers.
The Elder Scrolls series (DRM-free) | Purchase all three games to receive a 33% discount.
id Software titles (also DRM-free) | Purchase all three games to receive a 33% discount.
The Fallout series returns DRM-free | Purchase all three games to receive a 66% discount.
As an added bonus, buy any Bethesda game on GOG.com and The Elder Scrolls: Arena and The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall will be added to your GOG.com game shelf entirely for free.
Square Enix today announced a collector’s edition for Rise of the Tomb Raider that is available exclusively from the Square Enix e-store and the Official Tomb Raider store.
The collector’s edition is packed with memorabilia, including a 12-inch tall statue of Lara Croft that depicts her search for answers on her first tomb raiding expedition, a model of the jade necklace that was Lara’s first archeological discovery, and a collectible steel book case.
The exclusive Rise of the Tomb Raider Collector’s Edition ($149.99) is available for pre-order at tombraider.na.square-enix.com. It includes:
Rise of the Tomb Raider launches exclusively for Xbox One and Xbox 360 on November 10t, and is coming to other platforms in 2016.
Funcom today announced The Park, a horror story and the company’s first single-player experience since Dreamfall: The Longest Journey. Releasing on PC in October, The Park puts you in the shoes of a mother whose son goes missing. When night falls and the lights go out, what follows is a short, but intense horror story set against the backdrop of an amusement park where a dark and sinister secret is just waiting to be uncovered.
Publisher Surprise Attack Games and developer Rocktastic Games today unveiled Rogue Continuum, a co-operative roguelike planet-crawler coming to Early Access on PC in September with a full release on PC and consoles in 2016.
Rogue Continuum tells the tale of four borderline psychopaths as they travel back in time to prevent the destruction of Earth the only way they know how – by killing all the possible alien culprits before they have a chance to do the dirty on our home planet.
In 2K’s third reveal for WWE 2K16’s ongoing Roster 3:16, 18 additional WWE Superstars and Divas have been announced for inclusion in the forthcoming franchise release on October 27th. This week’s additions to WWE 2K16’s roster include Alicia Fox, Bam Bam Bigelow, The Big Show, Cameron, Cesaro, Darren Young, Diamond Dallas Page, Dolph Ziggler, Finlay, Kevin Nash, Layla, Lex Luger, The Miz, Naomi, Randy Orton, Sheamus, Titus O’Neil and Tyson Kidd.
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