Digital Tribe Games today announced that their “Metroidvania” style adventure, The Waste Land will be available for PC on September 16th via Steam and other major digital distribution channels for $9.99, with a 20% discount for one week to celebrate its release.
Today EA Sports, Heat and Google teamed up to launch the Madden NFL 15 GIFERATOR, an experience that allows fans to interact with their favorite teams and players in a new way. The GIFERATOR is a live stream of animated GIFs made with Madden NFL 15 imagery, and designed to help fans celebrate their favorite team’s biggest plays and challenge their rivals, in real time as NFL game action unfolds.
With each big play, the GIFERATOR will generate a tailor-made set of GIFs to be customized and shared with friends and rivals. The GIFs will appear in real-time on MaddenGIFERATOR.com and in ads on sports and gaming-related apps and sites across the web. Fans can also take control of the GIFERATOR and design their own GIFS, choosing the team, the player, the background and the headline, ready for sharing. With content for all 32 teams updated in real-time as plays unfold, there will be no shortage of images for fans to celebrate their team’s successes and trash-talk their rivals.
In anticipation of Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call’s upcoming release on September 16th, Square Enix today announced that fans can now download a demo of the game from the Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS. The demo will feature two songs – J-E-N-O-V-A (Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children) and Edgar and Sabin’s Theme (Final Fantasy VI) that can be replayed up to 30 times. Additionally, players that download the demo will automatically have more characters unlocked when playing the game at launch.
As part of the demo’s release, a new musical vignette featuring characters and scenarios from the Final Fantasy XIII series was also be released.
KING Art and Nordic Games have released the Early Access version of The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 on Steam. The entire first chapter is ready to play and awaits players to delve into the world of Aventásia.
Focus Home Interactive and Cyanide Studios have released the first in a series of gameplay trailers for Styx: Masters of Shadows. This video illustrates some of the Goblin’s skills, as he uses his stealth, weaponry, moves and smart use of the environment to get rid of the tower’s denizens.
Styx: Master of Shadows will be available this October for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.
Atlus today announced that this October, when the strategy RPG Tears to Tiara II: Heir of the Overlord makes its series debut in North America on the PlayStation 3, pre-orders and a limited first-run printing will come with the “Tears to Tiara II Visuals Arts” artbook. This 31-page, full color collection shows off artist Naru Furudera’s character sketches and background drawings.
Activision and Sledgehammer Games have released the Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Multiplayer Deep Dive trailer. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare will be available on November 4th.
Ubisoft today announced that Watch_Dogs Bad Blood, a new DLC for Watch_Dogs, will release on September 23rd for season pass holders and September 30th for all other players.
Watch_Dogs Bad Blood features an all-new story campaign starring T-Bone, the brilliant and eccentric hacker players first met in Watch_Dogs, who is now playable for the first time. The campaign explores T-Bone’s story through 10 new missions set in new locations throughout Chicago. Shortly after the events of Watch_Dogs, Raymond “T-Bone” Kenney infiltrates Blume one last time to plant a false trail in their system. Before he can disappear from the grid, he receives a panicked phone call from Tobias Frewer, a former colleague from Blume’s ctOS prototype days, who’s in desperate need of help. Putting his own escape at risk, T-Bone decides to help, but quickly realizes the details of his old friend’s story aren’t adding up.
Watch_Dogs Bad Blood also grants players access to “Street Sweep” contracts, a new system of side missions that offers players hours of challenges. All Street Sweep contracts are playable in co-op mode (friend or public sessions), allowing two players to work together to combat Chicago’s criminal groups. The online ‘Hacking’ and ‘Tailing’ modes as well as the ctOS Companion App are also fully playable as T-Bone in Watch_Dogs Bad Blood.
In addition, Watch_Dogs Bad Blood features exclusive weapons, perks and outfits, including the remote-controlled car “Eugene,” T-Bone’s latest creation that can be upgraded with both offensive and defensive perks.
Ragtag Studio today announced that their quirky, story-driven action adventure game, Ray’s The Dead will be shambling its way to the PlayStation Vita as a Cross-Buy title. First announced for the PlayStation 4, the game’s official Kickstarter campaign has already met its initial funding goal, as well as being Greenlit for release on Steam. As an added bonus, backers of the Ray’s The Dead Kickstarter campaign that plan to raise the dead on their PlayStation 4 will have instant, and free, access to the game on their PS Vita via the Cross-Buy functionality.
FIFA 15 launches on September 23rd. In the weeks leading up to the release, EA Sports will be revealing a number of lists pertaining to the best players in the game. From the 50 best players to top future prospects, every FIFA fan will want to know who to lookout for. This week they start with the 50 top rated players in FIFA 15. Find out who they are here.
Watch players including Rio Ferdinand, Eden Hazard, Andros Townsend and Samir Nasri react to their ratings in this FIFA 15: New Players Ratings video.
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