The climax of Activision and Treyarch’s Call of Duty: Black Ops II DLC Season Pass culminates with Apocalypse. Available first on the Xbox Live on August 27th, the game’s fourth and final DLC Pack delivers four multiplayer maps and the all-new Zombies experience – “Origins”.
With Apocalypse, Activision and Treyarch have partnered with Warner Bros. Records rock band, Avenged Sevenfold, who contribute the song, “Shepherd of Fire” from their upcoming album, “Hail to the King,” to the Zombies experience, which will be featured in the intro cinematic video for “Origins.” Along with Avenged Sevenfold, comics illustrator and painter, Alex Ross, has also lent his talent to “Origins,” providing original art that features the original Zombies heroes.
Call of Duty: Black Ops II Apocalypse delivers four multiplayer maps:
In addition to the four maps, Apocalypse also reveals Origins, a new Zombies experience. Players will be deployed to Dieselpunk-stylized World War I-era France where they will encounter the return of the four original heroes from the very first Zombies map, Tank, Nikolai, Takeo, and Rictofen, as well as hordes of zombies that have overrun trenches and fields, as well as the ruins of a mysterious and ancient location.
Unleashed after the Germans unearthed the mysterious “Element 115,” this next chapter in the Zombies legacy will explore the saga’s origins as players reunite with an unlikely band of soldiers that come together to defeat the greatest evil the world has ever seen, using a period-specific arsenal that includes Wonder Weapons that harness supernatural powers, a diesel-drone and Mark IV tank, as well a new perk machine and power-ups – and that’s just the start. Players will need all the help they can get to succeed in defeating the undead, as well as evading an unprecedented 1,000-foot tall robot abomination.
Call of Duty: Black Ops II Apocalypse will be available first, exclusively on Xbox Live for 1200 Microsoft Points on August 27th, with other platforms to follow. Players who have already purchased the Season Pass can download Apocalypse as soon as it becomes available.
Creative Assembly today announced that owners of Total War: Rome II will receive privileged access to it’s in-development F2P title Total War: Arena when it becomes available.
Including advanced beta access, exclusive in-game Legion Armoury bonuses and approximately $15 of in-game currency, Rome II players automatically earn ‘Legion’ status and will be able to experience the massed battle MMO before the game opens up to all.
In addition, Creative Assembly has released the latest Let’s Play video highlighting Total War: Rome II’s AI. Studio Communications Manager Al Bickham’s Macedonian forces take on the might of Rome in a straight-up, open terrain skirmish match. He’s playing on Very Hard difficulty, so it won’t be an easy task to suppress the Roman war machine.
Total War: Rome II will be available on September 3rd for PC.
Exato Game Studios and Reverb Publishing today announced that the first-person shooter Guncraft is now available on Steam for $14.99.
Daedalic Entertainment has released the second developer diary for its upcoming point & click adventure Memoria. In this episode, writer and game designer Kevin Mentz, project lead Jonas Hüsges and game designer Tim Haneberg feed you some facts about Memoria’s magic spells and the game’s puzzle design.
Memoria will be available for PC on August 30th.
In anticipation of next week’s launch of Payday 2, 505 Games and Overkill Software have released a new Heist Walkthrough video where you can watch the Overkill team try to pull off the perfect heist.
Tri Synergy and Egosoft today announced that the next installment in the X Universe space simulation series, X Rebirth, will be released on November 15th for PC.
Atlus today announced that Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millenium Girl, the latest edition of the map-making, labyrinth-crawling RPG series, is getting a collection of pre-order bonus items called “Etrian Untold, Unseen, Unheard.” The collection will include a 7-track music CD which features an exclusive live version of the game’s opening theme, an exclusive rough sketch version of the same, and other songs, arranged by series composer Yuzo Koshiro. It also includes a design book containing character art, comics and notes. Exclusive to the Nintendo 3DS, Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl will be released in stores and the Nintendo eShop simultaneously on October 1st.
S2 Games, developers of the free-to-play Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) Heroes of Newerth, today introduced their brand-new MOBA title, Strife, expected to launch this winter.
Paradox Interactive and Paradox Development Studio has released a demo on Steam for their upcoming empire-building game, Europa Universalis IV, to allow players to take their first steps on the journey towards global domination before the full game launches on August 13th.
Nintendo today announced that Mario & Luigi: Dream Team will be available in stores nationwide beginning tomorrow, exclusively for the Nintendo 3DS.
Mario & Luigi: Dream Team puts players inside the head of Luigi … literally. In the game, players journey into the imaginative dreams of Luigi to help save Pi’illo Island from a mysterious villain. Using the touch screen on the Nintendo 3DS, players can manipulate a sleeping Luigi to make fantastical things happen in the dream world, such as altering the dream world environment and growing Luigi to gargantuan size. In his dreams, Luigi also has amazing powers called Luiginary Attacks, such as spawning hundreds of Luigis to form towers, giant hammers and wrecking balls to do battle with a host of nightmares.
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