XSEED Games today announced that The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel, the start of a new story arc in developer Nihon Falcom’s series of role-playing games, is headed to PC on August 2nd via Steam, GOG.com, and the Humble Store by Humble Bundle with a launch week discount of 10% off the regular price of $39.99. Originally released in 2015 for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel will make its debut on PC with visual enhancements and over 5,000 new lines of English voiceover dialogue (approximately a 50% increase).
Giant Sparrow’s What Remains of Edith Finch is now available on Xbox One. Players can purchase the game, which is published by Annapurna Interactive, from the Xbox Store for $19.99.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a playable collection of short stories, each with different art styles and gameplay mechanics centered around the cursed Finch family. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she’s the last one in her family left alive. Each story you find lets you experience the life of a new family member on the day of their death, with stories ranging from the distant past to the present day.
In partnership with DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Telltale Games today announced a second season of The Wolf Among Us: A Telltale Games Series, the episodic adventure game series based on Bill Willingham’s ‘Fables’ comic book series, is set to debut in 2018.
With overwhelming popular demand from fans since the series concluded in 2014, Telltale surprised their fans today in an announcement video from the cast and crew confirming that the project is coming in the year ahead. Though this new season has not yet been officially titled, it will debut in the second half of 2018 across all major gaming consoles and mobile gaming devices. This new season will begin a fresh story arc for its returning cast of characters, featuring the return of Adam Harrington as Bigby Wolf and Erin Yvette as Snow White.
Telltale Games and Robert Kirkman’s Skybound Entertainment announced today that The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series – The Final Season (working title) is now in development to premiere in 2018.
In a series retrospective released today in celebration of Comic-Con through Telltale’s Summer 2017 Update, the development team at Telltale sat down to reflect on the journey of series protagonist ‘Clementine’ since the first episode premiered in April of 2012. In discussing the character’s path all the way through 2017’s conclusion of The Walking Dead: A New Frontier, Telltale confirmed that this fourth and final season would focus on Clementine in the lead role, allowing players to fully step back into the shoes of the fan favorite character.
Telltale Games, alongside DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, today announced Batman: The Enemy Within – The Telltale Series, a new five-part, episodic game series that continues Telltale’s unique take on the Caped Crusader. Episode one, ‘The Enigma,’ will be available for download starting August 8th on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC.
The series will also be available at retailers this October for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 on a special ‘Season Pass Disc,’ which will include the first episode of the season, as well as download access to all subsequent episodes as they are released through an online connection.
In this latest chapter, both Bruce Wayne and Batman will be forced into precarious new roles. The Riddler has returned to terrorize Gotham City, but his gruesome puzzles merely foreshadow an even greater crisis. With the arrival of a ruthless federal agent and the return of a still nascent Joker, Batman must navigate uneasy alliances while Bruce Wayne undertakes a perilous series of deceptions. Which of Batman’s new allies will you choose to trust? And how deep into the darkness will you let Bruce descend?
This new season will be accessible to both returning fans and newcomers alike, though players’ choices from the first season of Batman: The Telltale Series will optionally carry over into The Enemy Within. This season will also include Telltale’s unique multiplayer ‘Crowd Play’ feature, which allows friends and family to engage with the adventure together by helping to decide the direction of the story from any mobile device with an online connection.
Bethesda Softworks today released ‘Survive’, a new gameplay trailer for The Evil Within 2.
It’s a race against time for Sebastian as he fights to survive and find Lily, his daughter, before she’s lost forever in a crumbling STEM world. As he searches, he is haunted by the ghosts of his past and his own insecurities, but he never loses hope. Determined to save Lily, Sebastian will travel to the depths of this new STEM world and face off against anything it throws at him.
Pre-order The Evil Within 2 to receive The Last Chance Pack, which contains:
The Evil Within will be available for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC on Friday the 13th of October.
R.B.I. Baseball 17, developed by MLBAM, is set this summer to release a new version of the Major League Baseball video game for Nintendo Switch. This latest edition of R.B.I. Baseball 17 will be available September 5th.
Morphite, the exploration sci-fi shooter from Crescent Moon Games, We’re Five Games, and Blowfish Studios, will come to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, in addition to the previously-announced PC version. Morphite will simultaneously launch across all platforms on September 7th.
Set in a distant future where humanity has colonized the far reaches of space, Morphite follows the story of Myrah Kale, a young woman whose life takes a sudden turn when a routine mission develops into an interstellar adventure revealing her mysterious past and connection to the coveted substance Morphite.
Robot Entertainment today announced that its free-to-play action tower defense game, Orcs Must Die! Unchained, is now available for download on PlayStation 4. The next chapter in the Orcs Must Die! series allows players to take control of a lineup of mythical heroes with unique powers and abilities, including old favorites like the War Mage and Sorceress.
In celebration of the release, PlayStation Plus players who install Orcs Must Die! Unchained can download an exclusive package of in-game currency, skins, consumables, and more. Valued at over $20, this bundle is free for PlayStation Plus members until August 14th.
Kasedo Games today announced a new digital publishing deal with indie developer Dapper Penguin Studios to bring the studio’s new title, Rise of Industry, to Early Access with a brand new teaser trailer.
It’s early 20th century – the second world war will never happen and the world is rife with opportunity for business growth and unimaginable profit. However, only the brave will succeed in this dog-eat-dog environment – are you ready to be the next big business tycoon?
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