NIS America announced that Disgaea 2 is officially out today on PC via Steam. The three different bundles will be available at a discount rate until February 6th.
The 17th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards will award this year’s Pioneer Award, which honors breakthrough tech and game design milestones, to Jordan Mechner, the video game designer, author and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the action-adventure series, Prince of Persia.
The Ambassador Award, honoring someone who is helping video games advance to a better place through advocacy or action, will be given to Mark DeLoura, who has had a strong history of helping the video game community, and advocated for video games and digital entertainment as the Senior Advisor for Digital Media during the Obama administration.
The Game Developers Choice Awards ceremony takes place on March 1st at 9:30pm ET at the San Francisco Moscone Center during the 2017 Game Developers Conference, and in conjunction with the Independent Games Festival. The ceremonies are available to attend for all GDC 2017 pass-holders and will be livestreamed on the GDC’s official Twitch channel at www.twitch.tv/gdc.
Double Fine Productions today announced that its adventure puzzle game, Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin, will debut on February 21st exclusively for PlayStation VR. Written and directed by Tim Schafer and lead by Chad Dawson, the standalone VR chapter will chronicle the events between the first Psychonauts and the forthcoming Psychonauts 2.
In the game, players will assume the role of Raz, an intrepid young psychic and fully fledged member of the Psychonauts — an elite group of international psychic secret agents. Gamers will see through Raz’s eyes in first person, using his various psychic powers to affect the world, and solve puzzles. The power of Clairvoyance will allow players to see through the eyes of others, and explore the environment, whilst other abilities such as Telekinesis and Pyrokinesis will allow them to move things around with the power of their mind…or just set them on fire.
Team17 today announced its partnership with Texas-based indie developer Mothership Entertainment to publish the sci-fi city-building and management sim, Aven Colony, on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC.
Set on Aven Prime, an alien world of deserts, tundras and wetlands light-years from Earth, Aven Colony is a simulation of an extra-terrestrial colony. Build, customise and maintain your settlement, manage your resources, encounter a variety of alien life forms and look after your citizens – all while dealing with the challenges of life in an entirely new solar system. Will your plucky settlers survive and prosper on this exotic alien world, and uncover its many secrets?
MLBAM this spring will debut the latest edition of its baseball video game franchise, R.B.I. Baseball, with one of the brightest stars in baseball’s next generation, Cory Seager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, on its cover.
As unveiled this past weekend at Dodger Stadium before thousands of fans attending the team’s annual FanFest event, the 22-year-old shortstop will be the cover athlete for R.B.I. Baseball 17 and is now the second-youngest player ever to be featured on an officially licensed MLB video game cover.
Annapurna Interactive has released the first trailer for Gorogoa. Designed, developed, and illustrated by Jason Roberts, Gorogoa is a hand-drawn story suspended inside a puzzle with a completely unique mechanic. Move illustrated, animated panels around on a grid, similar to arranging framed drawings on a wall. When two drawings are correctly stacked or aligned, they fuse together to form a new scene that may be navigated as though it were a 3D space and further advance the story.
Gorogoa is scheduled to launch for PC in 2017.
Obsidian Entertainment has announced Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire, the sequel to its crowdfunded role-playing game, Pillars of Eternity. To support Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire on Fig, visit https://www.fig.co/campaigns/deadfire.
Get ready for lightning-fast competitive matches in Titanfall 2’s all new 6v6 pilot only elimination mode. In this free content update, inspired by speedball matches in paintball, players aggressively attack forward and are tasked with making split second decisions that can make or break their team’s victory – all in 60 seconds.
Check out the Titanfall 2 blog where Respawn reveals the first details of Live Fire, the two new maps specifically designed for it and what else to expect in the coming months.
Marvel Entertainment and Square Enix today announced a new multi-year, multi-game licensing agreement to develop and publish original games based on Marvel Super Heroes, beginning with The Avengers. The first game is being crafted by Crystal Dynamics, developers of the Tomb Raider series, in collaboration with Eidos-Montréal, the home of the Deus Ex game series.
The Avengers project is being designed for gamers worldwide and will be packed with all the characters, environments, and iconic moments that have thrilled longtime fans of the franchise. Featuring a completely original story, it will introduce a universe gamers can play in for years to come. More details on The Avengers project and other games will be announced in 2018.
Prospective Pathfinders will learn a little more about the dangers of the Andromeda galaxy today as EA and BioWare revealed two new trailers for Mass Effect: Andromeda. The new cinematic character trailer offers a glimpse at Pathfinder Ryder’s squadmates and allies in their search for humanity’s new home. The explorers find a little more than they bargained for, however, as the dangerous Kett Archon demonstrates that the uncharted Andromeda galaxy is also full of new perils and threats.
The latest Andromeda Initiative briefing video also released today introduces players to leading members of the human Pathfinder team on Ark Hyperion, including Pathfinder Alec Ryder, his children Scott and Sarah Ryder, Crisis Responder Liam Kosta and Operations Specialist Cora Harper, who together will lead humanity’s discovery of new worlds in the Andromeda Galaxy when Mass Effect: Andromeda launches on March 21st.
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