Indie developer Underbite Games, in collaboration with Soda Pop Miniatures and Ninja Division, today launched their turn-based strategy dungeon crawler, Super Dungeon Tactics, on PC via Steam.
Perfect World Entertainment and Turtle Rock Studios, best known for its work on Left 4 Dead and Evolve, today announced their partnership and the development of a new triple-A game IP for PC and console. The top secret free-to-play first-person shooter features online co-operative action, bringing Turtle Rock back to what it does best. A full reveal is currently to be determined.
Invader Studios have released the first official gameplay trailer of Daymare: 1998, a third-person survival horror game developed with Unreal Engine 4. The Kickstarter campaign for Daymare: 1998 will start in the first months of 2017.
Bethesda Softworks today announced that Dishonored 2’s first free game update with New Game Plus will be officially available on December 19th for PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4, and will release today as a beta on PC.
Dishonored 2 offers the freedom of choice to play and improvise as you like. With this new mode, combine Empress Emily Kaldwin’s abilities with Royal Protector Corvo Attano’s signature powers to create any custom combo of multiple powers that you can imagine. Unlocked once you complete the game as either Emily or Corvo, New Game Plus lets you begin anew as either character with access to each hero’s full suite of abilities plus all the Bonecharm Traits and Runes collected from your previous playthrough that you can re-assign to choose the powers you want.
Even more options to customize your experience will arrive in January with the game’s second free update that will include two new features: Mission Select and additional Custom Difficulty Settings that further tailor to your playstyle and adjust the challenge based on a wide array of settings. Stay tuned in the coming weeks for more details on the second free update.
inXile Entertainment and Techland Publishing announced today that its sci-fi RPG Torment: Tides of Numenera will release on February 28th for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Pre-orders for the Day One Edition and The Collector’s Edition are also now available. For a full list of what is contained in the Collector’s Edition along with pre-order incentives, check out the official trailer.
The Valkyria, the embodiment of death is returning to the battlefield in Valkyria Revolution and players will have to do – and sacrifice – whatever is necessary to seek out their vengeance. Previously reported as Valkyria: Azure Revolution, the newly titled Valkyria Revolution will release in the west both physically and digitally for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and as a digital-only title for the PlayStation Vita. Valkyria Revolution is also in a sense a revolution from the traditional Valkyria Chronicles universe, as it’s set in an alternate timeline based on the European industrialization era and eschews the traditional turn-based strategy gameplay for a new hybrid of real-time combat and tactical strategy across battlefields. Valkyria Revolution will be available in Q2 of 2017.
Maximum Games, in partnership with developer Spiral House, today announced that its upcoming action adventure game, Troll and I, will be releasing on March 21st for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Discover the dynamic bond between Troll and Otto, two outcasts struggling to survive in the Nordic wilderness, in the cinematic trailer.
Bigben Interactive today announced the acquisition of the rights to use and develop the Test Drive brand from Atari and announced its project to develop new titles from the franchise Test Drive Unlimited. Atari retains all rights to sell all previously-released Test Drive games.
Space Hulk: Deathwing, the FPS from Streum On Studio set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, is now available on PC. The game will release on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in 2017.
2K today announced that NBA 2K17 will host the second NBA 2K competitive gaming tournament. Following the success of NBA 2K16 Road to the Finals earlier this year, the NBA 2K17 All-Star Tournament is a competition that will culminate during NBA All-Star weekend in February. Players on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One will be able to form their own NBA 2K Pro-Am teams to compete in a series of in-game events to qualify for the tournament to win $250,000. The new champion will be crowned during NBA All-Star 2017 in New Orleans.
The All-Star Tournament tips off on December 31st in the United States and Canada with a series of NBA 2K17 in-game rounds scheduled on five qualifying days through January 28th. Teams, which must have Elite or better status, can participate in any of the five qualifying game day rounds where they will compete for a chance to qualify for the tournament. All qualifying wins will contribute to the team’s total score on the leaderboard for that specific game day. The teams with the three highest total scores on each platform on each qualifying day will move on to the tournament.
NBA 2K is also introducing Wild Card spots for the All-Star Tournament. The team on each platform with the highest single game day Total Score across all game days that did not otherwise qualify for the tournament will qualify as a Wild Card and receive the 16th and final seed in their platform’s tournament.
On February 4th (Rounds 1 and 2) and February 11th (Console Semifinals and Finals), the 16 qualifying teams on both the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One will go head-to-head in a single elimination tournament. The console winners will then face off for the $250,000 championship during NBA All-Star 2017 in February, with the champions receiving tickets to the 2017 NBA All-Star Game at Smoothie King Center in New Orleans.
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