Berlin-based indie developer Point Blank Games has unveiled its first project – Shock Tactics, a single player turn-based sci-fi strategy game with tactical combat, exploration, squad management and base building.
Shock Tactics is inspired by the space western style of Firefly and games like Jagged Alliance and X-COM. The game is set on an ancient alien homeworld, procedurally generated each time you start a new game. Shock Tactics will be released later this year on Steam for PC and be available as a digital download.
Square Enix Collective announced that Goetia – the first game to be published by the initiative – is now available for purchase on PC via Steam and the Square Enix Store for $14.99.
Goetia is a point-and-click adventure set in England in the 1940s, based around the mysterious Blackwood Manor. You play as Abigail Blackwood, raised from the dead with no explanation, and as a ghost you must set about finding out what has happened in the years since your death.
Activision, in collaboration with Sony Pictures, today announced a new Ghostbusters video game set in and inspired by the upcoming Ghostbusters film, in theaters July 15th. Taking place after the events of the new movie, the Ghostbusters video game will introduce new casts of rookies keeping watch over the station while the now-famous Ghostbusters tour the country stopping high-profile poltergeists. When paranormal phenomena unleash apparitions across New York City, these new squads of recruits must don their proton packs and wrestle those rogue spirits back to the afterlife.
The Ghostbusters video game is a third-person action role-playing game featuring couch co-op with up to four players locally. As rookie Ghostbusters, players can level up their characters’ gear and abilities by tackling objectives, defeating ghastly creatures and discovering hidden collectibles in Manhattan’s most haunted haunts. There are four heroes to choose from, and each has his or her own unique personality and play style, bringing special strengths to support the team.
Ghostbusters is expected to arrive on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC via Steam on July 12th.
Acttil today announced that the dungeon RPG, Ray Gigant, will be released digitally on the PlayStation Vita on May 3rd. Players will be introduced to three heroic characters who share a common goal of saving their world, although they carry different sets of ideals. Each main character, Ichiya, Kyle, and Nil, will have his or her own allies to help them embark on the battle against mysterious alien life-form invaders, Gigants.
The NPD Group has released its retail report for the month of March. While hardware sales were down year-over-year in March by 19%, software sales were up 8%. Overall, total industry sales were relatively flat at $964.1 million. Once again, PlayStation 4 was the top-selling hardware platform and the software sales leader in March.
The top selling games of March were as follows:
1. Tom Clancy’s The Division
2. Far Cry: Primal
3. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD
4. Grand Theft Auto V
5. UFC 2
6. MLB 16: The Show
7. Pokken Tournament
8. NBA 2K16
9. Call of Duty: Black Ops III
10. Minecraft
Note: The NPD Group does not track digital game sales, only physical game sales.
XSEED Games today revealed its plans to release brand new versions of the horror adventure, Corpse Party, for the Nintendo 3DS and PC, both with exclusive content never before seen outside of Japan.
This summer, Corpse Party will receive a limited ‘Back to School Edition’ physical release for Nintendo 3DS priced at $49.99, which will include high-quality miniature figurines of characters Naomi Nakashima and Seiko Shinohara, as well as a soundtrack CD containing nearly 80 minutes of music from the game not previously featured on the ‘Songs of the Dead’ compilation, including three tracks exclusive to this Nintendo 3DS version. In addition to the limited ‘Back to School Edition’ physical release, Corpse Party will also see a digital release in the Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS for $29.99. Remastered from the 2011 PSP game, the Nintendo 3DS rendition of Corpse Party will feature redrawn, high-resolution character sprites, newly arranged music tracks, and 3D art stills, as well as four new Extra Chapters exclusive to this version that provide insight into lesser-shown characters and plot elements previously left unexplained.
On April 25, Corpse Party will receive a digital release on PC via Steam, GOG.com, and the Humble Store for $14.99. Localized directly from the original independent PC version, which was previously never released outside of Japan, the PC release of Corpse Party will feature all the original art and voice-acting, as well as new features exclusive to this version. Among other inclusions, such as multiple endings and scenes that differ from the PSP and upcoming Nintendo 3DS releases, this version boasts four bonus chapters on top of the game’s five main story chapters, one of which is a PC-exclusive retelling of the “Tooth” story from Corpse Party: Book of Shadows, recreated with added content in classic Corpse Party adventure style. Players seeking to complete every ending will find that this version also contains a speedy fast-forward function for seamless replayability.
BigBen Interactive has released a new trailer for Sherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Daughter, which will arrive on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC on June 10th.
Incorporating brand new footage from the campaign map and a variety of battlefield environments – this video journeys across the entire Total War: Warhammer Old World and offers an ominous first look at Archaeon Everchosen, the most favoured Son of Chaos.
Covering many leagues in size, the Old World of Warhammer Fantasy Battles is as diverse as it is perilous; the infested forests that surround the Empire’s cities, to the lakes and groves of Bretonnia; from the mountain passes guarded by the Dwarfs, to the bleak moors and haunted marshes of Sylvania. And in the north are the ice-clad lands of Norsca and beyond that… darkness and insanity reign supreme.
To follow on from this, a new series of ‘Battlefield Briefing’ videos will be released in the coming weeks showing elaborated and detailed visual accounts of the various environments and battlefields in Total War: Warhammer.
Total War: Warhammer will release on May 24th.
DICE today announced that the Closed Beta for Mirror’s Edge Catalyst will begin on April 22nd. It will last for five days, ending on April 26th.
Try out several of the main missions in Faith’s story, side missions, other optional content, and the Social Play features Mirror’s Edge Catalyst has to offer. Also, learn more about connecting with friends and comparing your skills with other runners in the new Social Play developer diary.
Mirror’s Edge Catalyst will be available on May 26th on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and on Origin for PC.
Atlus today announced that Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse (known as Shin Megami Tensei IV: Final in Japan) will finally be arriving in North America. The standalone role-playing game will be available this summer exclusively on the Nintendo 3DS.
The story of Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse is one of human pawns being shuffled across a chessboard by the higher deities. One lone Hunter, the game’s protagonist, meets an early demise and through a pact with a lesser god, is brought back to life in exchange for his pledge of servitude. From there, the protagonist allies with other Hunters in the ruins of post-apocalyptic Tokyo beginning a plot that crosses over with the events of the original Shin Megami Tensei IV.
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