Square Enix and Milestone today announced that MXGP2 – The Official Motocross Videogame will be released for PC on March 31st and for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on June 7th.
Built with motocross authenticity from licensed motorcycles, real riders and tracks, players take on circuits in a quest to grab hold of the world title at the Netherlands MXGP. The game includes both online and offline modes, vehicle and rider customization and indoor arena events.
Focus Home Interactive and Passtech Games are joining forces again to release Space Run Galaxy on PC this year. Space Run Galaxy is the sequel to 2014’s Space Run, the game from one-man studio Passtech. By twisting the tower-defense game style, Space Run offered a real-time spaceship construction strategy experience. Space Run Galaxy expands and refines the original’s gameplay, and introduces a persistent online universe.
Set 20 years after the original game, Captain Buck Mann has now set up his very own intergalactic courier service. You’re a member of Mann’s team of space runners, racing to deliver precious goods from planet to planet. Reinforce your modular ships with armaments including laser turrets, missile launchers and energy shields, while leaving enough room for your cargo. Fly fast – the quicker you arrive at your destination, the better the rewards.
Space Run Galaxy will release on PC in 2016.
Rebellion today announced that the Sniper Elite series will return in 2016 with Sniper Elite 4 for the Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC. The game picks up immediately following 2014’s Sniper Elite III, and is set during World War II in Italy in 1943.
Microsoft Studios today announced that they have decided to cease development on Fable Legends, and are in discussions with employees about the proposed closure of Lionhead Studios in the UK. Additionally, they will close Press Play Studios in Denmark, and stop development on Project Knoxville.
PopCap Vancouver announced today that the Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2: Graveyard Variety Pack releases on March 8th for all players on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Origin on PC. This free content update delivers a new map, missions, gameplay features and balancing improvements, including the brand new Zomburbified Garden Center map: Aqua Center. First appearing in the original Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare, the Garden Center has since been taken over by zombies and Dr. Zomboss has rebuilt it to become the Aqua Center.
Some of the new content coming in Graveyard Variety Pack includes:
Stainless Games today announced that Carmageddon: Max Damage is coming to consoles on June 3rd. The game will launch simultaneously on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One for $39.99 both physically and digitally, thanks to the new partnership with publisher Sold Out.
Indie studio Free Range Games today released Labyrinch through Steam Early Access for $9.99. Combining the playing experience of a tactical role-playing game with the deck building of a collectible card game, Labyrinth features a 3-D universe where players battle one another, via customized dungeons decks, using strategic attacks, defenses and positioning.
Created in partnership with Skybound Entertainment, Labyrinth enables players to take on the role of both Adventurer and Dungeon Master. While playing gamers must assemble Hero decks to attack dungeons in Player vs. Player raids for loot, and also customize dungeon decks with Boss, Monster and Trap cards to guard their own treasure. During battle players will use RPG tactics to attack, defend and heal their characters, which is all seen visually in 3-D universe. Thanks to asynchronous combat, players are able to calculate their attacks and defenses during multiplayer battles without any time constraints.
Valve today announced plans to debut “The Lab,” a compilation of new VR experiments, at next week’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, CA. Set in a pocket universe of Aperture Science, “The Lab” offers multiple ways to enjoy room-scale VR. It will be offered free of charge via Steam this spring. More information will be made available next week at GDC.
2K and Gearbox Software today introduced Kleese and El Dragón, the final two heroes for the upcoming hero-shooter Battleborn, which launches on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC on May 3rd.
Kleese and El Dragón have two things in common: they both depend on the Last Light Consortium’s (LLC) technology to help them kick ass, and they’re both the most absolutely absurd heroes to join the Battleborn’s fight to save the last star in the universe. But where the cantankerous robotics genius Kleese hates getting his hands dirty, El Dragón would love nothing more than to grapple his enemies with his powerful new cybernetic limbs. Kleese was once director of Minion Robotics and is never without his made-to-order Battle Throne, complete with a smooth gliding propulsion system, an assortment of the finest cannons and tasers, defensive Energy Rift shield system and a miniature black hole generator. El Dragón, the champion space Luchador, recently lost his arms in a professional wrestling match against the demented robotic artificial intelligence, ISIC. Ironically enough, the LLC patched him up with robotic arms and now El Dragón is more dangerous than ever, featuring a plethora of trademark moves like the Dragon Splash, a double arm clothesline, and his finisher En Fuego. He may have lost the title fight to ISIC, but El Dragón still considers himself the Undisputed Champ, and that swagger helps him increase his robotic power with every kill he makes.
Io-Interactive invites all PlayStation Plus members to try the Hitman Beta this weekend, starting March 4th at 11:00 AM EST and ending March 7th at the same time.
Labeled “The Prologue”, the Beta takes place twenty years before the Paris Showstopper mission. Set in a secret ICA training facility, the Prologue features a pivotal moment in Agent 47’s life – his introduction to the ICA and very first meeting with his future handler Diana Burnwood.
The Prologue features two free-form training hits, which will introduce players to the features and mechanics of the upcoming Hitman game. The Prologue will also be available as part of the first episode of Hitman.
Hitman will launch on March 11th for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.
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