Deep Silver is bringing fully remastered and enhanced versions of both Dead Island and Dead Island: Riptide to next-gen consoles with the Dead Island Definitive Collection.
The rebuilding of both Dead Island and Dead Island: Riptide brings with it a significant visual and performance overhaul, introducing next-gen graphical effects including higher quality textures, photorealistic new lighting system, physically based shading, image quality enhancements via anti-aliasing, improved-quality game models and geometry assets, HBAO and motion blur effects, updated game UI, the fan favorite Power Fists Power-up unofficial PC mod, online 4-player co-op, and more.
Making its debut and added into the retail version of Dead Island Definitive Collection is a new side-scrolling/endless runner action game, Dead Island Retro Revenge.
Dead Island Definitive Collection will be available for $39.99. Available at the same time, Dead Island Definitive Edition and Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition will each be available separately and digitally for $19.99. All three titles are scheduled for release on May 31st on Xbox One and PlayStation 4.
Hello Games today announced that No Man’s Sky is launching on June 21st on the PlayStation 4 and PC for $59.99. Pre-orders are available now. In addition, No Man’s Sky will have a Blu-ray retail version on the PS4 published by Sony Interactive Entertainment.
Frontier Developments has revealed even more new info and footage for Planet Coaster via a livestream with Studio Art Director, John Laws, and Community Manager, Edward Lewis. Inside you’ll find new park footage, as well as mascots and themes, modular construction, and more. In addition, Frontier confirms that modding will be supported post-launch.
Epic Games today announced that Founder’s Packs for Paragon, the upcoming MOBA for PC and PlayStation 4, will go on sale March 14th followed by the start of the Early Access Season on March 18th.
Founder’s Packs will cost $19.99, and include access to the game, skins, boosts, and other cosmetic items you can unlock by playing. Challenger Packs ($59.99) and Master Packs ($99.99) will include a huge number of skins, unlockable items, boosts, a unique skin, and a Founder’s Pack to give to a friend.
In a post to the community, Creative Director Steve Superville has also announced that Paragon’s Heroes will always be free:
Creative Assembly have revealed more new gameplay from the Grand Campaign in Total War: Warhammer with the release of The Dwarfs Campaign Gameplay Walkthrough. This new video provides a brief look at a campaign played as the industrious but quarrelsome Dwarfs.
Complete with developer commentary, the Campaign Walkthrough also includes a first look at the Dammaz Kron, or Great Book of Grudges, a brand new feature for Total War and one that is totally unique to these short but altogether vengeful warriors.
Total War: Warhammer will release on April 28th.
Daum Games today announced the release of its MMORPG, Black Desert Online. See what awaits in the all-new launch trailer.
Big Ant Studios today revealed Masquerade: The Baubles of Doom, an original, third-person action game with an emphasis on swift-paced brawling, platforming and puzzles. The game stars a hammer-wielding, quip-slinging jester named Jaxx, whose quest to stop the evil Clown Army from claiming an artifact of supreme power will take him across the Realm to save it.
Masquerade: The Baubles of Doom is expected to launch on April 20th as a digital release for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 on the PlayStation Store, Xbox One and Xbox 360 through the Xbox Game Store, and PC via Steam.
Just Cause 3’s first content pack, entitled Sky Fortress, will be available on March 8th for all holders of the Air, Land & Sea Expansion Pass, and will go on general sale on March 15th
Sky Fortress contains a brand new set of missions that introduce a new threat – the eDEN Corporation and their huge and terrifying Sky Fortress, with its army of deadly robotic drones. To tackle his deadly new adversary, Rico Rodriguez will use a new upgradeable, rocket-powered, weaponised ‘Bavarium Wingsuit’ fitted with shoulder mounted machine guns and auto targeting missiles – alongside his new ‘Eviction’ personal defence drone and ‘Bavarium Splitter’ assault rifle, all of which can be carried over into the main game.
The Sky Fortress pack will be priced at $11.99 whilst the Air, Land & Sea Expansion Pass is available for $24.99.
In preparation for the new content, the main game will also be receiving a new update on March 4th that includes the following fixes:
An escaped slave-turned-vigilante, Libertee falls prey to the experimentations of a mad surgeon. Her body twisted, but enhanced with supernatural abilities, she sets off in pursuit of the doctor only to find herself torn between vengeance and the threat of a much more powerful enemy.
Available today for Hard West, Scars of Freedom is a downloadable scenario merging gothic horror and the wild west in a tale of revenge, offering seven missions, 10 playable characters, and a morbid new method of character customization. Scars of Freedom is available for $2.99, and free to all Kickstarter backers.
Suppressive Fire Games today released its cybernetic tactical shooter/slasher Blood Alloy: Reborn on Steam for $12.99 (minus a 10% discount at launch). Also available is the game’s synthwave soundtrack, at $9.99.
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