Techland has released a story trailer for its upcoming expansion, Dying Light: The Following. The video offers a glimpse into the ravaged yet mysterious world players will encounter as well as a first-ever look at some of the new characters they will meet.
Dying Light: The Following will be released for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on February 9th.
Ubisoft has released a new trailer for Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: India. The second chronicle in the trilogy takes place in 19th-century India, at the height of British control while tensions were quickly escalating between the Sikh Empire and the East India Company. It follows the story of Assassin Arbaaz Mir as he fights to stop a Master Templar from stealing the famed Koh-i-noor diamond and works to steal back a mysterious box that belonged to the Assassin Order.
Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: India will be available for download January 12th on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC.
PopCap Vancouver today announced Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2 will host a public access multiplayer beta beginning January 14th, and ending January 18th. The multiplayer beta will be available for Xbox One and PlayStation 4, and will be a chance for players to experience the shooter before Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2 hits stores February 23rd.
Downloading the multiplayer beta will get you:
To start playing the public access multiplayer beta, download it from the Xbox Live Marketplace and the PlayStation Network Store on January 14th.
Oculus VR today announced that Rift is now available to pre-order for $599 USD on Oculus.com and it will ship starting March 28th. Rift will also be available in limited locations at select retailers starting in April.
Rift includes the headset with built-in headphones and mic, sensor, an Xbox One controller, and a copy of Lucky’s Tale, the VR platformer developed by Playful. Rift also includes the Oculus Remote. When you pre-order Rift, you’ll also secure your place in line for Touch pre-orders later this year.
All Rift pre-orders include access to EVE: Valkyrie through the Founder’s Pack, which will include exclusive in-game content, founder status in Valkyrie, and much more. Details about everything included in the EVE: Valkyrie Founder’s Pack will be revealed soon.
In 2016 alone, Oculus Studios will introduce more than 20 games that are coming exclusively to Oculus this year, including Rockband VR by Harmonix, Edge of Nowhere by Insomniac, and The Climb by Crytek. Additional titles will be announced soon.
For the full Rift experience, the following PC specs are recommended:
You can also check whether your current PC meets the recommended specification right now with the new Oculus compatibility tool.
Bundles that include an Oculus Ready PC and a Rift will be available for pre-order in February starting at $1499.
The judges of the 18th annual Independent Games Festival (IGF) have announced the 2016 awards finalists from a record-breaking 750 entries. The IGF, which recognizes outstanding development in independent games, has nominated 25 innovative and exemplary projects released in the past year, as selected by a panel of industry professionals.
Finalists for IGF 2016 include Dinosaur Polo Club’s minimalistic subway layout game Mini Metro, Sam Barlow’s engrossing crime fiction game Her Story, and That Dragon, Cancer, Nominous Games’ deeply personal and emotional journey through a young boy’s cancer treatment.
The winners of the IGF Awards will be announced at the Independent Games Festival Awards, which take place on the evening of Wednesday, March 16th at San Francisco’s Moscone Convention Center, during the 30th Game Developers Conference (GDC). All finalist games will be playable at the IGF Pavilion located at the 2016 GDC Expo floor from March 16-18, with the developers present.
The full list of finalists for each category of the 2016 Independent Games Festival is as follows:
Excellence in Visual Art
Mini Metro (Dinosaur Polo Club)
Panoramical (Fernando Ramallo & David Kanaga)
Gnog (KO_OP)
Armello (League of Geeks)
Oxenfree (Night School Studio)
Darkest Dungeon (Red Hook Studios)
Excellence in Narrative
The Beginner’s Guide (Everything Unlimited)
Black Closet (Hanako Games)
That Dragon, Cancer (Numinous Games)
Her Story (Sam Barlow)
Undertale (Toby Fox)
The Magic Circle (Question)
Excellence in Design
Mini Metro (Dinosaur Polo Club)
Kingdom (noio & Licorice)
Her Story (Sam Barlow)
Keep Talking & Nobody Explodes (Steel Crate Games)
Superhot (SUPERHOT)
Infinifactory (Zachtronics)
Excellence in Audio
Mini Metro (Dinosaur Polo Club)
Panoramical (Fernando Ramallo & David Kanaga)
That Dragon, Cancer (Numinous Games)
Darkest Dungeon (Red Hook Studios)
Lumini (Speelbaars)
Undertale (Toby Fox)
Nuovo Award
The Beginner’s Guide (Everything Unlimited)
Panoramical (Fernando Ramallo & David Kanaga)
Fantastic Contraption (Northway Games & Radial Games)
Orchids To Dusk (Pol Clarissou)
Her Story (Sam Barlow)
Cibele (Star Maid Games)
Keep Talking & Nobody Explodes (Steel Crate Games)
Progress (Tim Garbos, Martin Kvale and Joel Nyström)
Best Student Game
Pitfall Planet (Bonfire Games)
Ape Out (Gabe Cuzzillo)
Beglitched (Jenny Jiao Hsia & Alec Thomson)
Circa Infinity (Kenny Sun)
Orchids To Dusk (Pol Clarissou)
Chambara (team ok)
Seumas McNally Grand Prize
Mini Metro (Dinosaur Polo Club)
Darkest Dungeon (Red Hook Studios)
Her Story (Sam Barlow)
Keep Talking & Nobody Explodes (Steel Crate Games)
Superhot (SUPERHOT)
Undertale (Toby Fox)
FreeStyleGames has added new playable songs to Guitar Hero Live via GHTV. Accessible now are two new Premium Shows, including Festival Anthems and New Rock Revolution, as well as an extension of The Dead Weather’s three playable songs from their live performance in Nashville. The new songs coming this week are:
Festival Anthems
New Rock Revolution
Kalypso Media today announced its partnership with French publisher Microïds in bringing the boxed retail versions of the upcoming adventure title Agatha Christie – The ABC Murders to PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Agatha Christie – The ABC Murders will be available digitally via Steam for PC on February 4th, with the retail PC, PS4 and Xbox One versions launching on February 23rd.
Indie developer Awfully Nice Studios has released the launch trailer for its old-school shoot-‘em-up The Bug Butcher, coming to PC on January 19th.
Electronic Arts today announced EA Sports UFC 2 launches on March 15. In addition to the announcement, EA released a cinematic trailer featuring some of the biggest moments from recent bouts, showcasing gameplay features, and highlighting new character visuals and signature animations. The trailer opens on EA Sports UFC 2 cover athlete and UFC featherweight champion, Conor McGregor showing fans the all-new Knockout Physics System in his championship fight at UFC 194. From there, fans will see Dynamic Grappling, and Next-Level Submissions while reliving some of the moments from recent fights, and speculating what could happen in upcoming contests.
Microsoft is ringing in the New Year with two new Xbox One bundles: the Xbox One Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege bundle for $399.99, featuring a 1TB hard drive, a copy of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege and full-game downloads of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas and Rainbow Six Vegas 2; and the Xbox One 500GB Name Your Game Bundle for $349.99 which includes a full-game download of any one of the following titles: Forza Motorsport 6, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Gears of War: Ultimate Edition or Rare Replay. The choice is yours.
The Xbox One Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege Bundle ships to retailers today and the Xbox One 500GB Name Your Game Bundle ships to retailers late January.
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