New details about the next free update coming to Halo 5: Guardians later this month – The Cartographer’s Gift – were revealed at The Game Awards. The Cartographer’s Gift will add Forge mode to Halo 5: Guardians, in addition to brand-new Warzone (Battle of Noctus), Arena (Overgrowth) and Big Team Battle (Antifreeze and Burial Mounds) maps, and more than 25 new REQs for armors, weapons, emblems and more.
Additionally, the Halo World Championship 2016 begins December 6th with the launch of online tournament ladders around the world. The biggest Halo eSports competition in franchise history is centered on the Arena multiplayer mode of Halo 5: Guardians, with a prize pool that has now reached $2 million dollars and growing. Starting today, in celebration of the Halo World Championship, a special Halo Championship Series (HCS) Premium REQ Pack – including HCS themed weapon skins, armor, and emblem – will be available for purchase. Fans will need to act fast though as this will only be available through Sunday at 12pm PST. As with all REQ Packs a portion of each purchase will go directly to the Halo World Championship prize pool.
Psyonix today announced that its soccer-meets-driving game, Rocket League, will arrive on Xbox One in February via the ID@Xbox self-publishing program. The Xbox One version of Rocket League will contain all the same features, upgrades, and content found in the PlayStation 4 and Steam versions, plus several additions, including two Xbox-One-exclusive Battle-Cars, the Halo “HogSticker,” an alternate version of the famous Warthog Force Application Vehicle, and the Gears of War “Armadillo,” an Armored Personnel Carrier.
Watch the world-premiere gameplay walkthrough of Far Cry Primal, coming February 23th. Join Takkar, a seasoned hunter and the last surviving member of his tribe, as he hunts wild creatures and even tames them to fight at his side as mankind’s first-ever Beast Master.
Ubisoft today revealed Beast Master, a new feature empowering players to tame predators they find in the open world and use them as weapons. From wolves to sabretooth tigers to cave bears, and yes, even the honey badger, players will be able to summon these animals at any moment and use them as they prefer, from taking down their enemy, scouting the area, or acting as a distraction during battle and hunts.
Far Cry Primal will hit stores on February 23rd on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and on March 1st on PC.
Additionally, Ubisoft has announced the Far Cry Primal Deluxe Edition with Steelbook for customers in North America. It includes:
Physical Content
Digital Content
At the Video Game Awards in Los Angeles tonight, Double Fine Productions President and CEO Tim Schafer announced the launch of a Psychonauts 2 crowdfunding campaign on new games crowdfunding site Fig.
Double Fine will be putting up a significant portion of the development funds, and getting another piece of the budget from an external partner. This Fig campaign will make up the third piece of the budget.
In addition to offering traditional crowdfunding reward tiers, the Psychonauts 2 campaign will be the first in history to also offer investment opportunities for both accredited and unaccredited investors.
Psychonauts was released in 2005, and follows the story of a young psychic named Razputin in his quest to join the Psychonauts — an elite group of international psychic secret agents — as he runs away from the circus and breaks into their secret training facility: Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp.
In Psychonauts 2, Raz will realize his dreams and visit the Psychonauts Headquarters as a fully established agent. But when he gets there he finds it’s not the perfect place he expected, and he quickly realizes that the Psychonauts need him, more than he needs them…
The sequel will be developed in house by the team at Double Fine Productions, with Tim Schafer as project lead, alongside original collaborators including co-writer Erik Wolpaw, artists Peter Chan, Scott Campbell, and Nathan Stapley, composer Peter McConnell, voice actors Richard Horvitz and Nicki Rapp, and voice director Khris Brown.
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment confirmed the four new playable characters coming to Mortal Kombat X in Kombat Pack 2 as DLC in the first quarter of 2016. The new guest characters include Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre horror film series and the Xenomorph from the classic sci-fi horror film franchise Alien. Additional characters include classic Mortal Kombat characters Bo Rai Cho, master of the drunken fist, and series favorites Cyrax, Sektor and Robot Smoke in the form of new Kombatant, Tri-Borg.
XSEED Games today announced that its upcoming RPG for the PlayStation and PlayStation Vita, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel, will launch on December 22nd. Alongside the standard edition, the limited “Lionheart Edition” will also be available in stores, containing an art book featuring over 100 pages of art from both this game and its upcoming 2016 sequel, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II, plus a 1.5” emblem pin representing the Erebonian Empire, all packaged in a custom collectible box designed to house both titles.
Tripwire Interactive today released the latest content update to their co-op sci-fi horror FPS game, Killing Floor 2, which is currently available for PC via Steam Early Access. The new Return of the Patriarch Content Pack marks the arrival of the final boss from the original Killing Floor, the Patriarch. Formerly known as Kevin Clamely, the CEO and founder of Horzine Biotech, the Patriarch has found his way to Kiling Floor 2 and he’s back with a vengeance. Feared by all, the Patriarch is even deadlier than ever, with new attacks that very few will be able to survive.
Additionally, two new maps will be included in the Return of the Patriarch Content Pack. The new Farmhouse map takes players into a misty, dimly-lit farmhouse far from civilization. With deadly Zeds crawling around every corner, players must do their best to destroy them all. They’ll also find themselves isolated from humanity in the new Black Forest map where dangerous creatures live deep within the woods.
Indie developer Fatshark today released Sigmar’s Blessing, the first free DLC for its co-operative action game Warhammer: End Times – Vermintide. Featuring the Shrine of Solace, 40 new weapons and more, Sigmar’s Blessing is available now for all Vermintide owners.
Dreamfall Chapters Book Four: Revelations, episode four of Red Threat Games’s serial adventure, is now available for download on Steam and GOG.com. Book Four: Revelations continues the adventure that began with last year’s Reborn, and this year’s Rebels and Realms.
The Dreamfall Chapters season pass is 60% off on both Steam and GOG until December 4th.
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