PARIS — May 25, 2023 — Following Games Workshop’s Skulls Showcase earlier today, Focus Entertainment and Saber Interactive are thrilled to share brand-new glimpses of gameplay for their upcoming action-packed blockbuster Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, coming soon to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. Hosted by Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun’s lead actor and Warhammer superfan Rahul Kohli, the event has given players their very first look at the Tyranid onslaught they will be facing at release. Watch today’s video and discover it for yourself!
Space Marine 2 Skulls Showcase Video: YouTube
Play as the greatest warriors of the Imperium
Embody a Space Marine of the Ultramarines Chapter, a superhuman warrior who protects humanity from untold horrors, in brutally efficient third-person action powered by the distinctively fast and fluid gameplay experience from best-in-class studio Saber Interactive, the team and engine behind World War Z.
Grab the best Warhammer games at a discount
Games Workshop’s Skulls Festival is the place for all Warhammer fans to grab their new favorite titles at up to 85% off. Once again, Focus is participating with a wide range of Warhammer Age of Sigmar and Warhammer 40,000 games like Necromunda: Hired Gun, Necromunda: Underhive Wars, Space Hulk: Deathwing Enhanced Edition, Space Hulk: Tactics, the Battlefleet Gothic: Armada series and Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Storm Ground! It even features Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun, released two days ago.
Pre-order the Collector’s Edition today
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2’s Collector Edition includes:
The game on the platform of your choice, with the “Macragge’s Chosen” DLC!
A hand-painted, 21-cm resin statuette of Lieutenant Titus fighting a Tyranid
The Art and Making ofWarhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, a 64-page hardcover book
A Steelbook®
Don’t miss this Focus Entertainment Store exclusivity while stocks last!Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 will be released on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC. Pre-order its Collector’s Edition today! For more information, check out the game’s page on the Focus Store.
THE EMINENCE IN SHADOW: MASTER OF GARDEN PC LAUNCH KICKS OFF MULTI-GAME ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS BY CRUNCHYROLL GAMES
Anniversary Events Across The Eminence in Shadow: Master of Garden, Bloodline: The Last Royal Vampire, & My Hero Academia: The Strongest Hero
The Eminence in Shadow: Master of Garden (Official Trailer)
Culver City, California (May 25, 2023) Today, Crunchyroll Games, the interactive division of the global leader in anime, is launching The Eminence in Shadow: Master of Garden on Windows PC, letting an all-new audience experience the anime RPG based on the hit-light novel and anime, The Eminence in Shadow. Now across three platforms, players can jump into the Seven Shadow Chronicles for game-exclusive official story content, build the ideal team and take on the Cult of Diablos. The game will be downloadable worldwide on the Official Website later today and features cross-platform play and progression with Apple Store and Google Play. (*)
Summer birthdays are in full swing! Crunchyroll Games celebrates anniversaries across The Eminence in Shadow: Master of Garden,My Hero Academia: The Strongest Hero, andBloodline: The Last Royal Vampire with new content and events. Details on this summer’s gaming goodness are below.
Alongside the PC Launch of The Eminence in Shadow: Master of Garden, the anime RPG will celebrate six months of mastermind players battling wicked cults in the shadows. All-new characters and rewards are available right now!
Fashionable and Fatale, Fan-favorite characters Alpha and Gamma are joining the fight sporting all-new looks—Chinese dresses.
Bolster your team! Each player gets 6000 free Phantasm Gems, which can be used to pull up to 20 characters.
Experience bonuses for new and returning players! Level up long-time party members or get newcomers up to speed faster than ever.
My Hero Academia: The Strongest Hero (Official Trailer)
For two years running, My Hero Academia: The Strongest Hero has immersed players into the world of the smash-hit anime series. Now, the hit-mobile game is celebrating its heroic run with a truly PLUS ULTRA! event that includes returning heroes and special giveaways.
Hawks is back! The carefree but ever vigilant #2 Pro Hero in Honei has returned, letting players take to the skies and dominate with aerial superiority.
100 free character pulls, letting players create the ultimate team of Quirk wielding heroes and villains.
Login to My Hero Academia: The Strongest Hero for 14 straight days of rewards
Bloodline: The Last Royal Vampire (Official Trailer)
It has been one year since players first teamed up with the Last Royal Vampire Lilo, her companion Ren, and over 400 otherworldly figures in a JRPG quest to take down a militaristic order called the Holy Land. However, it’s just the beginning—the Cuisine Dimension Crossover and Anniversary Collection Events are here!
When the event is served up, players can dig into Cuisine Dimension Spacetime Dungeons to collect delicious rewards or cook up a whole new party by summoning food-themed Cuisine Dimension characters.
The Cuisine Dimension Collaboration and Anniversary Collection Events comes alongside a side dish of all-new gameplay features:
New and improved PVP and PVE faction and guild battles to add more strategic challenges for players.
Fans of the story will be able to relive or experience previous story content in the new Storybook mode.
Brand-new asynchronous PVP exploration teams can be sent into Void Trails for massive rewards.
Players can now collect and fully customize their new Dimensional Cabin with unique and fun furniture pieces!
Tons of quality-of-life updates like character tags, friend and cross-server chat, and quick clear features will be added.
(*) The Eminence in Shadow: Master of Garden is available worldwide ex East Asia, Belgium and the Netherlands.
About Crunchyroll
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Anime fans have access to one of the largest collections of licensed anime through Crunchyroll and translated in multiple languages for viewers worldwide. Viewers can also access simulcasts — top series available immediately after Japanese broadcast.
The Crunchyroll app is available on over 15 platforms, including all gaming consoles.
Crunchyroll, LLC is an independently operated joint venture between US-based Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Japan’s Aniplex, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc., both subsidiaries of Tokyo-based Sony Group.
The critically acclaimed open-world RPG debuts on consoles today, letting you capture and transform into over 100 incredible monsters in turn-based battles!
STOCKHOLM – May 25, 2023 – Indie developer Bytten Studio and publisher Raw Fury have released Cassette Beasts, the open-world RPG that lets you collect and transform into awesome monsters in thrilling turn-based battles, on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Xbox Game Pass on Day One, and Nintendo Switch. Dive in today and discover why this imaginative journey of exploration and friendship is one of the best-reviewed games of the year!
Cassette Beasts puts a unique spin on monster-collector RPG adventures – on the remote island of New Wirral, people can use cassette tapes to transform into strange creatures and battle! You’ll need to explore the island and record a menagerie of mighty monsters to your trusty cassette tapes to gain their abilities and find a way home. You can even combine two creatures together to make powerful new forms with shared elemental types, stats, and move sets, with thousands of possibilities to discover.
Key Features:
Transform into Monsters…with Cassette Tapes?! Faced with the constant threat of monster attack, the residents of Harbourtown can fight fire with fire. Record a variety of beautifully crafted creatures, then take on their forms in battle!
Fuse Monsters Together: Merge with your companions’ monsters to transform into fully animated fusions combining the strengths of both forms! There are thousands of unique creature fusion combos with which to experiment.
Explore a Rich Open World: Use your monster abilities in human form! Glide, fly, swim, climb, dash or turn magnetic to get around and solve puzzles in a colorful land brought to life with fun retro vibes and an awesome synth soundtrack.
Dive into a Captivating Story:Cassette Beasts features an otherworldly adventure with spooky twists and turns. How did you end up on New Wirral? And who are the mysterious Archangels?
Master a Deep Battle System: Use elemental chemistry to apply advantageous buffs or debuffs with your attacks, or even alter your opponents’ elemental types.
Travel with a Diverse Cast of Companions: Don’t fight alone! Forge bonds with your partners and help them complete personal goals to become a better team. The strength of your relationship determines how well you’re able to fuse.
Play Co-op with Friends: Team up via local multiplayer for up to two players. Explore the open world, transform and battle together as a duo!
Cassette Beasts originally released to glowing reviews last month on PC via Steam, the Microsoft Store and PC Game Pass. For more info, visit www.CassetteBeasts.com, and follow the Cassette Beasts team on Twitter and Discord for the latest updates.
About Bytten Studio
Bytten Studio is an indie team based in Brighton UK, co-founded by Jay Baylis and Tom Coxon. They have over two decades of combined experience working on successful pixel art indie games, including Stardew Valley. Their first release as a studio, Lenna’s Inception, was a procedurally generated action-adventure RPG with a branching narrative and two complete art styles.
About Raw Fury
Raw Fury is a boutique indie (un)publisher founded in 2015 by Jonas Antonsson, Gordon Van Dyke, and David Martinez. We do not care about genres or mechanics. We care about experiences and emotions. We want to help developers make magic.
Sci-fi strategy title sees players face an ever-encroaching enemy in new early access content update; overhaul to the combat system alongside a variety of fixes
Prague, Czech Republic – May 25, 2023 – Fulqrum Publishing and Kalla Gameworks today release The Exodus – the final Content Update for the story-driven, sci-fi grand strategy title The Pegasus Expedition – which is now available via Steam, GOG.com and Epic Games Store. The update introduces a brand-new gameplay scenario, alongside gameplay improvements and an assortment of gameplay/bug fixes.
In this new scenario players face a terrifying and all-consuming enemy, The Biomass, as it spreads across the galaxy. Players will grapple in an intense race against time, as they fight to survive long enough to escape the clutches and ever-growing threat of consumption from this horrific enemy.
This update also brings changes to the galaxy generation, making resource exploitation potential more specialised and highlighting this to the player, making for a more straightforward approach to their economic challenges and conquests. In addition, a large-scale overhaul to The Pegasus Expedition’s combat mode gives players greater control over the way they approach each different battle through their campaign.
A further change implemented for ease of use is the introduction of structure filtering, a new tool that players can use to easily locate the structures they require while building.
The Exodus is the final planned early access content update for The Pegasus Expedition. It follows Scattered Empires, At the Center of It All and The Height of the Empire – all of which introduced new gameplay scenarios alongside a variety of changes and bug fixes.
About Fulqrum Publishing Fulqrum Publishing is a global games publisher with a diverse portfolio of titles, that includes both in-house and independent productions. Fulqrum Publishing has successfully launched over 100 game titles including the critically acclaimed series – King’s Bounty, Men of War and Space Rangers. Recent releases include such games as Ancestors Legacy, Deep Sky Derelicts, Fell Seal: Arbiter’s Mark, Forgive Me Father, & more.
About Kalla Gameworks Kalla Gameworks is a game development studio based in Kuopio, Finland. We are a collective of industry professionals and enthusiasts with a strong focus on immersion and atmosphere and a passion for creating games.
Run a Tech-Repairs Shop, Build a Time Machine, and Travel Back in Time, your Ultimate Goal? Overturn your Kind’s Fate!
Use your Tiny Hands to Fix your Clients’ Old Hardware, Build Relationships, Earn a Living and Save Enough Cash to Build a Time Machine. Will you Manage to Travel Back in Time and Change the Past for Good?
Encounter Award Winning Characters, Dive into an Refreshingly Unique Retro World with Nostalgic Graphics and an 1980s inspired Original Lo-Fi Soundtrack!
London, England, May 25th, 2023 – Award Winning Indie Studio Tomato Fantasy Games and Global Publishers 101XP are proud to finally announce the full release of the highly anticipated Dynopunk, live on Steam right now for $14.99!
Prepare yourself to embark on an extraordinary adventure in a retro-inspired cyberpunk world, populated by dinosaurs, all with their own hopes, dreams, jobs and hustles. Here, dinosaurs have evolved to become highly intelligent; creating groundbreaking technologies and feeling… heartbreaking feelings. That’s right, you’ll assume the role of Chris, the last surviving T-Rex on the planet, one who will do anything to build a time machine and travel back to a time where he can change the past for good and avoid his species’ extinction.
Chris has only recently moved to Synth City, opening up a tech repair shop. Utilizing his very tiny hands, it’s your job to work hard to fix things, keep your customers happy and returning, build friendships and save enough money and spare parts for the construction of the time-machine that will bring happiness back into his life. Will you be able to return to a time when other T-Rexes thrived, and find true love?
DynoPunk presents gorgeous pixelated graphics inspired by classic retro games, and is accompanied by an all-original 1980s-inspired lo-fi soundtrack. Immerse yourself in the nostalgic atmosphere and encounter a diverse array of award-winning characters, each with their own distinctive traits, dreams, and personal stories, in a story that is actively shaped by the choices you make in-game.
The branching storyline of the game is shaped by engaging conversations with customers and the quality of your repairs. Precision and customer satisfaction will be vital as you strive to keep them happy! But your job does not stop once the fixed tech is delivered. Build real relationships with your customers, listen to them and share important advice and thoughts. Remember that, everything you say could have a monumental impact on your customers lives!
Experience the thrill and mundanity of fixing gadgets with super tiny T-rex hands, and extracting valuable information from customers to uncover the root causes of their technical issues. Engage in chit-chat with customers, initiating small talk or heartfelt conversations, offering them their favorite beverages, and ensuring their moods remain positive, all in hopes of receiving generous tips for your services.
“We are delighted to bring Dynopunk to players around the world and introduce them to our cyberpunk dinosaur universe filled with very different award-winning characters with unique personalities, dreams and problems,” Shared the team at Tomato Fantasy Games. “With a perfect blend of humor, irony, and adventure, we have poured our hearts into this game, hoping to guarantee an enjoyable and amusing experience!”
Purchase Dynopunk on Steam today, and brace yourself for an enthralling dino-infused journey, as you strive to fulfill your ultimate dream of changing the past and bringing a brighter future, where he can be surrounded by T-Rex family, friends and love.
Exploring a dungeon is a core element in nearly every RPG that fans of the genre can think of but while players may spend hours battling against creatures and taking on the bosses within the depths of a dungeon, the real time someone would take to explore such a dangerous place would take far longer. Any trip to a dungeon can be a dangerous one should supplies run low and that is exactly what NIS America’s latest JRPG-roguelike Monster Menu: The Scavenger’s Cookbook looks to explore. Combining cooking with dungeon crawling is a unique combination on its own but does factoring in roguelike elements make this a satisfying dish of a game?
Story
Players take on the role of their own created adventurer who has found themselves lost within the dangerous dungeon called the Sealed Lands. With no clue on what direction to take and on the brink of starvation, it is only through sheer willpower does the player find themselves still moving forward and stumbling upon the rotting corpse of a mysterious monstrosity. With their only choices being death or consuming this strange beast, the player takes a chomp out of the corpse only to pass out from the experience. Magically they manage to not only survive this harrowing endeavor but even find themselves a safe base to use as the launching point for their adventure back to the exit. To make things even better, up to three other customizable adventurers have also found themselves lost within the dungeon and are more than willing to eat any monster or horrific concoction that the player cooks if it means surviving.
While offering players a completely customizable party may make for endless combinations and opening the game up for players to approach the game differently every time, it doesn’t really do any favors for the actual storyline as Monster Menu: The Scavenger’s Cookbook features the bare minimum of set up for placing players within a dungeon and very little else, not even character interaction or even interesting developments. As players examine various scavenging sites and even occasionally from defeating monsters they will obtain various notes that do contain story tidbits that reveal more information about the world and even explain some elements of the game but it is rather unfortunate that there is extremely little story to accompany this unique blend of mechanics and what could have been a tale of desperation taken to ridiculous lengths.
Gameplay
As players begin Monster Menu they will immediately be greeted with an extensive character customization screen that allows them to use one of eight base designs that can be further customized with different colors, accessories, facial structure, and more. This customization goes on to allow players to select their class in combat and even the portrait cut-ins that are displayed when activating skills or selecting the character at the menu. Eventually players can adjust the game’s difficulty a bit by creating up to three other party members in the same manner, allowing players to build a team that they feel will best fit their playstyle from the ground up. Should players want a harder experience, they can venture out with only their primary fighter or only one or two extra allies but it is worth noting that they will immediately lose should their lead character fall in battle. Players can also adjust the game’s difficulty at any time with different difficulties changing calorie consumption rate, XP gain, enemy strength, and more.
With their party created, players will venture out into the isometric 3D dungeon filled with various monsters, gathering points, and treasure chests traveling from floor to floor looking for a way out. Anytime the player is moving they will constantly grow hungrier and thirstier as they explore and will even build up a certain level of tiredness though this can be helped a bit by resting at the camp between floors. Monsters slain in combat and items found from gathering points can be cooked at camp to not only fill a character’s stomach but also provide various buffs as well. In fact, sometimes an awful menu of insects may make a character unhappy but provide a wealth of useful buffs that will remain throughout the current run through the dungeon.
All ingredients obtained have various levels of freshness and quality so making the most out of your items between stages is vital, especially since players may find themselves unlucky due to the random nature of the dungeon and wind up with very little in the way of items to cook. Of course, the Monster Menu does offer a bit of an alternative if worse comes to worse as players can choose to just devour a defeated enemy, or even a fallen ally, in the middle of combat. Enemies eaten during combat provide instant buffs and even some healing but not only are these temporary but can also come with a number of downsides as well that will remain with the player through the current dungeon level.
Now during exploration players will notice that enemies will always be on the move, even when they are standing still. Battles are triggered as soon as players touch an enemy and, in a rather interesting design, all enemies nearby will enter the fight, meaning that players may find themselves overwhelmed should they run into a large group of enemies without trying to lure them out first. All battles are handled through a turn-based strategy style game with a turn order dictated by speed and various attacks and skills having different levels of reach. For example, a bow user can attack from a distance but must use consumable arrows while magic and lances can target a few squares away only for sword/axe/fist users to only fight directly ahead. While standard attacks can be done without cost, any skills or spells will drain its user of calories and hydration, meaning players will need to balance their survival odds in a fight with how long they can push through with the supplies they’ve scavenged up. Beyond this level of strategy and some basic positioning that can allow fighters to occasionally trigger chain attacks, most of Monster Menu’s SRPG combat is a bit on the simple side.
Thanks to the game’s random nature as well as its elements of a roguelike, players will find themselves coming across foes that will be far too powerful to defeat at times. Some of these may appear as obvious bosses to overcome while others may randomly appear during normal exploration. When the player’s party is defeated, or starves to death, all buffs will be lost, characters will revert to level one, and players will need to start from the bottom again. All is not lost however as players will retain not only the equipment that they have found but also any recipes or upgrades they may have obtained along the way, making players able to push further through the dungeon each time, with players being able to travel to higher floors automatically once they’ve defeated a boss at certain stages. Players can even use currency obtained from defeating monsters to add different variables to change various elements of their current run through the dungeon but these are uninspired feeling at best.
When it comes to crafting, most of what players scavenge for in Monster Menu will be put towards cooking. As mentioned before, ingredients come from defeated enemies as well as gathering points or even dismantling useless equipment. Players can choose to cook from the hip, hoping that their chosen ingredients will result in something edible or can use recipes that will automatically select the best matching ingredients with most having different variables to choose from and levels of quality depending on the items being used. Cooking is a fairly enjoyable endeavor and seeing your characters reactions to meals is a delight, especially when players figure out a party member’s favorite dishes. Alongside cooking there is also standard item crafting as well which is unfortunately a bit less involved and also far more limiting as players can only use recipes located through exploration and there is no room for experimentation.
Visuals & Audio
Since Monster Menu: The Scavenger’s Cookbook allows for near complete party customization, players will find that the art style is quite charming for the most part but also lacks any highly detailed cut-scenes or CGs as a result. There are some rather great looking monster designs but the actual dungeon itself is rather bland to travel through and character skills aren’t the best looking either. Thankfully the food that players can cook has been presented in glorious looking detail with there being some downright disgusting looking options mixed in with some appetizing looking meals. The game does offer an optional censor that can be applied to gross food though why someone would take away part of the game’s charm is unknown.
NIS America has released the game with both their own English voice track as well as the original Japanese dub and for the most part the English cast is handled well though their only dialogue comes from barks made during combat or exploration. Unfortunately there is a rather limited number of lines when it comes to this so players will find themselves hearing certain voice lines over and over again. The soundtrack features a rather standard collection of music that works fairly well for a fantasy SRPG but doesn’t really stand out.
Overall
Monster Menu: The Scavenger’s Cookbook is a charming but rather lean SRPG that tries to combine a number of different genres together to some reasonable success. This odd blend of roguelike dungeon crawling mixed with SRPG gameplay and a heavy emphasis on cooking makes for a unique experience but one that is watered down with simplistic gameplay, generic dungeon design, and lack of real storytelling.
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PARIS – May 25, 2023 – Today Focus Entertainment and Tindalos Interactive, in collaboration with 20th Century Games, revealed a new gameplay overview trailer which offers fans a deeper dive into Aliens: Dark Descent. The video’s in-depth footage and commentary showcases the narrative, protagonists, and gameplay mechanics of the upcoming strategic, real-time, squad-based tactical action game set in the iconic Alien universe. Aliens: Dark Descent releases June 20 on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and PC.
You are the commander, your squad is your weapon
Aliens: Dark Descent features a fully fledged tactical campaign filled with tense moments, deep strategy, and terrifying revelations. As you explore further, you’ll progress in a complex story and attempt to solve the mysteries of Planet Lethe. Players will manage their squad as a single unit, thanks to innovative and intuitive controls on both keyboard/mouse and controller. Marines react intelligently to orders thanks to a unique Squad Behavior System that dispatches them automatically on the field. When the Xenomorph threat gets overwhelming, they can slow down time at any moment to focus on tactical decisions in the heat of battle.
Marines are well-equipped to alter their environment and deal with hostiles. Flamethrowers can be used to engulf corridors and condemn enemy paths. Suppressive fire is effective at slowing down your enemies, and sentry guns are best used to sustain tough encounters while making sure not to run out of resources.
Every run is unique as the Xenomorphs adapt to player behavior and action. Each choice remains unaltered as players explore extensive, open and persistent levels. Managing the squad’s health and stress levels is equally as important as clearing objectives. And remember, when a Marine dies, they are permanently gone for good.
After each mission, players return to their ship, the Otago: a hub to heal and recruit Marines, as well as to research and develop new tech that improves gear. With five Marine classes available, assign a role to each of your Marines and create a stronger squad to explore further down and battle against an onslaught of iconic Xenomorph creatures.
Gear up and discover the source of a strange and dire threat in Aliens: Dark Descent on June 20 when the game releases on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and PC. Digital and retail pre-orders are open for all platforms. For more information, visit the Focus Entertainment website.
For quite some time Sony fans have been waiting to see just what Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 would have to offer and now Sony has finally revealed the first gameplay video and even an introduction cinematic for one of the game’s newest villains, Kraven the Hunter. Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 will see Kraven looking for his “equal” and targets a rogue’s gallery of villains and the Spider-Men, Peter Parker and Miles Morales. Between the start of Kraven’s Great Hunt and an all-new Symbiote threat to Earth-1048, the heroes have their work cut out for them.
The gameplay trailer where we see Peter Parker’s new suit abilities melded with the Symbiote as well as some of Miles’ new abilities as well as Kraven’s introduction can both be found below alongside a number of screenshots. No release date has still been set at this time for the PlayStation 5 exclusive other than sometime this fall.
Team17 Digital’s immersive strategic shooter introduces new weapons, vehicles, maps and brand-new accessibility features
Thursday, 25 May 2023 – Team17 Digital has today released the latest update for its acclaimed World War II shooter, Hell Let Loose. Step into battle alongside the British Forces, as a brand-new playable faction enters the battlefield, alongside more than 15 new weapons, new vehicles, 2 new maps, locomotion improvements, and non-verbal communication tools.
Update 14 is one of the largest content drops to date for the title and is free for all Hell Let Loose players. This massive update also brings a whole host of quality-of-life improvements to enhance the player experience.
Key features include:
The British Forces are now a playable faction within Hell Let Loose, adding a third team to the Allies rotation. Alongside this new faction, initial British uniforms will be added to the loadout with plans to support future customization.
An arsenal of new weaponry adds to the already expansive collection available in-game. Update 14 features more than 15 new weapons, from a Lanchester MK1 submachine gun to a portable Flamethrower Life Buoy.
A fleet of iconic vehicles giving players more options when traversing across new terrain, from a Sherman Firefly tank to a Daimler recon vehicle, and Bedford supply and transport trucks.
Two brand-new maps give players more history to explore and new battlefields to fight on, expanding the current map rotation implemented in Hell Let Loose.
Driel – Taking inspiration from the events of Operation Market Garden,this map will see players battling it out to secure territories while traversing the small villages and farmland of the Netherlands.
El Alamein – With a stunningly vast desert landscape, teams will be fighting across mostly open terrain with little to no cover.
Non-verbal communication tools allow players without microphone access or those unable to use one to communicate with their teammates – improving the accessibility of the game and helping players make quick calls on the frontlines. The radial wheel features 15 communication options in four key categories.
Hell Let Loose is a hardcore World War II first-person shooter featuring epic battles of 50v50 players across infantry, tanks, artillery, and a dynamically shifting front line. Players can choose from one of 14 playable roles within the infantry, recon, and armor units, each offering a unique gameplay experience. Drop into the battlefield and utilize teamwork and communication to dominate your opposition in an evolving, large-scale warzone.
Founded in 1990, Team17 Digital is a leading developer, video games label, and creative partner for developers around the world. Part of Team17 Group plc, which floated on AIM in 2018, Team17 Digital has an extensive portfolio comprised of over 120 titles, and fully encapsulates the spirit of independent games. Team17 Digital’s portfolio of multi-award-winning and award-nominated in-house brands include Hell Let Loose, Golf With Your Friends, The Escapists, and the iconic Worms franchise, alongside its games label partner titles, including the award-winning games Blasphemous, Greak: Memories of Azur, and Overcooked! franchise.
March Troops Toward the Border while Utilizing a Network of Castles to Secure Victory!
BURLINGAME, Calif. —May 25, 2023 — Today, KOEI TECMO America and developer Kou Shibusawa revealed the use of Province War Tactics and castle support in their upcoming tactical strategy game, NOBUNAGA’S AMBITION: Awakening. The 16th entry in Kou Shibusawa’s historical simulation franchise, NOBUNAGA’S AMBITION: Awakening mixes military might with political diplomacy in a quest to conquer Japan’s Warring States. The title will be available digitally in North America on July 20, 2023 and is currently in development for PlayStation®4, Nintendo Switch, and PC Windows via Steam®.
In NOBUNAGA’S AMBITION: Awakening, players experience Japan’s chaotic Warring States Period by taking over the role of daimyō – a powerful Japanese feudal lord and land owner. As players progress and begin taking over larger pieces of the map, their tactics expand through the cooperation between daimyō and officer provinces. Here, a regent, who is the leader of a province, will propose Province War Tactics, with various scenarios playing out depending on the regent’s ability. Tactics include: joint offensives, with all troops marching towards the same target as the daimyō province; ranging attacks, where provinces attack multiple castles of the same enemy clan all at once; bolster, where troops in the rear send soldiers to the allied units in the frontline; and feint, where troops march near enemy borders, luring them out of their castles to create opportunities for an allied units’ attacks. With so many tactics to choose from, it’s key for players to choose their regents wisely in order to outmaneuver enemy forces!
In addition, players can now appoint roles to castles, helping add new lines of strategy within the castle network. A castle that is deemed a “defensive base” is crucial for defense, setting up a stage for sieges. Meanwhile, having an “assistance base” near the defensive base can help increase the number of protecting soldiers when attacked by a large force of enemies. On top of that, a “resupply base” will help support marches and long-term expeditions with additional supplies when troops are passing through on their way to the next fight. For more information on NOBUNAGA’S AMBITION: Awakening, visit the official site, Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/koeitecmous and Follow us on Twitter @koeitecmoUS.
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