A couple of weeks ago Spike Chunsoft announced that they would be bringing the tactical RPG Re:ZERO – Starting Life in Another World: The Prophecy of the Throne to the West for the PC, PlayStation 4, and Switch and now the company has not only shared the first trailer showing off what fans can expect from the game but they have also revealed the identity of the brand new character for the game, Melty. Melty’s revelation also confirms the appearance of the collector’s editions pins that were previously detailed.
The reveal trailer and a number of screenshots can be found below and as for the game itself, the story finds Subaru and his friends returning to the royal candidate to find out that a new sixth candidate has appeared to claim their stake for the throne. With prophecy dictating that only five were meant to appear, suspicions quickly arise and all eyes point towards Emilia.
The wait for the next Earth Defense Force game won’t be a long one as D3 Publisher and Sandlot have announced that Earth Defense Force 6 is currently in development and the team is planning on releasing the game sometime in 2021 in Japan. No consoles were revealed at the time of the announcement but a few small details were revealed alongside a number of screenshots showing off the giant insects and creatures that players will face off against.
Earth Defense Force 6 will be set a few years after humanity barely managed to repel the previous invasion, leaving society and most of civilization a complete disaster. Already struggling to survive and rebuild, only the EDF can help humanity once again try to survive as not every invader left last time, leaving a lingering threat that has only grown more significant with time.
For the past few years Crash Bandicoot has been making his return in the form of remasters but so far no new game has been released for the popular character but that is about to change. Activision and Toys for Bob have announced that Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time is being developed and is set to be released on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on October 2nd with the Xbox version also being playable on the Xbox Series X.
Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time features a brand new art style and is set after the events of Crash Bandicoot: Warped, where Neo Cortex, Dr. N. Tropy and Uka Uka were last stranded on a distant planet. After decades of fruitless attempts, the trio finally make their escape, ripping an Evil-Scientist-sized hole in the fabric of space-time in the process.
Players will be able to play as both Crash or Coco through their journey and new playable characters will also be revealed throughout the game while four “Quantum Masks” can also be obtained and used to bend the rules of reality and gain advanced ways to conquer dangerous obstacles.
The award-winning story-driven taxi game debuts on consoles with all content and features from the PC edition
STOCKHOLM — June 24, 2020 — Raw Fury and indie developers Monkey Moon and BlackMuffin have released the award-winning Night Call on Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Game Pass. This narrative-driven, neo-noir investigation game is available on the Nintendo eShop and Microsoft Store for $19.99. It is also free to download with Xbox Game Pass.
Night Call arrives on consoles for the first time featuring all content added to the game since its PC launch, including:
Free Roaming Mode: Cruise the streets and enjoy conversations with the game’s sprawling cast of interactive characters! This highly requested fan feature is perfect for drivers looking to relax, hear new stories, and fill up their Passidex.
New Passengers: Discover over a dozen new riders added to the game since its original release, including a disgraced esports champ, a ghost hunter, and a robot trying to escape from its lab.
Night Call puts you behind the wheel of a Paris taxi cab on the late shift, where a mysterious serial killer is stalking the streets. As a survivor of the killer’s most recent attack, you have seven nights to unravel the mystery by interacting with over 90 potential story-driven characters. Use your limited time each day to learn about their lives, gather clues, and identify the culprit. Whether you’re on the case or not, you’ll discover after-hours Paris is filled with a huge variety of unique people and tales just waiting for a ride.
The boundary between simulation and reality is becoming increasingly blurred. With virtual football growing in popularity daily, the FIFA World Football Museum in Zurich has decided to turn the spotlight on this global cultural phenomenon by opening a new exhibition area dedicated to the digital game’s technology and competitions as well as its accompanying lifestyle – from past, present and future perspectives. “The Virtual Pitch” will be open to visitors from 16 July 2020 as part of the permanent exhibition.
“For some time now, eFootball has been a compelling part of the global football culture, with fans living out their passion for the beautiful game digitally in their hundreds of millions. The fascinating – and growing – interplay between the physical and virtual worlds of football is what we want to present and examine with this new exhibition area. We are delighted that visitors to our museum, which embraces football’s history as well as its culture and is a unique meeting place, can enjoy a valuable addition to the permanent exhibition in ‘The Virtual Pitch‘,“ says Marco Fazzone, Managing Director of the FIFA World Football Museum.
The FIFA Museum – where past and future meet
Visitors can discover the world of eFootball via the many interactive stations in the museum, including special gaming pods based on the originals used for the FIFA eWorld Cup™, on which they can test their console skills on past and present versions of the FIFA gaming series. Animations reveal how the game has developed graphically in terms of the stars’ appearance. Visitors can transpose themselves in scenes from the virtual world at a selfie station and be transported from their living room to the stage of the FIFA eWorld Cup. Naturally, the FIFA eWorld Cup trophy itself is on display.
In addition to “The Virtual Pitch”, an interactive Experience Zone will be open from 16 July 2020 to 3 January 2021, giving visitors of all ages the chance to compete against each other at numerous gaming pods, try out earlier versions of the FIFA game and enter the world of virtual reality – all free of charge. There will also be various FIFA tournaments that anyone can enter and have a chance to take part in a final live at the museum.
An interactive virtual experience for the whole family
“We are proud to be putting the spotlight on eFootball in the museum’s permanent exhibition, as it is an integral part of modern football culture,” explains Christian Volk, Director of E-Football and Gaming at FIFA. “This highly creative, modern and interactive exhibition area will be a great experience for a wide section of the public.”
Visitors will be able to enjoy the latest addition to the permanent exhibition on the first floor of the museum and the interactive Experience Zone in the Event Hall from Tuesdays to Sundays between 10:00 and 18:00, while observing the latest hygiene and safety measures. A separate ticket will be available for visitors who only want to visit the new exhibition area “The Virtual Pitch” and the other attractions on the first floor of the permanent exhibition. Entry to the interactive Experience Zone will be free.
FOR HONOR’S WARDEN CHARGES ONTO SAMURAI SHODOWN TOMORROW; KING OF FIGHTERS R-2 AND SAMURAI SHODOWN!2 ARRIVE ON SWITCH LATER THIS SUMMER
Osaka, Japan, June 23, 2020 – SNK CORPORATION (Corporate HQ: Suita-city, Osaka, Japan, Company President & CEO: Koichi Toyama) has announced that its critically acclaimed, award-winning fighting sensation SAMURAI SHODOWN will offer WARDEN, the lone swordsman from Ubisoft’s mega-popular For Honor franchise, as a DLC character tomorrow, June 24, on PlayStation®4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch™, Google Stadia, and Epic Games Store. As the embodiment of high honor and nobility, WARDEN has journeyed far and wide to find an opponent truly worthy of battle.
Ubisoft commented the following in their official collaboration video message. “We are very excited and proud to see our knight, the WARDEN, join SNK’s SAMURAI SHODOWN as a DLC character,” says Nicolas Bombray, Game Director of Ubisoft’s For Honor. “It’s an honor to be part of such a renown franchise that has existed for decades.”
Additionally, SNK has announced that NEOGEO POCKET COLOR classics KING OF FIGHTERS R-2 and SAMURAI SHODOWN!2 will be released later this summer as part of the NEOGEO POCKET COLOR SELECTION on Nintendo Switch™. The titles will look and play exactly as they did when they originally launched for the NEOGEO POCKET COLOR in 1999. Friends will have the chance to duke it out with a single copy of each game and change the exterior designs of their virtual handhelds whenever they see fit.
NEOGEO POCKET COLOR classic SNK GALS’ FIGHTERS is now available on Nintendo Switch™ and debuted the NEOGEO POCKET COLOR SELECTION. More unannounced SNK classics are slated to launch on the platform soon.
Catch a glimpse of KING OF FIGHTERS R-2 in the official trailer here
and watch the SAMURAI SHODOWN!2 gameplay video here.
About For Honor For Honor is a multiplayer action game developed by Ubisoft Entertainment that launched in February 2017 to huge acclaim. Players take control of heroes ranging from noble knights and bloodthirsty Vikings to cold and calculated samurai in order to combat hordes of AI and other player-controlled opponents. Thanks to the continuous updates the game receives, it maintains a healthy playerbase with users all across the globe.
Moonshiner and Bounty Hunter Bonuses in Red Dead Online – Plus All Limited Stock Apparel Returns to the Catalogue
The local populace is thirsty for more hooch, so make sure to pack the back of the wagon with jugs of your finest swill. All Moonshiner Sell Missions are paying out 50% more over the next seven days, so make multiple runs and enjoy the fruits of your hard-earned labor.
Complete any Moonshiner Mission or Moonshiner Free Roam Event to reap double the Role XP. If you feel that entrepreneurial itch, the Moonshiner Shack costs 5 Gold Bars less this week and all Moonshiner Role Items – including the Bar Expansion and Toxic Moonshine Pamphlet – are 35% off.
Vigilantes will be happy to learn that all Bounties – including Legendary Bounties – are paying out 50% more cash rewards, plus all Bounty Missions and related Free Roam Events award Double Role XP. Get in on the action by picking up the Bounty Hunter License for 5 Gold Bars less, while benefiting from a 35% discount on Bounty Hunter Role Items.
WHEELER RAWSON & CO CATALOGUE RETURNING ITEMS
All of this season’s limited stock clothing will be returning this week, so stop by the Tailor or crack open the Wheeler, Rawson & Co. Catalogue to peruse these offerings before they’re gone. See below for the complete list.
Outfits:
The Tasman
The Danube
Shoes & Boots:
Strickland Boots
Bowyer Boots
Calhoun Boots
Vaquero Baroque Spurs
Salter Shoes
Coats, Jackets & Uppers:
Benbow Jacket
Porter Jacket
Winter Shotgun Coat
Morning Tail Coat
Irwin Coat
Clymene Coat
Charro Jacket
Prieto Poncho
Eberhart Coat
Chambliss Corset
Macbay Jacket
Leavitt Jacket
Gloves:
Woodland Gloves
Furred Gloves
Hats:
Squat Stovepipe Top Hat
Gator Hat
Manteca Hat
Owanjila Hat
Gardenia Hat
Fanned Stovepipe Hat
Plaid Cap
Raccoon Hat
Cossack Hat
Folwell Hat
Dillehay Hat
Covington Hat
Menasco Hat
Lister Hat
Boutell Hat
Pants, Skirts & Chaps:
Concho Pants
Darned Stockings
Pelt Half-Chaps
Tied Pants
Hitched Skirt
Griffith Chaps
Shaffer Chaps
Carver Pants
Vests & Bandoliers:
Ortega Vest
Morales Vest
Cardozo Vest
Carbow Double Bandolier
Masks & Bandanas:
Freak Mask
Horror Mask
Masquerade Mask
Slaughter Mask
Creature Mask
Swine Mask
Patterned Bandana in Various Colors and Patterns
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STUDIOCANAL, a 100% affiliate of CANAL+ Group held by Vivendi, is Europe’s leader in production, distribution and international sales of feature films and TV series, operating directly in all three major European markets – France, the United Kingdom and Germany – as well as in Australia and New Zealand.
STUDIOCANAL owns one of the most important film libraries in the world, boasting more than 5,500 titles from 60 countries. Spanning 100 years of film history, this vast and unique catalogue includes among others the iconic Terminator 2, Rambo, Breathless, Mulholland Drive, The Pianist and Belle de jour.
STUDIOCANAL has fully financed box office hits Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Paddington 1 and 2, The Commuter and Shaun The Sheep. Upcoming films backed by STUDIOCANAL include Marjane Satrapi’s Radioactive featuring Rosamund Pike, The Secret Garden produced by David Heyman and starring Colin Firth, Aardman Studios’ stop-motion film A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon.
STUDIOCANAL is actively developing and distributing high-end TV series through its network of award-winning European production companies, including TANDEM in Germany (Shadowplay), the UK’s RED Production Company (Years and Years), Spain’s BAMBÚ PRODUCCIONES (On Death Row) and France’s STUDIOCANAL ORIGINAL (Mouche). STUDIOCANAL is also an associate of Danish-based SAM Productions founded by Søren Sveistrup and Adam Price (Ride Upon The Storm) as well as of UK-based GUILTY PARTY PICTURES; Benedict Cumberbatch’s production company SUNNYMARCH TV (Patrick Melrose) and URBAN MYTH FILMS (War of the Worlds).
Build your own space travel imperium. Manage the needs of alien races, handle unexpected threats, deal with ever-rising maintenance costs, and, of course, make sure that the whole venture is profitable.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – June 23rd, Warsaw, Poland. Sound like a business project that you could definitely handle? Well, Intergalactic Transfer Station is for you! Just remember that not a day goes by without something going wrong. You’ll constantly be working under pressure, and you can forget about lazy work afternoons where you’re sipping hot coffee, watching videos on YouTube, and counting down the hours until the end of your shift. The only videos you’ll be watching here will be the ones from your surveillance cameras, and you’ll be so busy that the only coffee you’ll get the chance to drink will be cold anyway. But hey, building your space travels imperium comes with a price.
Intergalactic Transfer Station will allow you to become an ultimate master of interplanetary traffic in space. Think about hundreds of passengers daily coming from different planets from all corners of the universe, changing their spaceships nowhere else but in your station. This means you’ll have to expand your Intergalactic Transfer Hub constantly for it to be able to receive more and more passengers. Add new platforms, build and remodel shops, improve your facilities, and upgrade machines. Then you can arrange corridors, shops, and waiting areas to your exact needs – all to optimize your station’s design, and as a result, increase the flow of passengers. And that’s just the beginning, as managing your surroundings is only part of your role. The other is supervising the wide variety of different passengers that will be visiting. You’ll have to take care of different alien species, in all manner of ways, like building hotels for chlorine-breathing beings or restaurants for creatures fond of eating lava. The happier the passengers are, the more of them will come, and this means a larger profit and higher taxes. Just don’t forget about the station’s defenses, because anything from alien viruses that cause dangerous diseases to asteroids could alter your ambitious plans.
INTERGALACTIC TRANSFER STATION – MAIN FEATURES
Manage the docking of spaceships – build new docking platforms and fill them with all the necessary facilities. From shops, waiting areas, and vending machines to toilets, hotels, and even plants.
Take care of passengers – remember, different alien species expect different conditions. Some require chlorine to breathe, others eat only lava, and not all of them are friendly. So if your surveillance cameras spot a gun, don’t hesitate to immediately eliminate the creature carrying it.
Expand your transfer hub – this place is your turf, your work, your life, so make sure anybody visiting can clearly see that. Add new platforms, upgrade the facilities, take care of the way everything looks, and carefully plan the corridors’ routes while keeping in mind they should result in the most effective flow for the passengers.
Control the economy in both micro and macro scale – more passengers mean more profit, more profit means more investments, and more investments mean higher taxes that all land in your pocket. And you like to have full pockets, don’t you?
Expect the unexpected – space is vast and every possible thread out there can’t always be identified. From alien viruses to a head-on collision with a speeding asteroid, here you can be sure only one thing – no two days will be the same, and not a single one will pass without a security breach that requires your immediate assistance.
Intergalactic Transfer Station is currently under development. The game will launch on Steam in Q3, 2021.
About Games Operators Games Operators is a publishing company that invests, releases, and promotes video games. The company helps to develop innovative and unique video games like 911 Operator and Radio Commander by getting involved in projects on various levels of progress – from the conceptual phase to nearly finished products. http://www.gameops.pl/
About OverPowered Team OverPowered Team is an indie videogames studio based in Madrid, Spain. The studio is formed by 5 developers eager to work and learn. Their games are Ruin Riders, Profane and Intergalactic Transfer Station. http://www.overpoweredteam.com/
Mark Your Calendar: Fans That Pre-Order Digitally Will Get Access to the Warehouse Demo on August 14 — Ahead of the Game’s Official Launch!
New Talent Represents the Evolution of Culture and Diversity in Skateboarding Today
SANTA MONICA, Calif. – June 23, 2020 — The genre-defining Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater franchise made its mark on videogames in the ‘90s touting the top names in skateboarding at the time. With the launch of Tony Hawk’s™ Pro Skater™ 1 and 2 on September 4, 2020, the legacy continues with some of the most preeminent pro skaters in the world today — Nyjah Huston, Leo Baker, Leticia Bufoni, Aori Nishimura, Lizzie Armanto, Shane O’Neill, Riley Hawk and Tyshawn Jones — joining the lineup of OGs in the remaster.
“Modern-day skateboarding originated from a generation of skaters who grew up playing the original Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater games,” said Michelle Bresaw, Vice President of Product Management and Marketing at Activision. “The world-class pro skaters we’re adding to this remaster took the tricks and combos from the videogame and made them possible in real life. We’re proud that the remaster will represent the skate culture landscape today with a diverse roster of skaters that will appeal to any gamer.”
While some of the new pros have appeared in past Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater games, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2will mark the first time that they will grind, ollie and kickflip in the first two games from the franchise. What’s more, Activision, a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, Inc., (NASDAQ: ATVI) announced today that this A-list of new talent will bring their own signature tricks, in full HD glory, to all the levels and gameplay features that fans love about the games. Here’s some cool gameplay of the new skaters in action in the game.
Fans can pre-orderTony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2 now for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 4 Pro, the family of Xbox One devices from Microsoft, including the Xbox One X, and on PC through the Epic platform. Those that pre-order the game digitally will get access to the Warehouse Demo starting on August 14, 2020, ahead of the game’s official launch.
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2 remasters the first two games in the Tony Hawk franchise into one awesome package. The game will blend all the original levels, old-school tricks and more that gamers remember with beautifully recreated levels to provide fans with stunning gameplay experiences. The game will also integrate fan-favorite features from games across the entire original franchise, not just the first two games, including revert, lip tricks, wall plants and original multiplayer game modes, both online and for local couch play. Create-A-Park, featuring a robust editor to enable new ways of customization, and Create-A-Skater modes are also back with the remaster! Players will be able to share parks online with friends and outfit skaters with customization options.
The base version of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2 will be available worldwide for the suggested retail price in the U.S. of $39.99. A digital deluxe version that includes unique content and in-game gear will be available for the suggested retail price of $49.99. For the ultimate fan, a collector’s edition will be available for the suggested retail price of $99.99 in the U.S., complete with the digital deluxe content and a limited-run Birdhouse deck. Information about Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and2,including local suggested retail pricing,can be found at www.tonyhawkthegame.com. Also be sure to follow news on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram @TonyHawkTheGame, as well as subscribe to the YouTube channel at YouTube.com/tonyhawkthegame.
About Activision
Headquartered in Santa Monica, Calif., Activision is a leading global producer and publisher of interactive entertainment. Activision maintains operations throughout the world and is a division of Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI), an S&P 500 company. More information about Activision and its products can be found on the company’s website, www.activision.com or by following @Activision.
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