Today during their Gamescom 2015 presentation Microsoft announced that they are working on a brand new Halo game and it is a spin-off that quite a few fans loved. They announced that Halo Wars 2 is in the works for the Xbox One and PC and will be released in Fall 2016.
Halo Wars 2 is being developed by Sega’s The Creative Assembly who usually handles the Total War franchise that ranges from Warhammer titles to classic war titles. You can check out the announcement trailer for the strategy game, which promises “fast-paced action, massive battles and an all-new Halo story” as well as a few images below.
Square Enixand Avalanche Studios have released a new trailer for Just Cause 3 which debuted during Microsoft’s Gamescom 2015 press conference. Besides the ‘Burn it’ trailer, the company also announced that all Xbox One copies of Just Cause 3 will include an Xbox 360 version of Just Cause 2 so players can take advantage of the console’s upcoming backwards compatibility.
The aforementioned trailer, that can be found below, shows off plenty of gameplay from Just Cause 3 as well as just how destructible most of the world and vehicles will be when the title is released on the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC on December 1st.
Indie Gala is making a huge announcement ahead of gamescom 2015. The Italian video game store and indie bundle purveyor experiment with publishing indie games with Blockstorm’s release last year. Since then, the game left Steam Early Access and has seen a string of major updates. Now, Indie Gala is taking the next step by announcing the start of their publishing department.
The company is seeking to specialize in games developed in Italy. The first of two titles will be Die Young, a open-world survival title developed by the in-house development team. Players take on a role of a girl caught in a horror movie plot, kidnapped by villains who have been murdering tourists on an idyllic Greek island. Now she must escape her captors and get to safety off the island.
Red Rope: Don’t Fall Behind is developed by Rome based indie developers Yonder. The game is a two player co-op game that binds the two together with an red rope that symbolizes their relationship. Players will need to navigate the maze and survive the onslaught of ghosts together.
Both games will be available at the Indie Gala gamescom 2015 booth locatedGamescom Hall 2.2 – business area, stand D023, where gamers can check out both titles and enjoy some good old fashioned Italian hospitality at the same time.
During Microsoft’s Gamescom 2015 press conference Deep Silver debuted a couple of brand new trailers as well as some new screenshots for Homefront: The Revolution which is set to be released on the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC sometime in spring 2016.
The first video serves as a cinematic trailer for Homefront: The Revolution called “Thank You” while the second one features roughly two and a half minutes of gameplay footage where a few of the different mechanics that players can use in combat are shown off. You can check out both videos as well as the handful of new screenshots below.
It looks like one of the creepiest looking upcoming games will be making its way first to the Xbox One as ID@Xbox head Chris Charla revealed during Microsoft‘s Gamescom press conference. Compulsion Games’ We Happy Few will be released first on the Xbox One and PC sometime in 2016 though at the moment it is unknown if this is simply a timed-exclusive or a complete console exclusive as the previously held Kickstarter was only slated for a PC version of the game.
To go along with this announcement a new, extremely creepy, trailer for We Happy Few has been released and you can check it out below.
After successfully raising a massive $5.7 million on KickstarterBloodstained: Ritual of the Night made yet another appearance today when it was announced that Koji Igarashi’s newest title would feature crossplay between the Xbox One and Windows 10.
That wasn’t all that was revealed for Bloodstained however, as a new, yet to be named, character was also revealed. Despite not knowing his name we do know that he will utilize dual swords when facing off against demons and can also unleash Japanese spells to defeat his opponents.
Currently Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is set to be released sometime in 2017 by Deep Silver for the Xbox One, PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4, Wii U, and PlayStation Vita.
Although Colossal Order’s Cities: Skylines was released for the PC back in March it quickly stole any spotlight that the dreary SimCity may have once had by including mostly everything fans wanted without the extra hassles of SimCity and it seems that Microsoft wants some of that shine on their console.
Today during their conference at Gamescom, Microsoft announced that when Cities: Skylines is released on consoles that it will be available first on the Xbox One. It is worth noting that at the moment no release window has been given for a console release of Cities: Skylines so this is mostly a pre-empted announcement
Microsoft has announced that they will be releasing Killer Instinct: Season Three in March 2016 for the Xbox One and PC (with the PC version supporting Xbox One fight sticks and controllers) and that while this third season will feature eight new characters, one of those characters will be Rash from Battletoads.
Starting today anyone who owns Killer Instinct or Rare Replay can download and play a limited sneak peek of Rash on Xbox One. Rash’s availability is limited for now and will be playable as part of a test period that runs until September 8th. You can check out a few screenshots of how Rash will look in the game below.
Five minutes of early footage of Scalebound was released today when Microsoft and Platinum Games announced that the title will be released sometime during the holiday season in 2016 as an Xbox One exclusive. In the trailer we see Drew, a young man who is pulled into a strange world only to be bonded to a fearsome noble dragon named Thuban who is the last of his kind.
These two lone fighters must team up to defeat powerful enemies that are threatening the world of not only Draconis but Earth as well. The video also shows that players will be fighting alongside their dragon against massive numbers of enemies and that the game can be played in four-player co-op as well.
At Gamescom today Microsoft revealed some new information about Crackdown 3 which is set to be released sometime in 2016 by announcing that a multiplayer beta will begin sometime in summer 2016 and that, thanks to cloud computing, the game will run at twenty times the processing power of what the Xbox One is usually capable of.
They also revealed that Crackdown 3 will take place in a new futuristic city where players (up to four at a time with co-op online play) will make use of their superhuman abilities to tear down an intricate criminal empire with everything in the environment looking like it can be destroyed.
