From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning team behind Fallout Shelter, comes The Elder Scrolls: Castles, launching worldwide on September 10. This new adventure puts players in control of their very own castle and dynasty in The Elder Scrolls universe. Oversee your subjects and make rulings as the years come and go, families grow, and new rulers take the throne.
Pre-registration on Apple and Android devices is available now – follow the links below to make sure you’re pre-registered:
Check out our The Elder Scrolls: Castles Developer Deep Dive below:
Build your Dynasty – Tell your story for generations – each day in real life covers the span of an entire year in The Elder Scrolls: Castles. Train your subjects, name heirs, and maintain order to help your kingdom flourish. Will you keep your subjects happy and ensure a long life for their ruler? Or will they grow discontent and plot something sinister?
Manage your Castle – Customise your castle from the ground up, adding and expanding rooms, placing lavish decorations and inspirational monuments. Assign subjects to workstations to ensure your castle has the resources to thrive for years to come!
Rule your Kingdom – Make key decisions that impact your legacy. Will you risk a limited supply of food to aid a group of subjects? How should a heated spat between your subjects be settled? Your choices determine if your dynasty will inspire prosperity or lead your castle to peril.
Take on Quests – A kingdom can’t thrive without strong warriors. Send your subjects on quests to battle against classic Elder Scrolls foes and collect loot to bring back home.
To learn more about The Elder Scrolls: Castles, head to bethesda.net and check out this article here.
SHERMAN OAKS, Cali. – August 15, 2024 –Toy Tactics, the innovative RTS game where you customize your strategies with hand-drawn formations, reveals online multiplayer where generals can participate in both competitive 1v1 and cooperative experiences, when it graduates from Steam Early Access on Thursday, Sept. 19.
To celebrate, developer Kraken Empire and publisher Joystick Ventures announce that PC players will have the chance to join a competition with the multiplayer beta. For further details, join the official Discord and follow Toy Tactics on Steam! On August 26, all the details about the competition and the prizes for the winner will be revealed.
Toy Tactics aims to make the RTS genre accessible to aspiring generals of all kinds. Command units and split forces into battalions by drawing directly onto the battlefield with a mouse cursor or joystick. Rated E for Everyone by the ESRB, Toy Tactics eschews any gruesomeness, through minifigures battling it out with wacky physics effects and a presentation that mixes humor with an epic style.
Under the tutelage of Sun Tzu, author of The Art of War, become a general in Erebus, an afterlife where minifigure versions of great warriors from throughout history can fight forever. Command Roman legions, Samurai warriors, and raptor-riding skeletons, unleashing powerful spells and discovering game-changing artifacts to turn the tide of battle.
Toy Tactics releases on September 19, 2024 on PC via Steam, Epic Games Store, GOG, and GOG. Media and content creators interested in an early build of the game and virtual interview opportunities can contact [email protected] for more information.
Kraken Empire is a Spain-based development studio with more than a decade of experience that focuses on game creation across a multitude of avenues and exploring newfound territory in technology. Previous projects like the free-roaming shooter Kromaia, and educational applications like Hi Score Science (created alongside the third-largest research council in Europe) are proof of these efforts.
About Joystick Ventures
Joystick Ventures is a California-based investing and publishing company whose main goal is to encourage indie developers to stay honest and promote experimentation to push the limits of game design across all genres, styles, and geographies. They are most known for their 2022 release, Lost in Play, which has sold more than 200,000 copies.
Enchanting developers All Possible Futures and 1st Grade readers Devolver Digital are pleased as punch to announce that The Plucky Squire will be hitting digital bookshelves on September 17 for PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch. PS Plus subscribers will be able to add the game to their library as part of their monthly subscription. That’s basically free! Like a library book.
The Plucky Squire follows the magical adventures of Jot and his friends – storybook characters who discover a three-dimensional world outside the pages of their book. When the seriously unchill wizard Humgrump realises he’s the villain of the book – destined to lose his battle against the forces of good for all eternity – he kicks the heroic Jot out of its pages and changes their story forever.
But he doesn’t have to go it alone, with a merry band of brave adventurers joining him on his page-turning quest to save the realm—including an eccentric DJing wizard. Humgrump doesn’t stand a chance.
Jump between 2D and 3D worlds in this charming action-adventure – solving puzzles, boxing badgers, flying jetpacks, and enjoying many more delightful and surprising mini challenges as you become the hero of a living storybook.
When it comes to collaborations, Dead by Daylight has seen plenty of them. The asymmetrical multiplayer horror game that sees four survivors try to escape a singular killer features not only its original killers but a wide range of famous killers from horror films throughout the decades and even some survivors to help round things out. That being said, when it was announced that the franchise that remains quite popular eight years after release would be joining hands with Supermassive Games, best known for their narrative survival games such as Until Dawn, The Dark Pictures Anthology, and The Quarry, it came as something of a surprise. While both teams have some great experience crafting horrific encounters and spooky villains, they do so in such a different manner that one wonders just how Supermassive Games would take a property like this and do what they do best. Well, now that we’ve had a sample demo featuring the first chapter of The Casting of Frank Stone, we have a bit of a taste of things to come.
Those familiar with Supermassive’s works know that players will often take on the role of a character that has to take on various quick time events, skill checks, and dialogue choices that may determine their fate and that remains true here. Set in 1963 we take on the role of Sam, a police officer that has been assigned from another district to help search for a missing child. With many members of Cedar Hills seemingly taking this mystery lightly, Sam has traveled to the local steel mill and found that it’s only guarded by a single guard sleeping on the job and his canine pal that’s gone AWOL. Immediately we were presented with a few dialogue options about confronting the security guard’s demeanor and status and, as we found out later, how Sam treats the character will play a role in how well the guard manages to hold up near the end of the preview.
For the most part our time with the demo felt incredibly familiar when compared to past Supermassive Games entries as we, controlling Sam, explored through the dark and eventually sinister depths of the steel mill, collecting some tidbits of documents that could be examined, some odd collectables, a few clues, and even a very obvious reference to Dead by Daylight itself. Along the way there was some climbing up boxes and using an item, these elements that Supermassive had experimented slightly with in The Devil in Me, to advance as well as some familiar quick time events and “skill checks.” These are now stylized in a manner that makes them look just like they would in Dead by Daylight, including the quick time “skill check” events that can change how some events play out. For example, one time we succeeded saving Sam from stumbling and the second we failed, finding out that a failure resulted in a broken flashlight that made not only navigation a bit more difficult but a confrontation played out a bit differently as well.
Of course, in Supermassive’s games an early failure like these are usually simple affairs without major consequence, often designed to be a tutorial of sorts, as later failures could be far deadlier for the characters we are controlling. It is also nice to note that a quality of life feature that many have hoped for is already apparent in this demo and it is an indicator showing that players will be leaving a location permanently, meaning if they have any exploration left to do they should. This usually could be a problem in past adventure games as players never quite knew whether exploring one direction meant continuing down the main path and missing out on either extra lore or a collectible.
Now on to the potential crux that many may be worrying about, does it seem like The Casting of Frank Stone is exclusively for fans of Dead by Daylight or can newcomers unfamiliar with the multiplayer game come in and enjoy this new playable horror game without it? While we can’t say for sure at this point, the demo does lean towards the latter as the only overt references to the Dead by Daylight universe itself is an aforementioned collectible as well as the “Entity” itself. Even the titular Frank Stone doesn’t actually exist as a killer in Dead by Daylight at this time. That being said, what is present in The Casting of Frank Stone will scratch some extra itches for those already coming into the game as fans of Behaviour Interactive’s popular title even if it leaves plenty left to be answered still and tons of shadowy questions about where the story will continue past this prologue offered in the demo.
Recommended
All in all, The Casting of Frank Stone manages to strike a solid introduction here in this demo as it, at least so far, feels quite similar to how fans of Supermassive’s works expect it to by exploring, making choices that may alter a character’s fate, and trying to succeed in quick time events and all new “skill checks” all while basing itself around the darker and sinister lore that makes up the Dead by Daylight universe. It’ll be interesting to see just how Frank Stone plays into the grander scheme of things, if at all, and just how much the unknown force of the Entity will come into play once The Casting of Frank Stone arrives fully on September 3rd for the Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC.
We had a chance to check out The Casting of Frank Stone DEMO from Supermassive Games. Set in the world of Dead by Daylight we play as the officer Sam Green in search of a missing boy and venture into a steel mill where we find something far worse lurking below the surface.
The shadow of Frank Stone looms over Cedar Hills, a town forever altered by his violent past. As a group of young friends are about to discover, Stone’s blood-soaked legacy cuts deep, leaving scars across families, generations, and the very fabric of reality itself.
The Casting of Frank Stone DEMO Developer: Supermassive Games Publisher: Behaviour Interactive Inc. Platform: Windows, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5 Release Date: 4 Sep, 2024 Price: $39.99 USD
Recommended – “All in all, The Casting of Frank Stone manages to strike a solid introduction here in this demo as it, at least so far, feels quite similar to how fans of Supermassive’s works expect it to by exploring, making choices that may alter a character’s fate, and trying to succeed in quick time events and all new “skill checks” all while basing itself around the darker and sinister lore that makes up the Dead by Daylight universe. It’ll be interesting to see just how Frank Stone plays into the grander scheme of things, if at all, and just how much the unknown force of the Entity will come into play once The Casting of Frank Stone arrives fully on September 3rd for the Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC.”
Nocturne, the story-driven rhythm RPG from Pracy Studios set in a dystopian future where humanity lives in a digital afterlife, conjures a recharged demo for Steam Rhythm Fest (19-25 August).
Millennia have passed since humanity’s extinction, its collective consciousness uploaded to a digital afterlife. Expecting to meet their sibling in the promised utopia, protagonist Karma instead finds corruption in a crumbling pixel world – one in which they are the only newcomer in 1000 years.
Search for Karma’s brother while traversing beautiful abandoned landscapes. Encounter survivors of the decaying program, befriending a mischievous boy and a giant orange fish. Paint a picture of humanity’s time in this world through the remnants of lively cities, technological marvels, and calming natural landscapes. Seek out the source of the corruption responsible for the afterlife’s decay.
Battle twisted robotic creatures in unique rhythm-based combat. Find the groove with an original symphonic rock soundtrack mixing digital and live performances.Nocturne’s multiple difficulty levels and Arcade mode for practicing and reaching new high scores invites newcomers and veterans of the rhythm genre alike.
Pracy Studios is an indie studio out of Canada with a drive for making carefully crafted narrative experiences. Their second independent project as a game developer, Nocturne, is a passion project rooted in love for RPG classics.
Meet Zhezhi a Shy Painter with Great Dedication to her Craft – Enjoy Entertaining In-Game Events, A New Featured Weapon, Unique Quests and More in the Latest Update
GUANGZHOU, CHINA – AUGUST 15, 2024 – Kuro Games announced today that version 1.2 is available now for its open-world action RPG Wuthering Waves. The first phase of the update titled ‘In the Turquoise Moonglow’ is packed with new gameplay content including quests, a new Resonator, a new weapon, and many quality of life improvements requested by players.
The Turquoise Moonglow introduces the new Resonator Zhezhi, a commissioned painter, quiet and shy with a dedication to her craft. She is not very eloquent, however, her persistence and love for painting speaks volumes. Read more about Zhezhi in her full profile reveal.
Watch the Wuthering Waves ZHEZHI Profile Video below:
Additionally, the update kicks off with a new event titled “By Moon’s Grace,” an adorable moon-chasing festival event that introduces a new simulation management gameplay mode.
Watch the Wuthering Waves Version 1.2 Trailer below:
For more details on the update view the patch notes with full details on features and improvements HERE.
Wuthering Waves is a free-to-play, cross-platform, open-world action RPG that emphasizes dynamic movement and freedom of exploration on a mysterious, post-cataclysmic, sci-fi planet. Engage in fast-paced PVE combat that focuses on special dodge, parry, and counter mechanics. Wuthering Waves hosts a deep storyline, breath-taking art and atmosphere, and addictive action-RPG combat that is suitable for novice and veteran RPG players alike. Wuthering Waves features plenty of fierce opponents and captivating quests that unfold in the game’s vast world.
Founded in 2014, Kuro Games main focus is to create high quality, original games that push the boundaries. For over a decade Kuro Games has strived to bring more diverse, innovative, and enjoyable services to its players.
Kuro Games independently developed “Punishing: Gray Raven”, which was well received with warm response from players around the world. With over 30 million downloads worldwide, its recently released new open-world ARPG “Wuthering Waves” is receiving the same public reception.
Featuring a monstrous new Wild Target, the Scorched Earth Event, CRYENGINE 5.11 upgrade and more
FRANKFURT, Germany – Aug. 15, 2024 –Today Crytek is thrilled to launch the new era of Hunt with Hunt: Showdown 1896,out now on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S!
Hunt: Showdown 1896LaunchTrailer
Fight for survival and profit in a world where supernatural horror and the thrill of the bounty reign supreme with an all-new Colorado biome, Scorched Earth Event, Wild Target, weapons, Hunters, and more. Leaping forward chronologically and heading west of the bayou, Hunt: Showdown 1896brings with it the power of CRYENGINE 5.11, which brings a highly anticipated overhaul of visuals, audio design, rendering performance, and more.
Players will also be welcomed back to the bayou post-launch with the original maps overhauled and restored in stunning detail. Hunters are invited to jump into the action for free on PC with a Steam Free Weekend running from August 15 – 19.
New Colorado Map: Mammon’s Gulch
In Mammon’s Gulch, visit 16 unique compounds spread across the Rocky Mountain peaks and ravines of the new Hunt biome.Pass through the torched towns, delve deep into the mines, avoid new threats, and take advantage of the terrain as you explore new strategic vantage points and tactics. Take to the high ground in the struggle against rival Hunters, or venture down into the Gulch’s deep mines to face untold horrors.
New Wild Target: Hellborn
An amalgam of fire and flesh and a source of immense heat, the Hellborn can be tracked audibly by listening in Dark Sight. Boiled up from the depths of Mammon’s Gulch, this new Wild Target can be found at multiple locations, stalking the land until provoked into explosive response. Posing an entirely new threat, the Hellborn moves frantically to slag trespassing Hunters, scorching everything in its considerable reach. Be warned—the Hellborn is best dispatched quickly, as its raging howls attract the attention of other Hunters across the Gulch, multiplying the threat minute by minute.
Scorched Earth
Hidden beneath the lush forests and soaring hilltops, Corruption boils from the mines and oil wells below the surface. Unlock more of the Mammon’s Gulch story via the in-game Scorched Earth Event. Running from August 15 – October 7, Hunters are invited to face the fire to earn new equipment, ammo, and weapons, including the 1865 Carbine, the Infantry 73L base rifle with a sniper variant, Bear Traps as a new Tool, and more. We’re also welcoming a completely new Weekly Challenge system to better support players joining the action mid-event, as well as a Battle Pass full of both free and premium rewards to unlock.
Tech Upgrades
Thanks to the integration of CRYENGINE 5.11, the new experience brings a leap in visual fidelity, with improvements across textures, lighting and animation, improved audio design, and much more. Console players can experience Hunt: Showdown 1896 with native 4K & 60FPS support on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, and 60FPS and 2k for Xbox Series S. Other features of Hunt: Showdown 1896 include improved gunplay and gameplay changes, controller improvements, new wildlife, and more.
For more detailed info, please see patch notes here: Patch Notes.
Hunt: Showdown 1896 is out now on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S – See you in the mountains, Hunters.
About Hunt: Showdown 1896
Hunt: Showdown 1896 is the new era of the competitive first-person bounty hunting game, packing the thrill of survival and the reward of profit into a horror match-based format. Set in Colorado in 1896, the game boasts a mixture of PvP and PvE elements that create a uniquely tense experience. It’s not just the monsters who are a threat—it’s every Hunter on the map. In the classic Bounty Hunt game mode, a match pits 12 players—playing solo or in teams of two or three—against each other as they race to take out gruesome creatures for a Bounty they must collect and extract from the map. Hunt‘s Soul Survivor mode offers a shorter match for solo players to scavenge for weapons as they compete for a diminishing pool of Bounty. The higher the risk, the higher the reward–but a single mistake could cost you everything. Hunt: Showdown 1896 is available now on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. For more information, visit www.huntshowdown.com
LOS ANGELES – AUGUST 15, 2024 – Netmarble, a leading developer and publisher of high-quality mobile games, has released a new in-game update for its collectible RPG, Tower of God: New World. Players can experience new teammates, limited-time events and more.
New teammate SSR+ [Hermit] Garam (Blue Element, Support, Fisherman) is a forgotten princess of Zahard who dwells on the Floor of Death. Serving as a buff-type supporter in combat, Garam gives players a buff advantage when deployed during a battle. SSR [Princess of Zahard] Anaak (Red Element, Tank, Fisherman) has been added as a new teammate as well. She can make her ally with the highest ATK invincible and create a barrier for protection against enemies.
Other content updates include the expansion of Adventure Floors to level 100 and the brand-new Dissolution system. Players can select equipment and items they wish to dissolve and convert them into dissolution liquid, which can then be exchanged for desired items. The Dissolution system will be available through August 28.
To celebrate the arrival of [Hermit] Garam, Tower of God: New World is rolling out several events that offers valuable rewards through August 28:
Story Event [Heart-Pounding Soul Swap]: Players can experience an original story featuring Urek and Garam whose bodies have been swapped, as well as entering Battle stages. Various rewards, including evolution Fragments, SSR+ Tower’s Blessing Break Stone and more, will be given to players who clear the Story Event Missions and collect event items.
[Heart-Pounding Soul Swap] Check-in: Log into the game for 14 days during the event period and earn Master Keys, SSR Soulstones, Expirable Suspendiums and more.
[Hermit] Garam Trial Event: Try out the newly introduced teammate [Hermit] Garam for three days and complete various missions. Growth Resources, Master Keys, and more will be given as rewards.
New Teammate Boost Missions: After acquiring SSR+ [Hermit] Garam or SSR [Princess of Zahard] Anaak, players can clear various in-game missions and get a chance to obtain these new teammates once more.
The latest update also adds a new Event Boss Battle where players can challenge [Flight] Urek Mazino through August 28. The new season of the Hell Train Arena is also available through August 28, offering players a chance to battle one another and win valuable rewards, including Expirable Suspendiums and more. Loot Bonus Time will be available from August 24-31, that doubles the loot accumulated during the event period.
In Tower of God: New World, players can take control of fan-favorite characters to ascend the Tower. Join Twenty-Fifth Bam – and more than 100 characters – as he fights his way through the Tower in gorgeous 3D animation that will make players feel like they have stepped into an anime world. Players will experience fast-paced battle mechanics while utilizing a unique Slot System that powers up a particular “slot” instead of a specific character.
Established in Korea in 2000, Netmarble Corporation is a leading developer and publisher of top-grossing mobile games worldwide. Through powerful franchises and collaborations with acclaimed IP holders, Netmarble strives to elevate the gaming experience and entertain audiences globally. As a parent company of Kabam and SpinX Games, and a major shareholder of Jam City and HYBE (formerly Big Hit Entertainment), Netmarble’s diverse portfolio includes Solo Leveling: ARISE, Seven Knights Idle Adventure, Tower of God: New World, Lineage 2: Revolution, MARVEL Future Fight, Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds and The Seven Deadly Sins: Grand Cross. More information can be found at http://company.netmarble.com.
A FRESH WAVE OF VR ACTION GAMES STAR AT THE INAUGURAL VR GAMES SHOWCASE
6PM BST, 15 August 2024 – VR specialists nDreams came out guns blazing with three new trailers at the inaugural VR Games Showcase, headlined by rapid-fire action shooter VENDETTA FOREVER. An unapologetic love letter to cult action cinema with a bespoke LO-KILL-MOTION traversal mechanic, a free five-level demo is available on the Meta Quest Store now. nDreams also announced Early Access for chaotic multiplayer shooter FRENZIES with a fresh trailer, as well as revealing that the award-winning Fracked will come to Meta Quest platforms for the first time this month.
The ultimate homage to classic action cinema, VENDETTA FOREVER fuses rapid-fire tactical gunplay with effortless acrobatic style. It takes everything beloved about top-tier VR action, jettisons the dull stuff, and lets players cut to the good part for 100% uncut gunplay purity.
VENDETTA FOREVER is powered by the all-new LO-KILL-MOTION system. Players shoot to kill and kill to move – dispatching foes, then acrobatically grabbing their weapon as you zip forward to progress. Rampaging through the maze-like arenas becomes a strategic dance of gunplay and improvised weaponry, with each takedown taking players closer to the finish line.
There are collectibles to discover, game-changing modifiers to try out, and online leaderboards to dominate. From raucous saloon shoot-outs to high-tech hijackings, each moment across VENDETTA FOREVER’s 60+ unique levels is a chance to live your action movie power fantasy, all set to a pounding synthetic soundtrack.
VENDETTA FOREVER is coming to Meta Quest 2, 3, Pro and PlayStation VR2 in October 2024, with a free five-level demo available right now on the Meta Quest Store. The game can now be wishlisted and pre-ordered on both Meta Quest and PlayStation Stores. Players preordering on Quest will get an exclusive preorder bonus level, while PlayStation Plus subscribers get 10% off the PS VR2 version.
nDreams revealed that neon-soaked multiplayer shooter FRENZIES will be available for public, free-to-play Early Access on Meta Quest in October, following the conclusion of its Closed Alpha testing phase.
Developed by Near Light: an nDreams Studio, FRENZIES builds upon the award-winning gunplay of Fracked and Synapse, bringing multiplayer mayhem into the mix with a variety of chaotic round types. The brand new FRENZIES trailer offers a first look at a selection of these round types, including Glitter Pig, Red Light Green Light and Medic!.
FRENZIES Early Access begins on Meta Quest in October 2024 at the completion of the Closed Alpha, which is ongoing. Players eager to check out FRENZIES before October can find out more by following the game’s dedicated X channel and joining the FRENZIESDiscord.
It’s the end of the fracking world this month, as Fracked comes to Meta Quest for the first time. First launched in 2021 for PlayStation VR, nDreams’ award-winning VR shooter Fracked sees players stranded in a remote mountain facility, dodging bullets in relentless run-and-cover gunfights, and defending the planet in a final stand against a legion of interdimensional enemies.
Its sumptuous shooting proved the foundation for other nDreams titles such as Synapse and FRENZIES, and it will now be playable for the first time by the Meta Quest community.
Fracked launches on Meta Quest 2, 3 and Pro on 29 August 2024.
About nDreams
nDreams is the world’s biggest and most experienced VR game developer and publisher. Headquartered in Farnborough, UK, it is the studio behind groundbreaking titles including FRENZIES, Synapse, Fracked, Phantom: Covert Ops, Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord and Far Cry: Dive Into Insanity. nDreams also boasts a dedicated and extremely experienced publishing team to partner with the industry’s brightest developers on projects ranging from the cozy city creator Little Cities to the frenetic shooter VENDETTA FOREVER.
Fully dedicated to VR games since 2013, no publisher has greater virtual reality experience and specialism. nDreams is now comprised of 250 people across four development teams, with two fully-remote studios – Elevation and Orbital – joining the original nDreams Studio and the Brighton-based Near Light to cover the whole spectrum of VR gaming. Multiple exciting, unannounced titles are in development, with more to be revealed soon.
