SPLIT-SCREEN, NEW ENDINGS & MODS – OH MY! – Console & Mac Versions Coming in October, Steam Publisher Sale On Now

DUBLIN — Sept. 5, 2024 –Larian Studios is proud to announce that Baldur’s Gate 3’s latest patch is now available on PC, with console and Mac versions arriving in October! Today’s update is a big one, bringing brand-new Evil Endings, revamped split-screen gameplay, and our very own official modding toolkit.

Patch 7’s contents bring something for everyone! Whether it’s multiplayer, mutations or mutilations, we reckon we’ve got you covered. Highlights include:

• New ‘Evil Endings’: Brand-new cinematic endings for your most villainous playthroughs, as well as unique endings if playing an Origin Character.
• Our Very Own Mod Manager: Browse, install, and use mods created by the community!
• Revamped Split-Screen Gameplay: Dynamic split-screen is now available for multiplayer! When playing split-screen, each side will merge when you near each other and split back up as you head off on your own adventures.

Patch 7: Quite a Meaty Buffet

Following a successful period in closed beta, the launch of today’s modding toolkit marks a key moment for Baldur’s Gate 3, as the community becomes empowered to unleash their full creativity upon the Sword Coast – what could possibly go wrong? Players will now be able to access a range of new mods from within the game, and even try their hands at making some themselves. A full modding Q&A can be found at https://mod.io/g/baldursgate3/r/modding-guidelines.

Today’s patch also adds improvements to Honour Mode, including new Legendary Actions, as well as numerous bug fixes for Origin Character and Dark Urge playthroughs. There may even be a way for a certain Tiefling bard to join the party…for a time. Just don’t get too attached. Full patch notes for Patch 7 can be found on Steam.

Finally, to celebrate Baldur’s Gate 3’s first anniversary and commemorate all the nat 20s rolled across numerous adventures, the game is now on sale on Steam at its highest ever discount of 20% off until September 9. More information can be found at https://store.steampowered.com/app/1086940/Baldurs_Gate_3.

Baldur’s Gate 3 is out now on PC, Mac, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S.

About Larian Studios

Larian Studios is an independent RPG developer founded in 1996 in Ghent, Belgium. Over 400 people work between worldwide studios in Ghent, Quebec, Dublin, Guildford, Malaysia, Barcelona and Warsaw. Larian is best known for the Divinity universe, which they introduced to the world with Divine Divinity in 2002, and Baldur’s Gate 3.

In 2014, Larian launched Divinity: Original Sin, a classic CRPG that won over 150 awards and nominations. The company released its critically acclaimed sequel Divinity: Original Sin 2 on Sept. 14, 2017, followed by the Definitive Edition in August 2018 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One to a 93 Metacritic rating. The Nintendo Switch version released in September 2019 featuring cross-save progression between Nintendo Switch and Steam. Divinity: Original Sin 2 won a BAFTA for Best Multiplayer Game. On Aug. 3, 2023, Larian Studios released Baldur’s Gate 3 on PC. On Sept. 6, 2023, Baldur’s Gate 3 was released on PS5. On Dec. 7, 2023, Baldur’s Gate 3 released for Xbox Series X|S. Baldur’s Gate 3 has won over 200 Game of the Year Awards, including the five major trophies from the BAFTA Game Awards, Golden Joysticks, Game Developers Choice, DICE, and The Game Awards.

Position yourself and attack at the right time, upgrade your tiles and combo them to get ready to face the Shogun! Set in a Japanese-inspired universe, every action counts in Shogun Showdown!

THIONVILLE, France – Sept. 5, 2024 – Italian solo developer Roboatino and French publisher Goblinz Publishing are proud to announce that that Shogun Showdown version 1.0 is out today on Steam, GOG, Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S at a price of 14.99 EUR|USD. 

Shogun Showdown is an innovative turn-based combat game with rogue-like and deck-building elements set in a pixel-art Japanese-inspired universe. After 14 months on Steam Early Access, the title has garnered more than 2300 reviews on Steam averaging a user score of 96%, players have praised the game’s fair and challenging game design, satisfying mechanics, variety of situations and the beautiful pixel art visuals full of personality.

KEY FEATURES

• Turn-based combat where every action counts. Carefully position yourself, build up and unleash your attacks at the right time!
• Upgrade your attack tiles and combo them!
• Gain new skills and build the best deck you can before facing the Shogun.
• Rogue-like: death is not the end, but the beginning of your journey towards mastery. As you play, you will unlock new characters, attacks, skills and more!

NEW CONTENT ADDED IN VERSION 1.0

• New location (Ieyasu’s garden) & new boss (Ieyasu the Patient)
• Day 7: New elite enemy type (Corrupted) and new enemy (Corrupted progeny), True final boss after Shogun fight: the Corrupted Soul
• Lore: Small cut scenes after you defeat a new Day for the first time (can also be accessed from the main menu: Other -> Endings). Reworked a lot of boss barks and descriptions
• 7 New Skills (Rogue Retail, Seiryu’s Scale, Fenghuangs’s Feather, Two-Faced Dancer, Overflow Guard, Chilling Combo, Odd Curse)
• 6 New Quests
• 7 New Tiles (Hookblade, Nagiboku, Sharp Turn, Ki Push, Thorns, Back-Smoke Bomb, Chakram)
• New Hero: Chain Master
• New “Stats” page in camp Archive

About Roboatino

Mirko, AKA Roboatino, is an indie game developer based in the Netherlands. Currently, he’s developing his first game, ‘Shogun Showdown’, a tactical roguelike. A fan of metroidvanias and roguelikes, he hopes to continue creating games and exploring new genres.

About Goblinz Publishing

Goblinz is an indie game developer and publisher based in France specializing in strategy and management games. The studio’s first title Dungeon Rushers debuted in 2016. Following the game’s successful launch, the studio followed up with Robothorium, released in 2018 and has since worked on numerous other titles such as Legend of Keepers, Terraformers, Hero’s Hour, and more. For more information please visit: https://goblinzstudio.com/

‘Reverse: 1999’ Announces its First Anniversary Livestream with voice actors of beloved characters

Hong Kong, 5th September 2024: Bluepoch is excited today to announce plans to celebrate Reverse: 1999’s upcoming first-anniversary update – Version 1.9, also known as “Vereinsamt” – with a special live stream program to introduce the game’s fresh new content.

Excitingly, said live stream will be hosted by Regulus voice actor Carina Reeves and Sonetto voice actor Rae Lim and will start on Sep. 7th at 8:00 AM UTC-5/2:00 PM BST/3:00 PM CEST/9:00 AM EST/6:00 AM PST. 

Reverse: 1999’s official Twitter account will also host a ‘What If There Were No ”Storm” In this World’ event to run alongside the live stream. Players who participate in the event will also be able to win a smart new Merch Box and additional rewards.

Download Reverse: 1999 now on the App Store, Google Play, and the official Reverse: 1999 website.

About Bluepoch Games

Established in 2020, Bluepoch is an ambitious, passionate and globally-focused company. Our team has committed itself to exploring the vast potential of anime through the creation of dreamlike, immersive, and heartfelt games. Our imagination is as infinite as the starry universe.

PARIS — Sept. 5, 2024 — BlackMill Games, the studio behind the WW1 Game Series, is proud to announce that more content arrives today in Isonzo, the latest entry in the series taking place on the Italian Front. Wage battles on a new, free map set in the burning woodlands of Montello Hill, master new weapons and outfit your character with new premium DLC.

Fight amidst fire in the new Montello map

The free “Montello” update introduces an exciting new map for players, inspired by the Second Battle of the Piave River, which occurred in June 1918. Also known as the Battle of the Solstice, this event saw Austro-Hungarian and Italian forces clash for control of Montello Hill and the surrounding region. As the last major Austro-Hungarian offensive on the Italian Front during WW1, it holds a key place in the conflict’s history, now brought to life in Isonzo.

Fight across shelled farms, burning woodlands, ruined villages and narrow trenches as you advance on this new battlefield, making strategic decisions with your team along the way. To help you in this endeavor, two new weapons have been made available for Austro-Hungarian soldiers: the infamous Mosin Nagant rifle – available in-game as the M.91 Russisches Repetier-Gewehr – and the Schwerhandgranate fragmentation grenade.

For victory, whatever the cost may be!

In addition to this new expansion, players can also purchase a new premium DLC: the “Shellshocked Units Pack.” Inspired by the exhausting and unforgiving nature of war, it features injured and weary Italian and Austro-Hungarian troops not typically depicted on propaganda posters. From torn clothing and improvised equipment to stripped down uniforms and makeshift head accessories, soldiers can now convey the true cost of the Great War.

Find the perfect edition for you

Today also marks the release of the First Wave Edition of Isonzo, a new edition of the game with over 140 cosmetic items featured in the previously released First Wave of DLC: “Elite Units,” “Veteran Units,” “Reserve Units,” and “Alpine Units.” It’s the perfect way to get into Isonzo! For the complete Isonzo experience, the Ultimate Edition, gathering all paid DLC — hundreds of items in total —  is also available on PC and consoles.

Isonzo and the free “Montello” expansion are now available on Steam, PlayStation 5 & 4, Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One with Xbox Game Pass, and the Epic Games Store. Get the game, its various editions and DLCs up to 67% off for a limited time.

About the WW1 Game Series and BlackMill Games

BlackMill Games brings history to life in video games. Every project is carefully researched to provide authentic details combined with compelling gameplay within a historical setting. It co-founded the WW1 Game Series, including three authentic squad-based WW1 FPS games with Verdun, Tannenberg, and Isonzo. The series has gathered more than two million players, highlighting the appeal of this underserved setting.

Hand-off to consoles planned for Spring 2025

Walnut Creek, Calif. (Sept. 5, 2024) – Maximum Entertainment today announced that Maximum Football is touching down into Steam Early Access starting Nov. 7, with PlayStation and Xbox releases following shortly after in Spring 2025: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1691280/Maximum_Football/ 

Today’s release date reveal was accompanied by a trailer showcasing the gritty, physics-based gameplay that awaits players on the field when Maximum Football launches:

In Early Access players will have a variety of multiplayer and singleplayer modes to experience a realistic and customizable gridiron experience, but that’s just the beginning. More modes will follow shortly including Franchise (professional football) and Career Mode, with much more planned over the coming months and years as Maximum Football continues to evolve. Maximum Entertainment encourages the community to provide feedback and input via the official Maximum Football Discord and X to assist in creating the best football game possible based on what players want.

Confirmed Early Access Game Modes:

• Exhibition Mode
• Offline vs. AI – (1 vs. 1)
• Multiplayer – (1 vs. 1)
• Spectate (AI vs. AI)
• Dynasty Mode (Singleplayer college football)
• Practice Mode
• Player Customization System
• Maximum Pro League

A celebration of the world’s most exhilarating sport, Maximum Football is built from the ground up to authentically deliver realistic, physics-based action. Every tackle, pass, block and catch relies on a lifelike physics engine to determine the outcome, empowering each play to occur in a different way every time it’s run. Maximum Football’s immersive physics ensure on-field action progresses as it would in real life.

Maximum Football will be launching into Steam Early Access on Nov. 7, with a console release planned for Spring 2025.

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About Maximum Entertainment 

Maximum Entertainment is a global entertainment company dedicated to crafting indie to AA video game experiences through original content and licensed partnerships. A fully integrated group with a broad portfolio of content, the company emphasizes collaboration and inclusivity in its partnerships to produce the highest level of interactive entertainment. With more than 300 titles in its catalog, Maximum Entertainment has joined forces with talented creators and renowned franchises around the globe to deliver magic to the gamer in everyone. Maximum Entertainment employs experienced professionals across the entire value chain of video games including development, publishing, transmedia, sales, and operations. Visit Maximum Entertainment at www.maximument.com.

Enjoy a greener side of life with the Melvor Active activation alongside Green Game Jam 2024 this September

Thursday, 5th September 2024, Cambridge, UK. Jagex and Games by Malcs are thrilled to announce that cosy incremental game Melvor Idle will be joining the lineup for the 5th Edition of Green Game Jam, a flagship initiative organised by the Playing for the Planet Alliance to promote action-led environmental changes.

Melvor Idle is a RuneScape-inspired idle/incremental game with feature-rich mechanics and a heightened player experience at the centre. In celebration of Green Game Jam 2024, Melvor Idle will commemorate the event with Melvor Active, a real-world activity that highlights three specific skills to encourage positive change and more sustainable lifelong habits for all players which launched on Monday 9th September. 

Carve out a more sustainable life with three key themes: Food, Waste, and Restoration. These tie-in to Melvor Idle’s in-game skills in Farming, Cooking, and Crafting. Each week from September 9th to September 30th, one of these skills will be highlighted to encourage Melvor Idle fans to engage with more positive habits that benefit living more sustainably in real life. 

Harvest scraps of food for composting, collect seeds from cooking to regrow produce, and try new recipes inspired by those in Melvor Idle, using crafting to create items and recycle old materials into something new. Research has shown that small, incremental changes motivate people to continue to do more when it comes to climate action. Melvor Idle will lean into this learning by using a continuous cycle and encourage participants to make small alterations that lead to real change. 

Melvor Active will feature in Melvor Idle alongside Green Game Jam 2024 from September 9th to September 30th. Players are encouraged to share their participation on social media, tagging #GreenGameJam and using a series of themed stickers to decorate their photos.

Melvor Idle is available now on Steam, iOS and Android. For more information, visit jagex.com.

About Jagex

A leader in creating deep and engaging forever games that empower our communities across PC, mobile and consoles. Jagex’s flagship MMORPG, RuneScape, has welcomed over 300 million player accounts to its world and is a $1billion + lifetime revenue franchise. Today the RuneScape franchise exists beyond live operations; our titles are forever games that connect and inspire millions of players, with content and experiences both inside and outside of inexhaustible game worlds. Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, on PC and mobile, offer ever-evolving, highly active worlds and our community-focussed development ethos empowers players to have a real say in how each game is shaped.
 
In 2022, Jagex expanded with the acquisitions of PipeWorks and Gamepires, bringing its expertise in building forever games to SCUM, a multi-million selling open-world survival title in Steam Early Access & other unannounced titles. Jagex employs more than 600 people globally, and is headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
 

Playing for the Planet

The Playing for the Planet Alliance is a membership-based initiative that supports the video games industry to reduce its environmental impact. Founded in 2019 at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York, the initiative is facilitated with the support of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

There are currently 50 members of the Alliance. In joining, these companies make specific and measurable commitments that range from committing to net-zero carbon emissions in line with the Paris Agreement, to integrating green messaging into their games.

The initiative is designed to help those active in the games industry to start their sustainability journey and to level up those already on it. The Alliance produces year-on-year reports on progress while providing resources, research, and guidance to help them meet their goals. In doing so, Playing for the Planet aims to lead by example to the wider games and screen industries. 

Green Game Jam

The Green Game Jam is an annual challenge for studios with live games and existing audiences to build ‘green activations’ that engage their players on particular environmental topics. Green activations are new features implemented either in the game or through the ‘metagame’ space, such as social channels or in-person events. They can include new modes, maps, themed events, storylines and other creative ways to make players aware of environmental topics. 

The goal of the Green Game Jam is to harness the reach and cultural power of video games to engage people all over the world on these issues. Focusing our efforts each year on a dedicated environmental theme, we show our ever-growing participant list that the mission of education, awareness and mobilization for the environment can go hand in hand with making great games.

Release date unveiled in new trailer for retro-inspired arcade rally racer showing off crazy courses, online battles and more

Los Angeles, CA – September 5th 2024 – Solo-dev Walaber is pleased to announce that Parking Garage Rally Circuit will be coming to PC on September 20th, ahead of a potential Switch and Sega Saturn release in the future. A new release date trailer offers a look at the arcade racer where you drift around parking garages using tight controls and chainable Mario Kart-style boosts. If the game sells 50,000 copies, it will be making its way to Switch in the future and, if it sells 100,000, it will also get a Sega Saturn version!

The “Parking Garage Rally Circuit” tour takes you to parking garages across the US, transformed into race courses (and occasionally beset by the odd falling rock or lighting strike, but don’t worry about that). Designed to look, feel and sound like a lost Sega Saturn game that could have been released in 1998, Parking Garage Rally Circuit delivers delightfully fun time trial racing that’s easy to pick up and play but requires skill to master as you unlock new car classes and compete to top the leaderboards.

Parking Garage Rally Circuit features 8 tracks for you to unlock, along with three progressively harder car classes to race with. As you refine your times by mastering the game’s effortless and compelling drifting system, the game will pull in ever tougher ghosts based on the runs of other players on the leaderboards for you to compete against, always giving you a new challenge to aim for.

If that’s not enough for you, you can also head online to create and join lobbies of up to 8 players and race on any track, with any car class, gaining points after each race. The game will also feature an arcade-style ‘Endurance’ mode where you keep doing laps until you run out of time, with each checkpoint adding a diminishing amount of time. There are also cheat codes in the game for players to discover and unlock fun modifiers, as well as special cars and tracks.

The game also features an amazing original soundtrack composed by The Holophonics, which will be available for purchase on Steam, as well as all major music streaming services once the game launches.

“I’m really excited to release Parking Garage Rally Circuit on PC on September 20th,” said Tim FitzRandolph, the solo dev behind the Walaber name. “This game started as a fun little game jam inspired by my affection for the Sega Saturn, but it has had such a great response from people and has grown into something far bigger. I hope people have as much fun playing it as I have had developing it!”

About Walaber

A lifelong and constant creator, Tim found his calling in game development.  Tim got his start in the games industry at Disney, creating the company’s biggest early App Store successes “JellyCar” and “Where’s My Water?”. Tim is now a full-time independent creator, releasing solo games under the name “Walaber” (Pro Gymnast Simulator, JellyCar), and is also half of the two-person game company “Toyful Games” (Very Very Valet).

Get fit and have fun with Hatsune Miku and your favoritePiapro Characters!

Torrance, Calif. — September 5, 2024 — Get off the couch and start moving with Fitness Boxing feat. HATSUNE MIKU, available now forNintendo Switch™. Partner up with Hatsune Miku, and duck, jab, and punch your way to fitness in the classic Fitness Boxing Mode, or in the brand new “Miku Exercise” mode featuring original songs from your favorite Piapro Characters!

Fitness Boxing feat. HATSUME MIKU supports the players in their daily exercise by offering a wide range of warm up options, difficulty settings, and ability to practice individual moves. Regular instructors Lin and Evan from the series also join the fun. All the exercise support features of Fitness Boxing, such as daily stamps that record your exercise history and the goal management system, remain the same, now with Hatsune Miku guiding you along your fitness journey!

The game contains 24 classic songs, such as “Melt” and “The Vampire” with new special songs also added to the mix, like the game’s main theme, “Let’s Mikusercise!!” by cosMo@Bousou-P. Additionally, there are over 30 BGM songs from the Fitness Boxing series, making the total number of songs in this entry the largest in the series to date! 

Key features of the game include:

• Train alongside your favorite Piapro characters. Hatsune Miku, Kagamine Rin, Kagamine Len, and Megurine Luka all join in to help you get fit.
• Experience 24 classic Piapro songs and new special songs to work out to.
• Instructors Lin and Evan from the Fitness Boxing series will support you on your journey.
• Jump into the classic Fitness Boxing mode, or try the all new “Miku Exercise” mode, and work out to original songs from your favorite Piapro Characters.
• Enjoy original sporty outfits drawn by Iwato especially for this title for your Piapro training partners.
• Pass a Joy-Con™ controller to an exercise buddy and get fit together with both the classic Fitness Boxing mode and “Miku Exercise.”

Fans can expect more exciting content for Fitness Boxing feat. HATSUNE MIKU in the coming weeks, including:

• Miku Exercise Editor (Sept 19, $9.99)
• Exercise BGM Pack Vol.1 (Sept 26, $4.99)
• Exercise BGM Pack Vol.2 (Oct 3, $4.99)
• Additional Costume Sakura Miku (Oct 10, $4.99)

Fitness Boxing feat. HATSUNE MIKU has been rated “E for Everyone” by the ESRB. For more information, visit the Aksys Games website. To stay up to date on all the news, follow Aksys Games on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok at @AksysGames, and join our Thursday livestreams on Twitch at AksysGames, with stream highlights and trailers on our YouTube channel.

About Aksys Games

Aksys Games Localization, Inc. is a Metacritic Top Ten video game publisher committed to publishing unique and high-quality interactive content for all current-generation platforms since 2006. The company was a pioneer in localizing otome games for Western audiences, including the award-winning Code: Realize and Collar X Malice series. Its lineup of games features the wildly successful BlazBlue, Under Night In-Birth, and Guilty Gear franchises, Little Dragons Café, and the award-winning Spirit Hunter: Death Mark and Spirit Hunter: NG adventures. Aksys Games and its unique products can be found on the company’s website, www.aksysgames.com.

TOKYO — 4 September, 2024 — BAN: The Prologue of GUCHA GUCHA, the third-person psychological horror adventure developed by IchimatsuSuzuka in Unreal Engine 5 and published by Kodansha Game Creators’ Lab, brings spine-chilling terror to PC via Steam on Wednesday, 23 October, 2024.

Encounter unsolved mysteries in the eerie Mt. Utaga-Yama as college student Garasu Yuki. After a strange creature assaults and kidnaps her beloved dog Chocolat, Yuki has only one lead: a slithering entity beneath the ground. To reunite with Chocolat, Yuki ventures into the dark depths of Mt. Utaga as night falls. Unveil the seemingly quiet town’s horrifying history while avoiding the monstrosities along the road.

As the story unfolds, the protagonist shifts to a young boy carrying his little sister through endless, identical corridors. Dodge the lethal attacks of a blood-soaked pursuer wielding a Japanese sword while searching for an escape route. As the clock winds down, help the boy and his sister navigate a way out for even the slimmest chance at survival.

IchimatsuSuzuka, a veteran developer renowned for his works on GOHOME and 夜詛YASO curse of soirée, has garnered over 95 million views on YouTube. To celebrate the upcoming launch of BAN: The Prologue of GUCHA GUCHA, renowned horror manga artist Suehiro Maruo today reveals a gorgeously chaotic key visual. 

“BAN: The Prologue of GUCHA GUCHA presents an unearthly experience that can tear your heart into pieces,” said IchimatsuSuzuka, the creator of the title. “As an avid horror enjoyer, I always wanted to create games that evoke the deepest fears, and I can’t wait to see fans of fear explore our creepy world!”

BAN: The Prologue of GUCHA GUCHA arrives on PC via Steam on 23 October, 2024. It will support English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Korean. To learn more, check out the YouTube channel, and follow IchimatsuSuzuka and Kodansha Creators’ Lab on Twitter/X.

About Kodansha Game Creator’s Lab

Established in 2021, Kodansha Game Creator’s Lab is the fourth department of the prestigious entertainment publishing company Kodansha Ltd., founded in 1909. Its motto is “Everything for the creator,” reflecting the company’s goal to support young talents and introduce indie creators to the wider public.

About Ryu’s Office

Ryu’s Office offers in-depth marketing solutions for smartphone, console, arcade, and PC games in Japan. The team particularly focuses on the planning and production of numerous live broadcasts based out of Japan for the gaming industry.