PARIS – Feb. 21, 2024 – Get ready to embark on a thrilling scientific odyssey! Expeditions: A MudRunner Game, the latest creation from Saber Interactive, the renowned studio behind MudRunner and SnowRunner, has revealed its new action-packed “Runners of the Lost Ark” trailer, paying tribute to legendary tales of exploration and adventure all around the world. It’s the perfect way to pack your bag for Expeditions‘ arrival on March 5, 2024, on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC.
Feel the excitement of a journey filled with gripping moments and spectacular sceneries. Become a famous explorer, trading a whip for a winch and a hat for a roof rack. In a pitiless wilderness, you’ll have to avoid traps, look danger straight in the eye, and discover all the secrets of a vast, thrilling world.
Your itinerary, your odyssey
You’re not alone in the face of sharp cliffs and muddy terrain, as you can always count on your trusty equipment. Whip out incredible tools and make your way through gorgeous landscapes. Whether you’re defying the laws of physics with your winch, conquering the biggest precipices with a self-deploying bridge, or scouting a path with your drone, you and your gadgets will form an unbeatable team. Drive until the sun sets and make every horizon an adventure.
ELDEN RING Shadow of the Erdtree is offering different versions for the millions of Tarnished who took on the original as well as new players, who will need the base game to play. The following editions are now available for preorder; unless noted otherwise below, the base game is not included with purchase.
Watch the first trailer for ELDEN RING Shadow of the Erdtree below:
Base Editions
ELDEN RING Shadow of the Erdtree – the standard version of the expansion, available digitally on all platforms.
ELDEN RING Shadow of the Erdtree Edition – Special packaged bundle including the ELDEN RING base game (disc) and the ELDEN RING Shadow of the Erdtree expansion (digital); physical retail versions are available only for PlayStation®5 and Xbox Series X|S; available digitally on all platforms.
Premium Editions
Premium Bundle – includes the ELDEN RING Shadow of the Erdtree expansion and comes with digital art book and digital soundtrack bonus content for the expansion. Available digitally on all platforms.
Deluxe Edition – includes the ELDEN RING base game, the ELDEN RING Shadow of the Erdtree expansion, and comes with digital art books and digital soundtracks for both the base game and the expansion. Available digitally on all platforms.
Collector’s Edition (Limited Quantity)
ELDEN RING Shadow of the Erdtree Collector’s Edition – includes a single voucher code of the selected platform for the ELDEN RING Shadow of the Erdtree expansion and comes with a (46cm) statue of “Messmer the Impaler,” 40-page physical art book, and digital soundtrack. Quantities of the ELDEN RING Shadow of the Erdtree Collector’s Edition are limited.
Available only in the Bandai Namco Entertainment Store in very limited quantities, pre-orders are now available for the ELDEN RING Shadow of the Erdtree Helmetof Messmer the Impaler.This exclusive item includes a one-of-a-kind display piece made for the most discerning, distinguished, and dripped out Tarnished. This 1:1 elaborate replica helmet of the imposing Messmer the Impaler is crafted with precise detail and comes with a numbered certificate of authenticity. This item is available only while supplies last and will ship timed with the expansion launch on June 21. This is a collectible item only and does not include any game content.
More will be revealed about the ELDEN RINGShadow of the Erdtree expansion closer to launch, be sure to stay up to date with the latest information by following the game’s social media or by checking out the Official Website.
Bandai Namco Europe S.A.S. is a leading global publisher and developer of entertainment content for platforms including, but not limited to, all major video game consoles and PC.
Bandai Namco Europe is producing intellectual property for a global audience and is building its reputation with franchises such as LITTLE NIGHTMARES™, PARK BEYOND™, and the upcoming UNKNOWN 9™ Awakening – developed by the recently acquired Reflector Entertainment based in Montreal, QC.
Bandai Namco Europe serves as the Headquarters of Bandai Namco Holdings Inc. for mainland Europe, which is known for creating and publishing many of the Toy & Entertainment industry’s top franchises, including PAC-MAN™, TAMAGOTCHI™, GUNDAM™, TEKKEN™, DARK SOULS™ and the recently released ELDEN RING™.
London (February 21, 2024) – Today during the latest Nintendo Showcase, Capcom announced that Monster Hunter Stories™ is riding to new realms. The turn-based role-playing game will be launching on Nintendo Switch™, PlayStation®4, and PC via Steam this Summer!
Embark on a journey into a colorful world where mighty monsters roam and people make a living by hunting them. Nestled within this land lies a hidden village where the locals follow a different set of customs. Here, Monster Riders form bonds with Monsties instead of hunting them. Unlike Hunters, Riders forge bonds and harness the power of kinships stones, allowing them to explore the vast and exhilarating realm together. Fight together in thrilling battles, hatch Monstie eggs, and customise your companion to suit your style.
Ready your gear and prepare for an epic ride, Monster Hunter Stories will also be getting new features and enhancements in this release:
Refined Graphics: Originally released on the Nintendo 3DS™, players can now experience riding Monsties in stunning detail on larger screens, enhanced with improved modeling, textures, and lighting in high definition.
Now Fully Voiced: Immerse yourself in the adventure with full Japanese and English voiceovers.
Additional Language Support:Monster Hunter Stories will have additional language support, newly featuring Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Korean, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, and Arabic.
Museum mode: Delve deeper into the world of Monster Hunter Stories through the newly added Museum mode, featuring the game’s background music and developer sketches.
Included Title Updates (TU): Previously only available in Japan, players can now enjoy title updates, unlocking content from TU 1.20 and TU 1.30.
About Capcom
Capcom is a leading worldwide developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment for game consoles, PCs, handheld and wireless devices. Founded in 1983, the company has created hundreds of games, including groundbreaking franchises Resident Evil™, Monster Hunter™, Street Fighter™, Mega Man™, Devil May Cry™ and Ace Attorney™. Capcom maintains operations in the U.S., U.K., Germany, France, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Tokyo, with corporate headquarters located in Osaka, Japan. More information about Capcom and its products can be found at www.capcom.com or news.capcomusa.com.
Capcom, and the Capcom logo are registered trademarks of Capcom Co., Ltd. in the U.S. or other countries. Ace Attorney, Devil May Cry, Mega Man, Monster Hunter, Resident Evil and Street Fighter are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Capcom Co., Ltd. and/or its subsidiaries, in the U.S. and/or other countries. All other trademarks and trade names are the property of their respective owners.
Return to the galaxy’s front lines and lead the assault on massive 64-player battlefields, available to pre-order today!
AUSTIN, Texas — Feb. 21, 2024 — During today’s Nintendo Direct, Aspyr and Lucasfilm Games revealed the Star Wars™: Battlefront Classic Collection, launching March 14, 2024, on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC via Steam for $35.01. This new title brings the original Star Wars™ Battlefront (2004) and Star Wars™ Battlefront II (2005) games to modern platforms with online play for up to 64 players, expansions to Hero Assault mode, and all previously released bonus content. Steam users will also enjoy Steam Deck support.
It’s time to relive intense battles from the Star Wars™ galaxy in the Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection. Jump into thrilling firefights across massive battlefields on the ground, in the air, and in space as the Empire, Rebellion, Republic, and the Separatist Alliance. Choose an array of unique classes, pilot a multitude of vehicles, and play as iconic heroes and villains from multiple eras of the saga in solo, local, and online play.
Product Description
Fight in Iconic Battles from Across the Star Wars Galaxy
Play the classic Star Wars Battlefront games on modern consoles, online and offline, in this complete classic collection.
This Classic Collection includes:
Star WarsBattlefront (2004)
Includes Bonus Map: Jabba’s Palace
Star WarsBattlefront II (2005)
Includes Bonus Maps: Bespin: Cloud City, Rhen Var: Harbor, Rhen Var: Citadel, and Yavin 4: Arena
Includes Bonus Heroes: Asajj Ventress & Kit Fisto
Key Features
Traverse the Galaxy in Campaign Mode & Galactic Conquest
Galactic Conquest: Devise your strategy, recruit your troops, and execute your tactical vision for conquering the galaxy
Star Wars Battlefront Campaign: Experience iconic battles from Star Wars: The Phantom Menace™ through Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
Star Wars Battlefront II Campaign: Join the rise of Darth Vader’s elite 501st Legion of Stormtroopers
Massive Locations with Up to 64-player Online Support
Fight on the Ground: Wookiee Warriors, Jet Troopers, Droidekas and more in massive multiplayer action
Drive Iconic Vehicles: Speeder Bikes, AT-STs, AT-RTs, and more in offensive and defensive battles
Pilot Legendary Starships: TIE fighters, X-wings, and more in space and air dogfights
Expanded Hero Assault
For the first time ever, Hero Assault is playable on all ground maps, including Death Star, Kashyyyk, Kamino, and Naboo
Fight with Heroes: Mace Windu, Yoda, Luke Skywalker, and many others!
Battle with Villains: Darth Maul, General Grievous, Darth Vader, and many more!
Star Wars™: Battlefront Classic Collection launches March 14, 2024, on PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam for $35.01 and is available to pre-order on digital storefronts today with a 10% discount. Owners of either the original Star Wars™ Battlefront (2004) or Star Wars™ Battlefront II (2005) games on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One or Steam will get a loyalty discount of 20% on their respective platforms during the pre-order period.
About Aspyr
Aspyr is a leading video game publishing and development partner focused on maximizing the potential of games across all platforms for all players. Today, the company supports a growing network of partners that includes many of the industry’s leading entertainment IP holders, publishers, developers, and technology providers. Aspyr is a standalone entity under Saber Interactive, an Embracer Group company. Aspyr is based in Austin, Texas. For more information, visit www.aspyr.com.
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Decades after the Rain of Death, a new journey begins in the Land of Fumes, where mystical powers lie beneath the earth. The kingdom’s desire for conquest led to the creation of the Homunculi, machine-like artificial life forms prepared to execute the king’s will. A recent resource-harvesting mission gone awry caused toxic vapors to emerge from underground, driving both man and machine to feral madness.
As the Homonculi devolve into dangerous creatures, guide Lilac –- an “Attuner” with the power to purify those infected by the fumes — on a quest to save the kingdom. With the help of friendly machines and spirits who fight in Lilac’s stead, fend off mechanized legions of lunging carcasses, cannonball-firing corpses and chainsaw-wielding goblins terrorizing the land.
Turn foes into friends by exorcizing corruption from enemy bosses. Wield their powers to add 30 different abilities to Lilac’s combat repertoire in an enhanced battle system where she can equip up to four special abilities at once. Improve Lilac’s odds of surviving this hunt for lost memories by leveling up attack strength, HP, and armor.
Explore the depths, heights and far corners of the kingdom for lore-filled relics. Collect and trade gold for upgraded items at the Blacksmith’s storefront. Combine story fragments from the kingdom’s fleeing inhabitants with Lilac’s forgotten memories. Seek the truth in an atmospheric hand-drawn setting set to the soothing serenades of returning musical group Mili (Ghost in the Shell, Goblin Slayer) with a brand new original soundtrack available for purchase at launch.
“We teased a sequel to ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights nearly two years ago, and we have received countless requests from our online community for a second adventure,” says Hiroyuki Kobayashi, CEO, Binary Haze Interactive. “It is an honor and a pleasure to announce our next title with the help of Nintendo during such a prestigious event. We have much much to share in the very near future, stay tuned!”
ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in The Mist will arrive on Nintendo Switch in 2024 with language options in Japanese, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), and Korean-language support.
Binary Haze Interactive, founded in 2020 by Hiroyuki Kobayashi, is a production and publishing company located in Tokyo, Japan. Starting with ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights, Binary Haze publishes games with a focus on atmospheric settings for major consoles and PC.
Today, Minecraft announced it will be introducing Add-ons to the Minecraft Marketplace for Minecraft Bedrock edition.
Add-ons are like mods – they change the way that things in the game look and behave – and unlike a lot of other Marketplace content, they can be applied to your existing worlds. With Add-Ons, you can add custom blocks, items, mobs, recipes, and other game content to your worlds. For example, an Add-on might create a gravestone where a player dies, safely storing their items until broken, or add a portal that players can build to connect two points in the overworld. Add-ons can be applied to multiplayer worlds and Realms, and only the world owner needs to own the Add-on. In addition, we want to emphasise that players can continue installing non-Marketplace mods — We have no plans to remove the ability to sideload mods from popular third-party websites or mobile apps that are compliant with the Minecraft End-User License Agreement (EULA).
Think of this initial launch as a “snapshot” of what Add-ons will look like in the future – a preview meant to test them out and gather feedback from the community with more to come later this year.
For the full announcement, including a list of Add-ons that are available now in the Minecraft Marketplace, please see today’s Minecraft.net blog post.
Sydney, Australia – 21st February 2024: Publisher and developer GIANTS are excited to announce the release date for Farming Simulator Kids as the 26th of March. Farming Simulator Kids begins teaching the joys and importance of Farming on Nintendo Switch. GIANTS has also revealed the first gameplay trailer – cute animals included!
Watch the first gameplay trailer below:
Children start joyfully harvesting on the 26th of March on Nintendo Switch™
The first gameplay trailer offers a cute-looking preview of characters, animals & more
Available for pre-order soon – physical version includes a colouring book
First Gameplay Shows Animals & Characters
Farming Simulator Kids invites young players to live a cozy farm life – cute and colourful, with a variety of farming-related activities and various locations to explore. With the first gameplay trailer, GIANTS Software offers a glimpse into a day as an aspiring young farmer: gardening, planting and harvesting crops, milking cows, producing delicious products, and getting into the seat of a John Deere tractor. The renowned manufacturer was involved in the development of Farming Simulator Kids from the very beginning and is present with a variety of its iconic machinery.
Pre-orders will soon be available for the physical version of Farming Simulator Kids, which comes with a 12-page colouring book, allowing young agriculturists to paint tractors, horses, cows, and some neighbours they will meet and interact with in-game.
Farming Simulator Kids will be available from the 26th of March for Nintendo Switch.
About GIANTS Software
GIANTS Software is an international video game developer and publisher from Switzerland established in 2004 and known worldwide for creating the popular Farming Simulator series. The team with offices in Switzerland (Zurich), Germany (Erlangen), USA (Chicago) and Czech Republic (Brno) is very committed to maintain close contact to the agricultural industry and to engage with the community. For more information, please visit giants-software.com
About Farming Simulator
Since 2008, over 30 million units of Farming Simulator have been sold worldwide. The game series has been released on all popular platforms including consoles, mobile phones, tablets and PCs since then. From the start, the team enabled users to create mods with the company’s own GIANTS Engine. With the Farming Simulator League (FSL), the series introduced a competitive esports mode in 2019 – with teams competing in professional tournaments and many acclaimed brands and sponsors on board. More information available at farming-simulator.com
It’s time to build your lair, raise goblins and fight for their right to exist.
Manila, 21 February – Award-winning indie studio Orc Chop Games, has released a new trailer and announced that their Narrative turn-based RPG, Goblin Stone, will launch on Steam and Epic Games Store on 12 March for $24.99.
Watch the new Trailer below:
Developed by Orc Chop Games,Goblin Stoneis an epic turn-based RPG with roguelike elements, where players help goblins survive after being hunted to near extinction. They will assemble a merry party of goblins and navigate a treacherous path to survival, battling nefarious adventurers, pompous elves, and grumpy dwarfs, in a world brought to life through nostalgic, storybook-inspired hand-drawn visuals.
Goblin Stone’s heartwarming narrative blends with strategic gameplay as players venture through procedurally-generated adventures, where permanent death heightens the stakes. Players will also build a sprawling underground lair, from the barracks to the war room, where a goblin breeding system allows them to combine the best goblin genes, improve their attributes and customize their fighters for the battles ahead.
Goblin Stone is fully narrated by Scottish voice actorJames Smillie, with music from award-winning composerPeter McConnell known for his work on Hearthstone, Psychonauts and Monkey Island.
Players can choose through hundreds of combinations between Goblin classes, weapons, abilities, map traversal. The game has over 40 hours of gameplay, 60 different enemy types, over 150 fully illustrated story images and 25 Boss battles.
Goblin Stone will be released on PC via Steam and Epic Games on 12 March. More details about Goblin Stonecan be found here, and you can join an active. Goblin community on the Goblin Stone Discord here.
About Orc Chop Games
Initiated by an ambitious couple, Orc Chop Games is a self-funded indie game studio. We specialize in crafting ‘passion project’ games, where fervent creativity meets a twist of the unconventional. We blend the familiar with the unexpected, creating games that are not just engaging but memorable as well.
PlayStation Australia is excited to announce the PlayStation Pulse Elite™ wireless headset is now available for purchase in-store and online from authorised retailers in Australia. The headset is one of the first PlayStation audio devices to utilise studio-inspired planar magnetic drivers, to reproduce sound with near-perfect accuracy along the entire audible spectrum.
Enter a new era in gaming audio at home and on the go with the PlayStation Pulse Elite™ wireless headset and enjoy extraordinary lifelike sound in your favourite games with planar magnetic drivers, and hear every detail with a lossless and lightning-fast PlayStation Link™ wireless connection.
Immerse yourself in soundscapes packed full of rich, subtle details while deep bass lets you feel each epic in-game encounter. Enhance your perception in 3D Audio supported PS5® games as audio cues are positioned with an incredible degree of accuracy across all three dimensions.
The PlayStation Pulse Elite™ wireless headset is priced at $239.95 AUD RRP. A PlayStation Link USB Adapter is included with Pulse Elite, but is also available as a standalone purchase for $34.95 AUD RRP.
Check out this hands-on report of the PlayStation Pulse Elite™ wireless headset here.
