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Square Enix wants you to “Enter the Fray” in new Final Fantasy Type-0 trailer
Square Enix just released an awesome new trailer for Final Fantasy Type-0 to kick off Paris Games Week. It’s surprisingly violent, truly beautiful, and it looks like every YA novel I’ve ever loved. You get to play as teenagers with special magic abilities who are fighting against the aggressive country that has taken them over. I mean come on.
I, for one, cannot wait to control the fourteen students of Class Zero and fight against my oppressors. Final Fantasy Type-0 will be out on March 17, 2015 for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Pre-ordering the game also gives you access to a demo for Final Fantasy XV: Episode Duscae (when it’s available). So. Much. Final. Fantasy.
Posted in News, PS4, Xbox One
Tagged Final Fantasy Type-0, Final Fantasy XV
Xbox Store Today: Volgarr the Viking
Crazy Viking Studios has added Volgarr the Viking, their retro-styled side-scroller, to the Xbox Games Store for the Xbox One today. With it hand-drawn art and “high” difficulty level, Volgarr the Viking is meant to evoke the feeling of a lost NES/Super NES classic.
Volgarr the Viking ($9.99)
Remember when games were tough? Return to the Golden Age of arcades with an all-NEW hardcore action experience that pulls no punches. Volgarr the Viking possesses all the hallmarks of the true classics – simple controls, high challenge, and meticulous design – combined with hand-made pixel animation, an epic soundtrack, and buckets of blood. Flex your gaming muscles and step into the arena with Volgarr the Viking. We dare you.
As you can see, Volgarr the Viking has been priced at $9.99 for the Xbox One community. But if you’re an Xbox Live Gold subscriber, you can get it for free as part of Microsoft’s Games With Gold offer for November.
Daily Scoop: October 31, 2014 – Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween, everyone! What are you dressing up for this weekend? I’ll post some pictures of Anthony Amato and I next week. We’re excited to get dressed up this weekend!
There are some spooky sales happening over at the Humble Store! Action Henk is on sale for $6.69, Spooky Bonus is $2.49, and HassleHeart: I <3 Hearts is $3.49, among others. Check them out!
Over at Steam, Watch Dogs is the Weekend Deal, and it’s on sale for $35.99 (or you can get the deluxe edition for $41.99). The Daily Deal is Five Nights at Freddy’s, which is on sale for $2.49. It’s very appropriate for Halloween!
What are today’s t-shirts? Hit the jump to find out!
Posted in Daily Scoop, Etcetera, News
Tom Savini will bring the slasher genre to PC, PS4, Xbox One with Summer Camp
Tom Savini, the wizard of gore responsible for Dawn of the Dead and Friday the 13th, has teamed up with Gun Media to create Summer Camp, a splatter-themed game for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One. Wes Keltner, the founder of Gun Media, is heading up the project and he has also recruited Harry Manfredini, creator of the “Ch Ch, Ch, Chhh, Ah, Ah, Ah, Ahhh” sound from Friday the 13th, to compose the soundtrack.
“This is my love letter to the classic films of the slasher/splatter era,” said Wes Keltner, Founder and Creative Director of Gun Media. “I want that experience of being helpless, running for my life against an unstoppable killer. But I knew I needed help to do it right. Who else could I turn to for a campy, 80s slasher than the Sultan of Splatter, Tom Savini? His FX defined the splatter/slasher genre.”
Summer Camp will be a third-person survival horror game set within the spooky confines of Camp Forest Green (Easter Egg Alert! Camp Crystal Lake was known as Camp Forest Green in Friday the 13th Part VI). A masked killer is on the loose and players will take control of a teen counselor attempting to survive the night in the multiplayer game. Teaming up with five-to-seven additional counselors, players will work together to evade the killer. However, if you identify with Jason more than those naughty oversexed teens, you can also play as the killer and stalk your prey until the morning light.
Gun Media plans to create an entire series of games based on 80s-style splatter movies and Summer Camp is just the first entry in what they’re calling the “Slasher Series.”
Posted in News, PC, PS4, Xbox One
Tagged Friday the 13th
Shadow of the Eternals lives on at Quantum Entanglement Entertainment
Shadow of the Eternals, a spiritual successor to Eternal Darkness, was put “on hold” more than a year ago after two failed Kickstarter campaigns and other development woes. But now, development on the title has begun again thanks to Quantum Entanglement Entertainment (which is also known as QE2).
Quantum Entanglement Entertainment is a new media conglomerate that will attempt to produce games, films, and television shows all under the same roof. The gaming division will be lead by Denis Dyack, the founder of Silicon Knights (the developer behind Eternal Darkness) and the former Chief Creative Officer of Precursor Games (the original developer behind Shadow of the Eternals).
The Shadow of the Eternals page on Quantum Entanglement’s website is currently rather sparse, containing just a few screenshots and a pair of trailers originally released last year. The game was originally in development for the PC, PS4, and Wii U using Crytek’s CryEngine, but it’s unknown if that’s still the case.
Hopefully, we’ll learn more about the future of Shadow of the Eternals soon.
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Tagged Shadow of the Eternals
Prey 2 has officially been canceled by Bethesda
Bethesda’s Pete Hines is at PAX Australia today and one of the first things he did was tell CNET that Prey 2 has been officially canceled:
“It was game we believed in, but we never felt that it got to where it needed to be – we never saw a path to success if we finished it,” Hines said.
“It wasn’t up to our quality standard and we decided to cancel it. It’s no longer in development. That wasn’t an easy decision, but it’s one that won’t surprise many folks given that we hadn’t been talking about it.
“Human Head Studios is no longer working on. It’s a franchise we still believe we can do something with — we just need to see what that something is.”
Prey 2’s troubled development cycle has been rumor mill fodder for a few years now. Last year, an internal email even hinted that the game was given to Arkane Austin and that all previous work by Human Head had been thrown out.
As Bethesda is pretty tight-lipped about these things, we’ll probably never learn the real reasons behind Prey 2’s demise.
Bethesda has released a BattleCry gameplay trailer for PAX Aus 2014
Bethesda is bringing a playable build of BattleCry to this weekend’s PAX Australia, but if you won’t be in attendance at the expo, the publisher has also released a brand new gameplay trailer of the game. Not only that, but Bethesda will also livestream their BattleCry panel, “Welcome to the WarZone,” tomorrow on Twitch. Just head over to twitch.tv/pax at 11:00 PM (Eastern Time) to take in all the steampunk-style shenanigans.
A beta for Bethesda’s free-to-play MOBA will be available sometime next year.
Nintendo Download: Stealth Inc 2, Costume Quest 2, a lot more
Nintendo has got a slick and spooky update planned for the eShop this week.
The NES and Super NES adventures of Firebrand the Gargoyle will make their eShop debut this week as Gargoyle’s Quest II: The Demon Darkness was released for the 3DS and Wii U while Demon’s Crest is now available to download only on the Wii U. A terrifying Kirby game, Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land, has also been added to the Wii U eShop.
OK, so Kirby is never frightening. And neither is Double Fine’s Costume Quest 2. But the Halloween-y RPG is also new on the Wii U eShop this week. It’s joined by Stealth Inc 2: A Game of Clones, a Wii U-exclusive puzzle platformer from Curve Studios.
More than a dozen other titles were also added to the Nintendo eShop this week including Falling Skies for the Wii U, Duck Dynasty for the 3DS, and next Tuesday’s Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley (also for the 3DS). You can read all about these games (and many more) after the break. (more…)
Posted in 3DS, News, Wii U
Tagged Costume Quest 2