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It’s In Your Blood: A History of Horror Games (Part Four)
We’ve all been scared at one time or another. While “normal” people may try to avoid it at all costs, the rest of us actively seek out that primitive, guttural thrill. Horror movies do this well enough, but why bother watching when you can participate? There’s nothing like a good survival horror game, from Dead Space to Alien: isolation — but diehard fear junkies know the genre began much earlier. If that’s news to you, it’s okay! Just sit down and quiet yourselves, boys and girls, because class is in session.
After looking back at the birth of survival horror, the rise in popularity, and a huge wave of sequels, today, we’ll cover the next chapter in the genre’s evolution — one some would even describe as the death of true survival horror video games. (more…)
Posted in Features, PC, PS2, Retro, Top Story
Tagged Resident Evil, Resident Evil: Code Veronica
Forza Horizon 3’s Launch Trailer drifts into view
Microsoft is very proud of the accolades that Forza Horizon 3 received during this year’s E3 Expo. And that’s probably why developers Playground Games and Turn 10 Studios collected all 29 of them to help kick off the game’s Launch Trailer.
But if you’d prefer to try it out for yourself before you buy, a demo of Forza Horizon 3 is now available to download through the Xbox Games Store for the Xbox One.
Forza Horizon 3 will be released for the PC and Xbox One, as an Xbox Play Anywhere title, on September 27.
Posted in News, PC, Xbox One
Tagged Forza Horizon 3
Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding will be released before 2019
Hideo Kojima’s default setting seems to be “enigmatic,” but the developer is definitely turning it up a notch for his next project, Death Stranding. Aside from the fact that it stars a (nearly nude) Norman Reedus, we don’t know much of anything about it.
But Kojima was prepared to answer questions this past weekend during a Q&A at the Tokyo Game Show, and according to IGN, he even (sort of) confirmed a release date for the game:
“It will be out before the Olympics,” said Kojima, referring to the Tokyo 2020 Games. He then went on, “To go a little further, there is a movie called Akira, and it will be out before the year in which Akira is set.”
Akira takes place in the year 2019, so it’s likely that Death Stranding will be released in 2018. Probably. Maybe. It’s at this point where I want to reference a movie of my own and quote Kyle Reese from The Terminator: “One possible future. From your point of view. I don’t know tech stuff.”
Moving on, Kojima also revealed that players will be able to tackle Death Stranding as a single-player experience, or as some kind of online multiplayer title. But he didn’t want to get too specific, only saying, “It will be a different kind of online play than anything we’ve seen before.”
Finally, the developer confirmed that Death Stranding will include a female protagonist, though no one has been cast for the part as of yet.
Posted in News, PC, PS4
Tagged Death Stranding, TGS 2016
The Gears of War 4 Launch Trailer is here… three weeks ahead of its launch
Narrated by Marcus Fenix and soundtracked by a cover of Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters,” the Gears of War 4 Launch Trailer has arrived… three weeks ahead of the game’s planned launch on October 11.
Those 21 days and nights will give us plenty of time to digest this new trailer, which includes the reappearance of Augustus “Cole Train” Cole and the Locust. And it looks like there’s a very real chance that Marcus Fenix won’t make it to the end credits.
Gears of War 4 will be released for the PC and Xbox One, but fans who purchase it digitally through the Xbox Games Store will receive both versions as part of Microsoft’s Xbox Play Anywhere program.
Posted in News, PC, Xbox One
Tagged Gears of War 4
Release of South Park: The Fractured But Whole delayed to Early 2017 by Ubisoft
In a short update posted to the UbiBlog, Ubisoft has announced that South Park: The Fractured But Whole won’t be released this December as originally planned. The RPG’s release was pushed back to Early 2017, and the publisher attributed the delay to a need for additional time by the developmer:
The development team wants to make sure the game experience meets the high expectations of fans and the additional time will help them achieve this goal.
South Park: The Fractured But Whole is currently in development for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One at Ubisoft San Francisco.
Posted in News, PC, PS4, Xbox One
Tagged South Park: The Fractured But Whole
Hypersect adds unlockable color palettes to Inversus in new update
A lot of games are described as “minimalist,” but Hypersect took it to new heights when they limited Inversus to just three colors… black, white, and red. But thanks to the latest update, the game is about to get much more colorful.
Now available through Steam (and coming to the PS4 soon), the 1.2 update adds 45 new color palettes to the game (including one inspired by the Game Boy’s pea green screen), along with a few other changes:
- Inversus isn’t just black and white anymore. 45 unlockable color palettes are now in game! Choose the ones you like and the game will randomly shuffle between them every match.
- Online gameplay gets more social with over 250 unlockable emotes! Equip up to four at a time and express your joy or disappointment between rounds.
- Experience levels are tracked for arcade and versus mode. Level up by completing matches, winning games online and earning high scores. Your level is advertised in online lobbies and each level gained guarantees an unlocked emote or color after that match (unlocks are otherwise randomly awarded per match).
- New leaderboards for versus levels, arcade level, and number of games won online.
- Improved public matchmaking allows solo players to search across all game modes at the same time!
You can get an eyeful of the Inversus’s colorful new look in the trailer embedded above.
A new Story Trailer for CoD: Infinite Warfare introduces us to Kit Harrington’s “Face of the Enemy”
As we’ve all come to expect, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare‘s cast will feature a few famous faces when it launches for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One this November. This time around, Kit Harrington (Game of Thrones) and Conor McGregor (a UFC Champion) will be on hand to cause trouble for our heroes (lead by noted voice actor Brian Bloom as Captain Nick Reyes).
Harrington and McGregor certainly get to look imposing in the new Story Trailer as the leaders of the Settlement Defense Front, a terrorist group that wants to invade Earth. Also keep your eyes peeled for plenty of explosions, some space-fu, and all the gung-ho military dialogue you could ever ask for:
After a simultaneous surprise attack on UNSA forces in Geneva and the Moon Port Gateway, Captain Nick Reyes must take the helm of the Retribution, one of Earth’s last remaining warships. In a time of unthinkable adversity, Reyes must lead his trusted crew against the relentless Settlement Defense Front’s plans to dominate all who oppose them.
The freedom of every citizen of Earth is at stake.
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare will be released for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One on November 4.
Posted in News, PC, PS4, Xbox One
Tagged Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare