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Mega Man X Legacy Collection 1 + 2, The Banner Saga 3, more coming to PS Store this week
Travel to a far-flung future and a distant past in this week’s PlayStation Store update.
If you’re a fan of side-scrolling platformers, you’ll definitely want to look ahead to 20XX and this week’s release of Mega Man X Legacy Collection and Mega Man X Legacy Collection 2. Available for the PS4 separately or as a bundle, the Legacy Collection compilations include all eight games in the Mega Man X series, as well as a wealth of behind-the-scenes material in the Museum Mode and the brand new X Challenge Mode, which pits players in a battle against two different bosses at the same time.
Also available for the PS4 this week is The Banner Saga 3, the finale to Stoic’s trilogy of strategic RPG series. Things are not looking bright for our Viking heroes, as the developer asks, “As the world continues to crumble around you, who can you trust, how will you protect your allies, and what choices will you make as the Darkness draws near?”
You can learn more about the rest of this week’s additions to the PlayStation Store after the break. (more…)
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Tagged Mega Man X, The Banner Saga 3
Mothergunship, Tempest 4000, Hungry Shark World, more coming to PS Store this week
Two wild shooters and two high seas adventures highlight this week’s PlayStation Store update…
Grip Digital and Terrible Posture Games have teamed up to bring Mothergunship to the PS4. The first person shooter adds “bullet-hell intensity” to the genre, along with an in-depth crafting mechanic to give players the chance to create the perfect gun. Also available to download for the PS4 this week is Tempest 4000, a brand new “tube shooter” from Jeff Minter, one of the genre’s pioneers.
Elsewhere on the PlayStation Store, PS4 owners will be able to pick Hungry Shark World, an “action-packed aquatic adventure” where you take control of a shark and eat everything in your path, and Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion, a pirate-themed adventure based on the popular animated series.
You can learn more about the rest of this week’s additions to the PlayStation Store after the break. (more…)
Chasm will be released for PC, PS4, Vita on July 31
After more than five years in development, Bit Kid has announced that Chasm, their medieval-styled MetroidVania, will be released for the PC, PS4, and Vita on July 31.
In addition to the release date news, Chasm received a new trailer yesterday (embedded above), and Game Director James Petruzzi stopped by the PlayStation Blog to discuss the game’s lengthy development process:
One distinctive feature of Chasm is that the world map is procedurally generated when you start up a new campaign. That feature has led to a lot of questions and confusion, so I’d like to address exactly how it works and why we designed it that way. The latter part is easy to answer. Our entire team is composed of Metroidvania fans. Whether it’s Castlevania: Symphony of the Night or Axiom Verge, we’ve played through our favorite games so often that we’ve long since memorized the maps. We love how those games play but wish we could wipe our memories so we could get that experience of exploration all over again. It’s our hope that people who love Chasm the way we love our favorite games can play it over and over and still have it feel fresh. But at the same time, people who only play the game once should have no idea that there’s anything procedural about it.
But that’s not to say that everything’s completely random; there is a fundamental structure to the game that never changes. If you’re familiar with Castlevania: Symphony of the Night you may recall that first you get the Jewel of Open, then the Leap Stone, then the Soul of Bat – in that order. As you get these upgrades, new areas of the map become accessible. Chasm, like most titles in this vein, follows this structure. When you start up a campaign, the game always has these key upgrades and plot points in the same place.
What’s different is how you get from one key point to the other. Chasm has a bunch of pre-designed rooms that are slotted in modularly in different combinations. So you won’t have any rooms that feel like they were designed by a computer. Instead, you’ll encounter rooms in a different order and even encounter new rooms you never saw the first time, and your path will be different each time you start up a new campaign.
Chasm will be priced at $19.99 when it launches later this month.
New Battle Princess Madelyn trailer shows off the game’s updated stages
The developers at Causal Bit Games are still working hard on Battle Princess Madelyn, their modern-day homage to the retro stylings of Capcom’s Super Ghouls N Ghosts, and earlier this week they unveiled a brand new trailer featuring “updated stages, collecting weaponry, and armor shards from the cursed chests.”
The developer also posted a new update to Battle Princess Madelyn’s Kickstarter campaign, detailing a few more changes and additions that have been made to the game in the last month:
The final boss was redrawn and redesigned a few times. Nothing was feeling epic enough. Following the story too close wasn’t cutting it, it started as a rival sorceress girl the same age and size as Maddi, but the first half of the fight felt too plain and samey. I worked with Maddi a few times on how the last boss should look overall. There was a giant zombie woman head, dragon snake things, and I can’t even remember what else now. This one has been redone over and over for the better part of a year. But finally I got a clear head about it, and we sat down and came up with something amazing! We aren’t going to show that obviously but we’re not that far away from you seeing it yourselves!
Creative Director Christopher Obritsch also discussed rather scary-sounding heath issue towards the end of the post and everyone at Warp Zoned wishes him a speedy recovery.
Battle Princess Madelyn will be released sometime soon (but we don’t know exactly when) for the PC, PS4, Switch, Vita, Wii U, and Xbox One.
Red Faction: Guerrilla, Runbow, Nobunaga’s Ambition: Taishi, more coming to PS Store this week
It’s time for another PlayStation Store update. Here’s what you can grab on Sony’s platforms this week…
Explosions in the sky will match the explosions coming out of your PS4 if you opt to download the Red Faction: Guerrilla – Re-Mars-tered Edition. THQ Nordic is resurrecting the physics-based destruction of the Red Faction franchise for this re-release, which features a fully reworked visual design including improved lighting and shadows. Also available to download for the PS4 today is Runbow, a colorful runner/platformer that includes multiplayer options for up to nine players.
And finally this week, strategy fans will be able to purchase the latest entry in the Nobunaga’s Ambition franchise, Nobunaga’s Ambition: Taishi, for the PS4.
You can learn more about the rest of this week’s additions to the PlayStation Store after the break. (more…)
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Tagged Red Faction: Guerrilla, Runbow
The Lost Child, Clannad, The Exorcist: Legion VR, more coming to PS Store this week
Just eight new games can be found in this week’s PlayStation Store update, but there’s still a few titles that might be of interest…
NIS America will bring The Lost Child to the PS4 and PS Vita this week. The RPG takes place in modern-day Tokyo, and follows an occult journalist, Hayato Ibuki, as he deals with a massive conflict between “angels, demons, and fallen angels.” Clannad, a classic in the visual novel genre, is also available to download this week for the PS4 in a brand new high definition remaster.
Finally this week, PS4 owners can immerse themselves in the VR-powered thrills and chills of William Peter Blatty’s Exorcist film franchise in The Exorcist: Legion VR.
You can learn more about the rest of this week’s additions to the PlayStation Store after the break. (more…)
Jurassic World: Evolution, Super Bomberman R, Lego The Incredibles, more coming to PS Store this week
It’s E3 Week, but if you want to take some time out from gawking at what comes next, you can take a look at what’s available now. This week, the following games were added to the PlayStation Store…
WB Games and TT Games are back with the next Lego game, Lego The Incredibles (PS4). Based on both Incredibles movies, two players will be able to team up and bring the supervillains to justice. Also available to download this week is Jurassic World: Evolution (PS4), a theme park builder with dinosaurs… and the soothing voice of Jeff Goldblum (and several other Jurassic Park alums).
Konami’s Super Bomberman R will bring the celebrated franchise to the PS4 for the first time, and Betehsda launched the free-to-play Fallout Shelter on the PS4 earlier this week.
You can learn more about the rest of this week’s additions to the PlayStation Store after the break. (more…)
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Tagged Fallout Shelter, Jurassic World: Evolution, Lego The Incredibles, Super Bomberman R
Vampyr, Onrush, BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, more coming to PS Store this week
Victorian vampires and wild racing lead the way in this week’s PlayStation Store update.
Dontnod Entertainment has left the high school hallways of Life Is Strange behind, and ventured back to the grimy streets of Victorian London in Vampyr, which will be available to download this week for the PS4. The action RPG will be joined on Sony’s digital storefront by a pair of racing games, Onrush from Codemasters and MotoGP 18 from Milestone.
Also this week, PS4 players will get to experience the brutal battles of Arc System Works’s crossover fighter, BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, and Saber Interactive’s side-scrolling blast-from-the-part, Shaq-Fu: A Legend Reborn.
Finally, Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls Online expands once again with the release of its Summerset expansion this week.
You can learn more about the rest of this week’s additions to the PlayStation Store after the break. (more…)
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Tagged BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle, Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn, The Elder Scrolls Online, Vampyr