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Crytek USA will release Hunt: Horrors of the Gilded Age as free-to-play title this Fall
Looks like we finally know what Crytek USA (the studio formerly known as Vigil Games) is up to. Crytek announced this morning that their Austin-based subsidiary is developing Hunt: Horrors of the Gilded Age, a free-to-play third-person action game about demon hunters in the late 1800s. Hmm…
Comparisons to Ready At Dawn’s The Order: 1886 aside, Hunt seems to take most of its inspiration from Valve’s Left 4 Dead series as four players will be able to team up to cooperatively challenge the assorted monsters at the center of Hunt. Crytek USA plans to heavily focus on this type of close collaboration between players, especially in the “grueling” boss fights that will pop up at unexpected times. And speaking of the unexpected, a special content generation system will randomize the environments and enemy sets that players will encounter in Hunt, so no two games will be the same.
Crytek USA’s CEO, David Adams, said: “Players will be counting their bullets and crying out for help as they delve deeper into the shadowy world we’ve created. From the outset of the development process, we’ve poured our imaginations into the game so that everyone who plays Hunt will discover a challenging experience that feels fresh, captivating and rich in possibilities.”
Hunt: Horrors of the Gilded Age will be available as a closed beta this Fall for the PC and consoles. But we won’t have to wait that long to get our next taste of the game. Crytek plans to unveil a gameplay trailer during next week’s E3 Expo.
Prepare yourself… Batman: Arkham Knight release delayed to 2015
Here we go again. WB Games and Rocksteady Studios have confirmed that Batman: Arkham Knight won’t be released this Fall as previously planned. Instead, Rocksteady’s final Batman game will be released sometime in 2015 for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
Even with the delay, WB Games plans to heavily promote Batman: Arkham Knight during next week’s E3 Expo. Specifically, the publisher will give the world a glimpse of Batmobile Battle Mode for the first time. With the flick of a switch, Batman can transform his Batmobile from a sleek roadster into a fully-armored battle tank. Armed to the teeth with lasers, missiles, and incendiary rounds, the Batmobile’s Battle Mode will be able to take on anything The Riddler can think up. You can get a preview of the Batmobile in Battle Mode in the teaser trailer embedded above.
And don’t worry, even in Battle Mode, Batman will uphold his “no killing” pledge.
New Mortal Kombat X details: Persistent online battle, “multiple character variations,” more
Now that we’ve all had a chance to digest the debut trailer for Mortal Kombat X, WB Games has revealed a few more details about the game in their official announcement. For starters, they’ve confirmed the game will be released in 2015 for the new-generation consoles (PS4 and Xbox One) as well as the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.
But the big news is that this addition to the Mortal Kombat franchise will make the battle for Earthrealm truly global for the first time. According to the announcement, Mortal Kombat X will “[launch] players into a persistent online contest where every fight matters in a global battle for supremacy.” Mortal Kombat X will also give players the option to select from multiple variations of each character in this battle. Each character variation will practice a different fighting style, requiring unique strategies from the player. Presumably, the variations will also be clad in different costumes as well.
Finally, the developers at NetherRealm Studios have promised that Mortal Kombat X will include many fan-favorite characters (such as Scorpion and Sub-Zero) as well as new fighters that “tie the tale together.”
“Mortal Kombat has always been about over-the-top, visceral fighting and with Mortal Kombat X we wanted to utilise the power of new-gen consoles to give players our most intense game yet,” said Ed Boon, the Creative Director at NetherRealm Studios. “The team has worked hard to make sure Mortal Kombat X delivers everything fans expect along with new characters, new game modes and an all new graphics engine.”
Mortal Kombat X will make its first public appearance at next week’s E3 Expo.
Homefront: The Revolution will rise up in 2015
Philadelphia was at the center of the first American Revolution and, according to the storyline for Crytek’s upcoming Homefront: The Revolution, it will also be right in the thick of the second. Co-published by Crytek and Deep Silver, The Revolution is a sequel to Homefront, which was originally released by THQ in 2011. Crytek acquired the franchise in 2013 when THQ was forced to auction off their assets after a well-publicized bankruptcy. Crytek has assigned their UK team (formerly Free Radical Design) to the task of developing Homefront: The Revolution.
The second Homefront game has actually changed quite a bit since we first heard about it in late 2011. The original plan was to move the action to Europe, but an open-world Philadelphia (which can be explored as part of a single-player campaign or in a four-play co-op mode) will serve as the setting instead:
Catastrophic events have brought the United States to its knees and enabled the Korean People’s Army forces to impose a brutal military occupation. Trapped in this American nightmare, Philadelphia has become a police state, where surveillance drones and armored patrols keep her once-proud citizens at heel, crushing any dissent with totalitarian force.
To overcome their oppressors, players will have to engage in guerrilla warfare and use ambush, infiltration and hit and run tactics in thrilling un-scripted firefights. At every turn they’ll find a sprawling open-world city, in which recruiting fellow revolutionaries and building improvised homebrew weapons are just two of the keys to creating a powerful resistance force.
Homefront: The Revolution is currently set for a release sometime in 2015 for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One. Crytek and Deep Silver plan to unveil the first gameplay trailer of the game during this year’s E3 Expo.
Aksys will release Guilty Gear Xrd Sign on PS3, PS4 this Fall
The latest game in the Guilty Gear series, Guilty Gear Xrd Sign, will be available this holiday season in North America, according to Aksys Games. This addition to the fighting game franchise will be coming to the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 systems.
Fans can head to the Aksys Games meeting space (Booth #8816) during this year’s E3 Expo to get a poster signed by creator Daisuke Ishiwatari on Thursday, June 12 from 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Pacific Time). There will also be open house hours on Tuesday, June 10 from 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM and Wednesday, June 11 from 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
Posted in News, PS3, PS4
Tagged E3 2014, Guilty Gear Xrd Sign
Next Harvest Moon game will come to US as Story of Seasons
Earlier this week, XSEED Games confirmed on their website that they will publish Marvelous’ next Harvest Moon game, Story of Seasons, in North America. The game will be exclusive to the Nintendo 3DS, and is already available for pre-order at North American retailers for $39.99.
Yoshifumi Hashimoto, Head of Development at Marvelous AQL, said: “Story of Seasons represents a new chapter in our amazing tale… We are creating a new experience that will carry on the spirit of Bokujo Monogatari, and in doing so, will fulfill our loyal fans’ expectations and desires while ushering in a new generation of games to come.”
The game has been out in Japan since earlier this year, and it allows players to create a character that is fully customizable, as well as some new items to decorate your house with – including items from the Super Mario Bros. games. There’s also a brand new StreetPass option, bringing multiplayer to the series. It sounds like they’re taking more than a few pages out of the Animal Crossing book!
Story of Seasons will be released in Winter, but you can check it out at the XSEED Games booth (#5436) if you’re going to the E3 Expo this year.
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Tagged E3 2014, Story of Seasons
Mortal Kombat website goes dark ahead of Mortal Kombat 10 reveal
The Mortal Kombat 10 teaser train just keeps rolling. This morning, the official Mortal Kombat website went dark. When it came back to life, the page was blank except for the redesigned Mortal Kombat dragon logo that appeared on the leaked “Who’s Next” poster.
Ed Boon’s Twitter countdown will expire on June 2, one week ahead of this year’s E3 Expo, so I think we’re definitely in store for a Mortal Kombat 10 announcement next Monday (can we call it “Mortal Monday”?).
And then there’s this…
Yes you are Next @wizkhalifa !! On June 2nd Kombat Kontinues… #WHOSNEXT
— Ed Boon (@noobde) May 29, 2014
Thanks, Ed Boon! (Unless he’s trolling us.)
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Tagged E3 2014, Mortal Kombat X
Ed Boon quasi-confirms Mortal Kombat 10 after possible poster leak
Ed Boon has been running a very unorthodox countdown with his Twitter account all month. If all goes according to plan, whatever Boon has in the hopper will be revealed on June 2. But it looks like a Reddit user may have beaten him to the punch by leaking the poster to your right.
The poster depicts a broken spine with the words “Who’s Next” and a slightly modified version of Mortal Kombat’s dragon logo. In 2011’s Mortal Kombat, NetherRealm Studios encouraged players to perform X-Ray Moves, which frequently involved the breaking of an opponent’s bones. But I’m a tad concerned about the validity of the poster as the logo and the “Who’s Next” wording seem to just float there. The way the poster is oriented in the image, they should be at more of an angle. There’s also the matter of the fact that the Redditor who posted the poster, “ItsHappening24,” is a brand new user (and on that note, 24‘s Kiefer Sutherland has previously been linked to the next Mortal Kombat game).
However, Boon himself has endorsed the image by installing the “Who’s Next” text as his header image on Twitter and adopting the dragon as his user icon. And a quick Google Images search confirms that Boon is the only person to ever use that exact version of the Mortal Kombat dragon logo… oh my god, what does it mean?
Right now, it doesn’t mean anything. But the stars seem to be aligning and I’m pretty confident that Mortal Kombat 10 will be officially announced in just a few short days.
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Tagged E3 2014, Mortal Kombat X