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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…)
Posted in News, PS4, Vita
Tagged BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle, Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn, The Elder Scrolls Online, Vampyr
The Games of June 2018
We’re less than a week away from the unofficial opening of this year’s E3 Expo, and the new release calendar has begun to dry up in anticipation of gaming’s biggest showcase. But there will still be plenty to play in the month of June, including an off-kilter new puzzler from Nintendo (Sushi Striker: The Way of The Sushido), a side-scrolling sequel to one of the strangest games of the 90s (Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn), a dinosaur-themed theme park creator (Jurassic World: Evolution), and Mario’s latest sporting adventure (Mario Tennis Aces).
You can find out exactly why the Warp Zoned staff is looking forward to these games, and view the release schedule for all of this month’s new games, after the break. (more…)
Posted in 3DS, Features, PC, PS4, Switch, Top Story, Vita, Xbox One
Tagged Jurassic World: Evolution, Mario Tennis Aces, Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn
New Retail Releases: Vampyr, Sushi Striker, Onrush, More
The bold and the bizarre highlight this week’s New Retail Releases…
Dontnod, the creative team behind Life Is Strange, are leaving suburbia for the streets of Victorian London and Vampyr (PC, PS4, Xbox One) this week. The RPG infects players with the bloodsucking disease and asks them to save (or doom) the city from the 1918 flu pandemic.
Speaking of unusual meals, Nintendo is hoping players will be interested in a brand new competitive puzzler this week, Sushi Striker: The Way of The Sushido (Switch, 3DS). Build the ultimate sushi plate and do battle with bosses to stop the Empire’s tyrannical monopoly of the world’s sushi supply.
And Codemasters is back this week with Onrush (PS4, Xbox One), an extreme racing game that gives player the chance to “traverse huge ramps flying hundreds of feet through the sky.”
But if you’d rather participate in extreme fisticuffs, Arc System Works will release BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle (PS4, Switch), a crossover fighter that brings together characters from the BlazBlue, Persona, Under Night In-Birth, and RWBY franchises. Shoppers will also be able to slam it home as Shaquille O’Neal this week as the basketball great returns to take up side-scrolling brawling once again in Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn (PS4, Switch, Xbox One).
Finally this week, Switch owners can look forward to Happy Birthdays, the latest game from Yasuhiro Wada, the creator of the Harvest Moon series. PS4 and Xbox One owners will get their chance to try out the latest Elder Scrolls Online expansion, The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset. And Koei will launch the latest game in the Nobunaga’s Ambition franchise, Nobunaga’s Ambition: Taishi for the PS4.
That’s all for now, but we’ll be back later this week with a look at all the new additions to the PlayStation Store, Xbox Games Store, and Nintendo eShop.
Posted in 3DS, News, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One
Tagged BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle, Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn, Vampyr
Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn will be released on June 5
Shaquille O’Neal’s glorious return to video games is almost upon us… Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn will be released for the PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One on June 5. Developer Saber Interactive announced the launch date earlier this week alongside a new trailer, which has been embedded above.
A Legend Reborn is a reboot of the original Shaq Fu, and it once again showcases the martial arts mastery of the legendary NBA center, this time in a side-scrolling brawler:
Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn is an action-packed beat ‘em up starring the one and only Big Diesel himself: Shaquille O’Neal. Battle the hordes of Hollywood and hell on a one-man journey to avenge your fallen home and martial arts master. Beat down foes with devastating combos, face off against outlandish celebrity bosses, and unleash your fury with a variety of hard-hitting weapons and power-ups.
A special Retail Edition of Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn will come bundled with a Season Pass, and it’ll also be available on June 5 for the PS4, Switch, and Xbox One. Further details about the post-launch DLC included with the Season Pass will be revealed at a later date.
Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn will be released this Spring
The crowdfunding campaign for Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn first appeared on Indiegogo way back in 2014, but developer Saber Interactive has announced that it’ll finally be ready to launch for the PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One this Spring. Not only that, but the development team also announced a partnership with Wired Productions to bring Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn to retail stores, and they unveiled a new trailer that’s been embedded above.
Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn is an intense, action-packed beat ‘em up which sees players take on the role of the unstoppable Shaquille O’Neal as he fights his way through the hordes of Hell and Hollywood. Master devastating combos, battle outlandish celebrity bosses and take on all comers with an array of weapons, including katanas, shuriken, and baseball bats. Channel Shaq’s alter egos, Big Daddy O and Big Diesel, in epic battles in the successor to the worst game ever on a mission to restore Shaq’s legacy.
Switch owners who purchased Saber’s last game, NBA Playgrounds, prior to June 10, 2017 will receive a free copy of Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn after it launches.