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Vampyr, Onrush, Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon, more coming to Xbox Store this week
Monster, motorsports, and a new expansion for Bethesda’s MMO highlight this week’s Xbox Games Store update…
Focus Home Interactive and Dontnod will bring Vampyr to the Xbox One this week. The moody action RPG takes place in Victorian London and tasks players with curing the influenza epidemic before they succumb to their vampiric urges. Also available to download for the Xbox One this week is Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon, a retro-styled prequel to the upcoming Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night from Koji “IGA” Igarashi and developer Inti Creates.
If you’d rather drive like a speed demon, two new racing games will launch for the Xbox One this week. And in the case of Codemasters’s Onrush, I do mean LAUNCH, as racers will regularly drive off cliffs in the unique racing title. Also available this week is MotoGP 18, the latest motorcycle racing sim from Milestone and Square Enix.
Finally this week, Bethesda will expand The Elder Scrolls Online once again with the new Summerset expansion. Players will save the world (naturally) by unraveling “a dark conspiracy that threatens the world’s existence.”
You can learn more about the rest of this week’s additions to the Xbox Games Store (including Aragami: Shadow Edition and Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr) after the break. (more…)
Posted in News, Xbox One
Tagged Bloodstained Prequel, The Elder Scrolls Online, Vampyr
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
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
Behind-the-scenes video confirms June 5 launch date for Vampyr
Focus Home Interactive and Dontnod are hoping that players will want to sink their teeth into Vampyr this Spring. In an attempt to sway prospective fans to their side, the publisher and developer have spent the past four weeks uploading a series of behind-the-scenes videos that offer a closer look at the game’s creation.
In today’s video, “Stories from the Dark,” the two companies confirmed that Vampyr will be released for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One on June 5:
In Episode IV: Stories from the Dark, Dontnod explain what makes videogames unique compared to other storytelling mediums, as well as their signature approach to narrative. As Narrative Director Stephane Beauverger explains, the player is often occupied with Vampyr’s intricate gameplay systems. Because of this, the exploration, investigations, citizen encounters, combat, and hard-hitting choices are all fundamentally intertwined with the game’s narrative. Game Director Philippe Moreau elaborates, saying that the relationship between a player and their character, as well as the direct feeling of control, is unique to games and something he has worked to make special in Vampyr.
In doing so, Dontnod likens it to theatre, creating a close relationship between actor and spectator that’s more effective and powerful than any film or TV show. Total immersion is the goal, and this episode also highlights how the studio has used motion capture to make the cast of Vampyr that much more human. Subtleties of facial animation can be recreated and combined with the fantastic music, characters, and creatures of the game to produce a living, breathing 1918 London. It’s then up to you who survives it.
Previous episodes in the video series can be found on YouTube.
Vampyr delayed to Spring 2018… Final Fantasy XV’s multiplayer expansion will arrive on October 31
Blah! It looks like Dontnod Entertainment’s Vampyr will need a few more months in its home soil before its ready to launch. Thankfully, Square Enix has announced that Final Fantasy XV‘s multiplayer expansion is right around the corner.
Learn more about both after the break. (more…)
Sink your teeth into Vampyr’s E3 2017 trailer
The dark alleyways and rat-infested streets of Dontnod’s Vampyr are the furthest things from the more modern confines of their previous game, Life Is Strange. But the French development studio has put just as effort into recreating Victorian London as they did with the fictional Blackwell Academy.
For further proof, check out the epic new Cinematic Trailer the developer released in honor of next week’s E3 Expo.
DontNod Entertainment’s upcoming action-RPG Vampyr today unveils its E3 trailer and draws you deep into the heart of a flu-stricken 1918 London. Set out on three minutes of uncut footage through the city’s dark alleys, deadly underground passages, and corrupt neighborhoods. Get a first glimpse at The Ascalon Club, a society formed from the richest vampires, unbeknownst to the mortals.
Dontnod also confirmed that the action RPG will be released in November 2017 for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
Focus Home Interactive will release Call of Cthulhu and Vampyr in Fall 2017
Previously penciled in for “TBA 2017” release dates, Focus Home Interactive updated their official website over the weekend and confirmed that Call of Cthulhu and Vampyr will both launch in Fall 2017.
Call of Cthulhu, based on the tabletop RPG of the same name from Chaosium, is an adventure game from Cyanide Studio. Players will guide a detective in his search for a missing woman on a mysterious island, but things aren’t what they seem, and one of Lovecraft’s most famous creations, Cthulhu, lurks in the shadows.
Vampyr is in development at Dontnod, and is an action RPG set against the backdrop of a Spanish Flu outbreak in London in the early 20th century. As Dr. Jonathan Reid, players will be tested by their vampiric bloodlust, and characters they choose to feed on will “impact in a meaningful way the world that surrounds you.”
Call of Cthulhu and Vampyr are both currently in development for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
Dontnod gives Vampyr the E3 2016 trailer treatment
Life Is Strange wasn’t Dontnod Entertainment’s first game, but the apocalyptic adventure game put the developer on the map in a big way last year, and fans are eager to learn more about what the studio is up to next. With E3 in the air, the developer has decided that this year’s Expo is the perfect opportunity to give us another look at their followup, the action RPG Vampyr.
Vampyr takes place in London, at the height of the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918. Players will take control of Dr. Jonathan Reid, a recently-turned vampire who fights between his pledge to heal the sick, and his uncontrollable thirst for blood. But unfortunately for us, the good doctor isn’t able to keep his hunger at bay forever, and the question of “Should I kill?” quickly morphs into the much different question, “Who should I kill?” According to Dontnod, the choices players make in who lives and who dies will ultimately cause “deadly ramifications” for the city around them.
Vampyr will be released for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One in 2017.