Yesterday Origins, is a brand-new adventure game from Microids and Pendulo Studios, is OUT NOW in the UK (Game/Amazon), both physically and digitally for Playstation 4, Xbox One and PC/Steam!
With an original visual style, deep narrative and a dark sense of humour, Yesterday Origins brings players on a journey around the world and through time.
Immerse yourselves in a challenging quest full of unexpected twists and turns, solve complex puzzles and mysterious riddles to discover the origin of John Yesterday’s immortal power that so many covet…
Retailing at £27.99, Yesterday Origins is the perfect way to spend a cold autumn night.
A few days ago we was invited for the worldwide announcement from “Propel” for Star Wars Battle Quads the first look. The first thing that strikes you is the amount of detail that these things have on each of the Star Wars Battle Quads.
Star Wars Battle Quads from Propel at London’s Madame Tussauds. Also had time to check out their Star Wars Experience room.
Luke you got my Star Wars Battle Quads can I have them back……
The event got off to an exceedingly slow start, when the Star Wars Battle Quads, did make their appearance, they were extremely impressive, buzzing around the roof of the Planetarium like giant wasps.
The Star Wars drones models available will including a T-65 X-Wing fighter, Darth Vader’s Tie Advanced X1, and a speeder bike from Return of the Jedi complete with miniature trooper.
Each model is hand-painted and numbered, and comes in a wax-sealed gift box that lights up and plays Star Wars music specific to the film the vehicle in question appeared in.
When you’re flying and battling against other drones they exchange information with each other. This is done via Li-Fi technology and actually uses the laser blasts. This means that the scoring and positioning of who’s playing is accurate and up to date.
probably the coolest feature for most people is that you can use these drones to battle with your mates. As well as flying to speeds above 35Mph in less than three seconds, a unique flight control algorithm also enables special manoeuvres that mimic Star Wars flight patterns, such as forward moving corkscrew rolls.
Master Luke says we are going to be upgrade with the new Star Wars Battle Quads
Get hit three times by your opponent and your Battle Quad will automatically make a controlled emergency landing. However, the plan is you will be able to brush up on your piloting skills so you can improve your battling skills once the companion app is launched,
When you’re flying and battling against other drones they exchange information with each other. This is done via Li-Fi technology and actually uses the laser blasts. This means that the scoring and positioning of who’s playing is accurate and up to date.
Get hit three times by your opponent and your quadcopter will automatically make a controlled emergency landing. However, the plan is you will be able to brush up on your piloting skills so you can improve your battling skills once the companion app is launched,
Star Wars Battle Quads will be release just before Christmas (1st December) will be very restricted released, you will have to battle it out for a limited number of special edition drones on sale for around £230.
Available at Maplin, Currys, Argos, Disney Store, John Lewis and Hamleys, they can be pre-ordered in time for the festive season.
So are “These the Droids You’re Looking for”, for one I would say so, for one I can’t wait to get my hands on a review unit in the future.
Captain Kaon, is a retro twin-stick gravity shooter inspired by seminal Spectrum and Amiga games, launches for PC on Steam Early Access now priced at ($6.99 / €6.99 / £4.99).
A salute to such 1980s classics as Thrust and Gravitar, Captain Kaon brings the vector graphics of old right ‘up-to-date’ with vibrant Amiga-style pixel art and a tight twin-stick control mechanic. As a much-loved but long neglected genre, gravity shooters have found their modern champion in indie developer James Buckle. He played the pants off these games as a child and is launching on Steam Early Access today to gather valuable community feedback and ensure that Captain Kaon is the perfect celebration of the genre.
“I got an old second hand ZX Spectrum when I was a kid, which was when I first learned to code and make games”, said James Buckle, founder and developer at Engage Pixel. “One of my favourites was Thrust; I loved having to manoeuvre your ship through the caves and pick off the bad guys. It was a style of game I adored which you just don’t see anymore and I realised there is a whole generation who hasn’t played these exceptional games. Captain Kaon takes the best bits from this classic genre and brings them into the 21st century”.
What is Captain Kaon?
Developed by UK-based Engage Pixel, Captain Kaon is a 1980s Thrust and Gravitar inspired twin-stick gravity shooter. Here are some of the key features:
Explore vibrant Amiga-style pixel art environments
Manage resources and carefully select missions in Campaign Mode
Relive this ‘forgotten’ shmup sub-genre
Available now on Steam Early Access
Full launch on PC in 2017
Story of Captain Kaon
The overcrowded Earth has found a new home amongst the stars – a clutch of habitable worlds in the Regulus sector. But peace in this new paradise is short-lived as a strange alien force begins a relentless assault on the colonies. This threat to human expansion cannot go unchallenged.
In response the Earth sends the finest ships in the Interstellar Navy to defend the colonists and protect its interests. Left behind are the old and out-of-date, led by the flagship Argus, a small fleet of relics to defend humanity’s homeworld.
Hotheaded and insubordinate, Captain ‘Kaon’ Talia faces a court martial as war breaks out in the Regulus sector. Hoping combat offers the chance for salvation, she instead finds herself left behind. With the Argus operating on a skeleton crew, she is assigned as its sole gunship pilot.
In the midst of this uncertainty the miners of Ceres revolt against Earth rule, refusing to supply the fleet with the deuterium fuel it sorely needs. Without it the fleet in Regulus will be unable to fight and Earth will become increasingly vulnerable. Only Captain Kaon can fly her gunship through the twisting tunnels beneath Ceres surface and fight the revolt.
Zen Studios and Bethesda, have joined forces for an unbelievable pinball experience! Coming to Zen Studios pinball platforms in December, Bethesda Pinball presents three exciting pinball tables based on Bethesda’s epic gaming universes: Fallout, DOOM, and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Stay alive in the stunning yet hostile environments of three fantastic pinball tables inspired by the most iconic Bethesda franchises.
Explore the secrets of the post-nuclear wasteland in a world decimated by atomic war, join Factions, raid Vaults and collect Bobbleheads on the Fallout Pinball table, fight your way through the UAC research facility while taking on hordes of demons to earn the DOOM Slayer name on the DOOM Pinball table, and craft weapons, wield magic, equip armour, buy and sell goods, mine materials, find trainers and complete side quests before defeating Alduin and fulfilling your destiny as the Dragonborn on The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Pinball table. Each table features leaderboards, score tracking, exciting social features, and more!
Available on consoles, mobile, and PC on 6th December.
To celebrate the release of merican Dad Season 11 on DVD, we have three copies to give away.
America’s favourite CIA Agent and his unconventional family are back! The uncensored, unashamed and unforgivably rebellious US show American Dad Volume 11 comes to DVD on 21 November 2016 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.
Packed with celebrity guest voices including Kim Kardashian and Jane Krakowski, this wildly hilarious season follows super-patriotic CIA agent Stan Smith and his eccentric family on their misadventures in Langley Falls, Virginia.
Stan’s blissfully unaware wife, Francine, has an unfaltering loyalty that allows her to turn a blind eye toward Stan’s unabashed arrogance. Meanwhile, Stan constantly butts heads with his 18-year-old, left-wing activist daughter Hayley who knows just how to push her father’s buttons, whether it’s by helping the homeless, demanding women’s rights or advocating gun control. Hayley’s 14-year-old brother is the geeky-yet-confident Steve, a kid who spends his time playing video games and obsessing about the opposite sex.
The Smith cabinet is rounded out by two rather unconventional members: Roger, the sassy, sarcastic and routinely inappropriate space alien who is constantly trying on new disguises and, with them, new personalities, and Klaus, the attention-starved goldfish with the brain of a German Olympic skier who always throws in his two cents, regardless of whether anyone is listening.
How to enter to win
We have three copies of American Dad Season 11 to giveaway on DVD.
All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning is to enter below:
If you feel as though you’ve mastered every aspect of last year’s ‘Ride’, then you’ll have no doubt been looking forward to its sequel, the aptly named, ‘Ride 2’. The hardcore racing sim developed by Milestone S.r.l ,is aimed at those who’ve always turned an envious shade of green at Gran Turismo’s overabundance of wheels.
Describing Ride 2 as the two wheeled Gran Turismo goes a lot further than you think too. Featuring a truly impressive roster of bikes, inevitably including different engine sizes and disciplines, as well as many true to life tracks, Ride 2’s off to a scorching start. You can also upgrade the performance of your owned bikes in a variety of ways too, suspension settings can be tweaked, new tires purchased and even acquiring new performance parts such as air filters can be bought with your winnings too.
If you’re anything like me, your time in the lead won’t last forever
Bikes are generally categorised into classes using the performance points system that Forza pioneered all those years ago. The majority of races in the games career will also have entry requirements too. Generally they’re in the realm of only being able to enter with a bike’s performance levels being up to a set level, or restrictions on the bike’s engine sizes. Later on this doesn’t pose much of an issue; however it does make things a little tricksome at the start with what you can do and what you can enter.
If you are struggling for cash at any point in the career however, fortunately you can earn money throughout the game’s other modes. Quick races and online play will all earn you some much needed cash, perfect for either cosmetic or performance enhancements on your favourite bike. Either that, or you could always put it towards one of the 200 or so bikes on offer. Whilst the tantalising promise of newer and better upgrades isn’t an entirely original premise, it’s a proven formula, and anyone into their bikes will relish the collecting opportunity.
What’s a racing sim, especially one which prides itself on authenticity, without a solid handling model? Luckily we don’t have to find out, as Milestone S.r.l, famed for their history and experience with everything two-wheeled, have nailed the strong variances between bikes. Lesser powered, smaller rides feel darty and nip around corners, whereas the heavier, vastly more powerful superbikes need to be treated with much more attention. Missing the turn-in point will all but guarantee some dramatic understeer and you’ll be more likely to end up kissing the gravel than the apex.
Weather effects spruce up the environments
Speaking of track day difficulties, those who’ve rarely, or even never, played a bike racing sim before, will be in for quite the troublesome times for the first hour or two. Thankfully, there’re plenty of difficulty options available. Again, much like Forza, you can tailor the difficulty in exchange for more, post-race, rewards. Even after altering both riding assists and the AI difficulty, sometimes a race just isn’t going your way; thankfully, Ride 2 has you covered with its ‘rewind’ feature. Letting you get away with murder as many times as you wish, it can feel a little on the cheap side, especially when you could quite feasibly use it on every corner. Having said that, even with the AI difficulty on its tamest setting, I have more than often encountered a struggle through the pack. This is not an easy game. Apparently my extensive experience with car racing games in the past has done me no favours here!
Once you’ve gotten the hang of posturing, and how to manipulate the front and rear brakes independently (or just turned on some more assists) it’s to pick your discipline. On top of the standard races, there’re also Time Trials, Perfect Trajectories and Pair Racing. Whilst Pair Racing and Time Trials are both fairly self-explanatory; and a decent enough distraction, it’s the Perfect Trajectory races where most of the fun’s at. You’ll race as quickly as possible across a section of track through a reasonably narrow set of cones; of course suffering a nasty time penalty if/when you career through them. It’s incredibly tricky, but if you can nail it, ultimately satisfying.
The bike details and customisation are some of the high points
Visually it’s a little of a mixed bag, each and every bike looks incredible with a great attention to detail, especially considering the hundreds cosmetic changes you can make. In fact the level of customisation in general is fantastic. Not only can you deck out both your rider and bike with an untold amount of options, you can even decide in what style you’d like your rider to hang onto the bike around corners; I love this attention to detail. The environments are sadly the other side of the coin however. They don’t look bad by any means, just noticeably worse than the bikes. To be fair however; if I had to choose, I’d certainly place the emphasis on the bikes too.
Ride 2’s a fantastic racing simulator; everything works pretty much exactly as you’d expect, it’s just a tad on the clinical side. There’s no real, heart pounding excitement or adrenaline fuelled duels with the AI, they’re often too perfect a racer themselves; unfortunately this just adds to the game’s already niche market. For fans, then I can see this being a true, if slightly sterile joy. For car racing fans, it’s a little too different to instantly jump in and succeed. And most unfortunately, for everyone else, it’ll just be a little too niche.
Here is the new launch trailer and the release date for Here is the new launch trailer and the release date for BATMAN – The Telltale Series Episode 4: ‘Guardian of Gotham’.: ‘Guardian of Gotham’.
The fourth of five episodes in the season, Episode 4: ‘Guardian of Gotham’ will be available digitally worldwide starting 22nd November on PC from the Telltale Online Store, Steam, and other digital distribution services, on the Xbox Games Store for Xbox One and Xbox 360, and on the PlayStation Network for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3.
The episode will be available the same day for compatible iOS devices via the App Store, and for compatible Android-based devices via Google Play.
In Episode 4, Penguin has taken control of Wayne Enterprises, and the Elizabeth Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane has a new guest – you – Bruce Wayne. With the Batman removed from the streets of Gotham City, Harvey Dent’s forces and the Children of Arkham are at war, with innocent citizens caught in the crossfire. To escape the ‘comforts’ of your padded cell, you must choose allies to aid in your escape, even if they aren’t the sort to put a smile on your face. How far are you willing to go for justice? For vengeance? What now, Dark Knight?
Fantastic Beasts: Cases From The Wizarding World, the free-to-play mobile game from Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, developed by Mediatonic, is now available for download on the App Store for iPhone and iPad and Google Play for Android devices.
Inspired by J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World, in this new hidden object game, players investigate curious cases as a new recruit with the Ministry of Magic, Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, Beast Division. Searching for clues at locations including Diagon Alley, the Leaky Cauldron and Hogsmeade, players report to the scene of mysterious incidents with a magical creature at the center of every case.
Following the trail of evidence, players uncover hidden objects, analyze evidence, cast spells and brew potions, piecing together clues to identify and relocate the magical creature in question.
Players can share their wizarding world experience with friends and fellow recruits by logging into Facebook to see each other’s progress and lend a helping hand.
To celebrate the upcoming release of FINAL FANTASY XV, Square Enix in collaboration with Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen have announced a week long FINAL FANTASY XV culinary experience.
From the 22nd to the 29th November, the London restaurant will be the host of an exclusive FINAL FANTASY XV menu, featuring a selection of dishes inspired by some of the meals enjoyed by Noctis and his comrades in the game. Fans of the game will be able to come down and request the special menu throughout the week.
‘‘FINAL FANTASY XV has a unique relationship with food. The cooking and sharing of meals by the four friends on their journey emphasises the power a great dish has on bringing people together. We at Fifteen celebrate the magic of food with our meals taking inspiration from all around the world and we’re very pleased to be working together with Square Enix on bringing the fantastic flavours of the game to life.” said Jonathan Woodhouse, Events Manager at Fifteen London.
FINAL FANTASY XV will be available on the 29th November for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4
Watch the new trailer and discover Kong Skull Island now, starring Brie Larson and Tom Hiddleston.
Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures, “Kong: Skull Island” reimagines the origin of the mythic Kong in a compelling, original adventure from director Jordan Vogt-Roberts. In the film, a diverse team of explorers is brought together to venture deep into an uncharted island in the Pacific—as beautiful as it is treacherous—unaware that they’re crossing into the domain of the mythic Kong.
“Kong: Skull Island” stars Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, Oscar winner Brie Larson, John Goodman and John C. Reilly. The international ensemble cast also includes Tian Jing, Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, John Ortiz, Thomas Mann, Shea Whigham, Toby Kebbell and Eugene Cordero. Vogt-Roberts directs the film from a screenplay by Max Borenstein, John Gatins, Dan Gilroy and Derek Connolly. “Kong: Skull Island” is produced by Legendary’s Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni with Mary Parent. The executive producers are Eric McLeod and Alex Garcia. Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures Present a Legendary Pictures Production, “Kong: Skull Island.”
The film will be released worldwide in 2D, 3D in select theatres, and IMAX in March 2017
Bespoke Arcades, who makes quality, customisable arcade entertainment, announced today a London Arcade tour to kick off their Holiday celebrations in style and offer London gamers the chance to win an arcade machine of their own!
Taking up temporary residence at Harrods, London’s premier shopping destination, Bespoke Arcades will be welcoming gaming fans to the 3rd floor Gaming Dept for the entire weekend of 26th and 27th November, armed with complimentary seasonal treats and free-play on their entire arcade range! Come enjoy a mince pie and take part in our ‘Season’s Beatings’ by taking on legendary Guinness World Record holding professional gamer Ryan Hart! Feared throughout the gaming world for his unbeatable skills, Ryan will be challenging those brave enough to face him in battle and gamers even have the chance of winning their very own arcade machine should their skills prove powerful enough!
Bespoke Arcades will also be participating in the prestigious Ideal Home Show at Christmas, taking place at Olympia, London from 23rd November through to 27th November. With their entire jaw-dropping range, including the infamous King-Pin Virtual Pinball Table on show to the public once again, no ideal home would be complete without a Bespoke Arcades cabinet. With exclusive show discounts on offer for a limited time only, gamers have the perfect excuse to treat themselves to what they really want for the holidays!
“This is the time of year for good times and great games and Bespoke Arcades is perfectly positioned to deliver just that! We’re coming to the end of a landmark year for the company, introducing many exciting innovations along with our new King-Pin table and we’re excited to meet the London gaming community as the party season gets into full swing,” said Ben Georget, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Bespoke Arcades. “Ryan Hart is one of the world’s most respected gamers and a fan of Bespoke Arcades. We’re excited to have him join us at our Harrods weekend as we look to broaden our reach amongst gamers across the UK and beyond.”
Atari has opened the gates to RollerCoaster Tycoon World which is available now at retail. As the latest instalment of the beloved RollerCoaster Tycoon series, this full worldwide release offers the most customizable gameplay experience in franchise history.
The game introduces native user-generated content (UGC) functionality, freeform object placement and piece-by-piece building capabilities and a flexible 3D coaster editor. Players everywhere can now design, create and customize their ultimate theme park.
“The RollerCoaster Tycoon franchise is all about individual creativity. That spirit of imagination has sustained the franchise through many generations and was the foundation for our development of RollerCoaster Tycoon World,” said Fred Chesnais, Chief Executive Officer, Atari. “From theme-responsive environments to the UGC system and piece-by-piece building, anything players can dream up can be designed, constructed and placed into their park to make it the most entertaining, or frustrating, experience for their peeps.”
Developed by Nvizzio Creations, the full RollerCoaster Tycoon World release follows an Early Access development period of more than seven months, in which fans provided invaluable feedback that helped shape the final experience. Key features of the theme park simulation and building game include: four major themes (sci-fi, adventure, generic and western) available across five different maps in the Deluxe Edition and three different maps in the Standard Edition, sandbox and campaign modes, 10 coaster types and first-person coaster riding, more than 30 flat rides, fully deformable terrain and water effects for efficient landscape development, a flexible path system and more than 300 scenery items.
RollerCoaster Tycoon World is rated E for Everyone and is available for $34.99 for the Standard Edition and $39.99 for the Deluxe Edition.
Darksiders Warmastered Edition will be their Playstation 4 Pro pioneer, this will be THQ Nordic’s first 4K console game.
On 22nd November, Darksiders Warmastered Edition will release on PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. The PC version will be released on 29th November, and Nintendo’s Wii U version (both retail and digital) will follow at a later stage.
Darksiders Warmastered Edition Features:
PS4, Xbox One and Wii U versions of Darksiders (Wrath of War)
Native 1080p rendering resolution for console platforms
4k support for PC and PS4 Pro
Doubled all the texture resolutions
Rendering improvements and rework
60 FPS in moment to moment gameplay (30 for Wii U)
Screenshot running at 4K
Deceived by the forces of evil into prematurely bringing about the end of the world, War – the first Horseman of the Apocalypse – stands accused of breaking the sacred law by inciting a war between Heaven and Hell. In the slaughter that ensued, the demonic forces defeated the heavenly hosts and laid claim to the Earth. Hunted by a vengeful group of Angels, War must take on the forces of Hell, forge uneasy alliances with the very demons he hunts, and journey across the ravaged remains of the Earth on his quest for vengeance and vindication.
Apocalyptic Power – Unleash the wrath of War, combining brutal attacks and supernatural abilities to decimate all who stand in your way
Extreme Arsenal – Wield a devastating arsenal of angelic, demonic and Earthly weapons; and blaze a trail of destruction atop Ruin, War’s fiery phantom steed
Epic Quest – Battle across the wastelands and demon-infested dungeons of the decimated Earth in your quest for vengeance and redemption
Character Progression – Uncover powerful ancient relics, upgrade your weapons, unlock new abilities, and customize your gameplay style
Screenshot running at 4K
Battle Heaven and Hell – Battle against all who stand in your way – from war-weary angelic forces to Hell’s hideous demon hordes.
Yesterday, Ubisoft announced that WATCH_DOGS 2 is now available on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The game will launch on Windows PC on 29th November.
In WATCH_DOGS 2, players explore the San Francisco Bay Area as Marcus Holloway, a brilliant young hacker from Oakland, wrongly framed for a crime he did not commit by the predictive algorithms of ctOS 2.0.
This upgraded version of the city infrastructure operating system, which was introduced in the first WATCH_DOGS video game, is being used to track, control and manipulate citizens on a massive scale. As Marcus joins the hacktivist group DedSec, they decide to take down ctOS and BLUME, the multinational company behind this oppressive system.
WATCH_DOGS 2 features a vast and dynamic open world offering a variety of environments and gameplay possibilities with extended hacking options and a greater variety of gadgets and weapons. Players can not only hack into the city’s infrastructure but also every person and any connected device to trigger unpredictable chains of events. This unique level of freedom unlocks many opportunities in terms of playstyles and players can choose to use stealth hacking to complete missions without killing a single enemy or go guns blazing for a more ferocious approach.
Data privacy is more prevalent than ever in today’s society and a theme that the WATCH_DOGS brand has been exploring ever since the release of the first opus. WATCH_DOGS 2 expands into hyper connectivity and the growing economy surrounding it. With a multi-story structure, subjects like crime prediction, social media hacking and the internet are presented in a variety of different ways and missions. On their journey, Marcus and the members of DedSec use hacking with a socially motivated purpose to reflect on the values of hacktivism. Offering a fictional environment located in the birthplace of technology and rooted in contemporary events players can related to, WATCH_DOGS 2 raises awareness about key society themes through an entertaining and compelling gameplay experience.
To go even further, last week, Ubisoft revealed Predictive World, an interactive digital experience, developed in collaboration with the Psychometrics Centre of the University of Cambridge and based on scientific research, which reveals what a powerful, all-seeing algorithm can predict about an individual based on their online footprints, public information and Facebook Likes. To try Predictive World and see what your digital footprints reveal about you, visit: watchdogs.com/predictiveworld
