Taken from the Furon Handbook of Infiltration and Invasions, page 29, chapter 2:
“Cut off the Snake’s Head”. When preparing a hostile planet for a Furon Invasion, it is key to attack the chain of command of the enemy society. Locate the seat of the enemy leader or government and burn it to the ground, including said leader or government. This will throw defending forces into disarray and shock the inhabitants of the target planet. Shocked inhabitants are not able to form a noteworthy resistance (See Page 122, Chapter 18 of this handbook).”
For the upcoming 4th of July, Black Forest Games, Developer of Destroy All Humans! have prepared a nice little fireworks display to celebrate! Have a look at the new trailer:
Destroy All Humans! will launch on July 28th and is available for pre-order on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One from your preferred retailer, and also available for pre-order digitally on PC and Xbox One. The SRP of the PC version is €29.99 / $29.99 / £24.99 / ₽1.529, and the SRP for consoles is €39.99 / $39.99 / £34.99 / ₽2.799 (PlayStation 4 and Xbox One). Pre-order Skins available via selected channels only!
Team17 has revealed the first details of Worms Rumble, the brand-new instalment in the iconic and multi-award-winning Worms franchise, which this year celebrates its 25th anniversary. Announced for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and PC, and set for a late 2020 launch, Worms Rumble will be the first game in the series to feature real-time combat and multi-platform cross-play, with up to 32 players able to take part in matches in a range of arena maps, including a multi-levelled shopping mall – complete with its own ballistic missile silo.
Registration is now open for players to participate in a closed beta of Worms Rumble on Steam, which begins on Wednesday 15th July at 12pm BST and runs through to Monday 20th July at 8am BST. The beta gives players their first chance to take part in the next stage of the Worms real-time revolution.
Worms Rumble will be fully-supported by ongoing, content updates featuring new arenas and customisations. Players will be able to level up their Worm and progress through the ranks, earning new weapons skins and character customisations, accessories and emotes as they go. Today’s announcement reveals some of the weapons making their way into Worms Rumble at launch later this year, including the Baseball Bat, Hand Cannon, Bazooka, Assault Rifle, and Shotgun.
Worms Rumble features:
Worms goes real-time: Every round is in REAL TIME. When enemies rain down fire, unleash heck right back!
Up-to-32-player, cross-platform multiplayer: Play across PlayStation generations and PC, with Deathmatch and Last Worm Standing solo and squad battle royale modes available at launch
Classic Weapons/New Ways to Play: Arm Worms with new and returning fan-favourite weapons, including the Bazooka, Holy Hand Grenade, and Hand Cannon
Events, Challenges and ‘The Lab’: Take part in seasonal events, daily and community challenges, and experiment with new gameplay mechanics and weapons in ‘The Lab’.
Player Customisations: Earn XP and in-game currency to unlock and purchase weapon skins, outfits, accessories and emotes. Players create their personal style for the battlefield.
Adam Findlay, Lead Designer, Team17, said: “Yes we teased a new Worms game earlier in the year, and yes some in the community were speculating that we’d be taking the franchise into real-time action – and they were, of course, correct! Worms Rumble represents a significant rethink around the Worms experience, and not just because of the switch from turn-based gameplay. The up-to-32-player online cross-play between generations of PlayStation consoles and PC will unite the community and newcomers to the series in wonderfully Worm-tastic mayhem!”
Max Everingham, Head of Publishing, Team17, said: “Today we’ve thrown an exploding sheep into the room and announced the most significant shake-up for Worms in… possibly ever! Worms Rumble and its real-time gameplay and promise of regular content updates underlines how we’re adapting an iconic franchise and keeping it fresh in its milestone 25th year and beyond.”
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During the second ‘Outirders Broadcast’ SQUARE ENIX revealed new information and gameplay footage for OUTRIDERS, the highly anticipated upcoming RPG-Shooter from People Can Fly, the developers of Gears of War: Judgment and BULLETSTORM, and Square Enix External Studios, the minds behind SLEEPING DOGS and JUST CAUSE.
The “Journey and Structure” feature presents an in-depth look at the campaign, side-quests, companions and travel system in OUTRIDERS, plus the video reveals several new environments and enemy types.
OUTRIDERS is a massive experience, not just in terms of the hours of gameplay it will offer, but in how far you travel in the course of the game’s dark sci-fi story. The campaign will take you on an epic journey across Enoch, a savage world where everything has mysteriously hyper-evolved to wipe Humanity from the face of the planet. From the lives and secrets within the Human colony, to the mysterious jungles and unforgiving deserts, you will explore the far reaches of the frontiers, gain incredible powers, and make discoveries that will change everything.
It was also announced that Emmy Award Winner and three-time BAFTA nominee Inon Zur is the musical talent behind the original soundtrack of OUTRIDERS. His vast experience and exquisite expertise brings the world of OUTRIDERS to life in a one of a kind fashion.
“As a composer it’s always extremely exciting to be involved in building new worlds and telling new stories, so I’m thrilled to reveal that I have composed the score for People Can Fly and Square Enix’s epic sci-fi action game OUTRIDERS. It was a lot of fun blending heavy orchestral soundscapes and futuristic musical sound design for this rollercoaster sci-fi adventure and I can’t wait to share the music with you.” said Inon Zur.
“We were really excited to have Inon on board to do the soundtrack for the game. He’s a legend in the industry and the team were big fans of his work already,” said Bartek Kmita, Creative Director of OUTRIDERS at People Can Fly. “He worked closely with us to develop a sound that fit with the story and world that we’re creating, and he composed truly dynamic and powerful tracks for us that added so much depth to the tone and feel of the game.”
The “Journey and Structure” feature is just one of the segments in the second OUTRIDERS Broadcast, a show that reveals new details of the dark and desperate world of OUTRIDERS. Discover all-new gameplay, environments, character class deep dives, and updates from the team in this on-going video series.
OUTRIDERS will release on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X, the Xbox One family of devices, and PC in Holiday 2020.
Assemble in Fortnite this week and get The First Avenger… Captain America!
Debuting today in the Item Shop, Cap’s Outfit includes two items: his Proto-Adamantium Pickaxe and Back Bling. Wield the shield as your pickaxe, or display it proudly on your back.
Additionally, you can celebrate Captain America’s arrival with the Grand Salute Emote!
Get fresh insights into the development of HITMAN 3 from IO Interactive developers. This new video reveals more details about the tone and story of the game:
HITMAN III will be available in January 2021 for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X, Xbox One and PC.
EGX, the UK’s biggest gaming event scheduled to take place at the ExCeL, London from 17th – 20th September 2020, has been cancelled due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. To continue to provide fans with their video game fix, ReedPop is introducing its first-ever online event to take place across 3 continents, bringing a global gaming audience together digitally this September
EGX will be joining forces with PAX Online to bring fans the around the clock, 24-hour online content that they love. From the 12th – 20th September 2020, EGX Digital, sponsored by Virgin Media, will be the online show that celebrates the very best in gaming from the comfort of your own home. Attendees can expect many of their favourite features from the show, including landmark sessions with developers, panels, playable games; Let’s Play content with some of the biggest names in gaming; competitive gaming; hundreds of indie titles, Meets and Greets and much more. Free to everyone, EGX Digital will offer an unmissable 9–day experience to make new friends and discover the latest from the global gaming community.
The introduction of the digital event will give fans everything they love about the show from the safety of their homes, David continued: “We’re hugely excited to introduce EGX Digital, sponsored by Virgin Media, where we’ll be partnering with PAX to bring you an epic virtual gaming experience. Working with PAX gives us the huge advantage of a global event, running around the clock and featuring brilliant new content and contributions from ReedPop editorial brands including Eurogamer, Dicebreaker, VG247, gamesindustry.biz, and Rock Paper Shotgun. Our unique powerhouse of events and digital expertise will make EGX Digital an awesome online event for everyone involved.”
Cilesta Van Doorn, Executive Director of Brand & Marketing at Virgin Media, said: “We are really excited about working to deliver an incredible digital event accessible to even more people. We’ve always given gamers an incredible experience at EGX through exclusive first play opportunities, gaming giveaways and the chance to experience our ultrafast broadband speeds. Now we are really looking forward to celebrating and supporting gamers online at EGX Digital.”
More details for EGX Digital will be announced over the coming weeks, please visit the official EGX website and social media channels for updates.
Rezzed customers who have had their tickets transferred over to EGX 2020, including those with tickets to Jesse Cox and OX, will be automatically be refunded over the next few weeks.
For more information on what happens next, please visitEGX 2020 FAQs.
PlayStation is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the launch of PlayStation Plus on PS3, ushering in paid multiplayer services and monthly downloadable games for subscribers, and so we come to the the July line up of PS Plus titles:
Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Anniversary Edition
NBA 2K20
Bonus Game: Erica (Erica Companion App and internet connection required)
This feature-length cinematic experience merges high-fidelity Hollywood production values with engaging, tactile gameplay. Become Erica, a brave young lady plagued with nightmares of your father’s murder. With the traumatic events that have haunted you as a child dragged back into the light of the present-day vis grisly new clues, it’s up to you to unearth the shocking truth behind this devastating tragedy. Every choice you make influences how the game develops, with multiple endings awaiting you at the finale of the emotional branching narrative.
To finish off the 10th Anniversary of PS Plus, a free theme will be released later this month for PS4 and a free weekend on PS Plus will run over the July 4th Weekend.
An Active subscription to PS Plus is required to qualify for PS Plus free Titles.
Games with Gold for July 2020 have been announced and…..well, it is yet another month completely over shadowed by ‘Xbox Game Pass’. The now common practice of including a racing game has left many rather unimpressed with this line up.
On Xbox One, command your rally car to victory in extreme conditions in WRC 8 FIA World Rally Championship and rule the court with high-flying dunks and confidence-smashing rejections in Dunk Lords. On the Xbox 360, and Xbox One via Backward Compatibility, take back Stilwater in the classic Saints Row 2 and save the land from an ancient evil in the platformer, Juju.
To qualify for ‘Games With Gold’ you must have an ACTIVE Xbox LIVE GOLD subscription.
“Bounty of Blood, the latest Borderlands3 campaign DLC, is out now! Grab your six-shooter – or whatever fancy guns you Vault Hunters carry these days – and go put those damned Devil Riders in the ground!
Vault Hunters, mount up! The Sheriff of Vestige on the frontier planet of Gehenna has issued a bounty on the Devil Riders gang, and it’s time to collect. The violent, beast-riding mercenaries have been harassing the townsfolk, and their unwanted attention is taking such a toll that the locals have started turning to outsiders for help. These folks are tough as hell—they wouldn’t have survived this long on a brutal, unforgiving planet that was previously a weapons testing ground otherwise—and they’ll do what they can to help. But it falls on you to take the fight to the Devil Riders and put them in the ground so the town can be rebuilt and folks can get back on their feet.
Bounty of Blood is the third of four campaign add-ons that are included with the Borderlands 3 Super Deluxe Edition and Season Pass. It’s also available to purchase separately, though you’ll need to own a copy of Borderlands 3 to play it.
Borderlands 3 is out now for Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC.
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The first ‘Night City Wire’ Event has taken place giving fans of Cyberpunk 2077 a look at a brand new trailer, featuring only content from the game’s Prologue missions, to tease us as the wait for the new November 19th 2020 release date:
Hollie Bennett, Communications Manager for CD Projekt Red, is our host for the event and follows the trailer by confiming that just as Smart Delivery for Xbox Series X will give those who purchase the game for Xbox One a free upgrade for the next gen Xbox but those buying it for PlayStation 4 will also benefit from the same FREE update for PS5. More details of these will come before launch:
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Anime series announced for 2022 via a partnership with Studio Trigger and NETFLIX. CYBERPUNK: EDGERUNNERS tells a standalone, 10-episode story about a street kid trying to survive in a technology and body modification-obsessed city of the future. Having everything to lose, he chooses to stay alive by becoming an edgerunner—a mercenary outlaw also known as a cyberpunk.
Next we get to see “Brain Dance” in action, brain dan in the world of Cyberpunk is technology that allows the recording of memories in order for it to be played back and in the world of Cyberpunk it has many different uses from entertainment medium, military uses and information gathering use. The gameplay shows something very similar to the Detective Mode from the Batman Arkham series where you can forward or rewind a section of time to piece together what happened by fully exploring every element that happens within that section of time.
Night City Wire – Episode 1 in Full
My Reaction….
Everything about Cyberpunk 2077 has just capture my imagination from the very moment CD Projekt Red announced it as its next game after The Witcher 3. Every trailer, evry developer breakdown of gameplay just makes me want Cyberpunk 2077 in my console right now.
The world is just immense in terms of freedom of choice and playing style, the ‘Brain Dance’ mechanic has so many possibilities to how it can be used from a story telling and mission device and visually the world is so vibrant and alive and again, that new trailer is made up of the prologue alone….THE PROLOGUE????
The new delay is a painful one for fans but you can clearly see just from this event and the new gameplay footage as well as the long term plan to build a whole universe around this game with the anime series ‘Cyberpunk: Edgerunners set for 2022, that CD Projekt Red are going full on into this new universe and the game is just the first chapter. Im so excited for this game that I even gave my Cyberpunk 2077 Xbox Controller Box a little hug and whispered…SOOON as Hollie left fans with the news that Episode 2 of Night City Wire is set for just a few weeks time!
Cyberpunk 2077, an open-world, action-adventure story from CD PROJEKT RED, is coming to Xbox One, PS4 and PC November 19th, 2020.
THQ Nordic and developer Experiment 101 have released a brand new Trailer for BioMutant showcasing some fresh gameplay but sadly still not offering a release date.
If you were going to make a new Biomutant gameplay trailer, what would you show? Impressive cities and vast landscapes? Action-packed combat, true martial arts masters showing off their skills or an outpost being conquered? Wild, exotic and fluffy creatures, plus majestic, towering bosses who test your limits? Crazy mutations and abilities on the Hero? A submarine, an airship a combat mech and some mounts for the hero to ride on? Or just So. Many. Weapons?
Biomutant is still showing on the official Website as coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC Via STEAM. No Mention of New Gen consoles in PS5 or Xbox Series X however.
For those who may not recognise the name, The Banished was first introduced into the HALO Universe in HALO Wars 2. The Banished were formed by the formidable Atriox and several Jiralhanae loyal to him who rebelled against their Sangheili masters during the Human-Covenant War. They grew in size and power acting as pirates, picking off the remainder of Covenant forces and assets.
To hear that they are now to play a part in HALO Infinite has me very excited indeed! Hopefully we will lean more when Xbox hold their July ‘Inside Xbox’ Online event where for the first time, Xbox will reveal what the 15 Microsoft Studio developers have been working on for Xbox Series X.
SQUARE ENIX released the first Marvel’s Avengers War Table digital stream providing the most in-depth look yet at Marvel’s Avengers so far yesterday evening.
The Marvel’s Avengers War Table offered players a world premiere look at new trailers, including a first showing of new Thor gameplay in his, “Once an Avenger” campaign hero mission. This playthrough follows The God of Thunder as he battles enemies with powerful lightning strikes, unleashes a barrage of Mjolnir attacks, and performs many other signature heroic moves solo and with AI Avengers teammates.
The stream also offered more details on the game’s central villain, MODOK (Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing), who Marvel fans will recognize as the artificially mutated, super intelligent overlord of AIM (Advanced Idea Mechanics).
Lastly, Crystal Dynamics revealed brand-new information about War Zones, the game’s team-based missions, including their structure and how the Avengers become even more powerful when working together. War Zones can be played either solo with AI hero companions, or in co-op groups of up to four players. The stream also revealed more of the game’s world, from AIM’s research facilities to a derelict Helicarrier, all of which can be explored by players to earn new rewards, gear, and experience points.
Marvel’s Avengers offers players a truly rich experience, with a combination of Hero Missions and War Zones. Hero Missions are single-player only and are part of the initial Campaign. They are designed to showcase each hero’s unique abilities as you reassemble your growing roster. War Zones can be played solo or with a group of up to four players as any Hero in your roster. Each mission dynamically scales based on the team size and player level.
Players in Marvel’s Avengers will also be able to customize Earth’s Mightiest Heroes in a number of ways. While each Super Hero will play true to their unique power sets, each will have the flexibility to play differently based on the gear you equip them with and the skills you enable, so no two player’s heroes will play in exactly the same way. Each hero has dynamic combo systems, Heroic moves, an intrinsic ability, and signature move sets to unlock and customize – many inspired by classic moves from the 80 years of history in all media, others crafted as originals just for this game.
Players also customize these iconic Super Heroes with classic, fan-favorite, and all-new original outfits inspired by over 80-years of Marvel history, including Iron Man’s suit from the 2014 Original Sin storyline, or Thor’s Donald Blake identity, which is a nod to an alias of Thor’s who first appeared in 1962’s Journey into Mystery issue 83.
Marvel’s Avengers is an ambitious game, starting with a global high-stakes race to rebuild the Avengers. But that’s just the beginning. To ensure a continuing heroic experience for all players, the narrative of Marvel’s Avengers expands, and threats escalate with each new post-release Super Hero, region and story arc delivered to players at no additional cost once they own the core game.
Finally, in case you missed it, earlier this week SQUARE ENIX announced that Marvel’s Avengers will be available on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X when the consoles launch in Holiday 2020. Players who own the current-gen version of the game will be able to upgrade to the next-gen version at no additional cost, regardless if players are moving from PlayStation® 4 to PlayStation 5 or Xbox One to Xbox Series X. Those moving their saves to next-gen will transfer their player profiles and progression so they can pick up right where they left off. In addition, cross-gen play will be supported so PS5™ players will be able to play with their friends on PS4™ and Xbox Series X players will be connected with their friends on Xbox One.
Marvel’s Avengers will release simultaneously for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Stadia, and PC on h September 4, 2020.
Fans of Cyberpunk 2077 are hungry for new information about the game and tonight from 5pm BST , fans will be treated to the ‘Night City Wire’ event which was postponed from earlier in the month:
Join us tomorrow, June 25 at 6PM CEST, at https://t.co/cBU8yS6pfc for the first, 25 minute episode of #NightCityWire, where we are going to show you a brand new trailer, present fresh gameplay footage and chat with the devs in detail about one of the game features, braindance. pic.twitter.com/2RReyCMkce
I am very excited to see the new Trailer and especially new gameplay, the last of which I was lucky enough to be present at a LIVE Guided gameplay presentation last year at EGX 2019, guided by the brilliant Head of Communcations for CD Projekt Red herself Hollie Bennett who is also going to be hosting tonight’s event.
Cyberpunk 2077 is now scheduled to release on November 19th 2020 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. It will also get enhanced at no extra charge for Xbox Series X with Smart Delivery as well as the PlayStation 4 with further upgrades to come in 2021.
