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After teasing a reveal of the next expansion for their popular city-building game, Cities Skylines, Paradox Interactive streamed out the reveal with a new trailer and some discussion of the features coming within it. Joined by people from Colossal Order, the expansion was revealed to be “Natural Disasters” with a trailer that said “That’s a nice city you have there. Would be a shame if something… were to happen to it.”
The disasters themselves will be a randomly-occurring event in-game, which will affect some part of the city and will require some pre-planning to try to minimise possible damage and then management of the immediate dealing with the disaster and the clean-up aftermath. Fortunately, for those of you who prefer to use Cities as a way to express yourself artistically with beautiful, well-structured cities; natural disasters will be something you can turn off from happening randomly and instead trigger manually if you wish to. That function will also be useful for video-makers as well I dare say.
So far the only disaster we know about for certain is the meteor strike we get to see in the trailer. There will be others coming, but Paradox and Colossal will be giving more details about them later in the year before release. As part of the new things coming to the game there is a focus mainly on city services, with the police, fire and others getting new helicopter vehicles to help deal with a disaster aftermath and an entire new city service will be added in the form of a disaster response force to get in and extract survivors in the immediate aftermath of a disaster.
Outside of the city service additions, there will also be a ‘Scenarios’ gamemode added in which you are given a task to complete with clear win and lose conditions set out. As part of that, the game will also get a Scenario Editor for players to create their own, which will be shareable through Steam Workshop and will be added to the game as a free update to everyone who has the base game, regardless of whether or not you buy the expansion. There were also hints at something that they were working with modders on for the future, as well as radio stations coming to Cities which we hope you’ll be able to add your own music and audio streams to.
Natural Disasters is due to release sometime in the Winter 2016 period. Keep your eyes open for more information as we approach that time.
Mother Russia Bleeds is an ultra-violent co-op brawler overflowing with an unmistakable style and unforgettably brutal action for up to four players at once. Set in an alternate U.S.S.R, the story centers on a desperate crew of imprisoned street fighters that must overcome an oppressive criminal authority and crippling drug addictions through any means necessary. Battle solo or alongside friends locally and online in an exceptional story mode campaign or harden your resolve in a multitude of formidable challenge and versus modes.
In an interesting hark back to teh games I grew up with, Le cartel, a small indie in France has teamed up with Devolver digital to bring us Mother Russia Bleeds, a side scrolling beat’em up in the style of final Fight or Streets of Rage.
Showing off gameplay today at GamesCom, we got to see some of the graphically violent gameplay that immediately felt natural for those of us that grew up on those iconic side scrollers.
The graphics are typically pixel based but incrediblt detailed, and the game play flows really quickly.
The game allows for 4 player co-op with the difficulty increasing/decreasing based ont eh number of players in game aswell.
This looks like a really fun game for a few freinds either on console or pc and is out on PC/Mac/Linux via STEAM on September 5th, with console versions coming a little later
Playtonic have released a new trailer for their upcoming game Yooka-Laylee and it looks beautiful.
The trailer takes us through some of the worlds of Yooka-Laylee, showing off our duo as they journey across the world collecting pick ups, using special moves to fight enemies and solve puzzles and even one of the transformations in which both Yooka and Laylee are clearly visible in a snowplough form.
For those who backed Playtonic’s spiritual successor, the elements that Playtonic have brought over from Banjo-Kazooie to Yooka-Laylee will be obvious in this trailer. It looks to be just the 90s-inspired tag team platformer that we hoped for.
A new trailer has been released for psychological horror game Get Even, putting the release date in Spring 2017 for both consoles and PC. The game was originally announced two years ago, and details have been scarce since the game’s 2016 release window got delayed.
Most of the clues about the game have come from the brief descriptions of it as a first-person shooter that would blend singelplay and multiplayer elements to create a distorted game world, and the snippets of gameplay and trailers we’ve had which now includes this one. The trailer itself is mainly atmospheric and shows off a girl with a bomb strapped to her chest, a mental asylum and is generally mostly intended to set a scene.
Hopefully the date isn’t going to be moved again and more details will soon be released. Check out the trailer below:
Yesterday in EA’s conference we heard that the Star Wars Battlefront game is due to get a VR expansion in the holiday season, based off the upcoming Rogue One film. Today we discovered that it wasn’t the only one coming soon.
Announced during streams, the Death Star expansion will bring a new multi-stage game mode- Battle Station – to Battlefront. The first will be a battle in space between the Rebels and Empire, bringing space dogfighting into a game in response to fans asking for it; the second will take part inside the corridors of the Death Star as the Rebels enter to try and locate and rescue R2D2 (who will be playable!) and will involve much more close-up combat; the third and last part will take part along the surface of the Death Star as you fly your ships in for a trench run on the Death Star in an attempt to destroy it.
As part of it new playable heroes will be available, the Rebels getting Luke Skywalker inside of Red Five with two wingment included; while the Empire will get Vader in his ship, again with two wingmen. Also outside of the space battles other playable heroes are entering the game now, including Chewbacca.
The Death Star expansion will be releasing a bit sooner than the afore-mentioned Rogue One expansion, releasing during the month of September some time.
