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.

Check out the trailer below!

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.

After a while of hinting at it in-game it seems that we were right. Aliens are coming to Elite: Dangerous and soon it looks like. Frontier showed off patch 2.2 at Gamescom today, and the first official reveal of the alien antagonists was just one of the things teased.

In the presentation today Frontier showed a massive green ship for a brief time, floating through the wreckage of many human ships it had apparently just finished taking out. This was just a glimpse though, a tease of what is to come on Sunday in a livestream.

Another thing talked about was a drone system, releasing smaller ships from a larger vessel to act as guards. You’ll be able to switch between your large vessel and the smaller ships at will as well, with an AI controlling whichever one you are not at the time. The smaller ships are supposedly cheap enough to be considered sacrificial and meant for close-quarters combat, just as some of the current player ships are depending on your set up.

All this fits in with other teasers and news we’ve had in the past about non-combat large ships that Frontier were planning to introduce into the game, we knew that passengers and multi-crew functions were coming for the game in the next few patches at least. 2.2 will be the patch for passengers and this new drone system is going to alleviate some concerns people might have had about the large luxury liner ships.

The last thing that we found out is that some of the space station interiors are due to get a visual update, making them much prettier to look at. It’ll only be coming to some of the richer sectors of the galaxy though, so as not to confuse things by having lovely fittings in a station and system much too poor to afford such things.

Of course, this is only a peek at what is next for Elite, with more to come in livestreams across the week.

Bandai kicked off their show at Gamescom 2016 on Twitch with a trailer for an interesting looking new title called Little Nightmares, due out in Spring 2017.

With the tagline “Play With Your Childhood Fears” and a very creepy aesthetic, it definitely stood out. The animation looks to be stop motion. Described by the producers as a suspense exploration title it features a small girl as a protagonist who has to be smart and sneak around any enemies she encounters. The gameplay demo showed her using a lighter to light her way, using noises to distract enemies, climbing on the environment and throwing a clay pot down on a chef who was trying to grab her. One disturbing sequence also required you to grind some type of meat in a sausage grinder to create a dangling rope of meat to swing across a gap. Little Nightmares seems interesting and atmospheric from the small amount that was shown.

The next game up was Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2. Immediately notable in the game were Dragon Ball GT characters, with the developers confirming that the game would be focused on Dragon Ball Z along with characters from all the movies and GT. Changes from Xenoverse to Xenoverse 2 include a 60FPS framerate and improved online play. The game looked very similar to the first Xenoverse, but combat appeared to be much faster and more fluid. Targeting and rushing have been improved, along with a new dash mechanic to help you close with enemies. There are also more quests to do online, along with a bigger hub city. The game will also be incorporating the Dragon Ball Super story to a certain extent, although the developers stated it was hard to include because the game has been in development for some time and Dragon Ball Super is rather new. However, they do plan on trying to include it.

The developers spoke repeatedly about taking community feedback, as well as continuing to support the new game after launch. It seems that Bandai is determined to make everything about Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 bigger and better. As a fan of the original, I’m excited to get some playtime with the new one. Xenoverse 2 should be available October 16 of this year.

Bandai followed up Xenoverse 2 with another fighting game, this one arguably one of the flagship titles of the genre: Tekken 7. The game is meant to give players some idea as to why the ongoing fight between the families in the game, as well as the Devil Gene, have been happening for the last 20 years. Tekken 7 has been created on the Unreal Engine 4, which allowed Bandai to bring a new level of detail to the game. It was also revealed that Akuma was built in the game with no input from Capcom. Instead Bandai studied his moves and have build him to work in their 3d engine.

There are also new characters coming to the game as well as characters returning from past titles that haven’t been seen in some time, with this game having the most new characters to date. Some characters also have some unique mechanics a la Akuma. One such was the rage art, which is a character specific command that does massive damage, and also has armor on startup to make it harder to interrupt. These moves are flashy and powerful and are meant to finish opponents.

Tekken 7 will be released in early 2017 on Xbox One, PS4 and PC.