No Man’s Sky Dev Announces New Game, The Last Campfire
Hello Games, the developer behind No Man’s Sky and Joe Danger, has announced a smaller title called The Last Campfire at The Game Awards 2018.
The Last Campfire is described as an adventure, telling the story of a lost Ember searching for meaning and a way home. It’s said to be filled with lost folk, strange creatures and mysterious ruins set in a beautiful wilderness. The trailer shows the player walking, rowing and climbing on their journey home.
The developer is calling it a “Hello Games Short,” which, much like a Pixar short film, is designed to foster creativity and strengthen new voices within the studio on smaller titles. In this case, the creatives behind LostWinds joined Hello Games to create this passion project.
Dauntless Announced for PS4, Xbox One, Switch and Mobile
The online action-RPG Dauntless is officially coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and mobile devices.
Announced at The Game Awards 2018, developer Phoenix Labs shared the news in a new trailer, revealing that the PS4 and Xbox one versions of the game will launch in April, and will become available on the Epic Games Store that same month. The Switch and mobile versions will come sometime later in 2019. The developer also revealed its “One Dauntless” initiative, providing cross-platform play, progression and account management across all of these devices, worldwide.
Dauntless’ newest major content update, Frostfall, is being released today, bringing seasonal content like deep freeze descends on Ramsgate, and Slayers receiving a “chilling challenge” with the introduction of the new behemoth Valomyr. The Dauntless Hunt Pass was also launched today, providing players with new challenges, in-game activities, exclusive items and more for $10 USD.
Winter of Arcade Games Revealed
Today at The Game Awards, Microsoft detailed its Winter of Arcade promotion – a program that highlights nine indie games with incentives for purchasing each one from December 4 through December 21.
You can find the games included in the promotion and their release dates below:
Winter of Arcade Games and Dates
- Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom – Dec. 4
- Mutant Year Zero (Xbox Game Pass included) (IGN Review) – Dec. 4
- Subnautica 1.0 (IGN Review) – Dec. 4
Obsidian Announces New Sci-Fi RPG The Outer Worlds
Today during The Game Awards, developer Obsidian Entertainment and publisher Private Division have announced The Outer Worlds, a new single-player, sci-fi RPG for Xbox One, PS4, and PC coming in 2019.
Set on a colony at the edge of the galaxy where corporations have taken over every aspect of life, your character awakens from hibernation in the midst of a conspiracy that threatens the survival of the colony on the brink of collapse.
As a true single-player RPG, you can build your character into several different playstyles, choose and manage your companions, and drive the story through your decision making, branching dialog, and the actions you take.
The Outer Worlds appears to be a bleak take on commercialism run amok with a strong undercurrent of dark humor throughout the setting and characters.
BioWare Teases New Dragon Age Game
During The Game Awards, BioWare teased the next installment of the Dragon Age franchise.
Though details are scarce, Casey Hudson, general manager at BioWare, revealed a brief video for the upcoming RPG that ended with the hashtag #TheDreadWolfRises.
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Late last month, Hudson teased a Dragon Age announcement via the BioWare blog. Shortly thereafter it was reported this next Dragon Age won't be released for several years, though it is currently in development alongside Bio
Crash Team Racing Remaster Announced
Activision has announced that a Crash Team Racing remaster is real, and already has a release date.
Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled will be released on June 21, 2019 for PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch, Activision confirmed at The Game Awards following an orange dice-fueled tease earlier this week.
Nitro-Fueled is developed by Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions devs Beenox Interactive and brings back all the original content from the original PlayStation's CTR, built from the ground up with new visuals and audio. All characters, tracks, and arenas will return, with Adventure, Arcade Single and Cup Race, Time Trials, and Battle modes all returning. Nitro-Fueled will also feature online multiplayer for these modes.
Anthem’s Story Trailer Reveals a New Villain
At the 2018 Game Awards show in Los Angeles, EA and BioWare unveiled the first story trailer for its upcoming online multiplayer action RPG, Anthem. While the trailer is short, there are important narrative details that shed light on the NPCs you'll interact with, and the motivations behind our heroes' adventures as they venture out into a hostile world that forces them to wear armored Javelin suits and fight big scary things.
At a press briefing just before the Game Awards, IGN spoke to Anthem's game director, Jonathan Warner, along with lead producer Michael Gamble about what you can expect to find from a story perspective when the game launches on Feb. 22.
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Bastion, Transition Game Studio Announces New Game
Hades is the next game by Supergiant Games, and it's now available in Early Access on the Epic Games Store.
The rouge-like dungeon crawler was announced at The Game Awards and, as of right now, is only available on PC for $20 USD. The official Hades website says to "expect regular updates with new features, events, characters, places, powers, and more."
Hades is Supergiant Games' first Early Access project and its FAQ promises support for the game for at least "a year and a half from
initial launch." The FAQ also says that the Early Access launch build doesn't have an endpoint and can be played "indefinitely due to its structure and design." The end of the story will be saved for when development is finished.
Ubisoft Reveals Far Cry New Dawn
At The Game Awards tonight, Ubisoft announced a standalone sequel to Far Cry 5 titled Far Cry New Dawn.
Set 17 years after a global nuclear disaster, Far Cry New Dawn drops players into a beautiful yet transformed Hope County, Montana – the primary setting of Far Cry 5.
The player will be cast in the role of a survivor facing an entirely new threat in the form of the Highwaymen, a band of scavengers, led by The Twins, Mickey and Lou – the main antagonists of New Dawn.
Players will be tasked with mounting a resistance and strengthening the Survivors camp, who live in a base known as Prosperity. This is where players will be able craft ramshackle weapons and vehicles and recruit new Guns for Hire, which are said to include "new and familiar faces". But more intriguingly, this will also be where players access 'Expeditions', which for the first time in the series take players beyond the core map. These Expeditions are said to take place in "memorable locations across the US, from wetlands to canyons and more".
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order Announced For Switch
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order was just announced for a 2019 release, exclusively for the Nintendo Switch, at the Game Awards.
The third entry in the action RPG series was announced with a trailer, which showed off featured characters like the Hulk, Spider-Man, the Guardians of the Galaxy and Wolverine fighting against enemies like Green Goblin, the Sentinels and many more. It features a new top-down view and will be developed by Koei Tecmo Games and Team Ninja and published by Nintendo.
Per a press release, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order will bring together familiar heroes and villains across the Marvel Universe to battle for the Infinity Gauntlet. "This unprecedented team of characters must use their unique superpowers to defeat the mad cosmic tyrant Thanos and his ruthless warmasters, The Black Order."