Almost two years after announcing a survival game based on the Terminator movies, Nacon today revealed the game is named Terminator: Survivors and will enter early access in October. It's set in 2009 after the end of the world, and will see us scavenging to get by as a fledging resistance begins to form. Expect cooperative multiplayer, solo play, base management, and a trailer which doesn't show much of anything.
]]>Today’s Nacon Connect event included gritty antiheroes such as the Terminator and RoboCop, but I never would’ve expected to see Robin Hood there too. Appeal Studios’ Gangs Of Sherwood is an upcoming third-person PvE co-op action game that puts you in the dainty shoes of the Merry Men. This time though, it’s set in a dystopian future instead of Ye Merry Olde England. Watch the announcement teaser below to see what you think of that.
]]>A new The Lord Of The Rings: Gollum trailer has dropped at today's Nacon Connect, which shows Mr Precious scamper about in some suitably fantastical locations. He hops between some bushes, dodges a dragon, and chucks something at an orc - all the staples of a Hobbit who's gone goblin mode. I'm still a bit on the fence about it, though.
]]>Robo-revolutionary Soulslike Steelrising left me impressed when I played its opening hours not too long ago. So much so, I thought it was a homage to Bloodborne's best bits. And at today's Nacon Connect, developers Spiders unveiled a new trailer which shows ballerina-turned-bodyguard Aegis fight off some metallic monstrosities, mixed in with a bit of parkour. Seriously, I'm excited for this one.
]]>At today's Nacon Connect, we got a little more info on upcoming action adventure game Hell Is Us from its creative director Jonathan Jacques-Belletête. In-between agonising jargon like "narrative layers" and "high-level directives", there's some neat concept art and info on what we can expect from the story, combat, and exploration.
]]>Today’s Nacon Connect event had a bunch of licensed games starring pop culture figures both old and older, but one standout among them was Nacon Studio Milan’s upcoming Terminator survival game. Will you be able to play as Terminators? It's not yet clear. Heck, it's so early on the game doesn't even have a proper name yet. Feel free to recoil in fear from the announcement teaser trailer below.
]]>Robocop: Rogue City aims to be authentic to the first three films in the series, which means it'll either be a thoughtful exploration of what it means to be human and a cutting satire of American culture, or it'll be about fighting robot ninjas and having a jetpack. Or both! The first proper trailer of the game confirms only that it'll definitely be a mid-budget first-person shooter.
]]>Life, as Nacon calls it, is a new series of life sims themed around professions. It is not realistic in any way shape or form. The trailer’s narrator opens a restaurant. She plans out everything from the layout to the menu, and then plates the food for every order. One week later they’re fully booked up and everything is going great. Time to plan for a new career, apparently. “Tomorrow, I’m still deciding whether to become a surgeon or maybe an architect?” is a line directly lifted from the trailer.
Instead of a job simulator, it comes across as a self-actualisation exercise. I fully expected it to end on a record scratch and to find out that she's been sitting on the toilet eating cereal out of a cat litter bin. But no, reality never intruded on Life.
]]>We've seen a handful of videos of SteelRising already. The new game from middling RPG specialists Spiders is set during an alternate history 18th century Paris, one filled with robots. It's a setting that lets you write fun sentences, like explaining that you play as Aegis, the automaton bodyguard for Marie Antoinette.
Below is the first time we've seen the game's combat in action, though.
]]>The revival of the Test Drive Unlimited series was announced last year with footage of a developer talking and an unfinished 3D car model. Now we're one step closer to a game existing: there's a new CG trailer below, which reveals the game's setting is Hong Kong.
]]>Bloody hell, I'm starting to lose track of all these World Of Darkness gigs. Taking the spotlight with a new trailer during tonight's Nacon Connect showcase, Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong is a blood-sucking RPG from Big Bad Wolf that follows three unlikely (and undead) friends teaming up to investigate blood-curdling conspiracies in the heart of Boston. While it's still early days, Swansong will arrive on the Epic Games Store sometime next year.
]]>A beautifully drawn gothic fantasy roguelike where you get to play as demons fighting hordes of good guys? Sign me right up. During the Nacon Connect stream, Cyanide (makers of Blood Bowl and Styx) just gave us another look at their upcoming game, Rogue Lords, which is on track to release next year. Set in a world based on superstitious 17th century England, you play as the Devil who's returning to Earth to take revenge on his arch-enemy Van Helsing.
]]>The creators of Bloodbowl, Cyanide Studio, have released the first "gameplay trailer" for their upcoming action RPG, Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Earthblood. Based on the World Of Darkness tabletop RPG, the video game's a lot going on - freaky creatures, guns, gore, a bit too much punctuation, and now it's even got a release date. It's a little ways off yet though, as it'll be making its way to PC and consoles on February 4th, 2021.
]]>Games don't have to open with a wild premise, but it doesn't hurt. Spiders, the makers of Greedfall, have just announced Steelrising, an action-RPG set in an alternative version of revolutionary France in which King Louis XVI is a massacre-happy tyrant.
That's enough to catch my interest a little. But they went on to explain that he also has an army of automatons, and I had to pause to laugh with joy. This is the kind of bonkers that games were invented for. They've shared a trailer too, and a few hints about what we can expect.
]]>The open-worldracing and conspicuous consumption of Test Drive Unlimited will return after almost a decade in a new game, publishers Nacon announced today. Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown will vroom off to another island to race around and wear designer clothes. While series creators Eden Games are long-closed, Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown is being made under the eye of Alain Jarniou, who previously worked on the series as the game director of TDU2. They don't have much to show of the game for now but hey, it's coming.
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