I’ve lost track of how many Yakuza games are in development at any given moment, but it seems makers Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio have space for more on their plate. During this evening’s Game Awards, they announced “Project Century”, a new third-person brawler set in 1915. There’s a trailer below.
Borderlands 4 looks ready to drop the hottest memes of 2011 in first-look trailer
Looter FPS Borderlands 4 has gotten its first trailer, courtesy of Medium Geoff’s Happy Hour and..wait. What you mean it’s three hours? I’m going to die tonight, aren’t I? Ah well, at least I’ll die doing what I’m ambivalent about. Here’s the trailer for Fourderlands, which is out sometime next year.
Helldivers 2’s update adds the dreaded Illuminate faction, plus city maps and bouncy jeeps
Arrowhead and Sony have released a new Helldivers 2 update that introduces the long-rumoured third faction, the Illuminate. Titled Omens of Tyranny, the update also stirs in city maps and a driveable jeep with a mounted gun that immediately reminds me of Halo’s Warthog, and is hopefully just as fragile and bouncy. Here’s a trailer.
Onimusha Way Of The Sword is the Capcom action-RPG’s first new instalment in almost 20 years
Here’s one I didn’t see coming: a new Onimusha game. It’s called Onimusha Way Of The Sword, and is the first new entry in Capcom’s samurai action-horror series since… well, that upcoming VR game doesn’t count, and nor does the Warlords remaster in 2018. So, 2012? Maybe 2006, if you rule out the Unity browser sim? Cor.
The creator of Ico and Shadow Of The Colossus is making a giant robot-piloting game
Fumito Ueda is the august visionary behind ICO (small boy rescues small girl from evil castle), Shadow Of The Colossus (grieving boy murders several massive stone animals), The Last Guardian (small boy and huge, dopey dogcat escape from another evil castle). Now, he’s getting into Gundams, though it looks like small boys are still a feature. Epic Games Publishing have just unveiled Ueda and genDESIGN’s latest creation – Project: Robot. Find a trailer below.
Classic ’90s PC racing series Screamer is returning, from the makers of Hot Wheels Unleashed
Back in the mid ’90s, I was hooked on an PC racing game called Screamer. It got a sequel a couple of years later, and then the series went dormant. Until now, when it’s seemingly returning as a foreboding, anime-infused racer about defying death, once again called simply Screamer. Huh! Huh. You’ll find a trailer below.
There’s a new Sonic Racing game in development
I’m a big fan of Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, which pit Sonic and pals against a stable of characters from Sega’s other games, including Total War and Football Manager. I’m less of a fan of Sonic’s other kart racing exploits, but I’m still cautiously interested to learn he’s getting back behind the wheel. Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds was just announced.
Aaron Paul stars in Dispatch, a story based superhero management game from ex-Telltale devs
Aaron Paul, he of a heartbreakingly fraught performance as Todd in Bojack Horseman, and also Breaking Bad, is starring in a new strategy story game from AdHoc, a studio with ex-Telltale developers at the helm. Dispatch is a story-focused strategy game where you’ll play a broke superhero trying to get himself a new mech suit by working at a hero dispatch center. Having trouble tracking a trailer down for this one, but you can find it here on Steam.
Wait. I’ve found it! Leaving that last bit in though. Consider it my gift to you reader. The gift of visible workflow at 4am.
Naughty Dog are making a sci-fi bounty hunter game called Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet
Naughty Dog have announced their long-gestating new game, and their first in a long while that’s not a sequel. Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is a science fiction bounty hunter game set on a mysterious isolated planet, and the first cinematic trailer is below.
We’re getting an Okami 2, with Hideki Kamiya at the reins
Capcom are working on a sequel to Okami, the wonderful 2006 Zelda-like in which you play a sun goddess in a wolf’s body, roaming a world of ink and parchment. It’s being co-developed by M-TWO Inc, Machine Head Works Inc and CLOVERS Inc, and directed by original Okami game director Hideki Kamiya. I am … Read more