Injustice 2's release is now just hours away, and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is marking the occasion with the release of a launch trailer.
At this point, there isn't a ton we don't know about Injustice 2, as developer NetherRealm Studios has provided an in-depth look at numerous elements of the game. That leaves this launch trailer to briefly tease out the story, show off some gameplay, and highlight its many characters (and their different looks). You can check it out above.
Customization is a significant component of Injustice 2. Its gear system allows you to make adjustments to a character's stats and appearance, although you're able to opt out of playing with stat-changing gear if you so desire. NetherRealm provided us with an in-depth explanation of how the system works earlier this year and recently published a trailer that provides an overview of it.
New details are out today about Tokyo 42's frenetic multiplayer mode. In the trailer above, we get a sneak preview of the all-out carnage that breaks out after players discover each other.
"Each player starts with a randomized skin and very little ammo. They must attempt to blend in with the crowd and build up their arsenal without being spotted by others," publisher Mode7 said in an email.
"Once the players' identities are discovered, havoc ensues as katanas, pistols, miniguns, rocket launchers, and various flavors of grenade are whipped out and put to use."
Staying in disguise is harder than it seems thanks to Trackacat, a "crack reconnaissance feline able to sniff out the slightest whiff of an assassin."
It all plays out on five different maps: Tears, Autoshow, Looks Like a Quadcopter, and Market (the "archetypal Tokyo 42 map," with dense crowds, hiding places, and tricky ammo pick-ups). The fifth map, HRBRT, is an open-air map perfect for "grenades, automatic rifles, and sniping."
Tokyo 42 is described as a "hyper-stylish isometric open-world shooter," where you must battle your way through micro Tokyo. It will launch on PC and Xbox One on May 31, and on PlayStation 4 in July. You can get a look at the game's super-short first trailer here.
Ubisoft has shared new details regarding the second DLC expansion for Ghost Recon: Wildlands, which launches fairly soon.
Fallen Ghosts, as it's called, consists of 15 new missions, three locations, and four bosses to eliminate. There are also six new weapons, including assault rifles, sniper rifles, and a crossbow capable of firing explosive arrows.
With this DLC taking place after the fall of the Santa Blanca cartel, you'll take on the role of a new character who starts at level 30. Your new character comes with every skill available in the main game and can unlock nine further skills as you progress toward the new level cap of 35.
Fallen Ghosts tasks you with evacuating members of the CIA and American civilians in Bolivia, who are being hunted by a new "special unit" called the Los Extranjeros. "Shot down en route to their mission, the Ghosts find themselves in the middle of the jungle, without external support, facing deadly enemies equipped with the latest gear and technology," the description explains.
Here's how the four new elite soldier classes are described:
Armored: Equipped with heavy bulletproof plates, they are especially threatening in close combat.
Elite Sniper: Geared up with an advanced movement detector, these Elite Sniper are able to notice far away targets and never miss their shot.
Jammer: With a jamming antenna directly in their backpack, they are able to neutralize drones and interfere with all electronic equipment.
Covert Ops: Equipped with a new prototype cloaking device that makes them almost invisible and a powerful crossbow, they give a new meaning to the word Ghost.
PS4, Xbox One, and PC players who own the Wildlands season pass will have access to Fallen Ghosts on May 30. Alternatively, it will be sold on its own starting on June 6 for $15.
Sega is looking to bring back some of its "major" unused game franchises, the company revealed in a recent business presentation.
Following its earnings report for the most recent fiscal year, Sega Sammy shared its "Road to 2020" presentation, which outlines the company's plans to utilize and expand its catalog of IPs in order to create more global hits. In the "packaged games" sector, Sega Sammy will double down on its existing properties and look to "obtain" new ones "for North American and European PC games." The publisher also plans to "promote global development" by organizing studios around IPs: Phantasy Star, Puyo Puyo, and Persona were singled out as the major franchises of its domestic studios, while Sonic, Company of Heroes, and Dawn of War are the driving forces of its North America developers. Total War, Football Manager, and the Endless series, meanwhile, are the main focus of its European division.
Most interestingly, the presentation also revealed that Sega Sammy is planning a "revival of major IPs." While the company didn't go into details about which of its dormant IPs it plans on revitalizing, there's no shortage of franchises it could potentially bring back, like Shinobi, Panzer Dragoon, and Jet Set Radio. Obsidian, the studio behind Sega's Alpha Protocol, also commented on the news via Twitter, though the tweet seems more like a good-natured joke than an explicit tease for a new installment.
Stock-car racing is coming back to PS4, Xbox One, and PC this fall with NASCAR Heat 2, the sequel to last year's Heat Evolution. Publisher 704 Games revealed the title today, further announcing that it will launch on September 12.
Heat 2 is in development at Monster Games, which also made Heat Evolution, and the publisher states that it features a variety of improvements over last year's installment. There will be "enhanced online multiplayer, a deeper career mode, track updates, [and] additional drivers," according to a press release.
Richard Garcia, president of Monster Games, stated, "We added a slew of new features designed to take NASCAR games back to their roots, while delivering an authentic racing experience for fans."
The publisher is working with Toyota for a cover-athlete competition which fans can participate in. Until May 19, you can vote at the game's website on which of four athletes you want to be featured on Heat 2's cover. Of the top two choices, the one who finishes first at a May 20 NASCAR race will be the cover athlete. A similar competition was held last year for Heat Evolution.
The show sees Dominic Cooper return as Jesse Custer, a smalltown Texas preacher who is possessed by a supernatural creature and controlled by opposing forces of both good and evil. Josh Gilgun, Ruth Negga, and Graham McTavish will also reprise their roles from Season 1, and the show is once again overseen by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg.
In a recent interview with Variety, Rogen spoke about how there was now less pressure to be faithful to the source material than there was with Season 1. "It was much more nerve-wracking changing the beginning of the comic," he said. "That's what was really scary. If you were expecting the comic within one second of seeing the pilot you would have the realization that you were not getting that.
"There's much less pressure now knowing that we are getting into stuff that's A: is just more exciting for us to be executing, and B: if you're a fan of the comics it's more of the stuff you've been waiting to see."
Preacher was created by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, and first published in 1995 by the DC imprint Vertigo to huge acclaim. It ran for a total of 75 issues, including several one-off specials and a limited series.
This year's E3 conference is particularly notable in that it's the first one that is open to the public. 15,000 tickets were available to anyone who wanted to attend the show, but today the Entertainment Software Association--the organizer of the event--announced that all of those passes have sold out.
On the official E3 Twitter, it was revealed that no more passes are available. The ESA had originally put tickets on sale to the public for $250 each.
The doors open at E3 2017 on June 13, and it runs through June 15. However, press events from the big video game companies and publishers take place during the days preceding the conference; you can see the full schedule here.
As always, GameSpot will be covering everything from E3 2017. So if you didn't have the opportunity to snag a ticket to the event this year, keep an eye on GameSpot.com, as well as our YouTube and Twitch pages, the coming weeks.
Advertisements and trailers for Alien: Covenant have largely taken a similar approach, focusing on the violence, horror, and we're-totally-screwed nature of the situation its characters find themselves in. The latest one takes a slightly different approach.
Adult Swim shared the video below over the weekend. It throws the titular stars of Rick and Morty into an Alien situation of their own. Check it out:
A facehugger shows up partway through, but Rick quickly determines its weakness. The two characters don't shy away from acknowledging their awareness of the Alien movies, although nothing specifically connects this to Covenant until the final seconds.
Covenant has already debuted in some markets and arrives in US theaters this Friday, May 19. The reception has been fairly positive, as you can read about in GameSpot's Alien: Covenant review and review roundup.
Developer 34BigThings announced way back in 2015 that its high-speed, hyper-futuristic racing game Redout would be coming to PS4 and Xbox One. Today, it finally revealed the console version's release date.
Redout is getting a retail release on PS4 and Xbox One that'll launch on August 29 in the United States and August 31 in Europe. Redout: Lightspeed Edition bundles together the original PC release and two DLC packs, and it also includes a new split-screen mode. All together, the Lightspeed Edition features 30 tracks for players to race on.
The Lightspeed Edition will cost $40 (£30 in the UK). In addition to the DLC and split-screen mode, the console versions include an exclusive paint job for your ships. Publisher 505 Games also released a new trailer for the game today, which you can see above.
Redout is heavily inspired by games like Wipeout and F-Zero, and it's been available on PC since September 2016. 34BigThings is also bringing the game to Nintendo Switch on July 25 for $40.
This June, Netflix will debut its newest series GLOW--the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, which follows a small wrestling federation made up entirely of women. The streaming service revealed the first trailer for the show, which you can check out above.
The series follows Ruth (Alison Brie), an out-of-work actor, who joins a new women's wrestling federation. It is made up of big personalities and a former soap opera star (Betty Gilpin) who left work to have a child but found out her home life isn't what she thought it would be. Comedian Marc Maron plays Sam Sylvia, a B-movie director turned person in charge of GLOW.
Creators Liz Flahive (Nurse Jackie) and Carly Mensch (Weeds) will be showrunners. Jenji Kohan (Orange is the New Black) will serve as executive producer.
While GLOW was a real-world syndicated show during the '80s, the new series will be a fictionalized version of the events, characters, and world. The original show ran for four seasons from 1986-1990. Since 2001, GLOW saw a revival while owned and operated by Ursula Hayden.
The first season of GLOW will run 10 episodes and debuts on Netflix on June 23, 2017.
War for the Planet of the Apes is the third movie in the blockbuster sci-fi action series since it rebooted in 2011. The final trailer before its July release arrives tomorrow and in the meantime we have this dramatic teaser--check it out below:
The film follows Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014). It's directed by Matt Reeves, whose previous credits include Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and Cloverfield, and who will next helm the standalone Batman movie for DC.
A previous trailer was released in March--you can watch that here. The film stars Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson, Steve Zahn, and Judy Greer.
In a recent interview with Slashfilm, Serkis spoke about the movie's "epic" scale. "It's an amazing arc that Matt and [co-writer] Mark Bomback have written," he said. "What they've managed to do each time, with Dawn and then with this one, is to amplify the stakes emotionally and scale-wise.
"It's very epic. It's on a massive scale not just because of its title… but because the stakes are just so much higher. And the global understanding... the apes find out there are other apes outside of the smaller group who are evolving and changing and discovering how much the virus is affecting humanity. It's a fantastic journey."
War for the Planet of the Apes hits theaters on July 14, 2017.
Project Rap Rabbit is described as a rhythm-action game that combines the traditional, rhythm based mechanics of past games with a "rap battle system where you can counter-rap against a competitor." This occurs through an "emotion/dialogue wheel that was inspired by dialogue systems of modern RPGs."
You can get a glimpse of Project Rap Rabbit gameplay in the video below. The video also consists of a discussion between the two big names behind this project: NanaOn-Sha's Masaya Matsuura (best known as the creator of PaRappa, Um Jammer Lammy, and Vib-Ribbon) and INIS' Keiichi Yano (who was behind Gitaroo Man, Osu Tatakae Ouendan, and Ouendan successor Elite Beat Agents).
To help fund the game, NanaOn-Sha and INIS are turning to Kickstarter. The just-launched campaign is looking to raise about $1.1 million (£855,000) over the next 35 days to bring Project Rap Rabbit to PS4 and PC. Stretch goals will bring the game to Xbox One (at $3.1 million) and Nintendo Switch ($4.95 million), while others will add more content. Somewhat strangely, the game has a publisher, PQube, but there's no explanation on the Kickstarter page for why crowdfunding was necessary.
You'll need to pledge at least $39 to secure a copy of the game, with higher reward tiers offering physical copies, soundtracks, and other bonuses.
You can claim the two freebies through the Xbox Store links below. Adding them to your account will allow you to play them for as long you're a Gold member. Another current freebie, Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams, will remain available through the end of May.
Join Aaron and Erick as they check out Rising Storm 2: Vietnam a war-themed tactical first-person shooter.
Dreadnought is getting a wave-based mode called "Havoc"! Are you excited to give it a try?
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