In a couple of months, the newest entry in Ubisoft’s historical open world franchise, Assassin’s Creed Mirage, will be transporting players to ninth century Baghdad as they take on the role of former street thief Basim.
25.07.2023 - 22:17 / hardcoregamer.com / Todd Howard / Hardcore
Last month, Bethesda provided their deepest look yet at their upcoming sci-fi RPG, Starfield, as a dedicated presentation that immediately followed the Xbox Games Showcase.
In the 45 minute Starfield Direct, Todd Howard and various other members of the development team explained and showed off fresh gameplay featuring character and ship customization, companions, exploration, combat and much more. After originally being announced in 2018 and having an initial release date in November of last year prior to its delay, it was promising to see such concrete info on this wholly original universe mere months before its current release date in September.
With over one thousand planets that can be either teeming with life or barren and packed with resources, there’s still plenty of questions left surrounding the mysteries of Starfield that we won’t really know until players are able to get their hands on it. For now, Bethesda has released a short series of animated anthology videos called The Settled Systems, which places their focus on three of the major cities that players can visit: New Atlantis, Akila City and Neon. While each of the animated shorts are only a few minutes long and devoid of dialogue, the atmospheric music and distinct visuals still manage to provide the general vibe of each of these cities and some of the citizens that inhabit or, or are trying to escape to greener pastures. Below are each of the three shorts along with the official synopsis accompanying each one.
In the city of New Atlantis, capital of the United Colonies, a courier pilot named Kent aspires to live in the most desirable part of the Settled Systems. After joining the UC Vanguard and working his way up to the Capital’s elite, Kent quickly realizes the adventures waiting for him off-planet are what he truly longed for.
Vanna—an Akila City orphan of the famous Colony Wars—desperately wants to explore the stars, and only one thing is standing in her way: a working ship. Her search for repair parts leads her throughout the city, and into some unexpected danger, as she closes in on her dream.
Two Neon street rats, Ada and Harper, are partners in crime eking out a living stealing from the wealthy partygoers that come to the “pleasure city” to let loose. When Ada is forced into a moral dilemma, she quickly catches the attention of the all-seeing Ryujin industries, bringing her an exciting new opportunity. But at what cost?
Starfield is set to launch on September 6 for Xbox Series X/S and PC.
In a couple of months, the newest entry in Ubisoft’s historical open world franchise, Assassin’s Creed Mirage, will be transporting players to ninth century Baghdad as they take on the role of former street thief Basim.
Madden NFL 24 releases in just about a week for consoles and for PC and with a lot of changes on the horizon, today EA released a deep dive for the return of Superstar Mode into the game. Based on feedback players have provided in response to career modes in recent years, the fanbase strictly wants Superstar Mode. While Face of the Franchise has been more narrative-driven since its arrival a few years ago and had evolved to more of a career mode, Superstar Mode will bring back a lot of elements for starting an NFL career.
There are a lot of arcade-influenced racers on the market, but few that would actually completely work in an arcade. New Star GP is one such game. In the vein of classics like Virtua Racing and Daytona USA for arcade fans and Hotshot Racing, it’s a checkpoint racer with some twists because it’s a PC game. As a result of the platform it’s on, it’s available in early access for a lower price point – $17.99 gets you the game with all of its current content and future free updates as well. One problem a lot of the classic arcade racers have had was a lack of content – outside of games like the OutRun games and home conversions of Daytona adding in more tracks, they usually are a bit lean while Hotshot had some big free content updates over the years to keep it fresh.
Sledgehammer Games and Activision today revealed the reveal date for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III alongside details about what content from Modern Warfare II will carry forward into the sequel.
Today, 2K has released its first release for player ratings for NBA 2K24. The game is slated to release on September 8 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC. With the cover athlete being granted to Kobe Bryant and four different versions available that include the NBA 2K24 25th Anniversary Edition, NBA 2K24 Black Mamba Edition, NBA 2K24 Kobe Bryant Edition, and the NBA 2K24 WNBA Edition, none of the actual top players will be gracing this year’s title from the NBA. There are twelve initial reveals that range from a 98 overall down to a 94, so there will not be a 99 overall player at launch.
The end of the world was never going to be the actual end of the world, unless humanity somehow dropped a black hole into the center of the planet or something similarly over the top. All the horrors of the end fade into nothingness after a few decades, and while the damage may take a while to heal nature adapts to the new environment, growing in the ruins while every part of those that died is used as fertile grounds for new life. And then in the drowned city of Cosmopolis a single upbeat hipster tech-bro wakes up from his sleeping capsule with barely a memory to call his own, and only a few small hints to indicate who he might have been and his relation to humanity’s final days on the planet. The worst is long in the past and the world is finally peaceful, so maybe he can make a nice, pleasant little home above the flooded remnants of civilization.
Over the weekend at EVO 2023, some news arose from the recently released Street Fighter 6. The first comes in the way of a new collaboration with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. There is currently a new movie in theaters, but from the looks of it, this collaboration will focus on the traditional style of the Ninja Turtles rather than what is in the movie. Starting on August 8, players will be able to style their custom avatars with TMNT gear an emotes. Players also have access to new Titles, Stamps, and custom in-game mobile wallpaper and camera frames. World Tour and Battle Hub can also have custom avatars to represent each of the Turtles.
The latest free update for Gran Turismo 7 will add four new cars to the game, and one of which isn’t conventional. Players will now have the option to purchase a 1958 C1 Chevrolet Corvette, a 2020 Maserati MC20, the Toyota GR Corolla MORIZO Edition ’22, and finally a 2021 Toyota Ambulance Himedic. The Toyota GR Corolla MORIZO Edition will be available for players to sample in Round 7 of the Toyota Gazoo Racing GT Cup on August 27. It can also be driven in practice mode for testing. Those that do enter this cup and register a time in the Points Ranking will be gifted a car on August 28.
Sledgehammer Games and Activision today announced the next entry in the Call of Duty franchise, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III.
Rockstar Games today announced that a port of the original Red Dead Redemption is coming to PS4 and Switch.
The AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE GPU is a weird product that is only available outside of China through select system integrators. As such, the graphics card has recently started to show up within listings by EU retailers.
During the EVO 2023 tournament over the weekend, there was quite a bit of fighting game news revealed. Warner Bros. Games and NeatherRealm Studios revealed three more characters for its upcoming Mortal Kombat 1 game that is set to release on September 19. All three of these characters hail from different realms and have been combined into one story-related trailer that has been named The Banished. There is gameplay and story elements revealed here and it also offers a new Kameo Fighter, which brings the total announced to four fighters in this trailer.