Psyonix have confirmed the release date for Rocket League's new mode, Snow Day, in which the usual high-speed game of football will be switched to a chilly game of ice hockey, replacing the ball with a huge puck. The new mode, which will be a free update and replace the Mutator Mashup online playlist, will arrive on December 14th.
The futuristic, economy-building game Anno 2205, which came out earlier this month, will be allowing players to expand their civilisations even further into the reaches of Space with two new expansions, the first of which is on course for an early 2016 release.
Last month, fans of the popular bank-robbing first-person shooter, Payday 2, were left outraged by developer Overkill Software's decision to introduce microtransactions into the gameplay, despite previously reassuring players that it was something they would never resort to. But alas, the studio succumbed to the idea of selling premium items for real currency to help them boost their profits, turning Payday 2 into more of a 'pay-to-win' experience.
Three years may have passed since the Mayans have stopped being hip, with the Mayan Calendar's 2012 apocalypse prediction turning out to be a bit of a letdown, leaving the most eccentric, over-credulous of people extremely relieved and with a surplus of canned food filling up their survival shelters. This hasn't stopped developers Sileni Studios from bringing out Mayan Death Robots, a new strategic fighter based on the ancient civilisation and their mythology.
Both of game designer David Cage's cinematic, interactive dramas are coming to PlayStation 4. His telepathic tale Beyond: Two Souls, originally released in 2013, will make its way to the PlayStation Store next week. It will be followed by a port of Heavy Rain, where players will once again be faced with the horrors of the Origami Killer on March 1st, 2016.
If you're looking for a challenging platformer to pad out your PS Vita library this Christmas, then Polish developers iFun4all may have the game for you. The team's steampunk-inspired Red Game Without A Great Name flies its way onto Sony's handheld console sometime next month.
The Western is a genre that has fallen into obscurity in modern pop culture. We are a long way from Clint Eastwood gracing the screen as the Man with No Name in the sixties back when the Old West was at the height of its popularity. Sure, you will get the occasional revival of gun-toting cowboys in cinema and video games (Red Dead Redemption, for instance), but they are no way near as well-visited as the worlds of fantasy and sci-fi.
