While EA and Visceral Games may have irrefutably put the Dead Space franchise on the shelf to focus on in-development titles such as Battlefield: Hardline and Star Wars: Battlefront, the publisher’s executive vice president, Patrick Söderland, hinted that we may not have seen the last of Isaac Clarke and co. just yet.
Much like Watch Dogs and Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag before it, it’s understood that Bungie’s forthcoming sci-fi shooter Destiny is set to get PlayStation-exclusive content upon release and, in a post over on PlayStation Blog, Sony outlined exactly what these in-game extras will include.
In the aftermath of E3, it’s always easy to recognise what the gaming industry considers to be in vogue. Whether it's social connectivity, blurring the lines between single-player and multiplayer or, in the case of this year’s event, four player co-op experiences, it seems publishers and developers latch onto a popular concept and run with it for the foreseeable future.
In the wake of Battlefield 4’s notoriously turbulent launch, EA and DICE are said to be considering drafting in players for early access schemes to ensure future iterations in the first-person shooter series avoid similar problems.
Amid its bombastic gameplay reveal and the fantastic introduction of the game’s narcissistic villain, Ubisoft announced that those players who have Far Cry 4 will be able to participate in co-op play with a friend who doesn’t own a copy themselves.
During the company’s 3DS developer event, Nintendo revealed plans to bring an all-new, turn-based RPG to its flagship handheld in 2015. Entitled Code Name: STEAM, the new IP is also being overseen by Hitoshi Yamagami, whose body of work includes beloved franchises such as Fire Emblem and the Xeno series.
Payday 2, one of the most beloved co-op shooters of the last console generation, is on its way to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, developer Overkill Software announced today.
Bethesda has revealed a short teaser trailer today for the long-awaited return of iD Software’s seminal first-person shooter series, Doom. The nightmarish minute-long footage, which you can check out below, not only introduces us to a hulking, mechanised demon, it also confirms that the studio plan to give the game a full reveal during QuakeCon, 2014 in July.
