The Fullbright Company has published the initial sales figures for last month’s first-person indie darling, Gone Home, which has soared to 50,000 in little under a month. These figures encompass sales through Valve’s online distribution service Steam and the developer’s internal website. The game itself has garnered a multitude of positive reviews since launch, with critics praising the project’s impressive writing and immersive gameplay.
Having published games as varied and eccentric as Lollipop Chainsaw and Killer Is Dead, Kadokawa Games took to the stage during Sony’s pre-TGS conference to detail their new project: a strategy RPG entitled Natural Doctrine. Slated to launch on PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita, the Japanese publisher revealed a horde of screenshots for the game on its official website, which is expected to hit retail in tandem with the indigenous PS4 release date; i.e. February 22nd, 2014.
Though it was officially announced back at this year’s GDC, it was only recently that Ubisoft lifted the curtain on its whimsical, turn-based RPG, Child of Light. Harnessing the studio’s UbiArt framework engine – which has rendered other visually striking games such as Rayman Legends – the studio’s new IP will release on current and next-gen platforms in 2014 and has been described as a “playable poem.”
This coming autumn, EA’s FIFA franchise and Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer will once again be at loggerheads with one another. And in order to whet the appetites of their respective fanbase, both studios have published demos for FIFA 14 and PES 14, which are available to download via PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Origin from today – Konami has since stated that the demo version of PES 14 will launch on Xbox Live tomorrow.
With Grand Theft Auto V just around the corner, fans have been clamouring for any new information regarding the fifth iteration in Rockstar’s Herculean franchise. We’ve known about the game’s online component and the individual characters for quite some time, however, courtesy of a leaked image thought to be have snapped from the game’s strategy guide, we now have our first visual image of GTA V’s world map.
The Golden Age of Piracy will make its swashbuckling appearance on mobile devices this fall with Assassin’s Creed: Pirates, Ubisoft has confirmed. Featuring naval combat and customisable ships, the standalone title will launch later this year and will allow players to assume the role of Alonzo Batilia; a wet behind the ears captain looking to conquer the Caribbean.
Taking to the stage during the Sony TGS press conference earlier this week, esteemed developer Keiji Inafune detailed a continuation to last year’s Vita exclusive hack-n’-slash game entitled Soul Sacrifice Delta. Featuring all-new demonic monsters and expansive maps, the quasi-sequel will debut exclusively in Japan on March, 2014.
During its TGS conference, Sony laid out the plans for some upcoming next-gen titles that will release exclusively on PlayStation 4; one of which was Capcom’s dark fantasy RPG, Deep Down. Not only will the game feature a cacophony of randomly-generated monsters and locales – similarly to the Roguelike sub-genre – the studio confirmed that the title will be set in New York in the year 2094. Yes, you read that right.
Speaking all things Grand Theft Auto V with The Guardian, co-founder of Rockstar Games' Dan Houston offered an insight into the development process behind the blockbuster crime title; even stating that the game’s budget – encompassing production and marketing – reached £170 million ($265 million). As a means for comparison, Star Wars: The Old Republic scaled to $200 million in 2011.
Of those titles, a console port of last year’s Vita-only Assassin’s Creed: Liberation appeared as a logo, therefore hinting towards the possibility of Aveline’s adventure making the eagle jump to other platforms. And today, the company confirmed the leak, stating that Assassin’s Creed: Liberation HD will launch as a download-only title for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 in 2014.
