Rockfish Games has announced the start of work on the space shooter Everspace 2. Players will experience unforgettable adventures in a world full of secrets, puzzles and treasures. There is a huge range of customizable ships, tasks and activities. Everspace 2 will be released on PC, PS4 and Xbox One.
A new Doom Eternal video has appeared online, dedicated to the powerful demon Doom Hunter. Also, executive producer Marty Stratton, during a conversation with users of the QconForums forum, spoke about the approximate length of the campaign in the new game. Doom Eternal can be completed in about 18-22 hours. This time is calculated taking into account that the player is trying to find as many secrets and improvements as possible. Stratton added that Doom Eternal is "definitely longer" than Doom 2016. Doom Eternal will be released on November 22 on PS4, Xbox One, Switch, Google Stadia and PC.
An official demo of Marvel's Avengers gameplay has appeared online. The game takes place in a separate universe five years after the horrific terrorist attack that became known as A-Day. The Avengers reassemble after a terrorist attack, planning to clear their name and recapture the technology they have captured. Marvel's Avengers will be released on May 15, 2020 on PS4, Xbox One, Stadia and PC.
TaleWorlds studio announced the appearance of the medieval action movie Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord in Steam Early Access in March 2020. The game will take place in the lands of Calradia, where the battle for the throne of the late ruler is raging. The developers promised to surprise with improved graphics and a rich world with a large number of warriors on the screen and interactive locations.
A recording of the gameplay of an open-world action movie with elements of the Biomutant role-playing game has appeared online. The game's plot takes place in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by anthropomorphic animals and robots. The product release is scheduled for the end of this year.
At Gamescom 2019, the official announcement of the shooter Disintegration took place. Players will control a Gravity Bike and a small squad of four people. The creators promise an interesting single-player campaign lasting 12 hours, as well as full multiplayer. Visitors to the exhibition will be able to try out the 5v5 PvP mode. Disintegration will be released in 2020 on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
A recording of Need for Speed: Heat gameplay in 4K resolution has appeared online. Daytime and nighttime races are demonstrated. The game will appear on October 8 on PC, PS4 and Xbox One.
Deep Silver and 4A Games are pleased to announce the release of the first story expansion for Metro: Exodus, The Two Colonels! Together with Colonel Melnikov, players gradually learn about the harsh trials that befell Colonel Khlebnikov in the last days of his life in Novosibirsk.
Beneath the surface of destroyed Novosibirsk, Khlebnikov heads home to his son Kirill to ring in the new year. However, the inhabitants of the subway are not all happy - the mucus continues to absorb the tunnels, attacks by mutants are becoming more frequent, and the reserves of the precious “green stuff” that protects people from radiation are rapidly drying up. In order to ensure the survival of at least some people, the authorities are forced to take radical measures...
The expansion features classic Metro gameplay, exploration of the oppressive catacombs of Novosibirsk, and the bone-chilling tension for which the game series based on the novels by Dmitry Glukhovsky is famous.
In addition, the DLC will introduce a new weapon to combat tunnel slime and worms - the deadly flamethrower. As in Tihar, the flamethrower must be constantly pressurized, but you can add some sparkle to any situation in the world!
“The Two Colonels” is already available for purchase on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC. The DLC is included in the Season Pass, which will also include the second expansion, Sam's Story, scheduled for early 2020.
At the opening of Gamescom 2019, NVIDIA and the company's partners presented blockbuster films with ray tracing support to demonstrate the new level of graphics in the anticipated projects of the coming season.
The games, which include popular franchises, highly anticipated sequels, new franchises and more, are being showcased at a special event in Cologne.
“Just one year after NVIDIA first demonstrated ray tracing in real-time games, the industry has embraced this revolutionary technology,” said Matt Wuebbling, director of GeForce marketing at NVIDIA. “Looking at the number of games, the names of the biggest franchises and the impressive images, it is clear that ray tracing has become a vector of further development for the entire gaming industry.”
New games with ray tracing support:
-Dying Light 2 – The long-awaited open-world action RPG Dying Light 2, the continuation of the franchise with a 17 million player base, supports ray tracing, further immersing itself in the world of the modern Middle Ages after the epidemic. -Metro Exodus – The Two Colonels DLC (additional content) – the use of ray tracing to implement global illumination in Metro Exodus allowed us to evaluate the potential of the technology. Now NVIDIA, 4A Games and Deep Silver have added The Two Colonels emission lighting DLC content to the game. Exhibition visitors will be the first to play this add-on. -Minecraft is the absolute world bestseller in the video game category. NVIDIA, together with the game developer Mojang, added a version under Windows 10 variation of ray tracing, known as “path tracing”. Ray tracing will make player-created worlds much more realistic. Players will be immersed in realistic lighting and vibrant colors thanks to global illumination technology, realistic water with natural reflections and refractions, and light-emitting textures that beautifully illuminate the worlds. Attendees of Gamescom will be able to play Minecraft with ray tracing and share their gameplay with friends.
-SYNCED: Off-Planet, Tencent's flagship game development studio, together with NVIDIA, presented a new AAA game project with support for ray tracing. SYNCED: Off-Planet is a new franchise that features traced reflections and shadows in a new PvPvE mode where players will have to fight each other and survive among nano-zombies. Visitors to the exhibition will be able to play the game and share their gameplay.
NVIDIA and its partners also presented several games that added support for ray tracing effects for the first time:
-Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® – Team Call of Duty Activision, the developer of one of the world's all-time bestsellers, has unveiled a sequel to the Modern Warfare series with ray tracing support on PC. The new blockbuster, which won the Game Critics Best Online Multiplayer award at E3 2019, is coming out on October 25th. Gamescom attendees will be the first to test the highly anticipated game and share recorded gameplay with their friends. -Control – the benchmark for traced graphics – launches on August 27th and is available for free with the purchase of select GeForce RTX™ graphics cards. Control was nominated for the Game Critics Awards in the categories "Best Original Game", "Best PC Game" and "Best Action/Adventure Game". The game supports NVIDIA DLSS technology, traced reflections, shadows and global illumination and will be one of the first games to support numerous ray tracing-based effects. Visitors will be able to play the game and share their gameplay with friends.
-Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is one of the five biggest game announcements at GDC 2019 according to IGN. At the exhibition, visitors will get a clear picture of this highly anticipated blockbuster with support for traced reflections.
-Watch Dogs: Legion – Receiving more than 60 awards and nominations at E3 2019, including Game Critics Best for Best Action/Adventure Game, the new Watch Dogs title now features ray tracing support. Visitors will be the first to play the traced reflection game.
-Wolfenstein®: Youngblood™ – Nominated for Best PC Game, Best Online Multiplayer and Best Action by E3 Game Critics. The game is available for free to purchases of select GeForce RTX graphics cards. Visitors will be able to play a game with traced reflections.
Ray tracing is also present in such top Gamescom 2019 demos as the game demo Cyberpunk 2077, which won hundreds of awards and was named one of the most anticipated games of the decade by Gamespot. Demonstration Cyberpunk 2077 shows real-time ray tracing. Gameplay presentations take place every half hour at the CD PROJEKT RED booth in the Gamescom entertainment area (Hall 6, Booth C049). Visitors can watch the development team play the game live.
Real-time ray tracing is changing the way games are created and significantly improving the image quality possible. Ray tracing is built on a powerful ecosystem that includes support for the technology in industry-standard APIs, popular game engines, and games from major publishers.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX™ is the only GPU that can play games with ray tracing enabled.
CD PROJEKT RED announces that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Complete Edition will be released on Nintendo Switch on October 15, 2019. The game will be available in retail and digital download.
The studio also released a new gameplay trailer that offers a closer look at the Nintendo Switch version of The Witcher 3. The video is accompanied by comments from CD PROJEKT RED developers: Pavel Buzhy, community specialist, and Pavel Sasko, senior quest designer for Wild Hunt and lead quest designer for the Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine story expansions.
Visitors to gamescom in Cologne will be able to try the game at the Nintendo stand in Hall 9 of the entertainment area from August 20 to 24.