Month: September 2019

Good Shepherd Entertainment has released a new trailer for John Wick Hex, the upcoming action strategy game based on the popular film franchise. The trailer, which can be watched below, reveals John Wick Hex is scheduled to release on October 8.

John Wick Hex sees Ian McShane and Lance Reddick reprise their respective roles as Winston and Charon, while Troy Baker has been cast as the titular antagonist, Hex. The trailer showcases the game’s cel-shaded art style and teases the original story that will be told. Most of the trailer focuses on the game’s combat, though.

The game is turn-based and sees you strategically run through a variety of different environments and gun through a series of enemy henchmen. The trailer showcases that you’ll need to manage your health and focus and can change your stance to perform different moves, such as dodge rolls and hand-to-hand takedowns. “Each action you choose has risks and consequences, and each weapon changes the tactics at hand,” Good Shepherd Entertainment wrote in a press release. “Ammo is finite and realistically simulated, so time your reloads and make the most of the tools you find on the job.”

Unlike traditional turn-based strategy games, John Wick Hex will not include random percentages for each action. Every action will have a logically set success rate to aid in making tactical decisions. “It’s the logic of the fight that when you’re watching as a viewer, you think, yeah, that seems how you would fight, and that’s the driving principle of every choice we’re making is, does this feel like it’s sensible?” developer Bithell Games co-founder Mike Bithell said. “Like you say, if I’m directly in front of a guy, the chance of me hitting him is 100% every time. Because it is. If I’m John Wick, he would not miss at this range. One of our starting assumptions with the game was that we thought that John Wick never misses. You go back, watch the movie, he totally does, but he misses in places where that feels logical.”

John Wick Hex will launch on PC as an Epic Games Store limited-time exclusive.

The Netflix crime drama based on Pablo Escobar’s life, Narcos, is being adapted into a tactical turn-based strategy game.

Narcos: Rise of the Cartels is developed by Kuju and published by Curve Digital. It follows the events of the first season across two campaigns: Players either take the side of the Medellin Cartel trying to grow their drug empire, or the DEA trying to topple it.

Watch the trailer for the game’s DEA campaign above.

The game’s turn-based strategy elements will operate slightly different to similar games like XCOM, in that enemy units will move at the same time as player ones. Players can also take control of theirs in first-person view when things start getting heated.

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Amazon has launched a new premium music streaming service, featuring high-quality Ultra HD music for less than £15 per month.

In celebration of this new HD tier, Amazon is giving customers the chance to try out the audio streaming platform with a free 90-day trial. Featuring millions of quality lossless audio tracks, this is a great opportunity to check out Amazon’s vast music library, if you haven’t already.

Amazon Music HD — Free 90-Day Trial

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Plans for more post-launch content in Anthem have been put on ice so the development team can focus on updates and thoroughly review core issues surrounding gameplay.

Bioware’s head of live service, Chad Robertson, announced the decision in a blog post that detailed some of the changes the development team had made to Anthem following player feedback. These include combat balancing, more reward crate types, and tips in load screens to better explain Cataclysm mechanics.

See what we thought of Anthem when it launched back in February in our review video above. 

But he acknowledged that those tweaks weren’t enough, saying, “We hear your concerns on core issues in Anthem and are acting on it. Those systems require a more thorough review and re-working versus quick fixes. We’ve got a team working on that now, and early results are promising.

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Sony will live broadcast a new episode of State of Play next week.

See you Tuesday.https://t.co/jGNlIqqc4a pic.twitter.com/bkn40Jkn59

— PlayStation (@PlayStation) September 19, 2019

The above tweet from the official PlayStation account reveals that September 24 will be the date of the next State of Play stream, which – much like Nintendo Direct – offers a look at upcoming PlayStation games.

See the Final Fantasy VII Remake trailer from the last State of Play below. 

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The latest in Sony’s line of PlayStation livestream events, State of Play, is coming next week. The company has announced that the next of these streams will take place on September 24, with the promise of a “pretty hefty show.”

In a post on the PlayStation Blog, Sony says the stream will be about 20 minutes in length and feature a “fresh new look.” No specifics were shared about what games we can expect, but there will be game reveals, “new content from PlayStation’s Worldwide Studios,” and more. The one thing we know for sure is that Sony won’t be talking about the PS5 or its next-gen console plans in general.

The stream starts on Tuesday, September 24 at 1 PM PT. You can find the start time for your timezone below. We’ll also embed the livestream here in this article for you to watch once it begins.

Sony State Of Play Livestream Start Time

• 1 PM PT
• 4 PM ET
• 9 PM BST
• 6 AM AET (September 25)

The most recent State of Play event took place back in May and was packed with news. We got a look at and release date for Monster Hunter World‘s recently released Iceborne expansion, the reveal of Predator: Hunting Grounds, a new trailer for Final Fantasy VII Remake, and more.