Lucid Games announces free-to-play vehicle action game Switchblade for PS4, PC
Lucid Games has announced Switchblade, a free-to-play dynamic vehicle action game developed using Unreal Engine 4, coming to PlayStation 4 and PC in early 2018. Sign-ups for the closed beta are available now at the game’s official website.
Here’s an overview of the game, via Lucid Games:
From a team that has worked on titles such as Project Gotham Racing, Blur, and Geometry Wars, Switchblade is an arena-based five-versus-five vehicular shooter that combines high-octane combat with an ever-shifting array of strategic choices. Seamlessly switch between heavily armed vehicles at any time to create endless tactical choices. Chase down a rival in a speedy fighter, then swap to a heavy-duty battlewagon to attack your competitor’s tower as your teammates switch between healers & artillery to back you up.
Win battles, grab loot and create your own unique online superstar as you rise through the ranks of a spectacular e-sport championship.
Harvest Moon: Light of Hope ‘Feature Spotlight #2: Farming Enhancements’ video
The second in Natsume’s series of “Feature Spotlight” videos for Harvest Moon: Light of Hope introduces the game’s farming enhancements.
Here’s an overview of rebuilding from producer Taka Maekawa:
Hi again, everyone! Taka here. I’m the producer for Harvest Moon: Light of Hope. Today, we’re showing off the second in our series of Feature Spotlights for Harvest Moon: Light of Hope, a new title coming to PC via Steam, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch!
Today, I’d like to focus on the farming enhancements coming in Light of Hope. As you can see from the video, we’re focusing on speeding up gameplay, with the ability to till, sow, and water your crops faster than ever!
But the big exciting feature we’d like to focus on is your Farming Friend! What’s that, you ask? Well, it’s an icon that will appear after you sow, water, or fertilize your crops to let you know if you’re raising them at their full potential!
And that’s not all! One of the best things about your Farming Friend is that after you’ve harvested a crop, your Farming Friend will now display exactly what crop you’ll be harvesting! No more guessing in case you forgot exactly where you planted what crops. And what’s more, if your Farming Friend displays a question mark over a crop you’ve already harvested, like a strawberry, you’ll know that you’ve succeeded in producing a MUTATED crop! Awesome!
In short, your Farming Friend is designed to make Harvest Moon: Light of Hope more user friendly and fun to play.
We hope the Spotlight Feature video sheds a little more “light” on this exciting new change to farming, and we look forward to seeing you again in our next Spotlight Feature segment!
Happy Farming~
Harvest Moon: Light of Hope is due out for PlayStation 4, Switch, and PC this fall.
We’ve always tried to evolve with the constantly changing industry we adore. That’s one of the challenges and blessings of remaining completely independent as a studio. But our logo has largely remained the same while we continue to grow. Considering our 25th anniversary in a couple years, and the 15th anniversary of Ratchet & Clank this year, it has become even clearer to us that it’s time to more closely match our visual identity with our studio vision.
As we contemplated a re-brand of our visual identity, we challenged ourselves to “think beyond the moon.” That meant eschewing a simple logo refresh. Instead, we wanted a redesign that reflected our evolution as a studio and as people while retaining some familiarity to our past logo treatments.
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We reviewed this design very early in the exploration process. It caught our attention immediately, and wouldn’t let go even after we explored other directions. It works on multiple levels for us. It’s got a lunar theme, with what appear to be two crescent moons facing each other as the “O” – reminiscent of our past and future. Many folks here also see a portal or lens for the “O”, which we like because it symbolizes exploration as well as how many of our fans see us differently. Some follow us simply because we created their beloved Spyro the Dragon. For others, it’s all about Ratchet & Clank, or Resistance, Sunset Overdrive, our virtual reality games or Song of the Deep. And now we have entirely new fans swinging into our neighborhood to check out the latest on Marvel’s Spider-Man.
Observant fans will see the subtle callbacks to our previous Insomniac Games logo, including the oversized “O,” serif lettering on the “N” and the positioning of “Games” as a core part of our identity.
Insomniac Games is currently hiring, with career opportunities available in the art, audio, creative, programming, and QA departments.
GameTomo and Kiss are bringing Project Nimbus, the high-speed mech action game currently in Early Access on Steam, to PlayStation 4 as Project Nimbus: Code Mirai, the companies announced. It will launch this fall in Japan and in early 2018 for the rest of the world.
The PlayStation 4 version is an Unreal Engine 4-powered remaster of Act 1 and Act 2 of Project Nimbus with improved graphics, higher resolution, and more.
Here’s an overview, via GameTomo:
About the Game
Project Nimbus: Code Mirai is a port of Project Nimbus using Unreal Engine 4 with upgraded graphics to make for a suitable-quality PlayStation 4 game. Not only have the graphics been improved, the overall balancing has been adjusted, new actions have been added, and the user interface has been completely rebuilt. Project Nimbus: Code Mirai is due out this fall.
Key Features
• Missions set throughout 16 different locations, including sky city, sea fort, mountain base, giant prison, and space stages.
• Various mecha and weapons, including smart missiles, laser blades, particle canons, floating laser shields, rail guns, and auto-attacking and defending psycho drones.
• A grandeur story of an ace pilot set on a future earth destroyed by war, where a battle between three factions will unfold.
• Eye-catching combat style with transforming giant mecha, daredevil pilots, and battles against armed flying boats.
The PC version of Project Nimbus will leave Early Access and launch officially on September 26.
Sci-fi Adventure ECHO Out Now on PC, Launch Trailer
Become Your Own Worst Enemy in ECHO, Out Now For PC
Creepy A.I. architects Ultra Ultra (ex-IO Interactive) today announce their debut game, ECHO, a nightmare-fuelled sci-fi adventure, is available now for PC priced £18.99. The previously announced PS4 version will now be available in early October, so keep those peepers peeled!
Rose Leslie (Game of Thrones, The Good Fight) provides the voice of player-character En, alongside Nick Boulton (Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, Mass, Effect series) as the voice of London, a sentient starship that brings her to The Palace - a bizarre structure, deep in the depths of space. As The Palace begins to generate deadly copies of En, you must use all of your wit and cunning to outmanoeuvre and outsmart the deadliest enemy of all: yourself.