Cities: Skylines will offer sprawling landscapes and maps with sandbox gameplay and numerous ways for the player to expand his city. Key to progression is the ability to influence your city’s policy by incorporating taxation into districts. Players will also have the ability to mod the game to suit their play styles.
Cities: Skylines will be published by Paradox Interactive and is scheduled for release on the Windows PC in the first quarter of 2015.
Far Cry 4 is an action-adventure first-person shooter developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and Windows PC. It is the sequel to the 2012 game, Far Cry 3.
The single-player story follows Ajay Ghale, who returns home to Kyrat in the Himalayas where he is confronted by the self-appointed king, Pagan Min. Players will have to use the vast array of weapons, vehicles and animals in the game as they take the protagonist across an exotic open-world landscape.
Far Cry 4 is scheduled for release on 18 November.
In Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, the player plays a ranger by the name of Talion. Banished from death and embodied by a mysterious spirit, Talion is compelled to seek vengeance on those who killed his family and left him to die.
With the launch coming soon, Monolith and Warner Bros have released a video for players to “learn everything you need to know to walk into Mordor”.
In preparation for the launch, Focus Home Interactive has released a trailer of the game.
Total War: ATTILA casts players back to 395 AD, a time of apocalyptic turmoil at the very dawn of the Dark Ages. An ailing and divided Roman Empire finds itself threatened by a new power rising in the great steppes of the East, one that is led by a warrior king whose thirst for conquest is utterly unequaled: Attila the Hun.
Total War: ATTILA is scheduled for release in 2015 on Windows PC and Mac.
Considering its setting and the fact that Total War: ROME II Emperor Edition was just released on 16 September, Total War: ATTILA looks to me more like a standalone expansion to Total War: ROME II than an entirely new game.
Having said that, the new game will apparently incorporate new features, such as family trees, skill trees, advanced street-fighting, civilians, complete settlement destruction and dynamic fire.
Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell is a 2015 open world action-adventure video game developed by Volition and published by Deep Silver. The game is a standalone expansion to Saints Row IV. It will be released on 27 January 2015 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.
In Gat Out of Hell, players take on the role of Johnny Gat as he is sent into hell via a nefarious spirit board incident and left to combat demons, the horrors of the underworld (including prominent historical figures) as well as the Devil himself.
The storyline for the update will follow the events of Tyranny of Dragons and the Siege of Neverwinter, and sees the Cult of the Dragon attempting to resurrect the iconic five-headed draconic goddess Tiamat from the Nine Hells. Adventurers must band together to protect Neverwinter, culminating in a battle with one of Neverwinter’s most powerful dragons.
Unfortunately, the PC version was marred by bugs that have not been fixed at the time of writing.
Dead Kings takes you from the bloody streets of revolutionary Paris to the troubled city of Saint Denis while Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China is a 2.5D game that introduces a new standalone story set in 16th century China.
The Season Pass also provides players access to three new missions as well as new weapons, gear and skills that can be carried between Assassin’s Creed Unity and the Dead Kings DLC missions.
The following trailer from the Tokyo Game Show 2014 provides some game details.
During the Tokyo Game Show 2014, Blueside released two videos, one being a trailer of in-game scenes and the other showing scenes from actual gameplay using the PlayStation 4.
Kingdom Under Fire II is available for the Windows PC in South Korea, Malaysia and Singapore and is under development for the PlayStation 4, which is expected to have additional exclusive content.
In the game, the player explores the ancient city of Yharnam, now cursed with a strange endemic illness, to discover its darkest secrets in order to survive using a unique arsenal of weaponry, including guns and saw cleavers.
Bloodborne will be released for the PlayStation 4 on 5 February 2015 in Japan and 6 February for North America and Europe.
In the meantime, Sony has released a number of videos of the game this month, including a 30-minute gameplay walkthrough at the Tokyo Game Show.
Assassin's Creed Unity is the latest in the Assassin's Creed series. The single-player story is set within Paris during the French Revolution, and follows Arno in his efforts to expose the true powers behind the Revolution.
Assassin's Creed Unity introduces a co-operative multiplayer mode to the series, letting up to four players engage in narrative-driven missions and explore the open-world map.
Ubisoft recently released a trailer on co-op gameplay.
An earlier video showed a demo of a co-op heist mission.
Zen Studios announced on 16 September that CastleStorm: Definitive Edition will be available for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 next week.
CastleStorm is a physics-based tower-destruction game, combining elements of real time strategy, resource management, and a blend of challenging gameplay scenarios.
CastleStorm: Definitive Edition will include the entire original campaign and expansions, plus new content including new battles, modes, and spells, and features including 1080p resolution, improved textures and character models, and voice support.
CastleStorm: Definitive Edition launches on PlayStation 4 in North America on 23 September and in Europe on 24 September, and on Xbox One on 24 September.
The game was released in Japan and Europe last week.
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution is a fighting game and the latest in the Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm series.
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution offers players tons of new techniques, enhanced mechanics, more than 100 characters and a brand new exclusive character, Mecha-Naruto.
ArcheAge is an open-world sandbox MMORPG. In the game, players can raise their own mounts, fight through dungeons, craft their own armour, build farms and houses, sail on the high seas, fly on airships, fight other players for plunder and claim land for their guilds.
ArcheAge is free to play, with optional Patron subscriptions and non-recurring passes available that grant additional benefits to players.
Chivalry: Medieval Warfare is a multiplayer online action game where the player uses swords, shields and longbows to fight battles. Players have real-time control over their swings, allowing them to aim strikes and blocks with precision.
Battles involve besieging castles, raiding medieval villages and fighting for glory in the arena with up to 32 players.
Chivalry: Medieval Warfare was released on the Windows PC in October 2012.
The game launch has been brought forward from its previous schedule of February 2015.
Dying Light will be available for the Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and Windows PC.
Styx: Master of Shadows will be released in October for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Windows PC.
In the meantime, publisher Focus Home Interactive has released a new video of the game.
Super Smash Bros. Edition Nintendo 3DS XL: Red and blue systems go on sale on 19 September in honour of the 3 October launch of the Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS game. The cover of the new hardware features a dozen of the game's characters, including Mario, Link, Samus and Little Mac.
NES Edition Nintendo 3DS XL: This GameStop exclusive goes on sale on 10 October. It is modelled after Nintendo's NES controller and the box looks like an NES system.
Persona Q Edition Nintendo 3DS XL: In honour of the 25 November launch of the ATLUS role-playing game Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth, GameStop will be the exclusive retailer for the Persona Q Edition of the Nintendo 3DS hardware. The design evokes the essence of Persona Q with the iconic Grimoire styling on the front and the new style of character art represented on the back.
In this update, players have to help protect Millennium City from Mechanon and save citizens from spontaneously bursting into flames. The Steel Crusade update features new missions, a new archetype, the new Mechanon Lockbox and more.
The following video provides some information on the Steel Crusade update.
Like its predecessors in the Resident Evil series, Resident Evil Revelations 2 will have a horror and suspense theme. It will contain four main chapters, each of which will be released weekly as individual downloadable episodes. A full disc version with additional game content will be released subsequently.
Resident Evil Revelations 2 is scheduled to be released in early 2015 for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and Windows PC.
A concept teaser video for the game had been released at the beginning of this month.
It also says that the game is the highest-selling day one digital console release in history and is on track to become Activision's next billion dollar franchise.
GameSpot has posted a video providing some early impressions of Destiny.
Final Stand is the latest expansion for Battlefield 4, a first-person shooter developed by DICE and published by Electronic Arts.
It will include four new maps, with military installations set against a wintry landscape.
Players will discover secret prototype weapons and vehicles that further tie into the fiction around Final Stand, and to some extent, the Battlefield series.
Battlefield 4 Final Stand is set to be released in the Fall of 2014.
However, according to VG247, Bungie's Destiny servers will go live on 8 September at 12 noon GMT / 7am EDT / 4am PDT. Anyone who gets hold of the game early will be able to play.
In Destiny, the player plays a Guardian of the last city on Earth. He will be able to explore the ancient ruins of our solar system and wield incredible power to defeat Earth’s enemies.
For more information on the game, visit the game's website.
Goro, a four-armed Shokan warrior, will be playable in the game for people who pre-order the game.
Developed by NetherRealm Studios, Mortal Kombat X is the latest entry in the Mortal Kombat series of fighting games. For the first time in the series, Mortal Kombat X will give players the ability to choose from multiple variations of each character, which will affect both strategy and fighting style.
Ryse: Son of Rome is a third-person action-adventure game that tells the story of Marius Titus, a young Roman soldier who witnesses the murder of his family at the hands of barbarian bandits, then travels with the Roman army to Britannia to seek revenge.
Developed by Crytek, Ryse: Son of Rome had originally been launched on the Xbox One on 22 November 2013. The introduction of the game to the Windows PC brings with it better graphics, including support for 4K resolution.
In conjunction with the announcement of the game's launch on the Windows PC, Crytek has released a cinematic trailer.
This edition includes the Imperator Augustus campaign pack. This campaign covers the events of the Second Triumvirate War, which ultimately led to the end of the Republic and the rise of the first emperor.
All current owners of Total War: ROME II will be upgraded for free on 16 September to the Emperor Edition. Improvements to the base game include overhauled building chains, a redeveloped and more impactful politics system, improved campaign and battle lighting, and all free content updates since ROME II’s launch in September 2013.
For a taste of what the new campaign will bring, the game's developer, The Creative Assembly, has released a cinematic trailer.
The new video provides some information on the game's multiplayer features. These features including exoskeleton movement, customisation, maps, and modes.
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare launches on PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360, and Windows PC on 4 November.
Developed by Eugen Systems and published by Focus Home Interactive, Wargame Red Dragon is the third title in the Wargame series of real-time strategy games and brings the action to Asia.
The new DLC adds 12 new units and an additional full-length story campaign that takes the Korean War to 1992 with an alternate-history scenario that sees China, North Korea, and a restored Soviet Union take on the United Nations coalition in the Korean peninsula.
The Sims 4 is a life simulation game where the player creates his own characters with their own personalities, emotions and appearances to create their own life stories.
Enjoy!
Set in the future, the player takes part in an expedition to find a home beyond Earth. In doing so, the player has to explore and colonise an alien planet, research new technologies, amass armies, build Wonders and shape the face of the new world.
The game will be released for the Windows PC on 24 October 2014. In the meantime, the development team has released the following gameplay video.
