Pillars of Eternity: The White March - Part 1 released

The first part of The White March expansion for Pillars of Eternity, a computer role-playing game developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Paradox Interactive, has been released.

The White March expands the story of the original game, adding new locations, quests, companions as well as a higher level cap.

For information on Pillars of Eternity, see my earlier post.

Attack on Titan

Earlier this month, Koei Tecmo announced that it was collaborating with Kodansha to develop and publish a new action game based on the highly-acclaimed anime series Attack on Titan.

Attack on Titan is set in a world where humanity has been almost wiped out by gigantic, human-eating beings called Titans. The surviving humans built enormous walls to protect themselves against the Titans, but these walls are about to be broken.

Also earlier this month, the first part of a two-part Attack on Titan live-action movie was released in Japan and several other Asian countries.

Unfortunately, the reception to the movie has been mixed. While Edmund Lee at South China Morning Post described the movie as one of the most perversely original fantasy movies in recent memory, Brian Ashcroft at Kotaku called the movie superficial, with too many changes made to the original story that only made things worse.

The second part of the movie will be released in September.

Drakensang Online: Rise of Balor

Drakensang Online, an action role-playing game developed by Bigpoint, will be getting its next expansion on 26 August.

The expansion, Rise of Balor, will be the largest yet for Drakensang. It unveils a mysterious jungle continent for the player to explore and to fight against mysterious dark forces tainting the lands.

Rise of Balor will include:

• over 13 new maps and monster types
• increased level cap from 45 to 50
• new skill system
• new wisdom talent system
• new fame talent system
• new equipment and item sets

Gauntlet: Slayer Edition launched

Gauntlet, a top-down hack-and-slash dungeon crawl video game developed by Arrowhead Game Studios and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, was released on 23 September 2014 for the Windows PC.

Now, the game is also available for the PlayStation 4 with the launch of Gauntlet: Slayer Edition on 11 August.

Gauntlet is based on the 1985 arcade game by Atari Games and features the same four classes of Wizard, Warrior, Valkyrie and Elf.

Gauntlet includes the following features:

• 4-player cooperative gameplay, local or online
• 4 Heroes, each with unique gameplay
• Collect gold to unlock new weapons, potion abilities and magical items
• Story Campaign with 3 unique environments
• Get as far as you can in Endless-mode

For the new features in the Slayer Edition, see this blog post from Arrowhead.

Dragon Age: Inquisition – The Descent DLC

BioWare releases the Dragon Age: Inquisition – The Descent downloadable content on 11 August on the Windows PC, PlayStation 4. and Xbox One.

The Descent takes you down into the deepest dungeon in the Dragon Age world to explore darkspawn-infested caverns, where the Inquisitor and his companions have to solve one of Thedas’s greatest mysteries.

Dark Souls III gameplay trailer

Bandai Namco Entertainment released a gameplay trailer for the third installment of their hit Dark Souls series at the Gamescom last week.

In Dark Souls III, the player will travel across a wide variety of locations in an interconnected world of epic atmosphere and darkness.

Dark Souls III is scheduled to be released in early 2016 on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Windows PC.