The Sucker Punch developed PlayStation 4 exclusive was dated last month, with a 26th June launch attached. Perhaps pre-empting any questions about the title, the Japanese giant stressed that “there are no other delays to report, but we’ll keep you updated”. Let’s hope the pandemic will slow down and the game will be able to release as planned.
The Greymoor prologue is now live and free, giving you the opportunity to begin your Greymoor chapter story and continue your Dark Heart of Skyrim year-long adventure in The Elder Scrolls Online.
To get started, use the free quest starter, titled Prologue Quest: The Coven Conspiracy, from the in-game Crown Store and travel to the Fighter’s Guild in Daggerfall, Davon’s Watch, or Vulkhel Guard (depending on your Alliance). Once there, talk to Lyris Titanborn to accept the first of two quests, titled The Coven Conspiracy, and begin your adventure.
The Greymoor Prologue has you confront the schemes of Skyrim’s nefarious Icereach Coven, and it continues the year-long storyline that began in the Harrowstorm DLC while also directly leading to the events of the soon-to-be released Greymoor chapter. Skyrim needs heroes!
But there’s more! The Elder Scrolls Online Free Play Days event kicks off Wednesday, April 1 and will run through Monday, April 13. During this period, all Xbox Live Gold members on Xbox One can download and play The Elder Scrolls Online base game completely free.
Finally, this April you can also enjoy big discounts on The Elder Scrolls Online and Crown Packs. How big? You can save up to 60% on The Elder Scrolls Online standard edition and up to 70% on The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr.
The standard edition will be on sale from March 31 until April 15. There’s also a Crown Pack sale, too, from March 31 until April 6, allowing you save up to 40% on select Crown Packs.
Anybody who plays The Elder Scrolls Online on Xbox One can now descend into the Dark Heart of Skyrim with the Greymoor prologue, and this includes anyone taking part in the Free Play Days event! No matter your experience level, there’s a host of great reasons to jump into The Elder Scrolls Online this April. We’ll see you in Tamriel!
The award-winning fantasy role-playing series, The Elder Scrolls, goes online – no game subscription required. Experience this multiplayer role-playing game on your own or together with your friends, guild mates, and thousands of alliance members. Explore dangerous caves and dungeons in Skyrim, or craft quality goods to sell in the city of Daggerfall. Embark upon adventurous quests across Tamriel and engage in massive player versus player battles, or spend your days at the nearest fishing hole or reading one of many books of lore. The choices are yours in the persistent world of The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited. Version supports English, French, German.
For over five years now, Awesome Games Studio has been busy creating an action-platformer game with rogue-lite elements that takes place inside a comic book world. The main design goal was to make a title that brings you a feeling of being an unstoppable action hero. A feeling somewhat similar to the games of old, which I enjoyed in my childhood and believe many of you are familiar with.
Titles like Contra and Metal Slug both come to mind. Both of them were an inspiration for Fury Unleashed, in terms of gameplay as well as the concept. In our game, there exists a great evil that threatens the Earth, be it ancient gods or alien invasions, and there is also a hero. You are a walking death machine in a body of your choosing; a human, an undead, or maybe a robot. The classic gameplay of old-school platform-shooters is contained and modernized in Fury Unleashed.
There are no lives nor continues here. Instead, you always start from the beginning of the comic book of your choice. The power-ups you get often stay with you through the entirety of the run, but there is also a skill tree, which lets you develop the hero even further. If I had to say, the most important design point is the combo system. This time, it’s not about defeating your opponent in a carefully estimated chain of kicks and punches.
Fury Unleashed‘s combo system is all about feeling like an action hero, plowing through the opposition that stands — or floats — in your way. Keeping up with the timer grants you different boons for your hero. For example, you are gaining shields that block the incoming damage, not breaking the combo streak, as long as you stay vigilant and active. I adore how with enough time and patience, it’s possible to clear the whole game from start to finish on a single combo streak! It’s not even a theory, as it was done a few times already, making it a nice treat for speedrunners around the world.
As you might or might not already have guessed if you are familiar with Comix Zone, that game was also an inspiration for our project. To be exact, our artist, who is also one of the main designers, is a big fan of comic books and thought of a game, that takes place inside different comics in a specially made universe. The previously mentioned game was a proof that the concept could translate into a video game, so it was a great help moving forward with the project.
Games like Spelunky and Rogue Legacy were other inspirations for us. We believe those titles revolutionized the rogue-genre, and as such, they were important from the start, as our role models of sorts. Fury Unleashed, in its default game mode, is a rogue-lite in which every run is different. Procedural generation exists within most of the game’s elements, so even when you think, that you’ve seen everything, there is a new surprise waiting at every corner.
Another inspiration of ours that came much later in the game’s production cycle was Dead Cells. Fury Unleashed‘s design went many ways in different directions than the aforementioned title, forfeiting the metroidvania model by pursuing the more-classic genres. Nevertheless, there were many elements, that both I and the rest of the team found out to be good lessons to learn from. Those resulted in improvements in aspects like interface readability, player movement, and general aesthetics of the game.
I always find it incredible at how the games that I and the others played and have such good memories with were seeds for our project to grow and bloom into something, we also love to play! As the developers, it would be the greatest reward for us, if one day someone would make an awesome title, which would list Fury Unleashed in its inspirations, as we list the games of our youth.
You can download the free trial of Fury Unleashed right now, and we also hope to see you inside one of the ever-changing pages of the comic books on May 8!
Fury Unleashed is a combo-driven rougelite action platformer – each kill you make increases your combo. Hit certain thresholds and your damage resistance and healing powers will kick in! It’s a game you can even beat in one ultimate combo. Are you up to the task?
ABOUT FURY UNLEASHED
Fury Unleashed was created by combining inspiration from modern roguelite platformers, like Dead Cells and Rogue Legacy, with nostalgic memories of old-school platformers, like Contra and Metal Slug. We have spent five years polishing our creation to make sure that your experience with the game will be as memorable as the aforementioned titles and we wholeheartedly believe that you won’t be disappointed.
MAIN FEATURES
• Ever-changing comic book – Explore the pages of a living comic book where ink is your most valuable resource and each room is a comic panel. Find out why is John Kowalsky, creator of acclaimed Fury Unleashed series, having a creativity crisis and see if you can help him deal with it.
• Gameplay-impacting combo system – Kill enemies quickly enough to unleash your fury and rip through everything in your way without getting injured. Learn to play flawlessly and beat the entire game in one, epic combo!
• Game customization options – Choose either challenging Hard mode, which will put your skills to the test – or Easy mode, where you can adjust the difficulty parameters any way you want. Beat the Hard mode to unlock access to even harder Incredible and Legendary modes. Disable blood and gore if you don’t like it, or if there are young children around. Go solo or bring in a friend for a local co-op session.
• Choose your hero’s skills to match your playstyle and modify their appearance to your liking!
• Roguelite with soft permadeath – Discover worlds created by a mix of hand-designed levels and procedural generation algorithms. Choose the best items to assist you in your playthrough and unlock permanent upgrades when you’ll die for your subsequent runs.
• Ravishing environments – Play through the pages of visually distinctive comic books and dive into the creator’s sketchbook. Master each enemy’s behavior patterns and overcome a total of 40 bosses. All that accompanied by epic soundtrack composed by Adam Skorupa and Krzysztof Wierzynkiewicz, the creators of music for The Witcher, Bulletstorm and Shadow Warrior.
Persona 5 Royal is finally available here in the West on PlayStation 4, and if you haven’t already seen our review, we absolutely loved it. But the incredibly lengthy role-playing game is releasing just as the schedule is starting to look crowded. We’ve got Resident Evil 3 coming up in just a few days, and then it’s off to Midgar for Final Fantasy VII Remake.
Media Molecule has just released the latest game update for Dreams, taking the PlayStation 4 exclusive title to version 2.08. The 252MB patch is available to download now, and includes a number of improvements to the experience.
A Welcome Garden Character Pack has been added, complementing the last update’s Welcome Garden kit. Another interesting addition is a brand new blank puppet — this one is shaped more like a platformer type character, with a big head and small body.
Physical copies of Final Fantasy VII Remake are popping up all over the place across Europe, and as users get their hands on the long-awaited title, one of its most important aspects is finally being uncovered. That’s the Trophy list, of course! Powerpyx has just posted the full list of PlayStation 4 Trophies you’ll be able to add to your virtual collection in just over a weeks time, and it looks like obtaining the Platinum won’t be too tough of a task.
You’ll earn a Bronze Trophy for completing every single one of the game’s 18 chapters while other trinkets are awarded for performing very basic actions in combat. You’ll also need to complete Whack-a-Box challenges, gather bridal candidate outfits, and master pull-up challenges. Things do get tougher, however as Silver Trophies are on offer for learning all the weapon abilities and enemy skills as well as completing every battle intel report. Hardened Veteran appears to be the hardest Trophy of the lot — a gold trinket for completing all chapters on hard difficulty.
Here’s a quick reminder for all of you Persona 5 Royal players: head on over to the PlayStation Store right now and you can grab the ‘Legacy DLC Bundle’ for the sweet, sweet price of absolutely nothing. The bundle contains all of the DLC that was originally released for Persona 5, now available to use in Persona 5 Royal.
