Now that we're finally talking about the games of 2017 themselves, it's time to start asking the question — Is this the best year
for videogame releases since 2007?
As great as the fall season is
for videogame releases, it's become a tough time for developers.
Not exact matches
Just as blockbusters are put out en masse during the summer months to reach out - of - school teenagers and young adults,
videogames are traditionally
released during the winter holiday season — when parents are more apt to spend $ 60 on a new game or up to $ 300
for a new system.
Below, we profile the most noteworthy
videogames scheduled
for release between now and the end of the year.
Below, we profile the most noteworthy
videogames scheduled
for release between now and the end of 2017.
Find
release dates, trailers, and scores
for major upcoming and recent
videogame releases for all platforms, updated weekly.
The LEGO Movie
Videogame will feature 90 playable characters throughout 15 levels, and will be
released for every conceivable platform, including PC, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, PlayStation3, Wii U, Nintendo 3DS, and PlayStation Vita.
The
videogame community made an important outreach effort to movie nerds on Wednesday night, as representatives from Rockstar Games made the trek into Westchester County, New York, to demo their current
release, the open - world Western adventure Red Dead Redemption,
for the arthouse crowd.
Remedy Games has
released a second teaser trailer
for the new Alan Wake title to be unveiled tonight on the Spike
Videogame Awards.
The summer is a traditionally slow time
for videogames, publishers are readying their big
releases for the lucrative fall holiday season.
With the advent of director's cuts playing a big part in extra DVD sales above and beyond the original
releases distributed
for home entertainment purposes, it's no surprise that the
videogame industry wants a piece of that lucrative pie too.
Today's Daily Briefs: latest Kickstarter update
for Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night,
release dates
for Gal Gun 2 in Europe and North America + trailer, latest pictures
for Attack on Titan 2, English trailer
for One Piece Pirate Warriors 3 Deluxe Edition, latest picture
for Runner3, latest set of Famitsu preview pages, Neo ATLAS 1469 now available
for pre-purchase on the Nintendo eShop in Japan, short video
for Hello Neighbor on Nintendo Switch, PriPara All Idol Perfect Stage and Monster Energy Supercross — The Official
Videogame now available
for pre-purchase on the Nintendo eShop in Japan, and videos
for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim!
Sparks & Shadows will
release two soundtracks of McCreary's music
for the groundbreaking multimedia science fiction epic Defiance, the first attempt to launch a new franchise in both the television and
videogame mediums.
As
for Kobo's new tablet, the company will
release the Kobo Arc nearer Christmas, most likely in November, with a seven - inch screen with a HD display which customers can use to access apps, play films and
videogames, look at photos as well as read e-books.
But the company recently
released three live wallpaper schemes
for Android devices: Artemia, an undersea landscape; Blue Range, an isometric landscape with cartoon bears and foxes (shown here); and Retro Pixels, a wallpaper reminiscent of an old
videogame.
The USA NPD
videogame sale figures
for the four weeks ending January 31, 2009 will be
released on February 12, 2009 at 6:30 PM EST, but according to the numbers already posted at Vgchartz, game companies are off to a surprisingly strong start, especially a certain console maker whose name rhymes with «Nimbendo.»
The
release date will probably be set
for sometime late in 2010, putting the game in direct competition with the new Call of Duty
videogame, which is set to be created by Treyarch and is rumored to move to a Vietnam or other Cold War setting.
Warner Bros have now officially confirmed that they will indeed bet
releasing a LEGO The Hobbit
videogame in spring of 2014
for 3DS, PS Vita, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PC and Mac.
Slated
for a Summer 2013 PC
release, Theme Park Studio gives you the best of both worlds — Minecraft and Rollercoaster Tycoon all rolled together into one
videogame.
For those of you who can't get enough ducks bouncing around on canes or simply didn't want a digital version of this release, DuckTales: Remastered is now available as a disc - based, honest - to - goodness videogame across North America, for the Wii U, PS3, and 3
For those of you who can't get enough ducks bouncing around on canes or simply didn't want a digital version of this
release, DuckTales: Remastered is now available as a disc - based, honest - to - goodness
videogame across North America,
for the Wii U, PS3, and 3
for the Wii U, PS3, and 360.
That
VideoGame Blog's Mike Wehner (TVGB): Your previous title, Alien Hominid HD
for Xbox LIVE Arcade, has sold a substantial number of units since its
release.
Two months ago saw the
release of the Lego Movie
Videogame, and now we have an adapation of Peter Jackson's Hobbit films, because apparently Warners Bros. couldn't actually wait
for him to complete the final part of the trilogy later this year, leaving us with a game that feels like it's missing a rather significant chunk of itself.
Videogame television usually comprises one of three categories: coverage affecting the industry, reviews of games that will be available, or previews of games that are due
for release.
Codemasters and Koch Media have
released the latest gameplay video
for F1 2016, the official
videogame of the 2016 FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP...
Codemasters has
released the first gameplay teaser
for F1 2015, the official
videogame of the 2015 FIA Formula One World Championship, which will now
release on July 10th 2015 and be distributed by BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Europe S.A.S in EMEA territories.
Interactive Entertainment announced today the
release of three new expansion packs
for LEGO Dimensions, the LEGO toy and
videogame hybrid.
Videogame publisher and developer Mastiff today announced the unveiling of a brand - new website and trailer
for their upcoming video game, Party Planet, a fun - packed compilation of 30 party games, which is scheduled to be
released on the Nintendo Switch ™ system on December 12, allowing players of [Continue Reading]
The Writer's Guild has announced its nominees
for the Outstanding Achievement in
Videogame Writing Award
for the year of 2015, which included one title that was a major Kickstarter crowdfunding
release.
Having
released action strategy title Zombie Grenades Practice last month
for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Windows Mixed Reality, indie developer ARVI is back again with a very different style of
videogame.
Their
release list too is also missing The Lego Movie
Videogame for the Wii U
for next year.
But the real influence of these games is not felt by those that borrowed its template wholesale, but in the way professional game designers constantly check the new Zelda
releases for how it will shift the landscape of
videogames — make no mistake, even now, games in production are having their directions altered as a result of Breath of the Wild's critical and commercial success.
At long last, a Live Arcade
release that is actually a
videogame rather than some stupid parlour game your granny wouldn't swap her pen and newspaper
for.
THQ has announced plans to keep Darksiders in gamers» brains
for a bit longer with the
release of some collectibles based on the post-apocalyptic
videogame.
Even as little as two years ago you wouldn't see too many press
releases dropping
for who the composer of a
videogame is, and now we get one
for almost every major game out there.
The Germany - based
videogame and software developer Crytek, responsible
for the Crytek gaming engine as well as the Crysis series and the first installment of Far Cry, have announced that Hunt: Showdown will have a Steam Early Access
release.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America Inc., the premier anime
videogame publisher has
released Sword Art Online - Hollow Realization throughout the Americas
for the PlayStation 4 computer entertainment system and digitally
for the PlayStation Vita handheld system.
Kimara brings aboard her lifelong passion
for videogames as well as her extensive experience marketing them, having spent the better part of the last decade working on a variety of
releases ranging from AAA titles like Total War: WARHAMMER and Rise of the Tomb Raider to indie passion projects.
Along with the Ghostbusters costumes that will be
released for LittleBigPlanet, Media Molecule will also come out with a sticker pack
for the
videogame.
Today, ahead of the E3 Press Conference and coverage that begins next week, Warner Brothers
released the first trailer
for LEGO Marvel's Avengers, which is also the first console
videogame featuring characters and storylines from the critically - acclaimed film Marvel's The Avengers and the blockbuster sequel Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron, says the publisher.
Today's Daily Briefs: latest batch of Famitsu previews, video clip
for Mario Party: The Top 100, Halloween wallpaper
for Azure Striker Gunvolt: Striker Pack, Halloween illustrations
for Kirby and ARMS, teaser trailer
for Tennis World Tour, new
release date
for MXGP3 — The Official Motocross
Videogame, and trailer +
release date
for Rock «N Racing Off Road DX!
Codemasters has
released the «Features» gameplay trailer
for F1 2015, the official
videogame of the 2015 FIA Formula One World Championship.
EEDAR, a group that predicts the monthly sales of the
videogame industry, have
released their numbers of how many games were moved
for the month of October.
Rocksteady Games has
released another trailer
for their highly anticipated Dark Knight
videogame Batman: Arkham Asylum
for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
I hadn't really told many people about this (had been waiting until the first video was made before telling), but today was my first work
for Danish
videogame developer betaDwarf, a relatively new indie game company born here in Copenhagen out of several students and currently working on the
videogame Faith of the Guardians, which will be
released initially
for Xbox 360 with other platforms coming afterwards.
Since the debut of Bow to Blood — which stated a 2018
release for the
videogame — developer Tribe Toy has offered no new updates.
Moments ago, EA
released the first trailer
for the company's MMA
videogame, which we have above.
OUTRIGHT GAMES ANNOUNCES HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA
VIDEOGAME IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SONY PICTURES ANIMATION Popular Film Franchise Hotel Transylvania Set
for Release on Multiple Platforms in a Monstrously Fun Adventure LONDON — Jan. 30, 2018 — Get ready to cast away on a spooktacular adventure!
This is an excellent report because Spyro has been under the radar
for quite some time due to its inclusion in the Skylanders games and many remastered
releases of other classic
videogames but never forgotten.
The first — and if I had a nickel
for every developer that said this, I'd be going on actual expeditions instead of virtual
videogame expeditions — is that Abbey Games says they intend to
release new content updates «regularly».
Are you waiting
for the
release date
for the upcoming Pacman and the Ghostly Adventures sequel of the television show and
videogame that killed the Pacman franchise and made him so awful it was unbeli...