​NBA 2K has evolved into much more than a basketball simulation. 2K continues to redefine what’s possible in sports gaming with NBA 2K20, featuring best in class graphics & gameplay, ground breaking game modes, and unparalleled player control and customization. Plus, with its immersive open-world Neighborhood, NBA 2K20 is a platform for gamers and ballers to come together and create what’s next in basketball culture.

In Rise of the Tomb Raider, Lara Croft becomes more than a survivor as she embarks on her first Tomb Raiding expedition to the most treacherous and remote regions of Siberia.

Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration is PS4™ Pro Enhanced and offers three modes to customize your gaming experience: 4K Resolution for unprecedented fidelity, High Framerate for even smoother gameplay, or Enriched Visuals for the lushest and most realistic graphics possible.

The game includes the new “Blood Ties” single player content, PSVR support for “Blood Ties”, new 'Lara's Nightmare' zombie combat mode, new online Co-op play for Endurance mode, new “Extreme Survivor” difficulty setting for the main campaign, 20 Year Celebration outfit and gun, and 5 classic Lara skins. It also includes all previously released downloadable content. With over 50 hours of gameplay, and nominated for more than 85 awards, this is the most comprehensive version of the critically-acclaimed experience.

Hong Kong - July 3, 2020 – Independent developer and publisher, Eastasiasoft Limited, today announced that the physics-based 2D action game Robozarro will be available next week for Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and PS4™. 

Take the role of a pair of robots investigating the disappearance of Dr. Zarro. Using 2D physics to navigate the hazard-filled metropolis of Mech Angeles, you can use “Grab N Blast” mechanics to manipulate the environment and turn ordinary items against their enemies.

Recover gadgets with unique abilities to reach new areas and collect junk to trade for upgrades along the way. Exploration and resourcefulness will be key to overcoming unpredictable challenges created by Robozarro’s dynamic physics engine!

Robozarro has been developed by Frozen Flame Interactive. Console versions are ported and published by eastasiasoft.
Robozarro will be available for US$6.99/€6.99 on these dates:

• July 7th: PS4™ Americas
• July 8th: PS4™ Europe/Asia/Japan, Xbox One worldwide
• July 9th: Nintendo Switch worldwide

A 20% launch discount will be available on select platforms and regions.

About Robozarro

Robozarro is a physics-based 2D action game where robots B0-3 and 0-Ramatron embark on an epic quest through the outskirts, underbelly and rooftops of Mech Angeles to uncover the mystery surrounding the disappearance of Dr. Zarro.
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Features:

• Explore an unpredictable world brought to life by a dynamic 2D physics engine.
• Master the “Grab N Blast” physics manipulation tool to turn your surroundings into explosive weaponry!
• Collect junk while adventuring and trade for health, weapons or upgrades.
• Recover unique gadgets to aid your journey across Mech Angeles.
• Unlock time trials and attempt to beat levels with no checkpoints or taking zero damage!

July 3, 2020 - KEMCO proudly announces the release of Alphadia Genesis for the Xbox One family of devices including the Xbox One X, and Windows 10 PCs set to hit the Microsoft Store today.

 justice. However, when the clues begin to look like a trail of gunpowder headed straight for an explosive keg, things then appear to be far more volatile than anyone could have first imagined...

An Engaging Drama Focused on the Meaning of Life
A tale that mirrors the human experience coupled with a rich cast of characters, each trying to deal with inner struggles and find their voice of resolve makes Alphadia Genesis one game not soon to be forgotten. Additionally, with intricately detailed events players will find themselves fixated upon those who populate the vast and gorgeous world of Lagoon that lies before them.

Intense 3D Battles
Shifting camera angles and voiced characters are just a few of the new features that make battles more engaging than ever before! And with beautifully rendered graphics and vibrant Energi and Break Skills, players will never tire of such a visual feast! Furthermore, with the inclusion of a highly efficient auto-battle function, gaming has never been this convenient!

Elemental Combinations
Each character commands a main Energi elemental, while sub-elementals can also be learned. By combining these various elementals, new and more powerful Energi can be learned and used to wipe the floor with the ever increasing waves of enemies!

Submembers
Those characters not in the current battle party can cooperate with them in various ways through the use of Assists. Depending on the combination of submembers, attack, defense and other parameters like the critical rate can be increased. Moreover, when the Assist Gauge has been maxed out, powerful combo attacks can be unleashed with their help.

You are a synthetic human being who is stranded on a derelict space station swarming with mindless bloodthirsty creatures. What is your purpose? What happened at this godforsaken place? What fate befell your creators, the human race? There is only one way to find out.

Hellpoint, a hardcore action role-playing experience in the genre of science fiction, will be released on July 30, 2020. The game is landing on several PC platform stores which include Steam, GoG, and Epic Games Store, as well as on consoles: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. 
Pre-orders on Xbox, Steam, GOG and Epic Games Store are available right now!

​About the game
Irid Novo is a massive interconnected world full of mysteries, hidden passages and secrets within secrets - all for you to explore in any order you like. More dread and shivers awaits you as you travel deeper into the darkest corner of this forsaken colony.
Dozens of melee and ranged weapons and armor pieces to suit your playstyle. Every weapon has unique special abilities that unlock the more you fight with them.
A fascinating new sci fi universe reminiscent of classic sci-fi movies, set in the aftermath of a massive quantum cataclysm and complete with a deep lore and goosebump inducing soundtrack.
The space station orbits in real time around an ominous black hole that triggers various dynamic events such as boss appearances, horde assaults as well as modified enemy stats and positions.
If you are struggling, ask a friend to press Start to join in a couch coop session, or call for assistance online. The entire game can be completed uninterrupted in coop. The loot is shared, and the experience of local player two is saved and not watered down.

Leon, Spain — July 2nd, 2020  — After the release of DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition last year, Price is back on this new tale about finding hope!

Our own actions can deeply affect others, experience a unique psychological tale about a young man learning this truth as he deals with the consequences of his actions.

Ratalaika Games & Jesse Makkonen are proud to announce that DISTRAINT 2 will be making its way onto Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 next week!
DISTRAINT 2 will be priced for 8.99$ / 7.99 € for all platforms.

It will launch on:
PS4 America: July 10th
PS4 Europe: July 10th
Xbox One: July 10th
Nintendo Switch (NA & EU): July 10th

​About DISTRAINT 2:
Redemption… Hope… Are these things that one can hope to acquire again after selling your soul in your haunting past?

You are Price, a man who sold his humanity to get a partnership from a leading company: McDade, Bruton & Moore. Collect items and solve puzzles to progress through the story and find out if Price can reclaim his lost soul.

DISTRAINT 2 follows on from the events of the first game. It is a sinister tale about restoring hope and finding your purpose.
Features:

Side-scrolling 2D with unique, hand-drawn graphics
Atmospheric sound design
Minimalist and efficient interface
Delve into a complex story full of intriguing twists and characters

​LONDON, UK (July 2nd, 2020) – SQUARE ENIX® today presented new information and gameplay footage from OUTRIDERS™, the highly anticipated upcoming RPG-Shooter from People Can Fly, the developers of Gears of War: Judgment and BULLETSTORM, and Square Enix External Studios, the minds behind SLEEPING DOGS® and JUST CAUSE®.

The “Journey and Structure” feature presents an in-depth look at the campaign, side-quests, companions and travel system in OUTRIDERS, plus the video reveals several new environments and enemy types.

​OUTRIDERS is a massive experience, not just in terms of the hours of gameplay it will offer, but in how far you travel in the course of the game’s dark sci-fi story. The campaign will take you on an epic journey across Enoch, a savage world where everything has mysteriously hyper-evolved to wipe Humanity from the face of the planet. From the lives and secrets within the Human colony, to the mysterious jungles and unforgiving deserts, you will explore the far reaches of the frontiers, gain incredible powers, and make discoveries that will change everything.

We are also pleased to announce that Emmy Award Winner and three-time BAFTA nominee Inon Zur is the musical talent behind the original soundtrack of OUTRIDERS. His vast experience and exquisite expertise brings the world of OUTRIDERS to life in a one of a kind fashion.

“As a composer it’s always extremely exciting to be involved in building new worlds and telling new stories, so I’m thrilled to reveal that I have composed the score for People Can Fly and Square Enix’s epic sci-fi action game OUTRIDERS. It was a lot of fun blending heavy orchestral soundscapes and futuristic musical sound design for this rollercoaster sci-fi adventure and I can’t wait to share the music with you.” said Inon Zur.

“We were really excited to have Inon on board to do the soundtrack for the game. He’s a legend in the industry and the team were big fans of his work already,” said Bartek Kmita, Creative Director of OUTRIDERS at People Can Fly. “He worked closely with us to develop a sound that fit with the story and world that we’re creating, and he composed truly dynamic and powerful tracks for us that added so much depth to the tone and feel of the game.”

The “Journey and Structure” feature is just one of the segments in the second OUTRIDERS Broadcast, a show that reveals new details of the dark and desperate world of OUTRIDERS. Discover all-new gameplay, environments, character class deep dives, and updates from the team in this on-going video series.

For more information, watch the rest of OUTRIDERS Broadcast #2 – Beyond the Frontier here:

PARIS, FRANCE – JULY 1, 2020 - SFL Interactive and Maximum Games announced today that Street Power Football is coming August 25 for PlayStation®4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and Steam, for both retail and digital platforms. Retail pre-orders for Street Power Football are available now and coming digitally on July 13. Own the street and unleash your style in Street Power Football. All you need is a ball as you master insane tricks, learn skills, and share the flare of street football legends as you play around the world through six unique game modes.
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Street Power Football features a premier roster of global freestyle, panna and street football ambassadors including Sean Garnier, Melody Donchet, Liv Cooke, Andrew Henderson, JaviFreestyle, Raquel Benetti, Daniel Got Hits, Yoanna Dallier and many more! Experience signature freestyle moves from each ambassador and stages from around the world.

Street Power Football combines creative style with high-energy action for an over-the-top football and arcade videogame experience. Play through six distinct game modes with tons of customizable options to style your team to your liking, pumped up music, and more!

Street Power Football Gameplay Key Features:
●Become Street King: Create your own character and become the protégé of Street Legend Sean Garnier as you blow away the competition and rule the streets with your baller moves.

●Play with Friends: Grab your friends and compete head-to-head locally or online. If you’re more of a team player, grab a friend and compete against the AI in Street Power Matches with up to three playable characters on each team! Challenge yourself in front of an audience as you play solo in Trick Shot and Become King modes!

●Game Modes: Explore and master all six unique game modes: Dance-like Freestyle, 2v2 or 3v3 Street Power matches, Trick Shot, Panna Cage Battles, Elimination and Become the Street King story mode.

●Signature Tricks and Superpowers: Play with style and stun your opponents with sick tricks like Boyka’s backflip, Liv’s around the world or Melody’s special moves. Unleash amazing superpowers and blow away the competition.

●Style Points: Customize your team with stylish street fashions, custom emotes, tattoos, and more!

●Authentic Streetstyle Culture: Play with the best Street and Freestyle players in the world including Sean Garnier, Melody Donchet, Liv Cooke, Andrew Henderson, Raquel “Freestyle” Benetti, Daniel Got Hits, JaviFreestyle and more!

●Build the Hype: Turn up the volume with hyped-up tracks from The Black-Eyed Peas, DJ Snake, Snap, and Daniel Got Hits as you take to streetstyle stages from around the world, including the official Red Bull Street Style World Championship stage.

Street Power Football is launching August 25 digitally and at brick and mortar retailers for PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and Steam. Stay up to date with all Street Power Football news on the website, watch on YouTube, follow on Twitter, Instagram, Tik Tok and “Like” us on Facebook.

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​The world has been taken over by an alien invasion. On the eve of destruction, humanity calls out for help! Octonaut is a retro shoot’em up inspired by 16-bit classics. Save the world from alien invasion by shooting and dodging your way through 8 action-packed levels with sinister bosses! Collect a variety of power-ups including lasers, bowling balls and ninja stars to take down enemies and defend the planet. 

At the very end of the 1989 or very early 1990 I was invited around to a friends house before school to check out his new game.
He told me it was the best game he ever played and I should get it too for that Sega master System I still resented owning because I still wanted a Nes (we'll leave that story for another time)
I went around and had a solid hour of play time with R-Type.
I'd played the odd shoot em up before then but not to any significant play time.
It was that day and a few subsequent weeks after that of playing little else at his house other than R-Type my dislike occasionally boarding on hatred for Shoot em up's was born.

Over the years I've tried dozens more and none have managed to hold my attention more than a few days at best it's just not a genre I have much time for, some people hate 100 hour RPG'S  I love them we're all different and that's okay with me.

Despite all of that I thought if ever a game was going to win me over as a shoot em up a little orange octopus had as good a chance as any other so I accepted the review copy and here we go.

Playing as Octonaut the little orange octopus and only hope of mankind you're thrust straight into the action in the first of 8 total levels.
The majority of enemies die with one hit  throughout the game and everything starts off at a steady pace to ease in new players to the genre while shoot em up veterans will more than likely breeze through the first half of the game with few issues.

Killing enemies sometimes results in them dropping green gems, shooting these gems changes their colour  (green, yellow, red, purple, violet) and therefore their points value.
Shooting the gem again once it's turned violet will revert the gem back to green and of course give you less points assuming you have the time between bullet dodging and shooting to collect them in the first place.

I'm not convinced that high score chasing will be a feature all that many players care about with this particular game but I've always been of the opinion having more options for fans of a game is better than not having something that most people will probably ignore.
The coloured gems do have more significance if your a fan of achievements as your tasked with collecting a set number of each coloured gem to earn achievements for the platforms that support them.

In addition to dropping gems, health boost and weapons drop with reasonable frequency.
Picking up a new weapon thankfully doesn't change what you already have instead it will place it as an option at the bottom of your screen ready for you to switch out what you have.
You should beware though that if you switch you can no longer switch back to what you already had so if you switch out to a bad weapon choice you'll be stuck with it until you can grab something better.
​And there are a few bad weapon choices you might want to avoid.
The cannonball was probably the worst for me personally but the yo yo wasn't a whole lot better.
My personal favourite is the flamethrower while it involved closer combat it's a very effective weapon against most of the enemies you'll face including the boss fights.
The shotgun would be my second choice as the bullet spread helps with the pesky misses you occasionally get with the standard weapon.

The boss fights themselves aren't the most difficult parts of the game, once you've learned each of their patterns it quickly becomes apparent getting there is the bigger challenge, in particular in when it comes to the latter levels of the game.
Dying before you get to the boss will result in you starting the level right from the start but if you die during the boss fight then you'll restart with the boss.

Something that helps a lot throughout all the levels and the boss fights (and something I didn't really use  for a few levels in) is the ability to shirk your little octonaut.
Shrinking makes you invincible for a few seconds  which proves vital at certain points in the game enabling you to dodge bullets or travel through walls and scenery that took almost as much of my life as the enemies did.
There is a cool down between shrinking and you can't shoot while mini either so you'll need to use it tactically.

For veteran shoot em up players that find the game too easy the game has a panic mode  and a custom mode so you can make the game either much much harder or set it to a level your happy enough with.
But what about those of you that just find the standard mode too difficult already?
Well you're in luck too the game has an assist mode that can be turned on or off at the mode select screen.
Turning it on will mean you'll take far less damage and even I blitzed through the entire game with only one death the whole way through and that was after I actually killed the boss and messed something up and killed myself (Yes on level 7 I managed to kill myself AFTER I already killed the evil octopus boss!
This will also most likely be the mode the Achievement hunters choose as doing so will probably get you all the achievements / trophies in under 2 hours.
I had played through the first 4 levels of normal mode and completed the game with assist mode in just over 3 hours with multiple pauses and breaks in between to deal with my ever inquisitive children.

​Final Thoughts

Octonaut is a cute little game and a nice little graphical throwback to one of my favourite era's in gaming.
Did it finally give me a love for shoot em ups?
No I'm still not a fan of the genre and it's unlikely I ever will be.
It did however soften my opinion on the genre and at no point  during the 3 hours on my first play through was I left disappointed or frustrated, other than that cannonball incident but I learned from that mistake and never activated the thing again!
I've played through the game a few more times after my initial sit down and while I haven't quite beaten the game without assist turned on I did get closer and closer with each play through so it certainly improved my skills as I went along and later levels that felt unfair to begin with no longer felt so and it was clearly just my lack of skill / experience with the genre.

Leon, Spain — June 29th, 2020  — Get ready, young viewers! It’s time for another exciting adventure of Clash Force!

Will our heroes be able to stop the evil Crackman? Let’s find out…

The Evil Crackman and his minions are causing mayhem, and only Clash Force is up to the task of stopping his fiendish plans!

Ratalaika Games & Spicy Gyro Games are proud to announce that Clash Force will be making its way onto Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 later this week!
Clash Force will be priced for 4.99$/€ for all platforms

It will launch on:
PS4 America: July 3rd
PS4 Europe: July 3rd
Xbox One: July 3rd
Nintendo Switch (NA & EU): June 3rd

London, June 29th, 2020 - Cartoon Network, the number one global animated series network, and worldwide family entertainment publisher Outright Games, working with developer studio PHL Collective are thrilled to announce, "Ben 10: Power Trip", a brand-new video game from the iconic kids' franchise. This all new adventure sees Ben team up with longtime rival Kevin 11 to battle the evil magician Hex, launching October 9th, 2020 on PlayStation® 4, Nintendo Switch™, Xbox One, PC digital.

"Ben 10: Power Trip" takes place in the animated universe of Ben Tennyson, where he uses his trusted Omnitrix to transform into different alien creatures and save the world. The game tells a unique story where Ben must uncover the truth behind four mysterious crystals that threaten to take over his world. Players will be able to transform into powerful aliens and work together to battle fearsome foes in this co-op adventure.

"Ben 10 is a beloved kids' franchise and we are beyond excited to again be creating a game with these characters" said Terry Malham, CEO of Outright Games. "Our long running partnership with Cartoon Network has allowed us to take big steps forward with this title and create a game that will entertain Ben 10 fans and their families as they play together in this brand-new adventure."

"Ben 10: Power Trip" will launch on October 9th, 2020 on PlayStation® 4, Nintendo Switch™, Xbox One and PC digital and is available to pre-order now.