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Trailer Attack: 28th February 2017 – Pocket rays dig fast rider of shifty evil rabbids

Yooka-Laylee

Team17 and Playtonic Games, the UK studio formed by veterans of the platforming genre, today released a new gameplay trailer exploring the beautiful Glitterglaze Glacier world that players will be able to delve into on the 11th April when Yooka-Laylee launches.

Torment: Tides of Numenera

inXile Entertainment and Techland Publishing are excited to announce today that Torment: Tides of Numenera, the highly-anticipated and massively-crowdfunded science-fantasy RPG, has officially launched worldwide on Steam and Windows PC and for the PlayStation 4, as well as Xbox One. A brand-new trailer has been released today to celebrate the full debut of Torment: Tides of Numenera, introducing the game’s premise, and giving fans and prospective players alike a taste of the profound and philosophical questions invoked by the game’s themes of choice and consequence as well as death and rebirth.

Puyo Puyo Tetris

I’m not one to judge if you don’t know how to pop Puyos or clear Tetriminos, but luckily for you there are tons of ways to learn how to play in Puyo Puyo Tetris. Practice makes perfect, so playing the tutorials and training with the variety of challenge modes in the game will make you a pro in no time. Learn how to get better at initiating Puyo chains in Endless Fever and Endless Puyo modes! Practice your Tetris stacking strategies in Sprint and Ultra modes! There’s always room for improvement, so be sure to spend some quality time with the Challenge Modes.

Avatar

Today, Ubisoft announced a partnership with Lightstorm Entertainment and Fox Interactive to create a cutting-edge new game for consoles and PC set on Pandora, the beautiful and dangerous moon from James Cameron’s Avatar film franchise. Massive Entertainment, a Ubisoft studio, is leading the game’s development.

Turok 2: Seeds of Evil

Nightdive Studios, a company specializing in the restoration of classic PC game titles and the publisher behind the successful release of Turok in 2015, is pleased to announce that it will be releasing the sequel, Turok 2: Seeds of Evil on March 16th, 2017.

Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns

Since you were little, your family’s never lived in one place for very long, always moving to wherever your father’s job has taken you. Wherever you went, you always enjoyed trips out to the country, where you’d pet the animals, taste fresh-grown food, and dream of a slow, steady life.

2Dark

This is Gloomywood Studios first 2Dark Dev Diary, titled ‘From Concept to Creation’. 2Dark will be available both physically and digitally for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on March 17, 2017.

SteamWorld Dig 2

Grab your pickaxe and dig into this sequel to the award-winning SteamWorld Dig, a platform mining adventure forged in Metroidvania flames. In search of her lost friend, a lone steambot and her unlikely companion must dig deep, gain riches and explore an underworld riddled with danger. But time is running short…Adventure awaits this summer when SteamWorld Dig 2 debuts on Nintendo Switch.

Runner3

Choice Provisions announce that Runner3—the latest entry in the BIT.TRIP series—will be arriving later this year exclusively on the Nintendo Switch. Runner3 follows the continuing adventures of CommanderVideo and all his creepy friends. Their arch-rival, the Timbletot, is determined as ever to rid the multiverse of all its love and happiness. CommanderVideo, a lover if ever there were one, refuses to let this happen. He’s ready to jump, double-jump, wall-jump, slide-jump, underwear-jump, slide, kick, float, fly, and dance his way to victory, all across a medley of thrilling, challenging, and joyous levels!

Pocket Rumble

Pocket Rumble is a streamlined, beginner-friendly 2D fighting game inspired by SNK’s classic fighters for the Neo Geo Pocket Color. It retains all the gameplay elements that make traditional Street Fighter-style fighters great, but reduces the level of execution and memorization necessary to the bare minimum! Coming to Nintendo Switch, March 2017.

Overwatch

An extension of Overwatch‘s Custom Game mode, the Game Browser allows you to design your own ruleset and share your creation with friends, teammates, or anyone who wants to play along. What will you create?

Snow Moto Racing Freedom

Snow Moto Racing Freedom lets you take your rightful place on a high-speed snowmobile on Snocross tracks or through vast beautiful winter landscapes. Experience the thrill of racing so close to your opponents that you can feel the spray of the snow and hear the roar of their engines. Carve your own chosen path through exotic sceneries while stringing together extreme stunts high up in the air to gain that extra speed boost to fly past your opponents.

Fast RMX

Challenge your friends to local split-screen competition or take part in online races against players from all over the world. This lightning-fast anti-gravity racer is exclusive to Nintendo Switch.

Exile Election

Nippon Ichi Software Japan has released the first full-length trailer for Exile Election, its death game adventure title.

Sniper Ghost Warrior 3

Go behind enemy lines with the ultimate modern military shooter. Choose your own path to accomplish your missions across an unforgiving open world. Discover even more of the Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 unforgiving open world by watching a trailer.

GoNNER

GoNNER is a tough-as-hell, score-based, procedurally generated platformer with roguelike elements. GoNNER is also a story about friendship between Ikk, Death and a space whale named Sally. You will die. A lot. The console version of the game launches first on Nintendo Switch with additional content tailor-made for the system later this year.

Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment

Slash through the prequel to Shovel Knight and recruit a cadre of villains as Specter Knight, the shadowy scythe-spinner. Featuring a brand new playable character, all new weapons and armors, all new levels, all new music, new bosses, and a brand new story to adventure through!

Wargroove

Wargroove is a turn-based strategy game for up to 4 players, in which each player takes control of an army and its commander unit to wage war on their enemies! Wargroove is extremely easy to pick up, with accessibility at the forefront of its design, and very difficult to master, with deep gameplay mechanics that complement strategic play! It’s coming to Switch sometime in 2017.

SMITE

Join the Hi-Rez developers as they talk about the new CTF mode in SMITE – introducing the very first Adventure in SMITE, Nike’s Valley of Victory.

Virtual Rabbids: The Big Plan

Today, Ubisoft announced that Virtual Rabbids: The Big Plan, the first VR Rabbids experience on mobile, will be released this spring on Daydream, Google’s platform for high-quality mobile VR. Developed by Ubisoft Montpellier in collaboration with Bucharest, specifically for virtual reality, the mobile game is based on the Rabbids franchise, which has sold more than 14 million video games worldwide, and are regularly featured in a television show that airs in more than 110 countries.

ROGUE TROOPER REDUX

The most feared soldier on Nu Earth is back in business! ROGUE TROOPER REDUX will bring 2000 AD’s blue-skinned GI to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. In 2006, the original ROGUE TROOPER set the benchmark for video game adaptations of comic books. Developed by Rebellion, the studio behind Sniper Elite 4 and owners of British comic book powerhouse 2000 AD, it was widely acclaimed for bringing the cult sci-fi strip to life in an authentic, tactical, cover-based third-person shooter that debuted before the genre became the gaming staple it is today.

Tales of the Rays

Bandai Namco has released the latest trailer and gameplay videos of Tales of the Rays.

Blaster Master Zero

Blaster Master Zero will launch for Switch and 3DS in North America and Europe on March 9 for $9.99 / €9.99 / £8.99.

Mr. Shifty

Shift through bullets, and master lightning-fast takedowns in a new kind of action game. Mr. Shifty follows a teleportation-fueled heist to break into the world’s most secure facility. Shift through walls, through bullets, cover huge distances and be everywhere at once. One shot kills. Survive on skills. HD rumble allows players to feel every punch, shot and crash. The game is scheduled to launch first on Nintendo Switch this April.

The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series – A New Frontier

Beginning today at North American retailers, and March 3rd at European retailers, The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series – A New Frontier is available for purchase on a special Season Pass Disc for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles. The season pass disc includes the critically acclaimed two-part premiere episodes, and grants access to all subsequent episodes in the five episode season for download as they become available.

Ghost Blade HD

Today 2Dream announced that Ghost Blade HD is now available on PS4, Xbox One and Wii U formats. Following hot on its afterburners, a PC version will be released on Steam on March 8th 2017.

Flipping Death

Flipping Death is a spiritual successor to Stick It to The Man! Once again, the developers at Zoink have joined forces with the amazing writer Ryan North (known for his work on Adventure Time and his own Dinosaur Comics) to create a world full of quirky characters and odd surprises. Flipping Death will be available for the Nintendo Switch as well as other platforms.

Cities: Skylines

Paradox Interactive today announced a new expansion coming soon for Cities: Skylines, the award-winning city-builder from Colossal Order. The expansion, titled “Mass Transit,” will bring new forms of transportation to the game, allowing mayor-players to offer in-game citizens new ways to get across town by land, sea, and air. With new transit service buildings, mass transit hubs where lines can exchange passengers, new scenarios, new landmarks, and new road types, Mass Transit will provide veteran players of Cities: Skylines with more choices and options to personalize their cities than ever before.

Shakedown Hawaii

This 16-bit spiritual successor to Retro City Rampage aims to be twice as good with twice the bits. From the boardroom to the streets, Shakedown Hawaii parodies big business and the white collar crimes that go alongside. Build your empire, monopolize the markets and collaterally re-zone the island’s destructible sandbox. It’s scheduled to launch first on Nintendo Switch this April.

Assassin’s Creed

Today, Ubisoft announced that two new official Assassin’s Creed busts have been added to the Legacy Collection, a series of exclusive limited-edition collectibles that include the most charismatic characters from the saga. Assassin’s Creed official Connor’s bust is now available for purchase in the Ubisoft Store. The Aveline de Grandpré bust will release on March 14th, 2017.

DYING: Reborn

DYING: Reborn is a dark, horror-themed puzzle game that creates a unique first-person room escape experience. Players will play as Mathew, a distraught young man on a mission to find his missing sister. After receiving a mysterious note from his sister, Mathew finds himself trapped in a strange and eerie hostel with no recollection of how he landed there. To escape the hostel and solve the mystery, Mathew must solve a variety of creative puzzles while exploring each spooky room in the building for clues. Scattered throughout the environment are items he will collect and use as he works out what has happened to his sister.

DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 2

BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Europe is releasing today DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 2 second DLC pack: DB Super Pack 2. This new DLC pack, putting the spotlight on the content of the anime Dragon Ball Super, is now available through Season Pass and purchasable individually.

Blue Rider

Blue Rider is already out in EU, but Asia & Japan are finally gettring the game on March 10th, 2017. Blue Rider will be localized in Japanese, Chinese and Korean and available digitally at US$9.99 / ¥1280. In April, Blue Rider will also be available as physical Limited Edition. The Blue Rider Limited Edition contains a Blue Rider PS4 game disc, soundtrack CD, numbered certificate and collector’s box. It will be limited to 2500 units worldwide and sold exclusively at Play-Asia.com for US$29.99.