Dead Space Developer, Visceral Games Finally Closed By Electronic Arts

EA again closed the game studio.
Today Electronic Arts announced that the developer of the Dead Space series, Visceral Games will be closed along with a Star Wars game developer, directed by veteran Uncharted series, Amy Hennig.

Executive Vice President Patrick Soderlund said that EA decided to change the course of the latest Star Wars game previously mentioned will focus on story and linear adventures. Mentioned that this game will have a slick visual with the world of Star Wars who live like the original series in Lucasfilm-made movies, but with a design that was replaced to better reach all circles. This game will also provide a wider and deeper experience of Star Wars adventures. Although it sounds not so clear, but it seems EA will change the bow of this game to be designed as an open world game.

The development of this game will be handled by other unnamed EA developers under EA Vancouver leadership who have worked on this game. EA also said that they will move Visceral Games staff to other EA studios and projects.

Closing Visceral Games as well as replacing EA's plans to release its Star Wars game previously released in fiscal 2019 (between 1 April 2018 and 31 March 2019). EA mentioned that they will be looking for another time to release this game and will soon be announced when they are ready. While there is no clarity whether Amy Hennig is still the director of this game or replaced by others.

Visceral Games (formerly EA Redwood Shores) was founded in 1998 and has released popular games such as Dante's Inferno, Dead Space series, Battlefield Hardline. Hopefully with the closing of this studio, former Visceral staff can get a better studio.

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Team 17 and Former Developer Command & Conquer Announced "Forged Battalion"

Veterans RTS game soon presents a new RTS game.
Game from specialist Real Time Strategy developer, Petroglyph (founded by some former Westwood Studios members disbanded by EA) today announced his latest RTS game Forged Battalion. This game is called a strategy game that focuses on the customization of the unit and the building of your own fraction. 

Through the trailer below which is complete with the RTS game of the 90s game-style game of Command & Conquer, Petroglyph shows that each of your units is capable of installing several kinds of equipment such as weapons to additional armor. You will act as a rebel army that will retake your world from a military force called The Collective at the end of the 21st century.

Reporting from PC Gamer, Petroglyph said that this game will have a 'persistent tech tree' where the resources you get in each battle will be accumulated to open a new blueprint. Forged Battalion will also present a co-op and competitive multiplayer that can accommodate up to eight players. Superweapon a la Command & Conquer will also be present in this game becomes the most deadly weapon to crush your enemies. This game is also said to be support Steam Workshop, so for you who have creative brain can make mod to add custom skin, unit, or other addition to fraction or gamemu as a whole.

Forged Battalion will be released in 2018 as Steam Early Access with five campaign missions, multiple multiplayer modes, up to five multiplayer maps. Petroglyph plans to do Early Access this game for six months only.

For those of you who do not know, Petroglyph is a studio founded by former staff of Westwood Studios (Command & Conquer series, Bladerunner). This studio focuses on making game strategy that currently this genre still looks sluggish in the market because of the interests of today's gamers are more inclined to action games. Some of his work such as 8-Bit Armies to AAA game Gray Goo make it one of their efforts to revive the classic Real Time Strategy genre they have mastered for years.

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on the occasion of Halloween, Dead or Alive 5: Last Round Get Lots of Halloween Costumes

Team Ninja prepare costumes to welcome Halloween.
Halloween is about to begin, and some video game companies do not miss to celebrate. One of them is Team Ninja with Dead or Alive 5: Last Round. In Halloween this year , Team Ninja has prepared many Halloween costumes for some of the most famous fighting game characters with their variant costumes.

There are 35 costumes for almost all Dead or Alive characters 5: Last Round. These costumes can be purchased separately through the PlayStation Store or Microsoft Xbox Store. Although as we know Team Ninja likes to give costumes to the character of his girl, but on Halloween this time they also provide a costume for his guy character. Some costumes look badass, cute, sexy, and graceful.

For those of you who have bought the seventh season of Dead or Alive 5: Last Round, then you do not have to worry because you will get all the costumes. This costume update is one of the last updates of Team Ninja for Dead or Alive 5: Last Round remember they will soon prepare their plans in the future as they announced through livestream.

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Star Citizen - Squadron 42 "Single Player" Not Released This Year

If we talk about the most ambitious games of the moment, then the Star Citizen name of the Cloud Imperium Games seems appropriate to get into the highest list. Regardless of the never-down hype and popularity, which is also reflected in fundraising development that continues to touch fantastic numbers, the developer never able to provide certainty when interested gamers will be able to test the final version directly. Star Citizen actually has a single-player mode with a solid story they call the "Squadron 42". But speculation that he will be released before the end of 2017 also seems to fail.

The wait for the 42 Squadron which certainly contains many of the top actors in it seems to be getting longer. Why? Referring to Cloud Imperium Games's newly launched Cloud Imperium Games plan, the single-player mode for Star Citizen is unlikely to be released in 2017. CIG ensures that they will not show Squadron 42 at CitizenCon to be held later this month. Instead, they will show it through the live-streaming session of December 2017 later, to show a preview of the gameplay as well as a definite roadmap to complete it.

CIG asserts that they currently have a great team that is working on Squadron 42. They are ambitious to offer a similar attraction to their old game-style narrative - Wing Commander, but take it to a higher level. Squadron 42 will allow gamers to act as infantry, vehicles, with locations to be rendered to the promised quality, equivalent to the cinematic scene in the latest release games. CIG optimistic Squadron 42 will be same with other AAA game releases.

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Latest DLC Resident Evil 7 Show New Characters

Not a Hero

After waiting for almost a year, the answer we look forward to about who exactly is the figure of "Chris Redfield" who had appeared at the end of Resident Evil 7 story will finally open. True, we're talking about the DLC "Not a Hero" that Capcom will be distributing for free. Had become a mystery for a long time, detail after new details finally surfaced, follow the release schedule that stayed counting months..

At least, from the short demo of gameplay that appears, it still looks like Chris we know, especially from the expertise of using weapons and physical capabilities carried. Something back in focus on the latest released trailer - TAPE-02 "Redfield".
Through the latest trailer, we can finally get a clearer picture of Chris's mission. He was chasing one of Baker's family members - Lucas Baker in a basement full of poison traps. Chris seems to end up failing and now has to rescue other captive BSAA members.

End Of Zoe

Which is more interesting? This trailer also shows a sequel to another DLC "End of Zoe" that should indeed focus on Zoe Baker's figure. Taking a storyline from the event that happened in Resident Evil 7, Zoe was saved by a figure similar to Jack Baker, an old man with a thick beard. This man is certain to be named "JOE", but without the details of the advanced story.
DLC "End of Zoe" and "Not a Hero" Resident Evil 7 is scheduled to be released on December 12, 2017, for Playstation 4, Xbox One, and of course - PC.

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Atlus Release Shin Megami Tensei: Free Synchronicity Prologue PC For Free!

After the release of Shin Megami Tensei's new trailer: Strange Journey Redux for the 3DS platform, Atlus shows an unusual promotional way for this game. They used a kind of typical platformer game with the Shin Megami Tensei series, which was then finally announced as a new game titled Shin Megami Tensei: Synchronicity Prologue.

Atlus also released this game for free for the PC platform, which is also a form of their gratitude for the achievement of Shin Megami Tensei and Persona series which has become increasingly popular and successful. Although released for PC, there is still no certainty whether Strange Journey Redux will also get a PC version later.

But with the release of Synchronicity Prologue for PC, this already indicates something good from Atlus. Because they could also release some series of Shin Megami Tensei games, especially Persona 5 for this platform. Moreover, plans to bring some series of Atlus games to PC devices, also get support from SEGA.
If you are interested, this game can be downloaded for free until 24 December. So make sure you take the time to get it before it's too late.

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Stoic Announces The Banner Saga 3 Being The End of The Banner Saga's Trilogy

Stoic will close The Banner Saga series in the third game.

Today through his official YouTube account, Stoic shows the first artwork of The Banner Saga 3. They also say that this series will also cap the whole story of The Banner Saga series.
In this third series you will have your last mission behind a wall of darkness. It is said that all the options you choose will directly affect your journey. The story in the third series The Banner Saga will be clearer, ranging from characters to all the mysteries that make you wonder at The First and Second Banner Saga.

For those of you who do not know yet, The Banner Saga is an RPG game with a turn-based tactical battle system like Final Fantasy Tactics or Jeanne D'Arc on the PlayStation Portable. This game is also colored with a very neat handmade animation. Born from Kickstarter through the cold hands of Stoic, an indie developer founded by three former BioWare members Arnie Jogensen, Alex Thomas, and John Watson, The Banner Saga reaps success thanks to its narrative story that is not only complex but also fascinating.

There is still no further information when and on which platform the game was released. Currently his Kickstarter page only mentions that this game will be released in December 2018

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