Dystopian future visions of Glasgow and cutting-edge HoloLens technology at Abertay Digital Graduate Show

More than 100 graduates from Abertay University’s School of Design and Informatics will showcase a wide range of work from May 11-15, including games, virtual reality (VR) experiences, sound design projects, animation, 3D modelling, concept art and illustration.

Held at Abertay’s Student Centre in Dundee, the five-day festival comes after the University was named best for computer games education in Europe for a fourth consecutive year by the prestigious Princeton Review.

Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles Comes to Nintendo Switch on May 17

Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles, the open-world adventure where players explore the vibrant but troubled island of Gemea, will offer a relaxing experience on Nintendo Switch May 17. A Switch-exclusive photo mode will help you capture precious moments and share them with your friends.

Shipwrecked due to an unexpected storm, your young hero or heroine soon learns that they’re on the gorgeous island of Gemea. While taking refuge in a cave, a magical sprite explains that the land’s natural beauty is tainted by a strange, dark substance called Murk. With the sprite by your side, it’s up to you to both cleanse the land and assist the townsfolk and gain their trust. Farm, craft, cook, brew, and fish to restore the land to its former glory!

SNK HEROINES Tag Team Frenzy NEW trailer May 2018

NIS America has a new trailer for SNK HEROINES Tag Team Frenzy!. This trailer features the crazy cute Sylvie, and wildly cool Zarina as they fight against the rest of the cast. It also shows character illustrations featuring their alternate costumes. We have also uploaded some new screenshots highlighting these characters.

Rapture gaming festival coming to Colchester, Reading, Fife, Cardiff & Newcastle in 2018

Calling all gamers the 2018 Rapture Gaming Festival UK tour across the UK covers 15 dates, five venues this July to October.

This unique gaming spectacle takes virtual gaming onto a live stage The weekend family-friendly shows are suitable for all ages. Games can immerse themselves in a live gaming experience. The main Rapture Stage hosts tournament finals, interactive games and panel interviews on how to become an online streamer.

NEW Samsung Pro Memory cards record 43,800 hours of your gaming on 128GB card

Samsung introduce the Samsung PRO Endurance microSDHC/microSDXC cards. Offering industry-leading endurance and up to 43,800 hours of continuous video recording.

Designed for consumers and B2B channels that use intensive video monitoring applications such as surveillance and security cameras, body cameras and dash cams, the PRO Endurance makes continuous video monitoring fast and stable.

It delivers read speeds of up to 100 MB/s and provides FHD recording and 4K support via write speeds of up to 30 MB/s.

Fire Point First Person MR simulator from Abertay games team in $100,000 Seattle tech contest

Fire Point is a First Person MR simulator, built around helping firefighters explain and display what their daily work environment is like but without putting anyone at risk. We are currently using the latest in MR (HoloLens & Windows Mixed Reality) technology to help bring the experience forward in the best possible way. The simulator allows you to see through the eyes of a firefighter as you make your way through the multi-storey training ground but with a variety of different encounters to tackle and try to master your skill as a firefighter.

The main purpose behind the idea was, that we felt the emergency service needed a hand in using the latest pieces of technology (VR, MR & AR) but at the same time have something fun and entertaining to use. The plan is for the simulator to be used at open days or recruitment days so they are able to visually show off what it is like to train as a professional, whilst allowing individuals to give it a try and test their skills.

PC version of Shadow of the Tomb Raider

Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics announce they're working with NVIDIA to develop the PC version of Shadow of the Tomb Raider, the latest entry in the critically acclaimed and award-winning Tomb Raider series.

NVIDIA will lend its gaming and PC development expertise to help bring the PC platform's advanced gaming features to Shadow of the Tomb Raider. This effort will help maximise the performance benefits of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 10-series GPUs for PC gamers across the world. This continues the collaboration that began in the series’ previous title, Rise of the Tomb Raider.

Wild Mage: Phantom Twilight Open World Action RPG Coming to Steam Early Access

Wild Mage: Phantom Twilight is an open-world action/adventure RPG featuring airships, floating islands, dungeons, and dynamically destructible enemies and environments.

Luna Orion studio plans to release on Steam in Early Access by Christmas 2019 post-crowdfunding. As a Wild Mage, you act as the right hand of the Tower of Heaven, extracting adventures, escorting Ships, delivering goods, reclaiming lost islands. The game also features a wide variety of powerful spells acquired through adventures, with the ability to use runes to amplify them.

Through the Darkest of Times: A game about the resistance against the National Socialism

From the minds behind the harrowing Spec Ops: The Line, the debut title of the newly founded Indie developer Paintbucket Games in Berlin allows players organise the resistance in Berlin at the time of the National Socialism.

Through the Darkest of Times is a strategy game, that lets you play a resistance group in Third Reich Berlin. The game covers the entire time from Hitler’s seizure of power 1933 to Germany’s unconditional surrender 1945. You plan actions of your group while at the same time try to balance the morale of your members, get resources needed for the actions and avoid getting caught by the Gestapo. Big political events follow the actual historical time-line and influence your options and what happens to your group. Your members are fictional and procedurally generated on each play through. They come with different personalities, abilities and views. As leader of the group, it's your job to fight the regime by winning hearts and minds of the people, holding your group together and leading them through the darkest of times.

Robothorium download and open beta access link

Access to the Open Beta of Robothorium, the upcoming turn-based, rogue like RPG. You will be able to discover the first missions and the PvP mode.

Access the open beta here