Battlerite Royale New Halloween Update A New Champion Lands on Talon Island!

Stunlock Studios brings a huge patch and the first Halloween event Curse Of The Night to its new MOBA Royale game, Battlerite Royale. The event launches this Wednesday, October 17th, and will last three weeks.

Curse Of The Night includes a Halloween decorated map area, “the Haunted Keep” and new gameplay objects called “Trick or Treat Shrines”, which give players a random buff or debuff. Players will encounter a number of eerie effects, such as one that transforms them into a black cat with increased movement speed or turn them into a ghost, who scares and instills panic in any players getting too close.

Game award dates for your diary

The video game industry awards season consists of nine major awards.
Most nominations are known by January 31. Most wins are known by March 21. Winners from each body advance to the "War of Awards" finale.

Anticipated dates for each award are as follows.

Golden Joysticks
Noms - September 21
Wins - November 16

The Game Awards
Noms - November 6
Wins - December 7

DICE Awards
Noms - January 13
Wins - February 22

NAVGTR Awards
Noms - February 14
Wins - March 13

SXSW Gaming Awards
Noms - January 31
Wins - March 17

IGF Awards
Noms - January 4
Wins - March 20

GDC Awards
Noms - January 6
Wins - March 20

G.A.N.G. Awards
Noms - February 14
Wins - March 21

BAFTA Games Awards
Noms - March 16
Wins - April 12

War of Awards
Noms - Nov 17 to Mar 17
Wins - March 30

The Quiet Man cinematic action game coming in November - PC PS4

Truck Simulator PRO 2 for iPhone & Android £4.99 reduced to 99p

Truck Simulator PRO 2, a bigger and better version of the highly successful last year’s edition. Build up your transporting empire driving huge and powerful trucks on American soil in the best and most advanced simulator game available on mobile devices.

An enormous open world with thousands of miles of precisely mapped roads awaits for your arrival. Admire carefully designed viaducts, huge road intersections and bridges as well as more diversified routes amongst hills, valleys, deserts and swamps.. TSP2 enables you to explore the eastern half of
USA’s highway system and visit 12 big cities: Las Vegas, Denver, Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Helena, Portland, Salt Lake City, Seattle, El Paso, Albuquerque, San Diego.

On iOS here - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/truck-simulator-pro-2/id1182931201?mt=8
On Android here - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mageeks.android.trucksimulatorpro2&hl=en_GB

Hellblade - Senua's Sacrifice box art released

Free demo for Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun! & Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum Session! released - PS4 Switch

A free demo for both Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun! for Nintendo Switch and Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum Session! for PlayStation 4 are playable now, players can now download the free demo from the Nintendo eShop or PlayStation Store respectively.

The Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun! demo for Nintendo Switch will feature two songs:

• Namco original song: FURIFURI♪NORINORI♪
• Classic music: “Overture from 'Orpheus in the Underworld' “, composed by Jacques Offenbach

Sudden Strike 4: Africa – Desert War expansion - new missions new commanders and more - PC Mac Linux PS4 XO

Sudden Strike 4: Africa – Desert War features two new mini campaigns with six new single player missions from the North African campaign of World War 2. In the Axis campaign, start the Italian advance on Egypt to take the city of Sidi Barrani, besiege the city of Tobruk and take over its harbour, as well as break through the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia. In the Allied campaign, take part in Operation Compass and retake the village of Sidi Barrani, relive the watershed of the Western Desert Campaign, the Second Battle of El Alamein, and break through the German defensive line in the Battle of Mareth. Fight in an unforgiving and harsh desert setting with sandstorms to challenge your tactical wits.

As well as the new campaigns, players can choose from five new doctrine commanders to lead their troops into battle. On the side of the Axis, armchair generals can choose from the highly decorated German general Erwin Rommel, as well as three additional Italian commanders, including renowned field marshal Giovanni Messe. On the Allies, play as legendary armoured division general Sir Richard O’Connor.

Goosebumps HorrorTown Haunted Halloween Event - as Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween Movie opens

This year’s scariest Halloween Event is coming to your own… HorrorTown! Pixowl, creator of award-winning hit world builder games, today announced a new Haunted Halloween event for Goosebumps HorrorTown, a character-driven simulation game where players collect monsters while building a quirky town, available on the App Store and Google Play.

Goosebumps: HorrorTown, which is based on R.L. Stine’s hit Goosebumps® book series and licensed by Scholastic, invites players to build and manage a seemingly quiet town where all is not as it seems. Players interact with both the human and monster sides as they collect iconic monsters including Slappy the ventriloquist dummy, scare townsfolk, and unlock compelling human characters. The game has been a hit with players, with over two million downloads and over 100 million hours spent building towns and scaring humans!

In time for Halloween - Iris.Fall trailer uncovers a puzzle adventure game with striking visuals & spellbinding theme of "light & shadow"

the dark fairy tale adventure puzzle game Iris.Fall will be landing on Steam in November 2018.

In Iris.Fall, players are challenged with solving clever puzzles and uncover an intriguing story full of mystery and wonder. With "light and shadow" as a core concept, Iris.Fall takes players on a monochrome journey unlike any other.

Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia Rise and Fall of the Anglo Saxons: a short history

Sunday October 14th marks the 952nd anniversary of the Battle of Hastings. It proved not only decisive in the Norman invasion of England, but a cultural turning point that changed the face of Britain forever.

Depicting scenes recorded using the strategy game A Total War Saga: THRONES OF BRITANNIA, the British studio Creative Assembly have made a short documentary charting the rise and fall of the Anglo Saxons, between Alfred the Great’s victory over the Viking invaders at the battle of Edington, to King Harold’s demise at the Battle of Hastings.