Staffordshire University to launch new games degrees in London

A new centre offering some of the UK’s most innovative games industry courses will open this year to grow graduates with the skills to feed the world’s fastest growing industries.

Launching in September, The Digital Institute London, based at Here East, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in East London, will combine Staffordshire University’s specialist teaching with access to the capital’s thriving mix of companies.

Monster Slayers rogue-like deck-building RPG adventure - Switch

Monster Slayers has already enjoyed success on Steam, PS4, and Xbox One, proving itself to be a favourite among card game fans and newcomers alike. It’s also a hit with critics – the PC version boasts a Metacritic score of 86.

Monster Slayers is a rogue-like deck-building RPG adventure with an innovative card-based battle system that lets you customise a deck to suit your play style. Create a hero to join the Monster Slayers Guild and choose your path through the perilous Northern Valley as you follow your quest to defeat the legendary Harbinger and become a true Monster Slayer.

Abertay games courses ranked best in Europe for fifth consecutive year

Abertay University videogames degrees have been ranked best in Europe for the fifth consecutive year.

The prestigious annual Princeton Review once again rated Abertay as number one in Europe for undergraduate level games courses, with the University also breaking into the world top 10 at postgraduate level.

Harry Potter Wizards Unite Officially Unveiled

First gameplay details for Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, the new augmented reality (AR) mobile game that puts magic in the hands of aspiring wizards and witches worldwide. Co-published and co-developed by WB Games San Francisco and Niantic, Inc., Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is part of Portkey Games, the games label dedicated to creating new Wizarding World mobile and video game experiences that place the player at the centre of their own adventure, inspired by J.K. Rowling’s original stories.

In Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, the player’s journey begins as a new recruit for the Statute of Secrecy Task Force, with the purpose of investigating and containing a Calamity that has befallen the wizarding world. Witches and wizards from across the globe must come together to cast spells and return Foundables – artefacts, creatures, people, and even memories – trapped by Confoundable magic, to their proper place in an effort to keep magic hidden from Muggle eyes.

Steampunk Dungeon Crawler Vaporum - PS4 XO Switch

Unique steampunk dungeon crawler Vaporum is on its way to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. Arriving April 9th thru 11th, depending on platform, Vaporum is an award-winning grid-based, single-player dungeon crawler game that uses a first-person perspective in an original steampunk setting. The game is inspired by old-school games like Dungeon Master I and II, the Eye of the Beholder series and the more recent Legend of Grimrock I and II.

Prepare to fight - you’ll encounter many enemies along your path. Each type has a distinctive set of strengths, weaknesses, and attack and defence mechanisms, so you’ll have to employ different tactics to beat them. Choose wisely when equipping yourself with gear; weapons differ from one another not only by damage levels and appearance, but also in terms of their unique bonuses or behaviours.

The Making of the Gut Wrenching Animated WARSAW Reveal Trailer

Behind the scenes with Human Ark animation studio.

Just last week, gaming company and Pixelated Milk revealed the Darkest Dungeon inspired WARSAW with a haunting and heart stopping trailer. Now, they want to give everyone a behind the scenes look at what it took for the talented team at Human Ark animation studio to bring this gut wrenching trailer to life. You can see the reveal trailer HERE and watch below to see how Human Ark's 'special task force' came together to create the truly emotional WARSAW reveal trailer.

How to Play Conan Exiles for FREE

Funcom kicks off Steam Free Weekend for Conan Exiles, sweetens the deal with 50% discount
New Conan Exiles 2019 Trailer released, showing just how far the game has come since Early Access and launch.

Funcom announce that Conan Exiles will enter its first-ever Steam Free Weekend, running from March 7th to March 10th. Simultaneously, the game is available for purchase at a 50% discount. Conan Exiles is an open world multiplayer survival game set in the savage world of Conan the Barbarian, where players must survive, build, and dominate either in single-player or multiplayer. Conan Exiles left Early Access and released in full on PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 in May of last year and quickly became the bestselling and fastest selling Funcom game to date.

Play Conan Exiles for FREE on Steam this weekend!

Farming Simulator 19 - the Anderson Group Equipment Pack out March

Farming Simulator 19 - Keep farming like never before with the Anderson Group Equipment Pack out March 26.

Farming Simulator 19 is expanding even further! GIANTS Software and the Anderson Group Equipment Pack DLC, bringing various additions and equipment from the Anderson Group. We’ve been continuously improving the game with great free features and patches, and this is our first major, paid DLC pack, releasing March 26.

Dare Academy game design competition reloaded for 2019

Creative teams of student video games developers will be immersed in an intensive summer of industry hot-housing as Abertay University’s Dare Academy competition is reloaded for 2019.

Returning for a third year, Dare Academy will showcase the work of games students from across Abertay’s School of Design and Informatics – home to Europe’s top ranked computer games degrees.

Mortal Kombat 11 new story trailer and Cassie intro - PC PS4 XO

Warner Bros release a new Mortal Kombat 11 Story Trailer, introducing an original, time-bending narrative that continues the franchise’s epic saga. In Mortal Kombat 11, Raiden’s defeat of the evil Elder God, Shinnok, has drawn the ire of Kronika and upset her desired balance between good and evil. To restore stability in the realms, Kronika has only one option – rewind time to its beginning and restart history.

Through the immersive story mode, different eras of the rich Mortal Kombat history collide as players take on the role of a variety of past and present characters who must join forces to defeat Shao Khan’s Outworld armies and solve the temporal crisis at stake.