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

Retro Platformer, Tomb Towers early access release date announced

Drawing inspiration from retro, home computer classics of the MSX era, Tomb Towers is a puzzle-platformer that embraces the warmth, familiarity and simplicity that comes from this nostalgia. This nostalgia is channelled into a rush to jump, push, solve puzzles and open doors on a quest to take down an ancient evil.

The Kingdom has been filled with monsters and skeletons, no thanks to the evil necromancer. You are a nameless soldier and have taken it upon yourself to pursue him to his own tower, capture him, and present him to the king. It won’t be easy, though.

Quake Champions April Update Live Limited Test of Free-to-Play Version

Quake Champions’ April update springs into action today, bringing fresh features and content to the best FPS players in the world. Among the additions - Quake’s quintessential villain, the cybernetic war dog Strogg, joins the fray as a new Champion; a new Cthalha-themed map offers a fresh arena to master; and a blast from the past revives that fragging feeling as the Quake III Arena’s flesh-chewing Plasma Gun returns.

In addition, players looking to join the fray can celebrate Quake Champions’ April update by playing for free starting tomorrow through a limited test of the free-to-play version of the game scheduled to release later this year.

Fallen Legion - Rise to Glory new content

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Solo introspective puzzler

Solo, the introspective puzzler from Team Gotham set on a gorgeous and surreal archipelago, is out now on Steam.

Embark on an emotional voyage and reflect on the shapes love has taken in your life. Solve puzzles with creative solutions scattered over Solo’s colorful, charming isles or pause to enjoy the gorgeous surroundings and cute wildlife.

Solo embarks on a voyage into the waters of your own romantic experiences. Seek totems scattered throughout Solo’s colorful islands and reflect on how love has shaped your life. Proceed at a relaxed pace that encourages consideration while creatively engaging in puzzles with flexible solutions.

Homo Machina Go inside the human body with this mobile game inspired by the work of visionary physician Fritz Kahn

Homo Machina invites players to see inside the human body, as viewed through the unique aesthetic lens of the work of Fritz Kahn. Gameplay is straightforward and intuitive, the player instructing the on-screen staff to oversee the human body’s many and varied functions - from eating and breathing, to controlling emotions and monitoring the nervous system. The game illustrates, with charismatic artwork and animation, poetic narration and uplifting music, the beauty of Kahn's enduring imagery.

Kahn, a German Jewish physician, was a master of making complex anatomical and technological concepts easier to understand. His best-selling 1920s book series, Das Leben des Menschen (Human Life), reimagined the human body as a vast machine, comprised of connected departments and communication channels, fully manned by a staff of tiny human workers. It’s this humourous and light-hearted take on homo-sapiens insides that translates into the superbly tactile gameplay of Homo Machina.

Choose your rewards, the Mighty Motherland during World of Tanks Console’s Soviet Dream Machines event

It’s time to return to the Motherland in an epic new tanking event. Exclusive to World of Tanks on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Xbox 360, Soviet Dream Machines offers a unique opportunity for players to choose their own prizes throughout the month of May, ranging from Premium time and Boost Ops, to incredibly powerful Premium tanks to strengthen their armoury.

From May 1, players will begin earning points towards the event whenever they place in one of the top five spots in their team during Multiplayer battles. These points can then be redeemed against ten tiers of highly valuable rewards from ‘Drop Ops’, each of which are worth different amounts of points. When a reward has been redeemed, the fun doesn’t end there – the points will keep racking up during the event, so players can keep on striving for bigger and better prizes as the month goes on!

Hello Kitty Kruisers digital download on Nintendo Switch

Rev your engines, Hello Kitty fans! Video game publisher Rising Star Games announce that the fast and fun multiplayer arcade karting game Hello Kitty Kruisers is now available on Nintendo Switch in North America.

The game releases digitally via Nintendo eShop for Nintendo Switch with a suggested retail price of $29.95. Hello Kitty Kruisers will be available at physical retailers across North America beginning May 15, 2018 with a suggested retail price of $39.95.

Mulaka Sends a ‘Thank You’ Trailer to you...

Mulaka follows the legend of the 4th destruction of the world by the Tarahumara indigenous mythology and is available on the Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. A few excerpts from reviews are found in the trailer, highlighting the game’s impact on people who’ve enjoyed this unique adventure.

A spotlight is put on the community with this new trailer as all of the positive reception achieved among the press wouldn’t be possible without the constant support of players everywhere. Mulaka’s Thank You Trailer shows the wide diversity of the game’s landscapes and scenery, all of them based on real locations in northern Mexico, ranging from deserts and towns to forests, caves, and even sinister places.

Endless Space 2 Free Comics on Steam PC

Amplitude Studios are sharing a series of digital comic books, the Endless Space 2 Stories For FREE on Steam!

As a special treat, they’ve also created a “Making of the Comics” video, that offers an inside look into life at Amplitude Studios, and their process for making the comics.

Final Fantasy XII's Vayne Joins Dissidia Final Fantasy NT

Vayne’s new abilities and play style add depth and new team possibilities to the fast-paced 3-on-3 team action of Dissidia Final Fantasy NT.

He also comes with alternate costumes and cosmetic weapon skins, along with exciting, new story scenes that give players a glimpse at his role in the wider tale between legendary heroes and villains from the Final Fantasy series.

Scotland's biggest games expo Play Expo Glasgow 2018 dates announced

PLAY Expo, Scotland’s biggest gaming event, is set to return in June with a spectacular two-day event at Braehead Arena, Glasgow.

Taking place on Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th June, PLAY Expo, which is returning to Glasgow for the third time, promises to be an unmissable event for both seasoned gamers and novices alike. Packed full with features, exhibitors and gaming mayhem, the event will see the largest selection of gaming under one roof in Scotland.

Sonic Mania Plus platform game teaser trailer PC Console in July

Sonic Mania Plus builds off the momentum of one of the best platform games of 2017, Sonic Mania, introducing two new playable characters from past Sonic games, Mighty the Armadillo and Ray the Flying Squirrel and an Encore mode that will provide a fresh look to familiar zones with new challenges and layouts for new and veteran players alike.

Competition and Time Attack modes will receive an update allowing four player competitions, and ghost challenges for time trials. This content packaged in an all-new physical edition which will come with a 32-page collector’s art book, a reversible SEGA Mega Drive cover, and holographic packaging.