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.

Valley - first-person adventure game on Switch

Hidden deep within a remote region of the Rocky Mountains, players will find themselves bewildered within a secluded valley.

Empowered with a recently discovered L.E.A.F. suit (Leap Effortlessly through Air Functionality), attempt to uncover the startling secrets of the mysterious valley by running and jumping through beautiful forests, dangerous ruins and vast environments – all the while utilising the suit’s power to control life and death in the nature surrounding you. Players beware of new-found abilities as they come with daunting consequences: the more you experience death within the valley, the more the valley will die off around you.

Free Heavy Metal Machines launches Metal League eSports tournament

Metal League Seasonal Showdowns, the funded esports tournament from Free-to-play car-combat MOBA, kicks off this week

Hoplon, the developers behind post-apocalyptic car-combat MOBA, Heavy Metal Machines, today saw the launch of the ‘Metal League’, a seasonal competitive tournament within the game, with a seasonal prize fund for players of €5,000. The opening weekend and qualifiers for the tournament begin this weekend (9th March 2019 14:00 GMT) and will last through to the final, in partnership with ESL Play, which will be held on 20th April on the European server.

AOC 4K gaming monitor with 1 ms response time

AOC announces a brand-new gaming monitor, the 28” (71.1 cm) G2868PQU with Ultra HD / 4K (3840x2160 pixels) resolution. To meet the demands of gamers looking for crisp and vivid imagery and sharp gameplay, the display boasts a next-gen HDR-ready TN panel with 1 ms response time.

The G2868PQU also supports AMD FreeSync which eliminates stutter and screen-tear caused by mismatched image frames between the graphics card and the monitor. All these features ensure a fluid, smooth 4K gaming experience. The monitor becomes available in Europe as of March 2019.

Warparty game on the rampage new RTS coming to Steam

Epic Real-Time Strategy battles in a mystical Stone-Age setting is making its way to Steam, PS4, Xbox One, & Nintendo Switch, arriving on March 28 for $24.99!

In a prehistoric world of humans, dinosaurs and magic, three chieftains discover artefacts of the Go’n, an ancient race that went extinct after a big war. With these artefacts in hand, they set out to succeed where the Go’n failed, and change the world forever.

Marble Combat out now Free on Steam Early Access

Phantom 8 is back with a total new game concept named Marble Combat. The studio’s first multiplayer game available now in Early Access on Steam and is free to play. Marble Combat will be further developed in an open development style with heavy involvement of the community - listening to the feedback of the fans is the studio’s driving force.

Gameplay style
Marble combat is a physics based multiplayer game for 2 - 8 people. Players compete as magical marbles racing and fighting to dominate capture points and collect power ups. Every player can pick a combination of four abilities which can hinder enemies, boost allies or improve ball control.

Terrorarium Moves Into Steam Early Access March 20 - PC Mac

On a scale of one to ten how much would you (secretly?) love sending adorable little anthropomorphic mushroom creatures to their gory deaths? Yep, us too! It's okay though, the Moogu procreate using the corpses of their dead kin.

You read that right.

Hey, we don't judge.

Terrorarium in Early Access is all about Maker Mode, where the developers over at Stitch Media are committed to letting you live out that, erm, fantasy. Use hundreds of assets and customisation options to build your own minigames and easily share them with fellow creators. Then, take control of The Gardener aka your new favourite space granny and see if you can defeat the challenges set forth by the community.

ARK: Survival Evolved Homestead Update first look

Homestead update for the dinosaur survival action-adventure ARK: Survival Evolved! Homestead is a free update to ARK that improves existing structures, adds many new customizable building pieces with increased placement options, as well as updates the Kibble system for simplifying creature taming! This update is now available to all ARK players on Steam PC, Xbox One and Playstation 4.

Homestead includes the major elements of Structures Plus (S+), a player created Sponsored Mod by Orionsun. Studio Wildcard ran a public beta for the Homestead update, testing the features with the community, and all of the builds you see featured in the video trailer below were made by survivors! Be sure to check out their videos on how to build these incredible structures yourself.

Uncover the secret to eternal life in Pebberley Island, Two Point Hospital’s new DLC

Two Point Hospital: Pebberley Island, the DLC coming to Steam on 18 March for £6.99 - and available to pre-order now with a 10% discount. Legend tells of an immortality granting spring deep in the heart of Two Point County’s tropical Pebberley Island. Part-time explorer and notorious germaphobe Wiggy Silverbottom (voiced here by chap-hop artist Professor Elemental) needs your help sterilising a path to this mystical spring.

Pebberley Island brings new content and challenging gameplay mechanics to the Two Point Hospital formula, as you cure 10 new visual and 24 non-visual illnesses in three new treatment rooms on your quest for better healthcare.

Outward indie RPG preview The Human Side of Adventuring

Debilitating traps, vicious poison and fierce magic should all be core elements of your fighting strategy, but you won't be able to do that from the get go. You will need to travel far and wide to unlock skills and magic that will help you in your quest. Once you have that, keep in mind you still need to be careful, analyze your enemy's weaknesses and plan your steps accordingly. Having a plan B also doesn't hurt.

OUTWARD is a hardcore RPG that tempers fantasy elements with realism… but with the right preparation, you will be able to overcome most challenges that OUTWARD will throw at you.

Mortal Kombat Mobile releases MK11 characters in 2.0 update

The world’s most viscerally “fatalistic” franchise just got a major mobile upgrade:

NeatherRealm Studios today announced its 2.0 update for Mortal Kombat X Mobile, officially renaming the game to Mortal Kombat to better reflect its vast content and character roster. The game will also be the primary platform for all of Mortal Kombat’s mobile experiences moving forward.

Behind the scenes peek at Devil May Cry 5 filming

With just four days to go until Dante, Nero and V unleash their demonic powers onto the world we’ve just released a new video that goes behind the scenes to reveal how the characters came to life during the cut scene filming. You can download the SSS action video here.

Real life actors and models created the original dramatic combat scenes of Devil May Cry 5 and now, available exclusively in the Deluxe Edition, players can choose to swap the in-game cinematics with these original pre-vis live action cut scenes, allowing them to enjoy the game as if it’s a real life Devil May Cry movie! The video gives players a sneak peek of all the action and reveals what happened when the three devil hunters came together to fight in reality.

MASERATI DLC in Car Mechanic Simulator 2018

Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 - Maserati REMASTERED DLC includes three licensed Maserati cars:

- Maserati GranTurismo MC Stradale
- Maserati Sebring
- Maserati Quattroporte