Transference will launch for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on September 18, Ubisoft and SpectreVision announced. A PlayStation 4-only demo with PlayStation VR support is now available on the PlayStation Store (live now in Europe, later today in North America).
Dubbed “The Walter Test Case,” the demo is a prequel set several years before the events of Transference. You will enter the experiment that laid the foundation for the events that followed, explore the mind of a troubled test subject suffering from PTSD, sove puzzles as you repair his corrupted memories, and switch between multiple perspectives as you piece together his story.
Here is an overview of the game, via Ubisoft:
About
Imagine an escape room set in a deranged mind, in both VR and on traditional platforms. With Transference, we are bringing a first-person exploration game into a chilling new dimension. You will be plunged into the experiment of a troubled scientist, a corrupted digital simulation of his family formed using their collective brain data. Shift between the three perspectives of a family and unravel the mystery hiding in this mind-bending psychological thriller.
Transference is a collaboration between SpectreVision and Ubisoft Montreal and aims to bridge the gap between movies and games. The game will be available in VR (PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive) and traditional platforms (PS4, Xbox One and PC) Fall 2018.
Key Features
A Thriller that Feels Like a Movie, But Plays Like a Game: Project yourself into a narrative experience that combines Hollywood with gaming. In Transference, you will be immersed in an unsettling psychological thriller with all of the tension of a suspense film, combining live-action footage with environmental storytelling to unlock haunting emotions that lingers long after you put the controller down.
Solve a Mystery from Multiple Perspectives: Enter a corrupted digital simulation created by a brilliant but troubled scientist, Raymond Hayes. Transference is a world built from the collective brain data of Raymond, his wife Katherine and their son Benjamin. Recover a fragmented family as you shift back and forth between each individual’s perspective and piece together the mystery of their lives. Go hands-on to search for clues, solve puzzles and discover the corrupted consciousness of a family.
It’s Your Experience, Through Your Eyes: In this truly first-person narrative mystery it is you, who will explore the story of a family told through the walls of their home. This is no RPG, you stumble into Raymond’s experiment with your own experience and must interpret events for yourself.
An Intense Experience on Every Platform: Transference offers a tense and unsettling experience regardless of platform. For unparalleled immersion, VR is tuned to plunge you into a world of emotional intensity. The game offers full interactivity in VR on PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Manipulate the world with your hands through Oculus Touch and the HTC Vive Controller. Match your needs with customizable input for controls on every platform. The game is also fully playable on traditional platforms PS4, Xbox One and PC, bringing this unique and disturbing narrative experience to everyone.
Trials Rising will launch for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC on February 12, Ubisoft announced. a closed beta featuring multiplayer competition will run from September 13 to 16.
The standard edition of Trials Rising includes the base game. The Gold Edition includes the base game and the Expansion pass, with two major downloadable contents planned and more, for $40 Digital pre-orders for either version include the “Jungle Rider Pack,” which features a gorilla suit, and the “Wild West Rider Pack,” which features a cowboy suit. Each pack includes five items for your rider and one item for your bike.
Here is an overview of the game, via Ubisoft:
Set in new epic locations around the world and featuring over a hundred tracks, Trials Rising lets riders travel the world and put their skills to the test through various levels of difficulty, beat the competition, grow their fame under the eyes of experienced sponsors and work to become Trials champions. While enjoying the view of the Eiffel Tower or riding along the Great Wall of China, solo or in the hilarious Tandem Bike mode, riders won’t be able to resist the thrill of astonishing exploits and fails on their way.
The Trials franchise has always been about honing your skill and beating the competition, combined with fun and crazy moments with friends. Competition is brought to a new level in Trials Rising, as players will now receive instant notifications when a friend beats their score – so they can go and try to win the track back. Players will gain Fame through actions like completing tracks and Contracts, beating Challengers and competing against other players in multiplayer, all with the goal of becoming the Trials champion.
Each player will pursue their career in a League, a series of tracks to conquer before the Stadium Finals. New to Trials Rising, Stadium Finals is a big event that pits players against seven others in an elimination-style competition over three heats. The best riders unlock a new League to continue their journey.
Starlink: Battle for Atlas Gamescom 2018 trailer, screenshots
Ubisoft has released the Gamescom 2018 trailer and screenshots for Starlink: Battle for Atlas.
Here is an overview of the game, via Ubisoft:
About
In Starlink: Battle for Atlas, you’re part of a group of heroic interstellar pilots, dedicated to saving the Atlas star system from the Forgotten Legion, an evil robot force. Starlink: Battle for Atlas offers a whole new gameplay experience: build your own modular Starship model, mount it on your controller, and take part in epic space combats. Equip your model with different parts and your Starship changes in game in real time. Assemble your fleet, mix and match your pilots, Starships and weapons to create your own play style and defeat the enemy.
Key Features
• Nintendo Switch System Exclusive: Star Fox comes to Starlink: Battle for Atlas with exclusive add-on content featuring Fox McCloud, Arwing, and bonus missions!
• Fully Customize Your Starship: The Choice is Yours: Mix and match pilots, hulls, wings, and weapons to assemble your ideal starship with an unprecedented level of customization and creativity. Changes to your physical ship instantly appear in-game allowing you to immediately jump into the battle.
• Explore an Entire Star System: Travel seamlessly through the exotic alien worlds of the Atlas Star System. Each one of its planets has its own identity, ecosystem and wildlife. Be careful, as space is a hostile environment and will present many challenges. The world evolves depending on your actions and your choices. Everything you do has an impact on your journey, and enemies will react and fight back intelligently and take over the star system if you don’t stop them.
• Get Creative in Combat: Build your unique play style. Experiment with different pilot abilities, weapon types, and status effects to discover and unleash devastating combos upon your enemies and overcome deadly challenges.
Starlink: Battle for Atlas is due out for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Switch on October 16.
Brawlhalla, the free-to-play platform fighter currently available for PlayStation 4 and PC, is coming to Xbox One and Switch on November 6, publisher Ubisoft and developer Blue Mammoth announced.
Here is an overview of the game, via Ubisoft:
Odin, King of the Gods, built a heaven for warriors and called it Valhalla. On his command, Valkyries, beautiful goddesses of war, scoured the universe for the greatest warriors to fill this hall. To Odin’s surprise, the Valkyries brought back not only vikings, but legendary warriors of every description, and soon pirates, cowboys, Mongol warriors, Amazons, even monsters and aliens roamed the hall.
While waiting for Ragnarok, the warriors become bored. Constant battle spilled out of the Great Hall, and Asgard was smashed to rubble again and again. Odin, pulling his hair out in a last moment of desperation, set up the grand tournament. Now, the best warriors from every time and place fight to become champion, while the Valkyries constantly venture far and wide to bring back warriors who will earn them honor in Brawlhalla.
Developed by Blue Mammoth, Brawlhalla is an epic free-to-play platform fighting game that brings players to the fight for glory in the halls of Valhalla on PlayStation 4 and Steam, and will release on Xbox One and Nintendo Switch on November 6. Choosing from over 40 unique characters, players can jump into single-player and co-op modes as well as online and local competitions. The third annual Brawlhalla World Championship will take place at Dreamhack Atlanta November 16-18.
Volker Wertich 为德国游戏开发界知名游戏设计师,被称为《工人物语》系列之父,主要负责该系列第一部与第三部的开发。 他后来开设新的游戏研发工作室 Phenomic Game Development、打造了知名游戏《魔幻世纪》系列,Phenomic Game Development 被美商艺电收购、改为 EA Phenomic,当 2013 年 7 月 EA Phenomic 遭美商艺电宣布关闭后,Volker Wertich 与前同事又一同开设了新的工作室 Envision Entertainment 并担任创意总监,而后与 Ubisoft 展开合作,如今 Ubisoft 宣布,《工人物语》 系列将在他的领导下再度推出新作。
The Switch version of South Park: The Stick of Truth will launch via the Nintendo eShop on September 25 for $29.99, publisher Ubisoft announced.
South Park: The Stick of Truth first launched for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC in March 2014, followed by PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in February 2018.
Here is an overview of the game, via Ubisoft:
Created, written and directed by Trey Parker and Matt Stone and developed by Ubisoft San Francisco, South Park: The Stick of Truth, the winner of numerous 2014 game of the year awards, transports players to the perilous battlefields of the fourth-grade playground, where a young hero will rise, destined to be South Park’s savior. From the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, comes an epic quest to become… cool.
For a thousand years, the battle has been waged. The sole reason humans and elves are locked in a never-ending war: The Stick of Truth. But the tides of war are soon to change as word of a new kid spreads throughout the land, his coming foretold by the stars. As the moving vans of prophecy drive away, your adventure begins.
Arm yourself with weapons of legend to defeat underpants gnomes, hippies, and other forces of evil. Discover the lost Stick of Truth and succeed in earning your place alongside Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny as their new friend. Fail, and you will forever be known…as a loser.