[Mentalist]

Microsoft is bankrolling a collaboration between Ninja theory and Platinum to make Ninja Gaiden 4. Supposed to come out this autumn.

Team Ninja also remade Ninja Gaiden 2 in UE5, calling in Ninja Gaiden 2 Black Edition. It got shadowdropped at the Xbox Developers Direct on Thur.

Amusingly enough, neither this re-release, nor NG4 have the "controller only" tag on their Steam pages. Which makes me even madder about the Master trilogy thing being controller-only.

South of Midnight also looked cool, and it's only 50 CAD (if you're not crazy enough to pay extra 20 for playing it 5 days early).

And DOOM looked sick. But my home PC with a 1660ti probably won't be able to run it, lol. So that game will wait until winter.

[Mentalist]

Age of Mythology, AoE 2 and Aoe 4 are coming to Playstation.

In the spring, AoE IIis getting a new expansion... and it looks like we're getting Asian civs. Maybe we'll finally get campaigns for the Far Eastern civs, which didn't get proper campaigns back in the initial release days, over 20 years ago.

[Maark Abbott]

Darkest Dungeon full bundle with all the DLC is on offer £8.34 on Steam right now

[Mentalist]

Proper good show from Sony today. Stellar Blade coming to PC in June, a couple of games I'm looking forward to got release dates, and we got a slick-looking Chinese action game that's NOT based in pseudo-historical fantasy China- instead, it's post-apoc London, with Arthurian mythos. It's not that I have problem with Chinese devs being inspired by their own, millennia-long history, but we're just at a point where there's like a dozen of them in development at once, so it's getting hard to keep remembering all of them.

The year is getting packed, and staring in April, there's gonna be loads of new games I'm really looking forward to that are releasing.

Oh, there was also a new game from Housemarque featuring a famous actor. Don't ask me who, I don't watch tv. It's a new sci-fi IP that's a roguelite (you keep accumulating resources and upgrades over successive runs instead of starting over each time) 3rd person shooter. Given I dislike rogue-stuff, and I am terribad at bullet hell games, I'm still waiting for a really good sale to grab Returnal. So by the time I get around to it, this new game "Saros" will probably have a PC version, too.

This post has been edited by Mentalist: 13 February 2025 - 06:48 AM

[Mentalist]

AoE II expansion news (it's coming mid-April)
-complete overhaul for Chinese and Korean civs- they lose some units in their roster (Koreans no longer have onagers... after being THE onager civ), but they're getting access to unique regional units to compensate.
-on top of that, FIVE (!!!!) new civs. So that'll be a total of 50 playable multiplayer civs.
last time we had 5 civs added at once was with The Forgotten expansion that came out in 2013, when AoEII HD was originally released.
-EVERY CIV GETS A UNIQUE CASTLE. Also, more regional monks, some civ-specific monasteries. And unique look for all Unique Units between base and Elite versions.

Crazy news. Insane amount of assets and content.

[Maark Abbott]

Nintendo Direct was a bit meh. Prime 4 news though at least...

[Tiste Simeon]

I bought a PS5 at last! Just in time for them to announce the PS6 no doubt...

Now I will have a platform for Ghost of Yotei when that comes out! 😀😎

[QuickTidal]

Maark Abbott, on 28 March 2025 - 09:21 AM, said:

Nintendo Direct was a bit meh. Prime 4 news though at least...

Speak for yourself, WITCHBROOK finally has a release date! Goddamn I'm so excited for a new Chucklefish cozy game!

Like come on! This looks so entirely immersive and great.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 28 March 2025 - 01:45 PM