Every little piece of information we learn about video games can’t be classified as a story in itself. While we’d love to talk more about everything, the fact is that resources don’t permit us to discuss titles beyond ones we feel will resonate with our readers. Keeping that in mind, the stories still deserve attention so we’ve invented the daily briefing to get you up to speed.
8-Bit Armies
Publisher SOEDESCO is working with developer Petroglyph Games on the digital and boxed console debut of 8-Bit Armies. They will also release a boxed PC version of the popular strategy game. 8-Bit Armies will be available in digital console stores and retail in the summer of 2017.
Black Desert Online
Black Desert Online is a sandbox MMORPG and today the developers confirmed the game was coming to Xbox One. While it’s pretty hard to accurately translate the document, we did gather than it would hit consoles soon.
Blood Bowl 2
Blood Bowl 2, the sequel to the video game adaptation of Games Workshop’s classic tabletop game combining American football with the Warhammer fantasy world, has already gathered nearly half a million players on PC and consoles since it released over a year ago.
The Blood Bowl 2 community will be pleased to learn that Focus and Cyanide will release Blood Bowl 2: Legendary Edition later this year. This highly-anticipated version offers all the official races from the Blood Bowl board game, including the sly Goblins, as well as a brand new race: the Kislev Circus and their ferocious Tame Bears! These races are coming along with their Star Players and a new Khemri stadium, located at the feet of their imposing pyramids.
Blood Bowl 2: Legendary Edition also contains loads of new content: new races, new game modes, as well as many new tools and options to enrich an already deep multiplayer experience. Blood Bowl 2 Legendary Edition will be available as a standalone game for newcomers and as an affordable expansion for all Blood Bowl 2 players.
NBA 2K17
The NBA and Take-Two Interactive today announced plans to launch the NBA 2K eLeague, a new, professional competitive gaming league that will bring together the best basketball gamers in the world. This marks the first official eSports league operated by an American professional sports league.
Rocket League
Psyonix and Hot Wheels announced today an upcoming update to Rocket League that will add brand new Hot Wheels content in-game. Launching on February 21, the update will feature two DLC cars, the Twin Mill III and Bone Shaker, both best-sellers of the Hot Wheels toy lineup. Each DLC car will be sold separately for $2 and come with six decals and an exclusive set of wheels. The update will also add free Hot Wheels content for all players including a Hot Wheels antenna and topper, Treasure Hunt flag, and Shark Bite topper.
Smite
Smite is getting a new turtle-looking character. It’s quite odd.
Trulon: The Shadow Engine
Today Headup Games announced the release date for their next Xbox One title. The steampunk role-playing game, Trulon: The Shadow Engine, is going to be released on February 24 and will feature a unique card combat system that combines traditional deck management with random elements. Its tactics are intuitively activated using over fifty cards in an easy to play way that makes both role-playing veterans and new players feel immediately at home.
Ubisoft
Ubisoft confirmed that Ghost Recon Wildlands would get an open beta soon during their earnings call. The beta would be available in the coming weeks before launch. Apart from that, the company revealed that Rainbow Six Siege now had over fifteen million registered users. Nearly forgot, The Division has only 5 million active players. That’s about it for their earnings call. It was rather bland to be honest.
The Walking Dead: A New Frontier
Beginning February 28 at North American retailers, and March 3 at European retailers, The Walking Dead: A New Frontier will be available for purchase on a special Season Pass Disc for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The season pass disc includes the critically-acclaimed two-part premiere episodes, and grants access to all subsequent episodes in the five-episode season for download as they become available. Episode 3: Above the Law will release sometime in March. Lastly, The Walking Dead: A Telltale Games Series has sold more than fifty million episodes worldwide. Not sure why they included episode-based sales in the statement but they did.
Asher is a games journalist, former News Writer (Gaming) at Windows Central. They contributed 1110 articles to ICXM between 2015–2017, focused on opinion pieces, game reviews, Windows and PC, and Xbox news: wrote over 1,100 ICXM pieces on Xbox news, hardware reviews, and platform commentary before joining Future plc’s Windows Central in 2017.