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‘Outriders’ Delayed to 2021, Will Release February 2
Those itching to get into Bulletstorm and Painkiller devs People Can Fly’s upcoming dark sci-fi shooter Outriders will have to wait until next year. Originally scheduled for release this December, publisher Square Enix has announced that the title will release next year on February 2, 2021.
As a consolation, the game will have cross-play up and running for current-gen, next-gen and PC versions of the game. Even better, as with many titles that are on the cusp of the next-gen leap, a free upgrade will be offered for anyone who buys the game current gen and gets a next gen console afterwards.
In case you need a reminder, Outriders is a 1-3 player co-op RPG shooter, where humanity’s efforts to colonize an alien planet known as Enoch went awry. An expedition team sent to the planet encountered a massive energy storm, known as “The Anomaly”, during their search for a mysterious signal. The resulting storm granted the team and Enoch’s inhabitants superpowers. You must choose from one of four classes to traverse forests, mountains and desert in the pursuit of the source of the signal, which is the key to saving mankind.
Outriders is set for release on PC via Steam, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S.
After yesterday’s news that Undead Labs is rumoured to be facing potential closure (and potentially taking State of Decay 3 with it), another Microsoft studio is facing a similar situation in Arkane Lyon, which is currently developing a title based on Marvel’s Blade.
According to a new report by The Verge, which cites sources familiar with the situation surrounding Xbox and Microsoft, the computer giant is reportedly considering closing the developer, joining Undead Labs, Compulsion Games, Double Fine and Ninja Theory. However, Microsoft is also considering selling the studio.
Despite that hope for Arkane Lyon, that reportedly doesn’t apply to Marvel’s Blade, which is facing cancellation by Microsoft. The game was announced back in 2023 at The Game Awards, and was supposed to debut later this year. However, the game’s release has now slipped to “late 2027”, and has also ran over budget.
While all the studios involved have been trying to find buyers in order to avoid closure, South of Midnight developer Compulsion Games has already begun telling employees to look for jobs elsewhere. Meanwhile, Ninja Theory, which had its third entry in the Hellblade series announced during Summer Game Fest in Senua, has already told employees that Microsoft wants to close the studio or sell it.
Not much information on Marvel’s Blade was revealed, other than it was a third-person title to be set in a quarantined section of Paris in the middle of a supernatural emergency. Vampires have emerged, terrorizing the city of lights and forcing Parisians to shelter inside their homes at night to wait for sunrise. It’s up to the Daywalker known as Blade to investigate.