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‘Aliens: Dark Descent’ Arrives This June for Consoles and PC; New Gameplay Trailer Released [Video]
We haven’t heard much about Focus Entertainment and developer Tindalos Interactive’s upcoming RTS title Aliens: Dark Descent since it was announced last summer. That’s all changed now, as not only do we have a new gameplay trailer, but also a June release date!
The new trailer walks players through the basics of gameplay, which involves you commanding a team of marines in an original story to investigate a xenomorph outbreak on Moon Lethe. Alongside the standard xenomorphs, you’ll also face off against facehuggers, Praetorians, Queens more. That also includes rogue human commandos and a brand-new threat unique to this storyline.
As you might expect from an RTS, you’ll be issuing commands to your squad, including the use of skills. Thankfully, for those who like to plan things out, you can also slow time during hectic moments to issue orders. You’ll be able to choose from a set of five initial classes of marine, along with the ability to upgrade your team’s abilities, weapons, and armor.
But be careful, as you’ll have to manage and change squad tactics from mission to mission, all the while keeping an eye on your soldiers’ health, resources, and sanity, to avoid permanent team losses and mental breakdowns. And if your squadmates die, it’s permanent.
Aliens: Dark Descent will launch on June 20 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam.
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Bloody Body Horror Revealed in ‘Stellar Blade: Blood Rain’, Currently in Development [Trailer]
Shift Up has shifted things dramatically from 2024’s action-adventure game Stellar Blade, offering up a body horror bonanza in the newly announced sequel, Stellar Blade: Blood Rain. The sequel is currently early in development, but if the trailer is any indication, players will be in for plenty of body horror.
Continuing the story from the original Stellar Blade, Blood Rain will star a new protagonist named Eve. Earth has been abandoned, and what is left of humanity has fled to a Colony in outer space.
Shift Up had mentioned during a Q&A following its latest earnings presentation last month that development on Blood Rain (which was still unannounced at the time) was progressing smoothly, and was on track to meet their targeted quality standards.
Shift Up stated that with this new title it would be transitioning to a first-party service model, effectively moving away from the restrictions the game experienced with original publisher Sony, which had the game under an exclusivity agreement for the PlayStation 5. “This will allow us to lead marketing strategies that fully reflect the distinctive identity of the Stellar Blade IP, and we expect to communicate the unique appeal of its universe to players more directly and effectively.”
Whether this means that Xbox Players will finally be able to play the original game (or its sequel) is still not clear. Meanwhile, Stellar Blade is reportedly being ported to the Nintendo Switch 2, but no official confirmation has been made.
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