OPEN, the AAA Multi-IP blockbuster battle royale from Walker Labs and publisher Readyverse Studios has been announced for latest-gen consoles and PC. The game emerges from a creative partnership with Ernest Cline, author of 'Ready Player One'. Get your first look at OPEN with the official trailer!
Enter OPEN’s immersive multiverse filled with nostalgia-infused biomes featuring characters and cultural legends across iconic franchises. Challengers embark on game show-styled, multi-round collaborative, and competitive game modes, but only one hero can emerge victorious. Hone and showcase a vast array of gaming disciplines, where tactical positioning, sly movement, strategic shooting, and driving skills take center stage, as you join forces with worthy allies, plan together for strategic advantages, and engage in intense gameplay sessions.
OPEN derives its name from the principles that The Readyverse will champion including asset interoperability, digital ownership, decentralization, and security. Among additional globally recognized IP, such as Reebok and DeLorean featured in the teaser, OPEN will feature a Ready Player One biome where fans can engage in competitive experiences born from the novel and film itself; including branded environments and skins.
Readyverse Studios recently announced its partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery to exclusively bring the Ready Player One franchise to the metaverse. Readyverse Studios is a first-of-its-kind studio co-founded by Futureverse Co-Founders Shara Senderoff and Aaron McDonald, as well as Ernest Cline, the best-selling novelist and renowned creator of the groundbreaking franchise Ready Player One and Dan Farah, Ready Player One film producer.
OPEN is in development for current-generation consoles and PC.
Indie publisher Firenut Games announced Chrysolite, a narrative-driven, pixel-art 2D Metroidvania-inspired platformer, coming to Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch and PC later this year.
Developed by solo developer José Manuel Conesa Hernández, Chrysolite is a lovingly crafted platformer that engages players with its intriguing narrative and simple, yet challenging gameplay and uses hand-drawn illustrations to advance the narrative.
A brooding knight sits in front of a fire, the darkness surrounding him. His sword plunged into the ground, covered in the dried blood of his enemies. He warns you against going any further, but the intrigue of what lies beyond far surpasses your instinct of self-preservation.
Play as a young thief and explore the dangerous remains of a once-prosperous kingdom. Fight against hordes of terrifying monsters and make your way through challenging platforming sections to uncover the clues to unlock the dark story of the last days of the kingdom.
Chrysolite is participating in the Metroidvania Fusion Steam Event running from 4 -11 March, where fans can download the very first demo for the game for free as well as try out other exciting indie Metroidvana inspired indie games.
Chrysolite will launch for Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch and PC (Steam) later in 2024.
INDIE Live Expo (@INDIELiveExpoEN), the leading online digital showcase series for indie games in Japan, announces the date for its first 2024 event happening on Saturday, May 25th, 2024. With more than 10 million views during INDIE Live Expo Winter 2023, and 98.7 million views since the series inception in 2020, this May’s upcoming showcase marks the 10th ever INDIE Live event, commemorated by an all-new logo.
Serving as a gateway between indie scenes across the globe, INDIE Live Expo offers English, Japanese, and Chinese broadcasts. Viewers can tune in for the return of the rapid-fire “INDIE Waves” segment showcasing dozens of short-form content updates across a plethora of titles, and witness a deep dive into a new local indie scene with the return of “Indie Studios Around the World”.
“Our favorite time of year is when submissions open!” Said Ryuta Konuma, Founder and CEO, Ryu’s Office. “The possibilities within indie gaming are truly endless, which was the main inspiration behind our new logo. Every year we are wowed by such innovative indies that we could have never imagined. Many thanks to our supporters who make our show possible every year!”
Developers and indie game enthusiasts interested in information about future INDIE Live Expo events and opportunities can sign up for the INDIE Live Expo Letter here.
Fans who cannot wait until May can rewatch DAY1 and DAY2 of INDIE Live Expo Winter 2023 on YouTube.
Demolish Games (@DemolishGames) confirmed that its physics-based construction and demolition simulator, Demolish & Build 3, will be released on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch in 2025. The game will be released on PC in Q2 2024. A free prologue is also available on Steam from March 1.
Demolish & Build 3 is a new installment of the simulator in which you are the owner of a construction and demolition company. The gameplay focuses primarily on performing various demolition and construction works, as well as developing and managing the company.
The game’s outstanding feature is its realistic destruction system. Each fragment consists of a specific material with unique parameters, like resistance to various types of damage. Even greater realism is ensured by taking into account the mutual influence of individual objects and structures.
In Demolish & Build 3 Prologue, players will find the first 3 missions from the full version of the game, which take an average of 1-1.5 hours to complete. In the free prologue you can try, among others: a skid steer, an excavator, as well as learn the basic mechanics.
Demolish & Build 3 Prologue features
realistic destruction system;
various locations;
digging and building;
skid-steer and excavator;
vehicle control based on real machines;
physical simulation of vehicle tracks;
vehicle attachments;
controller support.
The full version of Demolish & Build 3 will also include:
running and developing the company;
randomly generated missions;
more vehicles and tools;
new locations;
concrete pouring.
Demolish & Build 3 is set to release on PC (Steam) in Q2 2024. The game will be released for Xbox Series, Xbox One, PS5, PS4 and Switch in 2025.
Killer Klowns from Outer Space: The Game is a crazy, fresh take on asymmetrical survival horror experience. Based on the iconic 80’s movie, the 3v7 multiplayer game brings back the unique, over-the-top mix of horror and comedy. In the battle between Killer Klowns and the citizens of Crescent Cove, team up and harvest humans or survive and escape from an alien invasion!
Join a team of three Klowns trying to harvest humans with zany weapons and unworldly abilities. Or, fight back against the alien invasion as a team of seven humans scrounging for weapons and hiding spots to survive!
Take on the role of the iconic Killer Klowns – cooperate in a team of three players, utilize unworldly abilities, hunt humans with zany weapons, and plan your alien invasion to harvest the population of Crescent Cove successfully.
Fight back as a team of seven brave citizens of Crescent Cove – explore the city for valuable loot and weapons, avoid getting captured by Klowns, and try to survive the alien invasion.
The over-the-top horror-comedy mix of the cult classic movie comes to life in this take on hide-and-seek gameplay, with Crescent Cove’s locales providing numerous unique tactical opportunities for klown and human alike with multiple possible match results.
Pre-Order Edition includes:
1 Week Advance Access
2 Human Cosmetics
1 Klown Skin
1 Klown Character
Deluxe Upgrade includes:
2 Human Costumes
2 Klown Skins
1 Movie Klown Skin
Digital Soundtrack
Digital Art Book
Killer Klowns From Outer Space: The Game will be available for Xbox Series X and Series S, PlayStation 5, and PC (Steam) on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. Prepare for the invasion and Pre-order now!
RiffRaff Games (@RiffRaffDev) confirmed that their third-person card-slinging occult noir stealth sim, Sleight of Hand, will launch day one on @XboxGamePass for Xbox Series X|S and Windows PC in 2025. The powerhouse team at RiffRaff Games, helmed by multi-award-winning noir puzzle game FRAMED creator Joshua Boggs will also bring Sleight of Hand to Steam.
Step into the gumshoes of Lady Luck (voiced by Debi Mae West, Metal Gear Solid’s Meryl Silverburgh), a revered former occult detective fated to return for one final job: taking down her former Coven. Her departure was less than amicable; last time, she lost her left hand. Too tired to fight fate any longer, and with more overdue bills than bucks to her name, Lady Luck strikes out to Steeple City with cursed deck in hand, ready to track down everyone from her past life.
Slink through a hard-boiled city rife with taboo, where knowledge of ritual magic and possession of cursed artifacts separate the haves and the have-nots. Wield Lady Luck’s cursed cards to cast a smoke-based menagerie of magic. Navigate around patrolling ruffians by Evaporating into smoke. Faced with a group of huddled-up goons? Even the odds by intertwining their fates with the Chain Smoker card — now any cards cast affect them all at once. Snuff them out with a lethal card, or choose an affliction to help Lady Luck sneak right past.
Silently take out enemies using powerful card and state combos. Inaccessible guard causing problems with a spotlight? Take him out by marking his position with a Hex card, which tags any target within line of sight. Once Hexed, other cards combo with this state, like Peekaboo, which teleports the player behind any Hexed target in view. While lurking behind the unsuspecting goon, you don't need a card to know a silent takedown is the next play to get through.
Upgrade the deck and assemble the perfect hand for each highly replayable level, all built to encourage experimentation. Stick to subterfuge with Glimpse to see enemies behind walls and blind them with Ignorance to slip by undetected. Become a wickeder witch by taking out guards in one shot with Hand Cannon.
Discover hidden passwords to access secret pathways through speakeasies and interrogate former friends of Lady Luck’s ex-coven to settle "old debts." Gain new powers, intel, and cards to bring the coven leader in. Just hope the cards pulled come out in Lady Luck’s favor.
Sleight of Hand will be released on Xbox Series X|S and PC via Xbox Game Pass and Steam in 2025.
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