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With the Dead Space remake well underway over at Motive Studios and EA, a group of the original game’s former developers who moved over to Striking Distance Studios has now also released the very first gameplay trailer of their latest passion project: The Callisto Protocol. From the trailer, the game very much plays like a spiritual successor to Dead Space, putting players in the shoes of a lone protagonist who finds himself trapped in a prison colony named Black Iron on Jupiter’s moon Callisto in the year 2320. Jacob Lee (played by Josh Duhamel) will have to fight off an alien invasion that seems to have been engineered by the prison’s warden. The game features very similar weapons to the Dead Space franchise including his main gun that acts pretty much just like Isaac’s Plasma ...

After almost a decade of being on the back burner, Lunar Software and Raw Fury have finally revived the space survival horror game ROUTINE. First announced all the way back in 2012 during that year’s Gamescom, ROUTINE is a horror game inspired by the “’80s vision of the future” and places players in an abandoned Lunar base. Confronting a series of terrifying environments such as abandoned malls and deteriorating living quarters, your goal is to journey through the base and survive its many dangers, whether it means you’ll have to run, hide, or fight. To make the game even more immersive, the team has elected for a minimal user interface, keeping things as atmospheric as possible. Unfortunately, there’s currently no release date yet for ROUTINE, but you can learn more about the game an...

Almost a decade after its original release, the first part of The Last of Us is finally getting a remake for both the PlayStation 5 and PC. The new remake was announced by Naughty Dog and Sony over at Summer Game Fest 2022, and the two released a fresh trailer showcasing some of the visual enhancements fans can expect from the game that now benefits from nine years of hardware development and a whole new generation of consoles. Upgraded graphics aside, the game will retain the original performances from Ashley Johnson, Troy Baker and everyone else on the cast, but a new AI system breathes new life into the game’s combat elements. 3D audio and support for the DualSense controller’s adaptive triggers will also create a more immersive experience for fans, and gamers can expect to purchas...

Shortly after releasing a world reveal trailer yesterday, Activision and Infinity Ward have now followed up with a more detailed look at one of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II‘s new campaign missions. Titled “Dark Water,” the brand new mission takes place on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico where secret cargo has been stored with the potential to “spark a global conflict.” Learning of this intel, the franchise’s central Task Force 141 sets off to find and retrieve the missiles, dispatching Soap, Ghost, and Mexican Special Forces Colonel Alejandro Vargas alongside Shadow Company to take down enemies on the ship. “This is just one example of how Campaign missions will be more dynamic and lifelike, something that the original Call of Duty: Modern Warfare began to innovate on compared to ...