Tag: Funcom
News Dune: Awakening Gets Gameplay Epic, 25 Minutes of Fremen Action
We are not worthy
We thought we'd been spoiled yesterday with a five-minute look at the frankly stunning Dune: Awakening, a survival MMO headed for PS5 in 2025. Imagine our surprise to find 25 minutes of developer-led gameplay, fresh from Gamescom, awaiting us today. In the presentation, we see the early-game experience, a tutorial jaunt before...
News Survival MMO Dune: Awakening Almost Too Good to Be True in Immersive Gameplay
Lisan al-Gaib!
Funcom has given us our best glimpse yet at the incredible-looking Dune: Awakening during Gamescom's Opening Night Live. A survival MMO set on the most dangerous planet in the galaxy, it launches on PC in early 2025, cautiously sandwalking to PS5 sometime afterwards. In the reveal, we see some low-level gameplay, showing the various...
News Metal: Hellsinger VR Brings Its Heavy Rhythm Action to PSVR2 This Fall
The metal will live on
Metal: Hellsinger VR is another rhythm action game to add to PSVR2's collection, and it's not too far away now. This virtual reality version of the title is heading to Sony's headset in Fall 2024, meaning it's just a few months out. As you can see in this announcement trailer from a couple of months ago, Metal: Hellsinger VR...
News Ambitious MMO Dune: Awakening's Sandstorms Will Weekly Level the Playing Field
Enviromental apocalypse
Dune: Awakening sounds like an extremely ambitious offering from Funcom, the developer behind Conan: Exiles. It's still early days, but it has been promised for PS5, and each new sliver of information has us more excited to visit Arrakis. IGN's Destin Legarie saw a brief behind-closed-doors demo
News Lasguns Set to Fun in Glowing First Dune: Awakening Preview
Survival MMO could be the sci-fi sandbox we've been waiting for
Dune: Awakening from developer Funcom has a lot of hype to live up to in the wake of two inescapable films from Dennis Villeneuve based on Frank Herbet's legendary sci-fi novels. Thankfully, it seems to be on track, judging first from the scorching gameplay released at the start of the...
News Dune: Awakening Takes Place in Alternate Timeline, Devs 'Sort of Sidestep Religion'
The spice must flow
Hot on the heels of yesterday's gameplay reveal, we've learned more about Funcom's upcoming MMO, Dune: Awakening, which remains shrouded in mystery. Crucially, we knew the story would take place in an alternate universe set a few years before the events of the Frank Herbert books or Dennis Villeneuve films and would ignore one of...
News Dune: Awakening Scorches in Stunning PS5 Survival Gameplay
The Spice Melange
The Spice is undoubtedly in the air, with Part Two of Dennis Villeneuve's Dune film adaptation of Frank Herbert's epic sci-fi series now in theatres. Striking while the iron is hot, we also got a stunning gameplay trailer from Funcom for the upcoming survival MMO Dune: Awakening, which was revealed in August 2022 and prophesied to...
News Metal: Hellsinger Mini Documentary Explores the Story Behind Those Sick Riffs
Metal as heck
Metal: Hellsinger is one of the more unique concepts we have seen in recent times: a rhythmic boomer shooter in which you slay demons to the beat of hammering double-kicks. It's out now on PS5, and a mini-documentary, released by publisher Funcom, looks at how the game came to be, through interviews with the games creators, composers...
Mini Review Metal: Hellsinger (PS5) – Brilliant Gameplay Surrounded by Banality
For those about to rock
The concept behind Metal: Hellsinger is simple enough: marry the classic shooter gunplay of DOOM with a rhythm game. And developer The Outsiders absolutely nail this element of its game: the gunplay feels fantastic. Shooting, dodging, cycling weapons, it all feels great. You can do just about everything in the game to the...
News Abduct NPCs and Sacrifice Them in Conan Exiles Age of Sorcery on PS4
Crush your enemies, see them driven before you
Announced back in June, The Age of Sorcery has begun in Conan Exiles, with the long-running MMO getting a fresh injection of content in this massive 3.0 update, and we got a new trailer to celebrate. Magic has finally come to the open-world survival game, and it's kind of hard to believe it wasn't...
News Dune Awakening Is an Open World MMO Worming Its Way to PS5
No release date yet
Dune, the classic sci-fi novel, recently made its way to the big screen with a big budget movie. With the sandy tale back in the zeitgeist, surely it makes sense to work out a video game adaptation, too? The folks at Funcom and developer Level Infinite certainly think so, as they've just announced Dune Awakening. Check out the...
News Magic Is Coming to Conan Exiles in the Free Age of Sorcery Update
The other half of sword and sorcery
Sorcery is coming to the brutal world of Conan Exiles, and in this new trailer developers from Funcom describe exactly how players can ritualistically sacrifice each other to the dark gods. It's pretty wild stuff and looks like it's going to spice the venerable survival game up in a big way. The 3.0 Age of...
News Metal: Hellsinger Finally Thrashes onto PS5 in September, Demo Available Now
Trial the rhythm shooter on PS5
It has been a long time coming, but Metal: Hellsinger is very nearly with us. The rhythm-based FPS now has a concrete release date of 15th September 2022 on PS5, and you can get an idea of its gameplay in the above new trailer. However, that's not the only news. A playable demo for the game is now available on PS...
News Metal: Hellsinger Is a Headbanging PS5 Rhythm FPS for Metalheads
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It’s probably not crazy to say that the vast majority of rhythm games focus on various forms of dance music, whether it’s straight-up pop or more niche electronic tunes. Metal, traditionally, is not something represented by the genre at least, which is where Metal: Hellsinger on the PlayStation 5 aims to set itself apart. This is a...
News Demon-Slaying Rhythm Game Metal: Hellsinger Gets New Gameplay in Music Video
DOOT
Ever wondered what DOOM would be like if it was a rhythm game? Metal: Hellsinger is basically that. Coming to PlayStation 5 and PS4 next year, this interesting title has you slaying demons along to the beat of heavy metal music. In this new video, we're introduced to James Dorton, lead singer of death metal group Black Crown Initiate. He...
News Metal: Hellsinger Is a Rhythm FPS Coming to PS5 and PS4 Next Year
Slay to the beat
It's not every day you see a heavy metal rhythm game posing as a DOOM-style first person shooter, but here we are. Metal: Hellsinger is basically exactly that -- a game about murdering countless demons to the beat of a heavy metal soundtrack. Fortunately, it's one of those games that makes sense the moment you see it in action. In...
Mini Review Moons of Madness - A Lovecraftian Snooze Fest
Inter-smellar
Secret World Legends developer Funcom dives into the ready-made well of creativity of H.P Lovecraft in Moons of Madness, a single-player cosmic horror title using modern generic tropes. Unsurprisingly, it takes similar thematic and aesthetic cues to last year’s Conarium, though in its mission to become the cosmos’ answer to...
News Moons of Madness Brings Terror to Mars in January 2020 on PS4
Pre-order bonus detailed
The moon is haunted in Destiny 2: Shadowkeep, and now it looks like Mars is getting in on the action too. Moons of Madness, from developer Rock Pocket Games, is coming to PlayStation 4 on 21st January 2020. And if the reveal trailer above is anything to go by, this is going to be one spooky affair. It sounds a bit like a...
News Seed of Evil Is an Upcoming Expansion for Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
Releases in July
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden released on PlayStation 4 late last year, bringing a unique spin to turn-based strategy games with its unusual characters and focus on story. It's been fairly quiet since release, but today, publisher Funcom has fully unveiled a major expansion for the game. Named Seed of Evil, the DLC brings a host of...
Review Conan Exiles - A Barbaric But Addictive Survival Experience
Grindr
Republished on Wednesday 27th March 2019: We're bringing this review back from the archives following the announcement of April's PlayStation Plus lineup. The original text follows. Conan Exiles is surprisingly good. When we first learned about an open world survival game themed on the Conan universe, we were tempted to write it off as a...
Review Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden - Farmlife Tussles in Tactical Battles
What the duck
You know you’re about to be thrown in at the deep end when a game asks you to pick between the difficulty options of Normal, Hard, Very Hard, and a permadeath toggle for all three. Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is a brutally tough experience that will contuinally pull the rug out from under your feet even when you feel like you’ve...
News Latest Trailer for Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden Introduces Fourth Playable Character
Farrow joins the party
We've been quietly looking forward to Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden, a late 2018 release melding turn-based strategy with an intriguing story and bizarre characters. We've seen a trio of heroes we'll be guiding through the game's post-human world; a woman who can turn to stone, a giant pig, and a mutated duck. Not exactly...
Gamescom 2018 Cool Looking Strategy RPG Mutant Year Zero Gets a December Release Date
Take your turn
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden grabbed our attention earlier in the year with a cool announcement trailer, and now the post-apocalyptic strategy RPG has a confirmed release date. As if the release schedule wasn't already way too busy, Mutant Year Zero is set to launch on the 4th December. We reckon the game's...
News Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden Looks Like a Tactical PS4 RPG to Keep an Eye On
Gets a great cinematic trailer
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden sounds a bit mental based on the title alone, and that feeling's solidified once you get an eyeful of the game's crazy cinematic reveal trailer. Obviously the video doesn't tell us much about how the game will actually play, but the description reads: "Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden...
Do you wanna ride the rollercoaster?
While developer Funcom's last console release, Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, never found its way to a PlayStation platform, its newest title, The Park – developed by the firm's Oslo branch – does find its way onto Sony hardware. The Park is a story that supposedly takes place in the world of one of Funcom's...
News The Park Clowns Around on PS4 in 2016
Park life
Funcom's bringing its survival horror experiment The Park to the PlayStation 4 in 2016. The psychological trip through a dilapidated funfair launched on the PC earlier in the year, but has now set its beady eyes upon Sony's new-gen system. The title promises a real rollercoaster ride in which you'll face fear and paranoia head-first. Will...
