Tag: Kalypso Media
News Commandos: Origins Commencing Strategic Covert Ops on PS5 in 2024
Do the impossible
Commandos: Origins is a real-time stealth tactics game set during World War 2, and it's been announced for release on PS5 sometime in 2024, presumably under the cover of darkness. The Commandos series began in 1998 is foundational to the stealth tactics subgenre of strategy, best exemplified by modern takes like Desperados III and...
Mini Review Railway Empire 2 (PS5) - Locomotive Strategy Sim Has Signal Failure
All aboard the innovation train
Throwing us into the brink of a revolution, Railway Empire 2 starts in 1830 at the dawn of the age of railways. It’s an exciting time for the rail industry, with many competing companies wanting a piece of the pie and many discoveries changing the face of rail travel. There are various game modes, including a...
News Railway Empire 2 Pulls into Station PS5 on 25th May
Tickets, please!
Railway Empire 2 is a railway tycoon management game we've been keeping a gleeful eye on for some time now, and we finally got a release date. Please have your PS5 tickets ready for inspection on 25th May Like its excellent predecessor, Railway Empire, the thing that sets this sim experience from the rest is the competitive aspect,...
News Railway Empire 2 Gets Green Light for Multiplayer Co-Op, Picks Up PS4 Version at Launch
All aboard!
We love a good train game here at Push Square, and one of the highlights of the 2023 train aficionado calendar has to be Railway Empire 2, which is pulling into the station sometime in 2023. Publisher Kalypo Media has revealed that other disciples of the rails can look forward to a couple of new features whenever it does arrive. First,...
News Go Hunting for Witches in Grimdark Action Game The Inquisitor, Q4 2023
Head's are going to roll
The Inquisitor is a grimdark fantasy game set in an alternate 1500 A.D. where Jesus escaped his crucifixion and rather than preach forgiveness, sought violent vengeance on the non-believers. It's been announced for PS5 and is targeting a Q4 2023 release window. Century's later, the Inquisitor's continue to enforce this Holy...
News Classic Stealth Strategy Returns in Commandos 3 - HD Remaster, Available Now on PS4
Who dares, wins
Commandos 3 - HD Remaster is a remastered version of the classic stealth-strategy Commandos 3: Destination Berlin, which was originally released back in 2003. It is now available on PS4 in glorious high definition, with a redesigned controller scheme and UI for a smoother console experience. Travel to Berlin, the heart of the...
News Embrace Your Inner Evil in Strategy Sim Dungeons 4, Coming to PS5 in 2023
Unleash the evil
Stealing some of Gamescom Opening Night Live's thunder, Kalypso Media has announced Dungeons 4, the latest entry in the Dungeons franchise of strategy/simulation games all about embracing your inner evil. Get down with your bad self on PS5 at an as-yet unrevealed date in 2023. The Dungeons series of games let players experience...
News Outsmart the Competition and Rule the Rails in Railway Empire 2
Choo-choo choose your own adventure
Announced just hours ahead of Gamescom Opening Night Live 2022, publisher Kalypso Media has revealed Railway Empire 2, a railway and economic strategy game and sequel to the fantastic Railway Empire. Set in the early 1800s, the Railway Empire games task you with transforming your small company into an industrial...
Review Matchpoint: Tennis Championships (PS5) - Unforced Errors Spoil Solid Gameplay
We don't love it
Tennis is one of the most popular sports on the planet, but publishers are having a nightmare capitalising on its potential. French outfit Nacon has already had a couple of attempts with the two Tennis World Tour titles – and the two Australian Open endorsed entries, AO Tennis – but now it’s the turn of Kalypso Media to serve...
Hands On Matchpoint: Tennis Championships Could Be the Ace We've Been Waiting For
We 15-love it so far
When you really stop and think about it, tennis and video games will forever be tied. Pong, one of the earliest arcade success stories, may be simplistic – but it’s effectively tennis in everything but name. Ever since this author got Anna Kournikova’s Smash Court Tennis on the PS1 (remember her?!), we’ve been huge fans...
News Virtua Tennis Star Tim Henman Returns for Matchpoint on PS5, PS4
Dropping just before the Wimbledon final
There’s a new tennis title rallying for your interest, and we hope with all our soul that it’s good. Matchpoint: Tennis Championships has a PlayStation 5 and PS4 release date: 7th July, 2022. That’s just at the very tail-end of Wimbledon, just prior to the finals weekend, so it couldn’t be better...
News Matchpoint: Tennis Championships PS5, PS4 Gameplay Looks Okay
Let, first service
Tennis games are so hard to execute, because you need a humongous library of animations to cater for all kinds of different shot types, heights, and positions. Matchpoint: Tennis Championships, a new PlayStation 5 and PS4 title published by Kalypso, is taking on the challenge, though. This is being billed as a simulator rather...
News Matchpoint: Tennis Championships Fires Down the Line on PS5, PS4
Something to rally around
With the Australian Open in full swing, there’s never been a better time to announce a new tennis sim. And as publishers like Nacon continue to chase Top Spin’s glory, a new contender has entered the (Rod Laver) arena: Kalypso is serving up Matchpoint: Tennis Championships on the PlayStation 5 and PS4 this coming Spring...
News Tropico 6 Makes a Political Move to PS5 on 31st March
New-gen edition repackaged
Kalypso Media is repackaging banana republic strategy sim Tropico 6 for release on the PlayStation 5, with the 4K new-gen edition scheduled to wage political war from 31st March, 2022. “In addition to the main game, [this version] will include the Llama of Wall Street DLC as well as the El Prez Pack with an additional...
News Port Royale 4 Sails to PS5 on 10th September, Free Upgrade from PS4
Boat load of improvements
Tropical trading sim Port Royale 4 will sail to PlayStation 5 from 10th September, and there’ll be a free PS4 to PS5 upgrade available for existing owners. The next-gen re-release will feature 4K visuals, real-time cloud rendering, and more. You’ll also have the ability to transfer your save data between versions. The...
Review Spacebase Startopia (PS5) - Deep Space, Shallow Management Sim
In space, no one can see you disco dance
Spacebase Startopia is a management simulator based on Startopia, released way back in 2001 on PC. Much like in the original, you're put in charge of a series of doughnut-shaped bases that you’ll need to turn into fun places for aliens to live, work, and play. Every visitor has a wallet filled with Energy...
News Disciples: Liberation May Satisfy Your Turn-Based RPG Needs on PS5, PS4
Coming Q4 2021
Turn-based RPGs from western teams aren't really in abundance right now (especially on consoles), so that means the newly announced Disciples: Liberation already has something about it. The title from Frima Studio has been confirmed for release on both PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 at the end of this year, with a reveal trailer...
News Cult Strategy Comeback Spacebase Startopia Sets Coordinates for PS5, PS4
Space race
If you’re not familiar with Startopia – and, honestly, we’ll forgive you for that – then all you really need to know is that it was a 2001 strategy title helmed by ex-Bullfrog staffers. In it, your job was to oversee the creation of a space station, and it fused city building mechanics with RTS gameplay. Now it’s set to make a...
Mini Review Port Royale 4 - Dull Strategy Game Fails To Float Our Boat
Yo Ho Hum
Port Royale 4 starts well. The opening cinematic shows footage of shady piratey characters doing shady piratey business, and it's backed by a rousing soundtrack that makes you want to sail the seven seas looking for plunder. But any hopes you might have of swashbuckling adventures are almost immediately dashed after starting up the first...
News Commandos to Make a Comeback on PS5
Bionic commandos
Real-time tactics series Commandos has attained cult status in recent years, and in addition to a PlayStation 4 remaster of fan favourite Commandos 2, publisher Kalypso Media has announced that it’s started work on an all-new instalment for PlayStation 5. Development will be tackled by a new German team named Claymore Game...
Review Tropico 6 - Dictator Simulator Brings The Goods
It's-a me, Tropico
Tropico 6 is a political strategy game that puts you in control of a tropical island nation, and asks you to maintain power by any and all means necessary. Assassinations, bribes, rigged elections - it's pretty much a Kim Jong-il simulator, only with an irritating-at-first-but-you'll-be-humming-it-later mambo soundtrack. Perhaps...
News Tropico 6 Release Date Finally Confirmed for PS4
Fun in the Sun
Tropico 6 has been in the making for quite some time. Originally scheduled for release on PlayStation 4 back in 2018, it was pushed back to early 2019, and then again to the summer. Now, it finally has a solid release date. According to Eurogamer, the city-building dictator simulator will arrive on PS4 on 27th September. The game's...
Review Project Highrise: Architect's Edition - An Architect for Success
Building sim-plicity at its best
Project Highrise: Architect’s Edition fills a niche on the PlayStation Store as a return for the building simulator genre, following initial success on Steam in 2016. This sim however puts you in control of skyscraper development specifically, as opposed to traditional city sims. As the chief architect in charge of...
Review Shadows: Awakening (PS4)
Emerging from the shadow of Diablo
PS4 adventuring takes to a dark new dimension with Shadows: Awakening – which might at first look like a Diablo-'em-up copycat, but actually brings a unique new spin to the isometric single-player RPG genre. You step in the wraith robes of a demon summoned from the Shadow Realm – known as a...
News El Presidente Makes an Important Tropico 6 Announcement
Dictating the news
In non-politically motivated news, El Presidente has decided to delay Tropico 6 into January 2019. The game was originally scheduled to release later this year, but our wondrous ruler would like to reassure you that this has nothing to do with Red Dead Redemption 2. Or Fallout 76. Or Marvel’s Spider-Man. Or any of the other...
News Strategy RPG Shadows: Awakening Announced for PS4
Nice name
Mindbogglingly generic name aside, Shadows: Awakening (really? It's really called that? Jeez), looks like it could be a good slice of strategy role-playing, and it's coming to PlayStation 4 in 2018. Publisher Kalypso Media teased the title earlier in the month. The game's press release reads: "In this dark fantasy adventure, players...
Dad's Barmy
Sudden Strike 4 is a real-time strategy game set in World War II featuring three separate campaigns – one for the Allies, the Germans, and the Soviet Union – based on real battles. There’s over twenty missions in total, and these are presented to the player without any political pandering or moral high-grounds. World War...
News Kalypso Media Teases Brand New PS4 RPG Project
We'll see more at Gamescom
Publisher Kalypso Media and developer Games Farm have revealed that they're working on a new role-playing game project. Said reveal comes in the form of the ominous teaser trailer that we've embedded above. Whatever the project is, it's coming to PlayStation 4 in 2018. We'll be seeing more of the title at Gamescom 2017...
Review Vikings - Wolves of Midgard (PS4)
Howling for you
Vikings - Wolves of Midgard is an action role-playing game stuffed with blood, beards, and loot. It's immediately comparable to other dungeon-crawling hack and slashers like Diablo, right down to the near identical radial equipment menu. Vikings certainly doesn't shy away from its inspirations, but it's so by-the-numbers that you do...
Review Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders (PS4)
Elementary, my dear Hastings
If you go into Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders expecting the next LA Noire or Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments, you'll be sorely disappointed. But if you pick up this police procedural with the hope of a slightly charming puzzle whodunnit with some good game mechanics, you may be pleasantly surprised. Like all...
Review Grand Ages: Medieval (PS4)
Everybody wants to rule the world
Strategy games aren't normally associated with console gaming, instead favouring PC, Mac, and Linux as their platform of choice. This is why it's important for Grand Ages: Medieval to succeed: to bring the genre to a brand new audience. Developed by Gaming Minds Studio, the brains behind Port Royale 3 and Patrician...
News Grand Ages: Medieval Delays Its Invasion on PS4
Stop the march
Real time strategy title Grand Ages: Medieval has been delayed on PlayStation 4 due to manufacturing issues that publisher Kalypso Media cites as being beyond its control. The delay's a bit of a blow to fans of the genre, as it's currently slim pickings when it comes to strategy on Sony's latest console. Fortunately, the game hasn't...
News Grand Ages: Medieval Settles on PS4 in September
Europe is your playground
It looks like niche European publishers such as Kalypso Media are going all in on the PlayStation 4, with Grand Ages: Medieval set to make its console debut on Sony's new-gen system starting 25th September. The real-time strategy release sees you assuming the role of leader in a new European settlement during the High...
Review Tropico 5 (PlayStation 4)
Havana good time
Back when Bullfrog was considered a big name, construction games were all the rage. The likes of Theme Park and Theme Hospital were among the most popular releases on the PSone, but as the genre increased in complexity on computers, these console ports became increasingly less common. Tropico 5, then, is something of a rarity: a...
News El Presidente Arrives on PS4 from 24th April in Tropico 5
Time to take charge
While there are definitely people still disgruntled with the PlayStation 4's lineup, we've been impressed by the sheer variety of software that's hit Sony's latest machine. One genre that it's been sorely lacking in, however, is the city building simulation – but fortunately, Tropico 5 will fill that gap from 24th April in...
News Tropico 5 Laying Foundations on the PlayStation 4
Sun, sand, and taxes
Niche tongue-in-cheek construction simulation Tropico 5 has extended its release blueprints to the PlayStation 4, meaning that the franchise will make its debut on a Sony system later this year. Previous entries in the series have remained exclusive to PC, Mac, and Xbox 360 platforms, but the simplistic architecture of the...
News Dollar Dash Robs PSN Blind This October
Money, money, money
Candygun Games’ whimsical multiplayer thief simulator Dollar Dash is set to empty your pockets this October, publisher Kalypso Media has announced. The four-player title sees you making use of “extravagant weapons” in order to collect fat stacks of cash. The game boasts plenty of customisation options, allowing you to...
Out Now Air Conflicts: Secret Wars (North America)
Late arrival
The North American release of Air Conflicts: Secret Wars has been put back and pushed around countless times over the past few months since its European release in early July, but US publisher Kalypso Media now informs us the game has finally made it to retail. Eagle-eyed readers might remember originally said Air Conflicts was...
