ShowGamer Morning Digest: Latest Video Game News (03/06/2020)

Hi all! We decided to launch a column in which we will briefly talk about the most interesting news events of the previous day. It will come out every morning from Tuesday to Saturday. That is, we will cover the news of weekdays. It will be something like "Infact" from StopGame, but in text form. Let's see what happens!

Video game news 02/06/2020

GamesIndustry.biz has shared information that Codemasters has received the rights to exclusively develop racing simulators for the official World Rally Championship (WRC) . These will be PC titles, and the agreement is signed for the period 2023-2027. Also, the studio can arrange eSports tournaments for their races. Meanwhile, WRC 9, which is being developed by NACON and KT Racing, will be released on September 3rd. The game will appear on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. After a while, it will also be released on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and Nintendo Switch.

The next major expansion for Destiny 2 will be announced on June 9th . This can be judged by the teaser, which accidentally leaked to the network. The announcement should take place at 9:00 Moscow time. Then season 11 starts.

Sony has launched a sale "Time to play" , within which it offers to purchase game consoles, gamepads, VR equipment and other gadgets with discounts. Read the details on the official website ! Promotions will last until June 17th.

If you've been waiting for the new season of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, then, as with the PS5 conference, you'll have to wait. The publisher canceled the launch due to protests in the US.

And below you can see the gameplay video for the Avengers game. Unfortunately a canceled game. It was developed by THQ, it was supposed to be a shooter. However, do not be upset, because we are waiting for Marvel's Avengers from Crystal Dynamics.

Digital Foundry specialists are praising The Last of Us Part 2 with might and main , calling the game's animation a work of art. From interesting statements: the first part against the background of the second looks like a toy; the developers managed to create amazingly dynamic lighting due to the sun and fires, because there is no electricity in the world; reflections made with SSR and cube maps look impressive; animation caused delight; open locations have led to improvements in AI behavior.

And the head of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney, said that the distribution of video games in the store significantly increases their further sales. Sweeney also confirmed that the Epic Games Store may come to iOS and Android in the future.

Below you can see a gameplay video of the fan-made Crysis remaster . The latest version of the remaster is available to all Silver Patreon subscribers.

On June 16, The Soroboreans expansion for the hardcore RPG Outward will be released. And on July 7, the DLC will reach the two main consoles. DLC includes new locations, 2 skill trees,effects, combat gloves, magic, enemies and treasure dungeons.

As you know, 2K decided to postpone the release of WWE 2K this year, so fans of the series will have to wait until 2021, when WWE 2K22 will be released. But in doing so, Visual Concepts will be forced to completely rethink the concept and approach to creating video games. However, this year, fans are waiting for the arcade fighting game WWE 2K Battlegrounds:

Kalypso Media will publish a strategy game in which players will control the space station. The first Spacebase Startopia video can be seen below. The game will appear on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on October 23rd.

Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert remasters will be released on June 5th. Already, EA has made the source code of video games publicly available. Libraries can be downloaded here .

On June 9, strategy fans will be able to plunge into the post-apocalyptic world of 1971 Project Helios. The game will be released on PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Switch. The gameplay is tied to a group of 8 survivors who are looking for a certain Margaret Blythe, who is responsible for the creation of the Helios project, surely the last hope??dys of mankind. You can see the gameplay trailer below:

At the end of May, there was news that the Chinese company Tencent received the rights to develop System Shock 3. However, yesterday VGC assured us that OtherSide Entertainment is still working on the game.

We present to your attention the trailer for the Curse of the Sea Rats metroidvania, a game with hand-drawn animations. Developers from Petoons are going to release the game on PC and three popular gaming consoles. However, in order to get down to serious work, the company first decided to raise money on Kickstarter .

GTFO fans are in for a major update that will add a new map, enemy, expeditions and expand the story. In the infusion??her time the game is in early access, but next year should take place its full release. And the Vessel update will appear on June 11th.

Tropical adventure game Summer in Mara will be released on Steam on June 16th. It will also appear on the Switch. And now you can try out the free prologue Summer in Mara Prologue . It is noteworthy that this demo already has 478 positive reviews.

June 11 was supposed to be a presentation of Cyberpunk 2077 as part of Night City Wire. Again, due to protests in the United States, it was postponed, but not for long: the new date is June 25th.

NieR author Yoko Taro promises a lot of surprises for fans of the game in the future remaster, which will be released on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. He told Dengeki about this.