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Goat Simulator is, as its name would suggest, a hardcore simulation of your average goat's daily life: smashing up houses, ruining people's parties, flinging itself around and skipping over rooftops, and glitching out and with weird physics. Appropriately, developer Coffee Stain Studios today announced the PC game will launch on that most mischievous of days, April 1.
Titanfall may not be launching until next Tuesday but hey, if you had a jetpack and a giant stompy mecha, you'd be in a hurry to show the world too. Publisher EA today released the "launch" trailer for Respawn's FPS, made up of loads of little exciting gameplay snippets. Also something about a story. But mostly mecha.
For several years now, Activision has occasionally opened up the multiplayer side of Call of Duty games to everyone on PC through Steam for special weekend events. It's always been more conservative on consoles, though. The first multiplayer demo for consoles finally arrives this weekend, giving a taste of Call of Duty: Ghosts's MP on Xbox 360 and Xbox One.
After four months of public testing on PC, exclusive to Windows 8.1, Microsoft's game-making game Project Spark has jumped to Xbox One. Spark has all sorts of easy-to-use tools and assets to create your own fancy 3D games, and you can play other people's creations.
Surely the main reason to buy an Xbox One is to play Peggle 2, which launched exclusively on Microsoft's new console in December. But who cares about Xbox One now! EA this morning announced that PopCap's peg-popping sequel is bouncing onto Xbox 360 too, landing in the bucket on May 7.
From fishing to the nuclear apocalypse, Ridiculous Fishing and Nuclear Throne developer has turned all manner of things into fine shooty games. So dogfighting aeroplanes should be a snap, really. Publisher Devolver Digital today announced that Luftrausers will launch of PC, PlayStation 3, Vita, Mac, and Linux on March 18.
We hadn't heard much of the PlayStation ports of Fez since their announcement last year. But hey, take some time to think, turn the idea around, and there it is: an announcement that Polytron's puzzle-platformer will launch for PlayStation 4, PS3 and Vita all launch together on March 25. It's a little fancied-up, too.
Expect the pace of DayZ's development to pick up, as Bohemia has bunged a whole load of new people to the team. Creator Dean 'Rocket' Hall revealed this in his latest dev blog post, also confirming that the team shall start focusing on expanding survival elements. First up is a cooking system, giving survivors more culinary options than guzzling cold beans from a can cut open with a kitchen knife.
It's never simple with 3D Realms. The Duke Nukem creator is current being sued by Gearbox Software, who bought the musclebound chucklehead's IP as it finished Duke Nukem Forever, over supposedly trying to make a new Duke game with Rise of the Triad remaker Interceptor Entertainment. 3DR simply has no right to, Gearbox says. But oh, another wrinkle. 3D Realms has now been bought by an investment firm which part-owns Interceptor.
Next week's lineup of new releases is headline by South Park: The Stick of Truth. Other shiny newness includes procedural FPS Tower of Guns, the second episode of The Walking Dead: Season Two, 10 Second Ninja, and PS4 editions of Awesomenauts and Dead Nation.
