Mass Effect Legendary Edition has gone GOLD! It's been quite a journey - time to celebrate briefly. Maybe even dance a little... if that's you're thing.

Compatible with HTC Vive, and Oculus Rift, this Early Access build is feature complete, but to ensure that it’s as polished as possible, community feedback will be taken into account before the full launch this Summer, when it will also be available on Valve Index and PlayStation VR.

Speedy Gun Savage is an arcade shooter putting players in the gunslinging boots of alien bounty hunter Wolf as they embark on a quest through three stages of futuristic, western-inspired shootouts. Joined by their robot sidekick 3V4N, Speedy Gun Savage features a dynamic cover system, three guns, over a dozen enemy types, and three planets each with multiple levels and with their own unique bosses. Each stage offers replayability with online leaderboards as players hone their gunslinging game in this steampunk adventure.

Turn a ramshackle blacksmith shop into a successful enterprise in a challenging and endlessly varied world! Deal with local bandits, lords, priests, as well as French and English soldiers. Manage workers with various quirks, improve facilities and tools to create better merchandise, decorate your smithy to attract high-paying customers and most importantly – try not to get yourself beheaded.

In My Shadow takes you on a journey through the mind of Bella in pursuit of reconciliation with her past. The four different rooms each offer a glimpse into her memories, exploring the changing relationships with her family. The shadows within each level must be manipulated via furniture to progress, often offering more than one solution.

In My Shadow is more than a cleverly designed puzzle-platformer; it is a heart-warming story into the mind of a young woman looking for answers to questions in her past. Her childhood memories come to life as shadows on the wall of her house, and you must use those shadows to solve unique puzzles and help Bella try to let go of her past.

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Attention Vault Hunters! Starting today, new challenges await you with the Borderlands 3 Director's Cut add-on. A colossal Varkid raid boss named Hemovorous the Invincible located on Pandora is in need of a butt-kicking. Ava could use your help solving an interplanetary murder mystery that she's documenting on her new podcast. And there's an opportunity to unlock new gear and cosmetic items honoring some of the fallen heroes of Borderlands with the first of three planned Vault Cards.

Today, Ubisoft revealed its 2021 content roadmap for Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon® Breakpoint. The upcoming content will be delivered to the live game through two title updates free for all players, which will continue to improve the experience with new gameplay elements including customization, progression and more.

• Title Update 4.0.0, coming to players this spring, will focus on improving the players’ experience with AI teammates, including a new progression system, added customization and more features requested by the community.
  Title Update 4.1.0 which is set to be one of the biggest operations so far, will release in the fall.

More details will be revealed later.

The Future Games Show on June 13 will feature a mix of indie and AAA titles across all formats, including PS5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Nintendo Switch, PC, and mobile.

The PC Gaming Show began in 2015 with the goal of uniting the disparate creators and hardware makers that comprise the hobby under one roof, shining a light on the vibrancy of the open gaming platform. Previous games featured at the PC Gaming Show include Borderlands 3, Valheim, XCOM 2, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord, Warframe, Baldur's Gate 3. Past broadcasts have featured Xbox, Intel, AMD, Oculus VR, and legendary game designers like Warren Spector.

A long-awaited new story in The World Ends with You series has finally arrived!

Rindo comes to the grim realization that his life is on the line when he is forced to compete in the so-called "Reapers' Game."

There's no telling how this tale will unfold—but it's up to you to find out! Put your psychic prowess to the test as you duke it out on the stylishly animated streets of Shibuya.

In addition to these four upcoming games, the Smurfs will also be a part of Microids’ 2021 line-up, as the new Smurfs game that was announced last May will launch at the end of the year. Entitled The Smurfs - Mission Vileaf and developed by Osome Studio, the game will launch simultaneously on PC, PlayStation®4, Xbox One consoles, and Nintendo Switch. In this new 3D adventure-platformer, the Smurfs will once again have to thwart evil Gargamel’s schemes to save their village… and the whole forest!

Embarking on their quest into the desolate wastelands of Ashe, players guide a party of three Heroes in search of hope. The hope to save a forsaken people, the hope to survive in the brutal and barren wastelands, the hope that their party will live to fight again and write a new chapter in their enduring story.

Trials of Fire plunges players into a vast and varied game world featuring a unique tactical, card-driven combat system, and branching narrative encounters with no easy choices.

Say No! More is the world’s first NPG (NO!-Playing Game), a brand new experience coming straight from the minds of Studio Fizbin. In a world where everyone sticks to the status quo of saying “YES”, create your own custom character and take on the role of an intern on a mission to change the world with the positive power of “NO!”. With this new power nothing will get in your way as you shout “NO!” at any absurd requests fired at you.

Using simple controls designed for anyone to pick up and play, start your working life through a predetermined path in a quirky office environment. As well as shouting NO! in your chosen language, use your NO! different emotional states to send them reeling. Confuse people with different actions to let their guard down, then charge up your NO! for an even greater effect on unsuspecting colleagues.

Become the most powerful vampire lord and lead your clan to take over Paris underground. Expand your base, collect blood and kill anybody you want.

As a vampire, you have to enslave people and drain their blood to keep alive your clan. Build prison and go hunting, fresh blood is the most important thing for vampires.

Vampires are super fast. Use this advantage in smooth, slow motion fights. Use magic, alchemy, weapons and special abilities to beat your enemies. Conquer other clans and enlist their members ... or kill them, the choice is yours.

Train your vampires to create the best formation to fight against your enemies. Evolve from cave vampires to the most powerful vampire lords.

Starting with a small village, some peasants and with limited resources, players must develop their tech and expand their territory and influence into a formidable kingdom capable of defending its newly gained wealth from a host of enemies including roaming bandits, thieves and wild animals.

First Feudal allows players to lead from the front by joining subjects in chopping down trees and mining, or they can sit on the throne and command their serfs. Peasants can be assigned to one of 10 professions, and it is up to the lord to decide what role they take in the settlement based on their attributes and experience, be it hunter, farmer or trader. Players must keep a close eye on food, fatigue and morale to keep their workers happy, productive and - most importantly - alive. Building houses, hosting bards and brewing alcohol are all worthwhile strategies in making their village a continued success. But players can always remind their subjects who is in charge by cracking the whip at the cost of happiness. It is a delicate balance, as random events force players to make critical decisions that could have significant repercussions, such as choosing between new weapons for defence or food to prevent famine.

This latest form of Boruto from the hit anime series, Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, Boruto (Karma) has had new powers activated after Momoshiki Otsutsuki used his final moments to embed his Karma into Boruto.

Boruto (Karma) beefs up NARUTO TO BORUTO: SHINOBI STRIKER’s roster of “Defense-type” characters, and his Boruto Stream and Lightning Style: Thunderclap Arrow jutsus will surely strike fear into all foes who cross his path. Boruto (Karma) will further weaken enemies by resetting their Ninjutsu and stock of enemy substitutions within range with his Secret Technique, Karma Linchpin (Wild).

GWENT is a free-to-play card game of choice and consequence, where skill — not luck — is your most powerful weapon. Leading powerful armies from the Witcher world, players wage war against one another in dynamic multiplayer duels across a number of modes, including ranked games, friendly matches, and Draft battles.

GWENT: The Witcher Card Game for macOS works with all devices equipped with the Apple M1 chip and features full cross-play and cross-progression support with versions of the game for PC (via GOG.COM and Steam), Android, and iOS. Device compatibility requirements can be checked on GWENT’s product page on the Mac App Store.

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• Bloomberg: The Last of Us remake for PS5 in development at Naughty Dog.
• Neo- The World Ends with You comes to PS4 on July 27.
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