The 4th annual Realms Deep (@realms_deep) event, hosted by publisher 3D Realms (@3DRealms), will take place on Saturday, September 30, 2023. The digital showcase will celebrate retro shooters with world premieres, trailers, interviews, and appearances from notable content creators, as well as updates on upcoming games from 3D Realms and other publishers and devs.
Realms Deep 2023 is a single-day broadcast highlighting exciting action-packed games—from hardcore shooters to RTS, horror games, and RPGs—featuring updates from 3D Realms’ upcoming slate of projects, as well as news, premieres, interviews, and more from notable publishers and developers around the world. Interested partners who would like to submit their game(s) either for the Livestream and/or the Steam Event, can do so via the submission form.
3D Realms brings updates from numerous titles under their diverse portfolio, including:
Its highly anticipated classic RTS Tempest Rising, action-adventure FPS Phantom Fury, immersive sim Core Decay, sci-fi horror FPS RIPOUT, dark-fantasy FPS GRAVEN, dieselpunk action-rpg Combustion, Ion Fury’s Aftershock expansion, and maybe even an exciting surprise or two. Other developers and partners at this year’s Realms Deep include the return of New Blood Interactive, Running With Scissors, Slipgate Ironworks, HYPERSTRANGE, Dread XP, Hellforge Studios, Fulqrum, and Retrovibe, as well as THQ Nordic, Prismatika Games, and many more, making their debut into the show!
Realms Deep returns with insightful interviews, discussions, and appearances by content creators, developers, and industry personalities. The Steam Sale occurring in conjunction with the show will include recently revealed titles, demos, discounted games, and more.
Fans are invited to tune into the 3D Realms’ Twitch and YouTube channels to watch the show airing at 8 PM CEST / 2 PM ET / 11 AM PT, with a theme inspired by late-night talk shows.
Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration, an interactive trek through Atari's historic past, featuring a selection of the publisher’s most iconic games, is now available for Xbox One and Series X|S, PlayStation 4|5, Nintendo Switch and Windows PC via Steam and the Epic Store
A mix of video game collection-meets-anthology, Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration showcases the history of Atari through a combination of retro and modern playable games, short videos, never-before-seen interviews, early development diaries, and more. Emulating seven separate console platforms, and containing titles spanning five decades, the library-styled interface presents over 100 video games sorted by era in an intuitive linear timeline. Other files and materials are also part of the package, including early development sketches, hardware schematics, internal memos, pictures, films, and other "artifacts," the majority of which have never been made public.
A digital romp through Atari’s enduring past and a peek into the creative minds that created the publisher’s legacy, Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration invites players to explore the golden age of video games through a new lens. Watch Atari grow from a small Silicon Valley startup to the iconic brand it quickly grew to become, explore early game concepts, and enjoy a handful of reimagined fan-favorites lovingly created by developer Digital Eclipse.
Features Include:
Expert Insight Through Storytelling: The collection is outfitted with a handful of various never-before-seen interviews with past-and-present Atari leadership as well as other prolific names in the games industry; complemented, of course, by the video game developers who helped raise Atari to become an industry icon.
Playable History: The massive selection of over 100 games spans seven different platforms: Arcade, 2600, 5200, 7800, Atari 8-bit computers, and, for the first time ever on modern consoles, Atari Lynx and Jaguar! Play the classics like Tempest 2000, Asteroids, and Yars' Revenge, or dive into some deeper cuts.
Reimagined and Revisited: The team at Digital Eclipse created six new games for the collection that reimagines some of the most beloved Atari classics or put a twist on classic game themes, including Haunted House, Neo Breakout, Yars’ Revenge, Vctr Sctr, and the infamously never-finished Airworld.
Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration is available on Xbox One and Series X|S, PlayStation 4|5, Nintendo Switch and Windows PC via Steam and Epic Games Store for $39.99. Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration releases for Atari VCS later this year.
Physical editions are also available via Best Buy, Amazon, Target, and Gamestop, with availability via select retailers outside the US.
Check out the Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration launch trailer:
Are you struggling to decide between the Xbox Series X and PS5? Our comprehensive PS5 vs Xbox Series X guide will help you create a distinction between the two and make the right decision.
In the past, the easiest way to choose a console would have been to choose the same brand your friends were using, especially if you were worried about multiplayer gaming. With contemporary games now offering cross-platform and cross-play capabilities, multiplayer gaming has become less of a concern, with the conversation now shifting towards raw horsepower and many other specs.
In November 2020, the gaming world woke up to the release of Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5, which were hailed for revolutionizing how players play their video games. With both Sony and Microsoft making almost analogous promises on the performance front, the two machines are beasts in their respective ways. The biggest question then becomes; Which one is best between Xbox Series X and PS5—or at least, which one makes the most sense for you?
Spellbreak Chapter 1: The Spellstorm is now available on Xbox One, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch and PC. Master elemental magic to fit your playstyle and cast powerful spell combinations to dominate other players across the Hollow Lands.
Chapter 1: The Spellstorm calls upon Spellbreak’s battlemages to prove themselves in exciting new story quests across the Hollow Lands as they aid the Order of the Vowbreakers. Explore new lands while deciphering the mysteries of the Spellstorm, harness its unheard of power, and unleash the elements like never before. Unleash your inner battlemage in Spellbreak. When magic is forbidden, locked in the iron grip of the Vowkeepers, it’s up to you to resist and reclaim what’s yours. Harness the raw power of your gauntlets and tap into the unimaginable forces of the elemental planes . Soar into fierce battles, through floating islands and impossible terrain, to unleash the Breaker within.
The third DLC for Minecraft Dungeons has arrived! Minecraft Dungeons: Howling Peaks DLC and Season Pass are now available for Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and Windows 10.
A strange power has corrupted the once lonely peaks of a distant mountain range, and now it threatens to take the world by storm. The trek to the top features dramatic highs and lows, from dazzling new armour, weapons, and artifacts to vicious new foes among the cliffs. New enemies such as the Squall Golem and Mountaineer wait at the summit for anyone brave enough to steal the root of their power. Atop it all is the source of the stormy conflict, the Tempest Golem, which must be defeated before all hope is blown away.
Deep Silver has announced that their new indie IP Windbound will be available digitally for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and PC on August 28th.
Created by Australian developer 5 Lives Studios, Windbound is a beautiful rogue-like 3rd-person survival adventure, fuelled by hunting, exploration and crafting. The player assumes the role of Kara who has been shipwrecked on an unknown land and must learn to adapt and survive, while solving the mysteries of a series of forgotten islands.
Windbound takes the survival genre in a new direction, focusing on nomadic hunting and exploration, together with custom boat building and an immersive tactile sailing experience. The game provides endless replayability options thanks to the procedural world, dynamic wildlife and modular boat crafting.
The forbidden islands are calling, unlock their secrets. Shipwrecked alone on an uncharted island, explore, adapt and navigate the land and perilous seas to stay alive. As Kara, you are a warrior, caught at sea in a fierce storm, adrift from your tribe. Thrown from your boat, at the mercy of the turbulent waters, you are tossed on to the shores of the Forbidden Islands, a mysterious paradise.
Dune: Awakening Shows Off Stunning Unreal Engine 5 Gameplay & More Funcom (@Funcom) revealed a stunning new gameplay trailer and featurette for Dune: Awakening, the first episode of the new Dune: Awakening Direct series. Embark on a breathtaking journey across Arraki..