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A DOUBLE DOSE OF VAMP ACTION, TIME-TRAVELLING

FUN, AND ONE VERY RAINY DOOMSDAY DAVID MEIKLEHAM

ARISE: A SIMPLE STORY

PUBLISHER TECHLAND

DEVELOPER PICCOLO STUDIO DUE 3 DECEMBER

This looks lovely. A tale of loss and love, it

sees your hero – who resembles a weirdly

buff Santa Claus – control the flow of time.

Whether you skip ahead seconds or fast

forward entire seasons, the fantasy world

Piccolo has created looks astounding.

Painterly and bursting with primary colours,

its sights span hatchback-sized snails and

skyscraper-rivalling sunflowers.

WARBORN

PUBLISHER PQUBE

DEVELOPER RAREDROP GAMES DUE SPRING 2020

War, what is it good for? Top-down

feuds forged on hexagonal, grid-based

battlefields, that’s what. Raredrop’s

anime strategy game sees four factions

all scuffling with each other as they don

high-tech Variable Armour... or ‘fancy robo

suits’ to us simpletons. The unique art style

has both a touch of Gundam about it, and a

strange He-Man vibe. Those ‘dos.

DARKSIDERS GENESIS

PUBLISHER THQ NORDIC

DEVELOPER AIRSHIP SYNDICATE DUE 14 FEB

Ah Darksiders, the horseman hit that

keeps trotting along. We now have a final

release date for this top-down prequel,

with the demonic co-op quest set to launch

on 14 February 2020. That’s our stabby

Valentine’s Day sorted. From the trailers, it

seems Genesis is a lot more jokey than its

po-faced predecessors. The masked Strife

reminds us of Destiny’s Cayde-6.

SURVIVING THE AFTERMATH

PUBLISHER PARADOX INTERACTIVE

DEVELOPER HAEMIMONT GAMES DUE 2020

The bloody Apocalypse, eh? You wait all day

for it, then two doomsdays come along at

once. Actually, in this spin-off of Surviving

Mars, impending disasters are always

looming. As you try to build a colony in one

of six biomes, you’re vulnerable to dynamic,

catastrophic weather events, like lightning

storms or a hail of mini asteroids. Its beta is

out now on Xbox Game Preview.

IMMORTAL REALMS:

VAMPIRE WARS

PUBLISHER KALYPSO MEDIA

DEVELOPER PALINDROME INTERACTIVE DUE 2020

And here we were thinking all vamps were

good at was guzzling down plasma and

starring in bad tween flicks. This strategy

title combines empire management with

turn-based skirmishes, then further

spices up affairs with card combat. Set in

the world of Nemire and starring several

vampire factions, we just want the chance

to evict Drac from his castle.

VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE –

BLOODLINES 2

PUBLISHER PARADOX INTERACTIVE

DEVELOPER HARDSUIT LABS DUE 2020

The first Bloodlines was as reliable as an

algebra class taught by Count Von Count

after the muppet had been on a four day

claret bender. As such, Hardsuit Labs wants

a bug-free sequel and it’s delayed the

original Q1 2020 release to later on in the

year. Bloodlines 2 takes place in Seattle

and sees your vamp killing chumps and

quizzing neck-biters.

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