Monster Hunt adds three new monster types to the deadly array of challenges waiting for you in the Zone, the toughest you’ll encounter yet. Each monster comes with its own unique abilities, so you’ll need to be prepared if you want to survive.

Before hunting down the novel monsters, console players will be able to deck out their gear in the eerie Autumn Dread weapon skin pack to add some style to their combat for just $3.99/€3.99/£3.29.

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The team is thrilled to grow the community on the Xbox and expand the ARPG offering on console for the first time. Finally, Xbox players will be able to explore the darkest corners of Grim Dawn’s vast, immersive world, where secrets abound and untold terrors lurk. Known for its rewarding itemization, dual-class system, choice and consequence questing, factions, and rewarding end-game activities, Grim Dawn is sure to entice fans of the genre both new and old.

Indie hit Grim Dawn and DLC’s have collectively sold nearly 7 million copies on PC, with Grim Dawn standing at 94% positive rating on Steam. Players can preorder the game now with the game set to release on December 3rd! The game can be preordered from the Xbox store here.

Key Features

• Dual Class – Combine any of six distinct classes with over 25 skills and modifiers per class. Base classes include Soldier, Demolitionist, Occultist, Nightblade, Arcanist and Shaman.
• Collect hundreds of Items – Common, magical, rare, epic and legendary classes of loot. Plus over 20,000 possible magical affix combinations and over 200 rare affixes.
• Quests with Choice and Consequence – You will face tough decisions that leave significant impacts upon the world. Strangers on the road, desperate families and even entire villages may live or perish based on your actions. Currently over 35 quests with 75+ lore notes to be collected.
• Friendly and Enemy Factions – Earn favor with human factions to unlock additional quest lines, vendor discounts and special faction-based items and augments. Some neutral factions can be turned into allies but aiding one will make the enemy of another. Hostile factions will remember your deeds and deepen their hatred of you, sending out large packs and elite heroes to hunt you down.
• Devotion – An additional layer of skill customization allows you to acquire bonuses and powerful secondary effects for your class skills. These are unlocked from a giant constellation map with points acquired by finding and restoring destroyed or corrupted shrines hidden throughout the world.
• Rebuild the World – Help human enclaves survive and flourish by securing vital necessities, rebuilding structures and rescuing survivors who can then lend their services to your cause.
• 4 Person Multiplayer – Connect with Friends or make new allies in glorious multiplayer. Multiplayer encounters will put your teamwork to the ultimate challenge.
• Fast-paced Visceral Combat – Enemy blood spatters, ragdoll physics and satisfying enemy death effects. Smash in doors and fight house to house, leaving a path of demolished furniture in your wake.
• Rotatable Camera – If you choose to survey the full beauty of the world and always fight from the most optimal angle. Levels are still designed so that players are not forced to rotate the camera; it is purely optional.
• Rogue-Like Dungeons – Descend into special locked challenge dungeons that require a rare crafted key, where enemy levels increase as you progress and player teleport is disabled. There is no way out except to complete the dungeon or die trying.

Grim Dawn: Definitive Edition can be pre-ordered now on the Microsoft Store, and would-be adventurers can begin exploring the world of Grim Dawn on December 3rd.  The game will be fully playable on both Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S. Gather your friends, pick up your blade, and get ready for adventure! 

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The game has landed on Switch with a range of brand new features prepared especially for this platform, such as HD rumble, touchscreen, gyro aiming, local & online cop-op, and motion controls. Dying Light Platinum Edition includes over a hundred hours of single-player gameplay, and there’s even more unforgettable content when you play and explore the world with friends in co-op mode.

Features:

• Dying Light – the full award-winning game.
• Dying Light: The Following – a huge expansion complete with a new story, vast original map, and a customizable buggy to drive.
• Dying Light: Bozak Horde – a challenging game mode with its own side story.
• Cuisine & Cargo – two additional quarantine zones.
• Ultimate Survivor Bundle – a set of exclusive weapons and outfits.
• Hellraid – a new game mode that takes place in a dark-fantasy setting.
• A large collection of skins and weapons that will make slaughtering zombies even more fun.

Check out the launch trailer below.

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With this latest update, players can dive deeper into the updated Blessing and Skills system that allows for greater customization by unlocking the mixing and matching of different abilities and the addition of new Blessings.

Additionally, a new fusion system for weapon and costume enhancement is being added as well as more difficult versions of existing bosses such as the Semi-Elite Bosses and all-new Twisted Bosses, that have a time limit to defeat and randomly spawn with different patterns and skills. Additional improvements include matchmaking – queuing for multiple dungeons at the same time along with core NPCs that supplements specific sections of the game and will ‘grow’ in strength alongside the player.

For more information about Bless Unleashed and the Awakened Update please visit: https://blessunleashed.com/news/awakened-content-update-releasing-october-14-2021

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Battle for humanity’s survival against the relentless forces of the undead apocalypse alone or with friends across multiple game modes. World War Z is available to pre-order today on Nintendo Switch digitally and at major retailers. World War Z – Deluxe Edition features a bounty of bonus weapons and skins and will also be available for digital pre-order.

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An MMO unlike any other, Trove is charming, quirky, full of exciting content and constantly evolving. Players can experience voxel-packed adventures in vast and colourful cubic worlds or brave the darkest of dungeons to deck themselves out in fancy armour and mighty skills. They can also hop in for a short burst of fun, participating in fiendish mini games and puzzles, or battling it out in the action-packed Bomber Royale mode, making the game perfectly suitable for a portable experience. Whether they prefer to fight, craft, trade, explore, build, or just simply hang out with friends, Trove’s got something for everyone.

While every world is newly generated and different from the last, characters can also join their friends’ private worlds at any time. Here, imagination runs free as they design their own playscapes, landmasses and structures, or even a boat racing course. The best ideas can even be submitted for implementation into the game itself – to date, over 5,000 player entries have been added to Trove by gamigo.

The game’s RPG aspect with a growing range of classes accommodates the most diverse playstyles. Players can switch between them on the fly, allowing them to take the fight up close and personal as a Candy Barbarian or just hang back and pester enemies from afar with powerful ranged attacks as a Fae Trickster. Steering a flamethrower-equipped dragon into battle is also a popular option.

With Trove’s strength in player-driven content and a game world supporting endless creativity and imagination, the Nintendo Switch is the ideal platform for extending the game’s community. More news about the upcoming Nintendo Switch release of the Voxel MMO Trove will be announced soon. 

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Awaken Immortal powers with Legendary Weapons, Premium time, in-game currency, and a unique player title!

• 2-Day Headstart (available from February 2)
• 3x Legendary Weapons (for the Cryomancer, Paladin, and Lightbinder classes)
• 14-day Premium Subscription
• 5,000 Argents
• 75,000 Credits
• Player Title: ‘Founder’

DELUXE BUNDLE
 
Unleash the warrior within. Unlock the fearsome Berserker class, four Legendary Weapons, Switch-exclusive Callsign NX Wings, and lots more!

• 2-Day Headstart (available from February 2)
• Class Unlock: Berserker
• 4x Legendary Weapons (for the Berserker, Cryomancer, Paladin, and Lightbinder classes)
• Callsign NX Wings
• 30-day Premium Subscription
• 20,000 Argents
• 100,000 Credits
• Player Title: ‘Founder’

ULTIMATE BUNDLE
 
Become a God. Unlock the Gunner and Berserker classes, five Legendary Weapons, the thunderous Stormbringer TX-600 Glider (Mount), Switch-exclusive Callsign NX Wings, and lots more!

• 2-Day Headstart (available from February 2)
• 2x Class Unlocks: Gunner and Berserker
• 5x Legendary Weapons (for the Gunner, Berserker, Cryomancer, Paladin, and Lightbinder classes)
• Stormbringer TX-600 Glider
• Callsign NX Wings
• 60-day Premium Subscription
• 40,000 Argents
• 500,000 Credits
• Player Title: ‘Founder’

For more information of the Nintendo Switch version of Skyforge, check out: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Discord. Players can also add Skyforge to their Nintendo eShop wishlist today by giving the heart icon a click!

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2020 was a year of unprecedented challenges, defined by COVID-19 and how it greatly affected the way we live and work. As the virus spread in the months following the pandemic’s onset, major cities across the globe began going into lockdown, with Japan ultimately declaring a state of emergency in April. The entertainment sector was hit hard as large-scale events were canceled and amusement facilities saw significant drops in traffic. Yet while it put a strain on business operations, 2020 also served to offer hope and excitement with the launch of both the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X—the release of these next generation consoles providing us with a first-hand glimpse of how digital entertainment has evolved and what it holds for the future.

While new consoles and their improved hardware capabilities are almost certain to provide the public with an array of enticing game experiences, we can also look forward to the continued evolution of these consoles’ platform services, including Sony Interactive Entertainment’s PS Now and Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass and Project xCloud—this evolution only gaining speed as the eras of 5G and cloud gaming approach. However, existing first-party companies will not be the only entities making their move into this arena, as tech giants Amazon, Google, and Tencent endeavor to strengthen their position in digital entertainment with platform services of their own.

As cloud technologies and 5G continue their race into the mainstream, new and existing platform providers vie to gain the inside track. In this age of competitiveness, the key to victory will be content. Whether a platform succeeds will rely on whether or not it can deliver a sufficient amount of exciting, appealing content to its customers. As such, efforts to secure that content will grow heated, and we can most likely expect a rise in the frequency of mergers and acquisitions as a direct result. This most likely will not only occur between platform providers and publishers/developers, but between publishers and developers, as well. Inversely, we have also seen entertainment content evolve into its own platform upon building a large enough user base. As user bases grow, so does the desire for cross-platform compatibility, resulting is massive communities spanning multiple systems. And as cloud technology becomes ever more prominent, we expect the number of these cases to rise even further.

And so we head toward an age in which a variety of different players all vie for supremacy in the world of the games business—all of them seeking the one thing that will see them the victor: content—for content is king. Content is also the measure by which value is defined, and it is by our continued commitment to the envisioning, development, and provision of that content that we further solidify our place as a valued entertainment company.

That commitment continues with active investments in groups and individuals involved in content creation. Last December we implemented a work-from-home program for employees of Square Enix Holdings, Square Enix Japan (Square Enix Co., Ltd.), and Luminous Productions with the understanding that a flexible, diverse work environment would prove an important catalyst in accelerating the expansion and growth of our business. And because we deemed the work-from-home program an effective method of achieving this end, we elected to make it a permanent employment fixture, rather than simply a temporary measure to see us through the COVID-19 pandemic. Moving forward, we envision this flexible, diverse work environment as crucial in its ability to secure us a diverse workforce into which we can further invest. And while there are still many issues surrounding the current work-from-home system that must be addressed, we aim to overcome them in our pursuit to forge a workplace and talent portfolio for the new era.

Finally, as advancements in AI continue, we fast approach a world in which AI not only automates content, but creates it as well, making it all the more important to reinforce the human role of creativity and diverse perspectives in content development. Only by committing to new means of value creation, bolstering our organizational resilience, and preparing an environment where people with unique perspectives can work together in harmony to establish a portfolio rich in high-quality, compelling and entertaining content, will we be certain to achieve our corporate goals.

I wish you all the best for 2021.

Yosuke Matsuda
President and Representative Director,
SQUARE ENIX HOLDINGS CO., LTD.

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The Guardian is a female combatant from the mountains who follows the will of the ancient dragon Omua. This hardened warrior must wade through the turmoil of her fragmented memories and willingly made a pact with the Black Spirit in search of Ynix, the holy flame that could kill even the gods…
 
The Guardian wields a battleaxe and shield and uses heavy melee attacks to suppress her enemies. She charges enemies and grabs them by the neck to smash them with her shield as her axe mercilessly hacks away at her foes. She is the bastion of the battlefield and strikes with perfectly calculated blows to fend off all who dare oppose her. The Guardian uses a variety of skills to control the ebb and flow of the battlefield with wide and powerful strikes of her axe and shield. Some of her most noteworthy skills are:

[Boulder Crush]: The Guardian smashes down her battleaxe three times with powerful, rock splitting force dealing massive damage.

[Mountain Slam]: The Guardian smashes the ground, causing tremors that deal damage to foes around her.
[Black Blood Circle]: The Guardian draws the forces of the earth into her axe to create a circle around her, enemies can enter this circle at their own peril…

[Mutilation]: The Guardian charges energy and sweep the foes in front of her of their feet with her battleaxe.
[Black Blood Slaughter]: The Guardian releases the charged energy from [Mutilation] with a powerful blast that deals a high amount of damage.
 

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