Like every day, the gaming industry continues to deliver many interesting reveals and information about upcoming titles.
Since it would be impossible to cover everything with individual articles, Simulation Daily publishes a daily gaming news roundup, summarizing plenty more information for your perusal.
Yet, before we get down to our gaming business, below you can find links to all the news pieces that were covered by individual articles.
- Apex Legends Shockwave Update Features New Map, Weapon Meta, & More Coming August 6
- Euro Truck Simulator 2 Greece Expansion to Feature Highways and Italian Ferry Connection
- Star Citizen Reveals Content and Gameplay Coming in Alpha 4.0 With Pyro System
- NBA 2K25 Gameplay Trailer Revealed, New Systems Explained
- Xbox Is Headed to Gamescom 2024 With Over 50 Titles
- Beloved Visual Novel Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien Finally Gets Release Date in English
- Final Fantasy XIV Moonfire Faire 2024 Revealed, Has No Glamours
- The Legend of Heroes: Kai no Kiseki -Farewell, O Zemuria- Reveals Epic Opening Cutscene
- Konami Announces Record Financial Results Driven by Games
Incidentally, if you’re in news specifically about flight simulation, you can enjoy our dedicated roundup.
Platform Holders Make No Requests for Changes to Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP
Today Dragami Games Yoshimi Yasuda posted on X (formerly Twitter) mentioning that the highly anticipated remaster of Lollipop Chainsaw has almost cleared approval from platform holders, and no requests have been made for any content change.
On top of that, pre-orders are starting soon on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch. The game will release digitally on on September 25, 2024, including PC.
We have almost obtained the approval from all of the platforms on which LOLLIPOP CHAINSAW RePOP is scheduled for release. This is very important for us, the original staff, but there were no requests for changes to the game content. Pre-orders for the digital versions of PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Switch will be opening soon.
Diablo IV Details Season of the Infernal Hordes
Blizzard Entertainment has aired an extensive livestream about the upcoming new season of Diablo IV, dubbed Season of the Infernal Hordes.
In the livestream, the developers provided information on the content coming with the new season including the hordes themselves, Hellbreach Dungeons, the seasonal progression, and more. They also went into more detail on issues that will be fixed and class balance updates.
Diablo IV is currently available for PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PS5. The new season will go live on August 6 at 10 a.m. PDT. You’ll be able to pre-download the patch roughly one hour earlier.
AirportSim Released on Xbox
If you want to try something quite different from flight simulators, but still stay within the field of aviation, MS Games just released AirportSim for Xbox Series X|S.
The game puts you in the shoes of a ground handler, tasked to make sure that operations at the airport are handled quickly and efficiently.
The simulator was already available on PC, but in gaming, the more the merrier. Incidentally, Microsoft Flight Simulator fans will be familiar with the airports included, as they’re made by popular developer MK Studios.
MechWarrior 5: Clans Introduces Liam
Piranha Games released another character featurette dedicated to its upcoming Mech simulator MechWarrior 5: Clans.
This time around, we get to take a look at Liam, and if you are a MechWarrior/BattleTech fan outside of video gaming, catching the name Liam Ismiril will likely feel familiar.
We also hear from his actor, Alexander Peters, who talks more about what we can expect from the character and his interactions with the members of the Star.
MechWarrior 5: Clans will be released on October 3, 2024, for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S.
Sins of a Solar Empire II Finally Gets Release Date on Steam
After years on the Epic Game Store, fans of Sins of a Solar Empire can know when the sequel will be released on Steam, and it’s soon.
The 4X strategy game will hit Valve’s marketplace on August 15, 2024. It’ll come with the following features and it’ll be discounted at $39.99 for a limited time.
- Three unique playable races including the Advent, Vasari, and TEC return with two sub-factions that utilize unique items, mechanics, and Empire Systems to achieve total victory
- Orbiting planets that dynamically alter the map during play, requiring players to gradually shift their strategies as new challenges and opportunities present themselves
- Enhanced tactical battles and deeper combat simulation featuring tracking turrets and missiles that can be blocked by ships or shot down
- Minor factions that provide unique capabilities to players that befriend them through a new influence system
- New economy model that allows players to truly customize their worlds to fit production needs
- 10-player multiplayer matches that allow players to seamlessly join or resume games
- Build and command thousands of high fidelity ships that are effortlessly powered by a new 64-bit multicore engine
- Capital ships that can be equipped with special augmentations to be more effective in battle
- New in-game mod browser allows for easy installation for mods and maps
Millennia Expansion “Ancient Worlds” Announced
Today Paradox Interactive and C Prompt Games announced an expansion to the Civilization-style game Millennia. Titled “Ancient Worlds,” it’ll be released alongside a free update on August 12, 2024.
According to the announcement, the expansion focuses on the early human experience and enables a new quick start ruleset including three rules, Nomad Band Start, Frozen Terrain Start, and Megafauna Dens.
While the first two are pretty self-explanatory, Megafauna Dens adds large dangerous animals, Mastodons and Smilodons, which will threaten your budding civilization and are more dangerous than barbarians at the beginning of the game.
The expansion will also introduce the Messengers national spirit designed to help you interact with minor nations in a new way, encouraging their population to immigrate into your homeland region while the minor nation itself is turned into an outpost.