42 games you might have missed from Gamescom 2014
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Platform: Xbox One
I've been salivating over this unique little dungeon crawler from the team behind Super Time Force ever ⛎since Microsoft teased it at its E3 2013 briefing. Looks like we'll finally get a chance to play it some day.
Volgarr the Viking
Platform: Xbox One/PC
Remember Rastan? The developers over at Crazy Viking Studio do, and have created an homage to the crazy-hard Genesis platformer with Volgarr the Viking, leaping from the PC to Xbox On♕e.
SpeedRunners
Platform: Xbox One/PC
Enjoy leaving your friends in the dust? Then you'll probably dig Speedrunners, a four-player competitive game where you t✱ry to outrun your opponents on several different courses. Think of it as a ๊2D Mario Kart, except if they fall too far behind, they're dead.
Superhot
Platform: Xbox One/PC
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With a surprisingly awesome browser-based prototype, Superhot exploded onto the scene last year, and now the full version of the time-manipulation shooter is coming first to Xbox One. When enemies shoot at you, their bullets only move if you move. It looks really cool, and I can't stop sayingꦆ the n꧑ame. Super. Hot. Super. Hot.
Pix the Cat
Platform: PlayStation 4
Pix the Cat is an arcade-style game starring a loveable cartoon cat--and everything is out to destroy him. Colors and lights flicker and strobe and levels fold in on themselves and turn into new stages. Th🐠is game looks absolutely bonkers.
The Escapists
Platform: Xbox One/PC
From Team 17, the studio behind the massively popular Worms series, comes somethin🥂g a bit different--an emergent prison sim called The Escapists. Your goa🦋l is to gather your fellow inmates together and pull off the perfect prison break--or change up your plan if things go horribly wrong.
Smite
Platform: Xbox One/PC
It's hard to stand out if you're a MOBA whose name isn't League of Legends or Dota 2, but Smite aims to do just that by shovi🔯ng the camera behind your shoulder and f🍎ocusing on over-the-top action.
Hollowpoint
Platform: PlayStation 4
Ruffian Games (the team behind Crackdown 2) is bringing its latest game Hollowpoint to PS4. It's a co-ꦑop game that tasks you with leading a squad of mercenaries, building t❀heir skills, and completing tactical missions with friends.
Day Z
Platform: PlayStation 4/PC
Some games are bleak, but nothing compares to Day Z. Everyone's favorite surviv♈al shooter/griefing simulator is actually going to hit PlayStation 4. There's not much else kn🃏own about the port other than the fact that it exists and it's coming--but it's never too early to start stocking up on supplies for the end of the world.
Fruit Ninja Kinect 2
Platform: Xbox One
Hey, another reason to break out the Kin🥀ect! The first version of the game was pretty decent on Xbox 360, so expect this version to keep the same fruit slicing fun while adding some new features.