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  • Horizon Zero Dawn, Stranded Deep and Broforce are your PS Now games for December

    Horizon Zero Dawn, Stranded Deep and Broforce are your PS Now games for December

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    Futuristic frontiers, desert islands and apocalyptic wastelands are just some of the exotic settings you must survive today as Horizon Zero Dawn, Stranded Deep and Darksiders III join PS Now. If you prefer all out action, carve a line through carnage-filled racetracks in Wreckfest, combat enemy hordes in Broforce or battle hostile units in The Surge 2.

    Let’s take a closer look at the games.  

    Horizon Zero Dawn

    Horizon Zero Dawn, Stranded Deep and Broforce are your PS Now games for December

    Experience Aloy’s entire legendary quest, to unravel the mysteries of a world ruled by deadly Machines and in which mankind is no longer the dominant species. An outcast from her tribe, Aloy embarks on a journey to uncover her past, discover her destiny and stop a catastrophic threat to the future. In this third person action RPG, unleash devastating, tactical attacks against unique Machines and rival tribes as you explore an open world teeming with wildlife and danger. Horizon Zero Dawn on PS Now includes the huge expansion The Frozen Wilds, featuring new lands, skills, weapons and Machines.

    Stranded Deep

    Horizon Zero Dawn, Stranded Deep and Broforce are your PS Now games for December

    Test your survival skills in this open world adventure. In the aftermath of a mysterious plane crash, you are stranded in the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean. Alone, without any means to call for help, you must do what you can to survive. Explore underwater and on land as you hunt for supplies to craft the tools, weapons, and shelter you’ll need to stay alive. Stay sharp: hunger, thirst, and exposure conspire against you as you brave treacherous elements and the dangerous creatures of the Pacific.

    Broforce 

    Horizon Zero Dawn, Stranded Deep and Broforce are your PS Now games for December

    Explode into battle as a team of up to four bros in side-scrolling run-and-gun platforming missions to eliminate the forces that threaten our way of life – or go head-to-head against other players in super destructive deathmatch modes. Unleash scores of unique weapons and set off incredible chain reactions of fire, napalm and flying limbs – all in the name of freedom.

    Wreckfest: Drive Hard. Die Last.

    Horizon Zero Dawn, Stranded Deep and Broforce are your PS Now games for December

    Burn rubber, break rules and shred metal in this full-contact racer from the creator of the FlatOut. Race and upgrade patched-together cars, improving their looks and toughening up their body armour to survive the epic crashes and neck-to-neck fights over the finish line in competitive races. Enjoy some hilarity in Challenge modes as you get behind the wheel of crop harvesters, three-wheelers and much more, then challenge your friends online in multiplayer.  

    • Wreckfest: Drive Hard. Die Last is available until Monday May 31, 2021. 

    The Surge 2

    Horizon Zero Dawn, Stranded Deep and Broforce are your PS Now games for December

    Explore the sprawling, devastated Jericho City in this unforgiving third-person action RPG. Fight numerous, ferocious threats, stealing valuable equipment to upgrade your abilities and make you strong enough to take on the most fearsome, imposing foes lurking across the city. With an expanded arsenal of weapons, armors, abilities, implants, and drones to build your character, and a bigger, more varied and more ambitious world, The Surge 2 challenges you to survive and unravel its hidden secrets.

    Darksiders III

    Horizon Zero Dawn, Stranded Deep and Broforce are your PS Now games for December

    Assume the role of the most unpredictable and enigmatic of the Four Horsemen Fury as she hunts down and disposes of the Seven Deadly Sins hidden across an apocalyptic Earth. Explore an open-ended, living, free-form game world rich with secrets in this hack-n-slash action adventure, using Fury’s magic to unleash her different forms – each with unique weapons, moves and traversal abilities – to defeat all manner of enemies and explore the world. 

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  • Horizon Zero Dawn, Stranded Deep und Broforce sind eure PS Now-Spiele für Dezember

    Horizon Zero Dawn, Stranded Deep und Broforce sind eure PS Now-Spiele für Dezember

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    Futuristische Grenzländer, Wüsteninseln und apokalyptische Einöden sind nur einige der ausgefallenen Schauplätze, in denen ihr jetzt bei Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition, Stranded Deep und Darksiders III auf PS Now ums Überleben kämpfen könnt. Wenn ihr eher auf knallharte Action steht, dann rast in Wreckfest über Rennstrecken voller Zerstörungsorgien, kämpft gegen ganze Horden von Feinden in Broforce oder stellt euch feindlichen Einheiten in The Surge 2.

    Hier weitere Details zu den Spielen:  

    Horizon Zero Dawn

    Horizon Zero Dawn, Stranded Deep und Broforce sind eure PS Now-Spiele für Dezember

    Erlebt Aloys legendäres Abenteuer in vollem Umfang und lüftet die Geheimnisse einer Welt, die von tödlichen Maschinen beherrscht wird. Hier steht die Menschheit nicht mehr an der Spitze der Nahrungskette. Aloy, eine Ausgestoßene ihres Stammes, begibt sich auf eine Reise, um ihre Vergangenheit aufzudecken, ihre Bestimmung zu finden und eine katastrophale Bedrohung aufzuhalten. In diesem Action-Rollenspiel (RPG) aus der Third-Person-Perspektive entfesselt ihr taktische Angriffe mit verheerenden Auswirkungen gegen einzigartige Maschinen und feindliche Stämme, während ihr eine Open-World voll wilder Tiere und Gefahren erkundet. Die Complete Edition enthält die umfangreiche Erweiterung The Frozen Wilds mit neuen Gebieten, Fähigkeiten, Waffen und Maschinen.

    Stranded Deep

    Horizon Zero Dawn, Stranded Deep und Broforce sind eure PS Now-Spiele für Dezember

    Stellt eure Überlebensfähigkeiten in diesem Open-World-Abenteuer auf die Probe. Nach einem mysteriösen Flugzeugabsturz seid ihr in der Weite des Pazifischen Ozeans gestrandet. Allein und ohne Hoffnung auf Hilfe kämpft ihr um das blanke Überleben. Erkundet die Welt sowohl unter Wasser als auch an Land und sucht dabei nach Material, um die Werkzeuge, Waffen und Unterschlüpfe herzustellen, die ihr benötigt, um am Leben zu bleiben. Seid auf alles gefasst: Hunger, Durst und Witterung arbeiten gegen euch, während ihr den tückischen Elementen und gefährlichen Kreaturen des Pazifiks trotzt.

    Broforce 

    Horizon Zero Dawn, Stranded Deep und Broforce sind eure PS Now-Spiele für Dezember

    Zieht als Team von bis zu vier Bros in seitwärts scrollenden Run-And-Gun-Plattform-Missionen in die Schlacht, um alle Feinde auszulöschen, die der Freiheit im Wege stehen – oder tretet in zerstörerischen Deathmatch-Modi gegen andere Spieler an. Nutzt jede Menge einzigartiger Waffen und sorgt für unglaubliche Kettenreaktionen von Feuer, Napalm und explodierenden Gliedmaßen – alles im Namen der Freiheit.

    Wreckfest: Drive Hard. Die Last.

    Horizon Zero Dawn, Stranded Deep und Broforce sind eure PS Now-Spiele für Dezember

    Tretet aufs Gas, brecht alle Regeln und zerschmettert haufenweise Metall in diesem Vollkontakt-Racer der Entwickler von FlatOut. Liefert euch Rennen und rüstet zusammengeflickte Autos auf, indem ihr sie optisch aufwertet und ihre Panzerung verstärkt. Nur so gelingt es euch, die epischen Zusammenstöße und engen Kopf-an-Kopf-Rennen bis über die Ziellinie zu überleben. Setzt euch in verrückten Herausforderungsmodi hinter das Steuer von Erntemaschinen, Dreirädern und vielem mehr und fordert eure Freude online im Multiplayer-Modus heraus.  

    • Wreckfest: Drive Hard, Die Last ist bis Montag, den 31. Mai 2021 verfügbar. 

    The Surge 2

    Horizon Zero Dawn, Stranded Deep und Broforce sind eure PS Now-Spiele für Dezember

    Erkundet die weitläufige, verwüstete Jericho City in diesem gnadenlosen Third-Person-Action-Rollenspiel (RPG). Kämpft gegen zahlreiche gefährliche Bedrohungen und stehlt dabei wertvolle Ausrüstung, um eure Fähigkeiten zu verbessern und euch zu stärken. Nur so könnt ihr euch den überaus furchteinflößenden Gegnern stellen, die in der ganzen Stadt lauern. Es erwartet euch neben einem erweiterten Arsenal an Waffen, Rüstungen, Fähigkeiten, Implantaten und Drohnen für eure Charaktere eine größere und abwechslungsreichere Welt voller Gefahren. The Surge 2 fordert euch heraus, um euer Überleben zu kämpfen und seine verborgenen Geheimnisse zu entschlüsseln.

    Darksiders III

    Horizon Zero Dawn, Stranded Deep und Broforce sind eure PS Now-Spiele für Dezember

    Übernehmt die Rolle von Fury, der unberechenbarsten und rätselhaftesten der vier apokalyptischen Reiter und jagt die sieben Todsünden, die sich auf einer von der Apokalypse verheerten Erde versteckt haben. Erkundet in diesem Hack-n-Slash-Action-Abenteuer eine offene und dynamische Welt voller Geheimnisse. Nutzt Furys Magie, um ihre verschiedenen Formen zu entfesseln. Jede dieser Formen verfügt über einzigartige Waffen, Moves und Fortbewegungsfähigkeiten, mit denen Fury alle ihre Feinde besiegen und die Welt erforschen kann.

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  • Behind The Surge 2’s Striking Art, Coming to PS4 September 24

    Behind The Surge 2’s Striking Art, Coming to PS4 September 24

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    Deck13 returns to PlayStation 4 with The Surge 2 on September 24, bringing back and expanding on hardcore combat, limb targeting system, and deep character customization. The game ups the ante by placing you in a sprawling city devastated by a cataclysmic event where you must fight to survive with your personalized exo-rig and combat drone.

    Inside the high walls of Jericho City, trapped in a technological apocalypse that threatens to consume everyone within, players will have to fight to survive and uncover the truth of the disaster. Cult members hopped up on drugs, nanomachines monstrosities, looters, and security forces will try to stop you wherever you go while a mysterious girl leads you to parts unknown.

    In anticipation of the release, we sat down with David Müller, Concept Artist at Deck13, to learn more about the art process.

    Hello David! Please describe your position at Deck13, what it entails and how it fits within the larger picture that is the creation of a video game like The Surge 2.

    I have been Concept Artist for Deck13 for roughly four and a half years now. As a concept artist I focus on character, armor, and weapon designs. Sometimes I help with UI/HUD elements like achievement icons, I create fake companies used in the game (so much fun!), and I do promo stuff, like cover artworks, postcards, posters or comics. I work closely with game design, animation, character artists and outsourcing partners, so that the ideas I come up with are doable and not too crazy.

    The challenging part for the Surge franchise is the layer system of a character. You have the basic model with clothing, the exo-rig, the gear-set with the possibility to have big weapons attached to it. Armor and weapon designs should be optionally combinable among each other without too many clipping errors. For The Surge 2 there was another layer mounted on top of the armor set at different positions: the drone carrier.

    What’s at the heart of Deck13’s sci-fi aesthetic? Is there a formula? Is this a combination of current-day references and anticipation? How can modern times influence the creation of a sci-fi setting and is the worst destined to happen?

    I would say in its core, our sci-fi aesthetic is to give a glimpse into what could be happening in the close future, observing current developments and trends, so yeah: current-day references and anticipation is a big part. The formula is to stay grounded as much as possible and draw a believable dystopia with a pinch of hope to make it believable and exciting.

    It’s funny when you look up how artists and writers imagined the future in their works centuries ago. It’s always interesting to see what actually came true, because most of the time it is just the idea that came to be, not the execution. The face of the future we can imagine is always just a distorted reflection of the present.

    A first look at the first few pages of The Surge 2 comic, “Out of the Ashes” — included in the Limited Edition

    The Surge 2 features creatures that seems to be coming from a distant world. What goes into creating brand-new “species”? What were your inspirations? What makes a good monster in your opinion, and what are some of the best monsters out there, games or movies?

    Every new concept starts with a lot of research. I always try to get as much input from every possible angle and source as possible. I do get my inspiration from almost every medium. Film, music, technology (machines, cars, planes, etc. for shapes and ideas), photography, paintings, drawings (old and new) and of course concept art. Just don’t steal unique ideas or concepts! I try to build on top of existing stuff I like, until almost everything that it was has been overwritten by my own style. That’s one way to get to the goal.

    A good monster needs to be believable in my eyes. It needs to be crafted like it could actually be a part of our world. If it needs to have some extraordinary elements, I’d try to build that on top of the core concept. The exception proves the rule of course, so if that “out of this world” element you want to pitch is the main idea for your monster design, go for it. It doesn’t have to work in the real world, but it should look like it could.

    If I would have to pick five awesome monster designs spontaneously, it would be: H.R. Giger’s Alien design, the fantastic creatures of Moebius, the Predator (especially that face), the classic Werewolf and Katsuhiro Otomo’s shapeshifting monstrosities (e.g. Akira).

    Concept art from “Out of the Ashes”

    The Surge 2 is set in Jericho City, a metropolis under quarantine that is far from the industrial identity of the CREO complex. What kind of challenges did you face in putting this world together?

    In terms of character designs and weapons, it was a challenge to combine the existing world of Surge 1 with the new companies, weapons, and factions of Surge 2. It needed to be connected but the new stuff also had to be able to stand on its own. Since Surge 2 plays outside now, we had to come up with new ways to combine the existing “tool” melee combat design of the isolated factory with firearms.

    We have been able to accomplish a combination of close and ranged combat, that feels fresh and easy to use mid-fight through our drone. The player drone design itself was a real beast to handle, because there’s so much stuff that builds up on it (armor designs, weapon attachments and the drone carrier), but it is one of the things I am most proud of. I think it could work in real life — I want that backpack!

    You’ve given our readers an exclusive look at the first pages of the “Out of the Ashes” comic that is only available by pre-ordering The Surge 2’s Limited Edition. Why this choice of medium? What can people expect from it, and what excited you most about putting it together?

    If you remember Iron-Maus from The Surge 1, we already played around with comic book references in the past. With The Surge 2, we were given the chance to provide players a new way to experience the story by providing a real comic for players to flip through and learn something they won’t discover anywhere else. We decided we should use this unique opportunity to fill the gap between The Surge 1 and 2 and continue the story of Warren, our hero from the first game.

    I love comics, so I was happy they asked me to do this. For me, the thing I liked the most was translating the characters I created for the game into another form of media – especially the comic medium. To see that it works was a great reward! I was also able to show two completely different drawing techniques here too (cover art and pages), which was really fun!

    You can see more early sketches from our later-abandoned Iron Maus-themed comic here.


    The Surge 2 brings the nanomachine nightmare of Jericho City to players everywhere on September 24 on PS4. Pre-orders are now available and come with the URBN Gear Pack, which includes a new armor set, two new weapons, and other cosmetics and equipment.

    Website: LINK