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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
The sequel to Deus Ex: Human Revolution revisits cyber-protagonist Adam Jensen as he grapples with escalating cultural-political tensions prompted by the rise of augmented humans.
PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
August 23
World of Warcraft: Legion
World of Warcraft‘s shrinking subscriber base still commands millions of subscribers, and the latest expansion, Legion, should provide another short term audience boost with its level cap jump from 100 to 110 and the new melee-focused Demon Hunter hero class.
PC
September 21
Divinity: Original Sin 2
Studio Larian’s second crowdfunded project follows its last with another high fantasy roleplaying extravaganza staged in its longstanding Divnity-verse.
PC
December 2016
Abzû
Initially teased at E3 2014, this enigmatic underwater diving simulation led by Flower and Journey art director Matt Nava should hopefully see light of day at some point this year.
PlayStation 4
TBD 2016
Crackdown 3
Superhero sandbox series Crackdown‘s third installment turns you loose in another futuristic metropolis overrun by a criminal hierarchy you can reportedly dismantle in multiple unique ways.
Xbox One
TBD 2016
Cuphead
Cuphead looks like Betty Boop meets a shoot ’em up meets a miracle, a side-scroller where you do battle with giant paranormal carrots, boxing frogs, angry birds, queen bees, gambling contraptions and not-so-little mermaids, all of it astonishingly hand-drawn, inked and painted.
PC, Xbox One
TBD 2016
Dishonored 2
This long anticipated sequel to one of the better post-Thief sneakers transpires in a coastal city where you’ll hunt new adversaries, optionally playing as Dishonored‘s original (male) protagonist, or a new one (female) with her own abilities and retro-futura gadgets. As in the original, you can optionally experience the entire game without killing a soul.
PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
TBD 2016
Fable Legends
Four computer controlled or human heroes square off against one likewise controlled bad guy in a pre-steampunk version of Lionhead’s Fable-verse staged hundreds of years before the original three games.
Xbox One
TBD 2016
Final Fantasy XV
With any luck we’ll finally get to play Square Enix’s long delayed open-world urban fantasy roleplaying spectacular, which seems to have gone through roughly as many development turns as its number in sequence.
PlayStation 4, Xbox One
TBD 2016
Gears of War 4
Virtually nothing’s known about the next Gears of War, save that it’ll maintain the series’ trademark third-person shooting and cover-based tactics. (We’ll likely learn more at this year’s E3 game conference in June.)
Xbox One
TBD 2016
Horizon Zero Dawn
Killzone series regular Guerrilla Games takes a stab at a post-apocalyptic action-adventure, with a cast of robo-dinosaurs and a low-tech, archery-adept heroine that looks like Michael Bay’s Transformers: Beast Wars meets TV series Vikings.
PlayStation 4
TBD 2016
The Last Guardian
The Last Guardian stars a boy (controlled by you) and his giant sphinx-like companion, who wend their way through beautiful, puzzle-like levels. As in PlayStation 2 game Shadow of the Colossus (by the same director), you can cling to your animal companion, clambering around its feathered bulk and guiding it to help you progress.
PlayStation 4
TBD 2016
The Legend of Zelda
It missed 2015, and we haven’t heard much about it in a long time, but The Legend of Zelda for Wii U (still not the final title) will be the first console-based Zelda game since 2011’s Skyward Sword for Wii, and Nintendo’s initial take on the epic open-world genre, turning you loose in a freely explorable fantasy province as the series’ green-pantalooned hero.
Wii U
TBD 2016
Mafia III
Where the first two games in this mob-land saga took place in the 1930s and 1940s, Mafia III leaps ahead several decades, following the story of a biracial Vietnam War veteran who in 1968 returns home to New Orleans but finds himself drawn into another factional crime war.
PC, Mac, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
TBD 2016
Mass Effect: Andromeda
All we know about Mass Effect: Andromeda is that it takes place after Mass Effect 3, the new creative team mixes old and new hands (original trilogy creative lead Casey Hudson left BioWare in 2014), and it’s a coin flip whether we’ll see it this year or early next.
PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
TBD 2016
Metroid Prime: Federation Force
Nintendo’s latest handheld Metroid game lets up to four players cooperatively gun down familiar series enemies across an array of planets, or play what amounts to robot soccer in a special multiplayer mode dubbed “Metroid Prime: Blast Ball.”
3DS
TBD 2016
Offworld Trading Company
Developer Soren Johnson is probably best known for his design contributions to some of the most acclaimed Civilization games, and of late he’s been chipping away at this much-praised (based on early access betas) economic real-time strategy game, where “money, not firepower, is the player’s weapon.”
PC
TBD 2016
Overwatch
Blizzard’s latest idea lets teams of six players shoot it out in a kind of post-Terminator scenario, where our evil robot overlords have been defeated by a global peacekeeping force, but where the force’s remnants have apparently become factionalized.
PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
TBD 2016
Persona 5
It’s back to high school in Atlus’s newest Persona, a Japanese myth-informed roleplaying series about adolescents summoning eponymous aspects of their psyche to do battle with the forces of darkness.
PlayStation 3 & 4
TBD 2016
ReCore
This action-adventure about a young woman who can salvage and transplant the “core” of an artificially intelligent companion unites Mega Man creator Keiju Inafune and Metroid Prime series director Mark Pacini.
Xbox One
TBD 2016
Tacoma
BioShock on the moon? Maybe not, but Tacoma is by studio Fullbright, which contributed to BioShock 2, then went on to develop the interactive story-game Gone Home.
PC, Xbox One
TBD 2016
Tekken 7
2016’s other major fighter (after Street Fight V), Tekken 7 swings back to one-on-one arcade melee, following 2011’s two-versus-two Tekken Tag Tournament 2.
PlayStation 4
TBD 2016
Torment: Tides of Numenera
Inspired by 1999’s metaphysically fascinating Planescape: Torment, Torment: Tide of Numenara wants to be a similarly cerebral spiritual sequel that transpires in pen and pencil roleplaying veteran Monte Cook’s distant future “Ninth World” setting.
PC, Mac, Linux
TBD 2016
What Remains of Edith Finch
A series of narrative vignettes about the death of several eponymous family members, you get to explore the home (described by the game’s creative director as “crazy”) and try to make sense of what’s happened, and why.
PlayStation 4
TBD 2016
World of Final Fantasy
Miss Final Fantasy‘s good old days of youngster warriors battling through charming fantasy vistas? World of Final Fantasy hopes to resurrect that vibe, informed by gameplay that’s designed to appeal to younger players.
PlayStation 4, PS Vita
TBD 2016
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