Prepare for the games of 2015

2015 may be the biggest year in gaming yet, with hundreds of new titles set to arrive during the course of the year. Among these releases are several games which were due to hit the shelves in 2014, but got delayed due to a variety of reasons.

Are you ready for 2015? Here’s what’s coming your way.

Evolve – PS3, Xbox One, PC

Releasing: February 2015

Grab three friends and get ready to hunt a monster. Better yet, be the monster.

Level up your character or monster to gain new abilities that will ensure survival, or the destruction of the hunters.

Battlefield Hardline – PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PC

Releasing: March 2015

Battlefield Hardline sees two highly-regarded game studios coming together to produce a prime-time crime drama.

Dragon Ball Z: Xenoverse – PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One

Releasing: February 2015

For the first time ever the Dragon Ball universe will be brought to the new-gen systems.

Choose your characters from the Earthling, Majin, Saiyan, or Namekian races and get on the battleground.

Project Cars – PS4, Xbox One, PC

Releasing: March 2015

Project Cars is set to reboot the racing genre as we know it with its spectacular attention to detail and immersive racing simulation.

Final Fantasy Type-0 HD – PS4, Xbox One

Releasing: March 2015

Final Fantasy Type-0 brings an immersive world and memorable characters together with high-quality gameplay and storytelling truly worthy of the Final Fantasy name.

Mortal Kombat X – PS4, Xbox One, PC

Releasing: April 2015

Mortal Kombat X is NetherRealm Studios’ next highly-anticipated installment in its legendary, critically-acclaimed fighting game franchise. The game combines cinematic presentation with all new gameplay to deliver the most brutal Kombat experience ever.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – PS4, Xbox One, PC

Releasing: May 2015

An engrossing, decision-based storyline that tells a non-linear narrative in a completely open-world environment for the first time in gaming history.

Batman: Arkham Knight – PS4, Xbox One, PC

Releasing: June 2015

In the explosive finale to the Arkham series, Batman faces the ultimate threat against the city he is sworn to protect. The Scarecrow returns to unite an impressive roster of super villains, including: Penguin, Two-Face, and Harley Quinn.

Dead Island 2 – PS4, Xbox One, PC

Releasing: Q2 2015

Building on the strengths of the best-selling hit Dead Island, Dead Island 2 delivers a shared survival, open-world zombie experience set in a clash of natural beauty and bloody horror and violence.

Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin – PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PC

Releasing: April 2015

Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin will include the three released DLC packs – Crown of the Sunken King, Crown of the Old Iron King, and Crown of the Ivory King – along with additional features.

Assassin’s Creed: Victory – PS4, Xbox One, PC

Releasing: 2015

Assassin’s Creed Victory

Although there has been no official announcement regarding Assassin’s Creed Victory, there is concrete evidence that the game is indeed in development.

Set in Victorian London during the Industrial Revolution, Assassin’s Creed Victory will feature a massive open-world with hundreds of historic landmarks.

No Man’s Sky – PS4, PC

Releasing: 2015

No Man’s Sky is a science-fiction game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally-generated universe.

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege – PS4, Xbox One, PC

Releasing: 2015

For the first time in Rainbow Six, players will engage in sieges – a brand new style of assault. Enemies now have the means to transform their environments into strongholds: they can trap, fortify, and create defensive systems to prevent a breach by Rainbow teams.

Tom Clancy’s The Division

Releasing: 2015

Using the new game engine Snowdrop, tailor-made for new-gen consoles, Tom Clancy’s The Division achieves a whole new level of gameplay quality.

Final Fantasy XV – PS4, Xbox One

Releasing: 2015

Noctis Lucis Caelum leads the kingdom of Lucis – though he is not yet king. The kingdom holds the last crystal, which is highly beneficial to its military, political, and economic standing.

Lucis is a modern, advanced country, and has developed so much further than the outside world, that it has isolated itself.

PlayStation Exclusives in 2015

Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End

Releasing 2015.

Several years after his last adventure, retired fortune hunter Nathan Drake is forced back into the world of thieves. With the stakes much more personal, Drake embarks on a globe-trotting journey in pursuit of a historical conspiracy behind a fabled pirate treasure.

The Order: 1886

Releasing: February 2015

The Order is set in alternative history where humans around the 8th century begin to take on animal-like traits. These humans are known as “half-breeds”. A war soon breaks out between the humans and half-breeds – prepare to fight.

BloodBorne

Releasing: March 2015

Bloodborne is an action-RPG developed by FromSoftware and produced by SCE Japan Studio.

Players will be transported to a dark and terror-filled gothic world, a world full of deranged beings and nightmarish creatures.

Xbox One Exclusives

Halo 5: Guardians

Releasing: 2015

The Halo franchise game is being developed by 343 Industries and published by Microsoft Studios. Serving as the sequel to Halo 4, the game is scheduled to be released in 2015.

Rise of the Tomb Raider

Releasing: 2015

In the next chapter of her journey, Lara must use her survival skills and wits, learn to trust new friends, and ultimately accept her destiny as the Tomb Raider.

Quantum Break

Releasing: 2015

In Quantum Break our desperate hero fights a highly personal battle to save the future before time literally runs out. As time breaks down, impossible, split second moments of destruction turn into epic stages of time-powered action.

Crackdown

Releasing: 2015

The groundbreaking, hyper-powered world of Crackdown is back in stunning fashion with an all-new Crackdown experience for Xbox One. Developed by original creator Dave Jones, Crackdown on Xbox One will deliver unrivaled verticality, cooperative mayhem, and destruction.

Scalebound

Releasing: 2015

The next great adventure from developer Platinum Games and Hideki Kamiya, Scalebound transports you to a distant, hostile world.

You’ll come face to face with fearsome creatures, including a formidable dragon – and the bond you forge with this awesome predator will prove crucial to your survival.

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