MSI has announced their new WS65 mobile workstation for creatives. The WS65 is a professional makeover of the GS65 Stealth Thin. It may look an ultra-portable laptop but it’s what’s under the hood that counts. Regarding power, MSI are pretty confident that they have you covered in that aspect.

As with most laptops, you will be offered a range of configuration options with this new workstation. However, your tech smorgasbord will take you up to Intel’s Core i9-8950HK and NVIDIA Quadro P4200 GPU.

These choices gives MSI the ammo to state that this computer is:

Up to 40% faster than the previous generation.”

MSI WS65 mobile workstation

MSI’s WS-series of mobile workstations are actually gaming notebooks, based on the popular G-series, dressed in smart-casual.

The MSI WS65 is a workstation variant of the GS65 Stealth Thin. The GS65 Stealth Thin offered great gaming performance for the price. Furthermore, the WS65 inherits the ultra-thin bezels of the GS65 Stealth Thin as well as its 82Whr battery. According to MSI, that battery is good for 8 hours of graft.

As well as the tasty CPU and GPU options, this “creative’s” laptop is equipped with a 15.6-inch FHD display. This covers 72% of the NTSC colour gamut (equivalent to 100% sRGB). Also, I think that it’s safe to assume, that it will offer the same colour accuracy as the GS65 Stealth Thin.

Additionally, there are a slew of connectivity options including 3 USB 3.1 Type-A ports, 1 USB 3.1 Type-C port, 1 HDMI 2.0 port, 1 mDP 1.4 port, mic-in, and a headphone jack.

Finally, a PCIe SSD/SATA combo and a PCIe SSD are available for storage. Unfortunately, MSI isn’t letting us know the exact storage capacities or RAM just quite yet.

With this launch MSI is also unveiling its new logo for workstation laptops. We reckon that it’s a winner and will appeal to the business crowd.

The MSI WS65 is on display at the NVIDIA Booth No. 801 at SIGGRAPH 2018 currently underway in Vancouver, Canada.

Price and availability

The laptop will be available this September. Pricing and other specifics are yet to be announced.

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The countdown has begun as Huawei readies itself to unleash at least four new phones at 1 pm GMT.

Today is certainly a big day for Huawei.

The company seems to be going from strenght-to=strength with each realease and today shouldn’t be any different.

Word has it that they will be announcing at least four new phones today, plus a few surprises.

This could well be where you see the best phone of 2017 being launched.

The Huawei Mate 10 will be revealed in several guises: Mate 10 Lite, Mate 10, Mate 10 Pro and, finally, the lovely Porsche Edition.

If you want to watch the keynote live, come back here for 1pm UK time. Probably best to get yourself a brew and some snacks so you’re settled for the introduction just before 1 o’clock.

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Timings

• UK: 1pm
• New York: 8am
• Munich: 2pm

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The awesome guys over at Roll7 have given us some exclusive screens and a kick ass video to share of their upcoming PS4 and Vita release, OlliOlli2 Welcome to Olliwood.

From the Californian outskirts to the Silver Screen, Olliwood takes our roguish Skater on a grind-filled, slam-heavy, Manual-pounding journey through the heart of the film-biz.

In the video below, smash The Skater through some of the Olliwood finest studio sets, billboards — really just making a Star of him!

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Check out some exclusive screens the guys sent us featuring the radical Olliwood world!

Gameplay will be massively enhanced with the addition of Ramps, Jumps and Epic Hills allowing for monster air and split level routes. The much praised OlliOlli combo system is set to be even deeper, through the joy of Manuals, Reverts, Revert Manuals and Grind Switching.

On top of this smorgasbord of delights, OlliOlli2 is set to have a NEW Mode: Combo Rush. This mode is a split-screen Local Multiplayer (up to 4 players) that pits players in a race to ramp up biggest scores on a spot in a set time limit.

This is going to be rad!

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Rebel Galaxy is an epic game of space combat, adventure and exploration. Double Damage Games was founded in 2014 by Travis Baldree and Erich Schaefer. Both have a very impressive history and previously co-founded Runic Games, where they made Torchlight and Torchlight 2. Erich was co-creator and lead designer of Diablo and Diablo II and also went on to create the dark fantasy RPG Hellgate: London.

October saw the announcement that Rebel Galaxy is coming to PS4, and with such epic craft and awesome visuals we needed to know more. We had the pleasure of hooking up with Travis Baldree and Erich Schaefer from Double Damage Games.

For folks that don’t know about Rebel Galaxy, can you tell us more about what they can expect?

Rebel Galaxy is a space scoundrel simulator! If you were to take the naval combat from Assassin’s Creed:Black Flag, and transfer it to space, with all of the cool trappings you get in sci-fi, then mix it with some Star Control 2, and conversations with alien races, and some Wing Commander:Privateer for that edge-of-the-universe trading feel, you’d be getting close.

The ships look huge and grand; how does handling and fire power of such craft feel?

Each ship is different – some are smaller, corvette-class ships which are pretty nimble. A dreadnaught is slow and lumbering but covered in weaponry. Most of the ships are maneuverable and swift enough that you can actively dodge incoming weaponry, and weave in and out between objects. While the combat is ‘naval-style’ in a lot of ways, it is significantly faster than ocean faring vessels.

How much of the RPG experience is there to Rebel Galaxy?

It’s significantly more than any other game we’ve done. I think the very first mission has at least five ways it can be completed, several involving no combat, some involving only conversation – or you could go in guns blazing. Our conversation and interaction system is tied into a faction system, so you can befriend groups, make enemies of others, and make real decisions about what sort of character you actually are. There are no rpg player stats – in a lot of ways your ship IS your ‘character’, given that you’ll be upgrading it over the course of the game. Our RPG elements are more bound ton conversations and how you play, and how other characters react to you.

What would you say are the wow factors in Rebel Galaxy?

I love zooming out to the solar system level, and then zipping into see what’s going on in various sections of the system. And I think we get some great cinematic moments with ships flying everywhere, zipping in and out between asteroids while they detonate around you. I think our best real feature is the combination of the various elements – combat, exploration, conversation, trading.

Did making Rebel Galaxy push you into a different area of gaming and is this something you would continue to explore?

It’s been a great change of pace from building the Action-RPGs we’re known for. There are more role-playing elements in this game, oddly, and it’s very enjoyable to work on new game systems that aren’t directly derived from a previous game. Developing for PS4 from the get-go has also been a lot of fun.

How many hours are needed to complete Rebel Galaxy and does the game have a platinum trophy?

We don’t have a final hour count yet – we’ll have to get back to you on that one!

If you had an endless budget what would be the game you would create?

I’m not sure I’d ever want an endless budget. Limitations breed creativity

How impressed have you been with the PS4 line-up so far and what are your thoughts on the amount of indie games on offer?

I love my PS4, and I love the variety of content that’s coming to it. The barrier to entry for consoles has been so significantly lowered that I think we’ll continue to see more interesting and different games as the platform matures.

Has producing a game for PlayStation 4 been an easy ride and would you consider bringing this to PS Vita?

Blitworks did the initial port work for us and then we took over. They were excellent to work with, and I’ve been delighted at how easy it is to dev for. The tools and devkits are great, and extremely easy to get up and running with. It’s a far cry from the old days of console development!

We don’t have any current plans for the Vita – our resource limitations mean we have to be very careful about how many ports we try to take on

We would like to say a huge thank you to Travis Baldree and Erich Schaefer for their time.

Check out the teaser trailer for Rebel Galaxy, below:

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Do you remember Bob the Builder and Sim City? Ever wanted to be Bob to build and manage your own city? Well I’ve got some awesome news for you.

Developer TouchTilt brings you Buildanauts, a game in which you construct, manage and design your own city. You are the Mayor, city planner and builder at the same time and you can build your city from the ground up!

Developer TouchTilt already has plans to bring the game to PS4, WIIU, Linux, Mac, Windows and Xbox One in Q2 2015, but they launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise some funds to finish the game.

Here’s what you can expect.

Explore

Survey a vast open landscape just waiting for your construction crew. Jump in an excavator and dig the terrain, or run around with a shovel looking for resources.

Design

Shape your structures by choosing paint colors, textures, details, and building material. Then, assign tasks to your skilled construction workers and watch them turn your vision into a reality!

Build

Build your town from the ground up just the way you want it! Use a fleet of heavy vehicles and a variety of construction tools to place city props, lay down roads, and much, much more.

Manage

Keep your resident Buildanites happy! Attract more townsfolk by keeping your town in top shape, but be careful: too much neglect and your Buildanites will move out!

Explore your own world

The world of BUILDANAUTS is a vast canvas just waiting for you to shape it. You can jump in an excavator to dig the terrain, or just walk around with a shovel looking for resources.

Design and build a town from scratch

Watch in wonder as your construction crew realize your plans by building houses, buildings, and roads! Design your town using a flexible 3D editor, then grab a tool and lend a hand around the construction site.

Manage your own living town

As you build houses and roads, resident Buildanites will move in and bring your town to life. You’ll have to keep them happy by managing traffic, maintaining roads and houses, and building improvements. The happier your residents, the more will move in!

Climb the ranks of construction

Start out as an Apprentice and work your way up to Foreman simply by playing the game, or by completing side-quests and challenges. Reach population milestones, keep your Buildanites happy, and manage your money well, and you will be rewarded with more tools, vehicles, and skills.

Operate heavy machinery

Dig holes, dump dirt, deliver materials, pick up garbage, and more! In BUILDANAUTS, you can drive a wide variety of vehicles, including excavators, dump trucks, bulldozers, forklifts, flatbed trucks with cranes, wrecking balls, steam rollers, recycling trucks, cement mixers, food catering trucks, cars, and more!

Wield construction tools

Grab a tool and perform jobs to improve your town and earn in-game currency. Tools include: hammers, shovels, pickaxes, jackhammers, saws, and many more.

Build with a friend in co-op mode

Dig holes, dump dirt, deliver materials, pick up garbage, and more! In BUILDANAUTS, you can drive a wide variety of vehicles, including excavators, dump trucks, bulldozers, forklifts, flatbed trucks with cranes, wrecking balls, steam rollers, recycling trucks, cement mixers, food catering trucks, cars, and more!

Customise your character

Choose from numerous outfits, facial expressions, gender, skin tones and helmet colors!

Here’s the Kickstarter trailer to give you an idea how the game works:
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I’ve always wanted to be Bob the Builder and manage my city at the same time. And it seems the developer had that very same idea and thought, can we build it, yes we can!

For more info about Buildanauts visit their Kickstarter or follow TouchTilt on Twitter.

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Formula Fusion is in early development and R8 Games wants to release the game onto PS4 and Xbox One after the initial release on PC.

The developer says the game will feature music composed by DUB FX and will be a bit less Sci-fi and more RAW and Craft based. Here’s some further information that we gleaned from the R8 team on Wipeout Zone:

Formula Fusion features music produced by DUB FX and other cool urban artists, together with all sorts of other juicy offerings. We have a few interesting spins on the core concept and we are pulling it back a little in terms of the Sci-fi ness of the art. To try and make it more RAW and Craft based – similar to the tech/teams in F1 – rather than loosing it’s charm by dressing it up with generic far future style.

We are not going to take the game into the far future where style and functionality can become lost in translation, we want to take it into a gritty world with deep contrasts and cool environment fx, whilst giving it it’s own distinctive look and feel. But it will still have the high tech flavours we have all become accustomed to.

We are going to cater for those that just want to pick up and race but we also want people to be able to personalise their race experience by tailoring their craft, more for single player race leagues – if you want to be a combative weapons racer you can concentrate on weapons tech, if you want to be a speed demon then you can look at boost technology, if you want perfection then you can look at balance systems. There will be different race classes and it will be less about finding that perfect set up and rather more about developing a craft that suits your style of play and the track you have chosen.

The game is more about science and technology colliding with the world of AG racing. There is a research element and teams will have a distinctive vibe – with some teams finding it easier than others to research particular areas and some teams starting off with slight advantages. I could ace some of the tracks I played but they each had a slight different personality to them, on some of the bends I would have liked a bit more control to shave that extra second off for example.

As you progress through the leagues you will be able to advance through different craft – working your way up to the GHOST leagues, which includes alien craft and associated technology specific to each team. We want to take this game to the next level and really push the speed aspect so there will be a lot of experimentation with the HUD to get the balance of hud based and track based navigation just right, considering the speeds we want to get out of the game. The idea is to make it truly visceral.

The developer is also looking into VR;

VR has some cool possibilities – I reckon we can get it to the point that you get nose bleeds from the speed, just like the original Wipeout ads that were banned lol!!

We grew up with the Wipeout games and are really excited to hear more about Formula Fusion. We’ll keep you updated on news about the game right here.

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Yesterday, Eiconic Games give our very own Blondlizard an update on intergalactic tower defence game, Final Horizon. I’ll now hand you over to your favourite reptilian gamer for the latest lowdown.  Jay

Simon Credland shows the ‘colour script’ from screenshots taken from Final Horizon and explains how the story flows from one planet to another colour via the storyboard.

Final Horizon is a cinematic experience right from the beginning as the sun breaks over the Horizon of Vega Delta. Your journey will take you to 15 planets across the three solar systems with the 3D level select menus. With more planets than Destiny, you will face the insect-like Swarm from the deserts of Nhandu, on the sub-zero Ushtuk to the alien worlds of Kondoi.

Each planet has it’s own personality that affects the gameplay. The ice planets are so cold the mechanical Chaingun won’t function so you’ll need to bring the heat with the ‘Afterburner’ flamethrower. There are five different Killstreaks across the planets and the Swarm will attack in ever more ingenious and deadly waves.

Final Horizon is a fast paced tower defence game with 53 intense levels. The game has a platinum trophy and comes to PS Vita and PlayStation 4 soon.

Punk and Lizard have followed Final Horizon from its very early stages and it’s certainly looking to be something special.

Simon from Eiconic Games will be showing off the game on the Sony PS4 stand at Eurogamer/Egx. Be sure to check this one out!

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Osama Dorias from Heroes Never Lose shared some very awesome information with me about their upcoming game.

Forget Farm Heroes Saga, Candy Crush and Bejeweld. We’ve got something for you that will blow you away and makes you forget about those other games. And it’s called: Heroes Never Lose: Professor Puzzler’s Perplexing Ploy, or in short Heroes Never Lose, or as the developers call it HNL:PPPP!!

The game is now on Kickstarter and a PS4/Vita strechgoal will be added soon. The guys at Heroes Never Lose are very eager to bring the games to these platforms, and need your support for it!

About the game:

Heroes Never Lose: Professor Puzzler’s Perplexing Ploy is a hero themed action-puzzle game with a super-powered twist!

Players go head to head lining up blocks into combos or chains and initiate their character’s super attacks to bury their opponent in blocks.

The gameplay is reminiscent of other action-puzzlers such as Puyo Puyo, Dr. Mario, and Puzzle Fighter. However, the choice of characters affects the strategies and gameplay significantly as characters charge up their super bars to unleash unique and devastating attacks on their opponents, such as:

A Blizzard that freezes the blocks on the opponent’s screen, causing them to lock to the grid and become a real nuisance!

… or an inferno that sets some blocks on fire, watch out or the fire will spread out of control!

The game also features an Online Multiplayer mode, a unique fusion of a PixelArt style with modern hi-res effects, a kicking soundtrack, and much more!

Heroes Never Lose: Professor Puzzler’s Perplexing Ploy is off to a great start and the team is looking forward to sharing it with the world! The action-puzzler introduces the concept of character specific attacks (specials and supers) that can be activated to affect the opponent’s grid. As opposed to most competitive action-puzzlers where players can almost entirely focus on their own grid, the special and super attacks in HNLPPPP work best when timed to counter opponent strategies! Players who can keep an eye on their opponents will excel!

Here’s the kickstarter trailer to give you a idea of how the game works, and it’s funny too!

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We’re really very excited to see the game released. For more info about the game visit their Kickstarter page and follow them on Twitter.

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Blackhole is a platformer currently under development for PC/MAC/Linux. When I asked FiolaSoft Studio if they’re going to release Blackhole on PS4/PS Vita in the future, they replied by telling me that they have plans to bring the game to the Sony gamers, but they are focusing on the PC/MAC/Linux releases first.

About the game:

It’s the year 2121 and planet Earth is endangered by black holes. You’re one of the crew set on an ultimate mission: to eliminate and completely erase these black holes. One day the astronauts encounter a black hole so massive that they are not able to avoid it by any means and their whole ship is sucked into it. The main goal of the game is to collect nanobots which are capable of repairing the spaceship and save all the team members.

It’s about precision, timing and logical thinking. Additionally, the studio is making the game script together with foreign YouTubers. The English version of the game will include performances by actress Kira Buckland and independent composer and musician Blake Swift (both of them also featured in Dust: An Elysian Tail).

Gameplay:

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Explore colourful caves, a long lost ancient city, feel the freezing winds of the mountains and don’t be afraid to go through the terrifying jungle. Find a way to collect every single Selfburn, avoid lethal obstacles, master your movement and get a 100% score in all of the levels! This is a perfect arcade for hardcore gamers and for those who wish to try some brand new, fresh adventure!

Here’s a screenshot, as well as a great youtube video right at the end, showing you what to expect from the game.

The game is in Alpha at the moment and we’ll keep you posted on future updates about Blackhole.

Follow @blackholegame for updates on twitter or visit the website : blackhole-game.com

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Russian developer Auralab has a Indiegogo campaign for their up coming game Karma. Incarnation 1 with a Playstation 4 stretch goal.

Karma. Incarnation 1 is a classical 2D point-n-click psychedelic adventure, permeated with original humor and some mind blowing puzzles. The game was devised in 2012 when Art Director Alexander Kuvshinov created a cartoon about the laws of Karma.

The game is about karma and the relativity of good and evil. Karma. Incarnation 1 has no text or dialogue in the game , all communication is via visual cues and images, in the form of clouds over the heads of the characters with cartoon icons only. Having played Proteus, LIMBO and Machinarium, Auralab’s Karma.

Incarnation 1 really does sound an interesting experience and one that we hope comes to PlayStation 4 sooner than later. Below is a little more about the game taken from their IndieGoGo campaign.

The game tells of a creature named Pip, who has an incarnation in a surreal world as a funny but brutal worm. Pip is naive and doesn’t know anything at all about this reality. Talking with a flower or a stone for him as natural as tasting another representative of local fauna. He examines this new world overcoming obstacles to a new rebirth and trying to figure out who he really is. At the same time he is learning the laws of karma and the relativity of good and evil.

Crazy psychedelic world surrounds the character throughout the game. Over 20 unique locations, lots of mini-games and original, surreal and mind-bending puzzles. Astral sight gives an opportunity to look into the world of spirits at any point in the game. It also allows you to see through different sets of eyes at the surrounding scenery. In the astral world you could find the hints for quests and many other exciting and amazing things.

The most common object could look quite different in the astral world. Variability of completing quests gives different ways to play through the game again and again. You have a choice whether you’d like to do good or evil things to complete quests.

Each evil deed spoils Pip’s karma and changes his appearance. He grows spikes and horns. Good deeds purified karma. Key characters respond differently to Pip’s karma, opening additional storyline. A lot of funny animations of the varied interactions of Pip. The environment and other characters of the quests are drawn individually for each situation.

The IndieGoGo campaign ends on August 3rd so let’s wish them luck!

Below is the gameplay trailer:

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