Forspoken is an upcoming action-adventure fantasy wherein you get the isekai treatment and “have” to find your way back to reality (oop, there goes gravity). It’s being developed by the folks at Luminous Productions, published by Square Enix.

Click here for more on the combat mechanics for player character Frey. We also got the Game Awards trailer, a story trailer and the Game Awards 4-minute gameplay footage for you here, here and here!

Forspoken is currently set to release ‘early in 2022’, which is great to hear, considering the PS5 games library essentially just consists of the PS4 library, plus Returnal and Ratchet and Clank! Forspoken was initially announced under the working title ‘Project Athia’ in 2020 and is set to be the first non Final Fantasy IP from Square Enix in a long time. And when I say long, I don’t mean “long”, I mean 🎵LONG LOOOOOOOOOOOONG LOoooOOOoooNG🎵, followed by sensual trumpeting… It makes sense in context!

Forspoken has a very talented team behind it by the looks of things. Amy Hennig, head writer behind the Uncharted series, will be collaborating with Gary Whitta (Screenwriter for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story). The music composers for the game (Bear McCreary and Garry Schymann) are also behind the scores for God of War and Bioshock… Also, feel free to have a butcher’s round our store if you want to get The Bioshock Collection! Ella Balinksa, playing Frey, has also played in Charlie’s Angels and is confirmed to play a starring role in the upcoming 2022 show ‘Resident Evil: Welcome to New Raccoon City’.

Compared to the previous trailers and gameplay V-Slices, this current gameplay is… Substantially less aesthetically pleasing, to put it mildly. But at the same time, I’m also a firm believer in ‘I’m not ugly, I just reduce graphics to improve performance’, so who am I to judge? Besides the looks department (which, outside of this current footage, looks smooth as a marble scultpure of Bloodsport-era Van-Damme’s booty), the traversal looks suitably fast-paced and the combat magic suitably weighty. You could make the case that the player is actually so agile, that boss fights and healing in most cases may be too easy, so I’m looking forward to seeing how the late-game obstacles rise the difficulty curve.

Forspoken will be released for PC and PlayStation 5 on May 24, 2022. The game will be a PS5 console exclusive for approximately two years.

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5 Black Game Characters You Might Have Heard of

Black History Month is coming to an end and we think it’s time to have some appreciation posts rolling in for the games industry. We don’t get to hear much about the representation of black characters in video games too often. This month we’ve decided to put a number of games that have amazing black main protagonists or characters in games.

1. Dr Eva Rosalene – To The Moon

Source: Steam

Dr Eva Rosalene is one of the three main protagonists in ‘To The Moon‘. She is not only witty, but she’s smart and observant, she also shares a loving bond with her partner Dr Neil Watts. She plays a massive role in the story and To The Moon is a story-driven game developed by Freebird Games, and is about two doctors who travel through an old man’s memories to fulfil his dying wish. There is also the sequel called Finding Paradise, where Dr Eva Rosalene makes her return.

4. Barret Wallace – Final Fantasy 7 Remake

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Barret Wallace VA played by John Eric Bentley, and is a supporting character in Final Fantasy 7 Remake and certainly a very memorable one. Despite his strong attitude, rash decisions and he may not be the brightest at times, but there is one thing for sure. Barret cares about his family, he cares about his team and he cares about society, which is why he is working so hard to do what he does. Barret goes through a lot of character development and you go from hating Barret to eventually loving his character.  Final Fantasy is one of the biggest JRPG franchises at the moment, Final Fantasy 7 Remake being a very popular one and even owned a spot on the PlayStation 5.

3. Spider-Man Miles Morales

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Spider-Man Miles Morales VA by Nadji Jeter, we couldn’t leave him out. Miles is a great example of character development, the gameplay is carried by the wild, young, personality of Miles and his heroic actions after being dumped with a bunch or huge responsibilities…like saving the city. Spider-Man Miles Morales has been one of the best PlayStation Games sold and is in the top 10 of the best games for the PS5 so far.

4. Frey Holland – Forspoken

Recently at the PlayStation Showcase, Forspoken – a next-gen game had a gameplay trailer, starring Ella Balinska who is voice acting the main protagonist – Frey Holland in Forspoken. She is not only a voice actor but she has been working to help the game feel alive through her body movements, facial expressions with performance capture and much more. Ella is also well known for her acting in various movies such as Charlie’s Angels, The Athena and British TV series Midsomer Murders.  Forspoken will without a doubt be one of the biggest games to release by Square Enix in 2022, it’s lovely to see a black female protagonist coming up in such a great title.

5. Black Panther

Source: Square Enix

Lastly, we have another Hero from the Marvel Universe and that is Black Panther. In Marvel’s Avengers, an expansion pack DLC was released for Black Panther, named War of Wakanda. The Voice Actor is Christopher Judge, who is well known for his acting in The Dark Knight Rises, Stargate and Stargate: The Ark of Truth. War of Wakanda is a great DLC and is highly recommended. Not only is Black Panther seen as a hero, but he is seen as a leader who offers guidance to his community, as we know very well after having seen from the movies.

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Black People In The Games Industry That You Need To Talk About

Black History Month is coming to an end and we think it’s time to have some appreciation posts rolling in for the games industry. We don’t get to hear much about black developers, publishers, composers, writers or voice actors in games too often. This month we’ve decided to put a number of black people in the industry who are working to bring amazing content to you.

1. Derrick Fields – Founder, Game Director of WakingOniGames

Derrick Fields is the founder and game director of WakingOniGames who is ‘Creating Onsen Master’  “A hot spring customer strategy game about healing!” Derreck Fields is also the lead designer, 2D and 3D Artist involved with Onsen Master as well. He was the Lead Artist for Uplift Games and a Visual Effects Artist for an upcoming film, currently in post-production and has even been a freelance Illustrator for the popular game ‘Cards Against Humanity’. Derrick has also been a host for the Wholesome Games Direct 2021. Here’s a Taster of The Onsen Master Gameplay.

2. Dorrell Ettienne – Composer for Games

Dorrell Ettienne, a Composer for WakingOniGames, who’s also composing the music for Onsen Master. He spent 4 years working at the Victoria Albert Museum and for 5 years since 2016 up until the present moment has been a Freelance Composer. Dorrell has a Bachelor’s degree in Music from the University of Kent and a Master’s degree in composition for screen from the Royal College of Music. It’s inspiring to see Dorrell take a leap forward into his passion and watch him now create amazing soundtracks for video games. Here’s a taster.

https://twitter.com/DorrellEttienne/status/1443253543234850820

3. Niel Jones – Creator of Aerial Knight’s Never Yield

Niel Jones, also known as Aerial Knight – is the Creator of a running action game Never Yield that has been featured on Nintendo’s Indie World Direct. Niel is also known as a 3D Artist and has tons of experience across a wide variety of game projects such as Dott’s Home, Bloom and JETT. Niel is also a Senior UX and Games Designer for Unity Technologies and a Creative Art Director for JoLu Productions. Below is a video of Niel’s own game Aerial Knight’s Never Yield.

4. Ella Balinska – VA For Upcoming Game Forspoken

Recently at the PlayStation Showcase, Forspoken – a next-gen game had a gameplay trailer, starring Ella Balinska, the main protagonist in Forspoken. She is not only a voice actor but she has been working to help the game feel alive through her body movements, facial expressions with performance capture and much more. Ella is also well known for her acting in various movies such as Charlie’s Angels, The Athena and the British TV series Midsomer Murders.  Forspoken will without a doubt be one of the biggest games to release by Square Enix in 2022, it’s lovely to see a black female protagonist coming up in such a great title.  Here’s a snippet of the gameplay from their most recent trailer and a video previously where Ella herself gets to speak about her thoughts on the game.

“Featuring Ella Balinksa”

5. Marcus Montgomery – Founder of WeAreGameDevs

Lastly, we have Marcus Montgomery, the founder of WeAreGameDevs and a video game designer with almost 2 decades of experience. Marcus has been a lead game designer for Glu Mobile, a project Manager for Oculus VR and Senior Gameplay designer for nWay Inc. His website WeAreGameDevs also works to highlight underrepresented people, companies and game devs in the industry and support their efforts to bring many, life-changing entertainment.

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