Flying Wild Hogs, the developer behind the Shadow Warrior reboot from a few years back, has a new game on the way. It's called Evil West and it's a weird western.

The game was revealed with an entertaining but brief cinematic trailer at this year's Game Awards. A mean ornery cowboy type wanders along killing monsters with increasingly over-the-top weaponry. It looks magical and spooky and a lot of splattery fun.

The game will be out next year on PS5, Xbox Series S/X and PC.

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It's already been entertaining us for nearly half a year on PC, but we now finally have a release window for Microsoft Flight Simulator on Xbox, as the game is due to arrive on Xbox Series X/S in summer 2021. And it's going to be available on Xbox Game Pass on launch day, of course.

Announced at the Game Awards, a brief video was shown displaying the game running on Xbox Series X. It's a demanding game to run even on PC, but the Xbox Series X trailer sure makes it look stunning.

"Simmers on Xbox Series X/S can expect the same level of depth as the PC version, allowing you to experience the most authentic and realistic flight simulator we have ever created," said head of Microsoft Flight Simulator Jorg Neumann in a blog post. I guess we'll have to wait to find out what that actually means in tech terms.

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EA revealed It Takes Two gameplay at The Game Awards.

It Takes Two is the next game from Hazelight, the developer behind co-op prison break adventure A Way Out. It's due out on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and PC (Origin, Steam) on 26th March 2021.

There's couch or online co-op with split-screen play. With a Friend's Pass, you can invite someone to play co-op with you for free.

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Call of Duty: Warzone is getting two new Gulags, Activision has announced.

In Infinity Ward's battle royale, the Gulag is where players go when they die. It offers them a chance to get back into the game by defeating an enemy player in a 1v1.

The new Verdansk Gulag experience coming to Warzone during the launch week of Season One (from 16th December) is a secret training facility - a Nuketown facsimile built by the Soviets who constructed Black Ops Cold War's Amerika Town (one of the game's better campaign levels).

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In what was either the best or worst trailer to feature at this year's Game Awards (I'm still very much undecided on the matter), Studio Wildcard has unveiled Ark 2, the sequel to its dinosaur-themed multiplayer survival game. Oh, and an animated TV spin-off starring an absurdly over-qualified cast is coming too.

Ark 2's extraordinarily drawn-out reveal trailer featured - in the most hilarious double-take moment of the night - Vin Diesel, in the role of someone named Santiago, prowling the jungle with his tribe chums, battling weird cat people, and sidestepping the odd T. rex. It was all presented with the air of a narrative-driven single-player adventure, which is rather at odds with Ark as we currently know it, so hopefully Wildcard will explain how Vin Diesel fits into it all soon.

There isn't much more to report on the Ark 2 front at the moment, but Wildcard's second surprise of the night arrived in the form of Ark: The Animated Series.

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Why isn't the Evil Dead on its 100th video game already? No matter, the brilliant splatter series has just had a new game announced at the Game Awards tonight. It's Called Evil Dead: The Game, and it's from Saber Interactive and Boss Team Games.

The trailer suggests a Left 4 Dead sort of deal - melee and ranged weapons playing out around the movies' legendary cabin in the woods. Bruce is back of course, and the whole thing looks pleasantly scrappy.

Evil Dead: The Game is due out next year on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X, PC and Switch. I am excited about this.

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ZA/UM just announced Disco Elysium: The Final Cut at The Game Awards.

It's a free upgrade for all existing players as well as a standalone release. It hits PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4, and PC via Steam, GOG, the Epic Games Store, and the App Store and Google Stadia from March 2021, and Xbox Series X and S, and Nintendo Switch from summer 2021.

The headline addition is full voice acting (Disco Elysium has a lot of text to read!), but there are also new quests and unseen areas to explore.

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Warframe is joining the Epic Games Store, and will get a pack of three classic weapons from Unreal Tournament to celebrate.

There's history to this crossover, of course. Warframe developer Digital Extremes once worked with Epic on the original Unreal Tournament, more than two decades ago.

Now, the hugely-popular Warframe will host UT's Flak Cannon, Rocket Launcher and Shock Rifle. These weapons will be free and exclusive to the Epic Games Store for a limited time, until 24th December.

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Tonight we got another brief look at the next Dragon Age, which from the below trailer looks a bit like it may end up eventually just being called "Dragon Age". Or not. New details from tonight's Game Awards trailer are thin on the ground.

We saw cities and countryside that may very well be from the game's expected new setting of Tevinter. We heard that the game would feature a new protagonist (no surprise there) and it sounds like they'll have a more down-to-earth approach. You will not have a glowing all-powerful hand this time around.

And we saw everyone's favourite returning character/egg Solas.

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If you'd been wondering what Glen Schofield has been up to since he left Sledgehammer, well it's this: The Callisto Protocol, a "next-generation take on survival horror" that looks a lot like the Dead Space series. Which would make sense, seeing as Schofield was the executive producer for Dead Space.

Set on the Jupiter moon Callisto in 2320, the game requires players to escape a maximum security prison and uncover its "terrifying secrets". Judging by the trailer shown at the Game Awards, I can kinda guess what those are.

The Callisto Protocol is being made by studio Striking Distance Studios, a new AAA studio helmed by Schofield and owned by Krafton (the publisher for PUBG). The game is set to come to PC and consoles in 2022, and while the console platforms have not yet been detailed, the description of "next-gen" has me thinking it could be Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 only. We'll have to wait to find out, but the suspense is killing me.

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