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Far Cry Primal
Far Cry with dinosaurs? Try an open-world action game set at the close of the Stone Age, meaning wooly mammoth, sabertooth cats and, since modern manufacturing’s some 12,000 years off, the series’ strongest emphasis on environment-based item and weapons crafting yet.
PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
February 23
Dark Souls III
After last year’s tryst with a PlayStation-exclusive (Bloodborne), studio From Software returns to its multi-platform Souls series roots for what’s either the fourth (counting Demon’s Souls) or fifth (counting Bloodborne) in a sequence of closely related, brutally exacting action games.
PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
April 12
Star Fox Zero
Delayed from last November for some extra polish, the newest installment in Nintendo’s longstanding space shooter about a squadron of chatty anthropomorphic animals has to win over Wii U GamePad skeptics nervous that having to fiddle with a second screen while pulling off precision maneuvers might be too much to juggle.
Wii U
April 22
Homefront: The Revolution
The sequel to 2011 first-person shooter Homefront, which imagined what might happen if a unified Korea invaded the Western U.S., takes place four years later (in 2029) as you struggle to retake an open-world version of Philadelphia from the Greater Korean Republic.
PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
May 17
Mirror's Edge Catalyst
Mirror’s Edge Catalyst reboots EA DICE’s 2008 first-person parkour game, dealing with why original protagonist Faith became a surveillance-evading “runner,” delivering messages under the nose of her city’s dystopian overlords by zipping acrobatically (but surreptitiously) across urban skylines.
PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
May 24
No Man's Sky
In our imaginations, open universe ambler No Man’s Sky really is as infinite as developer Hello Games keeps boasting, giving you an endless, procedurally generated cosmos to plumb (and enough to do that you’ll never tire of doing it). In reality, no two words better define the right approach to this game than “we’ll see.”
PC, PlayStation 4
June 21
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
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
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
