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'Metro Exodus' on next-gen consoles will run at 60FPS with ray tracing
'Metro Exodus' on PS5 and Xbox Series X will have full ray tracing thanks to a revamped engine. The game is coming to the Mac, too.
An enhanced version of 'Metro Exodus' is coming to PS5 and Xbox Series X/S
The next Metro game is in the works and it could have a multiplayer component.
‘Metro Redux’ is coming to Nintendo Switch February 28th
Metro Redux -- the double game collection including Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light -- has been available on PS4, Xbox One and PC since 2014. Now, 4A Games is bringing Metro Redux to Nintendo Switch. The combo will be available February 28th, and it should be available for pre-order soon.
Metro Redux scrounges for supplies on Linux, Steam OS
As of this week, Linux and Steam OS users on Steam can brave the bleak wasteland and mutated beasts in 4A Games' Metro Redux, a double feature that includes touched-up versions of Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light. Minimum requirements for both platforms can be found after the break, and a tour through Metro Redux's take on Moscow is available on Steam for $24.98 until December 15. If you're totally in the dark on the Metro series, check in with this trailer that sets the premise and explains the improvements made over the previous releases on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. [Image: 4A Games]
Deals with Gold: Metro Redux, Saints Row 4, Disney games
This week's edition of Microsoft's rolling Deals With Gold promotion is aimed at variety. From the bleak gloom of post-apocalyptic Moscow to Pixar's sunny vision of a child's bedroom, the sale has something for everyone. On the gloomy side of things, both Metro 2033 Redux and Metro: Last Light Redux are now available for the Xbox One at $16.74 a piece. Those wishing to see the entire dark saga can purchase the likewise discounted $33.16 Metro Redux Bundle which includes both remastered shooters in a single package. Games based on Disney properties form the core of the Xbox 360 discounts. More than a dozen games, ranging from rebuilt platforming classics like Castle of Illusion to movie tie-ins like Cars, are available at half price. The Saints Row 4 Season Pass is also half off, but even more importantly, Saints Row 4 itself has received a 70 percent discount to a price of $10.49. As always, Deals With Gold discounts are only available to Xbox Live Gold subscribers. These discounts are valid now through December 8. For a full list of this week's price cuts, visit Major Nelson's blog. [Image: Deep Silver]
UK takes Metro Redux to the top of the charts
Metro Redux - we can't believe they didn't go with Metro Revival - is the new UK No. 1 this week, overthrowing Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls - Ultimate Evil Edition after one week of glory. Meanwhile, Madden NFL 15 debuts 6th, which isn't bad given which version of football it is. The PS4, Xbox One and PC bundle of Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light is Deep Silver's first No. 1 of the year, but it's far from the first remaster to lead the way in 2014. Upgraded and enhanced versions of Tomb Raider, Diablo 3 and The Last of Us had already scored five chart-topping weeks between them before Metro Redux came along, and we could see a few other remasters at the top before the year's close. In honor of the remasters, we're going to re-release our idea of music videos below the break for these posts. This week and with Metro in mind, we'll keep it Russian with 2000s duo t.A.T.u, who infamously caused great controversy with their awful capitalization.
Next game from Metro series developer 'less linear, more sandbox'
The next game from Metro 2033 developer 4A Games will shift away from a linear progression and offer players a more freeform approach to gameplay, studio CTO Oles Shishkovstov told Eurogamer this week. "For the game we are working on now, our designers have shifted to a more sand-box-style experience - less linear but still hugely story-driven," Shishkovstov said. "I will not go into details, but it requires some work from programmers as well. Also, we are improving graphics in very different aspects, like recently we did a physically-based global ambient occlusion (instead of local, like SSAO). I will not talk about PBR (physically-based rendering) here, because here we are at the stage when artists are still adapting their mentality to it." Shishkovstov did not reveal whether the undisclosed project is a new entry in the studio's Metro series. The visually upgraded franchise compilation Metro Redux shipped this week for the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC platforms. [Image: 4A Games]
Metro Redux shows off 60FPS in launch trailer
Both games in the Metro Redux re-release, Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light, are available today in North America for $25 each on Steam, Xbox Live and PSN. For clarity's sake, Metro 2033 Redux is $25 and Metro Last Light Redux is $25, and a retail version of Metro Redux containing both games is $50. The games come with all of the applicable DLC, all running at 60FPS on Xbox One and PS4. [Image: Deep Silver]
Metro Redux 'pushes three times as much, twice as fast'
This lengthy trailer for Metro Redux examines the improvements made to 4A Games' post-apocalyptic first-person shooters Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light in their transition to next-gen platforms. The remastered games will launch August 26 for PC, PS4 and Xbox One.
Metro Redux makes a return trip underground in August
Metro Redux brings remastered, post-apocalyptic Moscow to North America on August 26, and Europe on August 29. Described as a "true director's cut" of Metro 2033 and its sequel Metro: Last Light, the 2-in-1 package will be available on PS4, Xbox One and PC. The boxed compilation is priced $50, and both games will be available individually to download at $25 a pop. Linux and SteamOS versions are due to release later this year. Amongst all the gameplay tweaks and additions, Metro Redux is headlined by a reworking of Metro 2033 in the 4A Engine iteration used for Last Light. Dev 4A Games has given Last Light a visual touch-up too, while all the game's Season Pass content is included in Redux. To go deeper into the changes and 4A's approach to Redux, point your flashlights here. [Image: Deep Silver]
Metro Redux screens depict an alluringly decrepit Moscow
The "true director's cut" known as Metro Redux may tread familiar ground, but thanks to the enhanced polish and technology backing the re-release, Moscow's bombed-out, post-apocalyptic ruins appear as simultaneously foreboding and inviting as they've ever been. [Image: Deep Silver]
Metro Redux remasters Moscow for PS4, Xbox One, PC
Metro 2033 and its sequel, Metro Last Light, are coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC and SteamOS later this summer, with a year's worth of additional work done by European developer 4A Games. Dubbed a "true director's cut," Metro Redux collects and rebuilds the atmospheric survival games with an emphasis on fidelity, performance, and consistency.
4A Games teases Metro running at 60fps on PS4
Developer 4A Games has released a series of brief teaser videos showcasing a PlayStation 4 entry in its Metro first-person shooter series running at 60 frames-per-second. 4A confirmed in March that its Metro series would debut for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in the upcoming Metro Redux. Fans speculate that today's footage shows both Metro 2033 and its sequel Metro: Last Light running on the same gameplay engine. A third teaser video is available here. While a release date for Metro Redux has not been announced, comments from 4A suggest that the game may arrive quite soon. "Are you ready?" the developer asks. "Because we really, nearly are..." [Image: 4A Games]
Metro 2033 studio opens Malta HQ amidst Ukraine upheaval
4A Games, the development house behind Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light, is opening a new studio in Malta. While the team's home in Ukraine's capital Kiev will remain open, the new Malta studio will act as the team's headquarters going forward, headed up by Andrew Prokhorov, 4A co-founder and creative director, as well as Oles Shishkovstov, 4A's chief technical officer. "By basing our new headquarters in Malta, a member state of the EU, 4A Games will be able to better compete on the international stage," said Dean Sharpe, 4A Games' newly appointed CEO, in a statement on the studio's website. "Malta offers fantastic incentives for game development, and we are confident 4A Games will be able to attract the very best talent from Ukraine, Malta and beyond." 4A Games has a tumultuous history. Since opening in 2005, the team has struggled with meager resources and poor facilities in Kiev, but it won notoriety with its debut in 2010, the narratively rich PC and Xbox 360-exclusive Metro 2033. Follow up Metro: Last Light, meanwhile, was in danger of not seeing release due to publisher THQ dissolving in 2013. Despite those hurdles, Deep Silver published Last Light and was met with strong sales and positive reviews.
Metro Redux confirmed, more details before E3
Metro Redux for next-gen consoles has been confirmed by publisher Deep Silver, following a leak this morning on an Italian forum reported by AllGamesBeta, but the publisher did make a few addendums to the admission. "What you saw leaked was taken from an old, internal planning presentation, containing some nuggets of truth but a lot of hypothetical ideas and place holder material," publisher Deep Silver said in a statement. "And we think the reality is a lot more exciting than the out-dated material that got leaked shows, and we're itching to share it with you. Just not yet." Deep Silver plans to share details about the 4A Games developed title "this side of E3." [Image: AllGamesBeta]
PS Plus: Outlast on PS4, Metro: Last Light on PS3 this week
Outlast, a PlayStation 4 survival-horror game set in a psychiatric asylum, will be available free to PlayStation Plus subscribers starting tomorrow. The service also has a prominent freebie for the PlayStation 3 with Metro: Last Light, the atmospheric first-person shooter based on the post-apocalyptic Metro series from Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky. A PlayStation Blog post also reminds us of a discount for Dustforce, down to $8 tomorrow, and the imminent end of free downloads for the PS3's remastered Shadow of the Colossus. [Image: Red Barrel]
Metro: Last Light 'Chronicles Pack' available now
Attention passengers: We are arriving at "Chronicles Pack," the last stop on the Metro: Last Light downloadable content line. The fourth and final piece of DLC includes three solo missions filling in side stories that run parallel to the game's main tale. The pack also includes the "multi barrelled bicycle shotgun," a fan-created weapon that 4A Games was impressed by enough to toss in the game. The Chronicles Pack is priced at the reasonable round-trip ticket price of $4.99. It's also part of the Metro season pass, which now includes all four pieces of DLC immediately available for $15.
Metro: Last Light gets 'Developer Pack' DLC next week
Metro: Last Light's third piece of DLC, the Developer Pack, will arrive next week. The pack includes one new solo mission called "The Spider's Nest," which challenges players to escape from a "spider infested catacomb" while carrying a flamethrower. It also features a shooting range for players to test out gun and attachment combinations, a "Metro Museum" gallery and AI arena to play with custom human and mutant squads. The Developer Pack will be free for Season Pass holders, or $3.99, £3.19 and €3.99 on its own. It will launch on Steam, Xbox 360 and PS3 on September 17, while European PS3 owners will have to wait one more day for it to arrive on September 18.
Metro: Last Light emerges on Mac today
The Steam version of Metro: Last Light has been updated for Macs today. The game supports Steamplay, so if you've purchased the Windows version already you can access the Mac version for free. The Mac port of Metro: Last Light will make its way to the App store soon, publisher Deep Silver says. All DLC and the Season Pass will be available to Mac users, while a Linux port is due sometime later this year. Metro: Last Light is set a year after the events of 4A Games' Metro 2033, based on the novel of the same name. Metro: Last Light follows humanity's struggle to survive while inhabiting the underground subway systems of Russia following an apocalyptic nuclear war. It's a game our review said "truly excels at pacing and direction, even while it dabbles with verbose characters and an ambiguous supernatural element."
Metro: Last Light is $20 on Steam this week
Metro: Last Light is 60 percent off on Steam until 4PM PT on Thursday – that means it's marked down to $20. Last Light is the sequel to Metro 2033, which also happens to be on sale this week for $3.75. The sale arrives just in time for Metro: Last Light's Tower Pack DLC, which launches this week. The add-on content is free for Season Pass holders and can be purchased separately for $5.
