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Here’s the First Gameplay Trailer from Arkane’s Prey Reboot

And it’s looking incredibly promising. I was on the fence about a complete reworking of the franchise. All right, “franchise” may be loftier a word than this IP deserves considering it has one 2006 release and a completely scrapped sequel to its name. But I dug the original Prey’s premise of a modern Native American falling on his ancestry’s ancient powers to battle a threat from the stars. It had style, a Quake-y atmosphere and physics-bending fuckery even before Portal became a household name.

But Arkane’s on to something here. A giant space station, an invading alien species akin to a “living ecology,” a mix-up of upgradable future tech and Plasmid-like extraterrestrial powers… This is a reimagining with serious imagination. Sure, we’re not getting the “alien bounty hunter” successor Prey 2 was proposed to be – and my heart still breaks each time I look upon the stars and wonder what could have been – but this? This might do just fine.

Arkane Studios’ Prey is slated for a 2017 release on PS4, PC, and Xbox One.

Dishonored: Game of the Year Edition Fall Bound

Arkane Studios’ surprise 2012 hit, Dishonored – a game that felt like Bioshock and Thief got their drink on and then their freak on – is making a return this Fall with its own Game of the Year bundle.

Dropping from the rooftops onto your PC, PS3, or Xbox 360, the $39.99 package includes the original title and, but of course, every piece of downloadable content produced for the game, including:

• Dunwall City Trials
• The Knife of Dunwall
• The Brigmore Witches
• Void Walker’s Arsenal

Dishonored: GoTY hits retail October 8th (U.S.) and October 11th (Europe).

Interested to know what’s next in store for Arkane? A sequel to Dishonored is being scraped together by Arkane’s French division while, despite their own insistence against it, then followed by the revelation their insistence was bullshit, it seems Bethesda has tapped Arkane Austin to take over Human Head’s Prey 2, ditching the former studio’s turbulent progress on the game in favor of rebooting it from the ground up and poising it as a spiritual sister to System Shock 2.

Information on the sci-fi shooter ends there though as Raphael Colantonio, Arkane’s Creative Director and the man that first dismissed the Prey 2 rumor, has since instructed his team to deny inquires from “press sneak fucks.” Gotta love the industry, man.

Revenge Just About Solves Everything in New Dishonored Trailer

I understand a lot of you were hoping that teaser image publisher Bethesda Softworks was dangling in front our faces was somehow linked to Skyrim.  Actually, your nose perked up when I said Skyrim.  But we’re not talking about Skyrim toda– And you’re walking away.  Rude.

We’re talking about Arkane Studios’ steampunk assassination romp...