Upcoming video game releases: 'Brothers,' 'Mario & Luigi: Dream Team'
Control two siblings at once in folky Scandinavian story "Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons," make sure Nintendo's mascots make it through the lucid landscape of "Mario & Luigi: Dream Team," see Scrooge McDuck return to a video gaming classic in "DuckTales Remastered" and try to get away with daylight robbery in "Payday 2."
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons (360)
Xbox 360: August 7
Also due on PC via Steam and PlayStation 3
Presented as a touching storybook tale with a clever two-character dynamic, made in collaboration with Swedish film director Josef Faroes, and representing a change in direction for Starbreeze Studios, better known for a stable of action-packed titles.
Price: 1200 MS Points (~$15 / €14 / £12 / AU$20 / R$30)
brothersthegame.com
Mario & Luigi: Dream Team (3DS)
North America: August 11
Europe: since July 12 (AU: July 13)
Japan: since July 18
A hit in Japan and bouyant in Europe, this follow-up to 2009's well received "Bowser's Inside Story" sees the mustachioed Nintendo bros team up once more, blending role-playing adventure convention with traditional side-scrolling action as Mario enters Luigi's dreams and meets up with the shape-shifting Dreamy Luigi.
Price: $39 / €39 / £29 / AU$59 / ¥4,800
marioandluigidreamteam.nintendo.com
Disney DuckTales Remastered (360 PC PS3 Wii U)
North American consoles: August 13 (PS3 Wii U download)
PC download: August 13
European / PAL region consoles: August 14 (PS3), August 15 (Wii U)
Xbox 360 download: September 11
Remade by WayForward, the Californian studio behind "Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd You Steal Our Garbage?!" and the acclaimed "Mighty Switch Force!" series, this "DuckTales" download polishes up the highly rated NES and GameBoy original, adding several new areas and new voiceovers in the process.
Price: $14.99 / €14.99 / R$31
PS3 collector's box, pin-badge and download code (August 20): $19.99
capcom-unity.com/ducktales
Payday 2 (360 PC PS3)
North America: August 13
European regions: August 16
Barrel through bank heists with up to three other friends and recreate exhilerating movie moments before realizing that increasingly deadly security forces are closing in and about to make life very challenging in this tightly focused riff on the "Left 4 Dead" formula.
Price: $59 / €39 / £29 / AU$49
crimenet.info
Disney Infinity (360 3DS PS3 Wii WiiU)
North America: August 18
European regions: August 20
Disney's plan for the toy-game crossover market steps on the toes of the "Skylanders" series in a serious way, but the game itself is all about collectible fun, with plenty of recognizable Disney Pixar figurines to obtain, characters to play as, and sharable levels to construct.
Starter Pack price: $75 / €70 / £60 / R$300 / AU$89
Figurine packs and play sets from $30 and $35
infinity.disney.com
Sir, You Are Being Hunted (Lin Mac Win)
International via download: August 19
Indie team Bad Robot has previously made audio-visual puzzler "AVSEQ" and social education title "Fallen City," then raised £90,000 (US$137,000) via Kickstarter for this game that turns players into humans on the run, pursued by aristocratic mechanical beings in a randomly generated, Poe-like and very British moor and fenland environ.
Price: $20 from developer website
big-robot.com/tag/sir-you-are-being-hunted/
