NetEase Games' annual product launch event NetEase Connect 2021, on May 20, debuted with the first English-language version to a global audience. The all-online event provided new details on upcoming and recently released games, as well as exciting world premieres of brand-new titles, with a total of 13 games featured. Check out the event details below.
Infinite Lagrange
Infinite Lagrange, a sci-fi grand space simulation game, was recently released in Europe and will be released on mobile and PC simultaneously on June 2 in the Americas, including the United States, Canada, Australia, Mexico, and Brazil.
Pre-registration for Infinite Lagrange on Android and the official website is now open.
Onmyoji: The World
Onmyoji: The World is the latest installment in the Onmyoji franchise, which has been downloaded by hundreds of millions of players worldwide since 2016.
The new installment promises to be truly groundbreaking work in terms of story and graphics. Players take on the role of Onmyoji, who travel and fight between worlds with shikigami—Japanese folklore spirits.
Onmyoji: The World will support cross-platform gameplay, ensuring that players from various platforms have a seamless gaming and social experience.
Frostpunk: Rise of City
The award-winning post-apocalyptic society survival simulation game's mobile version allows players to lead a group of people through a freezing post-apocalyptic landscape and manage the only city left. They must make difficult choices to ensure the city's survival and growth. This includes workforce allocation, health care, resource management, research, and dealing with nature's brute forces.
Frostpunk: Rise of City will be available for iOS and Android devices later this year.
Vikingard
Vikingard is a casual simulation RPG mobile game set during the Viking era, in which players inherit a tribe whose prestige has since waned. They must reclaim land, cultivate crops, preside over trials, and brawl with Vikings.
The game features fully developed characters, an interesting story, and dynamic gameplay that is both exciting and casual.
Vikingard will be available on mobile devices in late 2021.
Lost Light
Players will join the "Firefly" task force in this survival shooter mobile game and uncover the sinister plot behind the exclusion zone. They must survive the bloodthirsty domain where humanity has lost its hold and danger lurks around every corner! The world of Lost Light operates under the saying "high risk, high return." Players could either scavenge for supplies stealthily or go out with guns blazing and plunder like a warlord.
Characters' gear and firearms are meticulously recreated from real-world models. Upgrades to weapons and trading in the player-driven economy are also necessary for increasing your strength and repelling your adversaries. Following a battle, players retreat deep into abandoned subway tunnels to stockpile loot and establish a base.
Lost Light is currently in soft launch in select regions, including Australia and New Zealand, and will expand to additional regions in the future.
Racing Master
Racing Master is a real-time simulation racing game featuring real-world vehicles and tracks for all racing enthusiasts on iOS and Android. It was developed using the Unreal 4 engine and Codemasters' proprietary EGO technology. NetEase demonstrates the level of detail put into recreating the most realistic racing experience possible in the new trailer.
Players will experience authentic racing in cities worldwide, driving dozens of hyper-realistic cars from brands such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche, Koenigsegg, and Aston Martin. Customizing vehicles with leading automobile manufacturers and adjusting the handling from casual to simulation for maximum control are also included in the game.
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NARAKA: BLADEPOINT
NARAKA: BLADEPOINT is a 60-player action Battle Royale that features insane mobility enabled by parkour and a grappling hook, a massive arsenal of melee and ranged weapons, and a cast of powerful characters. Morus Island immerses players in a vast, mysterious battlefield where each section is unique and complemented by an awe-inspiring eastern art style.
The new video showcased impressions from the April 2021 open beta, during which the game drew 145,000 concurrent players, placing it fifth on Steam.
NARAKA: BLADEPOINT is expected to be released for PC on Steam in Summer 2021.
EVE Echoes
EVE Echoes, a mobile sci-fi sandbox MMO, launched last year and has since received several updates that have further enhanced the user experience. In June, a significant new update will bring the long-awaited exploration system, as well as new PvP and PvE content. This category includes advanced Tier 10 ships as well as massive Capital Ships. Players can sift through the unknown reaches of Nihilus Space in search of undiscovered treasures and technologies.
Identity V
As one of NetEase Games' most popular titles, Identity V, the first asymmetrical multiplayer mobile horror game, recently released a new trailer announcing the upcoming Identity V X Death Note crossover event, which will begin on May 27th. The core characters from the original work, Ryuk/Light Yagami/Misa Amane/L, will make their way to the manor in this crossover event. Identity V players will assist detectives in their investigation of strange deaths at the manor. Additionally, a significant content update dubbed "Time of Reunion" has been scheduled for November 2021.
Identity V will continue to invest in the global E-Sports ecological landscape in the coming year as the pioneer and leader of the global asymmetric competitive e-sports category. Along with the annual festival "Call of the Abyss," we will host two IVCs in Japan, one in Southeast Asia, one NAEU significant tournament, and other popular events to ensure that players from all regions can continue to compete at a high level.
LifeAfter
LifeAfter, the open-world post-apocalyptic survival game, recently celebrated its second anniversary on PC and mobile.
Besides the thrilling battles against the infected, construction build is one of the most popular game modes among players. Xiaochen, the Lead Producer, recently shared a few insights into what over 200 million players have contributed to this mode:
There are 1,470,000 kilometers of speedways, 800,000 slip ropes tied for teams and friends, 1,300,000 lamps that illuminate the dark roads ahead, and 660,000 mailboxes located throughout the world.
Season 3 also included numerous significant updates, such as improved graphics, massive seamless maps, realistic season changes, and natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions and typhoons.
Astracraft
Astracraft is a real-time sandbox and combat mobile game in which players can create and customize their own robots and lead them into battle. All components adhere to laws of physics, and weapons have realistic simulations of their effects on other vehicles. The robust in-game social network enables players to battle alongside their friends.
Astracraft is already available on mobile devices, and the trailer teased the addition of a new game mode dubbed "Ride to Arms."
Badlanders
Players must fight for treasure and glory on the ruins of a once-great civilization in the survival looter shooter mobile game Badlanders. The players' fortune is determined by intense adrenaline-fueled encounters.
Enhancing their equipment is critical for gaining an advantage over their opponents. They can customize the ultra-realistic firearms in a variety of ways to suit their own playstyle. However, they must survive the battlefield to secure their valuables; they can sell them to other players for additional profits, or if they have exceptional business sense, they can build their own empire and claim the world.
A new map featuring a desert landscape, as well as new weapons and attachments, were announced during the show, indicating that there will be plenty of new content to look forward to.
Project Ragnarök
Project Ragnarök is a strategy massively multiplayer online role-playing game based on Norse Pantheon mythology and Ragnarök Lore. It allows players to explore the historic realms on their own terms. Its story goes like this. The prophecy of Ragnarök is nearing fulfillment: Odin has summoned the supreme Valkyrie from the Hall of Valor to the mortal world to avert the annihilation.
The title is fully cross-platform, meaning it can be played on both PCs and mobile devices.
The action-packed trailer showcased a variety of new characters, enemies, combat and magic abilities, as well as new environments and gameplay features.
Aside from the 13 games featured, players can also expect a new simulation game from NetEase Games.
My School Simulator
My School Simulator is a free online school life simulation game. This innovative sandbox game features multiple editors that allow almost anything to be customized. In this fictitious Japanese-style city campus, players can play as anyone, go anywhere, and experience any type of school life they want.
The event was streamed live on the official NetEase Games YouTube channel and Facebook page. All gamers who missed the premiere can still watch the videos.
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