Remember Cosmic Star Heroine, the old-school RPG from Zeboyd Games of Cthulhu Saves The World fame? It seems that the release date is closer than we think. This is according to Limited Run Games co-founder Josh Fairhurst who attended GDC 2017 and spotted what seemed to be a release date – April 11th – for the RPG.

He noted that, “I didn’t realize Cosmic Star Heroine was coming so soon! I need to keep better track of these things.” Thus far the developer hasn’t officially announced as much though so take this with a grain of salt.

Cosmic Star Heroine promises to combine all the things that defined old-school RPGs including a 16-bit art-style, a soundtrack from HyperDuck Soundworks (of Dust: An Elysian Tail fame), seamless battles, animated cutscenes and turn-based combat among other things.

What are your thoughts on the April release date? Let us know in the comments below and stay tuned for more information in the coming weeks.

Remember Epic Games’ Fortnite? Back in 2011, the developer announced a sandbox, zombie survival game where players had to create forts, scavenging resources during the day, while fending off attacks from zombies in the night. However, ever since then, we’ve had reassurance after reassurance that Fortnite was progressing (with two closed alphas even) but no solid information.

However, it seems Fortnite will actually be out this year. That’s according to Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney (via PC Gamer) who told attendees at GDC 2017 that the long awaited tower defense title would be shipping this year. But then Epic Game itself told Polygon that a beta for the game would be out by 2018.

So which one do we believe?

At this point it seems possible that Fortnite could see a beta this year and a release in the next. We’re not holding our breath though, especially given all the statements we’ve heard already.

Do you expect Fortnite to arrive in 2017? Let us know in the comments.

Gearbox Software president and CEO Randy Pitchford had a presence at Epic’s Unreal presentation at GDC 2017. He took the chance to show off rendering tech that the developer “may use in a future Gearbox game”. If you see the video below, then it sure looks like the next Borderlands to us.

Pitchford noted that the character in the video is a “production model” and may or may not be in a future Gearbox title.

Pitchford said the focus of the demo is on the shadows presented. “It allows the scene to simulate in real-time. As time of day changes, or maybe conceivably we have different physics if we for example, were to explore different planets. There might be different physics and the sun and the moons might be in different positions than what we’re used to on Pandora.”

Of course, he noted by the end that the next Borderlands is indeed in development and would be coming to fans soon. How soon remains to be seen so stay tuned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxO84cSyjP0