On July 1st, Rare’s Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts will be playable via the cloud. Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling, an acclaimed Paper Mario-style RPG, will also be available for cloud, consoles and PC alongside Gang Beasts and Immortal Realms: Vampire Wars. If that weren’t enough, Playdead’s iconic platformer Limbo is coming to the service as well.

Interestingly, Judgment wasn’t announced for the subscription service despite a recent tease. Perhaps we’ll see it added later. In the meantime, some titles will be leaving Xbox Game Pass on June 30th so play them now while you have the chance. The games in question include:

• Battle Chasers: Nightwar (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• The Messenger (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Mistover (PC)
• Monster Hunter World (Cloud and Console)
• Out of the Park Baseball 21 (PC)
• Outer Wilds (Cloud and Console)
• Soulcalibur 6 (Console)

The world is in a fragile state in KING Art Games’ Iron Harvest. The Great War has ended and Europe is in a state of recuperation. Unfortunately, in this alternate reality version of 1920+, dieselpunk mechs dominate the battlefield and a new foe is slowly emerging to bring about chaos. So naturally, the three factions go to war once more.

This is highlighted in the new trailer below, which features lots of mech-oriented warfare. KING Art Games and Deep Silver also confirmed that a demo for the game would be available on PC. It goes live today and will be available until June 22nd as part of the Steam Game Festival: Summer Edition.

The final game promises a fairly hefty single-player component with nine heroes, three campaigns and over 20 missions. There are more than 30 units types across all the factions and all campaigns are playable in co-op. Skirmish and multiplayer is also supported, the latter having support for ranked play and leagues.

Iron Harvest is out on September 1st for PC with PS4 and Xbox One versions coming later.

It’s been a while since we’ve heard about KING Art Games’ Iron Harvest, an alternative World War 1 era RTS that’s in development for Xbox One, PS4, and PC. Fortunately, the developer has offered a pretty significant update today. It will be partnering with Deep Silver of Metro: Exodus fame to publish Iron Harvest.

The developer settled on Deep Silver after more than a dozen publishers expressed interest. The benefit of this deal is that KING Art Games will retain creative control, while Deep Silver will handle production, first party dealings, and whatnot.

Of course, that’s not all. A map editor and mods have been a top request from the game’s community, and while nothing is confirmed, the development team has found a way to load maps into the main game. Players will have to install the Unity Engine and the developer’s plugin to create maps though. Though users will only be able to create maps on PC, the developer will release “officially sanctioned” maps by the community for consoles.

Iron Harvest is slated to release in 2019 for Xbox One, PS4, and PC. Stay tuned for more information on the map editor and other features in the meantime.

King Art Games attracted quite a bit of attention last year with Iron Harvest, a real-time strategy game with cover elements and destructible environments set in an alternative post-World War 1 universe. The game recently launched its Kickstarter, seeking $450,000 in funding and it seems backers were quite taken with the premise. Iron Harvest has already crossed its crowdfunding goal and stands at $523,538 with 29 days remaining.

That’s a pretty stellar amount especially with so much time left. Among the stretch goals included are cinematic cutscenes ($600,000), Challenge Maps (($750,000), multiplayer ($1 million), a co-op campaign ($1.1 million) and a free DLC campaign ($1.5 million). As of right now, the New Game Plus stretch goal has already been fulfilled.

Check out the Kickstarter trailer below for Iron Harvest – it showcases the emphasis on cover-based combat, how giant steampunk mechs play into things, the different factions and the general aesthetic. The game is currently in development for Xbox One, PS4 and PC.

KING Art Games’ intriguing steampunk strategy title Iron Harvest is scheduled to release in 2018 but it will also have a Kickstarter taking place on March 13th. As of now, the goals and funding amount aren’t known. We’re also unsure how this affects the current release window. Perhaps the crowd-funding campaign is for any additional funding needed at the final stretch.

Regardless, what we’ve seen about Iron Harvest has been very impressive. It takes place in an alternate-history post-World War 1 universe where three major factions rule. These are the Saxony Empire, the Rusviet and Polania Republic, each with their own playable campaign and story. The twist is that each nation has huge steampunk mechs to fight along with the traditional soldiers.

With the setting created by Polish artist Jakub Różalski, Iron Harvest definitely has promise. It’s in development for Xbox One, PS4 and PC so stay tuned for more information on the Kickstarter.

King Art Games’ Iron Harvest is still at a relatively stage but it’s intrigued us with its alternate history, steampunk tactical RTS style of gameplay. The overall aesthetic with hulking steam machines and several factions at work looks great and we can’t wait to see how the developer’s vision pans out.

Of course, what’s more interesting is how the game will run on consoles. Despite strategy games having more room on Xbox One and PS4 than before, they’re still relatively niche on consoles. When Iron Harvest arrives, it will be among this generation’s more powerful variants of console hardware, namely the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X. How does the developer plan to approach parity in that regard? Will it simply push the Xbox One X hard or try to fit its vision on both systems?

King Arts’ Julian Strzoda replied, noting that, “As a small developer we don’t have dedicated developers working on Xbox One X or PlayStation 4 Pro. We’re going to have seven different quality settings.

“Three for PCs (high, medium, low + custom) and one for each console. For each setting we’ll try to figure out the best compromise between visuals and performance. So, yes, if a system is more powerful it’ll get the better version of the game, but we’re probably not going to write specific code for any of the platforms.”

It’s good to see the developer keeping the Xbox One’s strengths in mind along with prioritizing graphics for different PC settings as well. How much of a drain that will be on resources remains to be seen though. The Xbox One X arrives on November 7th worldwide for $499 while Iron Harvest’s release date is still to be announced.

King Art Games’ Iron Harvest feels like a dream come true. It’s set in an alternate 1920s universe with steampunk aesthetics, huge mechs, destructible environments, cover-based shooting akin to Company of Heroes and much more. Given the number of real-time strategy games on consoles these days, we thought it would be interesting to hear what the studio thinks about the upcoming Xbox One X and how beneficial it would be.

GamingBolt spoke to King Arts’ Julian Strzoda about the console’s 12 GB GDDR5 RAM and the benefits it offers. When we commented on the console having a ton of memory, Strzoda noted that, “There’ll never be such a thing as enough memory. Ever. Of course it’s great to have more memory available.”

However, even as Microsoft hammers home the console’s status as the most powerful yet, the RAM won’t be the biggest difference-maker. “But in the end, the differences won’t be dramatic. For example: It’s not enough memory to double the size of all textures in the game or something like that. So, yes, there will be more stuff and stuff will be higher quality. But the differences won’t be huge.”

This seems to reinforce the idea of the Xbox One X being a mid-generation upgrade rather than a full-fledged step forward. But we’ll only know for ourselves when the console is out on November 7th for $499 so stay tuned till then.

KING Art Games, perhaps better known for The Book of Unwritten Tales series, has released the first gameplay trailer for Iron Harvest, its alternate reality RTS that’s set in 1920+ and features hulking machines that act as weapons. Check it out below along with some concept art of the game.

The setting has been developed Polish artist Jakub Różalski and sees three factions vying for supremacy – the Saxony Empire which is composed of industries, cities, factories and a strong military presence; the Polania Republic which focuses on agriculture and does its best to thwart neighbouring enemies; and Rusviet Rusviet, a powerful industrial faction with lots of people but torn apart by years of war.

Along with hero characters, players can use mechs and soldiers, take cover and use dynamic destruction in environments for tactical purposes. Levels function as “open sandboxes” and there will be a “dynamic story line” to follow. Iron Harvest is currently slated to release in 2019 for Xbox One, PS4 and PC.