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AIPD is a twin-stick shooter with 100,000 game modes and is coming to PS4. Blazing Badger's top down shooter has an awsome visual identity and some pretty cool 80s’ neon art styles. Blazing Badger tell us AIPD is now releasing in early 2016. With 100,000 potential combinations, local co-op play and online leaderboards, this shooter is one to look out for.

Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi rougelike shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It’s up to you to strategize a plan of attack, pick an equipment loadout, and destroy the central core to become victorious. Cryptark is by Alien Trap Games, the same guys that gave us Apotheon, which enjoyed a great deal of success as part of PlayStation Plus.

Cold Horizon is a side scrolling exploration adventure being developed by Big Cake Games for PS4. The game will throw you into the barely recognisable landscapes of Earth where humans are close to extinction and nature has taken hold of the world. Cold Horizon is a story about a fateful partnership between a polar bear and a child who come together through tragic circumstances to survive against all odds. You play as the polar bear whilst simultaneously being able to use the child’s mysterious gift in specific gameplay scenarios.

The centuries-old goblin assassin Styx returns in a new stealth game, Styx: Shards of Darkness, with a bigger budget, bigger ideas, and a new engine: Unreal 4. Master of Shadows was a valiant exploration into the world of the goblin thief, but in Shards of Darkness, expect to delve deeper into a more complex narrative and fully realized world. Styx: Shards of Darkness comes to PS4 in 2016.

Red Cobra is a Shmup/Metroidvania hybrid with puzzle and exploration aspects in which you shoot, bomb, explore and solve puzzles in order to put an end to the evil organization

G.R.I.P. and their campaign to rule the world.The core of Red Cobra is shooting 360 degrees in a twin-stick fashion. Sprinkled throughout the game will be “Metroidvania” exploration levels as well as environmental and boss puzzles. Colleen Wilson from Adversary Games tells us Red Cobra is planned to be released on PlayStation 4.

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