- Outcast - A New Beginning is Now Available! - 15 March 2024
Outcast - A New Beginning is Now Available!, Returning Players to the Spectacular World of Adelpha Vienna, Austria / Charleroi, Belgium - March 15, 2024: Two decades after the groundbreaking release of Outcast, the beloved action-adventure franchise returns with Outcast - A New Beginning, releasing today! Players once again dive into the mesmerizing, interconnected alien world of Adelpha. The game will be available for PlayStation®5, Xbox Series S|X, and PC. Watch the OUT NOW trailer: https://youtu.be/9e3Rd-Oxcsw Developed by the original team behind the first instalment, Outcast - A New Beginning offers a thrilling continuation of Cutter Slade's journey as he battles against invading forces to save the planet from devastation. Set against the backdrop of a stunning open-world environment, players navigate through Adelpha's diverse landscapes, utilizing Cutter's jetpack and Talan powers…
- Outcast - A New Beginning: New Trailer & Pre-Order Start - 25 January 2024
Outcast - A New Beginning: New Trailer & Pre-Order Start Vienna, Austria / Charleroi, Belgium - January 25, 2024: Prepare to embark on an epic journey to Adelpha! The latest trailer for Outcast - A New Beginning invites you to explore the planet and delve into the lives of its inhabitants, the Talans, and their captivating culture. These peaceful and charming people now face a grave threat from ruthless invaders. Will you rise to lead their fight for resistance? Check out the latest trailer here: https://youtu.be/aZAQsRRd21I The digital pre-order for Outcast - A New Beginning is now open! Take the leap through the portal to Adelpha early, and enjoy a 17% pre-order discount when you secure the game before its release on March 15th. You can pre-order here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1013140/Outcast__A_New_Beginning/ Outcast - A New Beginning / Overview Weapon upgrades, aliens and…
- Outcast sequel A New Beginning has a release date, almost 25 years after the original sci-fi adventure game - 4 December 2023
Outcast: A New Beginning is gearing up to drop its long-awaited sequel to the nineties sci-fi adventure game , with its newly-announced release date landing almost a quarter of a century after its predecessor. If you’re new, or have just forgotten what happened in the first Outcast - of which there’s a good chance given that time gap - you should apparently still be able to jump in here. Read more
- Outcast is getting a sequel 20 years after the original - 17 September 2021
Hello, the 90s are calling and they'd like to offer you sequels to games you've probably forgotten about. Outcast 2: A New Beginning is the newly announced follow-up to 1999's Outcast . It's an open-world third-person shooter that takes place right after the events of the original, where Cutter Slade (the best-named man in the world) has been stuck in time for 20 years after trying to get home to Earth from the alien planet Adelpha. Read more
- THQ Nordic held a Q&A with 8chan, a website de-listed from Google for hosting suspected child porn - 26 February 2019
“We’re doing an 8chan AMA and we have no idea why,” announced THQ Nordic on their Twitter account earlier this evening. If you’re not aware, 8chan is an imageboard website which has been de-listed from Google search results for hosting “suspected child abuse content,” and which is associated with Swatting and Gamergate. THQ Nordic’s marketing director has since apologised and claimed ignorance, but both are hard to believe. (more…)
- Cutter paid: THQ Nordic buy Outcast rights - 10 January 2019
In their continuing mission to own memories of PC gaming 1992-2006, publishers THQ Nordic are now buying the intellectual property rights to Outcast . Released in 1999 by Belgian studio Appeal then remade in 2017 as Outcast – Second Contact, Outcast is an open-world explore-o-shooter about a soldier who travels to a parallel universe to save our world then gets waylaid running errands for aliens and riding a spaceostrich. THQ Nordic don’t reveal any firm plans for Outcast, but I imagine they’re planning a huge line of merchandise daubed with video gaming’s greatest protagonist name: Cutter Slade. (more…)
- Wot I Think: Outcast Second Contact - 22 November 2017
Despite growing up in the 90s, I had never heard of Outcast . And as someone who loves open-world exploration, I don t share that fact proudly. I ve only ever known the shinier counterparts of last century s genre defining titles, growing up with games like Bioshock, Fallout, and Wolfenstein, whose decades-old predecessors continue to influence modern gaming conventions. As such, I was a blank slate coming into the recently released Outcast Second Contact, a remake of the 1999 cult classic. What I discovered was a strange amalgam of new and old. Second Contact looks great and it’s a clear precursor to the open world games that came later, but how does it all hold together without the rose-tinted lens of nostalgia to cover its weaknesses? (more…)
- Outcast s remake Second Contact is out now - 18 November 2017
The world of 1999 feels so strange and far away now. So different from the stressful realities of the here-and-now. I was a precocious (but equally nerdy) teenager back then, but I still clearly remember the first time I played Outcast , a Stargate-inspired action adventure exploring environments quite unlike anything else at the time, at the expense of nearly melting most CPUs of the era. It’s a good thing that Belgian studio Appeal aren’t going to let a little thing like nearly two decades get between them and their vision, because they’ve gone and released Outcast again, polished up and remastered to something approaching modern spec. I don’t know about you, but I can hear the ’99 calling again. Maybe it’s time for another trip to the lush alien world of Adelpha, just for old times sake. (more…)
- Outcast - Second Contact available now! - 14 November 2017
Dear Adelphians, After 1.5 years of hard work, the Appeal team is proud to bring you Outcast - Second Contact, the remake of Outcast available here In addition to the discount on Steam, a cumulative -30% discount will be offered to Outcast 1.1 owners as a loyalty reward, for 30 days starting from 14th November 2017 6pm CET.
- Outcast - Second Contact available now! - 14 November 2017
Dear Adelphians, After 1.5 years of hard work, the Appeal team is proud to bring you Outcast - Second Contact, the remake of Outcast available here In addition to the discount on Steam, a cumulative -30% discount will be offered to Outcast 1.1 owners as a loyalty reward, for 30 days starting from 14th November 2017 6pm CET.
- Outcast: Second Contact is just three weeks away - 26 October 2017
Outcast holds a strange and special place in my heart, conjuring up memories of everything great and frustrating about PC gaming. Back in 1999, Outcast was a technological marvel, a Stargate SG-1-inspired story, an enormous alien world and a mixture of polygonal and voxel graphics capable of doing the environment justice. It was the Crysis of its era. Unfortunately, like Crysis, it was too much for most PCs of the time, and even an upgraded re-release on GOG still struggled to run consistently well. Good then, that original Belgian studio Appeal never stopped dreaming . In three weeks, we’ll see the release of Outcast: Second Contact , a modernised remake of the original. Click onwards for a trailer, hot off the trailer machine. (more…)
- Outcast overhaul delayed into autumn - 31 March 2017
Outcast – Second Contact , the remake of 1999’s open-world sci-fi shooter, is delayed again. It’s now due some time in the autumn, according to a new trailer giving a peek at the modernised adventures of Cutter Slade. Have a peek: …
- Outcast Remake Is Happening After All - 12 August 2016
A remake of cult classic Outcast is still in the works, says the developer of the original. Outcast Second Contact is being released in March next year, despite some troubled years in development. The original game was released way back in 1999 and was generally well-received by critics, while being thoroughly ignored by the unwashed masses. By this, I mean you. I was barely alive in 1999, so don t lay any of that at my doorstep. …
- Outcast 1.1 hot update version 1.1.6.18976 - 13 April 2015
This hot update fixes some triggering issues with some quest's achievements and support several new missing achievements which were not exposed. This updates also fixes a potential crash when exiting the game. For those who have already completed the quests related to these achievements, normally, these achievements should unlock properly the next time you run the game with this update. Thanks again for your sustained report and feedback!
- Outcast 1.1 hot update version 1.1.6.18976 - 13 April 2015
This hot update fixes some triggering issues with some quest's achievements and support several new missing achievements which were not exposed. This updates also fixes a potential crash when exiting the game. For those who have already completed the quests related to these achievements, normally, these achievements should unlock properly the next time you run the game with this update. Thanks again for your sustained report and feedback!
- Outcast 1.1 hot update version 1.1.6.18970 - 9 April 2015
This hot update fixes the following gameplay/achievements issues. Many thanks for your awesome feedback and reporting : ) Fix the Fae fruits vanishing from backpack In a specific context, if was not possible to give the Gorgor tooth to Martigar (this bug was in the original game) In Motazaar, the dialogs related to the "collapsed mines" were not properly raised (was inadvertely removed during a code refactoring) "Hypocondriac!" achievement was triggering at 20 instead of 100 The achievements counter related to the weapon merchants have been resized from 10 to 9 (actually there's one weapon merchant per district). The 10th weapon merchant is a just a 1999's myth! ;) More info on version 1.1.6 introducing achievements Release notes history
- Outcast 1.1 hot update version 1.1.6.18970 - 9 April 2015
This hot update fixes the following gameplay/achievements issues. Many thanks for your awesome feedback and reporting : ) Fix the Fae fruits vanishing from backpack In a specific context, if was not possible to give the Gorgor tooth to Martigar (this bug was in the original game) In Motazaar, the dialogs related to the "collapsed mines" were not properly raised (was inadvertely removed during a code refactoring) "Hypocondriac!" achievement was triggering at 20 instead of 100 The achievements counter related to the weapon merchants have been resized from 10 to 9 (actually there's one weapon merchant per district). The 10th weapon merchant is a just a 1999's myth! ;) More info on version 1.1.6 introducing achievements Release notes history
- Outcast 1.1 has been updated to 1.1.6.18965 - 8 April 2015
Dear Adelphians, This hot update includes several fixes related to achievement's triggering, issues with platforms in motazaar, a major internal refactoring of the backpack, stability improvement, unexpected destructions of objects...and further performance optims. May the Yods be happy! More info on version 1.1.6 introducing achievements Release notes history
- Outcast 1.1 has been updated to 1.1.6.18965 - 8 April 2015
Dear Adelphians, This hot update includes several fixes related to achievement's triggering, issues with platforms in motazaar, a major internal refactoring of the backpack, stability improvement, unexpected destructions of objects...and further performance optims. May the Yods be happy! More info on version 1.1.6 introducing achievements Release notes history
- Outcast 1.1 achievements are available! - 5 April 2015
https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/10609487_1076635935684985_709098563429672422_n.jpg?oh=f25bcc74f9adab7ad328ce9eb600dbd4&oe=559F3125&__gda__=1437900440_b0f6acff1c96a7e8b37e28d35d99260e Dear Adelphians, We are pleased to announce that the "so waited" achievements for Outcast 1.1 are now available. You just need to get the last update (version 1.1.6 or higher) to be able to start unlocking them :). This version also includes further optimisations improvements and few fixes (see release notes below). +150 achievements, some are tied to the story others not. The game comes with over 150 achievements. The achievements that are related to the original game's quest have been hidden to avoid spoiling too much about the plot of the game (for new players). They appear as squared icons with a color code associated to the different regions of Adelpha. The othe…
