After the unexpected announcement a few weeks ago that we would be getting a remastered version of Burnout Paradise on current-gen hardware, we are only a few days away from its actual release. Now, developer Criterion Games and publisher Electronic Arts have released a brand new trailer for the game, and it’s certainly action-packed.

The trailer, which is titled The Race is On, is essentially a one-minute montage of gameplay from the racing title, all with the song Make Way by Aloe Blac in the background. You can, of course, check out the trailer at the end of the article.

While it’s certainly no launch trailer, it does give us our first look at what is essentially raw gameplay from the title.

A few days after its initial reveal, it was announced that, thankfully, the original soundtrack would remain intact from its original release, and that EA would not be adding microtransactions to the game, which is something fans were worried about after the debacle that was Star Wars Battlefront II.

Burnout Paradise Remastered is set to be released on March 16, 2018, and will be available on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, with a PC version coming soon. The original game was released all the way back on January 22, 2008, and is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Windows PC.

In a surprise Twitch stream today, Activision and Treyarch revealed that the next Call of Duty game will indeed be Call Of Duty: Black Ops 4.

As rumors and leaks suggested, the game is actually Black Ops IIII, apparently using a tally system rather than the more conventional Roman numeral, IV. There's virtually no other information on this at this time other than we now know that a full reveal is coming May 17th.

What's more interesting is Black Ops 4's launch date: October 12th. This is the first time since Call of Duty 2 that a game in the franchise has released in October. Both it and the very first Call of Duty launched in October, but every game since then has released in early November. And those two games came out in late October.

So why is Treyarch releasing Call Of Duty: Black Ops IIII on October 12th, a month earlier than virtually every other game in the series? I have a nagging suspicion that it has to do with Rockstar's mega-release of Red Dead Redemption 2 on October 26th.

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