Early this morning, Hurricane Laura made landfall near Cameron, Louisiana, battering the region with winds up to 150 mph. There is already one confirmed fatality, and Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards says he expects more to be reported over the next few days. While there is already extensive damage in Louisiana, Laura…
Gamescom’s “Opening Night Live” is the last major not-E3 event of the summer. Hosted by Geoff Keighley, pretty much every heavy hitter in the industry—from EA and Gearbox to Bungie and Bethesda—is making an appearance. Expect to get a taste of upcoming games (Ratchet & Clank: A Rift Apart, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold…
The trailer roll-out for Marvel’s Avengers has been unrelenting these past few weeks. Just this month, Square Enix has dropped a launch trailer, a mechanics breakdown, and a reveal of PlayStation-exclusive perks that became the subject of discussion among fans for a while.
They’re even planning on showing off an additional playable character in the upcoming War Table stream on Sept. 1. That’s coming just before the game’s launch on Sept. 4. It seems a bit last-minute, but curious fans will no doubt tune in.
Today’s trailer for Marvel’s Avengers is taking a completely different approach to building hype ahead of the game’s release next month. This is a cinematic trailer that shows off the heroes’ abilities in a grand fashion.
Captain America, Ms. Marvel, Black Widow, Thor, Iron Man, and Hulk are taking on a ton of enemies at once in this one. It’s a bit reminiscent of the New York scene in the first Avengers movie, honestly.
Those who love that over-the-top action can watch the cinematic Marvel’s Avengers trailer below:
Get ready for another possible backer vote. If people can meet the $3.85 stretch goal, the 110th character will be added to Eiyuden Chronicle.
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Let me give you a second to process – and try to picture – that ridiculous headline.
On Twitter, Netflix shared a head-turning summary of its upcoming live-action, eight-episode Resident Evil series from writer Andrew Dabb (Supernatural), and, well, here goes: "When the Wesker kids move to New Raccoon City, the secrets they uncover might just be the end of everything."
With all of the lore and characters to draw from, this is an interesting choice, to say the least.
The Hollywood Reporter has more details about the series, including a few quotes from Dabb, who calls Resident Evil his "favorite game of all time" and says the season will "be complete with a lot of old friends, and some things (bloodthirsty, insane things) people have never seen before."
Resident Evil is said to span two time periods – one with Jade and Billie Wesker's family drama in New Raccoon City, and another, set 16 years later, with Jade now struggling in a mostly-infected world.
I'm along for this wild ride. I won't be able to look away.
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Given the track record for comic book adaptations, Damon Lindelof’s Watchmen series, an adaptation of the Alan Moore graphic novel, stood an equal chance of telling a ripping action-adventure story as it did ending up like so much space squid on a windshield. But with the help of producers like Stephen Williams and…
Gamescom 2020 may have been canceled this year, but it has been replaced with an online event that is still packed full of new game information, announcements, and footage. It begins with Gamescom Opening Night Live, a two-hour show that features more than 30 different games, including completely new titles.
Some of the biggest games featured during this presentation include Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, which will be a PS5 exclusive, as well as Fall Guys, which is entering Season 2. With the huge timeslot available, expect larger game demonstrations and more in-depth coverage than you might see at E3 or a different digital event.
Gamescom Opening Night Live will begin soon. You can watch the full presentation here as it airs and for a list of the biggest games shown--including never-before-scene titles--check below.
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Videogames are television now. But while everything from Splinter Cell to Fallout is gunning for streaming gold following The Witcher‘s Cavill-shaped successes, Resident Evil probably makes more sense than most. With a long run of live-action films behind it, the horror series is now getting a Netflix original series, one that follows the plucky Wesker kids as they uncover the no-good rotten antics their dear old dad Albert’s been up to. Probably.
Dusk was waning on June 14 when her friends got the news: one of the two bodies police had found the night before had been identified. It was Toyin. A 19-year-old student living in Tallahassee, Oluwatoyin Salau had met the group of activists during the George Floyd protests, a moment when young people across the city…
Tsukushi is a big fan of manga and bishoujo, and is here to stare at all the pretty girls.
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When news broke two weeks ago that Forza Horizon 3 would be delisted toward the end of September, I wondered whether it'd go out with one last hurrah as a closing time freebie in next month's Games with Gold. It wasn't meant to be, as Microsoft's instead giving out a different old game that has similarly been made redundant by newer entries in its series.
The Division is the biggest name in September's Games with Gold lineup, as Ubisoft's 2016 open-world RPG team shooter takes the spotlight. It's a fine enough game, but the sequel vastly improves upon the original in most areas. Also, Ubisoft sold The Division 2 for $3 earlier this year, so plenty of people have tried their hand at the newer of the games.
The rest of the list is less remarkable. The other Xbox One title is point-and-click adventure The Book of Unwritten Tales 2. As far as past-generation games go, Xbox 360's De Blob 2 and original Xbox's Armed and Dangerous are up for grabs. As always, those older games are playable on Xbox One through backward compatibility.
Here's the full rundown for Xbox's Games with Gold in September:
Cadence of Hyrule's second paid DLC, the Melody Pack, is now live. This DLC introduces a wealth of new and remixed musical tracks to the game. You can toggle between these songs at any time while playing from the options menu.
In total, the Melody Pack adds 39 new and remixed Zelda tracks from three different composers: Chipzel, FamilyJules, and A_Rival. The Melody Pack is included as part of Cadence of Hyrule's Season Pass, which costs $15 USD. If you're not interested in the other DLC, it can also be purchased separately for $6 USD.
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This week the podcast truly is the daddy of all podcasts, as we decide to talk all things dad in games. This of course means we must first establish what a dad game is. Are we talking about games that dads will like, or games about dads? And what is the crossover between the two?
Eventually we settle on having a lovely chat about some of our favourite dads in games, including the sad murder dads, and the phenomenon that is developers growing up and having kids and therefore making entirely different games. I ask Nate, as the only dad amongst us, for his dad analysis of the game dads, and we have a lovely time. Plus, Matthew leads us into the Cavern Of Lies where he presents us with a cavalcade of game dads. But which ones are real and which are fake?
Today Rabbit & Bear Studios launched a new trailer of its upcoming JRPG Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes.
The trailer provides a look at gameplay and recaps what was achieved so far with the Kickstarter campaign, including a metric ton of stretch goals between new characters, features, and minigames.
You can watch it below.
Incidentally, the game’s Kickstarter campaign has now passed $3.8 million, which means that the Theatre system announced yesterday has been unlocked.
More goals have been teased for the last 48-hour rush including one titled “The Depths” at $4.25 million and several with no indicated amount including “On My Own Time,” “A New Style” (DLC), “A Good Offense, ” “State of Mind” (DLC) and a “Final Goal.”
We also get a message from Suikoden creator Yoshitaka Murayama.
“When we first set off down this path it was a new challenge for us. We knew so little about Kickstarter and of course in the back of our minds we had the anxiety of wondering if gamers really wanted something like this?
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This high-tech flight simulator even contains a new hurricane
The Alienware AW2521HFL is the latest version of Dell’s 240Hz gaming monitor, taking over from the excellent, if now slightly dated AW2518H. It’s a Freesync Premium screen at its core, but it’s also one of Nvidia’s fully certified [cms-block] as well, making it a great choice for AMD and Nvidia graphics card owners alike looking for smooth, tear-free gaming at high refresh rates. Is it a better buy than the excellent value AOC C27G2ZU, though? Let’s take a look.
Thatgamecompany's Sky: Children of Light Switch version won't arrive until sometime in 2021.
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Lonely towns, supernatural kids and pine-filled forests at the top of America? Why, it could only be another episodic narrative from Dontnod Entertainment, couldn’t it? The first episode of moody magical adventure Tell Me Why arrives today, following the Ronan twins as they untangle a murky childhood mystery deep in the heart of Alaska.
There are no facts. First-hand accounts have an inherent subjectivity to them, people lie, and memories fade. All of this is what’s meant to make Tell Me Why so intriguing. But while the characters and world are brimming with charm, pulling the thread to reveal the secrets of this fictional Alaskan town’s not so mysterious murder proves to be the least compelling part of the whole adventure.
In Tell Me Why you switch between the perspectives of twins Alyson and Tyler Ronan after they’re reunited 10 years after their mother’s death. Over the course of 8.5 hours (spanning across three episodes), the two prepare to sell their childhood home, which proves to be both a physically and emotionally exhausting task. Despite being completely separate from the Life Is Strange universe, Tell Me Why soon veers into the supernatural in a similar way, primarily through Alyson and Tyler’s ability to talk telepathically and rewatch ghostly replays of key childhood memories together. Made up of golden light particles, the translucent look of these replays give them a mystical and transient feeling.
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Through these visions, you get to see more of the twins' past and sometimes “remember” details from key events so you can confront folks in town and get the answers you’re looking for. Similarly, chatting telepathically allows the two to strategize their next move, opening up more dialogue options or guiding the other through a task.
In a way, the first episode of Tell Me Why wants to convince you that people aren’t as bad as you think. It’s a weird message for me, a trans man playing a video game, to hear—both video games and the people who surround them can be worse than I think, and I’m constantly braced for some trans joke or violent plotline. …
I don't know how they do it. Dontnod have real form making these intense, socio-political narrative games, where you simply walk around interacting with other characters and objects. Tell Me Why is another success.
This time, the story is about a set of young adult twins dealing with the fallout of a traumatic childhood incident. One of the siblings is close to completing their transition to male, and Dontnod is wonderfully deft and sensitive, simultaneously making this detail both central and peripheral to proceedings as you dive deeper into the narrative.
Tyler Ronan has returned to a sleepy Alaskan village, reuniting with his sister Alyson, after a decade in juvenile detention. Together again, the twins are determined to understand exactly what happened during their difficult and precarious childhood. This is complicated by the fact they both have different ideas about how to seek out the truth, especially as Alyson never stopped living close to the people who might have answers.
If you’ve been waiting for Control‘s Epic exclusivity to end, well, wait no longer. Remedy Entertainment’s third-person spook-em-up arrived on Steam today in the form of an Ultimate Edition containing the base game and both expansions, The Foundation and AWE. As fate (read: Remedy’s marketing department) would have it, AWE launched today as well. It’s the long-rumoured Alan Wake expansion, which has you exploring a new deep dark area of The Oldest House to uncover more supernatural mysteries.
Fortnite's Season 4 cross-collaboration event with Marvel kicks off today, but iPhone, iPad, and Mac players won't be able to join in on the fun due to the current legal dispute between Apple and Epic Games. However, while new seasonal updates won't be coming to the game on iOS, Epic did manage to sneak in one last bit of content, adding the art Tycoon character skin to the game.
The Tart Tycoon is Fortnite's representation of Apple and its monopoly, and was introduced in a commercial that satirized the 1984 Apple Macintosh personal computer advert that referenced George Orwell's novel set in a dystopian future. The advert then encouraged Fortnite players to protest against Apple and its store policies with the #FreeFortnite hashtag on social media.
A prize that players could obtain with very little effort through an in-game tournament, the reward was added as a small "adjustment" on iOS platforms. "We've deployed an adjustment on iOS and Google Play that will allow #FreeFortnite Cup winners to receive the Tart Tycoon Outfit alongside other platforms later this week," an Epic Games spokesperson explained on Reddit.
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The filmmakers wanted to reunite him with Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter for an emotional moment
This fall, Lunchables will be putting the "wahoo" into back to school with Nintendo-themed packaging. From September 1 through December 31, select Lunchables packages will feature Nintendo characters from across various franchises, including Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Super Mario Odyssey, and Pokemon Sword and Shield.
These packages will also feature special codes that can be redeemed online for a chance to win your very own Nintendo Switch prize pack. The bundle includes a Switch system and your choice of two download codes from a selection including Splatoon 2, Link's Awakening, and other Switch exclusives. 750 of these bundles are available to win, but if you aren't one of the lucky few, you may still get 100 My Nintendo Platinum points (don't forget you'll need a Nintendo account to redeem these).
Continue Reading at GameSpotPeople can pick up Hitman 3 on January 20th, and there will even be a free next-gen upgrade to the PS5 and Xbox Series X versions.
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Carto wasn't on our radar until the PC Gaming Show in June. But, once it showed up there, it was became a staple of the list of games we're keeping an eye on. This chill indie puzzle game is about exploring a world by flipping its pieces upside-down. It looks like the kind of thing you'd want to lose yourself in for an afternoon.
The first opportunity for that escapism comes in exactly two months. Publisher Humble Games has announced that Carto will launch on October 27. It's coming to PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One.
If you need more convincing, check out the release date trailer that's embedded above. It's got all those cutesy wholesome vibes that your Switch craves. However, Carto also looks like it might have the puzzler chops to give your brain a bit of a workout. Just two more months until we find out if it lives up to those expectations.
Embracer Group subsidiary Koch Media has established two new publishing offices in Asia to expand its global footprint. ...
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