Today has brought the launch of Hylics 2, sequel to the 2015 RPG with the best spellcasting animations in the genre. Made with a mix of clay models and stop-motion animation, it is such a looker. Sounds great, too. I dig its whole surreal, psychedelic vibe. The first one was great fun and I am very much looking forward to clocking off today so I can jack into the sequel. Here, watch this trailer.
Earlier this morning, Masahiro Sakurai hosted a 35-minute livestream for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate to reveal a new fighter. It was announced that Min Min from ARMS would be coming on June 29 as a downloadable character, alongside a new stage, new music, and a bunch of Mii Fighter Costumes.
Towards the end of the livestream, Sakurai also announced that a new amiibo for Persona 5’s Joker and Dragon Quest’s Hero will be coming sometime in the fall of 2020.
Sakurai also mentioned that Nintendo still plans to produce new amiibo figures for future DLC fighters however the company doesn’t know how many of them will be produced, which might lead to shortages upon release.
You can check out some images of the Joker and Hero amiibo down below. As we previously mentioned, these currently do not have a set release date but you can expect for them to cost about $15 USD:
Crash Bandicoot 4 is on the way, and you'll be able to play it on your PlayStation 4 and Xbox One this fall.
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Buying a new gaming monitor can be fraught with difficulty when there are so many different options to choose from, but our guide to the best gaming monitors of 2020 is here to help. I’ve tested dozens of gaming screens to find our best gaming monitor picks, and you’ll find all of my recommendations for various resolutions, screen sizes and different refresh rates below, including the best ultrawide gaming monitors, the best 4K gaming monitors and the best 144Hz and 240Hz gaming monitors. After all, it’s no good spending loads of money upgrading your PC with a fancy graphics card and CPU if you don’t have a great-looking gaming monitor to help games look their very best. Whatever type of gaming monitor you’re looking for, I’ve got a best gaming monitor pick for you.
Well, Cyberpunk got delayed. But... it's also getting a comic book! That's pretty cool right?
Together with @DarkHorseComics, we're proud to announce Cyberpunk 2077: Trauma Team, new comic series!
— Cyberpunk 2077 (@CyberpunkGame) June 21, 2020
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The new comic series is scheduled to hit on September 9. The story centers around a character named Nadia, an assistant EMT on the titular Trauma Team. On one of Nadia's rescue calls, things take a turn for the worse and a shootout takes the team in an exciting new direction.
Trauma Team features Cullen Bunn (Uncanny X-Men) as writer and Miguel Valderrama (Giants!) as illustrator. You can find out more at the official Dark Horse Comics page.
Activision has announced (officially this time) Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time - the first brand new Crash game in a decade.
Developer Toys for Bob said Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time is set after the end of the original Naughty Dog-developed Crash trilogy, when Neo Cortex, Dr. N. Tropy and Uka Uka were stranded on a distant planet, and features playable Crash, Coco and Neo Cortex, among others.
You can choose between playing as Crash and Coco at any time (both bandicoots share the same moveset). At some point you can play as Neo Cortex. The mad scientist uses inventions and a ray-gun, which has the ability to transmogrify hazards and enemies into platforms - a static, solid platform or a bouncy platform that gives him access to higher levels.
Today Bandai Namco Entertainment announced with a press release that My Hero: One’s Justice 2 is getting a photo mode.
The feature will be added with a free update, so everyone who got the game will be able to take spiffy pictures of the game’s popular anime heroes.
At the moment, the update has no release date besides a generic “summer 2020.”
Below you can check out plenty of screenshots showcasing the featured included in the photo mode and the pictures you’ll be able to achieve.
The feature will allow you to take group photos via Portrait Mode and battle photos via Action Scene Mode.
In Photo Mode, aspiring photographers can choose the poses, expressions, and positions of up to four characters at a time on a stage of their choosing; wall, ground and object destruction can also be toggled on and off based on user preference. Additionally, players looking to “Go Beyond” can even add photo decorations after snapping their perfect shot.
Today, during the Day of the Devs livestream by The Game Awards, Activision officially revealed Crash Bandicoot 4: it’s About Time.
The announcement was confirmed to be coming yesterday following a couple of leaks, so it’s not exactly a surprise.
This is a fully new Crash Bandicoot game built from the ground up for modern platforms.
It’s coming for PS4 and Xbox One on October 2. At the moment, no other platforms have been mentioned.
Below you can enjoy the trailer that was showcased during the event.
“Neo Cortex and N. Tropy are back at it again and launching an all-out assault on not just this universe, but the entire multiverse! Crash and Coco are here to save the day by reuniting the Four Quantum masks and bending the rules of reality.
New abilities? Check. More playable characters? Yep. Alternate dimensions? Obviously. Ridonkulous bosses? For sure. Same awesome sauce? You bet your sweet jorts. Wait, are they actually jorts? Not in this universe!”
Image: Toys for Bob/Activision
Toys for Bob is making the next Crash — It’s About Time
Pokemon fans can pre-order the Nessa and Drednaw Pokemon Scale World figurine now.
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It's been too long, Rocksteady. We're getting antsy over here!
Batman: Arkham Knight feels like a lifetime ago, and Batman: Arkham VR was so short-lived. When E3 2019 came and went with nothing to show, I finally accepted that we were stuck in a long, long wait.
The latest rumors concerning Rocksteady and Arkham Origins developer WB Games Montréal probably aren't the updates you were hoping to see this late into 2020, but they're worth bringing up. Over the weekend, ResetEra connected the dots on newly-registered domains with ties to Warner Bros.
Teases, rumors, and speculation – when will the cycle end? Not anytime soon.
For what it's worth, Eurogamer says these two games are bound for next-gen and "set to be teased" at the live-streamed DC FanDome event scheduled for August 22, 2020. The outlet believes Suicide Squad is "further off from launch," and also heard that a third domain – for "Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League" – "is a good summation of what you can expect Rocksteady's next big project to be about."
The success of 2017's Crash Bandicoot remaster created a whirlwind of excitement that is a little different than we normally see in games. It created excitement for the series, but people didn’t just want a new Crash Bandicoot game; they wanted a new Crash Bandicoot game that played like the old PlayStation 1 games. That’s exactly what developer Toys for Bob is delivering with Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time, a sequel that will hopefully feel like it was made decades ago.
Crash Bandicoot 4's story wastes no time retconing the series' mistakes. Through the magic of time travel, most of the Crash Bandicoot sequels never happened. This followup picks up right after the events of Crash Bandcioot: Warped, the last entry developed by Naughty Dog for PlayStation 1, with Neo Cortex, Dr. N. Tropy, and Uka Uka trapped on a faraway planet. In a clever narrative twist, this trio worked for decades figure out a way to tear apart the fabric of space-time to return to the past.
We’re less than four months away from the first numbered Crash Bandicoot game since 1998. Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time, coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on October 2,, picks up right where Crash Bandicoot: Warped left off, give or take a couple of decades.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate will release Min Min alongside a new set of DLC Mii Fighter costumes, this time including Vault Boy from Fallout.
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Get a better look at the Persona 5 and Dragon Quest amiibo launching for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate later this year.
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Less than a year ago, Microsoft was wrapping up Twitch's biggest streamers to exclusive deals as it prepared to wage war against the world's biggest game streaming platform. Now, it's waving the white flag.
Microsoft has announced that it's shutting down Mixer effective today. Microsoft's streaming platform started was acquired as Beam in 2016 and rebranded as Mixer in 2017. The past three years have been mostly tough for Mixer, as it was never able to achieve the popularity it should've considered all the attention and money Microsoft threw its way. For instance, Twitch, YouTube Gaming, and Facebook Gaming all saw substantial upticks in traffic over the past three months because of stay-at-home restrictions; Mixer's traffic stayed nearly flat.
Now, Microsoft intends to transition Mixer's audience over to Facebook Gaming in a partnership that brings two major video game audiences together. Xbox's Project xCloud streaming service is the linchpin of this agreement, as Microsoft is seemingly enamored with Facebook's social media presence and the userbase it harbors for potential xCloud players. Microsoft says it envisions there being only a single click between watching someone stream on Facebook to that user playing the game for themselves.
Ramen royalty Min Min is joining Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as a DLC fighter (as part of the second fighter pass) on June 29 for $5.99 individually. More DLC combatants from the pass are coming in the future, with five more on the way.
Apart from Min Min and other Arms-related content (such as the game's Spring Stadium and 18 music tracks), Fallout's Vault Boy (gunner) is also coming as a Mii fighter costume, along with Tekken's Heihachi (brawler), and others. These costumes are 75 cents apiece.
Finally, Nintendo has also announced Amiibo figures for Joker (Persona) and Luminary Hero (Dragon Quest).
To see the full presentation, head over to the official Super Smash Bros. Ultimate site.
The Joker figure appears to be a complete design, while the Hero figure is apparently still in development.
If the remaining fighters are indeed developed as amiibo, that would mean we'll get figures of Banjo & Kazooie, Terry, Byleth, Min Min, and 5 unannounced fighters.
The announcement comes alongside the reveal of Challenger Pack 6, which will bring Arms' Min Min, a Spring Man assist trophy, a Spring Stadium stage, and new Mii Fighter costumes (including Vault Boy from Fallout) to Smash Bros. Ultimate on June 29.
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After countless fever-dream gifs and a few strange trailers, it's finally out. Hylics 2 is a real video game and it's playable today for $13.49 on Steam and itch.io if you're in the mood for an otherworldly RPG.
I once called it "3:00 a.m. in video game form." I stand by that.
There's a lot to dig into. From a purely aesthetic standpoint, Hylics 2 makes great use of freaky clay models and stop-motion animation to create a world all its own, and that's mostly what I'm into.
Combat is turn-based, which is fine. It fits. When you aren't fighting, you'll explore 3D spaces – "air-dashing, rolling, and gliding to find hidden treasures or evade enemies" – and there's even a first-person dungeon-crawler segment. Early user reviews point to less-than-ideal platforming and drawn-out brawls, but if you can handle that sort of mechanical unevenness, it's overflowing with style.
Do you need to play the first game? According to creator Mason Lindroth, the sequel "uses motifs from its predecessor, but players unfamiliar with Hylics may still fully enjoy Hylics 2." That said, it's $3.
I don't want to play this so much as I want to study every frame.
Vault Boy is coming to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, but not as a fighter. On June 29, the Fallout mascot will become available as a Mii Fighter costume for $0.75.
Min Min wins! She's the next Super Smash Bros. Ultimate fighter.
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Today Creative Assembly released a new trailer of the upcoming Total War game A Total War Saga: Troy.
The trailer focuses on Menelaus, king of Sparta, who will join the war for Troy in order to protect the honor of the warlike city.
The trailer is quite cinematic, and we don’t get to see much gameplay, but the character models certainly have become pretty compared to older Total War games.
You can check out the trailer below.
The game was announced a while ago by Creative Assembly, and a few days ago we learned that it’ll be exclusive to the Epic Games Store for a year. This is a one-off, and the developer doesn’t plan to continue with the same initiative on further Total War games going forward. We also saw another video focusing on the famous Trojan Horse and one featuring Achilles.
During a livestreamed presentation for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the series director, Masahiro Sakurai, announced that Min Min from ARMS will be coming to the game.
The 35-minute livestream aired this morning, with Sakurai showing off Min Min’s moveset and even talking about why Min Min was chosen for the game, instead of other high-profile characters such as Twintelle or Ribbon Girl.
According to Sakurai, the producer for ARMS insisted on Min Min being the character to come to Smash Bros. Ultimate when approached by Sakurai.
Min Min is an 18-year-old ramen lover and both of her arms are like springs, which lets her equip herself with a variety of weapons.
You can watch the reveal trailer down below:
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The next DLC fighter for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is Arms character Min Min, who arrives on 30th June.
Smash Bros. boss Masahiro Sakurai revealed the identity of Ultimate's next entrant this afternoon in a video recorded from his home. The game's team is now working remotely on the rest of its second season pass of additional characters.
Five more characters are coming to Smash Bros. Ultimate as part of the game's second Fighter Pass over the next 12 months, though we heard no new information on any of these today.
We knew the next Super Smash Bros. Ultimate fighter would be a character from ARMS. We just didn’t know who. Today, while broadcasting from his home, Masahiro Sakurai announced the new fighter for Nintendo’s crowd-pleasing crossover fighting game: Min Min.
I wasn’t scheduled to work during the EA Play Live stream, but I did anyway, because that meant I was in with a hot chance of seeing something Dragon Age related. Let me introduce myself: hello, I am a fool.
I do this whenever EA do any sort of live anything, and was rewarded with a still image with some moody voice over at E3 two years ago. My hope was that because the only real word since then had been worrisome stories about development hell, they’d show… something. As it happens they did show something! It was almost nothing, but I’ll take it! I honestly believe that almost all Dragon Age fans would rather a near infinite time was spent on development than any employees have suffer, including myself, and honestly what we saw last night proves that, because clearly they could release a trailer one frame at a time over literal years and we would still all freak out and spend ages sharing fan theories on Tumblr.
PUBG got C4 added as a throwable explosive last week, and I called it "a frag grenade with a very long fuse." That's accurate, and that's the way most players are using it. C4 has a 25-meter blast radius and causes damage through walls, but it also takes 16 seconds to detonate. The obvious strategy is to throw it, flush opponents out of cover, and spray at them while they scramble.
The World's Smartest Strategy, however, is to turn it into a missile. That's what streamer (and incredible PUBG player) chocoTaco did. He strapped the C4 to the armored BRDM and ghostrode the whip straight into the building of someone who thought they had prime shelter with good circle position. Wrong because someone just drove a nuke at you.
Let's go over what this guy could've done. ChocoTaco came around the corner too fast and the BRDM has too much armor for him to have blown up the vehicle. And, the explosion is too big and too perfectly timed to run away. Short of predicting the future, this guy had no choice but to suck an explosion straight to the face.
The Super Smash Bros Ultimate ARMS fighter will be revealed so soon! Find out who it is here:
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