An official Crash Bandicoot 4 reveal has been scheduled for Monday, June 22, 2020. It'll be a part of Monday's Summer Game Fest stream.
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As today was wrapping up, video game hype man Geoff Keighley posted a photo of him and a giant Crash Bandicoot mascot in front of a large house. Both are wearing masks.
Over the last several weeks, the Florida-based gaming event GCX has been hosting gaming livestream marathons on several different platforms, including Facebook, Mixer, and Twitch. All donations go toward St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, and thus far, organizers have raised more than $6 million.
Six MILLION Dollars.#GamingDoesGood
— GCX (@GCXEvent) June 21, 2020
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The majority of that money has come from Twitch donations since June 14, and they wrap up today. From June 12 through June 14, they took place on Mixer, and were held on Facebook from June 5 through June 7. Segments have included big-name streamers and creators such as Greg Miller, CohhCarnage, and DrLupo, and Bungie even had its own segment on June 18.
After a few delays, Star Wars Episode I: Racer releases for PS4 and Switch. <Insert podracing joke here.>
While Summer in Mara is a farming and life sim, it could also be billed as a freedom simulator in a time where many are staying in.
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the game on everyone's mind (and consoles) these days and we were very stoked to host a series of celebrity island tours for charity this past week. Each island tour featured a different celebrity gamer, from host and author Felicia Day to WWE wrestler Xavier Woods, and more. The money raised during the stream went to the WHO Covid Response Fund and the Bail Project.
If you missed the full stream, here are each island tour experiences:
The physical video games sales charts by Gfk for last week in the United Kingdom have consecrated the local commercial success of The Last of Us Part II.
According to the report by Gamesindustry, Naughty Dog’s latest PS4 game is Sony’s fastest-selling release this generation, 1% above Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End in 2016.
Debut sales were also 76% higher than those of the original The Last of US.
This is actually the biggest physical launch in the UK this year, at least so far, leaving the previous record-holder — Animal Crossing: New Horizon — in the dust, with 40% higher sales.
Speaking of Animal Crossing, it dropped out of the top ten for the first time, ranking 12th and selling 33% less than last week.
Ring Fit Adventure ranks second for the third consecutive week, even if its sales keep increasing (+31% since last week).
You can check out the top ten chart below.
Coreupt creator Jesse Wright shared more gameplay and artwork of the upcoming fighting game.
The art showcases three of the game’s characters, Gatling, Destroy, and Winry.
Speaking of Winry, we see her in action in the new gameplay, showcasing her flashy moves against both Destroy and Gatling.
You can check everything out below.
Parachute races aren’t a thing most players care about in Grand Theft Auto Online, but Rockstar decided to run an event this week featuring these races and the community has reacted with a giant “Huh?”
Update: As predicted, the tease was indeed about Crash Bandicoot 4: it’s About Time.
The official Twitter account of the series confirmed that the announcement is coming tomorrow, June 22, at 8:00 am PDT/ 4:00 pm BST.
You can check out the announcement below.
The original article can be seen below:
Today the official Twitter account of the Crash Bandicoot series appears to have teased an imminent announcement of Crash Bandicoot 4.
The tweet is brief, but combined with the rating in Taiwan of Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time, it likely means that the official reveal of the game is just around the corner.
Square Enix is preparing to launch its upcoming mobile JRPG Kingdom Hearts Dark Road tomorrow.
In order to prepare the fans for the release, the publisher released a few character profiles on the official Twitter account of the game.
We get to meet the main members of the cast, including some faces that will prove very familiar, even if we’re used to seeing them with quite different looks.
You can check them all out below.
Free Comic Book Day 2020 will run for a longer period of time and include Legend of Zelda, Naruto, Splatoon and Street Fighter samples.
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Why should Fortnite‘s 100-player deathmatch be limited to humans, anyway? If we’re going to prove who’s the best of the best, let’s invite the whole animal kingdom along for the ride. Fortnite’s latest update sank the map, bringing deadly sharks into the fray – and it looks like the ocean predators are already more than capable of snagging themselves that victory royale.
Today CD Projekt RED announced a new Cyberpunk 2077 comic series in collaboration with Dark Horse Comics.
The series is titled Cyberpunk 2077: Trauma Team, and it focuses on the iconic corporation specializing in rescue and medical services.
Veteran Cyberpunk fans may recognize the hero as a valuable ally or relentless enemy, depending on what side of an injured High Priority client they happened to be on.
Trauma Team squads will come to pick up said clients regardless of how hot the location is, and they’re usually armed to the teeth.
The series debuts on September 9 with a 32 pages volume priced at $3.99 by the following team:
Below you can see the cover and read an official description.
This weekend marks the official start of summer. Most folks will be stuck inside and most pools are closed, but still, it’s summertime!
Learn what Google Cloud can offer game developers, and how devs can use those tools to free up their own development resources, ahead of the full webinar on June 30. ...
The Last of Us Part 2 takes the combat from the first game and expands on the formula. So while you may have become a master of TLOU 1's combat, Ellie’s new slew of stealth options and seamless dodge during one-on-one encounters mean there's plenty to learn in this sequel. We’ve compiled a list of our best combat-related tips and tricks to help you take on the infected (and the yet to be infected) in The Last of Us Part 2 for both beginners and advanced players.
Stealth killing foes from behind is always the safest method but if the enemy is close enough, you can sometimes come at them from the side or even straight on, as long as you’re behind cover and close enough to quickly close the gap before they notice you.
Crouching when shooting will increase your accuracy by quite a bit, but going full prone will increase it even further!
Use bottles and bricks often. There’s plenty lying around and you can only carry one at a time anyway. Either throw them at your opponent for a temporary stun, or use them to lure the infected in one spot, and surprise them with a bomb or a molotov cocktail.
When stealthily killing human NPCs, make sure to leave the room or area before their comrades show up. They’ll alarm the others and totally blow your cover. To help avoid this, don’t stealth kill someone while they’re in the middle of talking. And when first grabbing someone, use the short time you have` to drop them behind cover or into some tall grass.
If you missed out on the Super Smash Bros Ultimate Warframe and Cuphead Spirits, here's your chance to expand your roster.
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Screenshot Saturday Sundays! Pack your bags, put on your wellies, we’re heading out to see what screenshots, videos, gifs and such have been put together by the game development community over the last few days. This week: shopping under par, hand-drawn cartography, infinite photoshoots and the trouble with witches.
Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon.
A single room with a pair of friendly NPCs, enough space to dodge-roll, and a wall to leap off of – that's all it took to convince me that Gestalt: Steam & Cinder, an upcoming revolver-firing, sword-slashing platformer, will be worth picking up this year. Aletheia's movement and attack options are on-point.
As you might've seen (but no worries if you missed it), Gestalt has a demo up this week on Steam. You should play it! Or at least consider it among the literal hundreds of other newly-released demos.
If the opening is any indication, Gestalt will have an expansive cast of characters and lots of side-quests.
There are a few things to note that you might've missed in trailers or other coverage. For starters, Aletheia has to manually reload her gun (using LT) and draw it (RT) before firing shots. That might sound like a small-ish detail, but it has big implications. Her foes – mostly thugs and robots, in the case of the demo – have health and "break" meters that she can effectively burst down with bullets to stun them.
Facing off against common creeps and especially the first boss, a man-turned-beast, I felt pressure to constantly be on the move, sneak in slashes, and find windows of opportunity to fire off shots and reload. Aletheia has generous i-frames on her forward and backward dodges, but still. It's all so fast.
I wouldn’t say I’m an expert on history, but surely Civilization VI is taking the mick here, no? As the first “community update” to run alongside Civ’s new “New Frontier” pass, Firaxis are rolling battle royale spin-off mode Red Death into Season 2 with sneaky aliens and shambling zombies in a free patch next week – now narrated by the gravelly Yorkshire tones of Sean Bean
Pokemon Sword and Shield were a pair of polarizing games, weren't they?
Despite my complaints with them, I ended up finishing both, netting a full living Pokedex. Yet, during those lengthy journeys I noticed some of this generation's biggest mechanical issues, juxtaposed against the beautiful new perspective that allowed the world of Pokemon to sing on an aesthetic level.
The game's first big DLC, Isle of Armor, doesn't fundamentally fix those aforementioned problems, but it does give people an excuse to dive back in again.
[Read our reviews of Pokemon Sword and Shield here.]
Nintendo doesn't see very many racing games hit its platforms. The genre is known for its outstanding and realistic graphics, something that's not always capable of being pulled off on hardware that tends to lag behind the competition. But that doesn't mean it's impossible. Seven years ago, Criterion Games and EA released arguably the best racing sim to hit a Nintendo console with Need For Speed Most Wanted U.
It's one of the most visually impressive titles on the Wii U platform and still entertaining as hell to play. I anticipated the same sort of brilliance with the Switch port of Burnout Paradise Remastered, but perhaps that previous game set my expectations a bit too high.
This weekend, Lord Of The Rings Online players gathered to commemorate the life of British actor Sir Ian Holm, who passed away aged 88 last Friday. Despite a filmography spanning over five decades, the late actor is best known by many as the definitive Bilbo Baggins – taking the role of the centenarian hobbit in Peter Jackson’s adaptation. Fitting, then, that the denizens of the venerable Middle-Earth MMO have come together in their own fellowships to pay respects.
Sundays are for socially distancing at the park while mucking about on your housemate’s slackline, and realising that slacklines were the main thing your life was missing. Here’s the best writing about videogames from the past week.
This is a little old now but more than a little important, so: here’s Imran Khan’s Kotaku piece on why video games have to reckon with how they depict the police.
Before today, I thought that Grounded, a shrunken-kids survival game from the RPG powerhouse Obsidian, had decent potential. It's not exactly the studio's bread and butter, but the pitch – a solo/co-op adventure in which you'll chop down blades of grass and fend off monstrous spiders – drew me in.
After trying the 30-minute Steam demo and digging it enough to go through it twice (and even consider a third run-through), I'm sold on this surprisingly fresh angle. If you're partial to crafting-centric games and you enjoy exploring creative spaces that make you feel like anything could be lurking on the horizon, you should check it out too. One of the standout "landmarks" I discovered was an action-figure head.
Years ago, EA's building in the UK was a Foster and Partners number in Chertsey. And it had a handful of interesting features. There was a moat. There were ducks involved, or maybe swans. The front of the structure came off (on purpose) and leaked (not on purpose). From the air the whole thing looked a bit like the letter E. Electronic!
Inside it was pure Bond lair, of course, this being the era which also gave us the doomy concrete spinal excavation of Westminster Tube Station, my favourite building in London because I am a massive child, loose in the world with nothing in my skull but feathers. (Westminster Tube is definitely Bond, but definitely also Brosnan Bond.) Anyway, EA's place: with oddly angled windows ensuring you never knew which direction the automatic blinds were going to descend from, skeletal staircases and lots of dark surfaces. You can see it for yourself in films like Inception and TV shows like Jekyll. Anything with a touch of horror or unease. The Bond people never actually used it, I gather. The heights were not quite right for it to be truly deathly, but it did a good job of being Deathly Junior. A mausoleum built to the specs of a condominium. EA doesn't live there any more.
I've spent the last few days in another collision of EA and architecture, though. And again, although Foster and Partners were not involved, it's also disquieting and abstractly villainous and filled with odd features. A lot of people might argue that it leaks, too, or at least that it is not quite fit for purpose. No matter. Mirror's Edge Catalyst is finally on Steam and I have been running and jumping, diving and swooping across its squeaky world. I'm in love.
After some accidentally bought the wrong Expansion Pass for Pokemon Sword or Shield, Nintendo is directing folks to support for refunds.
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A Summer Game Fest Alf appearance has been announced by The Game Awards host Geoff Keighley. That is literally a thing that is happening.
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With the Steam Game Festival Summer Edition almost over, it’s time to give it one last try. Maybe check out a few of these games.
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Pac-Man and other classic Namco characters will face off against the baseball-loving Metal Aliens come September 2020
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Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight and I, @zombiepie, am once again honored to be your host as we look back at the best creative endeavors from the Giant Bomb community! This week we have what I can only describe is the greatest amount of blogs and thread I have seen in a single week! Good work to everyone who shared their impressions of games and current events to the community as it is much appreciated! Also, with the announcement of a new Skate game, I thought it would be "apt" to link to an old video I think has aged as gracefully as you could ask. Anyways, let's jump into the site-related housekeeping!
Mad Rat Dead director Mizokami talked about development details on a recent stream, and gameplay clips have been posted on the game‘s website.
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One cute and futuristic cat caught my attention during the PS5 reveal. So I asked you folks to add this furball to more games, movies and TV shows. Everyone deserves a good, future cat.
