A new and extended The Last of Us Part II commercial has been released ahead of the game's launch, and people get to hear Ellie sing.
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The latest line of Pokemon Re-Ment figures from Japan pairs Pokemon with a fake plants.
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Old World has been developed by a clutch of Civilization vets. So it’s hardly a surprise that, at a glance, it appears to be a very familiar strategy epic. You’ve got your usual slate of hexagons, littered with 100 foot tall soldiers and crabs the size of mountains. You’ve got your turn-by-turn freestyle jazz remix of ancient history, a revisionist mess in which the Romans can build the pyramids and the Babylonians can take their chances with Jesus. But there is one critical difference between this game and others like it – you can have a pet monkey.
We previously posted about Falcon Age on its release onto the Epic Store last year, but we didn’t follow up on it, and that’s a shame because although I suppose it’s technically an action-adventure, I would prefer to call it a first-person tactical bird game.
You are one of the native population of a planet colonised by an interplanetary corporation, using advanced robots and drones to suppress resistance and industrialise your home planet, strip-mining it for resources. But there are few problems that can’t be solved by throwing a bird at it. Especially if that bird is wearing, e.g., a cowboy hat.
CPU prices remained relatively steady this week, but there are still a couple of great CPU deals if you’re in the UK and prepared to use third-party sellers at Amazon, as there are £30 price cuts to be had on both the Intel Core i7-9700K and brand-new i7-10700K). For budget AMD fans, the phenomenal Ryzen 3 3300X still remains hard to get hold of and slightly expensive, but we’ve found some reasonable prices if you’re prepared to wait a little.
All these and more you’ll find below in our round-up of the latest and greatest CPU deals. With the launch of Intel’s 10th Gen Comet Lake CPUs finally underway, it’s a great time to bag yourself a cheap CPU deal at the moment, so we’ve listed the best prices for all of today’s [cms-block]s to help you bag yourself a bargain. We’ve got everything here from the best Intel CPU deals to the best AMD Ryzen CPU deals, so whether you’re upgrading your PC or building a new PC from scratch, these are the cheapest CPU deals around right now.
is Riot’s newfangled hybrid of CS:GO and Overwatch, where teams of five run around shooting very deadly weapons while deploying character-based abilities. It’s very, very similar to CS:GO, right down to the round structure and individual weapons. If you’ve ever defused a bomb in Counter-Strike, there’s a good chance you’ll already be a crack shot here. It’s basically the same, but with more mind games and novel situations thanks to those abilities.
It’s a great game, but playing by myself makes me miserable far more often than it makes me happy.
There was a time when shotguns absolutely dominated the confined spaces of Modern Warfare’s multiplayer modes. But when it comes to Warzone, where additional health makes it more difficult to drop enemies in one or two shots, are shotguns at all viable anymore?
Our Best Shotgun in Warzone guide will walk you through detailed stats and opinions on all five shotguns in Warzone, explaining how each one stacks up against the others in the current meta.
Marksman Rifles were always extremely potent weapons in Modern Warfare, but in Warzone they’re often outclassed by the bulkier and harder-hitting sniper rifles. But despite their relatively lowly standing in the current meta, there’s still a lot of fun to be had with these rifles.
Our Best Marksman Rifle in Warzone guide, as you might expect, is here to catch you up on the standing of each DMR in the current meta. We’ll walk you through stats, attachments, and more in our attempt to rank each Marksman Rifle from best to worst in Season 3 of Warzone.
Sniper Rifles dominate Call Of Duty: Warzone and its sprawling, rooftop-dotted landscape. They always have, and they always will, thanks to the invaluable trait that a single headshot from a bolt-action Sniper Rifle is a guaranteed kill. So the question is: which sniper rifle do you use for that perfect headshot?
Our Best Sniper in Warzone guide will walk you through the three snipers on offer in Modern Warfare’s Battle Royale mode. We’ll go over the stats of each one, before talking about how each sniper stacks against the others.
The best LMGs offer a very special collection of traits that few other weapons in Warzone can match. High DPS and large magazines allow you to drop entire teams quickly, while the excellent damage dropoff values and low recoil of certain LMGs give you an extremely potent answer to long-range encounters.
Our Best LMG in Warzone guide will not only walk you through the stats of each LMG, but also discuss the place of each LMG in the current Warzone meta.
Today Sony Interactive Entertainment and Naughty Dog released a new trailer of The Last of Us Part II.
The trailer is actually an extended version of the commercial that has been airing for a couple of days.
Cinematic in nature, it certainly shows Ellie’s turmoil and conveys the brutality of the world of the game in a way that you rarely see in a video like this.
You can enjoy it below. Personally, there’s an element to it that I would possibly consider slightly spoilerish, so watch at your own risk.
If you want to see more, you can check out the new gameplay from a few days ago. We also learned that a new official podcast is also coming, and will launch on June 9.
Sony Interactive Entertainment recently reopened digital pre-orders for the game on the PlayStation Network. The game is ready and has “gone gold” ahead of its launch.
The Pokemon Company has revealed a ton of new details about Pokemon Sword and Shield's upcoming DLC expansions, The Isle Of Armor and The Crown Tundra. Among other things, we finally learned Isle of Armor's release date and got our first look at a handful of new Pokemon being introduced in the expansions, including new Legendaries and Galarian forms.
The Pokemon Company had previously confirmed that The Isle of Armor would launch this month, but now it has been given an official release date, and it's very soon: June 17.
The Isle of Armor takes players to the titular island, which is home to an assortment of new and returning Pokemon not found in Galar proper, such as the newly revealed Galarian Slowbro. The story of this expansion revolves around a Pokemon dojo run by a former Pokemon League champion named Mustard, who gifts you the Legendary Fighting Pokemon Kubfu.
Continue Reading at GameSpotCyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red has delayed its digital showcase for the game, titled Night City Wire, to later in June in light of ongoing civil rights protests primarily in the United States.
Night City Wire was originally meant to debut on June 11, with CD Projekt Red using the same week usually reserved for E3 to show off their latest IP ahead of its September launch. The event will now take place on June 25, with a statement explaining that "more important discussions are happening right now and we want them to be heard."
We decided to move Night City Wire to Jun 25th. We still look forward to sharing new information about CP’77, but more important discussions are happening right now and we want them to be heard. We wholeheartedly stand against racism, intolerance and violence. Black Lives Matter.
Miniaturized consoles are all the rage, and now Sega has announced a mini handheld modeled after its Game Gear system. The Game Gear Micro is very tiny, even by portable system standards, and will launch this fall in Japan.
Unlike many other retro consoles, though, the Game Gear Micro will actually launch in four color variations, each with a different selection of four games. Each one will cost 4,980 yen (about $45 USD). You can find the game line-ups and color variations below. It will launch on October 6, to mark the 30th anniversary.
The console itself is tiny--80mm by 43mm by 20mm--and a trailer showing hands holding the device make it appear comically small. But Sega is also also selling a combo pack with all four consoles and a snap-on magnifier for the itty-bitty screen. No release has been announced for the West.
Continue Reading at GameSpotI remember the console wars of the early '90s quite well. Those commercials and the ads in magazines, all trying to convince the youths of the world that either Sega or Nintendo was better than its competitor. We were a Nintendo household right up until the release of the PlayStation. None of my friends owned a Sega Genesis. In fact, for many years, my only interaction with the brand was through Madden Tournaments at the local Boys & Girls Club and a friend of mine who had the old Sega Master System. We played a lot of Thunder Blade on that thing.
For me, the distant relationship I had with Sega ended when I got a Dreamcast and fell head over heels for it. It was a short-lived romance but it did convince me to go back and see all the Sega games I'd missed over the years. And wouldn't you know, Sega seemed happy to fulfill that desire by releasing compilations of its Genesis titles on every console released after the Dreamcast died.
Looking back at the history of Sega games is appropriate today as June 3 is the 60th anniversary of the founding of the company. Its first successful game was the arcade hit Periscope. Its first console was the SG-1000, a name you could only get away with in the '80s. Today, it reigns as one of the most popular game developers out of Japan, and with its acquisition of Atlus in 2013, it owns one of the biggest JRPG franchises in the world.
I love the year or so I spent with my Dreamcast, but honestly, my favorite games Sega put out came long after that console was put out to pasture. So to mark this 60th anniversary for one of gaming's most prolific publishers, I asked Destructoid contributors to share their favorite Sega games.
Godfall looks like something that a 15-year-old boy in the '90s would dream up after staying up all night watching Skeleton Warriors; and I'm kind of here for it?
In case you forgot, developer Counterplay Games and publisher Gearbox teased the existence of Godfall late last year at The Game Awards. Confirmed for PC (Epic Games Store) and PS5, it's described as a "looter slasher" and has an aesthetic I can only describe as "teen gold fantasy." Well we got a new brief look at the game this week, in the form of "Silvermane," a character that has a lion look and silver hair. Yep, "Silvermane" checks out.
As the below trailer indicates, Godfall is still slated for a "holiday 2020" release. So far, all of this looks very "launch PS5 game," but sometimes, I'm into checking out rough launch titles (Orphen: Scion of Sorcery, anyone?).
Sega has released a third entry in its new series of "Sega Shiro" commercials, introducing fans worldwide to the new face of the Sega brand. When last we saw our retro-lovin' hero, he had been confronted in the schoolyard by the mysterious "Sega Hatan Shiro", who had arrived on Earth with the intention of destroying Sega itself.
In the two-minute epic, Sega Shiro attempts to fight off Sega Hatan Shiro, but the masked man is simply too powerful. It seems all the Master System 3D Glasses in the world wouldn't be enough to stop this guy. Undaunted, and with the power of a million unsold 32X units coursing through his veins, Sega Shiro tightens his Karate gi and successfully defeats Sega Hatan Shiro, knocking off his mysterious opponent's mask in the process.
You don't hear the words "Harry Potter and Professor Layton" thrown around very often, but usually it's because of WB's crack legal team protecting the former at any cost.
Announced by Pine Studio, The Academy: The First Riddle is a new project that seeks to marry the two aforementioned IP. According to the studio they are "big fans of Harry Potter, so the school is greatly inspired by Hogwarts," but the aesthetic also draws from the architecture of Pine's home city, Zagreb (Croatia).
Due on Android, iOS and PC on June 19, the adventure game will tasks players with navigating a mysterious school while solving puzzles. According to Pine, it'll run you 20 hours to the tune of "over 200 puzzles." I'm getting flashbacks to all of the hidden object games I've played over the years.
I uh, can also really see the Harry Potter influence, as the main trio looks like an analog of Harry/Hermione/Ron.
A copy of MLB: The Show, an iPad, a Vizio M-Series TV, a Playstation Plus membership, a Flyco razor gold box, and an
When the people of Paris revolt, they’d build barricades to block the roads with anything they had handy. This has been true for centuries, and it has included everything from carts to furniture to the very cobble stones of the street. Tuesday afternoon, Parisians engaged in demonstrations sympathetic with American…
As protests over the killing of George Floyd by police spread throughout the country last weekend, some of the gaming industry’s biggest companies put out statements in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. But while a few have shared some specifics about what they’re doing to help fight systemic racism, almost…
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COVID-19 has me longing for guided educational experiences
Catastrophic space flight sim Kerbal Space Program 2 has been in the lab for some time. Earlier this year Last month (wow, time’s a thing), it announced a delay until autumn of 2021 for the spaceflight sequel, a lengthy setback even by the standards of other coronavirus delays.
Based on a new report by Bloomberg, it seems the extra year and a half may have less to do with the pandemic and a lot more to do with a big studio shakeup orchestrated by KSP2’s owners Take-Two Interactive that’s ultimately resulted in Star Theory shutting down.
If you’re on the look out for a new gaming monitor to get the most of Valorant this week, then you should head over to Best Buy where there are currently a number of decent discounts on various monitors, including the excellent Acer Predator XB241H and Samsung’s 240Hz CRG5 monitors.
The advanced techology of Elite Dangerous‘s far future will finally grant humans the impossible power of legs, according to news from Frontier Developments today.
The space exploration and bwoomp simulator is getting a new expansion early next year. It’s called Odyssey, and it’s about getting out of your ship to jaunt about on foot on any planet you like. Well. Probably not the gas giants.
Paradox Interactive, the makers of Crusader Kings and Stellaris, have announced the “impending completion” of a collective bargaining agreement with the labour unions for its employees in Sweden. By the end of this month, Paradox employees should have a formal way of influencing their pay, benefits and responsibilities, and be generally better protected by the unions they’re part of. If you’re a little confused on what all this “collective agreement” business means though, bear with me while I have a go at explaining it.
“Nikolay, right now, what do you think about Pathologic 2? Was it a successful experiment?”
“Oh yes, of course! Certainly it was! Moreover, due to the conditions in which we constructed this game, it was a miracle that we released it. But I wouldn’t say it’s the game we wanted to release.”
Even now, over a year after Pathologic 2’s release, Nikolay Dybowski and Ivan Slovtsov have differing opinions about the surrealistic survival game they played leading roles in making. In fact, they’re still unpacking their thoughts about what they created, particularly in light of the changes they made after launch to its difficulty setting, a system which lies at the centre of a game which sets out to express the struggle in death and life.
If you’re trying to build a PC on a budget and don’t want it to cost the earth, then one of AMD’s 3rd Gen Ryzen CPUs should almost certainly be on your shopping list – much like it is in our £1000 [cms-block] build – and thanks to a rather attractive bundle at AWD-IT in the UK, you can get a decent saving by buying a Ryzen CPU and motherboard together, and you’ll even get a free Cooler Master cooler thrown in for your trouble, too.
After months in closed beta, Valorant has finally arrived on PC, and to help you get the best performance from Riot’s new 5v5 tactical shooter, I’ve been testing the game to see how it runs. The good news is that you don’t need a super high-powered PC to get smooth frame rates in Valorant, but just in case your PC is getting on a bit, here’s how to get the best performance from Valorant no matter what type of PC you have.
Take-Two pulled the development of Kerbal Space Program 2 from developer Star Theory only to continue working on it in-house using team members it coaxed away after messaging them via LinkedIn.
That's according to a new Bloomberg report, which also details how Star Theory, with their Kerbal Space Program 2 contract cancelled, has now gone under.
Kerbal Space Program 2 was originally announced as a joint venture between Take-Two's publishing subsidiary Private Division and Star Theory, the studio behind Monday Night Combat and Planetary Annihilation.
Frontier Developments has shared first details on Elite Dangerous' major new expansion, Odyssey, which will bring the likes of atmospheric landings and on-foot traversal to the space sim when it launches early next year.
The developer initially teased its Odyssey expansion last May, telling fans it was working on a mysterious "major milestone" update that was set to be a "defining moment in the history of the game". Since that early reveal, Frontier has more frequently referred to the project as its Next Era update, announcing last month that it would no longer meet its originally planned December launch window and would instead release in 2021.
As of today, however, the Next Era update is now formally known as Odyssey, and Frontier has given an early glimpse of the features it will bring, sharing details on the Elite Dangerous forums along with a flashy cinematic trailer reveal.
Fate/Grand Order's GUDAGUDA Legend of the Imperial Capital Grail - Far East Demonic Front 1945 has begun.
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