The Baldur's Gate 3 early access phase won't begin in August 2020 as expected, but we will learn its release date this month.
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New character sheets showing off Sesshoumaru's daughters and their respective weapons have been shared.
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Pre-order adorable deformed plush versions of your favorite Monster Hunter monsters now.
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Good news and bad news. BG3 won’t hit August, but it’s just around the corner. We’ll be announcing the release date, as well as big news on the Panel From Hell alongside @geoffkeighley, @LarAtLarian and the Larian crew. Tune in Aug 18th. https://t.co/S1RlVpJ8yw pic.twitter.com/NCkrnHHpH0
Fortnite’s third battle pass season is about to debut one of its most anticipated features. Joy Ride is a new update that’s set to introduce driveable cars for the first time in the game’s history, and Epic Games has now confirmed the content will launch tomorrow, Aug. 5.
As you can see in the tease below, the first vehicle seems to be called the Prevalent and has a rather retro, Miami-vice-like aesthetic.
The spirit of responsibility.
Experience the #FortniteJoyRide Update on 8.5.2020 pic.twitter.com/Sn3ycMwX4P
— Fortnite (@FortniteGame) August 4, 2020
Of course, this isn’t actually the first time we’ve seen Fortnite’s new vehicles in action. Some of our readers might remember the brief tease during Season 3’s reveal trailer back in June. For those who missed it, fast forward to the 45-second mark below to get yourself up to speed.
Most players have been able to complete the final mission of Season 5’s new PvE Quest by now. There hasn’t exactly been much new content for the game in quite a while. Thankfully, Apex Legends is starting up a new in-game event next week.
This new Apex Legends event is actually a spin on an old one from January, and it’s called Always Be Closing Evolved. The event was announced on Twitter not too long ago. It’ll be live from Aug. 11 to Aug. 18.
True to its name, Always Be Closing had players face off against each other as the Ring closed continuously. Staying on the move is essential to stay alive because the Ring does a ton of damage in this mode.
Always Be Closing Evolved is the same concept, except players will drop in with an Evo Shield and a Mozambique to start the match.
Nothing more has been announced for Apex Legends besides this new event. There are only a couple weeks left in the current season, so Season 6 news should be right around the corner.
Be sure to check back in with us, as we’ll have all of the new info you’ll need on the game as it’s made available.
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It’s already August 5 in Japan, which means that the free-to-play game Dead or Alive Xtreme: Venus Vacation is celebrating Ayane’s birthday.
If you’re familiar with the game, you likely know what’s coming. There’s no better way to say “happy birthday!” than microtransactions.
We get the usual special costume within a paid-only gacha with a crazy low 1.1% SSR chance that is actually even worse (0.78%) if you want to get the featured outfit, because DMM and Koei Tecmo threw in older SSR costumes in the mix as well.
Since one paid gacha wouldn’t be enough, we also get a second with the same percentages featuring last year’s outfit.
Yet, that’s not all. Since Patty’s arbitrary “special day” celebration is still going on, we have a grand total of four paid-only gachas active at the same time.
Incidentally, the first gacha be included in the Steam version in English, which is behind in content by approximately a year. If you play that version, you get only one paid gacha. Lucky you!
You can check out a trailer below.
PC Building Simulator launched a new expansion today that allows players to build, fix, and upgrade computers for professional esports players.
The Esports Expansion puts players in charge of an esports team with managing sponsors, players’ demands, and the tech budget.
Players are also tasked with putting the right sponsored parts within the PCs, setting up the team’s stage and backstage area on match day, and quickly repairing computers during the event if some part fails.
The expansion features eight esports teams, five games, and 13 real-world sponsors including AMD, NVIDIA, NZXT, RAZER, and Republic of Gamers.
An update alongside the expansion released today offers fixes and a few quality-of-life features for the main game.
The Esports Expansion is now available for PC on Steam and GOG. The base game will be on sale at 50% off from Aug. 4-8 as part of Steam’s Midweek Madness sale.
PC Building Simulator is also available for consoles, but there is no date for the expansion’s console release.
Starting today and running through August 26, Overwatch players can unlock a variety of new hero skins themed after Summer Games. Karate Doomfist, Lifeguard Pharah, and Surf's Up Echo are just a few of the additions.
Players will also have the chance to participate in Lucioball Remix, a variation of the annual mode that Blizzard describes as a "faster, more chaotic, multi-ball version." In this Remix, two balls are in play, and bonus balls periodically spawn and are worth three points each. The game also doesn't stop after a goal; you just keep on going. The maps for Busan and Sydney feature more wall-riding opportunities and jump pad surfaces. Lucio also has new moves for this mode, such as the ability to crouch while mid-air to lunge down, and increased boop range.
The Summer Games event once again pushes players to earn wins in any mode to unlock epic skins. In week one, nine wins nets you the Union Jack Tracer Epic Skin. In week two, the same feat brings the reward of the Sand Castle Bastion Epic Skin. Week three's efforts get you the Ice Cream Orisa Epic Skin.
As a kid, I had a hand-me-down TV from an uncle that I gamed with for many years. I was grateful as hell for it because I was a kid with my own TV. But I think everyone can relate to wishes of a "dream setup" for gaming, and this one from Redditor and parent Pjmonday takes the cake.
Yep, it's an LED 4K Toshiba 75-inch TV mounted on a wall inside of a Nintendo Switch-like replica. They were able to get the Switch crafted due to a friend's print shop. The two decals on the wall (Mario and the Skylanders element logos) are due to the interests of his two kids.
The room is not finished, Pjmonday says, but the storage below the TV is for holding one of his kid's Skylanders figures. PjMonday also clarifies that the Mario bricks were modified from this IKEA Kallax unit, custom made with a printed vinyl decal.
The Switch TV is installed! [Reddit]
Despite the tumultuous year that is 2020 causing multiple issues for companies and industries across the globe, it has also lead to a lot of at-home spending in the video game industry. We reported earlier today how PlayStation has seen a huge increase in year-on-year game sales in recent months, and it appears that the same can be said for long-time developer/publisher Capcom.
As reported by GamesIndustry.biz, the 2020 quarter ending June 30 has seen Capcom report net sales of around $223 million USD, an increase of 37% on the same quarter in 2019. This leads to a net profit of around $73.5 million which itself is a huge increase of 44% on 2019. These results are almost entirely centered around 2020 video game sales, with brands such as Resident Evil, Monster Hunter, and Street Fighter enjoying healthy sales numbers.
AbleGamers has announced a new initiative that aims to make its Accessible Player Experience Practitioner (APXP) course and the knowledge contained within more accessible to marginalized game developers. ...
Game development is a collaborative effort between designers, programmers, and writers, which on big productions can number in the hundreds. It can take years to get a specific mechanic or cutscene right, and even then, it might still fall flat with players. But in the case of Yakuza: Like a Dragon, some of the best…
With 91 days to go before the November election, there is still so much up in the air. (Who will Joe Biden pick as his running mate? What will voter turnout look like? Will the world end before November?) Some of the biggest questions, though, are around voting by mail. Though some people voted that way in this year’s…
If you've been struggling to suppress your understandable excitement as Baldur's Gate 3's previously announced August early access release approaches, you might want to take a seat - or, at the very least, prop yourself firmly against a wall; developer Larian Studios has revealed the enormously anticipated RPG won't be launching this month after all.
Larian initially announced an August early access launch for Baldur's Gate 3 back in June, noting that while the coronavirus pandemic had impacted development, it still believed August was a realistic release window. Unfortunately, the developer has now revised its schedule, confirming on Twitter that the game will no longer arrive this month as originally planned.
The good news is that Larian says Baldur's Gate 3 is still "just around the corner", and that a revised early access release date will be revealed - alongside other "big news" - during its Panel From Hell livestream event, set to be held on 18th August.
That wasn’t a terrible first lap, Formula Fusion, but it could’ve gone better. So, off you pop into the pit lane for a fresh coat of paint, a rebranding, and we’ll take another shot at this whole release thing. Going by the much snappier Pacer moniker, R8 Games reckon their tuned-up sci-fi racer is finally ready to leave the garage, bringing it back to Steam on September 17th.
It’s summer! Scotland might’ve missed the memo (my soaked jeans can attest to that), but at least Overwatch is willing and able to have some fun in the virtual sun. The Summer Games have returned to Blizzard’s hero shooter, bringing in a fresh collection of hot beach looks – whether you’re chilling by the pool or pushing that dang payload.
It’s Quakecon At Home this weekend, and to celebrate this year’s socially distanced Bethesda fest, GOG and Green Man Gaming are holding a huge sale with lots of tasty game deals. Chief among them is 56% off Doom Eternal over at GMG, and 75% off Prey for would-be GOG-ers, so read on below for our pick of the very best deals from each sale.
Littlewood, a life simulation about rebuilding a town after you saved the world from ending, has come to PCs.
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The Cuphead PS4 port is here and, as you might expect, it plays amazingly well on the system.
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PS4 and PS5 owners will also get cosmetics, special Community Challenges, and early access to some items.
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This is important because in Hawkeye's official reveal, a different logo is shown.
This could simply mean Barton retired the old logo for a new one follToday Activision announced its financial results for the second quarter of the calendar year 2020, related to the period between April 1 and June 30.
The publisher released a press release including a handy table summarizing its results, which you can see below.
Incidentally, said results are defined as “record” by the company, having beat previous expectations.
On top of that, the publisher has increased its prediction for the full fiscal year regarding net revenues, net bookings, and earnings per share.
The press release also included the traditional comment by Activision Blizzard Chief Executive Officer Bobby Kotick.
“Our mission to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment has never been more meaningful
Our 400 million players continue to experience fun, joy and accomplishment through our games. Our record engagement resulted in greater revenue and earnings per share than previously forecast.
Today publisher Yostar released the English-subtitled version of the anime-style trailer of the upcoming major event coming to Azur Lane.
The event is titled “Aurora Noctis” and was already released back in July on the Japanese and Chinese servers. It will debut on the English servers on Thursday, August 6.
It will feature six new Royal Navy shopgirls, Hermione, Howe, Icarus, Eagle, Perseus, and Valiant.
You can check out the trailer below alongside the English illustrations for the new shipgirls and skins.
The release of Marvel’s Avengers is drawing ever closer, and developer Crystal Dynamics has released some new info a few of the game’s key features to tide prospective players over in the meantime.
In a post to the official Sony PlayStation Blog made on Aug. 4, Crystal Dynamics’ community and social media manager Andy Wong detailed how the game’s community challenges and cosmetics would play into the title’s overall experience.
For the community challenges, players will be given tasks to complete each month alongside their fellow players. What the tasks entail can vary, and completion of them will earn the entire playerbase special rewards for their efforts.
“Although we won’t go into detail now on the exact goals and rewards, we can tell you that there will not be a difficult barrier of entry, so everyone can pitch in to reap the benefits of the reward,” Wong writes.
Cosmetics, meanwhile, will allow Marvel’s Avengers players to change the appearance of their heroes of choice and their Takedown attacks. Different cosmetics carry different levels of rarity, and players will be able to unlock them by completing story missions, collecting specific patterns throughout the game world and so on.
However, these cosmetics won’t impact the gameplay in any way other than appearance, and are only meant to change up the aesthetic of characters to the player’s liking.
Wong rounded out the reveals with information on some of the bonuses players will be privy to by playing the game on PlayStation 4. In addition to receiving a legendary outfit, emote, takedown and nameplate for the initial batch of launch heroes, PS4 players will also receive the same bonuses for each new hero released during the game’s run.
The 2020 Summer Olympics won’t be taking place at all this year in real life, but that isn’t stopping Overwatch from holding their annual Olympics-themed Summer Games event.
This year’s Overwatch Summer Games event will last from Aug. 4 to Aug. 25. So, starting today, players will be able to participate in weekly challenges while earning a number of new skins and other items for a variety of characters.
These rewards include the new Sand Castle Bastion (Epic) and Surf’s Up Echo (Legendary), alongside cosmetics for Tracer, Baptiste, Orisa, Pharah, Ashe, and more.
Lucioball Remix puts a spin on the fan favorite game mode for this year’s Overwatch Summer Games. First of all, adjustments have been made to the Busan and Sydney arenas.
The speed of the gameplay has also been increased, with multiple balls worth different point values periodically spawning in. Multiple balls being in play at the same time with increased speed, might force players to use a bit more focus and skill than they were previously used to.
Check out the Overwatch Summer Games trailer below to see some of the new content coming to the game this month:
Naruto is a long-running series with a ton of characters in it that a lot of fans can identify with. But which character do you actually share the most similarities with? This Naruto personality quiz will let you know.
Are you energetic and outspoken like Kiba, or maybe shy and reserved like Hinata? Take the Naruto personality quiz below to find out which character you’d be from the main group. And when you’re done, try your hand at our tough Naruto trivia quiz.
You can also find more of our quizzes right here if you want to try your luck with some trivia or just have some fun with personality quizzes.
(All images via Viz Media)
Night School Studio is the team behind unique, story-driven games like Oxenfree and Afterparty. Today, the studio announced via Twitter that it has another project called Next Stop Nowhere in the works ... and won't have to wait long to see it.
Couldn't we all use a galactic road trip right about now?
— Night School Studio (@nightschoolers) August 4, 2020
Next Stop Nowhere.
Coming very soon, exclusively on @AppleArcade. pic.twitter.com/QB75bncBA0
According to the trailer, Next Stop Nowhere stars a courier named Beckett and a criminal named Serra as they fly through space and explore the stars in search of Serra's son Eddy. This initial reveal doesn't give us too much beyond that, but the trailer's soundtrack and visuals establish a stylish sci-fi vibe.
Though no specific release has been announced, Night School Studio's tweet claims the game is coming exclusively to Apple Arcade "very soon."
Hot on the heels of yesterday's announcement that those playing Marvel's Avengers on PlayStation platforms will be the only ones able to add Spider-Man to their roster, Crystal Dynamics has revealed even more exclusive advantages coming to the PlayStation version when it launches in a month.
Today, Crystal Dynamics took to the PlayStation Blog to announce Community Challenges, a new feature coming to all versions of the game. This newly announced feature gives the global Avengers player base gameplay goals to achieve to unlock rewards. While the studio isn't quite ready to detail what the challenges or rewards will be, the post says there won't be a difficult barrier of entry to pitch in, and a new Community Challenge with different goals will take place each month.
At one of the many pseudo-E3 replacement streams, Larian founder and CEO Swen Vincke boldly told fans that the studio is trying to get Baldur's Gate 3 into Early Access in August. It was a confident approach to a not-confident situation. Vincke acknowledged that COVID-19 hurdles made that August target a big old question mark, but Larian was trying anyway.
Shoot for the moon and you'll land among the stars... or something like that. Baldur's Gate 3 won't make August, and no one really blames Larian for that. It is, however, coming shortly thereafter.
We made it to another Overwatch Summer Games event! If you're over Lucioball – there's several refinements for 2020 and a faster Remix mode with two balls on the field – then there's always skins.
The Internet has fallen head over heels for Lifeguard Pharah, and I'm not about to go against the grain.
Other Legendary skins for Summer Games 2020 include Tropical Baptiste, Feskarn Brigitte, Surf's Up Echo, and my second favorite, Karate Doomfist, which makes me wish I was better with his combos under pressure. Blizzard is also giving out three Overwatch skins in weekly challenge events.
Today sees the launch of Mediatonic's chaotic Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout, the wacky multiplayer game that sees armies of curious characters race through a challenging obstacle course in efforts to be the last... erm... "thing" standing. Unfortunately, it seems that this wild release has proved a little too popular, crashing player servers within hours of launch.
Speaking on Twitter, Mediatonic said that the player count had "skyrocketed" past expectations, with some 120,000 players all logging in to the PS4 edition during the game's opening hours. Ultimately, the developer was forced to turn off matchmaking and frantically get to work on "beefing up" the servers in order to cope with the ongoing demand.
[Update: The developers have disabled matchmaking while they "scale up and optimise."]
Image: Mediatonic/Devolver Digital
The colors, the sounds, and the variety of levels make it way too enjoyable
Image: Walt Disney Studios
Mulan will hit theaters in countries without Disney Plus — and with open theaters
Video games are made by teams of dozens, if not hundreds of people, and that means that every aspect of a given game has likely passed through many hands before it gets revealed to the public. Still, sometimes it takes an outsider to see the obvious. This was the case with the battle menu for the upcoming Yakuza: Like a Dragon, and the results are quite amusing.
Back in June, John Ricciardi--the co-founder of notable localization company 8-4--joked in a tweet that translators should change the battle menu of the eighth Yakuza game to spell SEGA. Well, as a recent behind-the-scenes video revealed, it appears that the localization team took Ricciardi's advice.
Yakuza: Like a Dragon was awesome. Excited to see it in English for the first time! BTW, not too late to change “More” to “Etc” or “Extra” to make the menu options basically spell out SEGA pic.twitter.com/kcUoim06hC
